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The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-06-28

THE TEXARKANIAN
F. @. woOTTEN. City Editor,
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Try Holly Wood Dairy Cream, IT,
The finest case goods at the Owl
Saloon. G-24,
Peas, peas, for sale at W. H.
Wells a. Go,
What has become OF our base ball
nine, the one Tor the leagueY
Attorney h, B. Williams returned
from Washington this morning,
Mrs. Ambolne Griffin Of Waco, Isl
here visiting her fathers family
A. IT, Chic,
Mr.. M. D. Lester has been III OF
fever for the past week We hope
to see him out again soon,
"Come on boys" make your en-
gagements for the Promenade
Concert tomorrow night,
aa=-
McCann's Orchestra and Il new
floor for dancing at the Promenade
Concert tomorrow night
The Texarkaua band mailed out
many bills for the 9th OF July en-.
tertainment at Chic Park
Attendance at the different
churches in the city yesterday was
slim, on account Of the hot wealth
er,
The bicycle track will be lighted
by 100 torches tomorrow night for
bicyle races at the Promenade
Concert
Mr. @, 4 Buckuer the DeQueeo
merchant is down to see his iami'
ly, He reports everything moving
along smoothly N the new town
-
A great crowd Ia being organized
to 90 TO Rich Mountain, for a three
weeks camp, The West side school
teachers will be the neuems of the
party
That "liorolIne" at Williams n.
Williams, will certainly cure the
heat, ~ the editor OF this paper
can testify If you are troubled
with the prIekly heat try IT,
-
Misses Bertha Turner of Hope,
Katie Old Of Washington and Eu-
genIa Steele of Oakland, California,
are visiting their cousin, Miss jodie
Williams at 32g elm street
Mrssu win aud Furlow Owslcy
of Bowie, Texas, returned home to-
day after having spent week
most pleasantly here with their
brother Alderman jno, H. OwsleN
Mr. ], Il, Peel ip back from Dalby
Springs, much improved In health
He tells us that he will have the
PalaIs Royal Strengthened out in'
side OF sixty days, aud running ae
Of yore
The National American Clrk'b.
Association will meet at Toledo,
Ohio oil be 18th Of July The To-
cal ofdeFhefe will send G, ID, Car
ter as their representative, A
good sclcttion
@s@
LuWbefmth a. W, Fuubr aud W
H. Kane, accompanied by W. a
Williams, left this afternoon, TO at.
tend the eontateHatloh of Hoo Hoo
at Shreveport latter will be iHl
tatcd into the mystcrlca Of the.
eatawaulersI
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
Breaks All Records.

WASHINGTON, ID. C., April l6.-Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Bristow
has proven himself veritable Kansas
cyeolne in his sweep of official work.
And he didn't come to Washington to
secure his office either. He just came
here on visit Of pleasure, when a friend
at Court suggested to him that an Office
was lying around loose, and that he had
better get some influential friends to
back him up i'm asking Mex inley for it
if he thought he would like to prolong
his stay in Washington. He got some
Kansas Congressman together. and they
visited the White House, with the result
that, after looking him over, the Presi-
dent nominated him for Post Office
headsman, and he is attending very
strictly TO the energetic performance of
his duties. He appointed l27 fourth class
postmasters to-day. Yesterday he ap-
pointed 2)j, and the day before. lO2. The
officials in the Post OH e Department
say that in their recolI sction this per-
fornance on the part of Mr.. Bris;ow
was never before ellSled in the history
of the department, and they are quite
sure that no Postmaster General ever
appointed over 100 postmasters on each of
three consecutive days
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
Wants 10 Hold His Job.

GREENsBUEG, Pa, April 19.-Public
school affairs at Suterville are all torn up
over the summary dismissal by the
board Of directors Of the principal, Fran
els Null. Prof Null was discharged on
Saturday, and Belle Martin was selected
10 fill the vacancy. This morning Prof.
Null appeared at the schools and refused
to vaca,e. Both the old and the new
principal Insist upon running the
schools. The alleged cause OF Prof Null's
discharge was absence from his charge
two days, the board of directors being
led TO believe that the professor had been
working during that time for the Second
Avenue Traction company, whose line it
is proposed shall run through Suterville.
1t is charged that Null was procuring
rights of way for the company. Squire
McGrew ',ame here to-day to obtain legal
advice in the matter. Null has only six
days to serve as principal, and he propos-
es to finish his term, even should the
courts have to be appealed To.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21

homes, that were surrounded by water.
The boats or small skifls they had at
hand were but poor affairs, and when
heavily loaded were unable to stand
the strain, and soon foundered, throw
ing their occupants on the mercy OF
the raging rivers. The record of these
occurrences has become a very long
one. and adds most distressing feat
urs to the havoc that tie floods have
wrought.
The heaviest sufferers from the floods
are, no doubt, the poor people, some OF
them white, hat the majority OF them
the cOlored laborers, who have lost
their all. 1t is among this class that
the mortality from these accidents has
been the heaviest. The sufferings OF
the survivors appeal to the sympathies
of the whole country. They may not
have been the possessors of much IN
the way of property but what they
did have is now all gone.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21

THE union soldiers Jared badly un-
der the Cleveland administration.
More than a thousand of them were
dismissed from the government SER
vice in Washington city alane by that
administration and comparatively few
soldiers appointed TO FIJI the vacancies
Tins created. One of the first things
done by the new administration was to
set about reinstating. these dismissed
soldiers. Secretary Wilson, of the ag-
ricultural department, reinstafed a
dozen or more in his department dLT-
ing tise first week in April, and the
heads of the other departments are fol-
lowing the same plan, so that it is
probable that most of the dismissed
soldiers viii be restored TO their posi-
tions during the first half year of the
new administration.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS.
How the Law has Been Made to Serve
Partisan Purposes By the Cleveland
Administration.


The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer has the following
say on the operation OF the civil service
orders issued by President Cleveland:
Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio and
other leading republicans in the senate
and house, have been giving good deal
Of attention during the last six weeks To
the civil service question. The Ohio rep
resentative has made careful investiga-
tion of the whole question aud he finds
that ex-President Cleveland did not issue
the order taking all chiefs of bureaus aud
divisions in the departmental service of
the government out of the classified ser
vice until all the secretaries in the sew
eral departments had put democrats at
the head of bureaus and chief of diyis-
ions.
In the treasury department, where
there are eighty chiefs of divisions, sew
enty-tive were filled by democrats. The
same conditions were discovered in the
interior department, and so on through
the entire departments.
In fact the several orders issued by ex
President Cleveland at different times
during the last year of his administration
placed nearly every office clerk, messen
ger and watchmsn in the classified ser
vice, three-fourths of whom of the lower
class were appointed at some period dur
ing the four years term of the admins
tration. Had the President and his Sec
retaries divided the chiefs of bureaus and
divis ons in the departmental service
nearly equally between the two political
parties, half democrats and half republi-
cans, there would be no complaint made
by the republicans agains those orders.
But to turn out nearly all the republicans
and put democrats in their places, and
then lock the door and prevent any
change, was, in the Judgment of all fair
minded people, flagrant violation of
the civil service law.
The attention of President Mckinley
has repeatedly been called TO this matter,
and strong pressure from senators and
representatives in congress and from
prominent men outside of official life,
has been and is being brought upon the
President 10 revoke so much of EXPIRES
ident Cleveland's last order "a relates to
bureau and division chiefs. This pres
sure is not being exerted exclusively by
the ofiice-seeking contingent. 1t is un-
derstood that President Mckinley has
talked over this matter with his secre.a-
ries, with view of modifying the exist
ing orders and taking certain chiefs of
bureaus and divisions out of the classifi-
ed service. 1t is not the purpose of the
President, il is understood, to make a
general attack upon civil service, as he
and his secretaries are known 10 be ar
dent supporters of the merit system.
Under the existing condition of affairs,
the republican secretaries are compelled
to depend upon democratic surroundings
for information with which 10 formulate
departmental policies.
The democrats even concede that the
secretaries should have their own chiefs
and assistants, in order to maintain con-
| fidential relations, otherwise they would
be lIampered from the start in the dis
| charge of their duties.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
Big Money to See ths Queen.

LONDON, April H.-Americau specu-
lators are said to be getting in their work
IN the matter of leasing and releasing
windows on the route of the queens par
ade, on the occasion of the diamond jubi-
lee in June. One trio of New Workers is
said TO have leased the whole of the win
dows of Messrs. Pawson and Leaf, of st.
Paufs churchyard, overlooking St.
P4ul's cathedral, on the steps of which
the queen is to attend divine service. for
$1,000. and to have sold the lease the
same afternoon at profit of 81, 900, max
ing the windows cost the second syndi-
cate for a single day $4,000.
One statistician has figured it out that
he total demands for windows and
grand stands and the prices offered, from
one end o. the route to the other, aggre-
gate SIS. .0oO.0e0.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
ynst 90 to Jail ard Psz III. r.rs.

WASHINGTON, April ia.-The Supreme
conrt 20 day ros:iset the srpiica,ien iar a
WRIT Of oersiaEari ard babeas coFpus ak
ed by Elveiion Il. chapman, the broker
who refused 10 tesliiy IL ihe siiEaT feou-
la;ior Investigation whether Senators had
spccHlated IN sugar stocks while the sii-
son tariff bill was before thc body.
chief Justice Fuller, who delivered ihe
opinion. held that the senate, under IFS
constitutional right 20 censnre and eNpel
members, had the figt 10 investigate any
alleged Improper conduct Of Senators and
conld compel witnesses 10 give testimony
The sentence OF the Supreme Count ofih'
District Of Columbia to thirty days in jiil
ard 500 fine was affirmed. and Chap
mans application fjr writs OF cetiorarl
and habeas corpus were denied
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
Senators and Patronage.

WASHINGTON, d. c, April l5.-Much
misunderstanding has arisen over re-
ports that have been quite generally cir
culated that the patronage privileges of
Senators have been extended and that
their Endorsement will be required on all
post office applications. This is erron-
eous, and Postmaster General Gary has
had frequent occasion recently to correct
this impression.
The policy that has been practiced
heretofore i'm the distribution of offices
will be followed by this Administration.
and the prerogatives enjoyed by Repre-
sentatives in the past will be continued.
Congressman viii have the naming of
the post offices in their district as a gen.
eral rule, while Senators can name their
homes Offices and some large cities, on an
amicable understanding between the
Senators and Representative
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
Teachers Places Sold.

BALTIMORE, Md, April l6.-The pub
lication of statements made by women
teachers in the public schools of this city
and by their friends that they paid
money to politicians to secure their posi-
tions has caused "a sensation. \ leading
newspaper demands that an investigation
he made and 4 majority of the citizens
think the same.
While dining with a friend the other
day Baltimore teacher made no secret
saying that she had paid for her position.
Her chief cause Of complaint seemed to
lie that she had been charged so more
for il than had most of the other teachers
in the school.
She said that she paid 500 for her
place, of which amount so was in cash,
and hei brother had given his note for
$50, which she had paid Off The mon
ey was given, she said, tot he leader ofthe
ward, but it was understood that it was
% go 20 the commissioner who gave her
the appointment,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
House Wrecked With Dynamite.

JoHNsTowN, Pa, April ls.-The house
of Mrs. Rager, widow who lives at Uhl
postoi1iee, near here, was blown up and
wrecked with dynamite last night. Mrs.
Rager, her four children and John Hud-
son, the postmaster, who boards with
Mrs. Rager, were in the house at the
time of the explosion and had retired,
but no person was injured. Neither the
motive nor the identity of the dynamiter
is known.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
Found a Will in the Grave.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April l6-FOr
nearly dozen years the heirs of Jacob
Kissinger. wealthy citizen of Leaven-
worth, have been fighting over his estate.
Every time one Of the eight children
reached his majority new legal fight
came. To settle the question of the age
Of the last child family Bible buried
with kissinger was dug up yesterday
1t was also found to contain his VIII made
III lssL Ii was witnessed regularly. The
Will made the mother the guardian and
distributed the property eqntlly among
the children after the widow received her
third. To-day all pending suits were dis
missed.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21

AT the New York east conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church the
question of Sunday bicycle riding was
discussed at length. The result was
the adoption of the following: 1--WE
are convinced that the use of the bicy-
Gle for pleasure purposes on the Sab
bath is a serious misuse of that day,
and the sign of a decline of religious
life when members of the Christian
church indulge therein"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
Mrs. Tiltoa is Dead.

NEW YORK, April l5.-Mrs. Elizabeth
II. Tilton, the wife of Henry Ward
Beecher's accuser, died on Tuesday last
at her home in Brooklyn. The news OF
her death was not made public until to-
day. Since the famous Beecher trial she
had lived in strict retirement. Theodore
Tilton, her husband, is in Paris, where
he has lived ever since the Beeeher trial
For long time Mrs. TiltOn was al
most totally blind, but less than year
ago she underwent a difficult operation
and regained her sight. Then, about a
month ago, she suffered a paralytie stroke
which eventually caused her death.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21

THE United States supreme court has
lately rendered decisions of interest to
the public One of these declares that
state and county authorities may seize
the books, time locks and personal
property of banks in order to facilitate
the collection of State tax on the
banks capital. Another decision says
that law requiring the trains of
railway wholly within given state TO
stop at county seats through which
they mass i valid
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
GRANT MONUMENT DEDICATION.
Excursion Rates to New York.

On the 9th of April, in the magnificent
Mausoleum upon the bank of the Hud-
son River, Columbia will enshrine the
ashes of her greatest captain. The event
is one without parallel in the history of
the Nation, and the ceremonies will be
of unwonted pomp, splendor and solem-
mtg. The occasion will be graced by the
presence of the President, the Supreme
Court, and the great civic officers of tn
Nation and the States. Tie Army and
Navy, the National Gnard of the States.
the Grand Army of the Republic and
other patriotic aud civic orglniz itions
will unite to form the most superb pa
geant ever seen in America. Many for
eign nations will send special representa-
tives and ships of war to join our own
matchless fleet in majestic procession to
the tomb of Grant
For the occasion the b. & o. r. X. will
sell excursion tickets at reduced rates to
New York rnd return, from all stations
on its line east of Pittsburg. Wheeling,
Parkeisburg. MP to and including Aber-
deem, Md. for all trains April 18th, valid
for return until April 2oth, inclusive.
The rate from Baltimore will be s $50
Cumberland 1850
Connellsyille I050
And correspondingly low rates from
other points.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
Try Grain-o! Try Grain.o,

Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a
package of fGRAIN-O, the new food drink
that takes the place of coffee. The chill
dren may drink it without injury as well
as The adult All who try it, like it,.
GRAiN-o has that rich seal brown of
Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure
grains, and the most delicate stomach re-
eeives it without distress. the price Of
coffee. i5c and p cts per package. Sold
by all grot ers.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
Dog Saved Many Lives.

WILLIANsPoRr. Pa, April l5.-At Jer-
sey Shore, Il miles west of this city. early
this morning. an English setter dog saw
ed the lives Of a score of persons. Land
lord Dunkle, of the Hotel Dunkle. was
awakened at a. m. by his dog, which
always sleeps in his bedroom. rubbing
its nose on his face. The hotel was on
fire, and the y guests were awakene d.
but it was necessary for some of them to
be helped to the ground with ladders
Charles Campbell, aged 90 years, was
found unconscious or the floor. The loss
will aggregate 800.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
Cheeky Chicago Burglars.

CHICAGO, April l6.-Burglars entered
the house of Detective Sergeant Cowdrey,
S46 Winchester avenue, in the family's
absence. They took the bulldog and tied
him in bath tub, and filled il with
water. Then they took hearty dinner
and carried off the silver service. The
gas jets were all turned on and lighted.
They sat on CowGrey's silk hat, and find
ing his uniform, took off tns star and
with blue ribbon tied it around the neck
ofthe imprisoned bulldog. The articI es
stolen were valued at $500
The piano in the front part of the par
lor also received attention. aud for an
hour the neighbors heard unearthly
music. A note was left by the burglars
thanking Cowdrey for his kind hospital
ity and promising to call ag lin.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21

THE newspapers of the cities along
the Mississippi are doing fine work ih
collecting money and food for the suf-
ferers. All this is in addition TO the
work of the government More mon
ey can be used, but the outlook now Is
that there will be little positive suffer
ing for either food or shelter. At the
same time, the condition of the people
Is pitiable.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
The Horrors Of Cuba.

HAVANA, April 1.-Two hundred thou
sand people arc starving to death in Cuba.
From GO to 20 die of hunger every day.
OF the 2OOOOO dyiug wretches perhaps
, eco are citizens Of the United States, en-
gagged in peaceful pursuits. The condi-
ton of the people here is so desperately
wresched it will hardly be believed in
the United States.
Gen. Weyler's orders concentrating the
rural population i'm small towns and cities
is the most inhumane decree ever issued.
1t is a sentence to death by hunger of q
whole people. Mothers of Cubans and
their daughters are his favorite victims.
He says he will crush out the breed of in
surgents.
He noticed soma cattle feeding
along the railway between Isabella De
Gagua, the Port of Gagua La Grande, and
that city, on his present trip. He angrily
demanded of the military commandant
why all cattle had not been killed, ac-
cording to his orders.
There are only few" replied the
cOmmandant. "They are allowed to live
so that the people may have a little meat"
That's why l ordered all cattle killed.
See that it is done Immediately"
But" responded the official, ''the
| troops need some meat"
"Well take what yon need for the
troops, but kill the rest and destroy the
meat
The order was obeyed.
The case of the Cuban pacifico is almost
hopeless. When led TO execution they
die like martyrs. Even boys of IL for
they are often shot walk TO the wall
erect, silent and heroic.
Every town and city in the island is
oyercrowded. 1t is impossible to get
things to eat There is nothing to be had
in the country. 1t takes very little to
support life there, and the soil yields
| quickly and overabundance of nourish
ing plants, roots and vegetables. When
the rainy season comes in May, they will
die by the thousands, for pestilence will
join Weyler in the ''killing of the breed"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21

THE Bryan element of the house of
representatives attempted TO follow the
example set By the party last fall and
again cooperate with the Populists,
this time by supporting Jerry Simpson
in his attack on Speaker Reed for fail
ure to appoint Committees. The Bal
ley faction rallied, called a caucus, and
voted down the proposition two to one.
Thus the Baileyites in the house of rep
resentatives have clearly turned the
Bryanites down, and will probably
keep them there.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21

Tie Democratic attack on the Ding
ley bill might have some force if the
Democrats had ever shown any ability
in constructing tariff measures them
selves. The full measure of their capa-
bilities in this direction is revealed by
the "perfidy and dishonor" tariff
which President Cleveland denounced,
which he refused to sign, and which,
getting on the statute book by the ex-
piration of the time limit, has proved
TO be worthless for revenue or protee-
fian
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21

THE position taken 10y the Demo
cratic party i'm 1896 will not be surrend-
ered," says Mr.. Bryan, which means
that the free silver, income tax and an
ti-Supreme Court follies aad scandals
OF the Chicago platform will be stuck
TO by the Popocratie party. This, if
true, is great news for the Republicans
1t means they are likely TO get a big
ger majority in 1900 than ihcy did in
1896. No party or coalition having
any such creed as that promulgated
by the Bryanites last year can ever
carry this country.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21
An Eager Lover Baked.

LANCASTER, April lL-An unusual pc
tition was presented to court yesterday
by Garfield Stoner, of this city. who
wants TO wed, but cannot. The petition
sets forth that he is in his eighteenth
year. a son of the late Isaac Stoner. and
that he wishes to marry Miss Ida Stahl,
hfteen years of age; that his mother
refuses 10 consent to the marriage, and
the court is asked to appoint Albert A.
onney guardian ad litem ID give coase mt
to the marriage. The colrt refused to
grant the petition, as under the law the
boys mother is the only person wh)
can give consent to his marriage. Rsla-
tives ofthe boy state that he is only fif-
teen years old. having misrepresented
his age TO the court.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1897-04-21

IT looks very much rs if there will
be no apportionment bills passed at
this session Of the Legislature. There
are 50 many legislators who are con-
tent 20 ic; well enough alone that any
proposition TO make any change i
frowned upon. There can be no hope
for apporlionmant now until after the
census of 1890 is taken.