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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15
THE "AIRSHIP" IN IOWA.
Alleged to Have Been Seen at Many Points
Near Cedar Rapids.

Alleged to Have Been Seen at Many Points
Near Cedar Rapids.
BURLINGTON, Ia, April 10.-The air
ship. which has frequently made its
appearance in neighboring states, was
seen by hundreds of people in eastern
Iowa last night. Reports from all
along the line of the Burlington. Cedar
Rapids s. Northern railroad say that
the mysterious aerial craft has been
seen by every operator and station
agent between West Liberty and Cedar
Rapids. They all describe it about
the same way. A bright, glaring head
light, revealing glistening steel hull,
dim, wing-like projections on either
side and kissing sound as it glides
through the air. Excitement exists at
all the above mentioned points, and
people crowd the streets of the towns
and cities in hope of catching sight of
the object.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, April 1O.-The
''airship" was seen here last night. 1t
was first noticed about nine o'clock,
when it was seen in the northwest
heavens at an angle of about As de-
grees. 1t was moving slowly and by
ten o'clock had faded from view. At
1890 o'clock a dispatch from North
wood, in the extreme northern part of
the state, said the mysterious ship was
due west of there. Here it looked
like an immense star, swaying from
side to side.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned ry Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND PoLIrICAL.

WITH the exception of four members
of the house of delegates the entire re-
publican ticket was elected in St Louis
on the 9Th. Henry Zeigenhein, the
mayor, polled about the normal repub-
Hcan vote.
CARTER 81. HARRISON, democratic
candidate for mayor, swept Chicago on
the 9th, receiving plurality of so, 900
over Harlan, Independent, and 90, 900
over Sears, republican.
THE president has nominated Theo-
dore Roosevelt, of New York, to be as
sistant secretary of the navy.
NEWSPAPER published in Rome
said that the hope was cherished by
the vatican that an understanding
would soon be arrived at with the
United States respecting the establish
ment of diplomatic relations with
Washington. The paper said it was
asserted that President Mckinley had
recently sent for Archbishop Ireland
who would shortly be sent to Rome to
confer with the pope.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY signed the
flood relief resolution passed by con-
gress on the 18th and left the white
house with Mrs. Mckinley and went
on board the Dolphin. The president.
just before leaving, also signed the
bill authorizing the sending of a YES
sci with supplies to the famine suf-
fererS of India.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY sent a special
message to congress on the eth about
the flood situation in the southern
states in the hope that the legislative
branch of the government would
promptly help the local authorities to
oil 70 tho Df &1a
The executive committee of the In
dianapolis, Ind, monetary conference
has asked further aid of the CONNER
cial organizations of the country, and
blank copies of petition are being
sent out to secretaries of boards of
trade and other commercial organiza-
tions The petition is addressed to the
senator's and representatives and urges
the necessity of reform in the national
currency and banking legislation.
RECENT dispatches from Pretoria and
Delagoa bay said that the whole of
OAKLAND, in Africa, was in open revolt.
Twenty-Five thousand natives had re-
ment, and the situation was regarded
as most serious.
Hon. w. j. BRYAN was injured at st.
Augustine, Fla, on the Sth by the
caving in of the piazza from which he
was speaking. Nearly 400 men and
women were precipitated 30 feet to the
ground and many of them were in
jured, but none fatally. Mr.. Bryan
was picked up unconscious and re-
moved to a physicians Office, where an
examination revealed that he had re-
ceived no injuries of a serious char
acter.
SECRETARY NJ. j. DOWNING, of the Re-
publican National league, has an
nouneed that the next convention will
be held at Detroit, Mich, on July Is,
IA and Is.
THE Nebraska Legislature adjourned
on the 9th after a session extending Is
days beyond it's allotted time. The
last bill passed was the initiative and
referendum.
Both houses of the Colorado 1egisla-
ture have passed a law making women
eligible to join the national guard.
The governor had not signed the bill
on the 9th, but it was said that there
was no doubt he would sign it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

HUNDREDS of letters are received
every week at the white house at Wash
ington asking for the autograph of the
first lady of the land, and albums are
sent by visitors to the city with the
same request. The autograph seekers,
like all others who write letters, get
answers, but they are not written by
Mrs. Mckinley. They are formal in
their nature, and are written by type
writer's employed on the regular force
at the white house, who are assigned
to that DUTY
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15
Confessed to His Pastor.

JACKSONVILLE, Ill, April 9.-Charles
L. Draper confessed yesterday after
noon to Rev. A. B. Morey, his pas
tor, and Col. d. P. Dyer. OF st. Louis,
his attorney. that he murdered Charles
l. Hastings. lawyer and abstractor, in
Judge Kirby's Office, April 1, by stab
bling him scores of times Draper was
a rival abstractor and was in Kirby's
office to secure abstracts surreptitiously
when Hastings entered and the murder
followed. The bloody garments were
afterward burned and other evidences
of the crime concealed
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15
LEWELLING UNDER FIRE.
Kansas Bribery Investigation Is Putting
the Ex-Governor in Position Where Ex-
plantations VIII BE Necessary.

Kansas Bribery Investigation Is Putting
the Ex-Governor in a Position Where Ex-
plantations VIII BE Necessary.
TOPEKA, Kan. April 1O.-When the
bribery investigation committee adj
journed Thursday. Senator l.. ID.
Lewelling, Representative Frank III.
Smith and ex-Representative Dave
Hanna were in disgrace. When the
committee adjourned yesterday Level
ling was deeper in disgrace than ever.
Hanna was where Representative
'Metzler had left him, and
Smith had changed places with
Representative Clark, who made
the charge of attempted bribery
against him. dwellings additional
troubles were caused by a brother
Senator-Titus-w swore that Lew
cling sought to corrupt him by hold
ing out dishonest inducements for him
to work against the school bill. This
charge. coming on the top of the coal
lands story, told Thursday by Warden
Landis of the penitentiary, created a
profound sensation and furnished Lew
cling material for an explanation
which will be most interesting
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

MANY references have been made in
newspapers to committee of so in Bos-
ton for the investigation of the drink
problem. but the public for the most
part has very vague notion about
this mysterious body. The committee
is not new agent in temperance agi-
tation and does not take any direct
part in reform, being simply an organ
ization in the interest of research. It's
work is conducted by four sub-com-
mittees ON different aspects of the
problem, physiological. legislative
ethical and economic. The duty of the
committee is to throw light upon the
drink problem
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

A BILL has been brought before the
French chamber of deputies, its author
being NJ. Paschal Grousset, which pro-
poses to test the theory of fire at the
center of the earth by boring hole to
the depth of 1850 feet, which will also
serve as a feature of the Paris exposi-
ton in 1900. He has fixed upon 1850
feet because he believes that at such a
depth all the heat will be found which
humans can comfortably bear. He be-
lieyes also that when such heat has
been reached it only needs the over
coming of certain mechanical Difficult
ties to furnish the world with new
motive power.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

THE Brooklyn Union Elevated Rail-
road Co. some time ago installed ~
young women as ticket sellers and sta
ton agents, but the management have
had so much trouble with them
that it has decided to get rid of
them and have men take their places
Superintendent Barton said that the
flirting proclivities of the women as
ticket sellers at the various stations
seriously interfered with the business
of the road, and that the experiment
of employing women instead of men
had proved a failure.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

FROM time to time the public has
been startled by scientists announcing
that almost everything we come in con-
tactwith was swarming with microbes
and that our health and lives were con-
stantly in jeopardy from them. But
now DIR. Shrady, the well-known physi-
illogical expert and editor of the Medi-
cal Record, asserts that healthy per-
sons risk from microbes is almost as
infnitesimal as are the microscopic or
carnations themselves. The danger
of being poisoned by bacteria, DIR.
Shrady says, is little if any greater
than the danger of being struck by
lightning
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

A PROJECT has been originated by rep
resentative railroad men to build pri-
vate car for the use of the president of
the United States from material and
appliances contributed by the car
building and affiliated industries It
is proposed to construct a private car
excelling anything of the kind in ex-
istence in the substantial character of
its construction and in the complete
ness and convenience of its furnishings
and decorations. 1t is to be presented
to the nation as tribute from the ear
building fraternity for the personal
and official use of the successive presi-
dents of the United States
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

THE new high license law of South
Dakota is very drastic in its terms and
will probably do more to restrict the
sale of liquor than constitutional pro-
hibition did. No tables or chairs are
to be allowed in places where liquor is
sold and the windows and doors are to
be unobstructed by blinds or screens.
There is also a local option clause
which provides that on the petition
of 25 voters in any city, town or town
ship vote must be taken at the next
general election as to forbiddlng the
sale of intoxicants in that neighbor-
hood.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15
GOT TO Nave THE ARsIoR
s or .tary Long Recommends Such Action
Will Fetch It,

Washington. April I2-Secretary Long
today referred to congress ali papers re-
lating to the armor plate bids opened or
Thursday at the navy department. The
secretary says that the three battleships
for which armor proposals were asked
are under construction and that delay in
getting the armor may subject the gov
eminent to great expense. He recon-
NERDS that authority be given to read
ver,ise for proposals and 10 make con-
tracts for armor at not exceeding 500 per
ton.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15
GENERAL NUNEZ ARRESTED
Way of the FIiibusterer is being Made
Hard Down South.

Jacksonville, Fla, April I2.-General
Emilio Nunez was arrested at Palm
Beach today charged with violating the
health regulations He was put ashore
in row boat from the Bermuda and
was promptly arrested by the deputy COL
lector Of customs. A car laod of Gu
bans went down the coast Thursday
night and were to have been transferred
to the Bermuda at Palm Beach but the
activity of the government prevented the
plans from being carried out The cruz
ser Marbiehead and the Winona have
been ordered from Key West to Palm
Beach at the request of the Spanish vice
consul here
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

In the suicides cemetery at Monte
Carlo 65 new graves were filled in last
winter. The cemetery is in barren, un-
cultivated land and within it are buried
any who have taken their lives through
losses at the gambling table at the Ca
sinO
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

They are SO much in earnest about
the good roads movement in some parts
of Iowa that wide-tired wagons have
actually been introduced.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

"PoTATo" PINGREE's pet philanthropic
notion is fourishing in Buffalo, n. Y.
There Mayor Jewett is planning to
have 500 acres of land under potato
and vegetable cultivation by the poor
of that city this year.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

UNDER an act passed by the last con-
gress a person defacing a gold or silver
coin of the United States is liable to a
fine of So, 900 and five years in prison.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

JOHN JAY MCCRoRY, of Boston, as
pires to be the champion pie eater of
America. He proposes to soon begin a
series of pie eating contests with gour-
mands in various western cities.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

GREATER New York will start off
with population of 8. 400,0 600. and the
mayor will have voice in the control
of $4,000 employees and the expenditure
of SIS, O0O, 900 year.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

Defect In our behavior, coming short of
the utmost gracefulness, often escapes our
observation-disclosures.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

THE United States has 81 miles of
railroad track per square mile, COM
pared with 11.5 in France, 1876 in Ger
many, 1876 inEngland and 1871 in Bel
gium
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15
CURRENT COMMENT.

THE fortune of Andrew Carnegie, the
foundry man, is estimated at S25, 000,-
400
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

Grief is an outcast, and no man grasps his
hard eordially.-Ram's Horn
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

A sprain may cripple, but ST. Jacobs Oh
will cure It before 1t can 1t cures
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

When bilious or costive eat Cascaret,
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed lOc, 25c.'
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

Did you ever stop to think how much We
all he?-Washington Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-04-15

Hoods Pills ss pF 10 sgss se.sn Sss spa
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-04-23

There is comfort in the knowledge SO
often expressed, that DIR. Kilmer s
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every other part of the urinary passage.
lt corrects inability to hold uriee and
scalding pain in passing it, or bad eff
fects follow use of liquor, wine or beer.
ana overcomes that unpleasant necessi-
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times durinS the night to urinate. The
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Swamp'Root is soon realized. 1t stands
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medicine you should have the best.
Sold by druggists price fifty cents and
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Clinch Valley News and send YOUR full
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this paper guarantee the genuineness of
this offer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-04-23
Ar. Smythe Resigns.

A Washington telegram says:
Hon. Henry NJ. Smith, Minister to
Haiti, and charged d'affairs at San
Domingo, who returned recently
on sixtyday leave OfabSence. and
though his leave has not half ex.
Psredr his resignation has been
accepted by the Secretary of
State There is something strange
aboat THIS proceeding. Nothing
eeuht be learned regarding it al
the State Department this even.
fng, and as Mr.. Smythe is still i'm
the mountains of North Carolina
IN the vicinity Of Asheville. where
he wcRt TO temperate, it may be
some time before the true inward
OF Minister Smythe'S resign y
ton will become known. There
IS evidently some mystery about
1t, and from the reticence OF the
State department oficiaIs-the
absolute refusal to give any rea
sons for Mr.. Smysbe's sudden res.
Isnatnnit rs believed .!:ai some
DIPLOMACY of an important nature
is involved.
No appointment has yet been
made of a successor to Mr.. Smythe
aud 1t IS hardly probable that this
tropical plum will fall TO any of
the Virginia pie-huDters in that
State who are applying for it.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-04-23
Southwest HirqinIo,

There Is no 6ner section of Virgin
IA, no section which has greater nat
urai advantages or one with a pros
Pect OF brighter future-in all that
goes to make section great and
representation Southwest Virgin.
In.
Its Development has had fem
Porary setback, it is true, but out OF
Its adversely will come healthier
and more lasting growth. We have
faith in Southwest virginia-believe
1t is bound to duplicate the rich
similar section OF Pennsylvania and
are not surprised to hear that it is
awakening from it's letbargy as indi
Gated by the following press dis.
patch:
1.-The noted boom town of Glas.
gov, Va, which has been asleep for
three or four years, seems to be awak
ening up. Messrs. Decker & Co.
have put up splendid cement-mill.
with capacity of 200 barrels daily.
and they are receiving large orders
for the celebrated James River CO
ment- The mill is running day and
night, A company has been organ.
ized here to begin the manufacture
OF smoking tobacco May LIST, and
persons have leased the land com
panys Office, which they will open as
first class hotel. This will give the
travelling men, and also fishing and
hunting parties, a most desirable
stopping place. Already several
families from Lynchburg and other
cities have been secured to spend the
heated term IL this cool, sequestered
spot. The population of the town
has increased from $50 to 500 in the
last twelve months. State.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-04-23

ernment is too expensive. For State
county and corporation purposes the
people in the depths of poverty and
distress are taxed annually some six
millions of dollars. One fourth OF
this goes into the pockets Of the of
fee holders, one third of whom are
wholly unnecessary aud hinder rath
er than promote the public interest.
4 The present cons tuition is SO
radically vicious that to amend il
it must be re made. If only few
sections needed amendment, the leg
islaiure might accomplish this, but
the whole body of the instrument is
diseased. aud nothing but a sover
eign convention is competent for full
and complete renovation. Why
should the people of the State be
burdened with such q load of unne
cessary taxation. The suggestion Of
some is that VIC are nol competent to
elect suitable men TO the convention.
Aye, indeed When will we or our
children BIZ Do we elect wiser and
ADLER legislatures than We would a
conventior7 l do not think it very
gracious to humiliate our own ge,
GRAFTON.
Much has been said about Hitter
ate suffrage. / fully agree with Mr..
Jones on the suffrage question.
am for manhood suffrage. The vice
in our present system is not litter
ate suffrage. The instruments Of
corruption are generally highly edu-
Gated and accomplished business
men, the owners and patrons of
trusts. etc. Let suffrage remain the
birthright of the citizen, but let us
amend our constitution and get rid
of universal elections.
But this paper is longer than / in
tended, l must close, though there
Is very much yet to be said on the
subject of convention now. If we
cannot act now, when every just con
sideration invites to action, let
"Ichabod'' be written over our fu
ture and let us takeour placeas inferi-
ors in the great duty of statecraft.
Virginia is dear to us; let us make
her what the fathers intended, The
Old Dominion"
JAS CT. FIELD.
Gordonsville. W. .-.y.:! 20, 1897.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-04-23

All right. We are not fretting
about it and we are perfectly vii
ling that all the conventions of that
size shall meet in Richmond. But
all the same we think it Ridiculous
that a State convention to nominate
Governor should be larger than a
nutional convention to nominate a
President-Danville Register.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1897-04-23
FOUNDING MILL. VA.

Pounding Mill, Va, April 81, 1897.
The sick at this place are im
proving.
Mrs. Nancy Davis spent from
Wednesday to Monday with rela-
tives in Russell Go.
Mr. II. NJ Sparks moved his fam
lily TO Richards yesterday, Mr. p.
NJ. Alder and wife will occupy the
vacated house the first of next
week.
Mr.. Willie Bevins, east Pounding
Mil gave an egg supper Saturday
night TO his gentlemen friends.
Mr.. MIC. McCorkle went to Blue
field Friday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. NJ. NJ. Hawkins. of
Baptist Valley we're shopping in
town Monday.
Mr.. j. r Porter made flying
trip to Bluefield one night last
week.
Miss Rose Ferrel, OF Steelsburg.
spent Yesterday afternoon with her
sister, Mrs. p III. Alder.
lIesSrs. r. X. Gillespie. w. b.
Steele aud r. NJ. Sparks went to
Tazewell court day.
Mrs. J. Marion MEG uire, of Ce.
dar Bluff, spent last Thursday with
her daughter, Mrs. w. b. Steele.
Mrs r. X. Gillespie visited her
mother. Mrs JAS. O'Keeffe mt Taze
well last week.
Miss Lon EdmOnds spent Easter
with friends in Bluefeld.