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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-05-29

The Tecbe and Vermijion 1ele-
phone Company completed their
line to Franklin on Friday evening
last, thus adding one more impor-
taut point to their extensive circuit.
On Monday next, they begin the
erection of their lines for an ex-
change service in the town, having
alreadya large number of srbscrib :
ers. These improvements indicate
that the Teche & Vermiion people
are not much disturbed over the re-
cert decision Of The q. s. Supreme
Court in favor of the Bell Telephone
Co In fact the decision 10 no wise
affects the independent companies,
and as far as it goes may serve to
intimidale timid capitalists, but il
will not freighten those who now al
ready have capital invested and who
are thoroughly familiar with the
bulldozing tactics of the great octo-
pus that is trying to destroy all
competition.-N. I. Enterprise.
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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-05-29
FUNNY "ADs."
Some of tIae Peculiar Things
London People Want.


Curiously worded advertisements,
which are funny without intent, are
common in the London papers, it
would seem. An Eoglish periodi-
cal offered a prize for the best col
lection of such announcements and
the following is the result:
"Wanted-Good boys for punch.
ing"
Respectable widow wants washa
ing for Tuesday,
Wanted Experienced nurse fore
bottled baby
"A boy wanted who can open
oysters with reference"
"Wauted-An organist and a boy
to blow the same"
Bulldog for sale Will eat any.
thing; very fond OF children"
Furnished apartments, suitable
for gentlemen with folding DOORS"
"Wanted-A boy 10 be partly
outside and partly behind the coun-
ter"
''For Sale-A pianoforte the prop.
erty Of musician with carved
legs"
Widow 10 comfortable circum-
stances wishes to marry two sons"
Wanted For the summer, cot
tage for a small family with good
drainage"
annual Sale Now Onl- Don't go
elsewhere to be cheated-come in
here"
"A lady wants to sell her pianos
as she is going abroad in a strong
iron frame"
"Wanted--A room by two gem
tlemen about thirty feet long aud
twenty feet broad"
"Wanted-By >respectable girl
her passage to New York; willing
to take care of children and good
sailor.''
"Los;--A collie dog by man on
Saturday answering to Jim, with a
brass collar around his neck and
muzzle."
ITO be disposed of. q mail phae-
ton, the property Of gentleman
with o movable headpiece as good
as new"
Lost Near Highgate Archway,
an umbrella belonging to a gentle
man with q bent rio and a bone
handle"
"Mr Brown, farrier, begs to an.
nounce that he will make up gowns,
capes, ETC.. .or ladies out of their
own skim"
The last is copy Of an inscrip.
tion painted on a board which
iorned fence in Kent:
"Notis If any mans or woman's
cows get into these here otes, his or
her tail will be cat off as the case
may be. - Ex.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-05-29

@NA HAT A SINGLE REMEDY
will not cure all diseases is q
= fact too well known to be ques-
toned. DR.. franklin Miles, Ii. B.,
the renowned specialist in diseases Of
the heart and nervous system has dur
ing more than twenty years of con-
stantly extending practice, kept a
record for reference, study and cou1-
parison, of more than $4,000 affections
of the. brain, nervous system and
heart. The results Of DR.. Miles ex-
tensive experience and prolonged
study of disease he has embodied il
the form Of a system, mot one only } Of
Restorative Remedies. A full descriD-
tion Of these remedies with instruc-
tions how to administer them, togeth-
er with the symptoms Of the diseases
they will cure is given in DR.. Niles
book, New and Startling Facts -
which is sent free on request.
In the treatment Of heart disease,
other complications are frequently
met with, the most general of these
is a serious nervous trouble that must
be controlled before the best results
can be obtained from the New Heart
Cure. For this purpose there is
nothing equal to DR.. Miles Restora-
tive Neryine and Nerve and Liver
Pills, taken in conjunction with the
New Heart Cure.
HM RS. j. FL. JACOBS, Blodgetts
fVE Mills, n. Y, writes Of her
"a wonderful cure by DR.. Miles
grand Restorative Remedies as follows:
seTwo years ago I was taken with q
pain in my left side; ] could not lie on
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-05-29

On last Saturday afternoon one of
the heaviest showers ever seen in
this vicinity, visited Washington and
Opelousas. The road between the
two towns was flooded, the water
being fully three feet deep. A school
pic mic which was going ON at
Woodwork Springs was water
bound, the bridges having been
washed away; bat about dark the
water partially subsided, tempo
rary bridge was erected over the
principal gully, and the little ones
returned home at about IL o'clock
at night. The friends and families of
The pic nickers" feel very grateful
to Mr. Lanney for his hospitality to
the little ones and their teacher
Opelousas Courier.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-05-29

A tank car of tnrpentine was
shipped Monday by the Edgewood
Land and Logging Co. One day
last week the Norris mills sawed
for export, yellow pine stick that
squared nineteen ipches and measur-
ed thirty .foar feet iu length. -Four
car Of sulphur were shipped to the
Eastern markets from here Wed:
nesday. Herald.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-05-29

There are too many onions and
garlic eaten after marriage and not
enough before;
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1897-05-29

In ore day the human body. gen.
crates enough heat 10 melt 40 po, nds
Of lee and raise it to boiling heat.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
A BIG INCREASE PREDICTED.
NEARLY. $500 LIQUOR DEALERS IN
PROHIBITION KANSAS.
More Than 5000 Special Liquor LIZ
cenaes in MissOuri-2.241 Illicit
Stills Destroyed Last Year,
81 of Them in
Georgia.

Washington. Dec. SIN his annual re-
port to the secretary of the treasury, Mr..
Forman, the commissioner of internal rev.
enue, estimates that the receipts from all
sources for the current fiscal year will
aggregate at least SIS. 100000. an increase
over 1897 of about s.. 800 900. A comparative
statement of the receipts during the last
fiscal year is given as follows:
Spirits-sS2. .OOS 42; increase over 1885. q,
SSSsS472
Tobacco-s30 10 297: decrease 1881.
Fermented liquors-s32. Az. .162; decrease
sl,3l2o73.
Oleomargarine-$1,0 ,034, ,12s; decrease, $1s5, ,s0e
Filled cheese-s1S.s92: increase. 1882.
Banks and bankers-$S5; decrease, $40.
Miscellaneous-s3i5.3S3 decrease. $50. .72s.
Total receipts, $146, ,619, ,593, decrease, S2l1,-
022
The report includes the following fig
ures of collections made:
Kansas-Including Oklahoma, $3.50 39s. 30;
Missouri, N.364, ,6S2.S6.
Violations of internal revenue laws are
noted as follows: kansas-19 cases: settled
during the year. Is: pending. 4. Missouri
2OS cases: settled. lis; pending. 3s.
The report shows that. of the special tax
payers in Kansas. there are 2,269 retail Ii
quor dealers. Il wholesale dealers. brewers.
264 retail dealers in malt liquors, 46 whole
sale dealers in malt liquors. manufacture
ers of oleomargarine. "a retail dealers OF
oleomargarine; total special taxpayers.
1854.
In Missouri there are 7.645 retail liquor
dealers, 173 wholesale dealers, 50 brewers.
AS retail dealers in malt liquors. 23I whole
sale dealers in malt liquors, 50 dealers In
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
ARGUMENTS BEGUN.
Night Session of the Court-Attorneys
Limited to Three Hours ON
Each Side.

When the night session opened there was
a great crowd in the courtroom. In the
crowd were a good many women and sew
eral young girls. Inside the railing which
separated the court officials and lawyers
from the body of spectators were dozen
or more well known lawyers who had come
to hear the arguments. Marshal Chiles
sat at one end of the jury box, two deputy
marshals guarded the other end, and other
deputies stood among the crowd to keep
order. ..-- +.-. ..-.-
There was an air of deep solemnity
about the proceedings when Judge Longan
arose, faced the jury, adjusted his specta-
cles and began to read the instructions to
the jury; these were the rulings of law
which defined the crimes of murder in the
frst and second degrees. and provided the
penalty. DR.. Goddard must be convicted
OF one of these degrees of murder or ac-
DR.. Goddard looked anxious as these
man killed by DR.. Goddard. sat on the
platform behind the judges bench, with
his S-year-old boy upon his lap. He had
not missed moment of the trial since 1t
began.
The Judge said, when he finished reading
the instructions. that he would limit the
arguments to the jury to three hours by
the state and three hours by the defense.
Major Blake L. Woodson.f for the state,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04

and had gathered certain checks which
proved it, and that he was going to use
those checks in court. The prosecution tells
the Jury that to get possession OF these
checks was Goddards motive for murder
ing Jackson. The prosecution has told the
tain papers were taken from him, and they
have suggested to the jury that those pa
pers were the checks taken from Jack
sons body. They have said that Goddard
surreptitiously recovered those checks from
the police through the influence of my
put policemen on the stand to insinuate
that papers were taken from Goddard The
tendency of all this was TO have the jury
believe that Goddard had a motive In XIII
ing Jackson. That was the method Lowe
used to convict this defendant. ~
we find. accidentally. that the papers
taken from Jackson were in the hands
of the prosecuting attorney and have been
there for months. Lowe knew himself
that these papers We're false lie was
shrewd enough yesterday when we de-
manded the checks to try and force us TO
inc. He sought TO entrap US there Ihen,
when he was forced TO produce the checks,
We lind six Of them. aggresatinS several
thousand dollars. made by Mrs. jackson
and payable TO DR.. Goddard. are forgeries-
They are admitted to he forSeries. But.
in spite of that VIC find a determined ef-
fort on the part of the prosecution to I'M
press upon the jury the damninG evidence
that these checks were really genuine.
When the truth comes out we find that
the dead man had forged checks.
MIR. Lowe ArrniEned.
"Can It be said that these checks were
merely duplicates or copies of other
checks? No one can see them and not
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
MURDER AT NEWTON.
and Kills Brakeman Charles
Upton.

Newton, Kas., Dec. 3.-(Special) George
Snodgrass, barber, this afternoon at 1:3O
o'clock shot and killed Brakeman Charles
Upton. The cause was trouble of long
standing between the men. Snodgrass has
tions with Mrs Snodgrass were of a GRIM
inal nature.
Snodgrass was at work in his barber
shop this afternoon when the porter came
in and told him that his little girl, who
him. snodgrass left the shop and went
to his home. and upon entering the din
ing room saw Upton seated at the table
and his wife talking to him. Rushing at
you doing here?" The next instant he
pulled a 3S-caliber revolver and shot Up
ton through the head.
Upton rose to his feet and staggered to-
wards the kitchen. endeayoring to escape.
AS he did SO. Snodgrass fired twice more,
without effect. Upton staggered to the
kitchen door. where he fell, dead.
and ran from the room. and hurried down
the street to his barber shop, where he
was arrested by Sheriff Charles Judkins.
Upton had boarded and roomed at the
time ago Snodgrass came home in an In
toxicated condition, and it Is said, abused
his wife. Upton was in the house at the
time and knocked Snodgrass down and
After that Upton practically took the
place of head of the family, and Snodgrass
was treated as an outcast.
Since that happening. both Snodgrass and
and said they would shoot the other. Up
ton carried q revolver constantly, and it
was found in his pocket at the time of the
Upton had been in the employ of the
Santa Fe as brakeman for about q year.
He had a wife and child in Chicago.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
eide in the first degree. and assess his pun
ishment at fine of 81 .OO0."

eide in the first degree, and assess his pun
ishment at fine of $1,000"
Under the construction placed by law
upon such verdict in this state, the de-
fendant stands acquitted Of all intent to
take the life of his wife; still, the degree
of negligence exhibited by him in the
handling Of his gun at the time Of the
killing was regarded as such as to demand
punishment. Under the statutes Of this
state. the jury gave Bradshaw the extreme
penalty exacted in cases of conviction for
the degree of homicide named in the ver-
dict. Now that the courts have cleared
Bradshaw Of the charge of wilful murder.
it remains to be seen what action will be
taken by the insurance companies in the
matter Of the settlement of his claims
They will undoubtedly fight payment to the
last. Bradshaw is yet to be tried upon the
forgery charge pending. 1t is admitted
that the testimony given by the mother
of the dead woman and the aged father of
the defendant formed the controlling fac
tors with the jury in dealing thus leniently
with him.
Gordon Bradshaw came with his wife to
Stephenville. following his marriage at
Memphis Tenn, September 2S 1896. He
and his wife were first cousins. March 2
last, Mrs. Bradshaw was killed by the dis
charge of her husbands gun, as he was
in the act Of taking seat in buggy be-
side her. In May last. when 1t developed
that certain letters had been written by
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
PECULIAR RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
Switch Engine Near Barnesville,
Minn., Acts Up, WfeckinE
Two Trains.

Fergus Falls, Minn.. Dec. 3.-The coast
train on the Great Northern. westbound.
was wrecked near Barnesville last night.
A switch engine at Barnesvile was pushing
a couple of carloads of coal up the coal
chute. In some way the engine refused to
stop, and the cars began to go over the
end of the trestle, dropping twenty-five
feet. The engine was reversed and the en-
gineer and fireman jumped. Just as the
engine reached the droppng-or place. the
coupling broke and 1t backed down the in
cline onto the main track. 1t then went
west at a furious speed for two miles,
where ii struck the coast train, whose en-
gineer. Fred Griswold, and Fireman Carter,
Jumped and were badly injured. The en-
Sines came together with terrific force de-
moiishing both and throwing five cars off
the track. No one else was hurt. The
damage will reach $15. .0O.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
HEAVY SNOW IN NEBRASKA.
Eight Inches at Omaha and Sixteen
Inches in the Northern Part
of the State.

Omaha, Neb., Dec. 3.-Gnow has fallen
in Nebraska continuously for twenty-four
hours and in some parts of the state it
continues. 1t is the first general storm in
weeks. At Omaha the fall amounts to
about eight inches. It is light and dry.
and while it flies easily on the wind. the
drifts it makes are not formidable obsta-
cles. In the northern part of the state,
along the South Dakota line. the fall was
much heavier. One point, Harrington, re-
ports sixteen inches, and snow still fall
ing at 9 o'clock tonight. Reports from
Western Iowa and South Dakota are to
the effect that the snow is general
throughout this section. AS yet no dam
age is reported.
Tonight the wind is rising and by morn
ing the snow will likely be badly drifted.
This may blockade country roads. The
storm has already stopped the gathering of
corn, with fully a fifth of Nebraska's big
crop yet in the field. Railroads have suf-
fered some in consequence all day, the
movement Of trains being greatly hampered.
The Iowa lines have had the worst of it,
trains from Chicago averaging more than
an hour late, while the Nebraska trains
have been within thirty minutes of schedule
time.
Cedar Rapids Ia, Dec. 3.-One of the
worst storms in the history of the state
prevails here. Snow fell all day and to-
night the storm had assumed the shape of
a blizzard. Six inches of snow ia now on
the ground. and it is still coming down.
Street car traffic has been almost suspended
all evening. All railroad trains are more
less DELAYED.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
GORDON BRADSHAW ACQUITTED OF
INTENTIONAL MURDER.
NOT BLAMELEss, HOWEVER.
JURY CALLS 1T "NEGLIGENT HOMI-
CIDE~ AND FINES HIM $1,000.
Still to He Tried on the Forgery
Charge Companies Will I'm
doubtedly Resist Collection
of Insurance ON Mrs.
Bradshaw's Life.

stephenviile. Tex. Dec. s.-(special) The
testimony in the case of the state vs.. Cor
don Bradshaw, the young Missourian.
charged with the murder of his wife near
this point on March 2, was concluded last
night and after brief argument by coun-
sci the jury retired. After celebrating
scme five hours, the following verdict was
returned into court:
I'VE, the jury, find the defendant, Cor
don Bradshaw, guilty of negligent homi-
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
LEFT A DUMMY IN HIS STEAD
Condemned Murderer mt Ripley, ".
VA, Plays n Sharp Trick ON
His .Jailer.

Ripley, W. Va, Dec. 3-John Morgan,
who was to be hanged December 16. played
a sharp trick on the jailer here last night.
whereby he walked out of Jail and took to
the woods. where bloodhounds are on his
track. A short time ago he sold a confess
sion for S25. With the money he bought a
new suit of clothes to wear at the gallows;
s,lit and put it to bed in his cell. Donning
his new suit, he climbed on top of the cell
and lay there until it was locked for the
missed until this morning. reward of
S5OO is offered for his arrest. His crime
was the murder of Mrs. Green. her son
and daughter and was committed Novem-
ber 3. Just a month ago. near Grass Lick.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
YOUNG WIFE KILLS HERSELF.
Drank CarbOlic Acid and Turned on
the Gas in . New York
Hotel.

wife for only two months, and about %
years of age, committed suicide in the
Oriental hotel. Fifty-ninth street. this city.
to-day. She turned on the gas at two
burners and swallowed a quantity of car
bolic acid. Mrs. Wilkens' husband is a
bartender. but is out of work, and yester-
day the couple were served with dispos-
saying she was going to try to raise
money. Instead of doing this. she went
directly to the Oriental hotel and engaged
Christopher Wilkens husband of the sui
eide, was called to the hotel to identify the
body. From the room in which the corpse
lay he went to the bar. called for glass
Of whisky. into which. unobserved. he put
drug. and drank the mixture: few
moments later he was seized with convul-
sions. Although exhibiting traces OF Sc
we're strychnine poisoning. he recovered
rapidly under medical treatment
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
CHICAGO OFFICIALS INDICTED.
Accused of Malfeasance I'm ONCE, Con.
spiracy and Soliciting .
Bribe.

grand jury voted to indict Assessor Richard
c. Cunning and Clerk Benjamin Barnett,
of the South town. Three true bills were
voted against Cunning. The charges are
malfeasance in office. conspiracy and So
liciting bribe. Two indictments were
voted against Clerk Barnett, for NAL
feasance in office and conspiracy.
The malfeasance in office charge is based
upon the refusal of Cunning and Barnett
sitting as a board of review. The alleged
arbitrary manner in which they are said
to have ignored all protests. and the re-
fusal to produce their books, or in any way
to accede to the reasonable demand Of the
protesting taxpayers. constituted the basis
of the charge.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
total special taxpayers.


In Oklahoma there were 90 violations OF
the revenue laws. IS of which were settled
and IA still pending. In Oklahoma there
are 3lS retail liquor dealers. 4 wholesale. 80
retail dealers in malt liquors and q whole
sale dealers in malt liquors: total. 3s5.
The cost of the collection of the revenue
during the last fiscal year was $3.s4s.469
During the year 2.A1 Illicit stills were de-
stroyed and 81 were removed; S29 persons
were arrested. killed and 8 were wounded.
OF the stills seized and destroyed Dps were
located in Alabama, Sl1 in Georgia, 1853 in
North Carolina, $50 in South Carolina and
245 in the Sixth Virginia district. During
the last ten years ten officers have been
killed and sixteen wounded by moonshiners.
The commissioner recommends that the
expense of storing spirits in general bonded
warehouses be borne by the owners of the
spirits. such charge to be levied by means
of stamp tax. This. he says. would great
ly lessen the objection to the use of the
warehouse by any class Of spirits.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04

Bradshaw to young ladies' in West Plains,
medical examiners signature to certain life
insurance papers had been forged, he was
indicted for murder and tried. It was the
wife for her life insurance, and that he
might marry Miss Ollie Allen, of West
Plains. Mo-, which was his home.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
TRIED TO KILL HIS PARENTS.

Money to Wed Takes Desperate
Means to Get 1t.
Lowell, Mass. Dec. S.-Alfred Howe. son
of Edwin A. Howe. Il letter carrier. was
arrested to-day charged with murderously
assaulting his father and mother. The ar
rest was the result of an investigation by
the police which disclosed the fact that
on Wednesday night Mr.. Howe, who had
been awakened by some noise. found sew
eral of the gas burners wide open. He
could not understand how they came SO.
as they were turned OF when the family
retired. The police say that they have
learned that Howe. who is q years of age.
has been thinking of marriage for some
time but has been unable to carry out his
wishes through lack of money. They refer
to the fact that Mr.. and Mrs. Howe both
carry life insurance as having an important
bearing on the case
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
sexton and Mrs. Anderson on Trial.

snecial term of court held at Princeton the
grand jury brought in an indictment Of
murder in the first degree against Ira Sex
ton and Mrs. Anderson, for the killing of
Nathan Starks. The trial was commenced
this morning. Sexton attempted to hold
up Starks. a neighbor, and farmer, and kill
ed him when he resisted.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
TURNS OUT TO BE MURDER.
Leach, of Fort Riley, Died
Yesterday.

Junction City. Kas., Dec. 3.-(Special)
Corporal Fennel, battery B, Fourth artil-
lery, at Fort Riley. died to-day. Fennel
was one of the two victims whom Private
Leach, of the same battery, some days
ago. endeavored to kill with a ball bat
while sleeping. Fennel's skull was frac-
tured. Some trouble arose in the city and
Leach went to his barracks with the
avowed intention of killing both Corporal
Fennel and Corporal Riley. He has SO far
succeeded with one. Riley had jaw
broken but will recover.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04

luckily. did not sever the jugular vein.
tackled Hostler Nelson, ingicting a slight
wound in the leg. Chief of Police Bellan-
ger appeared at this time and, presenting
a revolver, ordered the Italian to drop the
stiletto. which he did, after attempting to
cut his own throat. DR.. Miller is in
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
Locomotive Boiler Explodes.

Lima. O.. Dec. 3.-The boiler of the loco
motive of an east bound freight on the
Chicago & Erie exploded eight miles east
of here this morning. Engineer Doolittle.
Fireman Beaver and Brakeman Blank of
Huntington, Ind. were injured. The en-
sine was blown from the track and num-
ber of cars were wrecked.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-04
Topeka Young Woman Robbed.

Topeka. Kas.. Dec. 3.-tSpecial) Miss
store. was held up and robbed by negro
fcotpad in the very heart of the city last
night. The police have not captured the
robber,