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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09
DROUGHT is UNPRECEDENTED.
Eight Days of Kind of Weather
Uninue Al This sei,enn.

Springfield. Ills, Oct. 9.-The present
drought is without parallel for this time
of year in the history of the weather
bureau. Practically it began Aug. %.
the date of The last heavy rainfall.' and
has continued with little abatement un-
til the present time. a period of forty
eight days. The only rainfall in that
time was CO OF an inch Aug. q. .01 Of an
inch Aug %. IS Of an inch Sept. and
.01 of an inch Sept. 6. The precipitation
for September was 90 OF an inch. the
smallest in the month Of September
since the weather bureau was estab-
Ished. The deficit below the mean
precipitation for seventeen years is 22.3i
Inches. September, 1897, was also the
hottest September On record. There
were thirteen days with a temperature
above SO The next highest On record
was eleven days above 80 degrees in
1891
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09

Spooner. Wis, Oct. AL Phillips and
George Beers was shot by L. L.ewe.
Loewe. hearing some roise in the brush
thought 1t was a deer and fired a lead
OF buckshot. striking Phillips in the tenn
pie. cutting one eye badly. ard Beers in
the back Of the head and shoulders.
Both are badly hJrt. but may recover.
DIR. Ainsworth probed for the shot, but
was unable to locate them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09
STATE WITNESS IS DRAMATIC.
Puts on Mourning. and Wecps In tho Wit
ness Chair-Sur-Ecbutta

ness Shair-Sur-Ecbuttal.
Angelica Schrader. a nurse who was
n member of Luetgert's household for
three months, said that the missing
woman was a most affectionate mother.
a sensation was created in the court
room when a woman attired in mourn
Ing garb assembled TO the witness stand
and held up her hand to be sworn.
There were tears in her eyes as she
sank into the witness chair. The wom-
an was Mrs. Wilhelmina Miller. sister
Of Mrs. Luetgert. SO firmly impressed
is she that Mrs. Luetgert is dead that
she some weeks ago dOnned the garb
OF mourning in memory of her sister.
Mrs. Miller testified, while her brimming
eyes were fixed upon the face Of Luet-
CERT. The big sausagemaker returned
the gaze of his sister-in-law coolly.
Mrs. Miller told OF the kindly dispo-
gition of her sister. and asserted that no
mother was ever more patient or more
kind to her children. Fred Miller. a
nephew OF Luetgert. and Dicknese. the
brother of Mrs Luetgert, testified to
having been frequent visitors at the
home Of the Luetgerts and to kindnesses
they had witnessed Mrs. Luetgert be-
stow upon her children. This evidence
was given to combat and impeach the
evidence of Mary Siemering and Mrs.
Mary Charles, who testified that Mrs.
Luetgert treated her children cruelty
with this evidence the state rested
Judge Tuthill at once adjourned cour,
until Monday.
Among the first witnesses heard yes
terday were Detective DeCe,le. who
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09
Vel Nv ESNsr.

New Orleans, Oct. 9.-Numercus
new cases of yellow fever developed
today, and the situation is about ss
it was yesterday. Fully AZ cases
were discharged in the past "a hours,
reducing the nun Der of cases under
treatment to little over 200. The
toard Of health at ! O'Clock today an.
nounced II new cases up to that
hour, and two deaths.
Edwards, Miss, Oct. 9-Twelve
new cases were reported today and
one death last night. The situation
is more cheerful this morning and
none OF the patients are reported
dangerously ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09
NO SIGN OF SETTLEMENT.
Northern Ii!inois Operators aud MIaers
rsu to Aerse.

FAN to Aerse.
Streator, ILL.,, Oct. 9-The min
ers' strike lii northern Illinois is st i'll
on, as no conclusion was re ached in
the convention between the opera
tors and men held here. The dele
gates voted unanimously Lot to ac-
oept less scale than the price
adopted at the Springfield CONVEX
iion. The operators positively de-
clined to consider tia. scale, but
offered ali advance of 4 cents over
the scale adopted here last May,
which would lie 564 cents for
screened coal. They declare they
cannot pay The price asked and re-
tain business. They would let the
shafts 70. first. The decision mean s
that none OF the large mines in this
section Of the state will be worked
this winter, with 10, 600 idle miners.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09
Illinois Starts FOR Nashville.

Chicago. Oct. 9.-The Illinois commits
sion and ITS Iarty left the city last night
to celebrate Illinois Day at the Tennes-
see centennial exposition. The party
was made up CT representative men, in
Guiding cabinet officer, United States
senator, several former mayors, a rep
resentative or two. the president of the
University of Chicago, and many other
men prominent in public and business
life Of Chicago and Illinois.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09
Another Mining strike Settled.

Cariinville, Ills. Get. 9.-The mining
trouble in this city is settled, and the
men have gone TO work at ths scale
OF o2l2 cents a ton gross weight. The
operators refused TO take back fourteen
men who were on the blacklist hut most
Of these have gone TO Green Ridge and
Nirden. Nearly 1000 men at Mount
Olive. Gillespie, Staunton and Hornsby
are still upenlployed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09
HAS CLOSED ITS CASE.
The State in the Luetgert Wife.
Murder Trial Completes Its
Chain of Evidence.
DR.. DORSEY ON THE STAND AGAIN.
Puts in . General Contradiction of the
Statements of the Expert for the Defense
Judge Chetlain Appears to Further
Impeach Mary Sienering, and the De-
tense says 1t Will Now Proceed to I'm
peach the Judge.

tense Says 1t Will Now Proceed to I'm
peach the Judge.
Chicago. oct. 9.-The evidence for the
Prosecution in the Luetgert trial is now
before the jury. The state rested its
case yesterday afternoon. The closing
testimony was of the same irnpeaching
character that marked the evidence Of
thursday. Professor George Dorsey had
MS INNINGS during the afternoon ses-
sion and he made matters uEpleaantly
warm for DIR. Airport. He was primed
with facts concerning bones, but the
prosecution confined the young osteologi-
cal expert to matters tending to counter
act and refute the statements made by
Airport when he was called upon to
identify bones he had Eever seen before.
During his examination Airport identi-
lied the femur OF a gorilla as that of a
man; said that sesamCid OF q buffalo
was the patella Of dog ard had given
IL as his opinion that the piece of tenn
poral bone Of shepherd dog was the tenn
poral of monkey.
Con.rasiictsd Professor Airport
When examined as to the questions
that are the real issue-Ls the femur that
of a human? Is the temporal bore hu-
man: etc. Dorsey just gave fiat con-
trddictlon to the experts for the defense
simply declared that he was right at
FIRST. ~ far as this part of the testi-
mory was concerned he said nothing
that was not already in the record as
his testimony. The cross-examination
was brief. At one point in the direct ex-
animation, II was asked: What are ell
these little bones identified by Professor
Airport as patellas Of dog?" They are
scsamClds from buffalo. One of them
Il the patslla Of deg" At the close Of
the cross-examination he was asked
with reference to some human femurs:
''Wlll you measure them with this tape
lne?' II cannot measure bones with n
tape measure. The result will not be
worth n cent
More Woe FOR iIary Semering.
Then Judge Arthur II. Chetlain was
called to the stand to add the finishing
touch to the Impeachment Of Mary Sic
mering. When this young woman was
first arrested and charged with guilty
knowledge Of the Disappearance OF Mrs.
I.uctxert her attorney applied to Judge
Chetlain for writ OF babeas corpus.
Chetla!n. sitting In chambers. had Mary
Slemering brought before him and ques-
toned her. His honor swcre she told
him she had not made application. for re-
lease. but that her lawyer. Arnold Trip.
had done 50. and had set up the charges
In the petition. She told the Judge that
she had not been mistreated at the pc
lice station. and that she had gore there
voluntarily and was willing to return
there. as she knew she would soon lie
discharged. because she had done moth
ing wrong. Owing tn this state Of facts
Judge Chetlain dismissed the petition
and the young woman returned to the
police station.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09
Prom;u.pt Men Dead.

South Bend, Ind, Oct. 8 Peter
Z. Studebaker died ct Alma, Mich,
today. He was treasurer OF the
Studebaker Bros. Manufacturing
company, of this city. and aged 60.
Washington, Oct. 9 9-Rear Admiral
John Mellen Brady Clintz. retired.
died ut St Elizabeth's asylum this
morning. He was born in 1922.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09
Trouble Is VeU Likely,

Pana. Ills, Oct. 9.-Several deputy
sheriffs have been sworn y here to PRO-
tect the miners who will q to work in
the PenSell company's mine. The COM
pany has refused to pay the scale and
VIII start wfh non-union men. Thu
strikers say they will try to keep the
r1en away and trouble is feared,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09

New York, Oct. 9.-The International
Brotherhood Of Blacksnliths finished
their convention yesterday by elocting
officers for the ensuing year as follows:
President, John Slocum, Kansas City;
secretary-treasurer, John Shorley, Chi
cAgQ.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09
Sleep

Induced by the use of coca, opiate or mar
cotic compounds. is bad, decidedly bad.
1t undermines the health and skaters the
constitution and the patient is steadily
growing into a worse condition often
resulting in the terrible slavery and
misery of the cocaine and opium habit.
Sleep induced by the use of Hoods Sarsa-
saparilia may not come as quickly, but it
comes more surely, permanently and is
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09

Chicago, Oct. 9-Ill health IS said
10 have caused Thomas A. Dillon,
president OF Cavsnaugh s. Co., dis
ti!;ers and wholesale liquor dealers.
to suicide today by jumping into the
lake,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09

Nashville. Oct. s.-The United Typo
thetae Of America has elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, H. L. Bur-
dick. of Milwaukee,; secretary. ]. s.
Gushing, Of Boston.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09
The Day yya Ara rrouo Of

Nashville, Tenn, Oct. 9.-Illinois
and Chicago day was celebrated IN a
very appropriate and successful
manner Of the exposition today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09

II you feel week. dull and discour-
sged you will fini q bottle of Hoods
SarsaP.riila will do You wonderful
good.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09

Arnold's Bromo Celery cures head.
aches; 10, 25 and SO cents. Reiss'
drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-10-09
WEYLER IS RECALLED.
Spanish Cabinet Council Makes
the Decree and Queen Regent
Christine Signs the Same.
GEN. BLAECO TO TAKE THE PLACE;

Also to Take 10000 Men with Him When
He neutrality-suspicious. Between vey-
Ter and Sagasta Given to the Public
General Says He Has the Rebels Whipped
-Sagasta Says There Will BE q Change
Of Policy and Weyler Won't Do.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-11-27

terized the Bay st. Louis plan of
selecting the men most available
10 the respective offices previous
to the final test, is honest and fair
to all concerned. In the event of
primary and the Australian sys-
tenn there need be no fear OF wire
pulling, machination and to all
the resorts in the category of trick
cry, and any man qualified who
regards his abilities adaptable to
that Office he may aspire to, has
equal rights of testing his super
iority and present his merits for
consideration. The campaign
about to be inaugurated will in
volve several issues, aud the can
didate who would win the respect
and confidence of an intelligent
constituency must not straddle,
but have the courage of his CON
victions. The race is open forall
and we might not only expect a
vigorous campaign, but candidates
as numerous as leaves strewn
along Vallomhrosa streams and
brooklets.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-11-27
NEW YORK; Represented by Rowell ~
CO.. No. 10 Spruce street,

Published every Saturday. Su5scrip-
tion 81 90 per annnm, strictly in advance Q
No pay, no paper.
Local and social news items, corrospon
dence from all parts Of the county and
communications solicited.
All advertisements to be paid on pre-
sentation OF bill, unless otherwise agreed.
polltjcal advertisements to- be positively
paid for in advance. No deviation from
his rule. Announcements for city office
S. 90, county $1,000, congressional $1,000
All notices of public entertainments
where mn admission fee IS collected, VIII
be charged for nc regular rates. Where
tbe object is purely charitable this rule
does not apply
The editor will take no notice OF anony
nous communication In all cases the
writcr'sname and address Is required, not
necessarily for publication, but as guar.
antce. The Echo will not bo responsible
for views aud opinions expressed by cor
respondents.
Remit by express, money order, draft
or postufilce order in registered letter. at
our risk. Address all letters, kilograms
and make all bills payable to The Sea
Coast Echo, Bay st. Louis. Miss.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-11-27
An Admirable System.
Meridian Post.

Meridian Post.
Mississippi has faculty for solving
difficult questions and has pointed
the way out Of embarrassing sltua-
tons more than once 10 the profit
and advantage, not only OF her own
people, but TO those Of her sister
states that have had the wisdom to
follow her example. The knotty
question Of the franchise found ad-
mirable solution in the constitution
Of 1890, and Louisiana is preparing
to adopt like plan; South Carolina
has something similar and The Intelli-
gence Of Alabama Is clamoring for it.
But Mississippi's latest eontribu-
tier 10 the science OF government Is
realized in her penal system. There
Is no question more vexed and none
that demands u large share OF the
attention Of thinking men everywhere
than The proper use and employment
OF convicts ; in many states the trades
unions forbid their being employed
In manufactures Of any kind and it
has been shown that the tortures Of
idleness were cruel and inhuman
wherever this system has been adopt.
ed. The lease system is often bar
barous and universally disupproved
but Mississippi has solved the ques-
ton by employing her couvIcts npon
farms owned and operated by the
state.
Not only is this-a most humane
method Of employment. wholesome,
physically and morally, but it has
proved profitable and satisfactory TO
the state in every particular. No
labor is more refreshing, moie heat
thy and more conducive to moral
betterment than outdoor work IN the
fields in close and constant contact
with the gentle and soothing innu-.
ences of mother earth nature etnAs
its own sweet message to soften hard.
ened hearts and tempt men to better
thoughts hopes and aspirations; aud
II the purpose Of punishment Is to
reform as well as to chasten, the con-
vict could not find hetter environ
ment thpn that which Mississippi has
provided hm2
Would it not be well for other
states veXed by the convict question.
10 take lesson from Mississippi
along this line as well as along other
in matters Of government?
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-11-27

The following is of interest and
one of the last proclamations of
the kind to be issued by the state
board of health. 1t was promul-
gated Saturday.
"Be it ordained, by the executive
committee of the Mississippi state
board Of health, That on and after
Wednesday, Dec. /, 1897, the state
quarantine against passenger traffic
TO and from infected points within
and without the state be and the
same is hereby repealed.
BE il ordained, that the quaran-
tine restrictions on freight and ex-
press matter from infected points
without and within the state, with
the exception Of household and
wooden goods and secondhand cloth
ing, be and the same are hereby
rem owed.
"Be IL ordained, that quarantine
restrictions in Harrison, Hancock
and Jackson counties as to noninfect
ed point in said counties ARE hereby
Withdrawn; provided that nothing
in this ordinance shall abrogote the
ordinances,of this board prescribing
restrictions upon the intercourse Of
noninfected points with those declar-
ed Infected.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-11-27
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Rural Free Delivery.

N. o. Picaynnc.
First Assistant Postmaster Gene .
raj Health is strong advocate of the
rural free delivery system, and will
exert himself TO secure a sufficient
appropriation TO carry out the
scheme with vlgor. He enlarged on
this subject in his report recently
published. In talking of this matter,
Mr.. Heath cited several interesting
facts to show what it cost the gov
ernment to extend the postal service
under certain conditions. II cost an
average of 81 each to transmit the
first letters from Juneau, Alaska, to
Circle City, upon which the po stage
paid was the ordinary letter rate.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-11-27
--=H-f=-ssa'a--=7-----az-s---s
MUNICIPAL POLITICs,

There is no room for surprise
that the batteries for local mu-
nicipal campaign are setting to
work, Notwithstanding the elec-
tions do not come off until sev eral
months hence. Somewhat infor-
mally candidates overtwo months
ago were beginning to preface their
candidacy and strengthening their
claims on those offices which
either their capacities might fit or
more probably their populari-
ty might insure as theirs, but
it is too obvious 10 assign any
cause in the face of the unusual
period of two months just elaps-
ed as to why matters did not devel-
op and materialize more fully.
When we consider the close of the
summer season, September and
October on former occasions to
open the municipal campaign and
if we are to adopt the rule of pre-
cedence as a standard it is neither
surprising nor too early to set the
ball arolling, to begin the agony
or to go through the ordeal. Let
the ''political cauldron simmer"
and the number of candidates be
as "thick as leaves in the woods. :"
December will lsoon dawn and can.
didates galore. OF course nothing
will be more equitable and gener-
ally desired than q primary; the
convention is rotten to the core.
nauseating to honesty. We say
so of the truth and because its
employment has been whispered.
The plan that has of late charac-
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-11-27
The Crop That Failed.
ROTTEN.
MississippI's Governor in - Few Words
Gulf Coast Progress.
"Not dead, but stinketh."
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The Waco Tragedy.

N. O.States.
Texas has beer noted for her
shooting affrays, but the one at
Waco last week was the most desper-
ate that has occurred IN the Lone
Star State for number of years.
The fact that Judge. Gerald was at.
tackled from front and rear by the
two Harris brothers, and he succeed-
ed killing both of his assailants after
being severely wounded, shows that
he was man Of remarkable nerve
and courage. The tragedy was the
result Of an article in Brann's Icono-
clast, which charged gross immo"ali-
ty among the male and female stu
dents at Baylor College, one of the
largest Baptist institutions in the
state. The article resulted in the
mobbing of Editor Brann by the
young men attending the college.
The editor was so badly beaten that
for several days his life was despaired
Of, and he was instructed to leave
town as soon as he was able TO travel,
but this he refused to do Judge
Gerald wrote communication de-
Tending Brann and supporting his
charges against the students of
Baylor, which he desired to have
published in the Waco Times-Herald,
the paper which inspired the mobbing
Of Brann, but its editor, j. w. Harris,
refused to make use Of the commune
cation in his columns.
The refusal led to hot words and
blows between Harris and Gerald ,tbe
latter by reason Of his advanced age,
getting very much the worst of the
difficulty, whica ended in threats
being made by both men and deadly
encounter between the two was regard
ed as inevitable by the people Of Waco
and what was expected ocurred the
following day. There is reason to that
fear the killing Of the Harrisbrothe RS,
however, will not end the trouble i,
because great deal of bitterness
has been engendered between The
friends Of the dead men and those Of
Judge Gerald, but counsel is trying
TO prevent any more tragedies. 1t
is not probable, however, that the
effort will be successful unless there
is marked change in the editorial
policy Of the Iconoclast.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-11-27

A letter now trHels from Key West
TO Circle City, $500 miles, at q cost
OF only 2 cents TO the sender. Mr..
Heath says: "lf congress would re-
lieve the department Of the obligation
OF carrying as second class mail mat
ter lS0, 900 tons year Of advertising
stuff, chiefly for the benefit of private
enterprises, at loss of cents a
pound (and there IL seems to- me is
paternalism run maa), we could give
free delivery TO at least 80 per cent
more people then now have il without
incurring any deficit. The people
want it. Wherever it has been tried
The advantages are found so great
That the people within the delivery,
with no exception, have expressed u
Willingness to defray the cost them
selves, rather than lose it. In Mis-
sissippi and Massachusetts, and other
states, whole communities have esta-
blished little free deliveries of their
own, and pay the carriers themselves.
MY belief is thai rural free delivery
mas come 10 stay, and | have strong
hopes that congress will, at its next
session, authorized quite conSde-
rable extension Of the system.