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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
Rapid Rail Laying.

During the past three months the Mainte'
nance Of Way Department Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company has been very
busy laying the new eighty-fve pound
steel ordered last summer by the Receivers.
Eight thousand tons have been put in the
east-bound track on the third and sec-
ond divisions. and but four miles re-
uafn to be laid on the latter division. On
the Parkersburg branch 5000 tons have been
placed in the track. There are still about
$4,000 tons of rail to be delivered and it
will be laid as rapidly as possible. With
continued good weather Chief Engineer
Manning expects to lay rails all the win
ter. The track was ballasted and new ties
put In during the summer, so that the work
progresses very rapidly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
NO BICYCLE FOR a QUEEN .
The Dutch Privy Council Declines 70 Lee
Wilhelmina Ride. ~ ~

wilhelmina Ride. z,
A despatch from Amsterdam says that
while Queen Wilhelmina of Holland was
with her mother recently In Vienna she be-
came psssionately fond OF bicycling, and
brought home splendid machine, &
She enjoyed the sport for 9 time In the
royal garden, and then her mother was
seized with narrowing scruples IS to-
whether It was in accordance with proprf-
ETY. for the Queen to ride q wheel. She
submitted her doubts to the Queen, who
laughed at the idea and declined to Eshn-
quish her wheel. ~
The matter was therefore referred to the
Privy Council, which was specially sum.
moned to consider It. The Council dslth-
Grated the question very carefully and ex.s
haustively, and finally concluded that such
recreation was incompatible with the dig
nifty Of the throne.
It also based It's objection to the Queens
riding on the risk she ran Of being injured.
The Council concluded to implore her
Gracious Majesty not to expose her pre-
cious life to this danger. The Queen
pouted, but obeyed, and accepted agtft OF
a Shetland pony, on which she sought So
lace.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
WIDOWS UNIQUE SUIT.
Wants Damages From Liquor Dealer
Because Of Her Husband's Death.

Wants Damages From q Liquor Dealer
Because Of Her Husbands Death.
In Macon County, Missouri, is woman
who believes in doing thing thoroughly
when she does It at all. She Is Mrs. J. K.
Truitt, and about year ago her husband
was killed by railroad train while drunk.
Some time before she had notified the only
saloonkeeper In the vicinity not to sell her
watch him. The saloonkeeper paid no at.
tention to her orders, and continued to sell
Truitt liquor when he wanted it. The de-
teotive had counted 214 drinks when Truitt
was killed, and now the widow has brought
suit against the saloonkeeper, asking dam
ages for each instance In which her injunc-
tion was violated, making the neat little
sum of S107 900 In all
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
Cycling Notes.

Paris leads the cities Of the world In
cycling.
Nowadays special toe clips are made for
women riders.
Rudyard Kipling agrees that touring is
the backbone OF cycling. He devctes much
Of his spare time to rambling about Dorset
shire.
Bourillon, the French professional, Is
stated to have won $4,000 in prizes this
season. He has defeated all the noted
short distance men.
A wheel with An adjustable sprocket that
can be changed from 106 to the lowest gear
possible to make q wheel move Is the latest
product of a Worcester (mass.) mans
brains.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
GOT 5000 AND WAS HANGED.

Execution OF the Instrument Of Vengeance
of Some Tennessee Miners.
At Clinton, Anderson County, Tenn,
Mynatt Leach, was hanged for the murder
OF J. D. Heck on February II last.
Leach made confession. He said that
he and four other men drew straws to
decide who should do the killing, and the
lot fell to him. Each of the others then
put up $50 to pay him for the crime.
All five men were miners, and Heck was
superintendent of the mine. They decided
to kill him because he took the part Of a
miner named Morgan who killed bank
boss. The miners thought that Morgan
ought to be punished and had Heck muir.
dered for his interference.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
Ice sleds to Carry Food to Alaska.

George Roberts, an inventor in Tacoma,
Wash, Is building ice sleds by means OF
which he expects to carry food over the
Chilkoot Pass and relieve the suffering In
Dawson this winter. Thomas Magee, OF
San Francisco, told in Seattle the story OF
his journey from Dawson City to Chtlkat.
He was forty-two days on the way and SUI
fered many hardships.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
Pardons q Fist Fighter.

Governor Bradley, Of Kentucky, has great
respect for a man who settles personal
difficulties with his fists. he granted
pardon to Sylvester Johnson, Of Nelson
County, who had been sent to jail for fight
ing. Governor Bradley wrote this indorse-
ment on the papers: "The prisoner was
convicted of the offense Of fist fghting-so
unusual a manner of fighting In this State
that the prisoner should be pardoned."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
Pitirul End of an Old Mans Romano,

Samuel ]. Parkhill, eighty-four years
old, ticket chopper on the Brooklyn Ele.
vated Railroad, shot himself because his
girl bride Of fortnight refused to live
with him In the same house with his chill
dren. She insisted upon q house Of her
own. She Is twenty-four years old, and
ticket agent on the Kings County Road.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
On the Gallows Fifteen Minutes.

On the Gallows Fifteen Minutes.
Herman Paul Schultz was hanged for the
murder of his wife in the Milford jail at
Milford, Penn, by Sheriff Charles I. Court
right In the presence Of about one hundred
witnesses. Schultz was nervy to the last.
He died protesting his innocence. He was
pronounced dead In fifteen minutes, his
neck being broken. He was very pfous,
and read his German Bible in his last hours.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
Murderer Executed by Electricity.

Murderer Executed by Electricity.
In the execution chamber Of the prison
in Auburn, N. Y, Charles Burgess was sue
cesstully electrocuted. Burgess was farm
hand employed by Charles V. Whitlock, in
North Victory. He cut of Whitlook's head
in September, 1896, and then attempted to
assault Mrs. WhitIock. She escaped, how
sver, and gave the alarm.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22

It Is said that the electric railroads at
Cairo, Egypt, are beating those Of Brooklyn
in the record OF numbers Of people killed.
The Egyptian roads have been running q
little over year, and 40 people vero
killed or injured by their cars during the
first twelve months. -;
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
Big Storm in Italy.

Enormous damage has been done by 8
storm which swept over Italy. Seventeen
vessels were wrecked in the Bay Of Naples
and their crews were lost. Many wrecks
are reported from the Islands Of Sardinia
and Sicily.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
Ganofor Mnnev gunrD In

Senator Money Sworn In.
Senator Money, of Mississippi, was sworn
In at Washington, to succeed the late Sem
ator George, after controversy over his
credentials.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
italian Cabinet Resigns,

In consequence Of the amendment OF the
bill dealing with army promotions, General
Pelloux, the Italian Minister OF War, in
sisted upon withdrawing from the Ministry,
whereupon the entire Cabinet decided to
rasipn
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
Emperor William and Dreyfus.

Emperor William has declined the re-
quest Of the family Of Captain Dreyfus to
express his belief in the latter's innocence.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
Killed In the Prize Ring.

Walter Croot, Of England, died in london
ola blow received in the bantam-welSht
championship fight with Barry, OF Chicago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
Germany's UltiInatuIn.

Two German cruisers arrived at Port iau
Prince and presented an ultimatum to the
authorities Oh shore, giving the latter
eight hours in which to grant the demand
for an indemnity to Herr Lueders.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-12-22
President Returns to Canton.

Mrs. Nancy Allison Mckinley, mother OF
the President rallied sufficiently soon af-
ter noon Monday to recognize those about
her bedside and take somepeptoniods. The
President left Washington for Canton,
Ohio, at 7.30 O'Clock p. M, on the day that
Congress reasSembled.
Daily camera., 1897-09-13
A KING FOR THREE MONTHS.
The Luck of a Sea Captain Wrecked
Near the Caroline Islands. s+'i.4

Il
The Luck of q Sea Captain Wrecked
~ Near the Caroline Islands. a+'i'
Capt Curtis, of the wheat ship Euryd-
ice, had an experience within the past
12 months that might make many q
skipper envious, having ruled as king
of group of islands in the South Pa
cific ocean. Capt. Curtis was the first
officer of the ship Flora E. Stafford,
which was lost at sea about year ago.
when the Stafford was given up"
said Capt. Curtis, 1--WE lowered the boats
and left her at sea. We had six men
in one boat, and the captain went in an
other boat Ny boat headed for the
Caroline islands, and about Is days
we came in sight of land. We were roy
ally welcomed by the natives, who
could not do enough to honor us.
Ikickikee, king of the Carolines, in
sisted that he should abdicate his
| throne and make me his successor. I
did not assume the royal garments and
robes, for etiquette down there requires
none of them, but took the scepter
and ruled over those islands for three
months. wooed and won the ex-kings
daughter, and l also gave out orders
against cannibalism, for l thought
some of the Staffords crew might drift
ashore. Ny orders were strictly
obeyed, for I was an absolute monarch.
They allowed me little time to sleep.
Every night 1 was compelled to start
the hoolah-hoolah dances with the wom-
en-, and every day and night some del
egations of natives from other islands
in the group would call upon me to arbi
trate in some murder case. Those fel-
loes were always killing each other.
l would get in their canoes and go with
them. Iwould hear the testimony and
decide who was guilty. My decision
was final, and the guilty man would be
shot.
"After remaining on the islands three
months l took passage on the first
steamer that passed. / was landed at
Manila, in the Philippines, and
reached there in time to see the eXecu-
ton of four insurgents. They were
learned native doctors. They were led
out to public park and shot by half a
regiment of soldiers. They fell to the
earth pierced with a score of bullets.
There was fighting on the island all
the time. No one was allowed in the
streets after nine o'clock at night. The
captain of the Stafford had landed safe
ly at Manila eight days after the
wreck"
After leaving Manila Capt. Curtis
succeeded in reaching Hong Kong,
where he was at once placed in com
mand of the Eurydice. He did not tell
his experience until reaching the
sound. The Eurydice broke all rec
ords, coming from Hong Kong in 10
days.-Seattle Times.
Daily camera., 1897-09-13
A She Skeutic

/ He-My dear, I feel awfully bad. I
believe am going to die.
She-I guess not. You men are such
deceivers.-Indianapo journal.
Daily camera., 1897-09-13
suicide Among classic Greeks.

Among the early Greeks suicide was
uncommon until they became con-
taminated by Roman influence. Their
religious teaching, unlike that of their
Asiatic contemporaries, was strongl.
opposed to self-destruction. While
pure and manly nation, they regarded
it as heinous crime, and laws existed
which heaped indignity upon the body
of the suicide. By an Athenian law the
corpse was not buried until after sun
set, and the hand which had done the
deed-spresumably the right hand-was
cut off and buried separately, as having
been a traitor to it's owner.
The only suicides ever spoken of with
respect, or anything approaching COM
mendation, by the early Greeks, were
those of purely patriotic character,
like those of Themistocles and King
Codrus, both of whom were considered
patriots. The latter, when the Hera-
clidae invaded Attica, went down dis
guised among the enemy with the in
tention of getting stain, and having
picked quarrel with some soldiers
succeeded in his object. The reason for
this act was that the oracle had pro-
nounced that the leader of the con-
quering army must fall; and the king
sacrificed his life in order that his
troops might be victorious and his
country saved. Themistocles is said to
have committed suicide rather than
lead the Persians against his own peo-
ple-Lippincott's.
Daily camera., 1897-09-13
The American Girl.

The eye OF The American girl has all
the bright alertness of her fresh and un-
conventionalized intelligence, and
matches admirably with the unceasing
and-in the intransitive sense of the
word-untiring ripple of her speech.
That Englishmen in general should find
delightful stimulant in personality
and her conversation is the most nat
ural thing in the world; and that many
Englishmen should, without any fore
bodings of mental exhaustion, seek the
lifelong companionship of this in
carnate spirit of beautiful unrest is in
itself the most triumphant of answers
to those who say that we of the old
country are played-out race.-London
Telegraph.
Daily camera., 1897-09-13
FIRST ROCK SALT MINE.
It's Discovery the Result of Acciden,
Rather Than Design.


Rather Than Design.
II really believe that many of the
greatest discoveries are the result of
pure accident, and this applies not
only to scientific facts, but also to more
material matters" remarked Gen.
Dudley Avery. Accident brought
the great salt deposit on Avery's island
to light after its Groupings had been
worked for nearly half a century. My
grandfather sold salt years before the
war, and my father in his youth fol-
lowed the same methods of produc-
ton, even after his fathers time; but
it remained for my brother John, then
a boy of 16, to really make manifest the
remarkable advantages which the is
land possessed in the matter of rock
salt mining. 1t was during the war.
Salt was selling in New Orleans for
$11 sack. This was at period when
the salt works of the island were not
being made use of. You see, my grand
father manufactured salt by digging
wells, into which the salt water flowed
in great quantities, and this water he
boiled, evaporating the moisture and
causing a residue Of fine salt.
when my brother learned of the
went to my father, then practicing law
in Baton Rouge, and suggested that he
be given permission to work the then
abandoned wells and make pin money
for himself. There was no objection,
and with the assistance of several
slaves John proceeded to open the old
wells by clearing out the accumulation
of debris and boiling the brine, as his
grandfather did years before him. He
opened number of new wells, and
was soon selling salt at a great rate,
but the demand increased, and he de-
cided to open a big well some ten feet
square. The work proceeded, but the
usual depth was reached with no re-
suit. The water did not flow. He con-
cluded to dig deeper, and at 16 feet
came upon what the negro digger said
was an old stump. Failing to chop
the stump with an ak, the negro con-
cluded he had struck bed of rock,
ana Wnen my DTOlneT ueScendeu 1ntO
the excavation he managed, with cold
chisel, to cut out a piece of what he
thought was transparent rock. My
father, however, who happened to be
on the island at the time. knew what
had been discovered, and in the course
of little while the wonder of the dis
covery had been noised all over the
country.
Thus was discovered the first rock
salt deposit in the south, and a few
months after that time dozen shafts
were being worked in crude way, and
we were shipping salt to Richmond in
great quantities, at least great for that
period in the worlds history. Work
has progressed almost steadily since
that time, and we are shortly to begin
new shaft, which will go deeper than
ever; in fact, drop beneath the old
workings, although this is not neces-
sary, because we can tap the deposit
where we choose."-N. O. Times-Demo-
crAf
Daily camera., 1897-09-13
Not Long to Live.

She was very much concerned about
the consumptive-looking man next
door.
Poor fellow" she said. HE hasn't
long to live" --
"Why do you say that?" she was
asked. you don't know anything
about his CASE
Well" she replied. II was told he
was dying by inches, and anyone can
see that there isn't more than five feet
and one inch of him. ."-Chicago Post.
Daily camera., 1897-09-13
BICYCLE RACES.

DISTANCE. CLASS. PRIZE AND VAL.
Ist Day, I-One Mile Novice sI5-s5
2 Amateur 2o'Io-5
give Mile Amateur 25-I5-Io
I'd Day, 1.-Two Mile Amateur,
Boulder Co., only, 2o.Io-5
e" Z" Five Mile Prof'l. 25-I,5
3rd Day lone Mile, Amateur 20 Io5
2-Three Mile Protl. 25-I5 5
give Mile Amateur 20 1916
For entry blanks and particulars in re-
gard to bicycle races, apply to DR.. J. H.
Parsons or H. F. Sprecher, Boulder,
Balloon Ascension every evening"
Daily camera., 1897-09-13
Ensland,. Rich and Poor.

There are in the United Kingdom
100000 families of gentry, whose aver
age income is $1,000, but there are 4,775,-
900 working class families whose aver
age income is only $4s5. Chicago
Times Herald.
Daily camera., 1897-09-13
Silver Republican Convention.

Pursuant to the order of the County Central
committee of the Silver Republican party, no.
tice is hereby given that delegate convention
representing said party is hereby called and
will be held in the county court room, Boulder,
on the 22d day of September 1897, at 10 o'clock
a. m. for the purpose of placing in nomination
candidates for the following Offices:
Daily camera., 1897-09-13
Easily Done.

She-What beautiful name you
have, Mr.. Montrose.
He-You like it, my lady. Take it,
Detroit Free Press.
Daily camera., 1897-09-13
Democratic Convention.

Democratic Convention.
Pursuant to the action of the County Central
Committee of the Democratic party, held in
Boulder on the 21st day of August, A. D. 1897,
notice is hereby given that convention of the
delegates representing the Democratic party in
the County Of Boulder, is hereby called for and
will be held on the I'D day of September, A. D.
1897, at the hour of 10 o'clock a. M, in the Dis
trict court room in the city of Boulder, for the
purpose of placing in nomination candidates
for the following offices:
One County Sheriff.
Daily camera., 1897-09-13

Clerk and Recorder.
Treasurer.
Assessor.
Supt. Public Instruction.
Coroner.
Surveyor.
90 ' Commissioner for the 1st Com
missioner district.
Also to select delegates to the Judicial con-
vention, and for the transaction of such other
business as may properly come before such con-
vention. The several precincts are entitled to
representation in said convention as follows:
Daily camera., 1897-09-13

The total number of delegates to the conven.
tion will be 1O6 and in apportioning that num-
Der to the respective precincts, each precinct is
allotted one delegate arbitrarily. The remain
ing delegates are apportioned to the respective
precincts on the average vote cast for Repre-
sentatives in 1896, allowing one delegate for
each 25 votes cast, or fraction over ten, ON the
assumption that one-half of the total vote was
Democratic.
The Central Committee recommend that the
primaries in the several precincts in the County
hold their primary meetings on Saturday, Sep
tember IS, 1897, at 80 o'clock p. m.
w. L. SEELY,
WALTER MCCASLIN, Chairman.
Secretary.
Daily camera., 1897-09-13
Boulder Races!

The Boulder Fair Association, under whose
auspices three days Of Horse and Bicycle races,
with Balloon Ascensions and other attractions
added, will be conducted, announce the follow
ing program for the occasion. -
Daily camera., 1897-09-13
A Discrepancy,

"Wadsleigh says he never makes mis-
takes"
'eHm-m! That's one Of 'em."-Chi-
cago Journal
Daily camera., 1897-09-13
HORSE RACES.

THURSDAY, SEPT. I6.
Purse No. I-2:45 class, Trotting. .sIco
2-2:35 Pace. 100
=" 81 mile running, in 3. 50
FRIDAY, SEPT. II.
Purse No. 4-Free for all Trot..... 500
5-Free for all Pace 49,. 100
SIS Running Dash..... 50
SATURDAY, SEPT. l8.
Purse No. 7-2:24 Trot... .........sIoo
8-2:35 Trot.. 100
Cow Pony Race....... 50
For entries and conditions in the above
races, apply to c. F. Tansy. Boulder.
Middletown transcript., 1897-12-18
Storing Cranberries.

The question, How shall the fruit be
treated after it is received from the pick.
ers to best preserve it till time for mar
keting? brought out much discussion at
the late meeting Of the Cranberry Grow
ers' association at Camden, N. J. As re-
ported by The American Agriculturist,
the essential points insisted upon by
Hon. Theodore Budd are: The fruit must
be thoroughly dry before it goes into
the packing house, it must be cool
throughout and must be in ventilated
open boxes or crates. In the storehouse
it must be kept as cool as possible and
as dark as may be, but frost must by all
means be kept out. The storehouse must
be thoroughly ventilated and the crates
SO packed as to allow of free circulation
OF air throughout Mr. E. H. Durell
agreed generally. but uses shallow trays
instead of crates.
The coloring of fruit picked green can
be controlled to some extent by light
and heat. The best method is to let the
fruit color slowly in the dark. Mr.. Hol-
man has seen excellent results from
packing berries in large boxes holding
10 TO 70 bushels and pffing tihem in a
solid mass in cellar feet deep They
kept in almost perfect condition until
the following March and with very lit
tie shrinkage Mr. Jones stated that in
New England they tried to avoid keep
ing BY selling at once, from the bog If
possible.
Middletown transcript., 1897-12-18
old Point Comfort And Was hington.

On December % the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company will run the first of a new
series of Personally Conducted Tours tt
Old Point Comfort and Washington. The
party will travel by the Cape Charles Route
10 Old Point Comfort, where one day viii
be spent; thence by boat up the Potomac tC
Washington, spending two days at tha
point. Round-trip rate. including trans
portation, meals Ell route, transfers, hote
accommodations, berth on steamer. and all
necessary expenses. $220O from New York
$2l.0O from Trenton; S1950 from Philadel
delphia Proportionate rates from Other
points. At q slight additional expense
tourists can extend the trip to Virgins
Beach, with accommodations at the Prin-
cess Anne Hotel.
Tickets to Old Point Comfort only, in.
Guiding one and three fourths days board
at that place, and good to return by regu-
lar trains within six days, will be sold in
connection with this tour at rate of $1,000
from New York. $500 from Trenton,
$14O0 from Philadelphia, and proportion
ate rates from other points.
For itineraries and full information,
apply to ticket agents; Tourist Agent, 1886
Broadway. New York; or Geo. W. BOYD,
Assistant General Passenger Agent, Broad
Street Station, Phil Iadelphia.