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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-10-16
Changed the Subject.

The men who utilize the corner gro
Gerry for u clubroom III the evening and
on stormy days hal just been discussing
q fox hunt about which j of their
number had read aloud, when the con-
ve1sation naturally took q reminiscent
turn.
Nothing cutter or more cunning IN
the world than a fox, F" said Goggs by
way of introduction. II remember one
night when ! was q boy that we heard
a great fuss among the dogs that were
chained up. 1t took rs about half All
hour to get dressed and armed TO sally
forth for the purpose of investigating.
Not discovering anything, we lo0sened
the dogs, and they darted off OH 4 trail,
yelpiug IS they went. We didn't know
whether it was man or varmint, but
after a long run the dogs brought up at
the hen house and tried to tear it down.
Well, sir, an old fox had deliberately
showed himself to the dogs SO as to ex-
cite them, made that run while we're
were getting ready for trorble, and, cir
cling around, was robbing the roost
while the dogs Were off the premises
Il walked up one moonlight night"
volunteered the man on the wood box,
''aEd seen a fox under an apple tree
where a fat pullet was roosting. I knew
the thief couldn't climb, so | just stood
at the window laughing. The fox bark
ed TO wake the chicken and then began
c~i.cl;ng around the tree, slow at first,
but going faster and faster. Of course
the terrified pullet followed him with
h-r eyes and got 50 dizzy that she fell
ont Of the tree"
4 see somethin like that once, said
the lank individual Oh q faint Leg,
.only that the chicken 7 was watchin
WruEg its own neck cause the fox was
goin 50 durned fast.
Then, by common consent, the crowd
took up the subject of floods. Detroit
Free Press.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
TO DRIVE our BUrrERINE.
A Union of Western Esutter Interest,
Being Formed.


CHICAGO, June The creamery
proprietors, the butter dealers and the
dairy farmers of the big butter pro-
ducing Wisconsin,, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa. Minnesota, Nebraska,
Kansas, Michigan and the Dakotas-
are being formed into compact fight
ing organization of not less than 500, :
900 and possibly more than 1,0OO, 900
voters and vote controllers are being
pledged in writing to work unceas-
ingly for legislation that will prevent
the coloring of butterine.
1t is proposed, before the legislatures
of these dairy states meet again, to
raise great fund to drive the butter
inc manufacturers from their strong
holds, and if the industry finds loop
holes in state legislation the organiza-
ton will move on Washington.
w. ID. Hoard. of Fort.Atkinson, Wis,
formerly governor of Wisconsin and
president of the National Dairy union,
is giving the movement all the benefit
of his organizing ability and political
acl1uan
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
GENERAL NEWS.

A CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL.
suburban train, bound for Evanston.
ran into the Chicago river at the Kin
zie street bridge at Chicago the other
night. The draw was open and the
engine and tender disappeared under
the water, and the first car, a combi-
nation baggage and passenger car. was
partly submerged. Many of the pas
sengers had ducking, but were unin-
jured.
DURING an electrical storm lightning
struck and set fire to the natural his
tory building on the ground of the
university of Illinois at Champaign,
I'LL, and before the flames were got
under control damage estimated at
$4,000 to SIS. 900 resulted.
A QUANTITY of powder in a building
attached to the plant of the Hazard
Powder Co. at Hazardville, Conn.,. ex-
ploded and three men and one horse
were killed. The building was blown
to pieces.
AN attempt was recently made to
wreck a Baltimore s. Ohio Southwest
ern passenger train near Salem. Ill
The track was piled high with timbers.
One of the miscreants was fatally shot
IT was reported that Messiah"
Schweinfurth was planning the estab-
lishment of new Heaven, in the
northern part of Buena Vista county,
Ia, and that he had recently conferred
with landowners relative to the pur-
chase of a suitable tract of land north
of Sioux Rapids.
BARNEY BARNATo, the South African
diamond, king" committed suicide by
1eaping overheard from the steamship
Scot, off the west coast .of Morocco,
Africa.
A GOLD strike of fabulous richness
has been made $50 feet below the sur
face in the Gregory Bobtail mine at
Central City, Col
The supreme lodge A. o. q. w. ad-
journed at Milwaukee on the 18th after
installing the officers. ]. E. Riggs, of
Kansas City, Mo-, was placed on the
committee on laws; Web McNall, of
Kansas, on the committee on appeals,
and A. Priddle, of Kansas, on the conn
mittee on statistics.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Bank TeIler Goes wronp.

HoLYoKE, Mass. June Dob. Frank
Bannister, assistant teller of the Home
national bank, has confessed to mis-
appropriating the banks funds. The
amount he has taken is probably SIS 900.
The bank is protected against loss by
a guarantee company and the company
will be reimbursed by Bannister's
friends, SO that there will probably be
no prosecution. Bannister was led to
take the money by heavy personal ex.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
SATURDAYS Senate.

WASHINGTON, June 29.-The flax
schedule was considered in the senate
to-day. The motion to strike out the
two paragraphs in regard to burlaps
and cloth for cotton bagging was. car
ried, 31'to %. The paragraph levying a
duty on plain woven fabrics of single
jute yarns was also struck out
by vote of 30 to 2S The senate
also agreed by yea and nay vote
to strike out the paragraph in regard
to floor mating, the vote being 25 to
%. The effect is to put floor mating
on the free list.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
MAY SOON ABDICATE.
Queen Victoria Said to BE Considering the
Step of Resigning the Throne.


Step of Resigning the Throne.
LONDON, June 20.-It will readily be
understood that the political conse-
quences of the sad physical infirmity
which has befallen the queen cannot
fail to be highly important to Great
Britain, and the statement which fol-
lows, although not official, is furnished
in response to inquiries by person who
enjoys the confidence of the royal fam
lily and who speaks in this matter with
full knowledge: 1.-The question of the
queens early abdication is being dis
cussed in the highest circles. Her
majesty is stated to be seriously con-
sidering the important step of resign
ing the throne in favor of the prince of
Wales soon after the jubilee. Her
majesty finds the duties of her position
daily becoming more difficult to fill,
and she breads the responsibilities of
next week very much, although she is
unwilling to disappoint her subjects
in the least"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
ANOTHER ANARCHIST.
In His Day Thomas jefferson Was Classed
as an Anarchist by His Opponents.

In His Day Thomas Jefferson Was Classed
as an Anarchist by His Opponents.
The general supposition that the
term anarchist" as political epi-
thet, has only lately been used is
mistake. In letter to John Wise,
dated February IL. 179s, Thomas JEFF
ferson enumerates it among those that
were then applied to the members of
the republican party. of which he was
a member. He said:
1t is now understood that two polit-
ical sects have arisen within the
United States-the one believing that
the executive is the branch of our gov
ernment which most needs support,
the other that, like the analogous
branch of the English government, it
is already too strong for the republic
an parts of the constitution, and there
fore, in equivocal cases, they incline
to the legislative powers
The former of these are called fed
eralists, sometimes aristocrats, or mon
ocrats, and sometime tories, after the
corresponding sect IN the English gov
erpment of the same definition. The
latter are styled republicans, wings,
Jacobins, anarchists, disorganizers,
etc. These terms are in familiar use
with most persons. Both parties claim
to be federalists and republicans, and,
believe, in truth, as to the great
mass of them. These appellations
designate neither exclusively, and all
others are ISLANDERS, except whig and
tory, which alone characterize the
distinguishing principles of the two
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Placed strychnine in Ecrnop.

DAVENPORT, Ia, June 20. John
Gugelheimer was found dead in the
kitchen of his home yesterday, and his
wife was dead in the cellar. Gugel-
heimer was farmer, living six miles
from the city. He was at one time in
sane. Investigation by the coroner
showed that he had mixed strychnine
with eggnog and given it to his wife,
afterward drinking the poison himself.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Inquest over Barney Barn.to.

SOUTHAMPTON, June 2O.-On the ar
rival OF the British steamship, Scott,
yesterday with the body of the late
Barney Barnato, the coroner's officers
went aboard to ascertain as to the me-
eessity of holding an inquest. The in
quest was held and the jury returned
a verdict of death from drowning
while temporarily insane.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Missouri Musicians Through.

WARRENsBURG, Mo-, June 2O.-The
state music teachers convention closed
with last nights. concert. Yesterday
was Missouri day, and the work of
composers of the state appeared ex-
clusively on the programme. E. r.
Kruger was elected president and H.
Z. Schultze secretary and treasurer.
The next annual meeting will be held
in Kansas City June Is.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
KiIled In 3 Train Wreck.

OMAHA, Neb., June 20.-Engineer
Hamilton was killed outright and his
fireman was seriously injured by the
wreck of the Burlington train No. IL,
known as the Iowa local, at Creston,
Ia. early this morning. The train
was just moving out of Creston when
it ran into an open switch and was
difched
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
A Postal Inventor at Rest.

New YoRK, June 20.-James Gayler,
assistant postmaster of New York since
1850, died Suddenly at his home last
evening" aged 90 He devised the s.reg-
istered package envelope" /" still in use,
which has been the means of saving
millions of dollars to the public.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Louisiana Negro murderer Haneed

BATON ROUGE, La, June 2O.-Allen
Butler, colored, 26 years old, was exc
cuted in West Baton Rouge parish yes
terday. He murdered his wife with
an ak on Poplar Grove plantation Oc-
tober 20 last, jealousy being the cause
of the tragedy. He assembled the scaf-
fold singing. When asked by the sher-
itf If he was ready, he replied: "Let
her cpO
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
committea suicide Acc P.x.r

CoyNGToN. KY, June 2O.-Immedi-
ately after family prayer yesterday
morning Miss Amelia Bear, aged 22
years, went into the parlor and cut her
throat from ear to ear with her broth
er's razor There was no known cause
for the suicide. The coroner's verdict
was, temporary INSANITY.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Republicanism.

In speaking of the increase of money
caused by the Sherman silver coinage
act, President Harrison said in his
message of 1890: ''The increased cir
culation secured by the act has exerted
and will continue to exert most
beneficial influence upon business and
general values The enlargement OF
our currency by the silver bill un-
donbtedly gave an upward tendency
to trade and had marked effect upon
prices, but this natural and desired eff
feet of the silver legislation was by
many erroneously attributed to the
new tariff actD
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Two women T,rowcea

: New ALBANY, Ind, June 20.-Mrs.
Clarence Mccarthy and her niece, Miss
Mary Fite, were drowned while at
tempting to ford the Little Indian
creek near Georgetown yesterday.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Minor State News.

Gov. Leedy will be the principal
speaker at Florence on July 4.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lease is to be
the Fourth of July orator at Hamilton.
Mo.
The First national bank of West
moreland has gone into voluntary
liquidation
DIR. Pitcher says Busy, the man who
stole two Augusta girls and is now
under penitentiary sentence. is insane.
Mrs Nellie Sawyer Kedzie, professor
of household economy and hygiene in
the Kansas agricultural college at
Manhattan, has been elected to a SINH
lar chair in the Bradley Polytechnic
institute at Peoria, Ill 1t was said
she would accept the position.
The Council Grove board of educa-
tion has passed the following resolu-
tion: THAT teachers employed in our
public school shall not dance or play
cards Any teacher violating such re-
gulations holds himself or herself sub
ject to dismissal
Miss Marie Perdue, daughter of Ed.
ward Perdue, president of the Bank of
Huron, Atchison county, eloped with
Fred Walter. farm hand of Mr.. Per-
dues. They went to Leavenworth and
were married.
DIR. B. d. Eastman, superintendent
of the Topeka insane asylum, has re-
signed DIR. &c. Fl. Whetmore, of En-
poria, was chosen to succeed him
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
MvsterIou. CattIe Di.ease.

Taylor Riddle, secretary of the state
live stock sanitary board, has investi-
gated the mysterious disease which is
raging among the cattle of Saline
county, and he says it is neither Texas
fever nor blackleg, as was at first
feared. A great number of cattle have
died from the disease, which was in
troduced into the county by animals
from Texas
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Potato Crop Damaged.

Many farmers in the vicinity of Law
renee complain of their potato vines
withering and dying. An unusual
acreage of potatoes has been put in be-
tween Lawrence and Kansas City on
both sides of the river and the new
trouble may prove serious. A bug and
dry weather are the causes of the dam
age. The insect is the potato stalk
weeyil
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23

The interests of capital and labor
are antagonistic and admit of no COM
promise, for the right to take even the
smallest fraction of another's earnings
carries with it the right to take ALL
Appeal to Reason.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Poll Tax Law Attacked.

The validity of the state law anthor-
izing the collection of poll tax in cities
of the first class has been attacked by
County Attorney Sheppard at Fort
Scott, who has been employed to fight
its collection in Fort Scott. Mr.. Shep-
pard contends that the law of 1893;
pretending to repeal the poll tax law
so far as it affected cities of over &c, 900
people, practically repealed the whole
law
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Germany at the close of the war {

Germany at the close of the war of
1870 received from France 81 ,000. .0O0, 900
indemnity. France issued paper money
to the amount of $40 per capita and to-
day the debt is paid and only 15 per
cent of the realty in France is mort
gagged and she is the most prosperous
nation on earth Germany went home
proud victor and went to contracting
the currency, demonetizing silver, and
to-day so per cent of the real estate is
morgaged beyond redemption.-Ex-
change.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Cannot BE Denied.

That change is gradually taking
place in the construction of society
can be seen by the increased demand
for public ownership of public facili-
ties. The labor of reformers may
not produce violent change. but that
a gradual change is stealing over the
complexion of society no observing
person will lldeny.-Twentieth Century.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Judge Fitzgerald Dead.

Judge James w. Fitzgerald, of St.
Mary's, died recently from the effects
of a cold contracted by him during the
campaign last year while making
speeches for free silver. Mr.. Fitzger-
aid was about so years of age, and was
said to be one of the best posted men
in parliamentary law in America
Years ago he became somewhat distin-
guished by his fight on lawlessness in
the city of Cincinnati, while he was
police judge of that city. He had lived
N Kansas about eight years.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Southwestern Firemen's Association.

At the close of the Southwestern
Firemen's association held at Joplin,
Mo-, w. f. Griffith, of Joplin, Mo-, was
elected president, j. j. Little, of Fort
Smith, Ark, vice president; Hall Por-
ter. of Carthage, Mo-, secretary-treas-
ury; w. H. Holmes, of Pittsburg, Kan,
inspector-general. The next annual
meeting will be held at Pittsburg.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
A venerable aini,ter Passes Away.

Rev. John L. Hawkins, said to be
the oldest Presbyterian minister and
college graduate, died at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Osbun, near
Fort Scott, at the age of 81 years. He
was born at Chambersburg, Pa, Au-
gust 4, 1900, and graduated from Wash
ington college in 1873
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
Insurance Companies Coming to Time.

Insurance Companies Coming to Time.
The big eastern fire insurance COM
panies are changing their charters to
conform to the ruling of Superintend-
'ent of Insurance McNa1l in regard to
tornado insurance. McNall ruled re-
Gently that no foreign insurance COM
pany. whose charter did not specially
authorize it, could write foreign bust
ness in Kansas.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23

National Soldiers Home Managers.
The board of national soldiers home
managers held a business meeting
at Leavenworth- The destruction of
Gov. Smiths residence by dynamite
bomb was under consideration, and
the board decided to have the residence
rebuilt at once and to discharge any
veterans from the home who had the
slightest connection with the crime.
The board decided not to change the
order transferring Gov. Smith to the
Pacific home, and he will leave July 1
If Mrs. Smiths health will permit
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-06-23
stock Yards Inquiry over.

The stock yards inquiry, held at
Kansas City, Mo-, so far as the taking
of oral testimony is concerned, has
practically ended. and the lawyers
have gone home, but Judge Martins
question, did you pay anything to
councilmen or members of the city
government in furtherance of your eff
forts to have streets vacated?" is still
unanswered. There is a probability
that the court will meet at some fu-
ture time and hear a cross examina-
ton of Col. Morse on the subject, but
it is only probability.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-12

pose of what we have here so that it viii
do the greatest good to the largest num-
Der when We are gone. I would have done
this before no doubt but for the trouble
have been to in relation to the big Govern
ment suits that have involved the estate.
while remain on this side of life, for
l do not consider that there is any such
thing as death-it is only change will
regard this house as my home. All of the
tender ties of husband and son, whom l
will join before many years pass, are CEN
tered in this home, and when pass out
want this home to become a part of the
educational system that my husband es-
tablished, and which he was so deeply in
terested in. When l pass over l do not
want these things in which my husband,
my son and l took so much pleasure
scattered, and by the means adopted they
vii. all be kept together and be OF use and
benefit to many others"
One thought is suggested in the dispo-
sition of the Stanford mansion in this
of Art which by similar arrangement on
the part OF the donors has passed to the
University of California and for similar
purposes. In the future these rival uni
versities will be rivals indeed, for each
will have City annex of grand appear
ance. In each will be congregated at times
the best and brightest minds that the
world will produce, ana each institution,
with but an ornamental stone fence divid-
ing, will endeavor to harbor genius anu
talent that will OUTRAGE and outshine the
other.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-12
WIDE OF THE MARX.

A Few Bullets Fired Account of a
Divorce Case.
Jacob L. Thurston. carpenter, is
charged with an attempt to commit MUIR
der.
At 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning he
mad. a target of George Il. Pettis, a
printer, on Valley street and San Jose
avenue. Pettis was engaged in game of
cards in saloon when Thurston entered
and began abusing him. The two men
passed uncomplimentary eplthets for quite
a while, until Pettis started home, fol-
lowed by Thurston. The latter. according
to Pettis. tried TO shoot him, but the bull
lets went vide of the mark.
The trouble is the outcome of divorce
suit which has be en- in the courts for
nearly a year. Pettis is stepson of one
Harrison, a defendant in the divorce suit,
and they are anything but friends. Thurs
ton and Harrison are friends, and Pettis
accuses them of conspiracy.
Judge Bahrs has cited Harrison to purge
himself to-day of contempt OF court in the
matter still in court, and the breach be-
tween the contending parties is widening.
The shooting is only one OF the side issues
in the case.