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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-11
WHEN THE vEsUvIUs ARRIVES
There Will be Blockade Raining Down a
Charleston Harbor

Charleston, S. C, Feb. l0.-The North
Atlantic squadron IS lying off the
mouth OF harbor and. beyond evolutions
for position. nothing in the way of block
ede-running has vet been done. The ad-
miral has signalled the positions he
wished The various ships 20 take and
they have moved according 10 his 6irec-
lions. They are now lying Strung out
in line towards the south from the
mouth OF the haroor. 1; IS probable that
no actual blockade-runniEg Will be done
until the arrival OF the battieships In
diana and Massachusetts, which have
been ordered 10 join the fleet, and the
dynamite cruiser Vesuvius. which is TO
act as blockade-rulner. The Nesuvius
LETT League Island navy yard yesterday
morning and should reach here tonight
or iomrrow morning. The revenue cut
Ter ColtaN took party out 10 TIE flag
snip New York this morning TO visit
Admiral Bance. Collector OF the Port
Bryan, Mayor Smythe and Mr.. r. G..
Rheita, chairman OF the entertainment
COMMITTEES, were in the party The
transport steamer Fern came 10 the city
this morning, as usual, for mail and tela
grams.
San Francisco, Cal. Feb. I0-Mrs. Nettie
Craven, who alleges that she is the contract
widow OF ex-senator James G. Far. COM
planned at police headquarters today that
she is being harsssed by private detectives
ard that she Is IN constant fear OF a muir
terous attack upon her. She asks permits
SION TO carry a pistol. but the police COM
missioners declined 10 grant her request
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-11
GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

CHICAGO.
Chicago grain markets. furnished by T.
L. Bostic, commission merchant, rooms 10
and IL over Kansas National bank Tele-
phone No l67.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-11
NEW EPOCH MARKED
MRS. BRADLEY-MARTIN'S BALL Is
THE EVENT OF a DECADE.

vanderbilts and Everybody Else Outshone
and Outdone by the Gorgeous, Glitter
ing Star-Spangled Affair Which has
Called Forth SO Much Advance Critf
cism-French History Kansacked for
Models of Sufficiently Extravasant Ele-
gance-FIowers and Subscription
of the Indescribable-No Dynamite.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-11
WICHITA MARKETS

Wichita, Kan. Feb. 20. 1887.
HOGS.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-19

nal.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-19

dismiss the case. The judge reao
voluminously from supreme court re-
ports. The attorney on the Other
side had no reports and wanted none.
When the judge had finished, his OPP
ponent arose and remarked in an in
iured tone: Your honor, l am as
tonished that the learned counsel on
the other side should have the auda-
city to come here and impose on this
court. He has rea1 a lot of stuff
that he tries to make you believe is
law, but there are the books them
selves to show how himsy is his con-
tention. Look at them your honor.
On their face they only claim to be
reports. Does the counsel on the
other side think he can hoodwink
and deceive the court by Juggling in
here lot ofreports' What is a re-
port? Why, anybody knows a re-
port is mere rumor-street gossip, as
it were-and yet the counsel on the
other side has the gall to try to boil
ster up a lost cause with reportsp
The justice promptly agreed with
the attorney who had last spoken,
and dismissed the judges case at
the cost of his client. TX. C. Jour
nal
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-19
Wrue PRINCIPAL of Protection,

/ The American Economist en-
phasizes the principle that the home
consumption of home made pro-
ducts brings prosperity to the homes
of those who help to produce such
products, by several very well Sc
lected illustrations. This is the
true principal of Protection, and If
it could be extended so as embrace
everything offered in the home mar
ket, it would have the greatest bene-
fit. There is no reason why the
people of any town should go away
from home to purchase supplies of
any kind, when the local stores off
er as gooq advantage, in variety
and excellence of stock and cheap
ness of price, as can be found in
the shops of neighboring or remote
cities. The principal of Protection
is that such people should always
give preference 10 the goods of their
own merchants, as well as manu-
facturers.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-19
IT Was Always Thus.

i The foreign commerce figures
for September, prepared by the
Treasury Department Bureau OF
Statistics, are interesting when ex-
amined in detail. There was gain
in the exports of domestic merchan-
disc amounting to over $40, ooc, 900
as compared::with September, 1896,
while the excess of exports over i'm
ports, as contrasted with the same
month in 1896, was 500, 28I. 1877.
The value of animals exported in
creased from $162,8 28 in Septem-
Der, 1896, to SAI32, o76; of bread
stuff, from $I7,S41972 to SIS, 6o7,
1876; and there was notable increase
in the exports of vehicles, coal,
fruit and skins, hops, iron and steal,
leather, provisions, dairy products,
eggs, spirits, sugar and molases,
vegetables, vessels sold to foreign
ers, wood and manufactures of, and
manufactured wool.
For the second full month of the
operation of the Dingley Tariff the
showing is so vastly in favor of
American commerce and industries
as to attract universal attention.
Earope is startled at the big balance
of trade in favor of the United
States, which is shown by the COM
parison of exports and imports,
while the Free-Trade sophists at
home and abroad are greatly troub-
led to reconcile facts with theories.
1t is an evidence of tremendously
increased prosperity under the
policy of Protection that they can
not deny or explain. And yet it is
only the old, old story told in new
words, the story of hard times under
Protection. 1t was always thus in
our country. American Economist
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-19
Cottage Corner.

j. e. Plummer and wife visited at
S. G. Poppino's, near Rural Sunday.
Caleb Reeves is better than for a
long time.
Henry Frank is almost through
husking corn.
W. II. Neyhard is still hauling
water for his stock.
G. M. Hammond and wife were out
to their farm last week.
j. H. Mahaffey has fine duroc sow;
durocs are all the 60 in this section.
A. O.'Grubb is fixing up his subur-
ban home and making it look like it's
former self,
John Cooper is buying some stock
and will farm the home place the
coming year.
G. Ruff and wife accompanied by
Mrs. Fred Nixon called on Mr.and Mrs.
G. S. Nation Sunday.
The Corner folks are figering on
having the telephone line extended so
as to give them telephone service.
Mrs. Chas, Gardner was quite sick
the latter part of last week, but is
improving and will soon be about
again.
Road Overseer Plummer, says he is
going to make landowners comply
with the law as regards taking care
of their hedges and burning the brush
along the road. That's right Joe, if a
fellow will not look after his farm he
ought not own one.
Fire broke out on the William Han
son farm west Of ]. w. Arthur's We'd
nesday about II o'clock and burned
over most of Mr.. Arthur's tsectlon;it
burned about 400 rods Of hedge fence,
lis acres Of tame pasture and a num-
Der of acres of corn. Mr.. Arthur's
damage is about $500. The fire is sal
to have been set by sparks from the
engine of an extra on the Fredonia
branch.
W. w. and F. B. Jones of Bunker
Hill are the recipients of a visit from
his cousin, R. w. Bennett Of New
York. Mr.. Bennett is looking over
the western country, including Mis-
souri,, Nebraska, the Dakotas and
Kansas, and may conclude at future
time to locate in the west. Mr.. Ben
nett Is the first of the New York rala-
tives to visit the Mressers. Jones in
their thirty years residence in Kan
SaS
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-19
Every state which Mckinley car

Every state which Mckinley car
ried in 1896, except Kentucky, is
tolerably sure to go Republican in
1900. The Republicans can give
up Kentucky and still win. They
are likely, however, to gain states
in the Northwest which will more
than make up for Kentucky's loss.
The drift in Kansas and South Da-
kota toward the Republicans shows
a breaking in the Bryan column
which has an ominouS significance
for the silverite side. From pres
ent indications the general result in
1900 will be the same as it was IN
1906, if the issue remains the some.
Globe Democrat.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-19
fine On Stillwell.

y "That reminds me-" said the old
1awer, of a story on Judge Stillwell
when he was practicing attorney
before Kansas justice of the peace
courts. He had case. l think in
Lyon county before justice of the
peace who did not know anywhere
near as much law as Necessity. The
Judge had all the law on his side, and
had fortified himself with a stack Of
supreme court reports His oppon-
ent had no law on his side, but he
had what was better. He had the
justice of the peace. The judge
introduced his evidence in support
Of his bill of particulars and the at
torney on the other side moved tC
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-19

WARNING:-Persons who suffer from
coughs and colds should heed the
warnings of danger and save them
selves suffering and fatal results by
using One Minute Cough Cure. 1t is
an infallible remedy for coughs, colds,
Group and all throat and lung troubles
& Williams.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-19
Rural.

j. F. Pullen is still bailing hay.
Miss Mary McAtee has been visit
ing relatives at Lawrence for a week.
Chas. F. Maclary threshed his caffir
corn last week-he had about 900
bushels.
c. Lutes threshold caffir corn for
Popping, DR.. Sweeney and Maclary
last week.
Splanes young folks were guests of
the young folks Of S. c. Poppino's last
Sunday.
Comrade E. Plummer and wife,
Comrade VIM. Watt of carlton and
family and sisters from Indiana, were
guests Of S. G. Popping and wife last
Sunday.
Robert Comstock has rented the c.
L. Safer farm for the next year and is
now moving his feed. Vic Frederick
has rented the McConky place and
will soon move on the same.
win Browning is building new
house; he is beginning to see the gener
al prosperity. By the next campaign
Will will be back in the republican
ranks. These pops are good fellows
the only trouble is they are a littl,
excitable, but after a while take {
good smoke and come around o. k.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-11-19

]. G. Berry, one of the best known
citizens of Spencer, Mo-, testifies that
he cured himself Of the worst kink of
piles by useiUg few boxer of DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve. He had been
troubled with piles for over thirty
years and had used many different
kinds OF so-called cures; but DeWitt's
was the one that did the work and he
will verify this statement II any one
wishes to write him.-BOschert 4
William.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-05-27

morning mail and passenger train had left
here at a. m. on last Saturday, as usual,
and had stopped there for breakfast. The
Conductor, William A. Fuller; the En-
gineer, 1. Cain, both of this city, and the
passengers were at the table, when some
eight men, having uncoupled the engine and
three empty box-cars next to it from the
passenger and baggage cars, mounted the
engine, pulled open the valve, put on all
steam, and left Conductor, Engineer, pas
sengers, spectators, and the soldiers in the
camp hard by, all lost in amazement and
dumbfounded at the strange, startling, and
daring act.
This unheard-of act was doubtless under
taken at that place and time, upon the pre-
sumption that pursuit could not be made by
an engine short OF Kingston some 80 miles
above, or from this place; and that, by cut
ting down the telegraph wires as they pro-
ceeded, the adventures could calculate on
at least three or four hours the start of any
pursuit it was reasonable to expect.
This was a legitimate conclusion, and but
for the will, energy. an quick good Judgment
of Mr.. Fuller and Mr.. Cam, and Mr. Anthony
Murphy, the intelligent and practical fore
man of the wood department of the State
road shop, who accidentally went on the
train from this place that morning, their
calculations would have worked out as origi-
nally contemplated, and the results would
have been obtained long ere this reaches the
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-05-27

General dimensions: Width 33 feet iches DEPTH including
Nights Cellar inches first story inches
second story, feet attic, feet.
Exterior materials: Foundations and brick; first story capboards
second gables and roof shingles Outside blinds all windows
those of the attic and cellar and the stained and circular windows
Interior finish Hard white plaster; plaster cornic and hail.
dining Cellar ceiling pered heavy
flooring trim throughout Ash Stained glass three
staircase Picture moling principal
of
finished in hard oil.
Coors All cpbd veranda balcony and porch buter color
green Veanda foo eabrown Veranda ceiling oiled Bkwork
brush coated reddish stain.
Accommodations The principal and their closets shown
Cellar whole inside
floor Laundry stationary wash and servants waeroset
kitchen Dumb kitchen basement Sliding between
hall and pa sitting and dining The balcony pantry and
kitchen good place bedding Two bedrooms and hall
finished attic leaving large where additional
finished Waban under main Coat and hat closet Oft
easel landing
Cost: $500.
Feasible notifications of sizes materials and coors
confess stained glass; finish and all of plumbing be omitted
Palor chimney be omitted heating apparatus be used
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also brought those living near the track TO
the road in crowds, and they undoubtedly
assisted in clearing Instructions as speedily
as possible.
Tie rebel account of the pursuit, pub
lished in the Southern Confedcracy, at At
lanta April Is shows clearly how our pur-
suers gave us such successful chase, and
also shows the immense Importance the Con-
federates attached TO this reckless expedi-
tion, if it had been successful. take the
liberty here of reproducing the published
account as it appeared in that paper, three
days after the occurrence. Ii is as follows:
THE GREAT RAILROAD CHASE.
Since our last issue we have obtained full
particulars OF the most thrilling railroad
adventure that ever occurred on the Ameri-
cat continent, as well as the mightiest and
most important in its results if successful
that has been conceived by the Lincoln
Government since the commencement of
this war. Nothing on SO grand scale has
been attempted, and nothing within the
range Of possibility could be conceived that
would fla with such tremendous crushing
force upon us as the accomplishment Of the
plans which were concocted and dependent
OIL the execution Of the one whose history we
now proceed TO narrate.
lis reality-what was actually done-ex-
GELS all the extraragant conceptions of the
Arrow-Smith hoax, which fiction created
such profound sensation in Europe
To make the matter more complete and
inielligible, we viii take our readers over
the same history Of the case which we relat-
ed in our last, the main features OF which
are correct, but are lacking in details. which
have since come TO hand.
We will begin al the breakfast table of
We Big Shanty Hotel, at Camp Mcdonald,
be w. g. A. r. r., where several regi-
of soldiers are now encamped. The
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-05-27
as THEY VIEW IT.
Veterans Opinions On the Pen
sion Question

Many comrades write to THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE what they think about pensions.
Below are given some of the views expressed
and the action taken by Posts.
George w. Latham Post, 172. Clifty. KY, has
adopted = resolution favoring the enactment
of q Service Pension Bill, with the rate Sl2 .
month or more.
Comrades to the number of So of Thomas p.
Young Post, 1875, Danvlle. KY, have voted in
favor of Service Pension Bill, believing that
if the veterans will unite ON one definite plan
they will be more certain to succeed than IL
sentiment is d vided.
Comrades in favor of straight Service PEN
sion are: Henry E. Butler, Co. ID, S7th ILL.,,
Mount Erie, H.; John ". Weeks. Sergeant, Co.
d, 4th W., University Place. Neb.; William Il.
Jones. Greensboro. KY; T. w. Parsons. Co. ID,
14th Ky. Cav, Mount Stirling, KY; II. Warren
Phelps, Co. Fl, 95th Ohio, Westerville, o. w.
F. w. White, Co. b, 4th Ark. Cav, Amity, Ark;
]. II. Reeves, Co. G., 9Th Mimi; Robert w.
johnson, Co. B, 4th Ark, Amity, Ark.
J. B. Potter. Co. II, s3d Pa, Olivet. Ark.
| favors a Service Pension with Per Diem attach
ment; so does /. II. Doughman, Co. E. 18th
Ohio. George w. Parrott. Co. F. 18th Ky,
| Saloma, KY, advocates Service Pension of IS,
with disability clause attached.
| The Per Diem is desired by Samuel Brown,
Battery NJ LIST N. Y. Art, Andrews Settlement,
Pa; also by ]. L. Rice, Mountain Grove. Mo-;
Judge W. C. Hall, Monito. H., and Fl. Gala
CHER, Co. K, 37th Ill.,, Rankin, Ill.
Jacob Hollenbaugh, Co. E, Sd Nd, Eastview,
| Md, ad vocates provision in Service Pension
+, law that will take in those who enlisted near
| the end of the war and did not serve even go
| days. It was not the fault of these men, be
| says, that they were not called upon to serve
longer. and they should be given credit for the
| time they did serve.
Joseph Heisser, Sergeant. Co. B, 18th Iowa,
| Placerville, CAL, thinks Service Pension of $1z
mouth, with a two-cents per diem for every
day over 80 days. would be good thing. He
would favor giving the ex-prisoners 81 per day
| for each days imprisonment in rebel pens.
| Henry NJ. Hutchinson. Co. c, 4th KY, Elk.
fork, KY, thinks the most just Service Pension
| that could be given would be one that made q
rating according to the age of the pensioner.
Milton Murphy, Co. F. Hath ILL.,, Elsah. I'LL.
wants pension for every soldier. Those who
are totally disabled should have, he thinks, moi
less than $50 month, and those who under
existing laws now get S72 month ought te
have 500.
John Shaffer, La Plata, Mo-, says that
many comrades are interested in what the
present Administration will do for the pen.
sioners dropped during the past four years.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-05-27
PICKET SHOTS
From Alert Comrades Along
the Whole Line.

W. E.. Webster, Secretary, Cowan's Bat
terry Association, Auburn, n. Y, writes
"Comrade Freeman, Co. G, 10th VT, tells
an interesting story of Cedar Creek, but is
not correct about the loss of guns by Cowans
(he says Van Etten's) battery. Col. Cowan
was still suffering from wounds received q
month before.
"Cowan's was the only battery that
saved all its guns at Cedar Creek, at least
in the batteries attached to the infantry
in fact, it never lost gun during service,
and its loss Of men was only exceeded by
one battery, which lost almost all its men
in a single engagement while the dead OF
Cowan's were scattered over many . holly
contested field.
"No doubt we owe the saving Of one OF
our guns to the infantry of the Sixth Corps.
One wheel was shot off that piece. and our
boys had it slnng up under the Timber
chest. Then the six horses on that Timber
were shot dead
"Our boys called to the infantry for help,
and they assisted us to get the gun back,
and presume the gallant Vermonters were
the boys"
John Waddell, Sergeant, Battery I, LIST
Ohio L. A., Coalburg, o., writes Seen. K.
w. Johnson, in his article How Atlanta
Fell, makes mistake. Capt. II. digger was
the Captain of Battery /, LIST Ohio l.. A., and
not of an Illinois battery. The remainder
of Gen. Johnson's article is true, and splen.
didly written"
J. W. Nash, Co. G, 9th Ca, Hoods Di
| vision, Longstreet's Corps, writes: II wa:
captured near Salem, Va, Aug. 81 or 90
1862, with about rs others, by squad O
Ohio cavalry. We were marched into thu
town and placed in charge of Major or 8
| Captain. We marched that night to Wash
ington Junction. The second day We
reached Cenervlle, where we found 500
other Confederates who had been captured
previous to the second Bull Run. We ther
marched to Alexandria. We were taken tc
Fort Monroe, and soon after paroled. My
reason for writing is to tell of the good treat
mcnt we received at the hands of our captors
| should be glad to hear from any of them.
J. /. Freeman, 1900 North Fulton Ave.
Baltimore, has been interested in the claims
of different comrades regarding the younges
soldier. He writes: 81 was born Nov Z
| 1847; enlisted March 25, 1862, at the age o
14years four months and IS days. I serveG
three years, two months and five days.
carried musket in the ranks in Sd Md, p
H. BIZ
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These men, though SO much excited ani
influenced by so much determination Still
retained their well-known caution, were
looking out for this danger and discovered
it, and though it was seemingly an insuper
able obstacle 70 their making any headway
in pursuit, was quickly overcome by the
genius of Fuller and Murphy Coming to
where the rails were torn up they stopped
tore up rails behind them, and laid them
down before till they passed over that obsta-
Gle. When the cross-ties were reached, they
hauled to and threw them off, and thus pro-
ceeded, and under these difficulties gained
on the fugitives.
At Dalton they halted moment. Fuller
put off the telegraph operator, with instruc-
tions to telegraph to Chattanooga to have
them stopped, in case he should fail to over
haul them.
Fuller pressed on in hot chase-sometimes
in sight-as much to prevent their cutting
the wires before the message could be sent
as to catch them. The daring adventures
stopped just opposite and very near to where
Col. Gienn's regiment is encamped and cut
the wires, but the operator at Dalton had
put the message through about two minutes
before. They also again tore up the track,
cut down telegraph-pole, and placed the
two ends under the cross-ties, and the mid
die over the rail on the track.
The pursuers stopped again and got over
this impeachment in the same manner they
did before-taking up rails behind and lay
ing them down before Once over this, they
shot on, and passed through the great tunnel
at Tunnel Hill, being then only five min
ntes behind. The fugitives thus finding
themselves closely pursued, uncoupled two
of the box-cars from the engine, to impede
the progress of the pursuers.
Fuller hastily coupled them to the front
of his engine, and pushed them ahead of him
to the first turnout or siding, where they
were left, thus preventing the collision the
adventurers intended.
CLOSE ON THE TRACK
Thus the engine thieves passed Ringgold
where they began to fag. They were out OF
wood, water and OIL Their rapid running
and inattention to the engine had melted ali
the brass from the journals They had no
time TO repair or refit, for an iron horse OF
more bottom was close behind. Fuller and
Murphy and their men soon came within
400 yards of them, when the fugitives
jumped from the engine and left it-three
on the north side and five on the south side
all fleeing precipitately and scattering
through the thicket. Fuller and his party
also took to the woods after them. Some
gentlemen, also well armed, took the engine
and some cars of the down passenger train
at Calhoun, and followed up Fuller and
Murphy and their party in the chase, but q
short distance behind, and reached the place
of the stampede but very few moments
after the first pursuers did. A large number
of men were soon mounted, armed, and scour.
ing the country in search of them. Fortu.
nately there was militia muster at Ring
gold. A great many countrymen were in
town. Hearing of the chase, they put out or
foot and on horseback in every direction in
! search of the daring but now thoroughly
frightened and fugitive men.
To be continued.