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The herald., 1897-09-12
THE DEAD MINERS
A Dreadful State Of Affairs Exists at
Hazelton

HAZELTON, Pa, Sept. 11.-Twenty-
one corpses lie tonight in frame shan
ties scattered about this hilltop town.
Forty MANNED, wounded and broken
figures lie on the narrow cots or the
Hazelton hospital OF these 1t Is almost
a certainty that five will be added to
the death list before another day dawns.
Such was the execution done yesterday
by the deputy sheriffs, armed to the
teeth. upon about $50 ignorant foreign
| ers, whose total armament consisted OF
two little penknives These facts are
undisputed.
/ Here is the ghastly roll as It stands:
| The dead: Andrew Nickowski, John
Chobenski Steve Urch, Andrew Yerh-
man, John Franko, John Zernawick,
Frank Kodet, John Zaslack, John She
ka. Antoine Greekio, John Turnasvich.
Andrew Zurich, all of Harwood; Andrew
Zimenski, Adam Zimenski, John Burk.
Stanley Sagdrski, Sebastian Bozostoski,
John Futa, Adelbert Czata. all OF Crys-
tai Ridge; Andrew Collick, Rafael Beck
ewicz of Cranberry.
The injured who are at deaths door
are: Clemens Plotack, Caspar Dulass,
John Bonke, Andrew Staboni and Jacob
TOmaSnOntaS. fOTty OlHerS are Uduly
hurt, including John Treble, deputy
sheriff.
All these men ranged in age from IL
to As years, all oreigners-Hungarian
Poles, Lithunana and Slavs. -,
The situation tonight is intense, as the
day was full of event and incident.
First and foremost, the purpose these
men had in view when their march re-
ceived its tragic end was consummated.
The 1900 workers at the Latimer mines.
to whom they were bound in an effort
to induce them to join the strikers ranks.
have laid down their picks and. sworn
to do no more work until all the demands
of all the men at all the mines in the
district have been conceded. Next In
Importance was the issuance Of warrants
this afternoon for the arrest of Sheriff
Martin and 102 deputies. They were is
sued at the instance of the United Hum
garian societies. They were made out
in the name of Joseph Mehalte, the pres-
ident OF the st. George society. Of which
nearly all the dead miners were mem-
bers. Robert P. Riley. manager of the
Anthracite Detective agency, tool.
I charge Of the documents. but up q u
The herald., 1897-09-12
HARBoR MATTERS
To Be Considered by Mckinley o,
Tuesday

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE Presi-
dent has sent notice that he will return
to Washington from Somerset Monday,
and a meeting of the Cabinet has been
called for Tuesday to discuss several
topics which are regarded as requiring
executive attention and, perhaps ac-
'tion at this time.
On the list is the construction to be
given discriminating duties in section 90
Of the tariff act; the scheme of improve
ment adopted for San Pedro harbor; the
adjustment Of various questions of
state which have arisen concerning
Alaska and the gold miners, and, per-
haps. discussion Of Hawaiian condi-
tions.
The herald., 1897-09-12
INDEX
OF THE TELEGRAPH NEWS

The Columbus convention settles
the miners strike.
Fitzsimmons declines to accept an
offer to fight Corbett.
German editors renew the agita-
ton in favor Of tariff war with the
United States.
Los Angeles ball players badly de-
feated at San Francisco; the league
games; racing results.
Official reports from Havana admit
the capture Of town by the insur-
gents; more flibusters land.
Paris editors busy laying out a
glorious future for France with the
aid Of the new Russian ally.
Hawaii declines Japan's offer Of ar
bitration and gives good reasons; a
Japanese merchant talks on trade
with America.
Yellow fever cases in Louisiana
grow smaller in number; state and
federal authorities working together
harmoniously and effectively.
The record Of the week in England
is a chronicle Of blunders; bread in
London sold in slices; the ducal tour
and the famine in Ireland; dramatic
and literary gossip.
Two steamers return from the
north with many miners and very
little gold; prospector at Eureka
strikes ledge made Of gold, silver
and copper, with just enough quartz
to stick them together.
Responsibility for the awful wreck
at Newcastle charged to tho conductor
and engineer Of the Colorado Midland
train; both men are dead. Diligent
search is being made for the men who
held up the train near Ripon, Cal.
The herald., 1897-09-12
HERE'S RICHNESS
A Great Deal Of Gold to Just Little
Quartz

EUREKA. Cal, Sept lit is reported
that j. r. Mcneil and George Hammer
of Willow Creek, Humboldt county,
have located "a ledge of gold-bearing
quartz which assays over $25 900 to the
ton. According to the assayer's GER
tificate the samples submitted carry "a
per cent pure metal 10 Of copper
20 Of silver and Of gold. In other
words, a ton OF ore from this ledge would
yield five thousand eight hundred and
twenty-five ounces of silver, eleven hun
dred and sixty-five ounces Of gold and
14OO pounds of copper, leaving only $50
pounds to be accounted for as rock, and
would be valuable at the market quota
tions of the metals at $S0S770 in silver,
$2335O in gold and $12O in copper. Just
where the ledge is located, or what its
dimensions are, the discoverers refuse
to tell Rich float rock, as well as fine
gold, has been frequently found in the
bed of the creek.
The herald., 1897-09-12
A Long Swim

NEW YORK. Sept. 11.-James Hooper,
the English long distance champion SWIM
mer, who Wednesday of last week started
from Troy, N. Y. to swim down the Hud-
son river, reached Audubon beach, this
city, at S:15 this afternoon. When Hooper
left Troy he weighed 161 pounds: at the
float Of the Audubon Yacht club today he
weighed only 128 pounds.
The herald., 1897-09-12
PRESS CENsoRs
Make News From Guatemala Exceed
ingly Scarce

SAN JOSE, Guatemala (via Calves
toni, Sept. 10.-(Delayed in transmits
sion. The censorship on all messages is
very strict.) A brother Of President Bar
rios and the wife Of Senior Jefe of Ques-
altenan were killed yesterday.
The Plaza San Marcos has been taken
possession Of by the revolutionists.
The mails are unsafe and 1t IL proba-
BILE that they will be delayed for one
week.
The herald., 1897-09-12

its case on Monday, If the defense does
not prolong the cross examination Of the
three men who testified today.
The Progress., 1897-08-07

ne can Draw from some OF the
most unpromising roadside acqualnt-
ances. He not only learns all about the
roads, but discovers all the interesting
places in the vicinity, the character OF
the business carried Oh i'll the town
where he may happen to be, where the
best drinking water is to be found ana
many other things which the taclturn
cyclist would never learn.
''How do you do it?' / asked him
once.
"Why, it's very SIMPLE he said.
Just assume that the man to whom
YOU are talking is as intelligent as you
think you are yourself. You don't have
to tell him so IL as many words. Hell
discover that from your manner and
Will agree with you. Get him to talk
about himself, about his work. his
neighbors and the place be lives III.
Nine times out Of ten he will be anA-
ious to talk on these subjects and Will
tell you something you will be inter
ested to hear 1t is a delicate sort OF
dattery which few men can resist. This
method has won me many chance
friend and gained for me many favor
which could not have been bought with
money.
1 think this is good sound advice,
and I have made an earnest attempt to
The Progress., 1897-08-07

wen. Urncrwlse notes may ma 1t ex
pedient to have private or separate
rooms or tables for the exclusive use of
the 'Urirsing wet. In the meantime
all should encourage the wearing of
whatever costume promises to do mcs
TO rob cycling of any unpleasant fea-
lures that may attach to it
OF course this by 10 means answers
the question, bat at least it presents it
in a common sense light. Further than
that the average touring bicyclist NAV
DO left to decide for himself
SEwELL FORD
The Progress., 1897-08-07

-uoo Oh 'sHI7l IeI!uIs pue al noE III
ieIeql Aus, 'ql!M pess9Ippe 5uIeq &c
psGouue sertooeq uMoId '1Iy eu!l vi
'eleJ SIN o. qsIIoGoIq eQl
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ssAuA AIduIs Oh 'Ioql!au sop uMo1d
I'M GIIIeuypIo 4nq 'e.21I On MoIs
OF 4uesuoo pInoA dalleT oql pap!AoId
ls!IoGo!q otIl VlIM luqo elInb aAuq puu
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snM eIeQl II 10 'sIo9o9I!p GIrsseoou eJIl
utV 40 polroqs pGV on l!}un IopII 9,Il
ep!s9q SuoIe au!1ds puB euBo pun 9pq
sIq doIp lqSlu uMoJa ny esInoo 10
i2IdaI IoJ 4ouq Y0au stu 5uIueIo pus
AEAe SuIpseds GIp!duI Iap!I eQl QlIM
cp on upo 9eqM ana 'u!q OF sIIulep
Qua u!eIdxe pue dols Oh SEIIIIM go GIqe
-ooId pruoM pup a,orIor prnous nsIraca
The Progress., 1897-08-07
SEwELL FORD.

On account OF the Tennessee
Centennial Exposition now being
held in Nashville, from May 1st to
October 31st, Cotton Belt Route
has on sale round trip tickets at re-
duced rates, from all points. The
rates from Shreveport being as
follows: tickets with final return
limit Of Nov. 18th '97, S27.1O
Tickets with return limit of 20
DAYS from date Of sale, Sf9.S5.
Tickets sold Tuesday and Thurs
day. with return limit Of 10 days
from date of sale, S14.45.
Train leaves Shreveport at 4.30
D. IN. and arrives in Nashville the
next afternoon at 5 o'clock.
Sleeper from Shreveport con-
meets with sleeper at Lew1sville,
Ark, which runs through to Nash
vile without change.
Summer tourist tickets, at re-
duced rates, will be on sale to all
the principal resorts.
Any additional Information will
be furnished by any Cotton Belt
representative.
D. w. LABAUME.
G.. P. & T. A., ST Louis.
F. CID. MARSHALL,
c. A, Shrevpcrt, La
The Progress., 1897-08-07

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sa9sm IuopIes al 'Al!uIo!A ga pue UAol
eql 9uoqr SuIqaeugos noS Su!II7l 40 no1
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The Progress., 1897-08-07

they, YOU! Is THIS THE WAY TO B1GTowNf'
coat Of sunburn of which he is truly
proud. He has an appetite which would
do credit to ]umberma- and a thirst,
too, which a Bacchus might envy.
Not SO long ago he would have been
an object Of curiosity. Passing pedes-
TRANS would have gathered around him
to inquire how far he had ridden. They
would have wondered 81 his answers
and stared at bis luggage carrier. But
now he attracts only the r:cnentary in
terest of the idlers. He j only one of
great army Of wandering wheelmen. It
Is an army whose ranks ere swelling
with amazing rapidity. le.c were vast
numbers abroad last summer. There are
no statistics ON the subject, but 1 should
not be surprised to learn that this year
there are twice as many.
As general rule tho touring cyclist
Is rather a sensible sort of chap, who
never makes nuisance of himself and
leaves an agreeable impression with the
people whom he meets. You and I, for
instance. belong to this class. But we
have occasionally met individuals Of
the other kind. Ono of these is the
travelling interrogation point.
ANOWs eAAO aohAA6 VI ddSSeAoAS SOh-
corning directions is all right under
certain conditions. In travelling through
q strange section Of the country where
guideboards are few it is often abso-
lutely necessary. Then, too. the answer
ing Of them is but common courtesy
which every citizen is generally glad to
show to the stranger at mis- door.
But there are questioners and ques-
TONERS. This is the way it is done by
the other one-that Objectionable chap,
you know. He comes scorching along
the road at 12 mile an hour clip, and
as he passes dignified Mr.. Brown he
shouts ont:
Hey, you! Is this the way to Big
town.
Now, Bigtown is some a5 miles dis
tant, and the road which the cyclist is
taking might be the proper one if the
right turnings were made, but there are
several chances that he might choose a
route which would take him far away
from Bigtown. Mr.. Brown really has a
very good idea of the route wbic,. .ha
The Progress., 1897-08-07


follow it with moderate success. I
think one of the most interesting &C
uuaintances made in this way was an
aged and humble hostler IN an obscure
little village in northern New York
state I found that be was veteran
stage driver and in his youth had han
died the lines over six horses on the old
Albany postroad. We sat smoking our
pipes until nearly midnight, he telling
stories of the old stagecoach days and
listening with deepest interest.
Another one was a Vermont farmer,
who gave me shelter for the night
when I was caught out in sudden rain
storm. The story be told of his moving
from Canada to the Green Mountain
State, how be struggled along for years
under q heavy mortgage and how be
had at last managed to Fay it off and
send son to college by beekeeping and
butter making as side issues was better
than magazine romance.
just one more point. If you are going
to take a wheeling tour this summer,
you will probably be interested in the
discussion which has been revived again
this season concerning dining room eti-
Guette for wheelmen. A correspondent
writing to The L. A. ". Bulletin asks:
Arriving at a hotel for dinner,
wringing wet, as I usually am, which
would look the better, a negligee shirt
or colored sweater
He is answered somewhat felicitously
by the editor as follows:
"a travel stained, wringing wet neg
ligee shirt is not thing Of beauty. Its
appearance does not add n relish to a
hotel dinner partaken Of by those who
have not grown hungry by exercising
until they are wringiDg wet. Without a
doubt wringing wet colored sweater
would look better than negligee shirt
under similar conditions.
what the 'wringing vet cortin-
gent Of the great bicycle army needs is
some sort Of apparel that looks and is
all right For persons who expect to
dine at the head table hasty bath and
partial change of garments or the car
ryinG OF light. extra coat might be
The Progress., 1897-08-07
the BICYCLE TOURIST.
He Is Abroad Again In All His
Glory.
SOME QUESTIONS OF ETIQUETTE,
An Engaging Fellow Is the Bicycle Tour
list When He Moveth Himself Alright
but tho Travelling Interrogation Point
Is . Perpetual Nuisance.

Just now the bicycle tourist is with
us in full force. Clad in the now faril-
iar knickerbockers, sweater and golf
stockings, he comes in off the dusty
highway. He looks as if he bad travelled
far and fast, like the imperial couriers
In the Ave act dramas. and he probably
has. His attire is travel stained. On
his face and hands is newly acquired
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-06

fishes and calamarys. is not to be denied.
People have been in the habit of laughing
"A De MOntfords account OF one of these
which threw its arm over three-masred
vessel. snapped off its masts tore down
the Yards, and would have dragged ii 70
he bottom if the crew had not succeeded
IN cutting off its immense limbs with cut
lasses and hatchets; also Of six French
men-of-war which were crippled by SINH
lar monsters. and thus became prize to
the English; but there is no doubt the
French market boat Alecton, in 1861, ran
across, near Madeira, a specimen which
mea sured sixteen to eighteen feet in
length, without the arms; nor can the re-
ports of the discovery of two gigantic
cuttle-fshes on the coast of Newfound-
land in 1873 and 1874 he regarded at fa!'!ss
Portions of one of these creatures were
examined by Prof. Nerrill of Yale Col
lese and he found that the body was ten
feet long. the diameter being Two feet
five inches, and the arms being thirty-two
feet long. The other octopus was seven
feet long, the long arms twenty-four feet,
and the shorter arms six feet long; the
largest of the latter being ten inches in
circumference at the base. 1t need hard
ly be added that creatures of such dimen-
sions could upset boat carry off its
crew to the submarine depths, and de-
your them at leisure. Nor is to be rash
" asserted that cuttle-fishes of this size
do not exist in the waters which WASH
the Pacific coast.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-06
SONORA RoDnIGuEz FREE.
DIR. Betancourt Not Released let But
ProbnbIy VII Re.

Havana. Feb 5-Seuora Eva Adam Rod
riguez, wife Of "a rebel colonel. who WAS
brought here Yesterday as a prisoner on
the steamer Manucla from Nucvitas and
lodged in the house Of refuge, was reieas-
ed to-day. She is an American citizen
and at the time OF her arrest the govern
ment promised that she would he set at
liberty pOn the representations made
by Consul General Lee she was released
from custody.
DR. Gaspar Betancourt, who it was an
nounced Yesterday had been liberated up
or his acquittal OF the charge Of aiding
and abetuug the rebels, is still under ar
rest and viii remain i'm ustody until
certain fOrmalitics are complied with
il Is said, however, that he viii be released
i'm day or two
The fun reforms granted by the home
government to Cuba are stll unknown
here What little information the local
press has on the subject was obtained
from private sources and consequently
the newspapers have nothing on which
to base their comments. They make
some reference to the matter and ma
jority of them express themselves as fav-
orable to the schemes 50 far as II So
known to them.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-06
COTTON CROP CONVENTIONS.
THREE TO BE HELD IN AN EFFORT
TO REDUCE TIE ACREAGE.

President Hector ID. Lane of the
American cotton Growers Pro-
tectixc ASsocintion at the Back Of
che MoVement-Thc Conventions 10
He Held at Waco, Memphis and
Auanta-Farmers 10 he Urged 10
Plant Moro Food Crops and Less
Cotton.
Atlanta. Ca, Feb. 5.-President Hector
.. Lane of he American Cotton Growers
Protective Association held an important
conference here to-day with President W.
A. Brousnton of the Georgia division oil
the association. This conference was for
the purpose of arranging the prehh4ha-
ries of a series of three conventions Of The
cotton growers of The south to be held
during the month of March to inaugurate
the work of increasing the acreage OF food
crops and decreasing the acreage OF cot
ION. Also to organize an information bu-
rcau for the association so that estimates
may be made from time to time on the
condition and the volume of the cotton
crop. and thus protect the farmers from
the pulling and bearing OF the mar
ket by spectators.
President Lane will meet the farmers
of Indian Territory. Texas and Oklahoma
at Waco in convention about March /
and submit an address, which with such
notifications as the farmers suggest, VIII
be published broadcast in these states.
=. week later. about March s, he will meet
the farmers of Mississippi Arkansas ana
West Tennessee at Memphis, and about
the middle of March the farmers OF Geor-
gia. Alabama and North and South Caro-
lima will meet him at Atlanta or Augusta
for the same purpose.
Al these meetings Mr. Lane will effect
ORGANIZATIONS and complete Ilhaucld4 81
rangemcnts for an Information bureau 70
be conducted by an executive committees
under Mr. Lanes direction , -
Mr. Lane says that Mr.. Nell the new
Orleans cotton man, sent out last AusqSt
an estimate Of S,SS3.0O 10 10000 pdies
for the crop of 1895, and now he is about
10 reduce ii when everybody knows Inc
crop is not over S,250.000 bales
'The reduction of these ncuuouS es-
Inmates comes too late, SAID Mr. Lane.
"The cotton is out of the hands of the
farmers and ia the hands of the speculat-
ors. The effect of Neil's estimate was 10
put prices Of cotton on the basis OF
100000 crop when the basis should nave
been s .250,O00. We propose to have accu-
rate estimates by farmers for our own
Wont the estimates by farmers be bull
ish?"
I'VE will guard against that by eau
tioping them that it cuts both ways and
leads them into holding cotton on a fall-
ing market If they minimize the crop ana
il turns out later to be larger. our pur-
pose is to make the reports accurate.
haVel 5000 correspondents. selected from
list of 10000 during a period of two
years. / am getting each man to send
aud make them cover each cotton planta-
ton in the south.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-06
How The PuDIiO
Is Imposed Upon.
BEWARE OF FRAUDS.
For The Sake of Profit They Will
Sacrifice Principle, Health, Etc.

Inscriptions dealers are try
ing to sell ordinary Glauber Salt
or a mixture of Seidlitz Powder
as Artificial Carlsbad Salt"
"Sprudel Salt" German Salt"
and under other similar names.
The natural remedies of Carls-
bad cannot be initiated.
Artihcially made wines will
never replace the natural juice
of the grapes. Neither can the
natural waters of Carlsbad, nor
the Carlsbad Sprudel Salt be re-
placed by the cheap substitutes
offered to a guileless public for
the sake of the larger profit
made thereon, by these unscru-
pulous dealers.
The Carlsbad Sprudel Waters
are a specific for all diseases of
the stomach, liver and kidneys,
and have been used with great
benefit by hundreds OF thou
sands of people. The Carlsbad
Sprudel Salt, which is evaporated
from the Sprudel Water at Carls-
bad, is an excellent Aperient,
Laxative and Diuretic: is an al
terative and eliminative remedy,
which dissolves tenacious bile,
allays irritation, and removes
obstruction by aiding nature, and
not by sudden and excessive IT.
ritation, as most cathartics do.
Insist upon the genuine, which
is imported direct from Carlsbad,
and must have the signature of
EIsNER & MENDELsoN Co., Sole
Agents for the u. S, I5z Frank.
lin Street. New York, on bottle.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-06
PROPOSALS WANTED.

CITY of Savannah. Office Commission
Of Public Works, Savannah, Ga, FEB Z,
1s9z-Sealed proposals will be received at
this office until II o'clock noon, city unis'
Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1897, to furnish 'n9
city of Savannah with 900 feet moro or
less. of granite curbing, four inches ~
thickness. eighteen inches in width ana ~
lengths of not less than five feet, 2ulo
to be pean hammer dressed down on ia's
side ten inches, four inches on inner sl9''
neatly jointed on ends, top surface 10 70
pean hammer dressed to conform TO grace
of sidewalk; also 200 feet. more or less o.
circular curbing of ten-foot radius, sans
as above.
Also to furnish the city of Savanna
with 1900 square yards, more or less oI
granite paving blocks.
All of the above to be delivered T. o. p'
cars, Savannah, Ga.
Envelopes to be marked Bids for iu-
nishing granite curb" and Bids for lu'-
nishing granite blocks"
Specifications and blank form or w
posal can be had on application at me VI,
fee Of the city engineer. Official loIlns
must be used. The city reserves '"0
right to reject any and all bids
HARRY WILLlNh,
Commissioned