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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-08-21
A SENSATIONAL CASE.
Mrs. Ella Myers Sues Simon Benia-
min for $4,000 Damages for
Breach Of Promise.

Ocala has not lost her reputa
ton for sensations as almost
every day brings a new one to
light. The latest is the suit
brought by Mrs. Ella Myers, the
Jewish lady, who was recently
divorced from her husband,
against Simon Benjamin, mem
Der Of the city council, owner of
the ice factory and one Of the
most influential and most highly
respected citizens of the town,
for $4,000 damages for breach
OF promise to marry. The case
was filed in the county clerks Of
flee yesterday by Z. w. Davis,
attorney for the plaintiff.
Mrs. Myers alleges that some
months ago Mr.. Benjamin made
an offer Of his heart and fortunes
to her which she accepted in good
faith, and that when the time to
fulfill the marriage contract al
rived Mr.. Benjamin's affections
wavered and finally flew the track
altogether, and in consideration
Of this fact the lady claims she
has been damage TO the extent
of $4,000, and will test the mat
ter in the courts.
We learn that three or four Of
our older and leading lawyers
refused to handle her case at
all, and it is pretty generally be-
lieved that it is q case of black
mail as Mr.. Benjamin is a gentle
man without a blot on his char
acter, with q high moral sense of
right and wrong, and it is not be-
lieved that he would so mislead
the lady's affections.
Mrs. Myers is not so well
known. The relations between
herself and husband were not
pleasant and she sued for and OBJ
tanned a divorce. She spent six
or eight months in Baltimore and
returaed to the city recently.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-08-21
A Telephone Boom.

J. B. Carlisle is busy putting
in a telephone line to Citra, with
phones at Anthony, Sparr,
Meadows and Citra, a distance
of twenty miles from Ocala ON
the f. G.. & 2. r. r. This
branch of the telephone system
will be finished in three weeks,
when we will have excellent tele-
phone connections for twenty
miles north Of Ocala on Doth
roads. The line recently finished
on the Fla. Southern to Mcintosh,
IS proving paying investment
to both the company and our
merchants. Some Que on the
line is calling Ocala all day lo g
and every ring means 10c for the
company. Our merchants are
receiving orders for goods over
the phone to the amount Of hun
dreds o. dollars every week that
otherwise would not be sent, or
else 60 to Gainesville. This tends
to draw trade to Ocala and when
the one to Citra is finished and
later on, to points south on both
roads the benefits derived there
from will be immense.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-08-21
Busted.

Hi prices ar busted-Overalls,
csc worth 40c; overalis, 4Oc worth
SOC; top shirts 15c; undershirts,
15c; drawers, 15c; boys shirt
waists, l3c, l5c, loc; knee pants,
15c, 22c; leather belts, 1Oc; white
and marble oil cloth, 1Tc. New
goods every week at the Racket.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-08-21
KlOndike and Yukon Country.

Do you want to know all about
the wonderful find of gold in
Alaska? You can secure this in
formation in volume OF 225
pages just from the press. Price
for book and a years subscrip-
tion to the Weekly Star, S1.l5.
Send along your orders.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-08-21
Look at EN-!

Hair brushes, 1Oc; T spoons,
plate on steel, 1Oc set; toilet soap,
3 cakes for sc; new laces, PC, Sc,
sc per yard; big lot Of towels, a
bargain at &c; nice handkcrchiefs,
Sc; nipples Sc; garter web, Sc per
yard. New goods every week at
the Racket.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-08-21
Epworth League.

The Epworth League meets to-
morrow afternoon, promptly at
I o'clock, in the Methodist church.
Topic-"St. Pauls prayers for
the churches" Leader-Mrs.
Jennie Wyatt. Everybody cor
daily invited to attend.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-08-21
Klondyke or Bust.

Kun 2 the Raci<it and by yore
goods chepe, then yule not bust,
a big lot kane in tbs weak, tina
az big bargins and don't yu fer
git it. We hav kut and slashed
prices til the bottom has fel out.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-08-21

| viii buy second hand organs,
no matter in what condition. !
pay full value. Drop ne post
al and [ will come and see YOU.
y. Vohl, practical organ tuner,
Ocala, Fla, P. Q. Box, 2i2
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to attend to his office duties.
TAO a. m. August oath is the
time and T5c the round trip fare,
Ocala to Palatka via the Plant
System. There will be stacks of
people and fun in the Gem City
that day.
DR.. L. ID. Crawford and wife
returned yesterday afternoon
from a 10 days visit TO Clearwa-
ter, where they went for the doc
tors health.
Go to Palatka via Plant Sys-
tenn on the 24th, s:4O Il. III. only
,5c for the round trip and witness
another evidence that Florida is
not dead but still on top.
Humors in the blood, boils,
pimples, scrofuia sores, are
promptly eradicated by Hoods
Sarsaparilla, the one true blood
purifier, nerve tonic and health
builder.
Editor j. Z. Pound, formerly
of the Madison Recorder, has
purchased the Live Oak Banner
and Leader and will consolidate
the same. Have not heard what
Editors Whitfield and Bassett
propose doing with themselves.
j. u. Nicely, the popular and
successful ma na ger OF the Hodges
shoe store, who severed his con-
necl;on with the house yesterday,
will take q needed vacation OF i
month or two and viii probably
take vacation to his relatives
hcnIe in Tennessee. Mr.. Nicely
is a very promising younS busi-
ness man and III the near future
may engage in business for him
self,
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-08-21

w. z. Anderson. Of Electra
and j. Ii. West, Of Citra, auto
Sraphed Friday for the Weekly
Star.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-08-21

Our popular county clerk,
Simeon L. Sistrunk, is wrestling
with bilious attack but is able
to attend to his office duties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
wierins Won the Match.

''The late ". H. Virgins remarked a
prominent hotel man to a reporter, though
always addressed as Judge, was not
lawyer. For over 20 years he was a clerk
in the fleroom of the house of representa-
tives. The judge prided himself very much
over gold watch he won as the most pop
ular man for president which was voted
to him during the Garfield memorial fair,
held in the capital.
1.-The watch was given by a western
watch manufacturing concern and was d
good one. It was put up to be balloted
for, the candidates being Sherman, Blaine,
Allison, Logan and half dozen others of
almost equal prominence. At that time
there was a newspaper correspondent here
by the name of Felix Crocraft. The votes
were piling up rather rapidly for the vari-
Gus candidates, when Croclaft, as a joke,
cast a vote for Judge Virgins as the peo-
PIES choice for president. Some friends
joined in, and before the evening had
passed the Virgins vote was rather re-
spectacle. The humor of the thing caught
on, and in three nights Virgins led all the
others. Virgins had served under Mr..
Blaine when he was speaker of the house,
and Blaine himself cast some votes for
him. Some of the friends of the other
candidates thought it rather too serious a
matter to joke over and went to work with
a will to knock Judge Virgins out. This
aroused Billy Copeland of the Brooklyn
Eagle, Charley Fowler of the Boston Trav-
eller and some others who were strong
Virgins men, and the result of the contest
was that Virgins won out easily, and the
fair gained over $500 for the watch. -
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12

town in two days, and early this summer
he expects to prove his assertion by making
the trial.
For five years Captain Flindt has been
experimenting with propellers and at last
he believes he has found what he wants.
This propeller is the chief feature of the
new craft. 1t consists Of two steel blades,
curved almost like clam shell and set on
the shaft SO that an ear projects beyond the
shaft. This design, it is claimed offers the
least resistance and gives greater propelling
power. The blades are feet long and 2
feet wide.
The hull of the steamer is Of the whale
back order, except that it has no super
structure whatever, the pilothouse being
located in hump which rises about amid
ships. Around the curved deck of the
steamer runs a light railing, but passen-
gers must keep below decks except in the
smoOthest water, for the steamer is intend
ed to plow through the waves instead of
going over them, and she will be under
water most of the time in heavy weather.
The vessel is made of steel, oak and ce-
dar, and is 81 feet long, with beam of
but 6 = feet and a draft of 57z feet. She
is only Is feet deep from the top of her
pilothouse to her keel. A gasoline engine
is to be used for motive power.
The name of the new boat is to be the
Dolphin, and as the hull is now almost
completed it is expected that she will be
launched April 10. About a month later
a trial trip will be taken on the Hudson,
and after that Captain Flindt says he will
be ready to race any craft that floats. The
inventor is native of Denmark, but has
lived in America for many years, and his
present home is in New York. He fol-
lowed the sea for 10 years, and has been
an inventor for almost that length of time.
He will take but four men with him in
his trial trip across the Atlantic. He has
risked the savings of a lifetime in this ven
ture, and is confident of success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
IRVING AND TERRY.
How They Produced "Mme. Sans
Gene" in London.


London, April 1.-THE first produc-
ton of Madame Sans Gene" at the
Lyceum Theater was attended by
deeply interested audience. Hundreds
of persons distinguished in the world
of thought and action were in attend
ance. Every one was on the Qui viVe
to see Ellen Terry and Henry Irving.
Advance criticism had pronounced Ell
len Terry unable to perform her part
and it was said it would not be possible
for Sir Henry Irving to successfully as
sumo the appearance Of the great Ma
pOleOn. Three minutes work on the
part of Ellen Terry disproved the cr1-
ticism so far as she was concerned.
She produced the prologue and the
first two sets in the most admirable
comedy manner The touches of the
vulgar Astounding in the story she gave
in a neat, but not excessive fashion.
The scene with Napoleon in the second
act was perfectly conceived drawing for
Miss Terry four enthusiastic recalls
During the last act, however, she seem
ed tired, her part dragged and the act
dattened.
Sir Henry Irving appeared in a sur
priSing makeup. It produced a per
fectly impression, but there was in the
dunpy figure of the emperor no sug-
gestion of the first consul. The effect
secured by the padding and the cut of
the coat showed Napoleon unlike any
figure in history but still with cOnsid
cradle power, suggesting the peevish
autOcrat. The lines were marred by in
distinct utteranceS.
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and ever since then he has been ahead of
his years. He is used to it, and the fact
that he has plucked one of the choicest po-
litical plums on the tree does not surprise
him at all.
Mr.. Gordon was born at Peoria, attend
ed the public schools there and was up
pointed to West Point He did not finish
his term there because of sickness, but lat
er he was gradua ted from Chicago bust
ness college and studied law. When he
was only II, he began an active business
career by acting as cashier in a big com
mercial house. At 10 he embarked in the
real estate business for himself and has
been singularly successful.
His political activity began when he
was but IS years old. At that age he took
a part in the affairs of his ward, though
unable to vote At 20 he helped found
the Marquette club, which has grown to
be such powerful factor in Chicago poll
tics. He served for three years as the Sec
rotary of this organization, then became
one of the directors, and in 1894 was elect
ed its president. He is also memb of
the Union League club. It was through
Postmaster Gordon that Mr.. Mckinley
was invited to address the Marquette club
on Lincoln birthday, 1895, when the Nc
Kinley boom was started in the middle
west. It was Mr.. Gordon, too, who led
the fight against the machine in the Sew
enth Illinois congressional district and
held the convention in line when the dele
gates to St. Louis were instructed for Nc
Kinley. He is member of the executive
committee of the National Republican
league and has been proposed as its presi-
dent
In other lines of public enterprise Mr..
Gordon has been prominent. He was q
member of the committee sent to Washing
ton to secure the Worlds fair for Chicago,
and he Is a member Of the Chicago real
estate board. Postmaster Gordon is lead
er Of the younger element among the Hi
nois politicians. His appointment was re-
ceived with some apparent surprise, and it
has been discussed by the veterans of his
party at some length and with no little
warmth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
seems q Question Of Hairspliting.

The paper owned by the state printer
elect, the Western Call of Beloit, says
editorially: 1T might not be out of
place to say that J. S. Parks has not
bought Major Hudson's printing plant
or any other one up to date that J. S.
is aware Of Major Hudson said to
a reporter for the Journal: Il have a
written contract with Mr.. Parks under
the provisions of which the plant which
is now in the state office will be pur-
chased bv Mr. Parks"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
no You Need DolIarsP

They can easily be earned by raising
Strawberries if climate, soil and markets
are right.
Alvin, on the Santa Fe route, is in
the heart of the Texas strawberry coun-
try. the best in the world. Ask A, T.
& S. F. agent for copy of Texas pamph-
let showing what others have done. Ex-
cursion in April and May.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
A POLITICAL PRODIGY.

Charles Q. Gordon Becomes Postmaster
OF Chicago at the Age of Thirty-twO.
Charles Ulysses Gordon, who succeeds
the immortal Wash Hesing as postmaster
of Chicago, is young man of 80 who is
looked upon in Illinois as something of
political prodigy. But Mr.. Gordon doesn t
mind that. AS child he was precocious,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12

Two years ago R. J. Warren, a drug
gist at Pleasant Brook, N. Y, bought a
small supply of Chamberlain'S Cough
Remedy. He sums up the result as fol-
lows: AT that time the goods were
unknown in this section; today Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy is a household
word" 1t is the same in hundreds of
communities. Where ever the good
qualities of Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy become known the people will have
nothing else. For sale by Druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
TO SAIL A MILE A MINUTE.

A Ship That Promises to Cross the Atlantic
In Two Days.
A queer looking steamer is being built
in New York which is heralded as the long
expected and often promised mile min
ute ship. Captain C. J. H. Flindt, the in
ventor, claims that in this craft he can
make the trip from Sandy Hook TO Queens
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12

Group and whooping cough are child
bronchitis. and other throat and lung
troubles, can be quickly cured by using
One Minute Cough Cure. c.. w STAINS
field, 632 Kansas ave.
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In Paris one rarely sees a drunken WON
an, in London often.
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RRRANTS, RENTS,SIT-
UATIONS, REAL
ESTATE, AUG
o y TION SALES AND
OTHER CLASSIFIED AID
VERTISEMENTS
elrUArloNs wANrgD-FREe.

Are you IN need OF work. q 50. you
are at liberty to use these columns loF
assistance in that direction While inns
notice appears the State Journal will pun
fish free on Saturday, Monday and 4ues-
day for Topeka or Kansas people al
notices of Situations Wanted. not 10
exceed five lines. or thirty-five woroS' N
length. provided that all advertisement
Of that nature are handed in previous u
20 o'clock Saturday morning; also on
Wednesday. Thursday and Friday an
advertising of this class handed IN ~ AZ
clock Wednesday morning
No advertisements of this nature 70 pc
started except on Saturdays and Wed
nesdays. No obligation IS incurred on the
part of the advertiser. No worthy anu
needy man or woman need hesitate 10
take advantage of this offer NO one IN
business or having employment IS ex-
pected to take advantage OF 1t. but all
others are invited TO avah themselves
freely.
The Topeka state Journal guarantees
every day 1t is printed. to give loca4
circulation by far more than all other
Danies. combined. This makes this paper
the cheapest, as well SIS the best aally
medium in Topeka, the classineo SeFS4-
tisements below costing but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.
statesmen WANTED.

NJ ANTED-Wide awake solicitors to
W represent US in sale of complete line
of ornamental nursery stock Town and
city trade only. Must be reliable and
good address. Good pay. L. L. May &
Co, St. Paul, Mimi
Statesmen FOR CIGARs-Good salary
- and expenses paid. Novelties given
with our goods. experience unnecessary.
c. c. Bishop Co. St Louis.
OOWEEKLY SALARY AND Elk
ID - - PENSES PAID statesmen for cf-
CARS: experience unnecessary; permanent
position The W. L Kline Co., st. Louis
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Io,76O.

sworn detailed statement of circulation
presented to advertisers on application
CAN and see any afternoon between )
and o'clock, the handsomest. fastest
most perfect piece of machinery IN kan
eas-a Web Perfecting Press when prints prints
from two to three complete SPACE papers
per second
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12

v 4TRIEIED BRICK walks laid cheaD.
Sohn Ritchies u06 Quincy st.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
JEWELLERS:

flames B. HAYDEN, JeweIer and OPP
% tfcian. Complete stock of watches. dia-
nionds. si1verware, etc. Eyes examined
and spectacleS properly fitted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

w ANTED-By May 20. bv tenant
who will occupy a house for wears
a Groom house in good repair. east OF
Journal. w.
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FOR RENT-ROOMs.

DOR RENT-Furnished rooms. Mrs. H.
Il J. Dennis, 919 Tyler street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-12
LOST AND FOUND.
FOR sMrRFnI FsrArE

FOR SALE-5-room cottage well built,
= front and back porch. cellar, well 11k
lots, south part of city. s6OO-$25 cash, bal
ance SO per month for 81 months without
interest, why pay rent when a beautiful
little home can be bought on such fav-
orable terms See J. W. Ferguson, 625
store.
The record-union., 1897-11-27
COAL STRIKE ENDED.
Miners in the Northern Illinois
District Return to Work.

CHICAGO. Nov. 26-The coal min
ing strike in the Northern Illinois dis
trict ended to-day. Twelve thousand
have gone back to work in the Coal
City, Braidwood, Carbon Hill, Spring
Valley, Lodi, Seatonville, La Sale ana
Oglesby fields. One thousand men re-
main out at Streator, the only point
where miners and operators have not
agreed. A settlement there is expected
within a week.
Victory is with the miners, although
they have not won all they asked
Their chief demand was for mine
run" price that is, a rate per ton as the
coal comes from the mine unscreened.
This has been conceded in some places.
Where the rate remains fixed in price
per net ton Of screened coal, substantial
advances have been won. The n
crease in wages all through the as
tricts amounts. approximately, to lO
cents a ton over the schedule made last
May.
The strike has been on since july
4th. 1t started as a part of the gen
eral strike ordered by the United Mine
Workers of America The Pennsylvania
and Ohio miners settled their differ
ences early in September. The 1ndi"
ara work was resumed about the same
time. The 10000 miners Of Illinois re-
fused to ratify the terms of the agree
ment made at Columbus, o., and con-
tinued the strike.
The record-union., 1897-11-27
REMARKABLY ADDRESS.
Issued by Governor Marmaduke of
Missouri.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. General Vincent
Marmaduke of Sweet Springs, Mo, who
was recently appointed by the ex-Con-
federate Veterans of Missouri as Chair
man of committee to write an au-
thentic history of the part Missouri and
MissourianS took in the civil war, to-
day issued a remarkable address.
1t was addressed to the eX-Confeder-
ates of Missouri, and said in part:
1.-THE honor and glory of this great
struggle was with the South, and South
ern soldiers sought in justice to them
selves and their dead comrades to pre-
serve the memory of it. While the North
and Northern soldiers are inveighing
against all manifestations of sectional
feeling, they are erecting monuments to
their successful leaders, and telling the
story very much to their credit and to
our detriment.
THE North had more than four SOL
diers to one in the South. Its armies
were reinforced and assist by 600 ships
of war manned by %, 600 sailors. 1t had
unlimited credit, which meant an un-
limited supply of money. It had fac
tories to manufacture everything needed
to arm and equip, to supply and main
tain it's great armies and fleets. 1t had
railroads running in every direction Tor
the transportation of its troops. 1t mad
intercourse with the whole world, ana
would draw recruits for it's army ana
navy from the whole world. The South
had none of these advantages, or had
them only to limited extent. But, not
withstanding all its advantages, 1t TOOK
the North four years to crush the South,
and then it did it by a grinding process
and without having gained single de-
cisive victory"
The record-union., 1897-11-27
CHEERS FOR AMERICA.
Results In a Riotous Demonstra-
ton at Porto Rico.

HAVANA, Nov. 26.-Advices i,,st ra-
ceived from Porto Rico says that a riot
occurred there yesterday. 1t annears
that steamer having on board a num-
Der of political prisoners recentlv re-
leased from the Spanish penal settle
ments on the African coast. in acord
ance with the amnesty decree. arrived
there. and the liberated men were AL
lowed to land. They soon found their
way to a drinking saloon. partook of
stimulants, and began cheering for the
United States. crying "Hurrah for Free
America" This demonstration was re-
sented by the crowds about the place
and a riot followed. The police were
called upon to interfere and compel the
liberated men TO re-embark.
During the disturbance the police can
tured the insurgent Colonel Alp San
chez, who is described as being incognito
in Porto Rico.
Senor Marcos Garcia, the Governor of
Santa Clara has arrived at Sagua. in
order to better able to judge of the con-
dition of the reconcentrados. From this
day on these unfortunate people will
receive rations.
The Spanish authorities to-day re-
leased from prison Thomas ]. Jordan, a
prisoner captured, according to the al
legations. after the landing of an ex-
petition by the American steamer Three
Friends. and Manuel Hernandez, who is
said to have been member of another