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Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-07-01

ACCORDING to a Los Angeles Times dispatch, which by the way was not written in Phoenix, and was not pub lished here, President McKinlsy pro- poses to reuominate MT. McCord should the Senate adjourn without COZ firming him. This Is tscit acknowledgement that Mir. McCord's case so far as the Senate is concerned is practically hope less. By the way the announcement of yesterday mornings local fake reports that the Senate Comm had un1ni- mously reported in favor of Mr. Nc Cord turns out ke all the remainder of those fake reports. The Committee has not yet reported at this writing.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-07-01

GUATEMALA ard Costa R ca have finally united then selves with the other American Union, which now embraces the whole five Central American states.
Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-07-01
WOOL DU TIES.

The Senate Refuses to Suspend
 Their Operation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21
Hoods
easily and thoroughly.
Best after dinner pills.
25 cents. All druggists. u
Prepared by c. |. Hood s. Co., Lowell Mass.
The only Pill to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
LITERARY NOTES.
The Greatest Ride in History.

A territory of a7I,ooo square miles,
comprising Washington, Idaho and
Oregon as they are to-day, was saved
to the Union by one man. He had
the courage and herosm to ride on
muleback for three thousand miles.
The ride was shriling, the trials and
hardships marvellous, the result a
glorious one. The whole story, beau-
tifully illustrated, will be given in the
November issue of TIE LadieS' Home
/omnal, under the title. when DR..
Whitman Added Three Stars to Our
Flag the closing and most intensely
interesting article in the ./OnrRaFS
successful series OF "Great Personal
Events The first women to cross
the Rockies figure in the story. which
proves beyond doubt that they pre-
ceded Fremont, the "Pathfnder," by
six years.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21
MEN TALKED ABOUT.

Senator Stewart has taken to the
bicycle, but no doubt he considers 1t
bimetallic machine, having two wheels,
and therefore a double-standard ac-
ton.
United States Senator George Frisbie
HOar, of Massachusetts, and Senator
julius C. Burrows, of Michigan, are
studying modern Greek with Il Turk
ish tutor in Washington.
The father of the British navy, Ad-
miral OF the Fleet the Hon. Sir Henry
Keppel, has just celebrated his SSth
birthday. Despite his advanced age
he still remains on the active list.
Thomas A. Edison, who has Ogden
Mountain, n. Y, lined with wires,
is blamed by the neightorinS farmers
for the numerous thunderstorms which
have been raging lately in that vicin-
ity.
DR.. G. A. Stephens, of Norway Lake,
Me-, who believes that death is only
q habit, which Will eventually be over
come, is a writer of stories for boys
and naturally wants mankind to re-
main forever young.
Ian Maclaren recently wrote in his
third paper on America to the Outlook:
There can be no doubt that the Am
erican Is magnanimous in the affairs
of practical life. If misfortune has be-
fallen a man and he has not played the
knave, he is regarded with sympathy
as a soldier wounded in battle"
Silas Hinkley, son of the millionaire
president of the Poughkeepsie Electric
Railroad Company, is heaving coal az
stoker in the employ of the company
at Sl.5O. He is Harvard graduate
but took his present position volun
tarily in order to learn the bushes!
thoroughly.
Professors A. S. BiclSmore and ID. S
Elmendorf of the Museum of Natura
| History Of New York, are in Colorado
| securing views to accompany cours
| of illustrated lectures on Colorado, t
| he delivered next winter through tn
| State of New York, Naturally, tn
| citizens Of Colorado are much please,
at their visit, and are doing everything
possible to make it pleasant and sue
cessful.
Senator McEnery, Of Louisiana
whose support of the protective fea
lures of the tariff bill has attracte
much attention, is a lawyer, and ha
| been in politics since before the wal
He is just 60 years old, and had com
pleted a university education and pai
of the course at the Annapolis Navf
Academy before entering the Confed
crate army. He has been governor {
Loulsiana' al.---ii 4 As,-l -..a -.- .-------.----
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21
The First Thanksgiving Dinner.

The first Thanksgiving dinner was
celebrated in this country two hun
dred and seventy-six years ago, at
Plymouth, Massachusetts,. The whole
American army was present-it num-
bered twenty men. Miles Standish,
the backward lover of Priscilla, sat at
the feast, while Priscilla served at the
tables. The story will appear in the
November issue of Tie LadieS' Home
Journal Here Indians and whites
sat down together by the tables set in
the woods, and enjoyed the roast
turkey, beechnuts, clam chowder, fish,
salad, cakes, fruit and other delicacles
provided. 1t was at this historic
dinner that the first oysters were
served. The illustrations of the arti-
Gle show portraits of the Pilgrim
fathers.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There Is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
inhamed condition of the mucous
lining Of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is infamed you have a rumb-
ling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed, Deafness is
the result, and unless the inflamma-
ton can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hear
ing will be destroyed forever nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh,
which is nothing but an in1amed con.
dition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness Caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars
free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 7sc.
Halls Family Pills are the best. IN
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21
Postal Business for the Past Year.
A Suggestion That Newspapers Be Hereafter
Carried Altogether by Mail.

The annual report of w. 5. Shat
lenberger, second assistant postmaster
general, made public Saturday. gives
an interesting review of the principal
developments in the entire transporta-
ton service of the United States and
connecting foreign mails. 1t showed
All aggregate of appropriation for this
large part of the postal service tor the
current year of $5I,o4I,a5S; the prob
able deficiency is 100000, making
the estimated expenditures this year
$5I,54I,aSS. This will be $I,o23,-
o4s, or three and one-quarter per
cent. more than for the fiscal year just
ended.
The estimate for the fiscal year
1899 is $53,337,26o which is SLIGO,
oa1 more than the estimated eXpendi-
lures for the current year. The an
nual rate of expenditure for the inland
mail service in the year just closed
was $40, S62,o74 and for foreign mail
service $I,7oI,I7o, after deducting
$25S,o2o for Intermediary service to
foreign countries.
The report takes an important po-
sition as to newspaper mail and plan
to make the profits on short hauls off
set the long runs. General Shallen'
berger says:
"There seems to be no good reason
why the great bulk Of legitimate news
papers carried by the government al
great loss to remote places should be
permitted to be taken away from the
mails by railroad and express com
panies whenever there is a short hau
that would make the carriage of then
profitable to them. The carriage o
newspapers, packages, etc, by railroad
and express companies may have beer
justified, perhaps, years ago, when th'
} railway mail service was less efficient
but with our present facilities, such a
may easily be obtained, | am con
vinced that the department can an
should carry the great bulk OF news
paper matter that has been for year
withheld from the mails and sent i
baggage cars and special expires
trains"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21

-vIyyfsx s.s1,,esSa ar
to be. Eddy, at Bayonne, N. J., the
professors al Blue Hill observatory,
Boston. and attaches of the United
States signal service have been expert
menting with the fight of kites into
the upper regions to determine the
temperature. A kite with a ther-
memeter attached to it was lately
sent up into the air almost half a
mile by Mr.. Eddy. When such kite
is drawn back to earth, the tempera
ture registered by its thermometer is
true prognestic of the temperature
to be expected on the earth's surface
within the next 4S hours. This is
Mr.. Eddy's theory, which he believes
he has verified.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21

We live IN a country Of which the
principal scourge is stomach trouble.
1t is more widespread than any
other disease, and, very nearly, more
dangerous.
One thing that makes it SO danger
ous is that it is so little understood.
If it were better understood, 1t
would be more feared, more easily
cured, less universal than it is now.
So, those who wish to be cured,
take Shaker Digestive Cordial, be-
cause it goes to the root of the trouble
as no other medicine does. The pure,
harmless, curative herbs and plants,
of which it Is composed, are what
render it SO certain and, at the same
time, SO gentle cure.
1t helps and strengthens the stom'
ach, purifes and tones up the system
Sold by druggists, price 10 cents tc
$I.oo per bottle.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21
Held His Wife and Shot Her.
With the Woman's Head Under One Arm
Gillian Fired.

Samuel Gillian, a resident Of
Phillipsburg, who left his wife some
time ago, returned Saturday, and,
meeting her at the Pennsylvania Rail
road station, asked her to walk back
of the station with him.
She refused to do so, and in the
presence of "a crowd of people, he
caught her by the head with one hand.
Then, drawing her head close to him,
with the other hand he pulled pistol
from his pocket and shot her through
the head, inhicting wound which, II
is believed, will prove fatal.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21

The opening up of the wonderful
gold mines of the Klondlke will slim
ulate the languishing agricultural in
dustrv Of our northwest as nothing has
yet been able to do. The history Of
our own mining boom cities will be
repeated in Alaska and in the Klon-
dixie region. The vast quantities. of
precious metal causes thousands of
people to rush to the mines. They
must be fed, housed, clothed and in
time controlled. Municipal govern
ments will very quickly spring up.
Towns will be laid out, citizens will
be organized into leagues; churches
and places of amusement will be re-
quired. In one years time as much
progress will be made in civilization S
ways as would naturally be accom-
plished in ten years. In night towns
and cities will spring up and soon a
railroad will be built. Meat and
grain products from our northwest VIII
be in such demand that the supply
will not at first be equal to it. The
market is more convenient tor oul
northwestern states than that OF Eu
rope and there will be no competition
at all except from Canada, and in this
we are all one. Canada and Amer
can farmers ought to pay all thei
debts and get rich in the next few
years.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21

WITHOUT A PEER.-WoRKs MIR
AcLEs.-Dr. Agnew's Cure for the
Heart is without a peer. This great
remedy relieves instantly the most
aggravated and distressing forms of
heart disease. 1t is the surest and
quickest acting formula for heart
trouble known to medical science and
thousand of times has the hand OF the
grin destroyer been stayed by its use,
If there is Palpitation, Shortness OF
Breath, Pain in Left Side, Smotherlng
Sensations, don't delay or you may
be counted in the long list OF those
who have gone over to the great ma
iority, because the best remedy IN
the world to-day was not promptly
used.-I7.
Sold by C. A. Kleim'
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21
FOSSIL PILLs.-The demand

Fossil PILLs.-The demand is
proof of their worth-Dr. Agnew's
Liver Pills are beating out many
fossil formulas at a quarter a box
They're better medicine-Easier
doses and 10 cents vial. A thou
sand ailments may arise from dis
ordered liver. Keep the liver right
and You'll not have Sick Headache,
Bllousness, Nausea, Constipation,
and Sallow Skin.-ao.
Sold by c. A. Klein.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21

Clouds have been heretofore con-
sldered as presaging change IN the
weather. Now, however, kites in
stead of clouds will apparently be en-
pioyed to tell us What the weather is
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21

Just try a roc. box of Cascarets, the
finest liver and bowel regulator ever
made. lily
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-10-21

Connections at Rupert with Philadelphia
Reading Railroad for Tamanend, Tamaaua
Milliamsport, Sunhury, Pottsvllle, etc AZ
Harrisburg LOCK Eaven, Emporium Warrer
CORY and Erie. - 49,,
Scranton, Pa
Evening journal., 1897-11-30
FOOD FoR DAWSON CITY.
1t Is Thought That Supplies WIN Be
Sent There In n short Time.

TACOMA. Nov 30-E E. Chamber
lain of this city has just returned from
Lake Lindeman. where he went to meet
James Mckay. who now owns and runs
the largest land transportation business
In the Yukon basin. Mckay was the
first man TO make a winter trip from
Circle City to Juneau, January. 1886.
His teams now run all winter between
Circle City. Dawson and the mouth of
Pelley river. His last trip 20 Juneau
was by boat as far as Lake Bennett.
Chamberlain says If there is danger
Of famine he believes Mckay has teams
and facilities enough TO haul supplies
stored at Fort Yukon to Dawson as
fast as they will be needed.
The most alarming Of the reports sent
out about the prospective famine ad-
NIT there is food enough on hand for all
for four months and that If 1000 Of those
now at Dawson 60 to Fort Yukon, $50
miles away, all will have plenty. These
reports are dated about October Mr.
Mckay would, therefore. have three
months in which TO get up supplies from
the fort before there would be any
actual want. While there are probably
but two or three boatloads Of provi-
sions at Fort Yukon II is likely that
plenty of supplies can be transported
from Lake Lindeman by the Chilkai
aerial tramway, which it is expected
will be in operation by Jan. IS.
Evening journal., 1897-11-30
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
Some Are Harmless, But others Are
Violently Insane.

violently Insane.
The white house was beset with the
usual number Of cranks while the pres
ident was in town lately. These gentry
came from every part of the civilized
world and for every conceivable pur-
pose. Some of them are mild and some
wildly insane. The harmless ones are
sent on their way, while those who are
really insane are placed in the hands
of the authorities, and eventually go
to some asylum, says the st. Louis Re-
public.
Women are not lacking among the
poor creatures who come to see the
president, and occasionally one appears
with baby in her arms, which she
wishes to lay in the presidents bed for
good luck or which she wishes him TO
touch or kiss, or to look at, believing
that contact with the president will
bring success to the child.
The most persistent crank which has
called recently at the executive man
.sion is man named Jackson. from
Newark, n. J. He is a goodlooking
fellow, well dressed and with good
manners, who labors under the de-
fusion that he is the chosen agent Of
God to warn people of approaching dis
aster. He came all the way from his
home in New Jersey to advise with the
president and to predict that the death
of some high official, possibly the pres
ident himself, would occur in the next
few days; to announce that the wCrld
will come to an end in November, 1ssj.
and to offer his services 20 unveil the
mysteries Of the future. He talked
fluently of his hobbies, but was so evil
IDENTIFY out of mind on this subject that
he was placed in the hands of the po-
lice, who viii send him back TO his
| home.
Evening journal., 1897-11-30
Jannneso Woman az Yale.

NEW HAVEN, Nov. 3O-Yale uni
verslty will have for the first time in
its history a Japanese lady as a stu
dent. Miss Yoshi Yamaguchi and her
brother, Leiichi Yamaguchi, have come
from Kioto for the purpose of COM
pleting their education. Both have
studied at the Doshisha university, one
of the leading colleges of Japan. Miss
Yoshi has just come here and intends
to make a speciality of English and
music. She will commence her student
career this week. The brother has been
here three months and is very enthusi-
astic over the college. He expects to
be here for four or five years. He is
TO study economics.
Evening journal., 1897-11-30
Politics in Newfoundland.

ST. JOHNS, N. F., Nov. 3O.-Sir James
Winter. the new premier. and the mem
bers OF his cabinet were all reelected
yesterday without opposition in their
respective constituencies. the elections
being in conformity with the practice
that requires a member of the legisla-
ture who has accepted a portfolio in
the cabinet to submit himself again TO
the suffrages of his constituents. The
government is vigorously pursuing the
reform policy to which it pledged itself
at the outset, and already the reduc-
tion in the number of offices and Off
cials guarantees a saving to the colo
ny of $50, 900 a year.
Evening journal., 1897-11-30
MORTALITY AT lie soUTH.
Statistics showing that the Negro
Race Is succumbinR 20 Disease.

Statistics showing that the Negro
Race Is succumbinE 10 Disease.
The publication of the mortuary
statistics for the month of August of
"a number Of the leading towns Of North
Carolina reveals a remarkable death rate
among negroes as compared with
whites In Raleigh, for instance, where
there are 900 more whites than blacks,
during July there were two-and-one-
half times as many deaths of negroes
as of whites. In Wilmington, n. c.,
where. there is only a small excess OF
black population, there were IA deaths
Of whites and of negroes 3s. or nearly
three TO one. In Winston, where there
are considerably more whites than ne
groes, the negroes dying numbered
more than two to one. the ratio accord
ing to race population being much
greater. Other towns show a like rec
ord. The unusual mortality among ne
groes is not due TO any epidemic dis
ease, or insufficient nourishment, as has
In some few isolated instances been the
ease in winter.
Evening journal., 1897-11-30
A NEW TRUNK ROAD.
Plans to Extend the Findlay,
Fort Wayne and Western.
MEETING HELD FOR THAT PURPOSE.
John Jacob Astor and other omclals oi
the Road Present-To Connect with
the Illinois Centrai-Prelim-
mary Survey Made.

FINDLAY. o.. Nov. SO.-A meeting
was held yesterday in the directors
room Of the Findlay Fort Wayne and
Western railroad for the purpose Of
ratifying the plans already determined
upon for extending that road both east
and west and forming one of the most
important trunk lines in the country.
A special train with two private cars
of the Illinois Central railroad bore TO
this city a party composed of John ia
cob Astor, president Of the road; Hen
~ B. Ely of New York. treasurer; w.
T. Rainey of Cleveland, a director; ].
T. Hanrahan. vice president of the Illi
nois Central; G. Chapman. director;
T. ]. Hudson. traffic manager and Da-
vid Sloan, chief engineer of the same
road. The party made it's annual in
spection of the track and other proper
ty of the company which were found in
first class shape.
A preliminary survey has already
been made. Vice President Hanrahan
together with other Illinois Central Off
cials. was In attendance at the meet
ing. This, together with the fact that
a survey has been made for an extern
sion of the Finday. Fort Wayne and
Western road from its present western
terminus at Fort Wayne to a junction
with the Illinois Central 26 miles south
of Chicago, causes much interest TO at
tach to the meeting.
When this is accomplished, the Find
lay, Fort Wayne and Western will be-
come a great trunk railroad, over whose
tracks will pass large portion OF the
products of the great west on their way
to the seaboard.
1t is believed that the road will be-
come the eastern outlet for the Illinois
Central railroad. A survey has been
made of a line from Fort Wayne TO
Kankakee. Ills. where the road makes
its connection with the Illinois Central
From Findlay eastward survey has
been made to Lester Junction o., where
connections will be made for Cleveland
over the Cleveland, Lorraine and Wheel
ing and also for eastern trunk lines.
From one terminus TO the other the
line will be almost straight, and the
grade will be confined TO Is feet to the
mile It developed here last night that
work has also been commenced on the
survey for line from Lester Junction
to Newcastle, Pa.
Mr.. Astor. president and chief stock
holder of the tangent line, is a heavy
stockholder and director of the Illinois
Central railroad. This road will prove
of incalculable value to the Illinois
Central. which at present has TO deliver
all it's business to other lines at Chi
cago.
Mr. Astor and his party left last even
ing in their private cars for Fori
Wayne and from there will proceed tC
Kankakee, Ills, getting as close to th'
survey line as possible.
Evening journal., 1897-11-30
Roominc Sow Enrland Trade.

BOSTON, Nov. 3O-Boston's mer-
chants week. which had been planned
by the business men 20 boom New Eng
land trade, brought rain yesterday, but
visiting bargain hunters fiooked to the
city from all parts of Greater Boston
and points farther away Incoming ex-
cursion trains brought large additions
to the crowd of purchasers, and the
great retail stores had a rush business.
Every was In readiness for the
thousands Of visitors. the counters of
the great stores being piled high with
goods. to which attention had been call
ed by frequent advertisements. The
opening day led the promoters to ex-
pect a lively week.
Evening journal., 1897-11-30
Tree PROOF FROM FIRE.
Grows I'm south America and Is Gale
ChnparrO.


Grows I'm South America and Is Called
ChaparrO.
A government report from Colombia
contains a description of a tree, known
as the chaparro, which is said to pos
sess the qualities Of being ire proof
1t grows on the vast plains of Colombia
and the north Of South America. called
savannas, extensive districts which are
parched with heat except during the
rainy season. 1t has long been the
custom to clear the ground for the
new vegetation which springs up so lux
uriantly on these plains after the rainy
season by means of fire-and such fires,
miles in extent, kindled by the herds
men, destroy everything in the shape
of vegetation except the chaparro tree,
which survives to afford a welcome
shade in an almost treeless region, says
the Boston Transcript.
1t is n small tree, seldom growing to
more than 20 feet in height, with n
girth of about three feet, and it owes
It's protection from fire to the nature
of its hard, thick bark. The bark lies
on the trunk in loose layers, which do
not readily conduct heat to the more
delicate parts Of the structure. 1t is
q general idea among the natives that
this tree grows only where gold is
abundant in the soil below. That it is
common in auriferous districts is indis-
putable, but there is no ground for sup
posing that it does not grow elsewhere.
Evening journal., 1897-11-30
The Higgins WIN Case.

BUFFALO, Nov 3O-The contest
over the will Of the late Edward Hig-
gins, the we'll known gambler. who died
recently, was begun yesterday and aft
er hearing a few witnesses was con-
tinued until Dec. 49, Washington II.
Higgins Of Rochester, a brother. insti-
tuted the proceedings to break tho will,
which leaves the greater part of the es-
tate to Ezra Higgins. a nephew. It de-
veloped that a sister also desires TO
contest the will. 1t is expected that the
contestants win try TO show that a son
and daughter survive the deceased
Counsel for the contestants intimated
that Ezra Higgins had destroyed will
made previous to the one offered fol
probate.