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The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-07-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Congressman johnson Holds the Record
For Swift Speech - How Colonel
Halves Made His Money.
Especial Correspondence

cannot be said to be slow Of speech.
Fred :. Inland, one of the expert ste.
nographers of the house. said some very
interesting things recently Oh this point
1t has been said i'll the newspapers, {"
he remarked, THAT Representative Lew
is Of Washington talks at the rate of
500 words a minute. He does not. No
man could speak i'll the house at that
speed and be reported. l doubt whether
he could be understood. l mean. of
course. such words as occur in dc Lates
OF course III taking routine testimony,
where frequently recurring phrases,
such as What Is your name?' and
Where do you live?' are expressed by
brief arbitrary signs, stenographer
can write as FAST as man can think. 1t
is very different matter When "a con-
gresham talks. He uses words of
many syllables.
"What is acccastest record in the
house?"
Representative johnson Of Indiana
once talked for an hour and a half,
when discussing contested election
case. at an average rate Of 22O words a
minute. That is rapid work. If man
talks $50 words a minute, he is very
swift. have noticed one thing" add
up after being in the house a little
while. The vastness of the air space
they have to fill with their voices grad
ually makes its impression upon them"
Pie and Politics.
A recent visitor at the capital was
Colonel Pat Halves of Nebraska He is
a great political worker and man of
varied career. He was we'll remember
0f 10
on tbes because of his efforts to get
90 congress 20 years ago. 1t was in |
the Forty-fourth congress that Colonel |
HAYES applied for admission, on the |
ground that Nebraska had become enti- |
tied to larger representation than the !
state then had, owing to increased pop !
ulation since the preceding census. The
house. however. never recognized the
claim Of the colonel, but through &C
Quaintance with the doorkeepers he en-
jOyed the privileges Of the floor for the
whole session.
Finally, realizing that he was not to
get the fame and salary of representa-
tive at large from the 'cyclone cellar
state, " Colonel Hawes made application
for permission to set up pie stand on
the courthouse steps in New York city.
Here the would be statesman carried
ON fourishing business in pie, as the
privilege at that time was said to be
worth as much as the salary Of member
Of congress. After few years in the
pie business Colonel Halves returned to
Nebraska. and ever since has been more
or less prominent in politics.
The Change In Senator Plat.
A great change has taken place in the
Of Senator Plat of Connect
Icut. This has come about since his re-
cent marriage.
He used to be quite independent in
the matter Of dress Trousers might be
oaRRy. coat might fit badly, necktie
might be awry-it was all the same to
Platt- Now all is changed Plat is re-
uvenated. new editioned He trips
lightly to the capitol with smiling face,
when heretofore he was the walking
'pltome of grewsome indigestion. His
lair is cut and barbered with daily
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-07-03

3acOn-5 3-4c.
Dry Salt enthusiastically at 5 3-Sc
Breakfast Bacon-Sc.
HanlS-Cholce canvassed sugar-cured
20 1-4c.
Lard-compound, 4c; pure, 1-2c
Bacon plates 1-Sc.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-07-03
COTTON.
SHREVEPORT MARKET.

Board OF trade closed quiet and steady
Receipts, bales; by rail, bale; by
wagon, bales; by river, - bales
Sales none
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-07-03

Ordlnary :......... Nominal Nominal
LoS Mlddling.... lie 7-16
Good Middling. . 3-16 : 3-16
PROVISIONS.
3acon-5 3-4c
Dry Salt enthusiastically at 5 3-sc
Breakfast Bacon-Sc.
20 lac
I,ard-compound, &c; pure, l-2c
! Bacon plates 1-Sc.
BREADSTUFFS.
FIour-Best patent, $3.50; half patent
or Cstraighti 800; extra fancy, $500
none To n nna,! e 90 per barrel; ss 1-2
Crackers--A B c soda crackers are
quoted at 12c; Cream, 71-2 by the lot
| Rice-New Louisiana, 5 1-2c.
COFFEE AND TEA.
Co1ee-7Easy; fair. 1Oc; medium grade,
il l-2c; better, 14a17c.
Iea-Good stock on hand fair dema nd
Fair at 25c; good, 4OG5Oc; fine. 750s5c;
finest, S1'OOa$1.35 per pound by the
chest.
SUGAR AND MOLASSES.
susar-Stand ard graduated, 7-sc; St
Emma graduated, 3-4c; snow white
5-Sc; choice yellow clarified, 3-Sc:
prime yellow clarified, 1-4c; srconds
J., lasses-Common, 15c; prime open
kettle, 1sc; choice reboiled, 23ca2sc
TOBACCO.
Chewins-Good Medium, IL inch, o17
chewing, 5Oa75c.
Csc.
ESCULENTS.
Onions-S1.5O a busheI
Beans-Navy, 2@92 1-2c per pound
IRISH Potatoes-none,
Cabbage-none.
Kraut-S1. 92@$3. 90 barrels
Seed PotatrSS-none
Clay Peas-S1.75.
Speckled Peas $1.75.
BAGGING AND TIES.
Bagging-2 lb, &c; 3-4 Id, 61-2c.
IWlne-For bailing purposes quoted at
lOc per 10 by the bale.
Iron Ties-S1.O0.
GRAIN AND FEEDSTUFF.
Corn-Mixed sacked 42c per busheI.
n hay-Cholce prairie arkansas, $1l.O
Texas, none.
Oats-White 34c; Rust Proof, s4c.
Rye-90c.
Barley-75c.
Bran-95c.
CSlhi0spped Cord-soc per 100 pounds.
Cotton Seed Meal-S1.O5
CHICKENS AND EGGS.
IhlckenS, mems, per doZ ........ 25
oroilers per doz ............. l 25(a1 so
.ryers. large, per doz .......... 2 25a2 so
Eggs per doz. ............. 81
5utter, country, per pound 49, 1Ota12 1-2
turkeys. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 40@1 90
HIDES AND WOOL MARKET.
Try NOES, NO l, flint, per ID. 9a1Oc
Dry hides, No. 2, flint. ....... Ease
>adly pug eateu ............... 4a5c
Dry sailed, No. 1.......... 6a7cI
,uiI NOES. :.... ..-........ Ease
cen saited nldes .........-... Ease
ireen salt hides glue and badly
- cut .......... ''''''.... 4a4 1-2c
' ooi. tub washed, choice. 17a20c
Wool, unwashed, clear .... 12a15c s
WOOL, bury and black . 6a1Oc
'eesWax, prime NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 20a23c
allow :-......: ............... 12a3c -
heep SKINS, each ..-....... o.. 10a25c
Ioat SKINS Observation-Disclosures. 10a20c
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-07-03
GENERAL LOCAL MARKET.

The quotations are reviewed and cor
rected weekly. and represent prices for
round lots from first hands
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-07-03
GRAIN AND FEEDSTUFF.

Corn-Mixed sacked. 42c per busheI.
-, Hay-Choice prairie (Arkansas), $1l &
Texas, none.
Oats-White 34c; Rust Proof, 34c.
Rye-90c.
Barley-75c.
Bran-95c.
Chopped Cord-sOc per 100 pounds.
Millet Serd-S5c per bu4hel.
Cotton Seed Meal-S1 .O5.
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Il. Lob BAUER.

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Seim S9reibsu errpabue maN bisiss gIath
The herald., 1897-11-14

came there to engage the fiat. They had
heard she was going to move. They
found her engaged in packing up her
household goods. They asked her if she
lived alone. She said, Yes" She had
two lodgers, but one of them had left her
a few days before, and the other Martin
Thorn, had just moved away.
They took a great deal of interest in
Mrs. Mack and inquired about her pleas
ing personality from the neighbors.
Her friend upon the corner. the under
taker, said that on Saturday she had
hired a wagon of him to so out on a days
pleasuring in the country. she and
Martin Thorn had driven away in the
morning and were gone all day. When
they came back at o'clock at night the
horse was very tired and they Were
very much out Of sorts When he asked
them what was the matter they said it
was because the horse was balky.
THAT was very strange" said the un
dertaker, because the horse is such a
good one. He never gave me any trou-
ble."
Mrs. Mack came home very nervous
last night" volunteered a loquacious
woman neighbor. I dropped in to see
her about o'clock with my little girl,
Amelia Mrs. Mack asked me TO let
Amelia stay with her all night because
she was afraid to stay in the fiat alone.
| asked her what had become of her old
lodger William Guldensuppe, and
she said William had deserted her and
she was going to Europe"
THE next morning Amelia told me
that Mrs Mack had been very restless
and had not slept much"
The reporters were so interested in this
story that they thought it best to COM
municate with the authorities, and ac-
cordingiy the next day Mrs. Mack was
officially interviewed by the coroner and
other city employees.
Martin Thorne was missing. Mrs.
Mack thought he might have sailed for
Europe, but some boys in the neishbor-
hood were quite sure that they had car
ried a satchel for him from Mrs. Nack's
fiat on the day the investigation began.
A WOODSIDE MYSTERY
Meanwhile there was a mystery in
Woodsde, l.. l. Mr.. and Mrs. Braun d
pleasant couple, the woman big and
good-natured, the man small and quiet,
had visited there, looking for cottage.
They found a very nice little one which
The herald., 1897-11-14
The Most Remarkable Story OF Century

they hired, and for which they paid a
months rent in advance. They said
they might move in any day. On the
Friday previous Mr.. Braun came there
early in the morning. A little later Mrs.
Braun and a big well-favored man got
off the cars, opened the little gate in
front of the house and walked up the
path. That was the last seen of the
big, well favored man. Mrs. Braun
came out of the house several times that
day, each time carrying a package done
up in oil cloth, which she took away with
her and deposited somewhere because
she came back in a couple of hours
empty handed. Once Mr.. Braun ap-
peared in the doorway in his shirt
sleeves, but that was all that was seen
of him. The next day they also visited
there. At night the couple must have
gone away, because the cottage was
dark and the Braums had not been seen
since.
The herald., 1897-11-14

No, don't said Mrs. Mack. You so
through the house and see if it pleases
YOU.
"Guldensuppe, evidently well pleased
at her anxiety TO suit him, laughed and
said, All right and sprang up the
stairs two steps at time. At the head
of the stairs the darkness must have re-
awakened his suspicious, because he
went cautiously through. He paused
once and looked ahead of him.
\ SURPRISE
"Al of sudden, turning into clothes
press, he came face to face with Martin
Thorn, who stood with pistol ready
cooked. Thorn shot him down in cold
blood.
"'Then, said Thorn, I ran downstairs
and said to Mrs. Mack, ut is DONE.
"'Yes, l heard it, said she.
Now, you go away said Thorn, and
don't come back until o'clock. By
that time I'll have everything ready "
AT this point in his story Thorn
placed his hands over his eyes, and
Gotha, repeating it to his wife, shook
with fear.
When l got upstairs said Thorn,
he was bleeding so that had to take
off all Of my clothes except my under
shirt before / dared to touch him.
Then l dragged him to the bathtub and
tried to cut his throat but he was snor
ing so and moving his head from side
to side so fast that ! could not cut and
had to stab him in the heart couple
of times. Even that did not quiet him,
and he snored until had his head off.
That must have been his death rattle.
'Afterward cut him UP, and when
The herald., 1897-11-14

night. Moonlights with the moon herself
in evidence are really sun photographs;
that is, pictures taken with a rapid ex-
posure, the camera pointed toward the
sun, generally in the late afternoon or
early morning, and with clouds between
the lens and the direct rays.
Many charming so-called night pic
lures are taken by making two expos
ures, q short one in the rapidly dimin-
ishing afternoon sunlight, to get an i'm
preston of buildings and other dark OBJ
jects. and another longer one after dark
to print in gas and electric lights that line
the long street or mark out the roads and
winding pathways of city park.-Scrib-
ler's Magazine.
The herald., 1897-11-14

On opening the newspapers Monday
morning the good people of Woodside
were astonshed to note that the fea-
lures of Mrs. Mack, the midwife arrested
for the murder of William Guldensuppe
We're identical with those of the good
natured Mrs. Braun who had hired the
cottage a few days before, and on in
specting the oilcloth in which the legs
of the man were wrapped they found it
to exactly match the piece of olcloth
in the shop of a Woodside merchant
of whom Mrs. Braun had purchased
several yards of the same the previous
Friday.
They whispered the singular coinci-
dence around and the Woodside authori-
ties ventured to tell it to the New York
experts. In a few days the chain was
woven that fettered Mrs. Mack insepara
bly, from the disappearance of William
Guldensuppe in the Woodside cottage.
A BARBER FRIEND
But. where was Martin Thorn? Up
town in New York there is very pretty
neighborhood known as Morris Heights.
Mount Morris park is there, and Mount
Morris avenue. In this pretty little place
tNeIG llNtu a iluilipl' Ddip Heiihcu q piiii
Gotha, who worked faithfully and made
few friends. One of John Gotha'S friends,
however, was Martin Thorn. And John
Gotha, the barber, mourned over Thorns
disappearance, because he had worked
in the shop with him, and did not want
to see him get into trouble.
One day as Gotha stood watching for
next a wen dressed man in Fedora
hat stepped up to his chair and gave
him a look. In that look John Gotha de-
tected Martin Thorn, for whom the po-
lice We're looking, changed as he was
by shaving and good clothes.
The shaving was conducted in silence,
The herald., 1897-11-14

but as Thorn left the barber chair he
slipped note into Gotha's hand. The
note read: Meet me tonight at Mount
Morris Park" That night when John
Gotha returned home he was so nervous
and fitful that his wife complained of
him, and toward midnight vowed that
she would leave his bed if he did not act
more sanely. He, with tears rolling
down his face from sheer nervousness,
contided to her the tale that Martin
Thorn had told him.
Thorn said" whispered John Gotha
to his wife, that he murdered William
Guldensuppe in the Woodside cottage.
He says that they are after him, and
that he has been hiding in boarding
house down town. He says that the
suspense has become intolerable, and
that is why he told me.
He said there had been bad blood be-
tween him and Guldensuppe for months
and last Thursday he and Mrs. Mack
planned how to kill him. They went
down to Woodside and hired a cottage.
Friday Thorn went down there and hid
upstairs in one of the rooms. A little
later Mrs. Mack and Guldensuppe came
down. Thorn saw them through WIN
dow as they came up the walk. AS they
entered the house Mrs. Mack said: Will
liam, want this house for Il baby FARM
ing establishment, and l want you to so
through it and see how you like the ar
rangement of the rooms. l am going
outside a minute
THAT was the signal for Martin
Thorn upstairs listening over the railing
to get in ambush ready to shoot. Gull
densuppe suspected something wrong.
for he said: I'll wait for you to come
back
The herald., 1897-11-14

Mrs. Mack came I had the pieces
wrapped in oilcloth, except the legs. She
was very nervous and anxious to get
it over. so she did these up In hurry
and would not take time to put a
weight in. AS soon as the bundle was
done she carried 1t out and came back
after the others. The head did up in
plaster paris We worked that after
noon and next day she brought down a
surrey. The trunk and arms were too
heavy for u.s. "
When Gotha had finished telling his
story to his wife Mrs Gotha was So
thoroughly alarmed at it that she said,
you have got to tell that story to the
police authorities. My brother is po-
liceman, and know by experience that
it is a crime to keep it from the police
You have got to go with me to the police
court"
THE INFORMER
The next day Mrs. Gotha alone, for
her husband could not get away, made q
call at Police headquarters, with the re-
suit that there was more actively shown
there than had been in many "a long day.
"The point is to get Thorn" said they.
He made an appointment to meet
my husband tonight at One Hundred
and Twenty-fifth street."
VERY well,' said the police, 1--WE will
be on hand dressed as street cleaners
ready to capture him. Tell your hus-
band not to fail us"
That night, promptly at s o'clock, John
Gotha stood at the corner of One Hun
dred and Twenty-fifth street. Around
him We're several street-cleaners, with
their brooms.
A calm reisned in the air as though
storm were coming. In a few minutes
The herald., 1897-11-14

Martin Thorn appeared. He was quick
ly surrounded and taken, before his be-
widered senses had time to grasp the
situation. An hour later he was con-
fined in cell under the same roof with
his conspirator Mrs. Mack.
For three months these two have been
awaiting trial. They have tried in every
way to communicate with each other, but
in vain. When they We're first arraigned
Mrs. Mack said in low tones, Keep
still" and a month later she sent Thorn
a dish of potatoes in which was con-
cealed this note: "Be quiet, dear child.
You have talked too much already My
lawyer tells me that you have done harm
to our case, for the evidence is at hand -
A little later she sent him in the same
way $100 in money, with which to supply
himself with luxuries. They have diff
ferent lawyers, and the case is now be-
fore the courts.
VIII they be found guilty, or is the
whole complicated web of circumstan-
tial evidence unhappily woven around
the most unfortunate couple in the
world? AUGUSTA PRESCOTT.
The herald., 1897-11-14
Too Little Respect for Courts

The repeated appeals which conser-
vative writer's and speakers feel called
upon to make to the people to persuade
them to maintain respect for the courts
show forth necessity which ought not
to exist in this country. They simply
prove that the courts are not worthy
Of the honor and confidence which the
public would like to yield them.-Kansas
City Star.
The herald., 1897-11-14

of a man has been found without the
head. 1t now lies at the morgue. If
call cab will you go down with me and
see it?"
YES" said the attendant.
THE IDENTIFICATION
An hour later they stood before the
mutilated body at the morgue. THAT
is William, and no mistake said the
Turkish bath rubber. II could tell his
body among million. He had the big
gest knees l ever saw on a man, and on
his chest was a big tattoo mark at the
very place where the flesh is cut out.
There We're sores between his toes which
had been under treatment by the ply
sician at the baths, and if you send for
him he will identify him.
The next afternoon Mrs. Mack in her
little fiat on Ninth avenue must have
been greatly surprised at the number of
callers she received. A young couple
The herald., 1897-11-14

dispatches of the probability of an early
reopening of negotiations for the adop-
tion of treaty of arbitration between
the United States and Great Britain.
says Bradstreet's. 1t is understood that
Sir Julian Pauncefote will confer with
Secretary Sherman in relation to the
matter in a short time. He has just re-
turned to Washington after an absence
of some time in Great Britain, and 1t is
believed that he brings with him fay
orable response to the suggestion made
by the state department some time ago
that the administration would view
with favor reopening of the negotia-'
tions. Sentiment in Great Britain ap-
pears to be favorable to the idea of arbi-
tration. though there is an indisposition
on both sides to press the matter until
a better prospect for ratification makes
it's appearance in the United States. An
arbitration league has been formed in
England, and Mr.. Cremer, the secretary
of the league. is about to'visit the United
States to urge the matter upon public
attention here. Mr.. Cremer is the bearer
of an address to the senate signed by
over 1000 workingmen, each of whom is
an officer of trades union and who.
collectively. represent 2,150,00O British
workingmen.
The herald., 1897-11-14
How to Take Moonlight Photographs

Moonlight effects in photographs have
long been admired by the uninitiated,
and fully appreciated by both amateur
and professional photographers for their
beauty, and many plates, too. have been
spoiled by snap-shooters who have ac-
cepted moonlight as the real illumina-
tor OF these views, and accordingly TO-
cused directly on this beautiful orb of
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