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The herald., 1897-11-13
JUDGE HIRsEL ANGRY
AT COLLINS THRILLING WITH
THE COURT
Bench warrant Issued for Delinquent
Complainant in the Ensley
Assault Case

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 12.-Martin Ensley
Of Memphis, Tenn, was brought up for
trial today before Judge Hirsel at Clay
ton, the county seat of st. Louis county,
on the charge Of assault with intent to
kill Charles D. Collins at Meramec
with stealing $4,000 from Collins and that
the robbery was the motive for the as
sault.
Judge Thomas B. Harvey of st. Louis
appeared for Ensley. and O'Neill Ryan
will assist County Attorney Hiornden
in prosecuting.
When the case was called Mr.. Collins
was not on hand and Judge Hirsel was
furious. He issued a bench warrant and
subpenas for Collins arrest, and after
adjourning court until o'clock this
afternoon, sent out all his deputies to
! find the plaintiff and bring him in.
| At the Franklin Hotel, where Mr.. Col
| Inns had been stopping, it was thought
that he had left the city last night.
Judge Hirsel said: "It is an outrage
that this man should not be here and
shall see to it that he Is brought here
and made to testify. The charge against
Ensley will not be dropped under any
circumstances If Collins cannot be
found today, I shall continue the case
until the next, and so on, until the man
is found or until it develops that he has
left the State.
I'm case he has gone away, the trial
against Ensley will go on just the same
with the witnesses now before me, the
charge being changed to assault with
intent to kill"
| He continued: when Collins is
brought before me shall fine him for
contempt" When Millionaire Holden
built the Hollenden Hotel in the Forest
City, Collins was made manager, with
part interest and there he managed to
save some money. With this he bought
the Duncan House at Nashville. While
in the South Mr.. Collins became ac-
quainted with Martin Ensley, son of the
well known Col. Enoch Ensley, who was
regarded as one Of the richest men in
that section. When Collins finally sold
the Nashville hotel he asked Ensley to
accompany him to St. Louis to try his
luck at the fair grounds race track. To
this end he purchased a couple of horses
and was negotiating for others at the
time Of the assault.
Collins and Ensley roomed at the Lin
dell Hotel. Monday night, June 18th,
the latter proposed a trip on the electric
cars and the two finally reached Mera-
mec Highlands. 1t was in the grounds
surrounding the hotel that the as
sault was committed.
| Ensley, Collins stated at the time,
stepped behind him and struck him on
the head with hammer. The Tennes-
seean denied his guilt and claimed that
two men assaulted Collins and that he
was also attacked and fled in fear of his
life.
The herald., 1897-11-13
NOT MERCENARY
But the Pullman Boy Has Now No
Eiaucee

CHICAGO, Nov. 12.-Formal an
nouncement is made Of the breaking Of
the engagement Of Mr.. Geo. NJ. Pullman
and Miss Fayette Oglesby. The news Of
Miss Oglesby's engagement to one of the
Pullman twins came as a great surprise
to the friends Of the young people over
two years ago, and the rumors concern
ing the date of the wedding have been
countless since that time. When the
sudden death of Mr.. Pullman, Sr., star
tied the city a short time ago, Miss
Oglesby was at the home of her parents
at Elkhart, Ill. For the last week or
two the young lady has been in Chicago,
the guest Of Mrs. Pullman part of the
time. Miss Oglesby has just returned
to Elkhart and simultaneous with her
departure comes the announcement that
Mr.. Pullman had proposed to release her
and that she had accepted the offer.
Friends of the Oglesby family are stout
in their declarations that the disinher-
itance of the young man had nothing
whatever to do with the rupture Of the
betrothal vows.
The herald., 1897-11-13
Stopping the Leak

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12.-Al Hay
man, the well-known theatrical man.
ager and one of the stockholders of the
AL Hayman Company, which controls
the Baldwin and the California theaters,
arrived from New York last evening. He
has come here, he says, to dispose of his
entire interests, theatrical and other
wise, in San Francisco. He denies the
statements credited to him in the press
dispatches concerning the "jayness" of
San Francisco, but he says that both he
and his business associate, Mr.. Froh-
man. have lost in the neighborhood of
100000 during the last three years, and
so, from a purely business standpoint,
they deem it advisable to discontinue
sending attractions to this Coast.
The herald., 1897-11-13
INED1BLE FUNGI
Brings Death to an Expert on
Mushrooms

WASHINGTON. Nov. 12.-At frequent
Intervals the Department Of Agriculture
is forced to issue circulars warning peo-
pie of the danger of eating mushrooms
unless they are positive as to the edible
qualities Of the fungi. Two days ago
Count Achilles de vecchi, distinguish
ed Italian nobleman, secured from a
farmer some mushrooms. The Count
has made a special study of the local
fungi and he was positive the mush-
rooms submitted to him were fit to eat.
He prepared a breakfast, to which he
invited a friend and both ate heartily Of
the mushrooms. Within two hours the
Count lapsed into Inconsistencies and
late last night he died with unmistaka-
BILE evidence of mushroom poisoning.
His friend, a government clerk, barely
escaped death.
This tragedy, coupled with the fact
that the Count claimed to be an expert
on mushrooms, has impelled Secretary
Wilson to prepare a special bulletin on
mushrooms, in which he will warn the
people that to eat these fungi without
the examination of competent scien-
tific opinion as to their character is to
risk death in terrible form. The Sec
retary proposes to illustrate his bulle-
tin with cuts showing the characters
tics of the poisonous and non poisonous
varieties.
Count de vecchi was one of the no.
liabilities of the capital. He was six
feet four inches high and weighed over
300 pounds. Before leaving Italy he was
wounded at the battle of Solferino, and
during the Civil War in this country
commanded Vecchi's battery, famous
artillery organization. 1t was the pride
of his life that he was the bearer of the
message from Garbaldi to Abraham
Lincoln in which the Italian liberator
offered his sympathy and services to the
American emancipator.
The herald., 1897-11-13
THE PRESTON SCHOOL
Superintendent O'Brien Asks for an
Investigation

STOCKTON, Nov. 12-Dr. f. S.
O'Brien, superintendent of the Preston
Reform school, who was in this city to-
day. denies the charges against him,
and says he wants a searching investi-
cation.
"Captain Hawk, one of the men who
made the allegations concerning cruelty
at the school, is man whom I dis
charged for incompetency, Dr. O'Brien
said.
Secretary Bernard, another, was also
discharged for the same cause. DR.
Tyrrel, one of the trustees wanted
Bernard retained, and is making his
fight because he could not save him.
"Ketchum was also discharged by me
for incompetency, and for neglect of
duty.
"Capt. Hawk fell asleep on the grounds
and let five boys escape.
CDR. Tyrrel telephoned to me to retain
Captain Hawk until the board met say
ing he had proof that it was job put
up by an assistant to allow the boys to
escape. I retained him, but the boys of
Company A declared they would run
away; they could not stand his brutal
ity. He knocked two boys down in the
The herald., 1897-11-13
PRESBYTERIAN Plans

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 1.-THE Pres
byterian committee of fifteen, appointed
by the last general assembly to arrange
Ia permanent home mission plan, con-
cluded it's labors today. The sub-com-
mittee decided upon yesterday was not
appointed but it was left to DR.. With
dow to name the five members, who shall
draft the report embodying the findings
of the committee Before adjourning
the committee passed resolution affirm
ing the loyalty of the presbyteries to the
home mission board, and it provided for
the forwarding Of this resolution to the
board at once. When the sub commit
tee gets it's report ready it will make it
known to DIR. Withdow, who will then
call second meeting of the committee
The herald., 1897-11-13
that became painful. by operating on

that became painful, by operating on
the chest BY this method however, the
lungs were partially filled at best, and
had the nurse stopped even for five min
utes, Miss Anderson would have stran-
gled and died. And yet the young wo-
man had been so used to the manipula-
tion that she ate and slept almost nat
urally and could carry on conversation.
The young girl was victim of Laudry's
paralysis when received at the hospital.
and when that disease was complicated
with congestion of the lungs, 1t was i'm
possible to save her. The case attracted
the attention of many physicians.
The herald., 1897-11-13
Oakland's Water Front

OAKLAND, Cal, Nov. 12.-The Oak
land Waterfront company is satisfied
with the decision of the supreme court in
the Oakland waterfront case and will
accept the thousand or so acres which
the decision gives it, and will not appeal,
for the reason that it's attorneys are of
the opinion that no appeal can be made
to the United States supreme court be-
cause no federal question is involved in
the case. What action, if any, the op-
ponents of the Waterfront company will
take in the matter has not yet been de-
termined
The herald., 1897-11-13
GAS WORKS GONE
Philadelphias Mayor Fails to Keep.
His Promise

PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 12.-Mayor
Warwick this afternoon signed the bill
recently passed by the Council leasing
the city gas works to the United Gas Inn
provement Company. The terms Of the
lease are that the United Gas Improve
ment Company Is to pay a rental Of
81 100000 a year for thirty years and to
spend $5.000,000 on the improvement Of
the works. The value of the plant is es-
timated at $3O,0O0,00O and much opposi-
ton to the lease has been manifested
by citizens. The ordinance providing
for the lease passed the Common Coun-
Gil last week and the upper branch on
Tuesday of this week.
Mayor Warwick withholds the exc
cution of the lease until injunction pro-
ceedings brought by the Citizens NUM-
cipal Association and individuals have
been settled.
The herald., 1897-11-13
A Eostoria Fire

FOSTORIA. Ohio, Nov. 12-An explos-
ion of quantity of gasoline in the base
ment of the Allcott building caused a
disastrous fire. In a few minutes the
entire building was destroyed. The
ground floor was occupied by the Ma
berry shoe store, Vogel Brothers tailor
ing store, the Western Union Telegraph
Company, the American Express Com
pany and the Allcott Hardware Com
pany. The upper floors were occupied
by clubs and physicians. The loss will
reach $4,000.
The herald., 1897-11-13
A Big Hotel Burned

KANKAKEE, ILL.,, Nov. 1.-THE River
View Hotel burned today. The fire
originated in the basement. The loss
is 5000; insurance $4,000. The hotel
was built by the Illinois Central Rail-
road and Emory Cobb, of Kankakee, in
1880, and was wooden structure. The
interior fittings we're Georgia pine. The
structure burned in thirty minutes
Robert Goodwin and C. w. Best saved
themselves by jumping from third
story window. Goodwin was badly
bruised and Best received broken leg.
Forty guests barely escaped with their
lives. The hotel burned SO quickly that
the guests lost most of their clothing and
valuableS
The herald., 1897-11-13
UNLAWFUL FISHING
Nothern Rivers Cobwebbed With Pro-
hibited Tackle

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12.-J. H.
Davis, one of the patrolmen of the State
Fish Commission, has returned from the
San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers and
reports having taken a very large
amount Of illegal sturgeon gear from
the waters of the streams. These gears
consist of long, stout lines of the best
material, that are strung out into the
rivers and held in place by anchors and
floats. Each line is loaded with hooks,
and no matter what kind of fish strikes
the hooks it is sure to be caught, for the
more it struggles the more hooks be-
come fastened into it. The use of this
tackle has been prohibited by law, and
the mere possession is evidence of guilt.
Davis was out ten days and he drag
ged for the lines of eleven camps. AS a
result of his labors he confiscated 10000
feet of sturgeon lines, fifty anchors and
over $1,000 hooks.
The herald., 1897-11-13
The Frost Estate

SAN JOSE, CAL, Nov. 1.-THE charge
that the executrices Of the Eleazar Frost
estate found $4,000 buried in the ground,
which they failed to account for in the
inventory, received partial proof today
in the probate court when Mrs. ]. e.
Haines, daughter Of Frost, swore that
she had received $500 which had been
found.
The herald., 1897-11-13
Wou't Iuterfere

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12-It is not
possible to confirm the statement COM
ing from Berlin to the effect that the
United States has offered to mediate be-
tween Germany and Hayti in the differ
ences arising from the arrest of the Ger
man subject, Lueders. 1t is gathered,
however, that while no such proffer has
been made, overtures have been made to
this government to intervene, but with
out success.
The herald., 1897-11-13
Idiots Can't Prosecute

ST. LOUIS. Mo-. Nov. 12.-In the
United States Circuit Court. Judge Ell
mer b. Adams has caused some surprise
by sustaining demurrer to an indict-
ment charging Professor" c. Fay. q
medium Of this city, with using the mails
to defraud. The evidence against Fay
was conclusive. but he was discharged
by Judge Adams, who held that any
man who was so mentally dwarfed as
to be swindled by representations such
as Fay made, should not be competent
prosecuting witness.
The herald., 1897-11-13
A Big Mining Company

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12.-Articles
of incorporation Of the Utica Gold Min
ing company We're filed in the Office of
the county clerk today, the capital stock
being placed at s4,OoO,OOO. The following
are shareholders and directors:
Alvinza Hayward, L. w. Shinn, w. T..
Sell, Thos. T. Lane and A. H. Winn. The
principal place of business is to be San
Francisco and the mines owned by the
corporation are at Angels Camp, Cal.
The herald., 1897-11-13
State Farmers

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Nov. 12-At the
request of the Farmers Club of Fresno,
a call for meeting of farmers clubs
throughout the State has been issued, to
be held in the office of the State Board
of Horticulture at Sacramento on Tues
day, November Is, 1897.
The purpose of this meeting is to effect
an organization of the farmers clubs
of the State, to the end that the purposes
for which the clubs are organized may
be better understood and carried out.
The herald., 1897-11-13
Slow
Conversion

If your husband will not abandon Coffee
when you suspect the cause Of his ailment
comes from that source, persuade him to
let you use one-haIf Postum Cereal Food
Coffee in his reglar Coffee. That will help
SOM, and before long you can serve Pure
Postum Coffee, If you see that 1t Is properly
boiled IS minutes after boiling commences.
That brings out the food value and makes
the taste delicious The change from
Coffee to Postum has saved many lives.
POSTUM CEREAL Co.. LIN, Battle Greek, Mich.
The herald., 1897-11-13
MRS. SITES DEAD
A Woman Pioneer and California Phi
1anthropist

BERKELEY, Cal, Nov. 12.-Mrs. An
son Gale Stiles, who built Stiles hall for
the students of the University of Cali
fornia, died of old age this morning at
her home in Berkeley. She had been in
fair health and her death was unex-
pected.
Mrs. Ann J. Stiles was born in Milbrae,
Mass, February 4. 1913. She arrived at
San Francisco in 1856 and lived there
until 1887, when she made her home in
Berkeley Her husband died in 1875
leaving Mrs. Stiles possessed of consid-
cradle wealth.
The funeral services will be held next
Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Stiles will be
buried at her husbands side at Milbrae,
Mass.
The herald., 1897-11-13
The Spanish Floods

MADRID. Nov. 12.-Further details
regarding the floods in various parts of
Spain, notably in the province of Sara
gossa. Valencia and Malaga, show that
fifteen corpses have already been recov-
cred. In the neighborhood of Valencia
enormous numbers of cattle have per-
ished and the villages of Grao and Naz-
areth have been completely inundated.
Many of the houses Of these places have
collapsed.
The herald., 1897-11-13
A Hospital Case

ST. PAUL, Nov. 12.-Miss Mathilda
Anderson, a young woman who had
been kept alive at the City Hospital for
six weeks by artificial respiration, died
late last night of congestion Of the lungs.
For AZ days the nurses and physicians of
the hospital have been filling her lungs
with air ny artificial meaps-at first by
raising and lowering the arms, and when
The herald., 1897-11-13

larGee& otate IL the Union in regard to
population, Pennsylvania alone exceed
ing It The remaining counties left to
comprise the State Of New York would
make = state the sixth largest in the
Union. exceeded only in population by
Pennsylvania, Manhattan, Illinois,
Ohio and Missouri. The new State would
contain = territory IN its sixteen counties
Of $3.50 square miles ~ compared with
q territory containing forty-four coun-
ties Of n. .408 square miles.
The herald., 1897-11-13
A NEW STATE
A State Division Question Sprung in
New York


NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-It is said one
of the first bills to be introduced in the
Legislature will be one providing for
the creation of a new State by permit
ting a constitutional amendment to be
passed and approved by the United
States government, divorcing sixteen
counties of the State and including them
in what shall be known as the State Of
Manhattan.
The plan proposed is for the counties
of New York, Kings. Queens, Richmond,
Suffolk, West Chester, Orange. Putnam,
Columbia Duchess, Ulster, Green, Rock
land, Albany, Rensselaer, and part Of
Schoharie to be formed into one State
with population Of 3,902,220, as COM
pared with 1881, 1913 for the forty-four re-
naming counties. This would make the
new State of Manhattan the second
The herald., 1897-11-13
Sympathy for Guinan

CARSON, New. Nov. 12.-Fifty-eight
schoolmates of Joseph Guinan, the 16-
year-old lad who killed United States
District Attorney Jones, appeared at the
Jail this afternoon to extend condo
lences to the youthful prisoner. They
were denied admttance by the sheriff,
but subsequently listened to pathetic
address by DR.. Quinan, father Of the
murderer.
The herald., 1897-11-13
Tired Of Trespassers

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Cal, Nov. 12.-C.
F. Bonshue was arrested today on q
charge Of cruelty to animals. in having
shot with a shotgun two horses belong
ing to neighbor because the animals
had been trespassing on Bonshu's place.
The herald., 1897-11-13
Notary Coonev's Trial

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12.-The case
Of ex-Notary Public J. ]. Cooney
charged with forging the acknowledge
ments to the sO-called Fair-Craven
deeds, has beet set for trial on the 18th
of next month.
The herald., 1897-11-13
Bank Clearings

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-The following ta-
BILE, compiled by Bradstreet shows the
bank clearings at the following cities for
the week ended November 12, with the per-
centage of increase. and decrease, as COM
pared with the corresponding week last
year:
The herald., 1897-11-13
Skillful Cracksmen

MODESTO, CAL, Nov. 12.-So skill
fully was the saloon safe of DAWN & Pei
lison opened early this morning that no
damage resulted to the safe from which
5000 was taken. Valuable jewelry was
ignored, the thieves wanting only coin.
The herald., 1897-11-13

basement. one colored boy named
Wilson.
"All this has emanated form dis
charged employees. parties whom I had
occasion to discharge Tor neglect OF duty,
frequenting saloons, drunkenness. ETC.. /;
in short, for conduct unbeconiing on1cers
and gentlemen connected with such an
institution"
The herald., 1897-11-13
A Minister Resigns

ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 1.-THE
Russian Minister to the United States,
NJ. de Kotzebue. has been relieved Of his
post at his own request owing to i'll
health
The herald., 1897-11-13
Kelly's Sentence

DOVER, N. H., Nov. 12.-J. e. Kelly,
one of the famous bank robbers and the
self-confessed murderer of Cashier
Stickler, was today sentenced to thirty
years imprisonment
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-03-25

Since 1886 machinery has on an encr-
Don scale supplanted manual labor.
The knotter of the self binder completes
. round Of mechanism which threatens
70 make tte farmer 8 man Of sedentary
habitx- III the cotton boil remains un
picked by machinery 1t may be because
the bofanist must first produce q plant
maturing al Et once instead Of at snc-
oessive periods. In superseding the hand
the inventor Gten succeeds by feats far
removed from inlitation. Merganthaler
replaces the typesetftr by arranging
matrices from which lines of solid metal
are cast. Lansson's machine for a sim
Lar purpose exemplifss a Noteworthy
aim OF Observation-Disclosures by means
involving the slightest enertion possible.
An operator at q keyboard symbolizes q
manuscript as q series Of punctures Ia q
strip Of paper, the pinholes free pulses
Of compressed air which actnate the
machine Initiation. however, reaches
its final form in electrical devices. A
clerk in New York p~erforates successive
messages On q paper ribbon. which.
driven between electrical springs, trans
mits 3, oC0 words o minute 10 Philadel-
phia- Intelligence in such q feat as this
is given only that part Of q task for
which it is Indispensable. All else is
committed &c mechanism .actuatad at q
speed and with q foros denied 10 nerve
On mascie--SeH Culture
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-03-25

Samuel Lovers daughter, Mrs. Fan
nv Schmid- writes her recollecrlons Of
"The Author Of Rory O'More'" for
The Century Mrs Schmid says: His
industry was such that in the busiest
years Of his life be did no even grant
himself time 90 look al the 14ily papers
or 70 read any new book that was much
talked Of His wife always read the pa
pers and the new books for hirn, giving
news of the day and the contents of the
books 80 that he was always well in
formed Of everything that was going a
Ii anything exceedingly important wal
On hand In the political world, or If anr
part Of q book was particularly interest
ing or well written, these she would
read 10 him while he was painting.
Many artists zre a dumb as fishes at
their easels, hut he could converse
charrningiy while be was painting,
which Was a particularly pleasant quail
Try for his sitters. In painting or In
writing he worked indefatigably, and
seemed 10 be independent of the
moods 20 which many artists appear
TO be victims As TO his songs, he used
TO say himself that be never wrote a
song In his life except whsa he couldn't
help il.
The songs used 10 "come to him.
generally words and melody gimulta-
neously, 10 that me had only to write
them down Frequently the idea of d
song would cume when he was occupied
with something quite different. as, for
instance. while painting. He would
then leave his easel, write down the
idea and return to his work Afterward
be wonld return CO the idea and work
il Ut.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-03-25

The Invisible rsdiations from a heated
body possess the power Of efecting Ger
tain chemical decomposition mnch after
the man or Of lights, rs, for instance,
In phoss raphF. Among the substances
eensitixo 20 weak radiations Of heat may
be mentioned paper saturated with Gu
pric bromide, or a mixture Of suiphafe
Of copper and potassium bromide, whica
has q faint greenish tint that becomes
olive brown In radiant heat, and, If
green is used. a brown image al be OBJ
tanned ina miuute by exposing 10 the
radiationg from q gas stove and On
treatment with silver nitrate this image
becomes black by reason IF fhe reduction
Of the silver. BichrOmaied paper is az
fected bv radiant heat, as hy Light and
paper irapregnated simply with snlphate
Of copper yields a feeble image which
becomes nearly Hack when treated with
silver nitrate. q mixture Of s1lphafe G
copper and oxalic acid gives q paper
which becomes brown ca .eEposure
Chlurate oi copper is also very sensitive.
The FAINT blue color becoming q deep
green Similarly used bromide OF tan
behaves as il exposed 10 Light, but unex-
posed parts become very black when
treated with silver nitrate Nitrate cf
silver. which is markedly ac.ed upon by
light, is slightly drowned WHEN exposed
&C beat radiation, and the tint Is deep
ENID by hydroquInnpe or galllc acid
St Louis Globe Democrat.