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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-26
GOLD AND SILVER FROM BASE METALS
MIR. BRIcE ASSERTS THAT HE HAS SUCCEEDED
WHERE THE MINT EXPERTS FAILED.

WHERE THE MIST EXPERTS FAILED.
Washington May 25.-E. C. Brce whose claim TO
q process for creating gold and silver from chem
,cally pure antimony and other base metals has
heen under investigation by commission OF mint
EXPERTS with only negative results. has made ap-
plcaton TO the Commissioner OF Patents for another
,es In his request he asserts that the commission
dld not follow his directions in important particu-
lars ingredients he alleges were used which he
saiJ were inimcal 10 his process. and that he him
self nroduccd goa from chemically pure antlmony,
s,,,hur and iron after the commissioners had failed
,th the same materials. and that they then de-
w.. iarcd thai by whatever process gold and silver
cdbt be biainsd from any other materials II sim
III showed that gold and silver were In the metals
bc.fore the process was used.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-26
SIXTEEN LOST IN THE FOG.
A FISHING SCHOONER RETURNS WITH
ONLY THREE OF HER CREW.

THE DoRIEs OF THE JOSEPH E. JOHNSON. OF
PRovISCETowN. MASS. NEVER CAME BACK
AFTER THEY PUT OFF TO SET TRAVIS
Provincetown, Mass. May 25.-Of the nine
teen OF this town who sailed on the
schooner Joseph F. Johnson for the nshins
grounds last week, only three came back on the
schooner when she rounded the point this morn
ing with her flag at half-mast. The other SIX
teen men are still adrift in their dories OF
the Western Bank. or have found watery
grave. or have been picked up by some passing
vessel. The names of the missing men follow
j9SEFa j9HN G,T0S ESSs 5EsSE ESRaG GASkX1E:l sk1ElRA
FRANK JOSEPH. AUGUST LIMA
JosEPH C. MILES. J0SEPI BRErnNo' ETn
AUGUST FRATEs JOSEPH ROSE
MANUEL soUZA. HENRY P. SILVER
The story told by Captain Brer is that early
last Friday morning the sixteen men put OH III
dories to set travis. the furthest off being set
about three miles from the schooner. Two men
besides the captain remained on board. Inc
air was clear for a couple OF hours. when sud-
denly bank Of fog rushed down upon the sea-
shutting the boats out of sight captain brieT
began blowing the foghorn and blowed 1t con-
tinually for hours, but no respc~se came. La'ci
in the day the schooner was run up ABOUT Two
miles to about where the dores were iast seen,
and there anchored. During the night the ios
lifted. and at daybreak the captain went 10
the masthead, and with his glass swept tne
horizon No boat was seen. and the log asalh
came down. With shift OF the WIND on oatui :
day afternoon the fog blew away. ana then ,ne
captain found that the vessel had dritted De-
fore the wind.
on Sunday morning there being no trace OF
the boats the course was set for Provincetown.
During this time the three men on the schoohel
were without sleep and they reached mere
nearly exhausted. .. ,,.ho
There are a number of old fishermen here VINO VINO
are Of the opinion that the men VIII De seen
again, either by being picked up or by lons
row TO the mainland Of Nova Scotia, almost
two hundred miles distant. AS to the propa-
bility of the men being picked up, 1t Is pointed
out that steamers in this time OF the year take
a southerly course to avoid the ice. so that the
men when last seen were some distance north OF
the so-called steamer lane. That another nsher-
man may have rescued them seems more proDa'
hle
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-26
an FIGHT MILLION DOLLAR MORTGAGE.

Chicago May 25.-A mor'sage for %o"oN gwen gwen
-, ,ho Iehigh Valley Coal Company to the Girard
=, ~, Ynsuronce Annuity and Trust Company OF
ph'.sdephia on, was filed for record yesterday IT
..ars date Of April 30. 1897. The deed states that
the coal company being Indebted to me insurance VI r
conPs.hhs I,rther sum OF tS.0O1OO, has executed
"r,ease on all OF It's properly in schuyik Couny,
Ienn., @ hear. per cent interest. and the entire
dnb, h,g' natures May !, 1917
PROSPECT HOUSE and cottages, NyaGSk. i oPeh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-26
John Loundes McLaurin was borr

John Loundes McLaurn was born at Red Bluff
s. c.. on May O. 1850 He was educated at the VII
Iage school In Bennettsville. at Bethel Military
Academy, near Warrenton Va; at Swarthmore
College at the Carolina Military Institute and at
the University OF Virginia He studied law at the
last-named school, and admitted to the bar In
1882 In 1890 he elected TO the General As
sembly OF South Carolina. and was elected At
torney General OF the State In the following year
He was elected member OF the LID Congress.
and has sat In the House of Representatives con-
tinuousy since. At the last election he received
900 votes. against so for his Republican opponent,
I
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-26
MLAURIN APPOINTED SENATOR.
GOVERNOR ELLERBE OF SOUTH CAROLINA FILLS
THE VACANCY CAUSED BY THE DEATH
OF MR.. EARLE.

Columbia s. c., May @ (SpeciaD.-Governor FL
lerbe has appointed John L. McLaurin Congress-
man from the With District TO fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of United States Senator
Earle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-26
mn CHOOSE HOLMAy's SUCCESSOR

indianapolis. May Ex-Governor Mount to-day
-, ON, his reclamation OF n special election TO
aLoose a successor 10 the late Congressman Hol-
,on of the Ivth Congress District, August 10 was
'hosen as the date. The district includes ten
c0uufleS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-26

THE MOST efficient morning laxative Is Tar
rants setzer Aperient 1T tastes good too" toc
Q.-AdvI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-26
NO MONEY. NO INFLUENCE

had no disposition to be n travelling mounte-
bank or funny man, and have not had the edu-
cation to 1T me to be n lawyer. began the pro-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-26

THE HAMMOND TYPEWRITER CO. moved TO
l61 Bway. Have you tried Number Hammonof
eAdVt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-26

RocKWOOD'S Artistic Cabinet photographs,
,ar dozen. Ground floor, No. Lao Broadway.-Advt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-26

PROSPECT HOUSE and cottages, NyaGek. .i open
early June. A. w. Eager. 3 Park PL, N. f'-AoV@
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-26

Sunnose I should kill my boy and myself would
II make any great difference to ANYBODY ms i
mother is dead. his Uncle John would be reileVe1
NJ The necessity of taking care OF him In case OF
nv death and / hardly think the care ne %ouiu %
give 10 the poor boy would be very great ana MS
I'ncle Robert would be most reluctant 10 nave
him in his keeping AS TO the odium OF TINS Killing
and suicide-what would IL amount TO! There
might he no funeral service
NIaiI what OF IL? There would be no flowers or
friends or reyerei ce. Well, what them Willie
would be at peace forever; no future, no tears no
eeonies no temptations. no sins. He would be IN
PARADISE And that would be all ask; for my
seT what matter ceremony or regret? l could not
no in n greater hell than am now In.
I have no occupation i am simply wretcned
idIcr and the example am setting TO my boy Is
very had | am tired OF shamming; l want TO go
eonewhere / am useless here.
I cannot earn a living. My life Is a dreadful fall
ure have studied law for many years but can
make nothing out OF IT,
I have no male friends. no influence. am living
the life of a recluse. and that will never change.
FOR I am not OF a pushing or social nature. My
how through me- will not he well helped
I am thoroughly perplexed and discouraged and
I cannot live long in this way Pure wearlness
will Kill me II nothing else and what would be-
come OF nv boy? I have failed let me l have
wanted to do my duty. but there Is nothing can
do i'm this cold and dreary world. His poor little
heart would break and his life would be all turned
awry | cannot do anything cannot teach. |
cannot act now: ! am TOO old. ] cannot practise
law-I can only live on as am doing. In dreary
fashion without the slightest hope.
Is this dear, helpless boy 10 suffer the conse-
all? I was mad to have done 80.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-26

Go TO Niagara Falls and spend Decoration Day;
only half rates by the New-York Central.-Advt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-26
THE COMMITTEE ADJOURNs.

A, ,ba erd Of the speech, which was listened
% o,tortive,v and was frequently greeted witE
o,,,,,,rr,, % onnrobation, the committee, on Mr.
Gibbs's motion. adjourned.
po,oro q majority Of the delegates got away.
A., o,,io,, ,,bo had been holding impromptu
recontion on the stage made the announcement
that he would go back to washington to-ua! !
hut ne would return to New-Iof on nlo'luas @ .
and from that time until the close oi the cam
naien he would be at Republican county icdu-
quarters No ] Madson-ave, every Gay, 1.s Igaus
to consult with any member OF the committee
who might desire to see him. .
~ onigp became a member Of the County
~",,o,tten for the XIXth Assembly District IN
which he lives. having been elected In place OF
Henry j. Miller who resigned. Changes IN com.
,itteo membership in many other districts are
Enacted 10 make way for ofice-holdeis' VINO
- no,y return to their old places under the
nnoendment to the constitution adopted mst
Thursday evening
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05
Our National Growth.

Tho changes wrought in the United
States within the last century are
graphically described by John Bach
McMaster in q late issue of the Atlantic
Monthly. He says that citizen who
wore a badge of mourning in memory
of Washington lived alta time when our
country nowhere touched the gulf Of
Mexico and nowhere crossed the Mis-
sissippi river, and when there were but
15 states in the union, none of them hav-
ing population of 100000 souls, or a
city Of $4,000 inhabitants, The watch
man with his rattle and lantern still
went his rounds at night. Every citi-
zen was required to serve on the watch
and to keep in his house near the front
door number of leather buckets, with
which no must hurry to any fire to
which he might be summoned by the
sound of the market or courthouse bell.
Only two cities in the country at that
time had waterworks. There were no
omnibuses or horse cars. There were
only II daily newspapers. There were
no typewriters, no envelopes, no post
age stamps, no letter boxes, no tele-
phones, no electric lights, no blotting
paper in those days. and it cost
quarter to send letter from Boston to
Washington.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05
Music Lessons and School.

If you are taking music lessons and
going to school, do not consider your
music an additional burden. AS a
fact, the hour spent at the piano or
organ every day serves as restful
diversion from your school studies
and enables you to study all the
better. If more girls would take at
least one music lesson a week and
spend one hour every day at the
piano there would be less headache
and pale faces during the school
period, and more healthy women in
after life, who would also be better
musicians.
This incessant public school grind
ing just at the tender age is filling
America with invalids. Let the mo-
notonous strain be broken by an
hour every day at the piano, and the
condition would be greatly improved.
For such purpose was music placed
in the world; why exclude it when
most needed?
School teachers would show far
more wisdom by encouraging music
than they do by opposing 1.-THE
Allegro.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05
500 Reward. 500,

The reader of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Cstarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known t6 the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires aeon
stitutional treatment. Halls Catar-
rah Cure is taken internally, acting di-
rectly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and
giving the patient strength by build
ing up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The pro-
prietors have so much faith in its
curative powers, that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it
fails to cure. Send for list of testi-
monials. Address
FL. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05
Well Watered.

Artesian wells, instead of being OK
pensive luxuries, are cheaper than
pumps in the Great American desert
IN elliptical oasis, Of which one focus is
at Wilburn, Kan, and another at Meade,
its long axis being formed by Crooked
creek, q winding stream. This little loz-
enge-shaped district is probably the
best-watered portion of the earth's land
surface. So easily is water attainable
that farmer may have artesian wells
all over his property and at any spot on
his premises he pleases-none needing
to be more than Is or 20 feet deep, and
none costing more than $50. Of such
wells there are over $50 in the district,
yet so unintelligently is the water sup.
ply managed that in nearly every case
the greater part of the flow simply
runs away into Crooked creek. A few
of them yield As gallons a minute;
Others from IL to 20; the majority grad
ling down to eight or ten gallons. The
total amount yielded would submerge
10000 acres foot deep every year.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05

1t is now definitely determined
that the members of the legislature
will all have to wait until the end of
the session before they can draw any
salary. This fact may have tenden-
cy to bring the thing to close soon
er than would otherwise be the case.
The question of retrenchment promi-
ses to bear but little if any fruit. At
the beginning of the session nearly
all the member appeared to be in for
cutting and slashing expenses in ev-
cry direction but as fast as any pro-
posed method looking to that end is
brought up it is passed by as indls-
pensably necessary to the mainten-
ance of good state government and
the committee told to look elsewhere
for a victim. 1t was at first thought
the labor commissioner could be dis
pensed with and several thousand
dollars per annum saved from that
source, but the assembly says not.
The printer and binder will also con-
t!nue to pocket thousands of nnearn-
ed dollars; thousands OF dollars still
go into the geological survey with no
adequate returns or benefits; the fish
commissioner costs several thousand
dollars more than it should cost; there
is little good results from the weather
crop service In comparison with the
money spent on it; probably $4,000
per annum is wasted in the historical
department; nearly $4,000 is useless
ly spent on farm statistics, besides
the steals, over appropriations, cost
ly sinecures and exorbitant salaries
in other departments and institutions
All these are fields in which the legis-
lator who wants to get in work of
retrenchment could find ample scope
for the exercise of his pruning knife,
but it is not likely that the present
body will be able to see any extrava-
gance in any OF. them. The attorney
generals case was up for considera-
ton in the senate and some talk was
INDUCED as to the advisability of put
ting him on $4,000 salary with
$1,000 allowance for clerk hire, in-
stead of as at present a 81 500 salary,
So day for services and huge am
cunt for clerk hire and legal assist
ance. In this way, it is claimed, some
81 900 a year could be saved.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05

A Cuban refugee has reached Buff
falo, and gives the following account
of the butchering of children by the
Spanish:
1.-The day my brother was shot, 10
little children were taken separately
by Spanish guards, held up in the
air by two. while third came along
with machete and cut the little
things in two. Mothers, knowing
that they, too, would be killed, beg
ged that their death should come De-
fore their children's, but these brutes
would not listen to their entreaties.
They cut the children to pieces, H.
lnonths-old babies, right before the
eyes of their parents. This lisa COM
mon occurrence every day in the
streets of Santa Clara"
And yet this government will con-
tinue to see this hellish business go
on, aud our purse. fattened admins
tration raise no voice against it, but
devotes its energies to insuring that
Mckinley follow in the Cleveland
bad smelling footsteps!
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05
Cheap Farms for Sale.

100 acre improved farm, two miles
from Cresco, S42 per acre, a bargain
In Vernon Springs, 90 acres at $45;
New Oregon. 80 acres at $50, 200 acres
at $50; Paris. 80 acres at $50; Howard
Center, 800 acres at $3S; Chester, 40
acres at $50, 100 acres at $28, and 200
acres at $4S; Oak Dale, 100 acres at
$50, 100 acres at $34, and 800 acres ut
$35; Saratoga, 1850 acres at $e5, and
70 acres a $50; Howard, 80 acres at
$50; New Oregon, 40 acres at s35.
Money to loan on good farm
securities. JOHN NJ. CANNON,
Cresco, la.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05

Los Angeles Labor World: Nov,
children, l am going to ask you a
more difficult question. Can anyone
tell me how many mills make centT'
At first there was silence; then a
small boy near the foot :held up his
hand, and on being told to give his
answer, said: "My pa said if McKin-
ley was elected not damn mill would
make cent" And the prosperity
agent hid his head.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05
KIDNEY Disc ASE CURED
Says Mrs. Maria Messenger of
MANSON, IOWA.

DR.. David Kennedy's Favorite Rem
edy is the only medicine that makes
people well. This strong statement is
not made only by DIR. David Kennedy
the discoverer of DIR. David Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy, but by thousands
Of people in every walk of life all over
this country who have recovered
health and strength through it's use.
No more grateful acknowledgement
could be written of the merit of Fa-
vorite Remedy than the letter of Mrs.
Maria Messenger. of Manson. Iowa.
of Roudout, N. Y. Mrs. Messenger
says: II wish to make plain and
simple statement of the great henefit
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05

The word trocha is of such frequent
occurrence in dispatches and news from
Havana that it seems likely in time TO
become incorporated into the English
speech. An explanation having been
asked of the term, which is pronounced
trotsha, with the accent on the first
syllable, it may be stated that origin
ally it denotes footpath, pathway, or,
some times, short cut. During the
present Cuban unpleasantness it's sig
MITIGATION has been applied to a fortified
hiRhroad,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05
OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900
The Parting Gives No Pain.

Walter Wellman is responsible for
the statement that Grover Cleveland
is anxiousiy awaiting the time for his
release from the cares of his high Of
flee, and contemplates, when relieved,
engaging in active practice Of his le-
gal profession, and incidentally tax
ing hand in politics. That he has
not entirely abandoned hope for the
democratic party.
If Mr.. Cleveland's anxiety to be re-
lieved from the cares Of government
is greater than was the peoples desire
to be rid of him the 4th of March
Is likely to become period of 'All
sorts of joy" A president of the Uni
ted States who vetoed the coinage of
fifty-five millions of dollars of SENIOR
age silver laying idle in the treasury,
and at the same time issued many
millions of Understanding bonds
with which to procure money to de-
fray the running expense of the gov
eminent; A president of the United
States who could be capable of using
the patronage which attaches to his
high Office, to coerce United States
senators and members of the house of
representatives into voting for the
repeal of the Sherman law, law
which required the issuance of fifty
millions annually Of the best paper
money ever issued by this or any
other government. The issue was a
full legal tender and its superior
quality as money was the principle
objection to it. A president of the
United States who would permit the
term Coin" to be interpreted to
mean "Gold" and who thereby sub
ject the United States treasury to
raids of plumber from the Shylocks of
Christendom; a president of the Uni
ted States who would sanction the
idea of Americans begging the ma
tions of Europe to permit the United
States to exercise Its constitutional
right to coin money of its wn silver,
and to ask those nations how much
silver this nation may be permitted
to use in lite coin. In other words, a
president of the United States who
would recognize the necessity of in
ternational agreement to the coming
Of money for Americans will be con-
sidered a good radiance, when strip
ped of the honors he has SO grievious-
ly abused. Daily Telegraph.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05
Justice is metetl out with almost Eng.

lish popularity in some of the courts
Of Louisiana. AT the Franklinton dis
trict court recently 'Cadian convicted
of assault with intent to kin was fined
ten dollars and sentenced to ten days
in the parish Jail. Another luckless
fellow who was caught illegally brand
ing one of the hogs of the razorbacls
variety that roam at large in the dis
trict was sent to the same parish Jail
ffr civ Ynnnths
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05
Ihe heayiest contributor to the e,

The heaviest contributor to the ex.
penses of the presidential election was
the United States government. The
amount of campaign literature sent
through the mails free under the
frank" of congressman ought to have
cost the senders s1o,ooo,ooo for postage
stamps. To this must be added at least
$5,0oo,ooo as the cost of sending out
matter from the various departments
in response to campaign demands for
information, making total amount OF
about $15,O00,00O us the contribution OF
the government to the educational fea.
ture of the canvass.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05

AS surely as bread is the staff of life,
SO surely is Arerica feeding the world.
From the wheat fields OF the west three
streams of grain are flowing - one
toward the Pacific coast for shipment
to India and the far east, one down the
Mississippi to New Orleans and another
toward the Atlantic seaboard, the last
two for transportation to Europe. This
demand is factor in producing the
better times that are dawning for the
United States.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05

The western section of the American
Laryngological, Neurological. and
biological society has just closed an
interesting session at Kansas City. The
etiology of nasal polypi, chronic otitis
media, and observation-disclosures
subjects generally were discussed.
The experience of one doctor that a
nickel's worth of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS tie
used as gargle was ef1icacious for sore
throat was nonconcurred in. The mem.
bcrs were probably fearful of the conse-
quehces Of using such remedy.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-03-05
At Brookline, Mass. the John Howard

AT Brooliline, Mass. the John Howard
Industrial Home has been founded
through the efforts of discharged
prisoner, and there temporary refuge
and work will be provided for released
convicts who desire honorable employ
ment. There is similar institution in
Philadelphia. England has 10 such
homes and France so. Such institu-
tons are worthy of every help and en-
couragement, for there is no outlook
charged convict who wishes to lead an
honest life. His past hangs like lead
upon his future.