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The Yale expositor., 1897-10-29
% HURLED TO DEATH.
New York Central Train PIuuses Into
the HudaOn River.

the hudson hiVer
Buffalo and New York special No.
40, on the New York Central a. Hudson
River railroad, due To arrive in New
York City at 1880 a. IN. was thrown
from the track into the Hudson river,
one and a half miles below Garrisons
Station. Twenty-eight lives were lost
The train left Buffalo at 1880 p m. and
had gone over nearly nine-tenths of
the distance towards its destination
when the engine plunged into the
depths of the Hudson river With his
hand upon the throttle, the engineer
sank with his engine To- the bottom of
the stream and the fireman, too, was
at his post. Behind the engine was
the express car, the combination car
and the sleepers and these piled on top
of the engine. 1t is known that it was
trifle foggy and that the track was
not visible, but If there was any break
in the lines of the steel it must have
been of very recent happening, for
only half an hour before there had
passed over it heavily loaded passen-
ger train. The section of road was
supposed to be the very best on the en-
tire division. There was great heavy
retaining wall all along the bank and
while the tide was high the previous
day it was not unprecedented. What
seems to have happened was that un-
derneath the tracks and ties the heavy
wall had given away and when the
great weight of the engine struck the
unsupported tracks it went crashing
through the rest of the wall and top
pied over into the river. As the train
plunged over the embankment the
coupling that held the last three of the
six sleepers broke and they miracul-
ously remained on the broken track.
In that way about 65 lives were saved.
Later reports from Garrisons say
that 10 bodies have been recovered. A
large number of passengers are as yet
unaccounted for, but it is generally
believed that many of them escaped
from the cars before they sank and
were given refuge in the three sleepers
which remained on the track and were
taken to New York before complete
list of the rescued could be secured.
All of the sunl1en cars have been raised
and burned.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-29
Our Potato Crop a Failure.

Not since 1892 has the potato crop of
the United States proved so nearly a
failure, says the American Agricultur-
list, in its final report of the yield of
1897. Compared with the liberal crop
of last year there is an apparent fall
ing off of nearly 30 per cent in tonnage
and the quality of the whole is greatly
deficient. County and township re-
turns from all over the leading potato
growing states show the yield of pota-
toes t. be ia OOO, 900 bushels, against
PAS, 600, 900 in 1896; ESQ, 900, 900 in 1895;
1875, 600, 900 in 1894. The average rate
of yield per acre is placed at Cd
bushels, taking the country at large,
against sc bushels in 1885, 80 in 1895.
The principal reason for disaster to the
potato crop of 1897 are blight and rot,
as a result of extremes of weather con-
dition. The crop is best in the north
west. Such portions of Canada as
make a speciality of potatoes, notably
Ontario and the maritime provinces,
show general but not serious
shortage.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-29
Baptists of the State at Bay City.


The sixty-second annual convention
of the Baptists of Michigan began in
the First Baptist church at Bay City.
Reports showed that there are 440
associated churches in the state and
seven unassociated churches, a gain of
Is over last year. From all these
churches are reported a total of ., 5S1
baptisms. In the associated churches
are 43,67s members, and in the unas-
ISOLATED churches 61O, total of 4,2sS.
Attention was called to the fact that
although there were $3.50 baptisms
there was net gain of only $50, and
there is no record of the 1000 who
have disappeared. Oct. l there were
about 76 pastorless churches, and per-
haps SO of these will need outside aid.
The Baptist Young Peoples Union
reported marked success for the past
year and elected the following officers:
President, c. A. johnson, of Ovid; vice.
presidents, G. Jay Vinton, of Detroit,
and f. E. Hixson, of Portland; secre-
tary-treasurer, N. b. Ackley, of De-
troit; junior leader, Lou E. La Tourette,
of Fenton; transportation leader, E. K.
Huntley, of Grand Rapids.
The women's missionary societies
held meetings at the same time. The
Home Mission society reported that
2,942 06 had been received and distri-
buted. Mrs. VIM. A. Moore was
elected president. The Foreign Mis-
sion society elected Mrs. Caleb Van
Husan, of Detroit, president. The two
societies then held Joint conference
NEE tings.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-29
Fatal Roller Explosion at petroit.

The boiler in the factory of the De-
troit Cabinet Co., corner Riopelle street
and Hancock avenue, exploded at 1880
a. m. almost instantly killing Laurent
Tunney, foreman, and fatally injuring
Moses Peltier, engineer, and Herman
Kreinbring Eight other men were SER
ously hurt. There were so men at
work in the building at the time and
the reason that no more were hurt is
because they were at work in the end
of the building opposite to the boiler
room. The loss is about $4,000 with
no insurance, but the factory will be
rebuilt at once.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-29
Japan will apply the gold standard

Japan will apply the gold standard
to the currency of Formosa at once.
An article in an Italian magazine
has caused a profound sensation in
Germany. 1t advocates the formal
withdrawal of Italy from the dreibund
at the end of the present term
of that compact and the forming of a
new zweibund between Italy and Great
Britain. The writer says that Italy's
most vital political interests are in the
Mediterranean and that only England
can aid her there. 1t is believed in
Berlin diplomatic circles that this ex-
presses the convictions of Italian
statesmen and that the withdrawal of
Italy from the dreibund is foregone
conclusion.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-29

George Young, farmer near Blue
Earth City, Mimi, shot and killed his
wife, two boys, aged 2 and years, and
himself. All were found weltering in
blood when the hired man, the only
other person or the place, came in.
Business and domestic troubles.
VIM. Phipps, aged so, was arrested
on the charge of raping a 7-year-old
daughter of James Perry, wealthy
farmer of Groveland, Oakland county.
He was caught almost in the act and
there was talk of a lynching, but he
was finally locked up in Jail at Holly.
The child's condition is critical.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-29
REVIEW OF TRADE.

After the heaviest buying ever known in
many branches during September and the
first half of October, IL was both natural and
desirable that more quiet period should
give time for testing the size and temper of
retail trade and for distributing part of the
enormous quantities bought. As the buying
for replculshment Is partly satisfied and di-
FINISHES. there is some decrease in the vol
ume OF transactions, though at the same
time the working force has furth or in
creased the wages of labor have been in
numerous cases advanced. and the fouuda-
ton laid more broadly every week for larger
buying hereafter. The iron industry waits,
because possible production for the year has
been practically ordered while neither buy
ers nor sellers regard contracts at current
prices Tor next years BUSINESS as quite safe.
Wheat has advanced with little reason.
The British commission sent to Ger
many TO discover the cause of Englandis
industrial decadenee found state of
affairs not at all Gathering to British
pretensions of industrial supremacy.
One of the commission said that Eng
lish workers are half savages when
compared with the intelligent artisans
of Germany.
Thirteen seamen, comprising the en-
tire crew of the steamer Casper, ex-
cepting Capt. Anfindsen and Seaman
Chris Larsen, were drowned by the
wreck of the vessel on the rocky shore
near Point Arena, Cal.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-29
GRAIN, ETC.

%Detroit-Hay. No. 1 timothy, $500 per ton.
Potatoes 45c per Blu. Live Poultry, spring
chickens &c per lb fowl, &c; ducks, &c;
turkeys, Sc Eggs. strictly fresh. 16c per doz.
Butter, dairy. i7c per lb;, creamery, Sc.
The Yale expositor., 1897-10-29
PENINSULA MATTERS
RELATED IN A BRIEF. CONCISE
MANNER.

Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows and State
Assembly of Rebekahs at Lansing
baptist Convention at Bay City
Another Disaster at Detroit.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23

THE South has entered upon a new era
of prosperity, and the era will continue if
the protective policy of the Republican
party is not discontinued.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23
The Republican Party is Against De-
felt.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.l

ST. Louis Globe Democrat.]
1t is gratifying to the party and the
country that the Republican leaders in the
House are determined TO keep the expen-
ditures down to the lowest figure compati-
BILE with the efficiency of the public service.
All propositions in the House for appropri-
atoms are to be closely scrutinized and the
disbursements provided for in the bills
passed by the body are, it is understood,
to be kept at lower level than in recent
years. Moreover, strong fight is to be
made by the House against all expansions
of the appropriations by the Senate. The
latter task, of course, will be far more diff
ficult than the other, but if the House Re-
publicans are vigi!ant and resolute they
will succeed. In both sessions of tie Con-
gress which expired last March the power
full influence of Speaker Reed was actively
enlisted on the side of economy, but the
work was largely neutralized by the SEN
ate's extravaganza. The incentive for
economy is equally great in the present
Congress and the opportunity to work eff
fectively for it is better than it was in 1856
and 1867.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23
Cause and Affect.

In commenting Oh an article from The
Richmond Times on the height of dis
honest elections, the Portsmouth Star says;
In this matter of fraudulent elections
the position of Virginia, in fact the people
of the entire South, has been and is very
singular. Everybody, saint and sinner,
churchman and nonchurchman; pulpit and
pew, the b!ackieg and the respectable man
of family, all seem to have come under the
spell of strange hallucination, to-wit: that
the foundation of government, the ballot
box, may be built in with fraud, yet any
superstructure which may be put on such
foundation can be made stable, honest,
clean.
But this singular Inflammation does not
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23

SENATOR LEcATo, one of the small pota-
toes from the Eastern Shore of Virginia,
has introduced in the State Senate an
amendment to the constitution which will
require the prepayment of poll tax as a
qualification to voting. There was once
such qualification required by an amend
ment to the constitution, but the Read
juster party repealed it and gave the peo-
pie of the State free ballot again.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23

end here. II is supposed that fraud toler-
ated as to the ballot-box will not result in
rotten governments; that the corrupting
influences of this fraud will not pass from
the body polite to the private individual;
that the sufferance of legalized dishonesty
at the polls cannot, by any possibility OF
means, create tainted atmosphere, which
all must breathe.
Singular delusion and sad one this for
Virginians to come under. AS q whole,
they are behind no people in patriotism,
in intelligence, in honesty, yet to-day they
stand in dumb liberation of this all per-
vading pest.
Under such circumstances no thinking
Virginian will be astonished, though he be
never so grieved, at the outcome of the
investigation recently held in Richmond.
That an agent of all outside corporation
can come into Virginia and by the judicious
use of checks for small amounts of money
work its will among men in high places is
the direct outcome of bribery Or fraud,
done may be years ago, at some precinct in
the name of the people of Virginia.
The luxury of surprise cannot be ours
any more than it can be INDUCED in by
the merchant who has been betrayed by
an employee who, to hold his place, was
forced into crookedness for the behoof Of
his employer.
But even this much does not bring us
to the end of the evils flowing directly
from the election laws of Virginia. We
stand to-day bound hand and foot by
these laws, and No man pre-ordained to
any office by the machine can, as matters
now stand be defeated by the people at
the polls. 1t is a matter of the smallest
consequence, indeed of noconsequence al
all, whether the people vote one way OF
another, or whether they vote at all, the
choice of the machine is always elected by
a safe majority.
When the awakening comes, when the
people are made to see what frightfu
monster they have called into being, this
fact will be found the first, the hardest
and the coolest to confront them in any
endeavor to do this monster to death.
No matter how false the public servant
may be, no matter how debased he may
become, he cannot, SO long as he is under
the outstretched wings of the machine, be
punished through the ballot-box by hiI
outraged constituents. Nor can this Oh
that measure of public economy, nor this
or that plan for the betterment Of the pub
lie service, be enforced by the people
through the polls unless it has the imprim
atur of the dominant ring.
Hysterical, say you? Not bit of it. Il
YOU will sit down and do some thinking i
will dawn upon you that as a either
of Virginia you are, through the cleo
ton laws of your State, chained to th'
wheels of the machine.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23

Our in Chicago they have sent John
H. Hanrahan and Patrick Ferris, judges
of election at the last municipal election.
to the penltentiary for classifying the cleo
ton returns in their ward. If all the elec-
ton judges in Virginia who have committed
similar frauds in the past few years could
be brought to judgment and justly dealt
with, the present Legislature would find it
necessary to enlarge the capacity of the
State penitentiary.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23

GOVERNOR BRADLEY is urging the Ken
lucky Legislature to pass law to prevent
he -caSrYiECs e Gapcealed weapons in that
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23

IT looks very much like Russia, Ger
many and France have agreed upon plan
for the partition of China among them
selves. If England is left out, what will
she do? There can be no question that
civilization will be greatly advanced by the
great powers of Europe taking charge of
the Chinese empire, but by what rule OF
international Law they can do so we are at
a loss to understand.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23
PERSONAL NOTES.
Governor Powers, of Maine, is the wealth
lest man who has ever been Chief Execu-
tive of that State.

Governor Powers, of Maine, is the wealth
lest man who has ever been Chief Execu-
tive of that State.
Senator William B. Bate, one of the
most popular men Of Tennessee, began
life as an under clerk in Mississippi
River steamboat and has worked his way
up entirely through his own efforts.
lieutenant Olufsen. a Dane, who return
ed. last Spring from Central Asia, will next
year fit out new expedition to the Pamir
region in order to make geographical and
ethnographical explorations in the north
ern: part of the Wakhan Valley.
Jules Massanet, the French composer,
whose opera, "Sapho," has just met with
such success in Paris, is of an extremely
nervous temperament and never attends
the performance of his own operas. He
claims that he really loves nothing but
his cigars.
Mr. h. S. Townsend, an old gentleman,
who is living quietly in little Missouri
town, was once prominent in the West and
was spokesman of the committee which
presented o. S. Grant with $4,000 sword,
on the occasion of his appointment as
Lieutenant General of the United States
armies.
NJ. Andrew Michel saysin the "Jopy..
nal des Debuts, y u speaking Of lie sculp-
tor, Jacques; ST am confident that NJ.
Marcel Jacques, who is but beginner and
has still much to learn, will one day be a
great French SCULPTOR, M. Jacques is
the creator of the statue of Jean Francois
MiIet at Greville.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23
Bryan to See a Bull Fight.

City of Mexico, Dec. 15.-Wm. Jen-
nings Bryan spent busy day here visit
ing points of interest about the city. He
is the recipient of great attentions at the
hands of high government officials and the
American colony.
His magnificent suite Of rooms at Hotel
SAM adjoin those of Louis Mazzantini. the
celebrated Spanish bull fighter, who has
just arrived here from Spain, and receives
$4,000 for each performance. He and Mr..
Bryan have become warm friends, and the
Rssilver orator will occupy the box OF
~ Mazzantini's great bull fight on
- Sunday. re
= Mr.. Bryan must be having good time
in the land of free silver. And he no
doubt will make it a paying trip. If he
could get combination with Mazzantini
and travel over the country he would get
rich very soon from the gate receipts.
The attraction might be triple one by
associating Bob Fitzsimmons.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23
THURSDAY, DECEMBER %, 1897.


This is the last issue of the REPUBLICAN
that will 60 out to our readers in the year
1897. During the year we have tried to
make the paper measure up to the require
ments of frst-class local weekly; and we
are gratifed to know that great many of
our patrons have shown the kindest appre-
citation of our sincere effort to perform
that duty. In the editorial conduct of the
paper we have advocated what We believed
to be tight and have sought to give ex-
preston to our views in style that was
impersonal. That the great doctrines OF
sound money and protection will best sub
serve the interests of the American people
we still confidently believe. The triumph
of the principle of sound money in 1896
prevented, in our judgment, financial
panic that would have intensified the bus.
mess depression that reigned supreme for
three years prior to 1896. The splendid
results that have followed return to the
Republican policy of protection prove, in
most graphic way, the soundness of the
doctrine. 1t has opened the doors of fac
tories long idle; it has kindled the fires in
blast-furnaces that had for time ceased
to light up the surrounding country; it has
given to the railroads such an enormous
increase in freight and passenger traffic
that cars sufficient cannot be obtained to
fill the demand; it has given profitable en-
ployment to more than million men who
had been idle for years, and who with their
families were in dependent and suffering
condition; it has given tto>-the farmers
splendid prices their products and
lifted moYfe-se.ffom thousands of home.
steads; and it has stopped that dreadful,
universal cry OF 'hard times" that went
sounding through the land all the time the
tariff reform policy of the Democratic
party was in force.
The year 1897 will be memorable on ac-
count of return to the sure and sound
policy of protection to American labor and
industries.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23

THE Philadelphia Record publishes a
sensational report that the mad Emperor
of Germany is sending his mysterious fleet
to the Pacific Ocean to try to get up war
with the United States. 1t is said to be
the purpose Ct the Emperor to seize Ha-
-szEFsili and Samoa. 1Fis-sls9 stated that his
little game of bulldozing Haiti @as played
to feel the pulse of the United Statess> II
the pompous, hair Drained German auto
crat wants to get his hide taken off just let
him step on Uncle Sans toes. He is the
most absurd and disgusting sample of roy
atty that reigns in Europe, and nothing
but loyalty to the "father land" makes
him tolerable even to the people of Ger
many.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23

THos. A. EDISON, JR., son of the great
"wizzard," claims to have invented an
electrical machine by which he can photo
graph thought. Some of the newspapers
are pronouncing the claims of the young
inventor as absurd, and they associate him
with the crank, Dr. Baraduc, of Paris, who
some time ago announced that he believed
he had made an invention by which the
soul could be photographed as it left the
body. This is hardly fair to young Edi-
son. twenty-five years ago some of the
discoveries that have been made by Edi-
son, ST., would have been pronounced as
impossible as is that of Edison, Jr. When
We consider the wonderful discoveries in
electrical science in the past decade we
should be prepared to be astonished at
nothing. We hope young Edison's inven-
ton will be success.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23
Reformers Who Need Reforming.
LouisviIle ocourier.JOurnaln pem.

Dearl dearl 1t is hard thing to gel
history writ as she desires. A committee
of reformers from the Grand Camp of Con
federate Veterans of Virginia undertoob
the job of getting up book flat would be
fit for Southern schools, and now come:
the stunninh revelation that some of the
reformers are in the pay ola book trust and
that the chairman received two checks
from the octopus.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23

and the Dingeley law kindled thefres that
make the smoke. These fires have put
thousands of idle workingmen to work, and
fires are kept steadily burning to bake the
bread they are now earning for themselves
and families.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23

THE Democratic Legislature of Virginia
is measuring the fitness of candidates for
judicial positions in the Commonwealth by
their fidelity to free silver and Organism.
A partisan judiciary is the curse of any
country.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-12-23

December, 1897, promises 10 break the
record in the production of iron in the
United. States. We are not only making
q more iroh than ever before, but cheaper
iron: and nearly all the chimneys are
smokipg.-P Philadelphia Record.
The Record is a strong low tariff Demo-
cratic paper, and yet it has TO make the
ohova admission in its editorial columns.
!, .Ns rIy all the chimneys are smoking, =
The sun., 1897-04-25

President March ~ the NL,sau Hoat club will orrer
new 400 liu'd K .hr y prize for a series
~ three hInhiClP c!up RACES. the handLrap 10 br
chAnse"f after "s'h race, and JACK At'el Will
give solid sllye- challenge cup aS a
perpetual trophy for The singlc-shell cham.
ponship u the club, Tar gotug earh winn ing
and rNDA WiEn-r getting -ut lnrdai TEI. Z, great
rlub fpr dsFrippnE ingir'-hrll raring and the club
can muster heet ~ twenty-five sinir shells all of
whlcu are In hrstrla condition. Jesse ". Powers,
r. VIII be- the clubs entry in the junior at the
Harlem regatta
The oyerp Ok Boat CLUB Of LsoGia y. J.. which has
figured "XtensEsy In Local rowing circles for th na.t
few years Is now in he hAnis ~ a eeetver as tl,
10 the extent ~ s3.iDO t- due a short time .Inre
anf there was no mOusy VITA watch meet the In.
drtt"l ness. and recrlysr appointed to tax
lnd"n.einess. meeting ~ tEr club winch " a. al.
lllFn"d two weeks ago. 10 nave been held on
"wednesday nlsht. but a. there Was nOquorllm tho
meeting VIII have ~ gp uRtil the next rsRuIAr
meeting of the club which IA May ). The CLUB ~
between 80 and 600 members and they could eaSiIv
adjust the matter their entire inde6tednass does
NOT exceed $4,000. They have nne boathouss and
an SxsSllant stock OF boats but In mAaH aassa ~
Uhsst has 9EeaaSg chAFlAS than Sha 90. -