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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-06

New-Yorls cannot spare the Madison Square
Garden.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-27

cats to the attic, singly and in pairs.
With the assistance of one of the work
men, open to bribery, she conducted
from the basement to the top fioor-a
goat. This beast was added TO the
geological garden in the attic, and to-
gether with the cats paced the floor
till silence had fallen throughout the
night.
And then this little person, so meek
that suspicion never fell upon hsr,
stole up the attic stairs and tied to
each animal a bell, opened the door and
turned the flock loose. Pandemonium
reigned. The frightened cats meowed
and meowed, the goat ba-ahed, and the
faculty chased, commanded and came
to despair. Through the midnight
watches the sinking cats tinLled their
bells through the halls, the outraged
teachers breathed out threatenings
against the culprit, and the girl who
was in future years to be at the head
of the institution slept on-the sleep
OF the Just.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-27
HANDSOME ANIMALS.

Prof. Gentry's superb company of
performing dogs and ponies are to eX-
hibit in this city under a thoroughly
waterproof tent on Nacogdoches and
East Houston streets, opposite Turner
hall, six nights, beginning March list;
matineeS Wednesday, Thursday and
Saturday.
Prof. Gentry easily has the best
show of It's kind in the world. The one
hundred handsome dogs and ponies
in the company are said to surpass
anything ever seen in that line before.
The sixty-five dogs in the collection
il Is said are worth some sixteen
thousand dollars; this is good sum
when a person realizes that they are
only dogs. This exhibition will be
thoroughly worth attending, and all
the little folks will probably be on
hand. The prices of admission are,
children 10 cents; adults 20 cents.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-27
Astronomical Discoveries.

That the best attachments are not the
result of chance was exemplified in the
discovery of the planet Neptune, the
fiftieth anniversary of which event was
recently celebrated in France. Tele-
scopes had long swept the sky without
discovering this shy outer planet; but
when astronomers noticed how Uranus
FASTENED in one part of its orbit and
moved with less rapidiay in another,
they knew there must be an attracting
body that held him in check. Lever
rier, therefore, after minute calcula-
tons, wrote to the astronomer of the
Berlin observatory, requesting him to
point his telescope TO particular spot
in the sky on an evening indicated, and
said: You will see planet which l
have not seen, and which no human eye
has ever seen, but which nevertheless
must be on the spot" No one would
venture to call its discovery that night
an act of chsnce.-Youth's Companion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-27
Worse Looking Than He Felt.

Baboony-Me boy, you look as If you
had just stepped out of a ta<hion-plsta
Crinkleton-That so2 knew had
rheumatism, but didn't suppose was
as stiff as thati-Harlem Life.
Signs of Longevity.
The primary conditions of longevity
are that the heart, lungs and digestive
organs, as we'll as the brain, should be
large. II these organs are large, the
trunk will be long and the limbs com
psratiVely short. The person will APP
pear tall in sitting and short in stand
ing. The hand will have q long and
somewhat heavy palm and short fingers.
The brain will be deeply seated, as
shown by the orifice Of the ear being
low. The blue hazel or brown hazel
eye is a favorable indication. The nos.
trils being large, open and free, indi.
Gates large lungs. A pinched and half
closed nostril indicates small or weak
iungs!-San Francisco ArPonaut
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-27
THE SHAKERS IDEAS OF MEDI-
CINE

Now days when man goes 10 his
doctor, he is usually told that he has
some unheard of disease with long
name, and when he leaves the office
he does not know whether II is st.
Vitus Dance or consumption that Is
gradually undermining his health.
1t is therefore refreshing to talk
with the Shakers, for their simplicity
commands confidence and respect,
and we have the further satisfaction
themselves to the study of disease
and its cure for more than hundred
years.
The venerable old man whom the
writer saw was only too glad to dis
cuss his pet subject. He said that
strange as it might seem, very few
doctors realized that three-quarters of
the most prevalent diseases were all
attributed to faulty digestion.
He then went on to say that child
of average intelligence knows that pu-
trid meat or decaying vegetables are
poisonous, and must be avoided, and
yet these same foods, even if taken in
to the stomach in the freshest possible
condition soon decOmpose unless d.
gested and absorbed.
In such cases the resulting poisons
enter the system, when aches and
pains, weakness and debility soon fol-
low as a natural consequence.
1t was recognitions of this that led
the Shakers to devote their energies
TO the perfection of product which
would stimulate the digestive organs
and assist them to perform their pro-
per work.
The first symptoms of diSOrered di-
gestion is loss of appetite. and the
Shaker Digestive Cordial is wonder
fully efficient in supplying any def
cheney in this respect. at the same
time is relieves all distress after eat
ing. Furthermore, as was carefully
by our venerable friends, it
is absolutely harmless.
Better evidence of the Shakers con
tidence in it could not be found, than
in the fact that they have placed 10
cent sample bottles in the hands of all
druggists, assured that If once tried
it will produce such immediate and
marked benefit that it will be contin-
ued.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-27
Facts About Eclipses.

The maximum number of eclipses that
can take place within a period of a
year Is seven, and of these five are solar
and two are lunar, and the minimum
number of eclipses is two, which must
both be solar. The year 1897, the sec
ond Of the last semidecade Of the Nine
teenth century, will present this mini
mum number of eclipses. which, of ne
cessity, must be solar and central, and
will be annular. The first takes place
on February l, and the second on July
20. Both will be visible to some extent
IN this cnuntrv.-AIl5any Journal.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-27
Very Particular.

New Cook lat Mrs. Slimdiet's board
ing house, TO herself)-This do be the
toughest mate ivor OF see. OH give
IL q good thumpin'! (Goes at the steak
With a rolling pin.)
Mrs. Slimdiet crushing in)-What's
Ill this racket
New Cook-oi was only pounding the
mate, mum, 30 the boorders could ate it.
Mrs. Slimdiet-Stop! Never pound
steak in my house again. 1t spoils the
fsvor.-N. Y. Weekly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-27
COLLEGE GIRLS PRANK.
She Got Up Midnight Cat Concert in 60
Ohio Seminary.

She Got Up Midnight Cat Concert tn 90
Ohio Seminary.
The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
has been telling tales out of school. 1t
has collected a number of the amusing
pranks of college girls of a few years
ago. making the explanation that such
capers are out of date now. The event
pictured occurred at the Western fc-
male seminary, Oxford, o., when the
present president of the institution was
q student.
During the freshman year, says the
Commercial Tribune, she conceived the
novel idea of giving cat concert some
night after the retiring. To this end
she collected all the straying felines
there were around the place and stored
them away in the attic. By the time
the date set for the serenade came
around she had decoyed about dozen
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-27

They are so small that the most
sensitive persons take them, they are
so effective that the most obstinate
cases of constipation, headache and
torpid liver yield to them. That is
why Dewitt's Little Early Risers are
known as the famous little pills. E.
Reuss LOG East Commerce street.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-27
TWO FROZEN TO DEATH.

Rawlins, Wis, Feb. PA searching
party which started from here ycster-
day to look for Thomas HogG and 4
half breed named Issiel, who have
been missing since Saturday last, have
just returned having found the men
IA miles from this city. They were
lying side by side, where they had
both frozen TO death.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-27
INVESTIGATING BRIBERY.

Boise, Ida, Feb. 2T.-The House of
Representative has appointed q COM
mittee to investigate the charge made
by Representative Jones that he was
bribed to vote for Henry Hatfield for
United States senator.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-27

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
il ii fails to cure. 25c. 10-5-156t
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-27
FATE OF AN ORDINANCE
THE ONE RESTRICTING SALOONS
KILLED BY THE COMMITTEE.
Councilman WOlcOtt's Gas Ordinances
Discussed, but No Definite
Action Is Taken.

The council committee on finance met
last night and decided to recommend that
the ordinance excluding saloons from the
district of the city included in the First,
Second, Third and Fourth wards be
stricken from the files. The report was
signed by all the members of the committee
except Mr. Allen, who declined to affix his
name. There was little discussion of the
ordinance, the members seeming to be
agreed that it should not pass. Mr.. Ohleyer
gave as an objection that it would require
a man living in Brightwood to get on a
car and come down to st. Clair street
whenever he wanted glass of beer. Mr..
Wolcott raised the point that it would not
accomplish what it was intended to accom-
plish, namely, the extinction of Fairbank.
nance this resort could continue, provided
the barroom were removed just over the
line on other premises. The greatest OBJ
lection to the ordinance was that it was
unnecessary and called upon the Council to
do something which the voters ought to do
themselves. 1t was argued that the Nich-
olson law provides that a ward may pre-
vent saloons being opened in that ward by
a remonstrance being made to the County
Commissioners, signed by majority of the
voters of the ward. The sentiment of the
members of the committee was that the
for the ward as to whether it should have
saloons or not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-27
RAILWAY MAY BE BUILT.
Canadian Government VIII Probably
Assist in Construction.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 26.-N. E.
Picotte, of the Yukon country, who has
been in this city several days, gives an in
teresting account of the efforts of pioneers
of that locality to secure more modern
means of conveyance into the land of the
golden fleece. while at Circle City and
Forty mile last year." says Picotte. I'VE
seriously considered the possibility of Sc
curing aid from the Canadian government
to build a railroad into this district We
secured as reliable data we could and
forwarded it to Ottawa. Finally an appro-
priation of $1,000 was passed by the Parlia-
ment and surveyors ordered to take the
field this year. There are two practical
routes by which this country might be
reached by railway. One of these is from
a point on the Canadian Pacific and the
other Is from Dyea. AS far we were able
TO ascertain neither presents many difficult
ties That from Dyea would be the shorter.
for the reason that only some eighty miles
of the road would have to be built the
rest Of the route to the mines being bv
means OF the river. OF course during the
winter season this route would be closed
as far as the river Is concerned. This route
will do away with the difficulties of the
Chilcat Pass in the early days 1t would
naturally be a closer means OF communica-
ton with San Francisco, and for that rea.
son is not likely to be favored by the Ca.
madam government.
The other route is about 500 miles longer
but being entirely within the Dominion of
Canada, is likely TO receive earnest consid-
GRAFTON at the hands OF the government
The moneyed men of that section are will
Inns to assist any enterprise of this charac-
ter which will tend to develop the country
The attention of the world has been called
to our country and the idea that naught
but fairy tales has been written about its
wealth is being quickly diSSipated' -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-27
RritiSh Editors ChnckIinw.

LONDON, July 26.-The English newspa-
pers devote a good deal of space to the sit
uation in Germany and record with thinly
disguised satisfaction the defeat of the EN-
peror in the Prussian Diet over the law Of
associations bill. The Globe says. The
struggle in which Emperor William has
just been defeated is a conflict between
himself and his people. 1t is to be wished
rather than confidently anticipated, that he
may have the wisdom to accept his discom-
future with dignity and good temper"
The Pail Mall Gazette says: The vote is
a significant rebuff, But Frederick the
Great always had his way and William
the greatest must not lag behind. The lit
tie facts that there is no Frederick the
Great now that universal suffrage exists
in Germany and Prussia and that people
viii talk nowadays don't count"
The Westminster Gazette says: 1.-THE
Kaiser has mad a very nasty check in his
own country. 1t is strong protest against
the attempt to place power in the hands of
otficialdom at the expense of civil liberty"
The St James Gazette says: The Ger
mans wiz stand a good deal OF dragooning.
but there are limits. They won't be treat
ed like Russians and Turks"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-27
LYNCHINGS CONDEMNED.
Atlanta Preachers Take COgn14ance of
the Many Outrages in Georgia.

ATLANTA, Ga, July 26.-The recent out
break of lynchings in this State has
aroused the ministers OF this city. Several
of them, including the Rev. w. W. Ian
drum, pastor of the First Baptist Church.
and Rev. Albion W. Knight, dean of St
Philips Cathedral, preached sermons
against lynching yesterday. and at their
regular weekly meeting this morning both
the Methodist and Baptist ministers took
action on the question. The Methodist
ministers, after listening to remarks in
their number, appointed a committee to
draw up suitable resolutions expressing
the views of the Methodist ministry as a
body in denunciatiOn of iynching The Bap-
fist minister's conference met this morn
ing and adopted the following:
The Atlanta Baptist ministers confer
ence an informal meeting of Baptist pas
tors and preachers, deploring lawlessness
of whatever kind and rearing that ii is in
creasing throughout the limits of our State
hereby put on record their uuSWerVing con-
ture, that civil government Is an ordinance
of God. and 'WhosCeVcr reSisteth the pow
er shall receive himself condemnation
Laws must be enforced so long as they
whatever character must be punished oniv
according to the forms of law. Defects in
the laws. if they exist. must be remedied
by proper legisl alton. Christian people are
under the strongest obligation to inform
the public conscience and to crystalline its
teachings in the proper laws. What we
need is practical revival in all its bearings
OF the wise, safe and Scriptural doctrine
that civil government is Il divine inStitu-
ton and must be lifted up towards an ideal
of Christ
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-27
REPORTS OvERDRAwN.
Gold Seeker from Ohio Tells of His
Experience i'm Alaska.


ALLIANCE, O., July 26.-"Cal' Brosius,
well-known young man of this city, has
been in the Alaskan gold fields for nearly
five years. He first landed in Juneau in the
early spring of 1893. From that point with
several Californians. he crossed the noun
tains on foot and tramped to a point on the
Yukon 200 miles from Juneau. At that time
there were only 600 whites in the whole
Yukon valley. Brosius went prospecting
and staked off two placer claims at Forty
mile creek, the region of the big gold ex-
element three years ago. In letter to
friend last fall Brosius said that a few of
the mines there paid well, but that the ma
jority OF the miners barely made enough
with rocker and pan TO pay for the neces-
saries of life
In a letter which he wrote to his father,
h. II. Brosius, prominent merchant of
this city, last February and which he only
received last week, he says: Alaska has
been very badly misrepresented so far as
finding gold by kicking off the snow is
concerned; | worked my claims for two
years, and at last got enough out of them
to buy pack of Esquimo dogs. Then l
quit mining and went out as trader. l
am now engaged in trading between Circle
City and the KiOndike, a mining camp $50
miles south of Circle City. | buy flour and
other food stuff at Circle City and haul 1t
on sledges TO the Klondike, where get big
prices for it, The Klondike promises to be
a better placer camp than any of the
others.
A bit of the tragic side of life in that
| lonely country is told in the following
words in the same letter: Several days ago
number of Indians came into Circle City
and reported that miner was lying dead
in his cabin on a small mountain stream 100
miles from here The Indians were
Perstitious about touching the corpse and
would not even enter the cabin, so | sent
my dogs and a driver up after the body. 1t
is some poor unfortunate prospector /
must wait their return before l can pro-
coed with my stock of goods to the Klon-
dixie
1t cost 81 to have letter delivered to Jul
neau the nearest postoffice to the gold
fields, until last summer, when this govern
ment and the British government made ar
engagements for carriers to make three trips
each, alternately, during the summer sea-
son to the head waters of the Yukon with
mail and for letters No papers or pack
ages are carried.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-27
TELEGRAPHlC BREVlTIES.

The will of Robert Mcmillan, the Wiscon-
sin lumber king, bequeaths $4,000 to Law
renee University, at Appleton.
French Canadian Roman Catholic priests
are on their annual pilgrimage to the shrine
of st. Anne de Beaupre, in Canada.
Two thousand three hundred garment
workers went on strike at New York yes
terday. One hundred and twenty-five shops
in that city and Brooklyn are affected.
The New York cotton mills In Saco, Me,
will shut down Saturday for five weeks, the
reason assigned being the necessity of re-
ducng the output. The mills employ 1000
operatives
Mrs. J. D. Mallory, wife of the oyster and
fruit packer of Baltimore, was thrown
from her carriage Sunday afternoon and
suffered injuries from which she will al
most certainly die.
The Massachusetts, Board of Railway
Commissioners has granted authority to
the Boston Elevated Railway Company 10
issue $40 900, 900 of stock. The motive power
or the road is to be electricity.
State Treasurer Craig, of Tennessee re-
fused to issue a license to the New Or
ground that the business transacted by
such companies is neither legitimate nor
safe.
G. W. Wilson, of Chicago, commonly
walking under wager from Chicago to
Augusta, Me, and return within six
months, passed through Albany, N. Y, yes
terday on his return trip.
Lyman J. Gage, secretary of the treasury,
who is to be the special guest of honor at
a dinner given by Boston business men this
afternoon, arrived in Boston yesterday ac-
companied by his wife; Secretary and Mrs:
Gage later left for the summer home of
Charles s. Hamlin, at Marion.
The cotton mills IN the Blackstone valley.
Rhode Island operated by the Goddards
and Chaces. which were shut down a week
ago, throwing out of work a large number
of employees, started up on full time again
yesterday and at the same time the dye
nd nl rTp tod VxTif
Lonsdale mill also began to run on full
time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-27
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.
Developments I'm the Case of Alice
Barrett, Supposed Suicide.


BOSTON, July 26-It seems as if every
hour brought forth new developments con-
corning the death of Alice Barrett, of Wal
than, last Saturday. She was found dead
in the office of Goldman & Goldman. in which
she had been employed as a bookkeeper.
The building had been struck and set on
fire by lightning and it was at first sup
posed the bolt had killed her, but after
wards it was discovered that she had been
shot through the heart. A revolver was
found on the floor Her family is almost
positive that the girl was murdered. 1t was
ascertained to-day that the cash book of
the firm, which Miss Barrett had kept for
two years and in which she had entered
all the cash transactions had been burned
The police, who have been hard at work on
the case since ii assumed such 4 serious
phase, are almost satisfied that Miss Bar-
rett burned the book before her death
With the disappearance OF this book, the
firm finds ITSELF in a most peculiar position.
William G. Goldman admitted TO the ponce
that il was q surprise TO him 10 learn that
his confidential clerk and bookkeeper had
DESTROYED the cash hook He also admitted
that the destruction of the book would hide
any Irregularities that may have existed
so ehectuahy that it would be almost i'm
The absence of the cash book was not
discovered until this morning, when the
safe was opened for the first time since
one of the firemen hastily closed it at the
lime of the fire The safe was found open
at that time, and to prevent its contents
from being destroyed, II was promptly shut.
Mr.. Goldman came from Nantucket this
morning, and search was made for the
missing book. Among the debris of the hre
that had been thrown into the backyard
was found about twenty pages of the book.
The handwriting on the sheets was that
OF Miss Barrett. Mr.. Goldman says that
it is his personal conviction that Miss Bar
rett did not commit suicide, but was muir
dered perhaps by some one who followed
her into the Office on Saturday. He does
not believe that Miss Barrett embeZzled
cent of the firms money.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-27
GAS ORDINANCE TALK.
Council Committee Discusses Mr.. VOL
colts Measure.

COttS pleasure
The Council committee on contracts and
franchises held meeting last night to con-
slider the gas ordinance now before the
Council, but nothing was done, and another
meeting will be held Friday night. From
the discussion of the question it seems cer-
tain that the committee will recommend
an ordinance fixing the price of illuminate
ing gas at a rate of not more than so cents
and perhaps as low as rs cents. Mr.. VOL
colts ordinance, with the exception of the
price, seemed to meet the approval of the
committee. The delay was at the request
of Mr. Wolcott and MIR. Murphy, Mr.. VOL
colt has been investigating the cost OF gas
since the introduction of his ordinance. He
finds that Philadelphia, which owns its gas
plant, pays 40 cents Il thousand for part OF
its supply. He 1inds, also, that 1t does not
cost over 10 cents a thousand TO deliver it.
This makes the cost of gas, delivered, b6
cents, not counting the profit made by the
manufacturers VINO furnish the gas to Phil
adelphia. ldr. Wolcott wishes to prepare
amendments to his ordinance which shall
define gas of good quality" and which
able that his ordinance, when amended,
will fix the price at 80 cents and require
the company to pay per cent OF gross re-
ceipts to the city treasury.
Mr.. Murphy asked for d delay that repre-
sentatiVes of the company might have
opportunity to be heard. He said he had
no intention of delaying the action on the
ed the committee to defer action. Members
of the committee seem determined to report
the ordinance so that it can be passed upon
by the City Council next Monday night