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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-05
NOTHING Is TOO DEvILISH
For Wsiler's Minions to do In the Way OF
Insult or Jury.

Havana, Aug. A party OF Spanish
soldiers made a raid yesterday on
girls school ar Guanabacoa, which was
attended almost wholly by daughters Of
weli-known Cuban insurgents. The
teachers were driven out and the pupils
were grossly treated.
Later on, the soldiers made raid
upon the teachers boarding house, bu,
a number of Cuban citizens had assem-
bled here and were prepared for them.
AS the soldiers approached they were
greeted by pistol shots. They returned
the fire and there was lively fusilade
in which two Cubans were killed and
four soldiers were wounded The sold
iers were reinforced and the teachers
were captured and taken 10 the COM
mandant's headquarters.
Late in the night eight girls attending
the school were arrested al their homes
and taken by the soldiers without being
given time to dress. They were grossly
insulted on the streets. The soldiers
were So openly gross that the officers had
to threaten them with arrest If they did
not desist.
A large crowd followed them threaten
ingly and were only dispersed when ad-
ditiolal troops were called out and or
dered 10 fire on the MOB if il did no.
Withdraw. The Spanish officials allege
that the women and girls were acting as
spies for the insurgent cause and that
the school was merely blind" This
is strenuously denied by the reputable
citizens Of the town.
All Havana is ringing with a trick
played upon the major of Havana Vol
un.eers at Marianao which has just be-
Yner resort and has a garrison of 500
troops.
Major Salas and four or five brother
officers made up party Of friends. TAX
ing the ladies along. There were twen-
ty-four in the party. After reaching the
place they were warned 10 be on the look
out as insurgents were in the neighbor-
hood.
Thinking little of this they went out
about a mile and had picnic in a thick
grove. Suddenly band Of Cubans sur
rounded them and quickly disarned the
officers. 50 that not a shot was fired
or any alarm given.
Then they compelled the men to ar
range the tables for feast under pain
of death. The officers were gagged and
partly bound. When this was done
they compelled the musicians 10 strike
up. The ladies were made 10 sit down
with them and par;ake of food.
Afterwards they danced to the music
brought by the Spanish officers. The
latter were compelled 20 see II all, being
bound 20 chairs and placed around in a
circle. in the center Of which the dancing
took place.
After an hours sport Of this kind the
insurgents rode off. first taking the arms
Of the Spaniards and partially stripping
them OF their uniforms
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-05
ON A LIVE WIRE
FRANKIE TURNER CATCHES BLOW
OF INCANDESOENT CIRCUIT.
Two Wires Down on East Third and Chill
dren Playing Swing With em-FraDLie
Turner, Six Years Old, is Knocked In
conscious by Playing With the Wires
After the Current Is Turned on-Is Re-
stored to Cons ciOusness in a Half Hours
Time and 3Iay Recover Marrow Escape
of Several Children.

Last night little frankie Turner, son
of T. H. Turner, a brakeman on the
Wichita and Englewood branch Of the
Santa Fe, got hold of two live wires from
the light plant and was instantly knock
ed unconscious and given UP for dead.
The Turner family, who live at $50
North Topeka, say that the wires have
been down for two or three days. Chill
dren playing along the street would
catch both the wires and swing around
the post, but not until last night did any
one happen 10 get hold of the circuit
when the current was turned on.
Some one saw the young Turner boy,
who is about years old, when the cur
rent struck him. He took the wires and
went to swing around, as they had been
doing all day, but fell to the ground as
Though he had been shot dead.
The little fellow was taken into the
house and put into no: water bath. At
ter some ten or fifteen minutes he began
to move and took his feet out Of the wa
ter. AT 8 O'Clock last night he was rest
ing quietly and VOL doubtless recover
The loose wires are on Third street,
about the middle of the block between
Topeka and Emporia avenues. They are
on the incandescent circuit, where the
current is turned on earlier than on the
arc circuit If the wires have been down
as long as stated, the wonder is that two
or three OF the children have not been
killed before this. After the accident
last night one Of the line men went ~
and clipped the broken pieces away.
Il is not known how they came 10 be
down, but probably in making some ex-
ira connections or in putting in other
lights
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-05
DID YOU EVER.

Try Electric Bitters as remedy for
your troubles? II not, get bottle now
and get relief This medicine has been
found to be peculiarly adapted to the re-
lief and cure of all Female Complaints.
exerting a wonderful direct influence in
giving strength and tone 70 the organs.
If You have Loss OF Appetite, Constipa-
ton, Headache, Painting Spells. or are
Nervous. Sleepless, Excitable. Melan-
choly or troubled with Dizzy Spells.
Electric Bitters is the medicine you need.
Health and Strength are guaranteed by
its use. Fifty cents and s1.OO at Geo.
Van Werden's Pharmacy. 32S n. Main
ST.. and c. Behring's drug store. north
east corner Topeka and Douglas ave-
Nuea
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-05
DRIVING ROD BREAKS
shocking Accident ON the sants Fe In New
aexico

Ration, y. NJ, Aug. Awhile passen-
ger train No. on the A;chison. Topeka
and Santa Fe. aorthbound. vas running
from Las Vegas at a high rate % spcel
the driving rod on the right side Of Ia,
locomotive broke and stripped everything
OFF before the train could be brought 10
standstill. Engineer Underdown VAS
Knocked from his seat and shocAingly
injured. Fireman Charles Dankston.
who Jumped. was instantly killed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-05

the City hall. where both were suose-
quendy released.
Conno-s fingered with the police. as he
said ne was afraid Of losing his life ous
declares ne will have Maud and Alice ar
rested He says ne is accused OF pre-
venting the sisters securing employ
ment At the Columbia worstei mills a;
Todlnorden. and that this is the cause Of
he assault
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-05
MUSIC AND ORA MA.
KIOWA GEORGE

kiowa George and mis- band of twenty
one Indians, composed Of Kiowas, Com
anches, Caddos and Wichitas, captured
the city yesterday. 1t was a peaceful
Invasion. They came in this morning
fresh from their reservation, and when
in war paint and feathers and gaily cai-
ored toys they marched down the streets,
everybody watched them in open-eyei
wonder. They are on their way 10 the
centennial az Nashville, Tenn, and for
the benefit Of the amusement loving pub
Eic they gave an exhibition at the Audi
forum last night. They spent the even
ing in dancing and in celebration of var
ious Indian rites. They danced the
Kiowa war dance and the Omaha dance
II the music Of the drum, and sang in a
weird chant. Tonight the performance
will be repeated with numerous addi-
tions 10 the program. Kiowa George
nwiL ehibit his skill with bow and arrow,
and little 9-year-old Henry Keotah will
do some fancy shooting. The well known
interpreter, Mrs. l." ira Pedrick, will
give history of Chief Quanah Parker,
whose death was reported in the press
dispatches Tuesday Tena KeOtah will
DE there with her little pappoose stropp-
ed upon her back. There will be two
solid hours Of entertainment The base
bal team vii play the Topeka nine
FRIDAY and the Lawrence nine Saturday
When not on parade the Indians for the
most part dress in citizens clothes AMI
comport themselves very much like the
whites. They reflect great credit upon
fheir agent, Major Frank f. Baldwin.
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-05

Castle Rock. Colo. Aug. A cloud
burst occurred here which caused the
most serious food ever known in this
country. Plum Creek became raging
torrent in Few minutes and not .ess
than hundred bridges on the stream
were washed away. The Denver and Rio
Grande and Santa Fe roads suffered
some damage TO tracks and other proper
ty, not Of serious nature. nof slfiicien.
10 interfere with regular trains. how
ever. The damage 10 wagon bridges and
roads will COS, the county several thou
sand dollars.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-05
LAST ROSE OF SUMMER
She Who Inspired the Song has just Died,
Ard 90.

New Tcrk. Aug. 4-ConSds-able In
teres, has been awakened Throughout.
the country by the announcement oc the
death OF Mrs. Amelia Kcehler OF Mt.
Vernon. NJ Y. ST the age Of 90 years
Saturday. owing 10 the fact that she IS
supposed 20 have inspired Thomas
Moore's famous poem, The Last Rose
of Summer" says a western paper. To
her the poem MAS dedicated by its COM
poser.
When she was Is years old she was
sent 70 London. and there she attended
a scnocl kept by a sister OF the poet.
VINO frequently visited the school and
became acquainted with the pupils.
Moore took a decided liking 10 her and
would spend hours in conversing with
her.
One day. as they were sitting in the
garden. she plucked rose and. placing
i; on the lapel OF the poets waistcoat.
exclaimed: 20. nov l have given you
The last rose OF summer" And. as the
story runs. this very rose was in fac,
The last rose left blooming in the gar
den.
My child said the poet. you have
made a beautiful suggestion. and when
have written some verses on il they
shall be dedicated 70 you"
a short lime after. Moore wrote the
famous lines which follow. and de3.ca;-
ed them II Amelia" that being the
first name cf tie woman who has just
passed away
Mrs. Koehlers maiden name was
Amelia Ofsrgeii. and she was born in
Aix-la-Cnapelle. Her father was an Of
ficer in thu Prussian army and her
mother was of British descent. she vas
10 years cid when she married Charles
Koehle-, an importer OF Bond street.
London. When he died. forty years ago.
she came 70 live with her daughter in
this country and remained mere until
ther death
She was al Queen Victories wedding
and one OF her treasures was a piece %
cake. protected by a glass case. which
she said was part of the queens we'd
ding cake and which had been given 10
her by Lady Blskely, one OF the maids
of honor On the occasion of the golden
jubilee OF the queen. ten years ago. Mrs
Ko<hier. il is said. sent the cake in a
box 10 Victoria. The queen, in return
ing ii. SO the story runs. wrote "a brief
autograph letter
Castle Rock. Colo. Aug. A cloud
burst occurred here which caused the
most serious food ever known in this
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-05
Real Estate Transfers.

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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17

the greatest s8ronaut of the age. He
tells the most marvellous stories of az
ploits, how he once crossed the Amen.
from Rome in seven hours. and
another time crossed the Indian DC
He says that he can go around the
world in thirty days, and consequently
such a little matter az a trip to Rlon
dixie is hardly worth talking about.
The exodus of gold hunters continues
and men from every State in the Union
are now on their way to the Klondike
region, says the American Agricul
turist. The Oregon railway and navi
cation company's steamer George W.
Elder, sailed for 'Dyea, Alaska, with
1873 passengers, nearly all of whom are
bound for the KEondike. Sic carried
1900 ton of freight, her full capacity,
$50 horses and,bdrros and rs dogs. All
day long hundreds of people congre
gated in the vicinity of Ainsworth
Dock, where the Elder was moored,
and at z o'clock it was estimated that
10, 900 were on the river bank or on the
bridges to bid god speed to the gold
hunters. Charles Erickson and Peter
Olafsen, twoSwedes formerly employ ed
in the shops of the Duluth and Iron
range railroad at Two Harbors, Mimi,
have just returned from Alaska with
nearly a half million in gold dust. Five
years ago both men were employed as
blacksmiths.
"A recent Washington special to the
New York Sun says: six men work
ing in the big silver vault of the Treas.
ury Department. had a narrow escape
from being buried under an avalanche
of coin the other day. The vault con.
tains 1852. 600, 600, and the weight of
this mass is 4,5OO tons. The coin is
packed in bags, each bag holding a
thousand silver dollars. In the count
of money in the treasury, which began
when the former Treasurer, D. N. Nor
gan, re~linquished his flee to Treasurer
Roberts, the bags were emptied, the
money counted, and when retied the
bags we're passed from man to man to
be placed in high rows. O1e of the
piles toppled over and some of the bags
broke, scattering silver dollars ankle
deep over the foor. The six men who
were in the vault at the time made q
rush for safety, and all managed to get
out. If they had been caught under
the falling pile they. would have been
crushed. It took, nearly a day to gather
up the money and to recount ard pack
IT. -
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17
ALASKAN

John Muir in the Century Magazine
gives this attractive glimpse of the
scenery of Alaska. In view of the
great interest now being taken in the
Klondyke region, the article is very
timely. Mr.. Muir says:
ITO the lover Of wildness Alaska
offers a glorious field for either work
or rest; landscape beauty in a thousand
forms, things great aud small, novel
and familiar, as wild and pure as para
disc. Wander where you may, wild
ness ever fresh and ever beautiful
meets you in endless variety ice-laden
mountains, hundreds of miles of them,
peaked and pinnacled and crowded to
gether like trees in groves, and go high
and so divineIy clad in clouds and air
that they seem to belong more to
heaven than to earth; inland plains
grasfy and fowery, dotted with groves
and extending, like seas all around to
the rim of the sky lakes and streams
shining and singing, outspread in
sheets of May embroidery in untrace-
able, measureless abundance, brighten
ing every landscape, and keeping the
ground fresh and fruitful forever; for
ests Of evergreens growing close to
gether like leaves Of grass, girdling a
thousand islands and mountains in
glorious array; mountains that are
Monuments of the work Of ice, noun
tains monuments of volcanic fires; gar
dens filed with the fairest flowers, Civ.
ing fragrance to every wandering
wind; and far to the north thousands
of miles of ocean ice, now wrapped in
fog, now glowing in sunshine through
nightless days, and again shining in
wintry splendor beneath the beams of
the aurora-eea, land, and sky one
mass of, white radiance like a star.
Storms, too, are here as wild and sub
lime in size and scenery as the land.
scapes beneath them, displaying the
glorious pomp of clouds on the march
ove mountain and plain, the flight Of
the snow when all the sky is in bloom,
trailing rain floods, and the booming
plumage of avalanches and icebergs
and rivers in their rocky glens; while
multitudes OF wild animals and wild
people, clad in feathersand furs, biting,
loving, getting a living, make ali the
Wildness wilder.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17
PRIME MINISTER OF SPAIN AS
SASSINATED BY AN ANARCH-
TST AT SANTA AGUEDA,

Senior Canovas del Castillo, Prime
Minister Of Spain, was shot and killed,
August 9Th, by an anarchist at Santa
Agueda, the summer home of the
Spanish court. Three shots were fired,
two OF which struck the premier in the
head and the third in the chest.
The wounded man fell dying at the
feet Of his wife, who was with him,
lingering in agony for two hours, and
then passing away with the cry OF
Long live Spain" which we're the last
words upon his lips.
The assassin was Immediately ar
rested. He is a Neapolitan and gives
the name of Rinaldi; but it is believed
that this is an assumed name, and that
his real name is Michele Augine Coli.
Speaking Of his services, an exchange
says:
"Canovas del Castillo, since the re-
turn of the house of Bourbon, had been
the main prop of the throne in the
Spanish peninsula. For 25 years, more
over, he had been the foremost man Of
the conservative party, and his death
at this crisis at the hands of an anarch-
ist may be the precursor of events even
more doletul for existing institutions in
that distracted and exhausted country.
He vas an orator, a scholar, and a
literary light of great prominence as
well as a statesman of the foremost
rank and his assassination ia a shock. -
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17
ATLANTA DARKzY IN LUCK.

A Klondyke letter has the following:
you see all kinds of people here. I
believe that every nation that we ever
heard of in New York has got some
body here who belongs to it. Every
body is as good as everybody else; it,
don't make any difference what color
he is. There is one old fellow who
used to be q slave, and his wool is as
gray as a sleeps pelt. He came up,
here with a freighting outfit, and did
not have any idea of going after goid,
but when he did get here, old as he
was, he got the fever. He staked out
a claim, and you can believe it or not,
but that old devil has cleaned up $780,
600 in gold dust. You ought to hear
him talk about what he is going to do,
with it.
His name, he says, is ST. John
Anterior, and he comes from down in
Georgia. just a piece out of Atlanta. "
he says. He says that the daughter Of
the man that owned him during the
war is living there yet on the old plan
tation, very poor. The old man is go
ing back, so he says, and is going to
buy that plantation, and then be is go
ing to have this woman that is there
do nothing but live like a lady all the
rest Of her life. That's one of the most
curious things I've heard since I have
been up here, and I believe the old man
means just what he says"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17
TWO MEN SWAP WIVES IN NIT
CELL.

A rather unique and startling state
of affairs was revealed in a case in court
in Mitchell county, N. c., recently.
Some parties were arraigned on the
charge of fornication and adultery, and
it turned out that while in a sense they
may have been guilty, in another they
we're innocent. The evidence showed
that merely the trading liberty of the
mountains had been exercised and that
the parties involved had considered it
a matter Of no consequence to the
public.
It appeared from the evidence thaa5
one mountaineer had Of his own freq
will swapped his wife and seven chill
dren to a neighbor man Of the noun
Sains for his wife, a musket and moody
bull. The parties to the deal were per-
fectly sincere in what they did and en-
tered upon life in a new relation with
out a thought of violating any law.
The man with the other fellows wife
and the musket and the bull as his own
was happy because he felt that IN the
transaction his condition had been bet
tered, while the man with the Wifeand
children to spare felt ditto and no lack
of congratulated CTsnn) Courier
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17

The article on the Upward Trend OF
Dairying," by Mr.. Vincent, in last
weeks FARMER, is to the point, prac-
tical and correct In every line. 1t any
one doubts it, or that there are commona
COWS in North Carolina to day that AN
reaIfz9 all he says, let him write theCs
@. Experiment Station for bulletins on
stock and dairy and see if he cannoe
find where it has once been done and
the way how made clear in print. The
4OO-pound scrub COW con there be
shown.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-05

at Poughkeepsie for lunch, and in Or
der not to expose the manacled pris-
oner to a curious crowd, suggested
that we sit in the car for a few minutes
after the train was stopped, allow the
passengers to alight and go to the
lunch-room, and then 60 quietly to a
carriage which awaited us. The others
agreed and we sat still.
A nervous passenger, who had rid
den in the same car with us from New
York, and who did not know that one
of us was a condemned criminal,
wished to get out for lunch, and
thought it advisable to ask some one
to keep an eye on his hand baggage in
his absence.
He hesitated until he saw only four
of us left. Then he approached and
looked keenly at each of us in turn.
After close scrutiny of our counter
ances, he leaned over, tapped the pris-
oner on the shoulder, and said:
evil you be good enough, sir, to
keep an eye on my baggage while l
get bite to eat ?"-N. Y. Herald.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-05

Some of our exchanges are trying to make out
that THE PRISON MIRROR has suspended pub
LEGATION. Don't you believe it, gentlemen. THE
MIRROR comes to our table every week and is
just as much alive as ever.-NInneOta Mascot.
We would like to see more of our
newspaper friends on the outside come
out in the same strain as the above.
An editorial appeared in our columns
more than six months ago compliment
ing the newspaper fraternity in gen.
eral on the exceedingly small percent
age of newspaper writer's or printers
ever sent here. The article was extern
sively copied, garbled, changed and
boiled down by various papers until
finally, through the error of some
youthful typo, the article appeared
without credit, stating in few crisp
lines that THE MIRROR had to suspend
publication for lack of an editor and
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-08-05

Mr.. John O'Br1en of this city,
brother of Manager Jas. S. O'Brien.
had large and distinguished party of
the fair sex as his guests on Monday,
all of whom are spending the summer
at Lake Shore, Minnesota's famous
summer resort on White Bear lake.
A large part of the day was occupied
by Mr.. O'Brien in showing the ladies
the full prison routine in the shops,
dining halls and cellroom. These WIS.,
itors were of that jolly, good-natured
appearance and frank, natural manner
that does person in prison good to
see as reminder of better days. Fol-
lowing are the names of those COM
prising the party: John O'Brien, Mrs.
O'Brien, Misses Mary, Alice and Nan
O'Brien, Saltwater; Mrs. Robt. n.
Hare, Misses Florence and Fannie L.
Hare, Misses Lettie Leyde, Ella NJ.
Boyer, Nora, Teresa and Lorena Null
lery, Mrs. William O'Brien, Mrs. Ed
ward O'Connor, Mrs. G. w. Rodgers
and Miss frankie Rodgers, ali of St..
Paul; Mrs. M. H. Mccarthy, Dubuque,
Iowa; Miss Katie Tabaka, Rosemount,
Mimi, and Miss Lizzie Glowczuwsky,
Storm Lake, Iowa.