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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-30

The drill went through the door
with tho greatest Of ease and it bored
out some of the cemont inner lining.
Then the robbers inserted a little powder
and fuse and started the fire. It is
supposed they went through the window
to the outside of the building To escape
the effect of the explosion. lt could not
have been loud for the effect Of the blast
showed no trace Of energy i'm the office
outside of the safe. When this had been
accomplished the robbers jumped through
the smoke coming out of the window and
went tor the safe. They found that the
powder had blown the outer shell of the
door back on the hinges with sufficient
force TO bend the plate rs il brought up
on the body of the safe The inner part
remained in position. The lock had boen
torn off and the bolts had been twisted
out Of shape.
The robbers took shovel and some
other tool and dug away the cement lin
ing. Then they lifted out the inner part
of the door and the contents Of the strong
box stood exposed. All this work was
done about as quickly as it takes to tell
IL, and the men were evidently i'm hurry
Tho watchman was likely to come near
them at any time. One of the men took "a
hammer and with single blow shattered
the little door 90 what Is commonly called
the steel box, but which Is i'm reality a
cast iron contrivance Of no valuable re-
sistance in the common run of safes.
The little door broke I'm two parts and
the drawer was pulled ont. IL contained
lust sllO. The robbers grabbed the money
and fled. Right beside the broken door
OF the box were nunber Of envelopes
altogether containing s10 The robbers
didn't have time enough To select pick
ings and jump through the window and
left for parts unknown and to he heard Of
no more so far as Lymansville is con-
cerned
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-30
Have Occupied the Heights.

Constantinople, April O.-A dispatch
received hore from the Turkish military
commander at Janina announces, that
Mustapha Pasha's brigade, yesterday occu-
pied tho heights commanding Nicheste
and Kervauserai, beyond Pentepigidia
and that the Greek troops in that vicinity
thereupOn retired.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
TWO NEW FINANCIAL BILLS.


One Modifles the Banking Law and tie
Other Retires Greenbacks.
Washington, March 29-Representa-
tive Walker. Of Massachusetts,, Satur-
day introduced two bills relating to
banking and currency entitled, respect
lively. Ito modify the national banking
laws SO as to provide the people with a
safe. ample, elastic and cheap curren-
Cyl" and ito call in and cancel the pa-
per money now injuring the prosperity
OF the country" The first bill provides
tnat hereafter no national bank shall be
required to deposit bonds to secure cir
cuiation, ana circulating notes are to
be issued up to the amount of the I'M
impaired capital of the bank. The same
reserve Is required for the circulating
notes as for individual deposits. The
cash reserve shall be in specie and at
least one half OF 1t In gold. Specie shall
be paid on demand under penalty of "a
per cent interest as damages during the
time Of refusal 80 to pay. The other bill
provides for the issue Of $50 o0o. 900 of
bonds under the act Of Jan. 10. 1875.
running from two to ten years and
drawing 2H per cent. interest The mr.
ceeds are to be used in redeemine and
canceiling outstanding United States le-
gal tender notes, treasury notes and
silver certificates. The bill further au-
thorfzes the sale OF silver bullion and
silver dollars In the treasury at the
market valve whenever such silver dol
lars cannot be kept In circulation az
money. The proceeds Of the sale OF Sill
ver Ssa4 refuse :k1 ;szsc Ct bonds &c
that extent.
The members Of the executive COM
mittee appointed by the monetary con.
ference held In Indianapolis some weeks
ago had an interview with Sec-e.ary
Gage at the treasury department ,Th1
emmitts4 which was headed ~ d
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
ELEVATION TRUST 70 COLLAPSE.
Chicago Men Invade tho Trust's Field
WIN Move ON New York.

Chicago Men Invade the Trust's Field
VIM Move ON New York.
Chicago. March 29.-The Tribune pub
fishes a story to the effect that the
elevator trust" at Buffalo will soon
collapse as the result of the invasion of
the field by Chicago elevator firms. The
rivals to the present elevator system
are given as Armour & Co.. and Bart
lett. Frazier & Co. The TrIbune's story
concludes: The elevators which the
Chicago people are constructing are but
part Of far-reaching plans to preserve
to Chicago and other lake ports their
old-time supremacy in handling the
grain of the west.
"The next move will be to enter the
port of New York. 1t will be made by
the time the great steel elevator at Buff
falo is ready for business. Instead of
grain being sold in Chicago for delivery
at Buffalo or Erie 1t will be sold for
delivery at the port Of New York
Counselman & Co. are reported to have
made the same arrangements for hand
ling their grain by way OF Erie, and
have leased the Pennsylvania elevator
at Jersey City"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
POWERS ADOPT A NEW COURSE.


WIN Require Both Greece and Turkey to
Withdraw from Crete.
Athens. March 29.1The ministers Of
the powers held a conference yesterday
and it is stated drew up the terms of q
collective note to the Greek govern
ment reuesting that the Greek troops
be recalled from the frontier. 1t is un-
derstood that q similar note will be pre-
scented to the porte and that If either
power refuses its principal ports will
be blockaded.
When the Crown Prince Constantin
left Athens Saturday he was given a
tremendous ovation by the populace.
The dominant cry was "Bnion and
War;"
Admiral Canevaro, commander of the
International fleet in Cretan waters, is
stated to assert that conditions in the
interior Of the island are so terrible. as
the result of famine and hardship. that
even the lepersq are leaving the lazar
house; the inhabitants are panic
stricken. and the dead lie by the roal-
side unburied.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
Hot Competition in Glassware.

Pittsburg. March 29.-The American
Flint Glass Workers union in conven-
ton here Saturday, with delegates rep
resenting the entire country. passed a
resolution to remove the limit on blown
and pressed ware made in non-union
factories. This action is taken to relieve
the proprietors Of union factories who
have had to compete with non-union
plants where restriction has been placed
on the output. The. change is to take
place next month and means hot COM
petition in these branches Of the trade
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
Close of the Detroit Bike Race.

Detroit, March pa big crowd saw
the close of the six-day bicycle race in
the Auditorium Saturday. Bench. the
Pittsburg boy, won. 1t was decided to
wind up the race in thirty-three in
stead of thirty-isx hours. The
record made by Harry Wood
at Cleveland was 72sh miles in thirty
six hours. Dench completed 1879 miles
in thirty-three hours: Waller. 1877 miles,
9 laps; Miller. 722 miles, 3 laps; Girnm,
624 miles. 3 laps; Gardiner, 3i1 miles.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
Chicago's Murder Sensation.

Chicago, March pa human foot,
evidently belonging to the mysterious
headless corpse found in a catch-basin
at Dunning, has been fished out from
the same basin. The foot was in a
piece of black stocking and a bicycle
shoe. In the shoe was also found a
tooth. The shoe was Of No. size and
but little worn. The tooth indicates, the
authorities think, that the missing head
is still in the catch-basin. and they ex-
pect to find It,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
Sugar Bounty In Michigan.

Lansing, Mich, March Ex-Governor
Pingree has affixed his official signature
to the bill providing a bounty OF cent
per pound on beet sugar. The law will
go into effect sixty days after adjourn
ment Of the legislature. The house in
committee OF the whole agreed to a
bill prohibiting the shooting Of prairie
chickens, quail. and cartridges for a pc
Rod of five years. A bill providing for
the conspicuous labelling OF imitation
food products was passed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
Paper bag Failure at Cleveland.

Cleveland, March 29.-Adams. Jewett
& Co.. paper bag manufacturers at %
to 80 Academy street, have filed chattel
and real estate mortgages in the record
er's Office for about $4,000. The firm
has been in business here for upwards
of forty years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
Morgan Contradicts Cremer.

Washington. March 29.-When Sena-
tor Morgan's attention was called to the
dispatch from London rejecting upon
the senator's course ir connection with
the arbitration treaty. he said: Mr..
Cremer misstates facts when he says
that I sent a message to President
Cleveland by him." He adds that while
declaring for the principle Of arbitration
he told Cremer that the United States
would not submit American questions
to q European arbitrator.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
SENATE mas no PROGRAMME.
VIII Talk Antl-Ashitration Principally,
with . Vague Hope, Perhaps.


with . Vague Hope, Perhaps.
Washington. March 2s.-The sem
ate will devote its energies this week
to the arbitration treaty with the vague
hope on the part of some Of the friends
of that instrument OF securing a final
vote on Friday or Saturday. The SEN
ate will today 60 into executive session
to consider the treaty. II no unfore-
seen circumstance prevents. and thus
AFFORD ample time to complete all
speeches by Wednesday, when the vot-
ing is to begin on the miscellaneous
amendments. The consideration OF
amendments is to continue Thursday.
provided new ones are offered after
Wednesdays proceedings. Later than
that day the senate procedure is not
clear. Consent to naming a date for
the vote on the treaty itself is still
withheld and will not be given until
after the fate Of the amendments be-
comes known.
It is surmised that IL the Chiffon
amendment should be accepted the de-
bate on the treaty would soon come
to conclusion, but that If 1t should
be beaten the subsequent discussion
would be of indefinite duration. The APP
preparation bills are expected to be re-
ported to the senate after the meeting
Of the committee on appropriations to-
morrow, but they will not be taken up
in the senate until the treaty is dis
posed of. The bankruptcy bill will
also yield precedence to the treaty. The
question Of organizing the committees
continues to press for attention and
may reach a climax during the week.
The tariff bill will reach the senate
late in the week and be referred to
committee which. however. already has
the various schedules under considera-
ton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
Kenosh.,s Sleeping Girl L Dead.

Xeaosha, Wis. March 29.-Edna Balm.
the 12-year-oid daughter Of John p.
Balm, living about six miles southwest
Of. here, who caused wide interest from
the fact that she had been asleep since
March Is. died late Thursday night. Up
10 the time Of the death she continued
hsr sleep and could not be aroused.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
would Like To BE Auditors.

Washington. March 2S.-Additional
applications for appointment to presi-
Dental offices under the treasury de-
partment have been filed as follows:
J. d. Aston, of Carriers Mills. Ills. as
auditor for the navy department: E.
A. clifford, of Evanston. Ills. as deputy
auditor for the postoffice department.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTS SLATED.
ConCer, of Iowa, to Go to Bfaxil-Michi-
gan Man to Assist Gage.

ConSefs OF Iowa, 10 TO TO k5f0x1l-m1Cn1.
gan Man to Assist Gage.
Washington, March 2s-The Post says:
A number Of important nominations will
be sent to the senate today unless some
thing unforeseen occurs. While the
presidents selections for several offices
are not definitely known it is believed
they will include the following: Ex-
Representative Shallenberger, of Penn
sylvania, second assistant postmaster
general; Mr.. Baxter, of Elmira, N. Y,
third assistant postmaster general;
Thomas Ryan, Of Kansas, first assistant
secretary of the interior; o. L. Splaud-
ing, of Michigan, first assistant secre-
tary of the treasury. Ex-President An
drew D. White, Of Cornell, has. 1t Is
said, been rendered the German en-
bassy and accepted it; Charlemagne
Tower, OF Philadelphia, who was
originally named for the German en-
bassy, will probably be minister to Aus
tria, and ex-Rpresentative Draper, OF
Massachusetts, ambassador to Italy.
Ex-Representative F. H. Conger. of
Iowa, minister to Brazil; Franklin Fort,
Of New Jersey. solicitor general, and
Benjamin Butterworth, of Ohio, COM
missioner of patents, are also under
stood to be on the list.
Judge Longs Pension Case.
Washington, March 29.-The pension
case of Chief Justice Charles D. Long.
of Michigan. will remain undisposed Of
until the Republican appointee as COM
missioner Of pensions takes charge.
Judge Long. after vigorously asserting
his legal right not to be compelled to
60 tlxr
went before the board of examiners at
Lansing. Mich. 1t is known that the
board has made a very favorable re-
port, practically sustaining the claim of
Judge Long to $72 rating, but Com
| missioner Murphy and some Of the Of
| ficials do not agree with the boards
view
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
judge Longs Pension Case.
Women In the Civil service,

Washington, March 20. = President
Mckinley was visited Saturday by a
committee Of the Academy Of Forty.
composed Of Ruth g. Havens. Sara A.
Spencer, Emma NJ. Gillett. Helen r.
Holmes and Mary Durham, who sought
to secure a modification Of the civil SER
vice rules SO as to prevent discrimina-
ton against women in certification by
the commission to the appointing au-
thorities. They wanted women certified
whenever they passed the examination
the same as men, except where men
are specified in the law.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29

Washington. March 2s.-Secretary Of
State Sherman is confined to his room
with an attack Of rheumatism. 1t Is
tary is expected soon to be out again.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29

Washington. March 2s.-The secretary
of the interior has disbarred william p
Rees. of Connersville. Ind. from prac-
tice before the department on q charge
knowingly presenting a fraudulent pen
sion claim.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-29
rHs ABa al M Il, Mxk + %. 1897 s.,

chairman. Mr.. n. n. Hanna, Of "A.
Aianapolis. discussed with the secre-
tary the question of the probability OF
congress at once authorizing the APP
pointment OF a monetary commission ON
the revision Of our monetary system.
as recommended by the Indianapolis
conference. and also by President Nc
Kinley in his inaugural message. Gage
expressed himsef as fully convinced OF
the necessity for such q commission.
and he thought that no good could re-
suit from delaying its appointment.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-10-02
yellow Fever on the cuff Coast

L Is greatly to be regretted lha'
r0cre 'rs been nm outbreak OF yello"
G yer at Ocean Springs, the eastern
most POINT on the gulf coast OF Mis-
sissippi The appearance OF TINS
malsdy invariably produces panic
Infinitely out OF proportion to It's IN
rrinsie dnugcrs. aud It leads, besides
ia certain exhibitions Of hnman lg-
uornncr. NpusiliOn, aud cruelty
which makes Us blu h for our COM
mon human nature. In the hands oi
cIurelrn. ply .trini AMI nurses, yell
low fever Is a Nr less dangerous WISH
10 than dipiheria, scarlet fever, OF
smallpox, and but for the Insane ter
ror il produces, the interruption oil
travel aud traffic it would attrac' but
hrle attention, aud cause very slgh'
disturbance of normal conditions.
Appearing, as II does now, ~ a part
OF the country whore the disease Is
very mperfectly understood, where
il is held in irrational horror aud
under circumstances which will oper.
ate strongly against the patients chan
ccs Of recovery, it may well be re-
gardcl as disaster, Already the
ncighborhoods are quarantining not
only Ocean Springs, but each other
Already Galveston has put an EN-
barge on New Orleans aud Mobile
has isolated Itself rom the entire world
of its latitude, In every country town
along the Mississippi river from Mem
phis south, ana throughout the whole
area of Southern Mississippi, Alabama
and Louisiana, enlightened public
sentiment will draw the impossible
Gordon around Itself Christian char
I ty will hide its face, aud the Good
Samaritan get out his shotgun We
shall have a repetition of those scenes
of savagery which, during the great
epidemic Of 1873, took us back to bar
barism of the tenth century The
afflicted will be refused shelter aud
miuistralion The dying will be de-
MED n roof-tree or bed, The Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad, which
runs through the Injected region
will not take persons, either sick OF
well, away from the localities where
the disease prevails, andno town along
It's route would receive them II the case
were otherwise Such is the in-
scusate terror of The people in that
part of the country that they would
dismantle and even destroy the rail-
road itself should its managers at
tempt to practice the precepts OF
civilized humanity. Hundreds of hui
man beings, therefore, will be forced
to remain within reaph eff the conta'
gion, denied the opportunity to es
cape, made martyrs to a stupid and
brutal fear for which we can find nc
suitable words of condemnation
Washington Post
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-10-02
THE LACKSUN SCARE.

.sWeduesday about noon he news
was flashed over the wire from Ed
wards, q village Ct perhaps 1000 in
habitants, thirty miles to the west, aud
on the line of the Alabama 81 Vicks
burg railroad, that the government
experts, Drs Guiteras and Purnell,
had declared seven cases o. genuine
yellow fever and several suspects at
chat place. have heard 1t said that
he'll broke loose in Georgia., and no
longer dnubt-it broke loose here last
Wednesday, and the sinners didn't get
out of town any faster than did the
fellows who sit in sthe amen corner.
Had Uncle Gabriel blowed his trum.
pet there could not have been any
more commouou tLau was occasioned
by the telegram frOtn the State board
of health, informing Jackson that the
fever at Edwards was yellow. This
news had been expected for week
or more, put like other calamities,
few were prepared 10 meet il,
Once before Jackson experienced
Just such a commOtion, and that was
when the yellow fever was announced
in the city in Sept 1888, just ten
years after the epidemic of 1873, but
they got out no faster than they did
this time-such thing would be inn
possible. Business men dropped their
work, grabbed their hats and made 4
break for The streets, where they en-
gagSd one or moro of the wagons or
draws, jumped in beside the driver
and struck 2:4G clip for their homes,
tumbled q roll or tN" Of bedding,
couple of trunks, few articles Of fur
mture and perhaps a cook stove inc
the wagon, and dit out" for the
rural districts, never stopping to think
where they were going to stop for the
night Those who had made up their
minds to take the railroads fastened
to the quarantine station, two miles
north Of the city, and waited the ar
rival of the train, not due for hours,
and we're Whirled away towards the
north, not knowing or caring where
they went, just so they got out of the
state and vicinity Of Edwards.
Two of the worst scared men in |
The community were the proprietors Of
he TWO daily papers-both Of them
rushed of as quick as the news was
aiken of from the wire, gathered their
families together and left town with.
)ut so much as telling the employees
If the Offices $50 long," aud without
,veu making arrangements TO have the
)ffices kept open during their absence.
Talk about fleeing as if from the
wrath TO comet is not circum-
tanCe TO the way these newspaper
men got out of town, one for Chics-
70 and the other for st. Louis,-Jack-
on Cor. Scimitar.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-10-02

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several months longer !" "'''7' wv
presepD CouuL
Gre,uyille should feel n'ou'' '' mr.
gallant guards who are .'o'"t ..l '
their power 10 preVoo' 'ho "''."..
scourgc, yellow lever iJ"W Z "-
into our uidst. Society iees ne ioSS '
of so many beauN "U" VIII "' s'""
when they are released lIo"' uo.l ,
We feel greatly llaeolea l' ss'g'"'
visiting Young men "ho are I'Hu''s
their assistance To U' 'h our wy
Trey are Mr. Horny U''''''.'
New Orlcnns, WIZ" '", o,.u "a j,
Mr. Chas, wing i", sew tsi "o'ET "
Messrs Paxton aod io"'I' "' '''N '
burg 49,,
Messrs Wade Nesu, 'nu u '' -. :" IT,.
cali, spent mosI "rIishl'o' ''V" ,,t
at Newslcad, lha lovely nom ~ nv. e" .
aud Mrs, Harley Mtteal.g' - "..,
| gentlemen possess N"I4e'l"' ,'''2.,",
ttient, ana lhe5' ""n ~ e a., ,, o,oi
Harley ana Jo0n a. ~ W -uo,,|','
(known as ihe Mo. .'''. q" ',',,, I.'VJ
gave some oeaa''Iu' '"a'' "''''''''
lection Ill.,. .,,,,,
Thursday marked peIuups 80. 'uo r, 'noo'
Important day oil ,u' Ouu'o"',,'. ~, po'
sltlan At Na.i5 I',G 1T, iNa.o a., ', ,ho
day THIS be"plIO. M.'"' , } ',,U
honoree oil me occ az, wa. ""' 4" ,a" no
girla" oG as n.i Mo'0 sLo "ossCs.cd many
auth'leu DtIiV' GUY 'Oss'S'N
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-10-02
MeteaIfe. Collins Seminary.

The college will be opened on Mon
day, October 4. All the corps o
teachers are present. with the excep
tionsof Madame MERCER Peery, the
mistress Of the department of music
who is detained by quarantine regu
lations, and will be unable TO reach
Greemville until the Restrictions are
removed. The pianos aud furniture
have arrived, aud, as all is in readi.
ness for The opening, Madam Met
calfe.Collins feels that it should not
be deferred. The present unsettled
condition of travel and communica-
ton Will affect only those pupils who
are TO come from a distance. Those
living in Washington and adjoining
counties Of the Delta eau reach the
college without difficulty, aud will OF
course be as secure within it as at
their own homes. The formal public
ceremony of opening the college il
necessarily postponed for q few weeks
as many expected pupils and the dis
invited guests from dis
tarce can not reach Greenvllle on SC
count of the quarantine. The public
opening will be an event of interest,
TO which the whole town is cordially