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The Meeker herald., 1897-05-22
FINE FEATHERS roo FINE.
he Fowls Were Falsely billed .,
Dlack Spanish.

he Fowls Were Falsely billed -
Dlack Spanish.
A bright blue ribbon hanging over q
ge of fowls in downtown window
tracted people to a closer examination
ben the legend "Prize-Winncrs" ap-
Jared on a card with the announce
ent: These Are Genuine Black Span.
Fowls"
Anything Spanish just ut present at
ects attention Of some sort and
oups Of people stopped and comment
on the beauty OF the proud birds
futting under the blue ribbon, says
Chicago Tribune.
Flock at 'em, Maggie. Amt they
auties?" said motherly looking
bman who was shopping with her
lighter, 81 reckon one of 'em would
ke dinner"
Eue.s sl4inse~uuge-YD1up
said the girl in an awed tone.
.Prize nothing" snarled o woman
With market basket on her arm. Il
wus raised in the country and know a
Black Spanish es well az do one of
my family. They don't have feathers
with every color on them"
"You'rc right, na'am," and man
plunged into the basement. He looked
ike countrymnn, but they distinctly
heard him say:
They've tumbled to the racket out
there and you'd better take in the blue
ribbon and label your barn-yards Cuban
Broilers. They're too gay for Spanish
stock, and that's fact"
The Meeker herald., 1897-05-22

That amended tarif.bilI is not bag
enthusiastically supported bv the Re-
publican editors, and President Nc
Kinley is said to oppose some Of its
schedules.
Satisfactory progress Is being made
by the management Of the Trans
Mississippi Exposition In the matter OF
erecting buildings. This great exposi-
ton, in which the West is deeply inter-
ested, will be held In Omaha in 1898.
The Meeker herald., 1897-05-22
THIS PAPER { Il t,s. z psass e y

Advssth;nE Agency. 9 and 9 asschants +.
for advertising can be made Tor y
The Meeker herald., 1897-05-22

Take your local peper-Tnx HERALD.
The Meeker herald., 1897-05-22
health authorities over in Brooklyn
found they had all been poisoned by
white lead used in painting a water

health authorities over in Brooklyn
found they had all been poisoned By.
white lead used in painting a water
Tank"
II was working in Milwaukee one
summer" said a fourth, "when the cap
tain sent me around to the hospital to
inquire nfter friend of his who was
there. AS I reached the door couple
of grain trimmers that ! knew were
Just lifting n man out of n grocer's
wagon. They carried him into the hos
pital and said he had been landed from,
the fishing tug Belle and che had
steamed out of the hnrbor as soon as
he was clear Of her rail. The man
seemed to be dead at first, and he was
almost. For two weeks he was delirious
with brain fever and spent most of his
| time cursing somebody for leaving him
to drown. :.
.sHe had been a sailor on schooner
that left Milwaukee for Chicago two
nights before WINS sent to the hospital.
1t was rough night and a waive washed
him overheard. He would have
drowned quickly, but mate had been
quick wittcd enough to henve over n
pine fender as he saw the man 20 over
the rail. The fender was washed with.
in the reach of the man, and he had
taken his belt and made himself fas'
a ...--- ..--- - =
Be kept above water. He foated abou
all night md the next day. He saw I
number Of vessels, but was unable tt
attract the attention of anyone. A.
night cnme he thought he was dying
and gave up all hope, and the next he
knew was when he came to in the hos
pital. He had been picked up by the
fishing tug about 80 hours after he wns
washed overheard. Tie had fioated un-
conscious for about IA hours."-N. Y.
| Sun.
The Meeker herald., 1897-05-22
Warned An Idea Z: 80! =! !:s

8: 8. j. & 4! II :. IS: s:
The Meeker herald., 1897-05-22

We don't believe that President Nc
Kinley meant anything personal to the
Kentucky ofice-seekers when he said
that he would not knowingly appoint q
man known to make excessive use Of
intoxicants.
The Meeker herald., 1897-05-22

1t will go hard with our ex-ambassa.
dor to England, after hobnobing with
royalty so long, to return to being plain
Tom Bayard among his Delaware neigh
bors.
The Meeker herald., 1897-05-22


Now let everybody start in to be good,
not only to themselves but to others.
An Austrian scientest has predicted
that every living creature on the earth
will be suffocated OH November 13, 1900,
by poisonous gases from q collision
with comet.
Revenue bills are originated In the
house, but they are amended in the
senate, and the constitution isn't viola
ted, either.
Tho sugar trust evidently has mo
politics. 1t always manages to get
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
AT NEW YORK.
Ruling Prices i'm Produce at the Sea-
bOnrd's Commercial Metropolis.

NEW YORK Aug. 1.-Flour-Receipts Is 253
brls; exports, H. l59 brls. Market quiet, but held
decidedly higher; Minnesota patents. $550Q6
Minnesota bakers. $4.25a46O winter patents, $5.25
@575; winter straights s4.s5G5; winter low
grades. $3.4003.5O Rye flour stronger; superhne
S2S71kQ3.1O. fancy, SS.10QS.25. Corn meal strong
yellow Western zoe. Rye stronger; No. West
ern 511ac; CARROTS. 3SQ42c. Barley dull at 2915
GSOc Barley malt quiet; Western 4Sg5Sc.
Wheat-Receipts. 1880 blu; exports, 1856 bu
Spot strong: No. red, $1.09%. Options opened
strong on feverish buying and advanced excited
ly all the morning higher cables. large weekly
exports and general bullish news; closed $50
Csc net higher. selling up nc more on the curb;
No. 2 red. August, closed at s1.O74; September,
Sl.O114 055s, closed $1.051A.
Corn Receipts. lSS, 500 bu exports. 16l, OO9 bu.
and advanced all day on an active trade. slim,
ulated by a bulltsh feeling and the jump in
% sc cl6 aSdDs at sse al '' september ''
Oats Receipts. $3.50 bu; exports 90, S43 bu.
and strong with the other markets. closing 112c
net higher August closed at 25c; September.
Hay quiet: shipping o3 45@5oe good choice
6aSc; Pacific coast 1895 crop, Sq4c 1896 crop,
hides hrm Galveston, , 554e34gs15Ac Buenos
lie. Leather firm; hemock sole, Buenos Ayres
iif Beef frnj fsmiiy ss5oSio beef hams. SIS;
$t.55dS; picked sho9aders s5QS l2js picked
$S25dls.5o; new, $i0.25qlO.oO shorf-cear, sloGi2;
family $10.25Q11.
TaIiow quiet; city. S7sc; country. SAQSlkc, as to
quality.
nominal; prime +. o. b. mills, Tic; prime summer
yellow, 26q26l9c; off summer yellow, 25d251sc;
butter grades. $0QS2c; nrime summer white. IS
a PEE; prime winter yellow 3Sc
Coffee-Options opened steady at unchanged
prices to ) points decline showed weak under
tone. following continued heavy receipts at Rio
and Santos and weakness in spot departments
Trading local and European advices disappolnt-
ing closed dull from net unchanged to points
dee 100 bags including:
646Q6.50c; December, 610Q6.75c. Spot coffee
Mild quiet and easy; cordova. 1O1sQ16I2c Rio
Cleared for the United states, IL 900 bags: cleared
for Europe. Il 900 bags stock S75 600 bags. Total
IA $50 bags, including "a, OS0 from New York; New
York stock to-day. 40S,a60 bags United states
stock 416 o43 bags: ahoat for the United States
25eoO6 bags total visible for the United States.
49, 043 bags, against 473 l05 last year.
Rice firm. domestic, fair TO extra, 4ls66l4c;
Japan. 4l4G4&c. Molasses firm; New Orleans
omen kettle, good 20 choice, 23GS0c.
sugar-Raw arm; fair refining, S]4c: centrifugal.
90 test, Sac. Refined firm; mold y, SIC; stand
ard A, 47ec; confectioners A, 4xc; cut-loaf 56sc:
crushed, 5Ssc: powdered. SIC; graduated, sc:
cubes. sic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
DETECTION OF COUNTERFEITERS.
Methods Which Help WOmen's Uner-
ring Instinct and Touch.
London Truth,

The governor of the Bank of France has
found that his lady clerks are the best de-
tectives Of forged bank notes and of de-
bentures with altered numbers. He has now
entirely intrusted the work of detection to
feminine corps. He believes the delicate
tact or their fingers helps them and he fan
ces that many of them really scent a bad
note. They EEL, in lingering the forged
notes, the ffference, however slight, be-
tween them and the real. He never knew
note that had been laid aside as doubtful
after being thus felt, to be anything but a
forged one. The means for bringing to light
falsified numbers on debentures are worth
being brought under the notice of stock
brokers and bankers. The fair detective first
spreads the suspected debenture on a we'll
lighted table with number of Others and
sets them one by one beside it. The genuine
numbers are always written with clerkly
regularity. The man or woman who wrote
them did so mechanically, but forgers
hand is always influenced by hope or fear.
1t is not, probably, his business to do moth
ing but write figures and fill up forms. 1t
nearly always happens that his state of
feeling is betrayed in the more symmetri-
to notice is the difference in the color of the
ink. IL is never of the same shade as that
in the original. Should it be darker or light
er, the suspected debenture is taken to a
dark room and placed under a strong re-
flectOr
Differences that did not appear are now
seen. The unaltered figures are shiny. be-
cause the ink is oXidized; the new ones are
of a duller black. In some angles of the
light one does not see the original figures at
all, but the added ones plainly. They are
then dampened with alcohol to make the
paper transparent. The difference of char
acter between what was first written and
what was added is thus brought out more
distinctly. A magnifying glass is next used
Tremors of the hand, skillful scratchings
and alterations of figures are made mani
fest. On the wrong side of the numbers be-
ing lightly brushed with plOmbagine the
new figures stand out in stronger relief than
the old. The final operation is 1.-The wash"
of the debenture. 1t is first washed with A
camel s-hair brush dipped in a mixture of
part of castor oil to six parts of alco-
hol, at heat of 50 degrees. The primitive
added ones. The second wash is of soda
and water in the proportion of two to one
hundred. The added ink, if at all fresh dis
appears, and the original number stands out
clearly. If notice has been given of the loss
of a bond with the original number it will
go hard with the person who has presented
the cooked one unless he can show that
it was thus when his broker conveyed it to
him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
NOW A BRITISH VASSAL
DETAILS OF THE SURRENDER OF
THE BLACK KING OF BENIN.
With Twenty Wives, 500 Warriors
and Band He Enters the "City of
Blood" and Bows to His Masters.

LA Cos, West Coast of Africa, Aug. 2l.-
The King of Benin. who surrendered on
Aug. to the British authorities, after wan
dering in the bush since the capture of
Benin City by the British in February last
as a result of the massacre of an unarmed
expedition under Consul Phillips, entered
Benin City, preceded by a messenger bear
ing a white flag and followed by eight
hundred unarmed blacks, ten chiefs, twenty
wives and a reed band playing native music
On Aug. Z the acting political resident
received the Kings obeisance in front of the
palaver house. The King was covered
with coral ornaments and his arms were
supported on each side by natives. About
four hundred naked natives and many
chiefs formed circle about the King The
latter at first expressed a desire 70 make
his submission privately to the president.
but the British representative refused and
the King, after having consulted with his
chiefs, made an obeisance, rubbing his fore
head three times upon the ground. Ten of
his most important chiefs did the same
and the ceremony was concluded.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
Indiana Notes.

State Factory Inspector d. H. McAfee
spent Saturday in Elwood inspecting the
factories.
The Elwood Produce and Stock Ex-
change is branching out and establishing
exchanges at Alexandria and Muncie.
James Heavenridge, of Jefferson town.
snip, putnam county, was run over by
wagon Friday night and fatally injured.
The thirty-eighth annual reunion Of the
old settlers of Wayne county was held yes
terday on their picnic grounds north of
Centerville, with six hundred people pres
ent.
The Modes Glass Company at Cicero is
erecting hotel to accommodate one hum
dred boys it will be compelled to bring in
because of the new factory and educa-
tional laws.
Work was begun last Wednesday on
Jaeger & Co.'S glass factory at Cicero.
Contracts are being made for new dwelling
houses but the demand in the town is said
to be so great that it cannot be supplied
this fall
The list of teachers for the Elwood city
schools for the coming year, which begins
Sept. 10, has been completed, with T; F.
Fitzgibbon as superintendent; Daniel Free
man, principal of the high school; l.. ID.
Owen, assistant; Miss Jennie Small, critic;
Mary Schrock, teacher of drawing and
music. Thrty-nine teachers are employed.
The CentervilIe Creamery Company, one
of the finest CreamerieS in the United
States, whose butter ranks No. in
New York city held it's annual election
of officers yesterday: Thomas E, Jackson,
president; Walter s. Commons, secretary
and treasurer; T. E. Jackson j. c. King,
J. B. Lybolt, c. J. Harvey, Waldo Pike
and Martha Stevens directors.
Joseph Moneyhun, who fell from a Big
Four excursion train two years ago while
en- route to Benton Harbor, died at his
nome in Anderson yesterday. His death
was indirectly due to the accident, which
cost him two of his legs. He got five
thousand-d dollar verdict for the injury, but
the ruling was reversed in the higher
courts, the ruling establishing a precedent
regarding liability platform riding.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
Tncoma VS.. Semitic.
Tacoma Ledger.

Our. neighboring city prides itself upon
its spirit. A kindly, just. benignant spirit
sentative paper OF Seattle, frequently takes
occasion to show what the Seattle spirit is.
On Sunday last it told about the splen-
did prosperity of the city of Seattle" ana
of the enormous business that this city is
enjoying and which is making every man
woman and child in the Queen City happy
and rich" Now, that is an admirable con
dition OF affairs. The News is very glad to
hear that Seattle, or any other of our cities,
is enjoying splendid prosperity, doing an
enormous business and that every man.
woman and child within it is happy and
rich. The only regret the News has in the
premises is that the exuberant rejoicing
may not be entirely founded on truth; It
is bare possibility that one or two men,
and. perhaps. half dozen women and chill
dren in Seattle may be neither happy nor
rich. Being so happy and opulent, the P.-I.
remarks: Tacoma is not a commercial city,
nor can 1T ever become such" This Is the
beautiful Seattle spirit which challenges ad-
miration.
Imports and exports for the last fiscal
year:
S21. S1S
ass.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
Elsewhere.

IS GH ie Aug 2Prces for cattle to-day as
being too few cattle in the pens to make mar
ket Sales in most cases were at prices I'M
ers, Texans and natives are looked for Monday.
In hogs buyers took hold freely at an advance
81 BOB hogs were at an extreme range Of s5Se
than week ago.. The quality of the present
receipts is uneven. but averages very WELL though
there is a steady increase in the percentage of
common hogs and pigs.
1tq25c this week under heavy receipts, To-day
sme he6%S %esepG he 9eep at
an ana the best natives sold in a small way at &c. 75
s3.5O@4 10. Feeding lambs brought $4a425
Receipts-Cattle, 600; hogs, $1,000; sheep, 5000.
ST: LOUIS Aug: 21.-Catte--R Receipts, $500;
steers, $455@5.9O, bulk at 81 7Oq5 TO- dressed beef
light steers, under go pounds. ss75a455 bulk
at $$90a4;S0; stockers and Feeders s275G435 bulk
cows g. 5O@3.1O; canning cows. 81. 5Ga235 Texas
and Indian steers averaged better than last week;
Era,Ssserss s3914 80 bulk at $SS5@S7O; COWS and
1oc higher; light, $4Q416 mixed, $8SOQ4O5,
Sheep%Reeeipts none; shipments LOCO Market
slow, but steady; native muttons, $91563. 80;
stockers s26Oa3; culls and bucks $232. 25; lambs,
no SF cSSn! YORK osss ss 81
cepts. 15S Market quiet and about steady;
Xealss, s450@675; buttermilks, $3.75Q4; Westerns,
Hogs-Recepts, 8,162. Market easier at $4,000
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts $685. Market more
lambs, s5a575.
EAST LIBERTY, Aug. 21-Cattle steady;
9c70 bulls. stays and cows, $2q3.50; veal calves,
Hogs steady; prime pigs; and light Workers, $3.50
@4.S5; best medium weights S4.20GD4.25; grassers,
3.75.
Sheep steady; choice $1,000 20; fair, So 1908 rs;
common. 50. 60G3.50; choice lambs. $5.20@5.40
KANSAS CITY. Aug. .-Cattle-Receipts, 400.
Market steady and unchanged. with only retail
trade.
,Hogs-Receipts, $500. Market strong to 7lgc
higher bulk of sales, SSS2ss@3 20; packers So rs
So. 9GG392la: pigs, $3.z503.S0.
slow; lambs, $s25G5.i0; muttons s25OG5.9O.
LOUISVILLE, Aug, A.-Cattle-Receipts none
ard market unchanged.
Hogs-ReceiPts. 800; mediums, 81; light. $3.65@4;
roughs, 50. 25Q36
Sheep and Lambs--Receipts. $50. Market quiet
and unchanged
CINCINNATI, Aug. 21.-Cattle strong at 1925
d4.S5.
Hogs strong at $S.4O041715
Sheep steady at $2@p3.50; lambs steady at $3.50
also.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
MRS. BURNETTs BANTING SCHEME.
The Washington Author Has a Luxury
in 81 Cellar.

New York Journal.
Mrs. Hodgson- Burnett has found much to
occupy her time these warm August days.
in addition to working like a Trojan upon
the finishing chapters of her forthcoming
book THE Duke of Osmonde." For sew
eral years past it has been apparent not
only to Mrs. Burnetts friends, but to her.
self as we'll that she was accommodating an
undesirable amount of avoirdupois. In or
der TO reduce her weight, Mrs. Burnett mas,
during the past winter and spring, been
going regularly to one of the leading mas
sage establishments in Washington, the
cost of which has not been insignificant.
Finally, she decided to make a purchase
of a complete massage outfit. which she
has set up in full operation in the cellar
of her observation-disclosures residence.
The complicated machinery is run by gas,
and some portion of each day is spent by
the talented writer faithfully undergoing
self-administered massage.
The entire cellar has been converted into
q luxurious massage parlor with soft Per-
sian rugs and Oriental hangings To rob the
underground apartment of its grim aspect
Here Mrs. Burnett disrobes and submits
her somewhat too fully developed curves
10 the operations of the mechanical mas
seur The effect produced by the machine
is said to equal the work of the most skill
full human massage artist. Mrs Burnett
has succeeded in reducing her weight a
number of pounds, and win soon regain the
almost perfect contour OF form which at
one period caused her 10 be looked upon
as one of the most beautiful women in
Washington.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
BEATS WIZARD HER MANN
BOY CATCHES A
BULLET IN HIS MOUTH.
Lost the Tip of His Nose in Doing the
Trick, but Not Otherwise Dam
Aged-State News.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SPENCER Ind, Aug. H.-Two boys and
an ancient pattern revolver, rusted and
discarded, figured in an accident at Ro-
mona yesterday which was probably never
duplicated in all the miscellaneous stories
of guns mot loaded" 1t was Carl Aliens
eighth birthday and his friends, Johnny
Hauser, of about the same age, was his
guest Playfully Carl told Johnny to go
home and as playfully Johnny refused AS
Stunning a stern countenance Carl took up
the old revolver, a 32-caliber, that had been
thrown about the house for several years,
and pointing it at his friend, pulled the
trigger. 1t went off and little Johnny fell
to the floor, blood squirting from his nose
and mouth. Dr. Prichard, of Gosport, was
summoned and made an examination. He
found that the ball had entered at the tip
of the nose, but the bullet could not be
located The Hauser boy was apparently
suffering no inconvenience except from his
bleeding nose. The doctor came to the con-
clusion that he had swallowed the bullet"
and last night his theory was confirmed
by the bullet finding its way out of his body
through the intestinal canal Local ply
sicians have no knowledge of a more re-
marka BILE accident.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
IN HONOR OF NJ. FAURE.
Russian Preparations for Entertain
ing the French President.

Russian Preparations for Entertain
ing the French President.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. H.-Presdent
Faure, who will arrive at Cronstadt on
Monday next, will occupy the same apart
ments at the Peterhof Palace as were as
signed to Emperor William, of Germany.
Each evening the park will be Illuminated
by 100000 lights and the Illumination of
the city in honor of the French President
will be splendid. The sales of flags, col
ored globes and lanterns in anticipation of
the Presidents visit have already been i'm
mense, and there is no doubt his Iecep-
ton will be of the heartiest description,
more national than accorded to the En-
peror of Germany. The municipality Of st.
Petersburg which spent 10000 roubles
on on the iatters visit VIII spend spend O1So
President of France. The great baZaarS
and stores have also been lavish with their
decorations, while the decora lions of the
public buildings have been planned on
most sumptuous scale. The entrance of
the Town Hall has been transformed into
an immense pavilion of rich draperies and
countless flags and festoons, the whole be-
ing surmounted with busts of the Gear,
the Czarina and President Faure, 18th a
background composed of masses of shrubs
and foliage The initials ''R. F. (Repub-
Hque Francaise), and the INTERVIEWING of
the national flags of Russia and France will
form the leading feature Of the general dec
orations The central basins of the Alex
ander gardens have been converted into
lawns have been illuminated Triumphal
arches abound, especially on the Newsky
Prospect
The visiting French sailors will be en-
tertained lavishly by the management of
the leading cafe concerts and music gar
dens, who will provide free beer and free
cigarettes for their refreshment. A num-
Der of banquets have been arranged. At
one of them 5000 persons will be seated.
festivals have been organized in honor
of NJ. Faure. During the French Presi-
play on all the squares and a choir of 1000
voices will sing the "Marseillaise" at Vari-
Gus points A fleet of about $50 vessels will
take the general public to meet the French
squadron when 1t arrives off Cronstadt.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
YANKEE TARS LICKED.
Several Wounded and Arrested by PO-
lice of n French SennOrt.

CHERBOURG, Aug. 21.-There has been a
disturbance here between the French po-
lice and some seamen Of the United States
corvette Alliance. The police, 1t appears,
arrested one of the American sailors, who
was accused of refusing to pay for drink.
His comrades attempted to rescue him, and
a conflict between the police and the sail
were worsted A number of them were In
1ured and several were arrested and hand
ed over to tbs officers of the Alliance The
officers of the Alliance subsequently went
ashore and ordered all of the corvettes
men to return to ship. and it Is believed
that the incident is ended.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-22
Pensions for Veterans,
Certificates have been issued to the
Lnrui n O. N med Indianians.

loW1ng-named lndlanlanS:
Original-George H. Faulkner, New Cas-
tie; Slas NJ. Buckley, Andrews
Additional-Samuel +. Collins, Indianap-
oils.
Increase-Daniel Shonk. Clay City; VIII
liam Watson, Charlottesville; John b. Cool
dy. Sullivan: Andrew T. Layton. Green
castle; George f. Walker, Boggstown;
George w Warren, Evansville; Jonathan
Schooley, Madison.
Reissue-James w. McKriH, Bourbon:
Isaac Schwartz, Williamsport; George c.
Smith, Indianapolis; George W. Brown
Reno.
Reissue and Increase-Amos F. flaming.
Flint
Original Widow, etc.-Reissue: Special
Aug H. Ellen Mcclellan. Auburn
Mexican War Widow-Specal, Aug II
Emerine Cox, Peru.