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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
The Device is a Large Anger
Operated by Steam.
Does More in an Hour Than Can Be
Done by Hand in Days.
Inventor Looking After Klondike Syndi-
Gates ana Capitalists.

Necessity is the mother of invention.
This old-fashioned and true saying came
with energetic force to young man in
this city, after reading accounts OF tho
difficulties attending gold-mining at
Klondike.
lie is of an inventive turn Of mind and
he cogitated upon some scheme TO make
klondike mining easy, in comparison with
existing conditions in that shivery cour.
try. He laid awake nights until he hit
upon what be considers feasible and
practicable plan for mining ON large
scale
He has applied for n patent and no pur-
poses To soii tho prcfuUt of his trains 10
syndicates now forming to get the inn
prisoned precious metal out OF the frozen
ground
But for the ice i'm the earth 10 is be.
lieved that the Alaskan yield of gold would
surpass the imagination of the widest
dreamer.
The inventor read about tie difficulty
of thawing the earth. Miners now build
a big fire over the spot they are going to
work and when the earth Is thawed out "a
few inches, the ground is removed and
then another big fire is started over the
same spct.
This is repeated until enough ground Is
thawed TO demonstrate whether the
miners are on good or barren earth. It
is q slow and tedious process and it can
be only carried on during the warm part
of the year.
After going rs deep as he wants to- the
apparatus will be shifted and another
hole made in the same way. That earth
will also be worked.
This process will be kept up until quito
a large tract of land will be covered. The
introduction of steam into these several
holes will thaw all the ice in the section
and permit the minors to shovel out the
earth at will.
QUICK WORK THE RESULT.
BY this process a whole square can be-
bored aud thawed out and the task OF
digging the ground will, then be almost
as easy as getting sand at Cape Cod.
So far as the ice difficulty is concerned
the inventor is of the opinion that he can
dig Alaska oil the map with his appara
tus.
One Of tho great advantages of the in
vention lies in the ability to dig all the
year round. whether it is 90 degrees in the
shade or 200 below zero out of it. IL the
Miners can stand it the apparatus can.
"1o be sure" he says lit will cost con-
siderable to'get the machinery on the gold
diggings, but that will be of little conse-
quence in comparison with its ability TO
get the gold quickly out of the ground.
What he wants now is to get the klon
dixie syndiCates and capitalists interested
IN the product of his brains. Whom they
grasp the situation, about all the gold in
Che famous district will pe as good as
coined and ready for delivery TO the inves-
tors in the enterprise.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
Loses II All in the Tar Bridge,
Johnston, Joint.
Makes Confession to The Man Whose
Money He Took.
Latter Finally Succe dS in Comps ing
Gamblers to DiSgOrge.

Sometime ago we'll knowc grocery
firm fell a victim 10 the Library Court
Johnston. gambling hell, through the
populations Of dishonest clerk who
embezz!ed over 500 while trying To satisfy
IN insane desire 10 break the bank. Now
another grocer is reported TO have suffered
in similar manner but this time IL was
che Tar Bridge joint that assisted in
launching misguided young man on a
criminal career.
In this case, the victim and thief were
related. This gave the latter access to
where the money was kept and one day
he stole SlOO from a roll OF bills and
strai,ltw won't to the Tnr Bridge den.
LOST The STOLEN WEALTH.
He was promptly relieved of the stolen
money by the man in charge of the
roulette wheel and he then returned home
yo face his relative, who had in the mean
time discovered tho shrinkage in his roll.
bill and he therefore knew just how much
fnad been taken from it,
AS soon as the embryo gambler re-
turned he was charged Win the inert ana
confessed. Moreover, no told where he
had lost the money.
The grocer made holler. ''as the gam
blers say. lie tnrenteaed them with law
suit. with arrest, and even with Iersonal
violence, so excited was be over his loss.
He appealed To the police and the police
referred him Co Mr. Briggs MIR. Briggs
was deaf IN both ears when The tale was
uLfolCei tn him. At least, fo dldn seem
20 hear. lilo was not moved ty the appeal.
lie neitler shed tears Cf compassion for
the victim nor opened his purse. Later,
however. the gamblers decided 10 give up
the sto.en money and the inciu9nt was
closed.
METHOD OF SETTLEMENT,
They usually take this way Of settling
little affairs of this kind rather than Eavn
the attention of the public called TO their
laWlgss business.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
ALL AFTER PEARLS.
Hunt For Sudden Riches by the
People of Arkansas.

New Orleans. La, Sept. 3. "A special
to tho Associated Press from Helena,
Ark, says:
The psarl hunting industry. which
mas been exciting the whole country here
abouts, is spreading all over this end Of
the state. The st. Francis river, from its
mouth to .Ieffersonville, is lined with
white people and negroes, all engaged in
unearthing and prying open the richly
laden mussel shells
one young man brought small bottle
OF pearls 20 Helena today, taken from
Phillips Bayou, territory Of the st.
Francis They are darker I'm color than
the ordinary pearl Of commerce, but are
OF hands somer shape ana "a good size.
All OF tho chain of lakes in the hitherto
impenetrable st. Francis river bottoms
are full, of these pearl bearing musseis,
and IL they prove 10 be valuable the
whole country presently will be engaged
in the business, to thu dotriment of crop
gathering. one planter said yesterday
that no expected 90 have difficulty In So
curing hands To pick his cctt-i on ac-
count OF the pearl hunting
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
Long Made a Business Of
Child Murder.
Killed One to Three Annually
For Many Years.
Had as Many as Six Bodies in
Spirits at One Time.

New York, Sept 3.-District Attorney
by Herman Mack, husband of Mrs.
Augusta Mack charged with the murder
of William Guldensuppe. lie says that
his wife has been killing children for a
number of years. He gives the whole
career of himself and his wife from 1886
to the time he left her in October, 1896
Mack says mis- wife made living
through Ithe murder of children. She
was so called midwife but never had
diploma, az she tried for one in Germany.
but failed in her examinations.
At one time, Mack declares, there were
as many as six dead children preserved
in spirits in bcttles in his room. He adds
that she murdered from one TO three
children year for eight to ten years.
Mack also says that his wife was helped
by certain physicians. and he mentions
undertakers, charging both physlclans
and undertakers with completely He
says that they aiced in making away
with the dead children.
Tie statement was got from Mack by
Asst Dist Atty. Mitchell, who has been
working hard TO get evidence on the
wife's history.
Dist. Atty. Olcott got the man to make
sworn statement in writing.
IN tne beginning Oh bno sla1enoht'
Herman Mack saws he came To New York
from Germany in 1886 His wife arrived
here q few months before no did. He
declares that her maiden name Is Augusta
Pussat, and that she was born III Ter
many. Then follows their whole career
for tho next 10 years The making public
of the statement by Dist. Atty. Olcott
was followed by great deal Of excite
ment in the district attorneys office. IL
was not known TO any one before that the
won an was capable Of such acts.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
MAY BET ON RACES.
Missouri Breeders Law Declared
Constitutional by a Court.

ST. Louis Mo-, Sept 3.-ln denying
the application for writ of seizure
against certain bookmaRers doing bust
ness at tho fair grounds race track, Judge
Withrow Of tho ~. Louis Circuit Court
decided that the breeders law Is consti-
tutional.
Tho application was made by Charles
Il. holland, counsel for tho pool room
prourietors. who wanted bottug at the
fair grounds stopped because their rooms
were raided under the state gambling act.
Judge Murphy had declared the breeders
law unconstitutional. and they hoped
that Judge Withrow would do the same.
lle took their application under advise
mant for four or five days, and after eX-
amining 10 carefully became satisfied that
The law was constitutional. This settles
the pool room question unless the state
Supreme Court takes adverse action.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
HIS FINGER BROKEN.

william Cook, a young man 20 years old. had
the misfortune 10 break the index finger of
his right hand this forenoon. He was clean.
ing his bicycle at - Wcybosset street, when
In some manner his finger got caught in the
chain and was So badly fractured that the
bone protruded and hung 10y the flesh The
pain was So severe that the young man faint
od. He was carried into Banding drug store
aud tho ambul1nce summoned. The doctor
dressed the injured member, after which he
was taken TO the Rhode Island Hospital In the
ambulance. Cook is I'm the employ ~ Day,
the printer, and live at @s Pine street
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
Stephen Peck Fatally In
jured at Pawtucket.
Heavy JOist Fell on Him in
the New Masonic Temple.
Blow Caused Compound Fracture
of Skull at Base OF Brain.

Stephen A. Peck, 80 years old, car
penter. unmarried, was fatally injured
at the new Masonic Temple in Pawtucket
this forenoon.
He was at work on the second floor
when joist 2x4 inchesiand 20 feet long
fell from tho fifth story, endwise 1t
passed through the light temporary floors
of the fourth and third stories and struck
fracture at the base of.the brain.
The victim of the accident was stock
holder and active member Of the Masonic
Temple Association, on whose building
he was injured. He was n prominent
member or Jenks Lodge. A. +. Il A. NJ.
and of Ballou Post No. 3, G. A. r. Of
Central Falls of which he had been adju-
tant.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
HEAVY ATTACHMENTS.
Levied on Members OF the Firm of
CrOSSin & Tucker.

The firm of Crossin 4 Tucker, manu-
featuring jewellers at 4O9 Pine. street is,
in financial difficulty owing to tie con-
tinued depression in the. jswelry sbusiness
and inability to meet outstanding obliga-
tions. The failure Of several firms doing
business with the local firm has also
contributed To its .present condition.
An attachment for $40, 600 was placed
by tho tifth National Bank on the
property OF James IL. Tucker and Bernard
CrosSin. An attachment Tor 5000 was
also placed bv the same bank on the
property Of jeremiah i. and bernard
Crossin and James Ii. Tucker
The property of Daniel Handy has been
attached by George Jefferson for $50
Thomas Evars has attached tho property
OF George ID. Paymond for. 5000.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
LAWS NULLIFIED.
Government of Idaho Finds Itself
in a Queer Predicament.

Boise, Idaho. septa-Distriot Judge George
II. Stewart has decided the auti-gambling law
unconstitutional under the decision of the Su-
preme Court in the Fec Law case. which in
effect nullhos all important laws Of the state.
n the appropriation bill should be- attacked,
as seems likely, Governor Stoumbcrg may be
forced 90 rcconvono the Legislature. Even
then he would be- In quandary a. 10 which
Legislature 90 convene. as 20 will be proved
that all but the first session under statehood
was Illegal
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
STEAMER DAMAGED.
Run Iato by a Schooner and Cut TO
III. Waters Edge.

New York, Sept 3-1ho Ocean Steam
ship compnny's steamer Gate City, which
passed in this morning heavily listed to
port. reported having been run into by
large vessel, supposed to be a three
masted schooner, and cut down to the
waters edge on the starboard side abaft
the or Rine.
The accident occurred six miles Off Egg
Harbor light ut an early hour this morn
ing. The schooner displayed no lights
and disappeared in the darkness before
her name could be learned.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
BOTH LEGS BROKEN.
AyleswOrih Meets With a Serious
Aec.d.nt in a Stone Yard.

~ $3.50 o'clock this morning Cyrus J..
AyleswOTth, who lives at the corner OF
Washington and Aborn streets. and Is en-
ployed by Norcross Bros, on kiuslcy
avenue, had "A marrow escape from being
KILLED ut tho yard Ct the finn.
With others ne was at work raising a
heavy block OF marble when one OF tho
guys Of tho derrick snapped and the block
fell ON Aylesworth.
lie was taken 90 the Rhode Island Hos
nital, where 10 was found that tho right
leg had been broken az the keen, and tho
left leg nc the snkle lie was alsl other
wise injured.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
HURT In A COLLISION.
Freight Train Runs Into Pass en-
ger at a Station.

New York. Sept 3 3--Four persons re
cei we'd painful iniuires by collision on
the Long Island Railroad ut Floral Park
"A few minutes before o'clock this morn
ing
A passenger train bound for Long
Island City was at the station taking on
and discharging passengers whom an east
bound freight train ran into it, the two
locomotives COMING together with con-
Siderable force. The engineers and fire.
men OF both locomotives jumped and es-
cancd injuries. The passengers hurt
were In the act of getting aboard the
train at the time.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
CARRIED A REVOLVER.

Herbert Louden was arrested in Captain
Mar-ton's district last evening for being
drunk and when searched at the knight street
station q revolver was found IN his possession.
In the police court this morning he was
fined for being drunk. and when arraigncd be.
fote Judge Swoetland In the Sixth District
Court a little later ON tie charge of carrying
a concealed weapon he pleaded not guilty and
will have a trial Tuesday.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
CLEANING THEM OUT.

Captain Marston Is cleaning 0ut t1C Kitchen
barrooms in Little Italy. Hardly n morning
passes that he does not have one or more dive
keepers arraignei for heeping gros shops
Giuseppi Luonzo was arraigned this morning.
and be- waived examination ON tn charge "a
keeping grog shop and was held for the ac-
tion Of the grand iury IN the sum Of SloOO.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
SOLDIERS KILLED.
PontO0n Bridge CollapseS and Causes
Loss OF Many Lives.

Weimar, Sept 3.-During the military
manouvres in this vicinity today. pom
toon bridge constructed by the prisoners
collapsed while the Ninty-fourth Thur
iDgan regiment OF infantry was passing
o"er il.
A number OF soldiers ana some of the
trumpeters were either drowned or were
hiJ by the timbers of the bridge and
EilIab
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
FIGHTING BIG FIRES.

Buffalo, Wyo., Sept. 3.-Roliable news from
the scene of the sheridan county forest fires
is that n large number of men are fighting the
flames and are working systematically, being
divided into shifts, so that al no time is the
fire allowed to run unchecked
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
TO Pc WOUND UP.

Boston, sept. 8.-1he affairs of the Mas'A-
chusetts Benefit Life Assoc at on wilt he
wound up, the temporary receivers, Arthur
Lord ana 4 :. Wo3dworth, having been made
ermal II 10y the court to3ay. The asset, {.
is said, are about $4,000. TIE receivers will
give bonds for s5O,OD each.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
LOW ACCEPTS.
Takes Nom nation For First Mayor
OF Greater NV York

Northeast Harbor, Ne, sept. 3-Seth Low
has accepted tine nomination as mayor #
q eater New York
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
Showers of Blessing.

little rain was needed TO perfect condition
Of Narragansett track. John II. Gentry
must go Better than .59I4 or bust'
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
A Bicycle One Mile Long,

Not quito, but almost Tho Oritcn, De.
cuplot, huge affair. Carries 10 men, speeds
like tho wiul' At State Fair.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
Cheer the College Boys

On to victory. II you miss the great football
contest at State Fair, Labor Day afternoon
you'll be sorry.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03
Educate your Bowel. with cascaret.

Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever
ioc, sc. IL G. c G. fail, druggists refund money.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03

Advertisers Get Big
Results From THE NEWS
Because it Prints
all the News
And Trustworthy News.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-09-03

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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-11-25
MORGAN TALKS ABOUT HAWAII
NEED HAVE NO FEARS OF FOR.
EIGN OPPOSITION.
Since His Return He Favors Annexing
the Island Stronger Than Ever.

since His Return He Favors Annexing
the Island Stronger Than Ever.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, men,
Der of the committee ON foreign rela-
tons. has reached Washington on his
return from Honolulu, where he went
to post himself on the annexation
question. For the first time, he sub
mitted himself to an interview on the
result of his trip, and in part said:
my conclusions, based on my OBJ
servations, are only full contirma-
ton of what l had previously believed,
that it is our national duty, and will
be in every way advantageous to all
concerned, to annex Hawaii to this
country. l have studied the questions
from the most authentic and reliable
sources The establishment OF an
outpost of the United States within the
tropics, and 1920 miles from our
coast, challenges the inquiry whether
such action is necessary to our ma
tional welfare. Our northwestern pos
sessions on the Pacific along the Aleu-
tan Archipelago, are over 1000 miles
west of Honolulu. This gives us con-
troll of practically the entire American
coast of the north Pacific. The inter-
vention of the British possessions from
the straits of Fuca to the northern
boundary of Alaska creates powerful
reason for our occupation of Hawaii.
Without imputing to Great Britain any
other motive than to extend her ma
tional policy of commercial conquest, it
seems very obvious that if she should
acquire dominion of Hawaii and open
and fortify Pearl harbor, her military
fortress at Esquimalt, on the island
of Vancouver, cooperating without,
would cut our coast line in two and
would leave us incumbered with a
mass of territory in Alaska, whose de-
lenses would be almost impossible
and theg enormous advantages of which
would be lost to us. The Vancouver
coal fields would give the British navy
almost irresistible advantages in case
of war and virtual dominion of COM
merce in time of peace.
"There would not be the slightest
difficulty in the character, condition
or wish of the 81 900 native people of
Hawaii They are far better adapted
to American citizenship than many
millions of those whom we have well
coined here from southern Europe and
better adapted than the Indians, Mex
leans and native Alaskans.
Except among the few who expect
personal favors and advancement from
establishment of the royal govern
ment, the general body Of the Hawaiian
population will ejoice in the honor,
safety, peace, and prosperity which
annexation will bring Morally and
practically, the silent invasion of Ha-
waii from the orient the Japanese)
violates all the declared policy and
often expressed purposes of the United
States, to protect those people against
foreign interference. The island as a
national possession would richly re-
ward us for expenditure of hundred
millions The annexation would cost
us nothing and will not at present ex-
cite the open opposition of any ma
ton"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-11-25
A Nav "Adv scheme.

Advertising threatens to break out
IN q new place. Many barber shops
in this city have recently received from
a corporation, Differed with men Of dis
tinguished surnames. circular pro-
posing an ingenious enterprise. The
company writes to obtain the privilege
of posting advertisements on the walls
and ceilings of barber shops at such
points as shall come within the range
of vision of persons that submit them
selves to the hands Of the barber and
his assistants. 1t is the hope Of the
company that the BARRIERS will yield up
their wall space in return for so many
shares of stock per chair in the COM
many. and the slitterng hope is held out
that when the business is once well
established the stock ut par value Of
$40 will pay dividends of 80 per cent.
annually. 1t Is announced that the busi.
ness is already established in 5000 bar
her shops in Philadelphia.-New York
SIM
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-11-25
Oldest German Newspaper.

The Magdeburg Gazette, probably
the Oldest newspaper in Germany. last
month celebrated its 2j0th anniver-
sary. 1t is still conducted by represent
natives of the Faber family, which
founded 1t in 1G47. just at the close of
the Thirty Years War The present
heads of the venerable Journalistic dy-
Alexander Faber, perpetuating a line
almost century and a half older than
that which rules over the London
Times. the greatest if not the oldest of
newspapers. Magdeburg took on the
decorations of holiday in honor of its
venerable Gazette, which we'll deserv-
ed them.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-11-25
A SINGULAR MISTAKE.
In Attempting to Capture Murderer One
Officer Shoots Another.


News of singular mistake, which
came near having a tragic ending,
comes from INLAND, Ala, near Column
bus, Ga, while the sheriff with a posse
of men were endeavoring to capture a
negro murderer, who was located by
the officers in house near INLAND.
The building was Immediately sur
rounded. The sheriff and Frank Pep
pers, one of the posse, went to the
back of the house to prevent the des-
perado escaping in that direction. For
some reason the sheriff sent Peppers
around to the front of the house again.
As Peppers turned the corner of the
house he was perceived by Gus Far
rows, another member of the posse,
who, thinking it was the negro who
was trying to escape, blazed away at
his brother officer with double-bar-
relied shotgun. Peppers fell to the
ground, and Farrows was about to
pour load of buckshot into him if he
attempted resistance, when he hap
pened to perceive his mistake.
Most of the shot lodged in Peppers
arms, and although he is seriously
wounded he will probably recover.
The sheriff, hearing the shot, rushed
around the house, thinking that the
negro was escaping. In the midst of
the confusion the negro slipped out
the back door and escaped.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-11-25
Steamer Bluff City Burned.

The magnificent Anchor Line steamer
Bluff City. one of the finest and newest
boats on the Mississippi river, which
left st. Louis Wednesday bound for
New Orleans with forty passengers and
1000 tons of miscellaneous freight on
board, burned to the waters edge at
Chester, ILL.,, Thursday.
All passengers and the crew escaped
to land without injury, but nothing on
board was saved. The total loss will
aggregate 100000. A number of val
liable race horses, being tak IN to New
Orleans for the races there, lost their
lives.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1897-11-25
Another Train Takes Fatal Leap.

A train on the Chicago and Indiana
coal road, bearing about 500 miners,
was wrecked near Brazil, Ind, and
two cars, loaded with their human
freight, left the track, rolled down the
embankment, and lodged at the bottom
in ditch filed with water to the depth
of several feet. The accident was
caused by running over horse, which
threw the caboose from the track, and
it dragged the other car with it,
Twenty three men in all were more
or less injured, three of whom suffer
injuries that will prove fatal.