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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
WITH THE BAT
Games Played by the National League
Clubs

CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 1.-THE
New Yorks made their last appearance
of the season here today and had every
thing their own way for the first three
innings. The Reds hit Meekin hard af-
ter the fourth inning. Score: Cincir.-
natl II, New York 6.
Pittsburg-Washing did and Pitts
burg did not hit the ball and that tells
the story. Score: Pittsburg l, Washing
ton Is.
Louisville-The Philies won the last
game of the series from the Colonies to-
day, batting Evaps hard. Score: Phil
edelphia 10, Louisville 5.
Chicago-Two very rank errors fol-
lowed by a streak of hard hitting gave
Brooklyn enough runs to win the last
game of the series. Score: Chicago :,
Brooklyn To-
Observation-Disclosures began the
game by giving three bases on balls
without strike, and the Indians batted
him out of the box in the fifth inning,
scoring nine runs after two men were
out. Stivetts replaced Klobedanz after
the fourth and did much better. Score:.
Cleveland Is, Boston u,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
A Deluge Swept Through
Duchess Valley
FIVE DEAD BODIES FOUND
MORE ARE BURIED UNDER THE
DEBRIS
The Old Familiar Story of Private
Reservoir Whose Walls Were
Built Cheaply
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, July IA
The two large reservoirs in the Fishkill
mountains, which supplied water to the
towns of Mattewan and Fishkill, burst
their walls at 2 o'clock this morning and
the water that was released swept
through the Duchess valley, causing
ruin and death.
Five bodies have been taken from the
wreckage left in the wake of the flood,
and there are known to be two and prob
ably three more lying somewhere be-
meath the piled debris. The dead are:
Mrs. John Conroy, aged 46.
Mrs. Mary Ferry, aged 3S, widow.
William Ferry, aged 8.
John S. Ruka, 2S years old.
Philomena De Luka, 6 years of age.
Missing: John Conroy, aged years,
Julian Conroy, aged 6.
An unknown Hungarian
The flood at Dutchess Junction washed
away 200 yards of the Hudson River rail-
road track. Trains were stalled on each
| side of the break. There were two res
ervoirs in the mountains, the lower one
half mile distant from the other. The
| upper dam gave way, letting a volume
of water into the ravine. Vanburen &
Timonis' brick yard is on the Hudson,
just below Dutchess Juntion a mile
distant from the site of the lower res
ervoir Without warning, the flood
rushed through the ravine and made
terrible havoc. Buildings We're torn in
pieces and the occupants carried away in
the raging flood. The water works sys-
tenn was operated by private company
and supplied the villages CT Mattewan
| and Fishkill- oI-the-Hudson. A tenn
| porary trestle has been built at the
break in the Hudson River railway track
and the Montreal southbound express
| has passed over 1t will be late into this
afternoon before trains can run on time.
Trains are stalled all the way from Fish
kill to Poughkeepsie. One was Cook
excursion train the passengers on which
expected to start for Europe today.
Most of the ruins have been searched,
and it is possible that some bodies have
been swept into the river.
The water still runs through the yard,
which is covered to depth of several
feet with debris.
| W
ers had quarters were totally wrecked.
In the ravine there are great rocks, some
of them weighing five to ten tons each,
rolled down the mountains by the tor
rent.
| About 1000 yards above Murphy
boarding house, directly in the center
of the ravine, was small settlement of
Arabs, thirty or forty in number, occu-
plying half a dozen huts. There is not
a vestige of the settlement left, but so
far as known no Arabs lost their lives.
The wave was about fifteen feet high.
This is shown by traces along it's pass
age. When it reached a point about 700
feet above the buildings it had spread
out until it was about 200 feet wide and
ten feet deep, moving with resistlees
force. 1t tore out by the roots trees that
were from one to two feet in diameter
Engineer John Conroy, who lost his
wife and two children, states that they
were not in the building when the flood
came.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
Word From Andree

STOCKHOLM, July IA dispatch
from Hammerfest, Norway, the Forth
ernmoSt town of Europe on the Qual-oe
island (Walesland) says that the officers
of the steamer Lofot visited NJ. Andree
the aeronaut, at Danes island, on the
northwest coast of Spitzbergen, on the
10th. M. Andree stated that he would
not be ready TO start for the north in his
balloon until the 18th. A strong storm
from the south nearly carried off the
balloon on the I'd inst, he stated, and
since that time the north winds have
been continuous.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15

Aprioots are nearly all gathered, the
yield being large, though the fruit In
many sections is rather small in size.
Grapes are doing well, although several
varieties have been injured by the heat.
Hops are improving and a fine crop is
anticipated. Plums, peaches, prunes and
pears are doing splendidly. English wal
nuts are large in size and there Will
probably be heavy crop. Lemons and
oranges have stopped dropping and the
trees have set full. Light showers in
the northern part of the state did little
or no damage to the hay already cut and
the second crop is doing finely.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
HARBoR WORK
Progress Made on Ports Other Than
San Pedro


San Pedro
WASHINGTON, July 14.-Major Ell
B. Davis, in charge of river and harbor
improvements in portions of Arizona and
California, reports to the war depart
ment that work was continued during
the year on the San Luis Obispo harbor,
California, the breakwater being ex-
tended 100 feet, forty feet to high water
and $50 feet to mean low water There
is an available balance of $52,356 to con-
tinue the work. There has been, says
the report, a decrease of 81, 800 tons in
the amount of freight entered and
cleared yearly at the harbor since 1885,
The work on the old dyke across the
river at San Diego was completed in
February, The jetty was brought up to
high tide level for distance of 443O feet.
Since last year the jetty has settled in
places six to eight inches, but on the
whole the work stands we'll. The total
expenditures to June 80, 1897, were $780,
us; balance available, $27S4.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
Lil's New OCCUPATION

NEW YORK, July 14.-The Times
says: Liliuokalani, former Queen of
Hawaii, has settled down in hotel here
into sort of literary retirement. There
she devotes herself to composing Hawa-
iian melodies and songs and to collecting
material for her eventful autobiography.
Her private secretary, Mr.. Palmer, says
she is engaged in reading the proofs of a
brochure she is preparing for publish
ing firm. This has for its subject THE
Creation of the World According to Ha-
waiian Traditions"
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
Mutton for Miners

SEATTLE, July 14.-The rather novel
feat of taking 700 head of sheep into the
Yukon country is to be undertaken by
George Miller, well-known Alaskan
now in this city.
He will ship them to Dyea on the
steamer Al-Ki. From Dyea the sheep
will be driven across the pass and along
the shore Of the chain of lakes to the
headwaters of the Yukon. The slaughter
will commence early in September. by
which time the weather will be amply
cool, Miller says, to keep mutton or other
fresh meat,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
Suspicious Stage Robbery

SOLOMONVILLE Ariz., July A.
The stage from Globe to Geronimo was
robbed Monday afternoon ten miles from
Globe. The robbers secured $1,000 in sill
Yer. sealed up in tomato cans. The stage
broke down ten miles from Globe and
the driver returned alone for a new con-
veyance. When he returned the money
was gone. The driver and a companion
are under arrest
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
Needs a Vacation

SAN FRANCISCO, July 14.-The an
nouncehent was made unofficially today
that Deputy Surveyor Samuel Rudell,
will tender his resignation in the near
future on account of nl-health, his ply
siciap having ordered him to take a
years rest and try the effect of long
sea voyage. 1t is stated that Mr.. Rudell
contemplates a trip to Tahiti.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
Indian Troubles

MILES CITY, Mont, July 14-The
Cheyenne Indians are again making
trouble for the whites near the reserva-
ton. A number of armed bucks attacked
the house of Matt Winter, deputy who
accompanied Sheriff Gibbs when Little
Whirlwind was arrested recently, and
fired into the building. Mrs. Winter, the
children and the hired man escaped from
the rear unframed
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
California Crops

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.-THE
warm and rainless weather of the past
few days has been favorable for nearly
all crops. Cool nights are reported along
the southern coast and in some localities
the weather has not been very favor
able for curing. Throughout the greater
portion of the state, however, it has been
all that could be desired. Harvesting is
in full blast. Fruit is ripening rapidly.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
A Small Affair

SAN FRANCISCO, July Alt is re-
ported that few days ago couple of
former attaches of the Preston Indus
trial school at lone invaded the premises
and were ordered off by Superintendent
O'Brien. They refused to go and were
elected, but not without a row. Trustee
Tyrrell of this city has gone to lone to
the matter
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
A Mexican Mine Sold

TOLUCA, Mexico, July Alt is an
n6o,Unced that the negotiations for the
pHTchase of La Esperanza gold mining
property by c. d. Lane, representing
California syndicate, has been closed.
The consideration was $6O00,O00 Lane
deposited 100000 as an option on the
mine short time ago.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
CUBANS PLAN
For a Rapid and Decisive
Campaign
NO MORE WAITING WARFARE
BUT A DESPERATE STRIKE FOR
LIBERTY
The Cuban Junta Believes the Fate
Of the Instruction Will Soon
Be Determined


WASHINGTON July 14.-Maximo Co
mez has changed radically his plan OF
campaign. A letter from him was re-
ceived in Washington today. Hereto
fore the commander of the army CT liber-
alton has waged waiting warfare. But
for reasons which seem good to him, the
leader of the insurgents has now adopt
ed an entirely different policy.
1T must be settled quickly" General
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
A Napa Pioneer

NAPA, July 14-Joseph L. Lamdin, a
pioneer of 40, died here today. He was
in business excessively at Benicia and
Stockton. During his residence here he
was prominent in educational circles and
was for several terms q director of the
Napa asylum. 80. ,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
A Rancher's Suicide

PETALUMA, July 14.-W. H. Rush
a well-to-do rancher, committed suicide
today by shooting himself in the head.
The deceased has been>a sufferer from
rheumatism for many years and at times
the pain was so great it almost crazed
him. Rush had an honorable war rec
ord and drew a pension.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
ON THE TURF
Races Run Over the Brighton Beach
Course

NEW YORK, July 14.-Results al
Brighton Beach:
Mile and a Standardization Won
Declare second, Ben Elder third; time
1:54%.
Five furlongs-Sarder won, Danforth
second, Yankee Sam third; time, 1:54&
Six furlongs-Harry Reed won, Pre-
mier second, Set Fast third; time, 1:19.
Five furlongs@Julia won, La Louette
second, Colonial Dame third; time,
1:051a.
One mile-Hanlon won, Beaufort sec
ond. Rife third; time, 147A.
Six furlongs-Successful wop Hi Dad
Gy second, Iron third; time, 1:19.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
ANTI-SALOON DAY
Observed by Chautauquans at Pacific
Grove

PACIFIC GROVE. July 14-The sec
ond days session of the Pacific Grove
Chautauqua assembly began at a. re-.
Rev. Eli McClish, d. D., president of the
assembly, called the meeting to order
and opened it with short devotional
service. He then made few remarks
Introductory, as it were, to the real work
Of the assembly, in which he said. this
year was an unusual one in the annals
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-15
Hold On
Suits !. !.

We have raised an awful COM
motion in clothing circles since
we bought out three clothing
manufacturers. The business
men of this section are showing
their appreciation of this SPE-
CIAL OCCASION. No house
in California has ever offered
such values as we now offer.
The BIG STORE leads in bar
gain-giving and invites compar-
1SOn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-08-19
LINcoLN's MOTHERS GRAVE.
A Lonely Tomb on "A Wooded Hin in
Indiana,

The recent communication between
President Mckinley and Gov. Mount
in which the former called the attention
of the latter to the neglected grave of
Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lin
coin, has attracted attention from all
over the country to the grave. 1t is
located on hill of gradual ascent and
is right in the middle of the woods,
about mile from Lincoln City, little
station on the Air Line road in Spencer
county, Ind. 1t is inclosed by an iron
fence, which separates it from a num-
Der of other graves around it, and has
neat headstone which gives the name,
age. etc, of the occupant. An inscrip-
ton also says: Erected by a Friend
of Her Martyred Son, 1870" 1t is COM
paratively isolated, and any improve
ment made in its surroundings would
not prove of any great value.
In order to fittingly honor the dead
the people of that vicinity suggest that
the remains be taken up by the state
and reinterred at indianapolis, or that
the United States renter them in some
national cemetery. A $1,000 shaft could
be placed over it where it now stands
and ten persons in a year would not see
it unless they made a special trip there.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-08-19
NEW WESTERN IDEA.
Girls Who Give Gold Models of Their
Little Fingers.

Little Fingers.
do little girls here give gold models
of their little fingers to their frances"
asked the western girl of the Gothamite,
reports the New York Sun.
Heaven, mol" answered the Gotham
lite. ut seems to me that that is rather
grewsome souvenir
mot at ALL" answered the western
girl. 1T is decidedly dainty, and I'm
a little surprised that New York is so
far behind the times. The fad started
in this way: When the daughter of one
of our big western politicians was six
months old he had model of her little
finger cast in gold. Around the little
dimpled digit is a ring of turquoise,
which is her birthstone, and it makes a
lovely charm for her betrothed's watch
chain. He valued it so much that it set
other men to thinking, and the result
is that as soon as a girl wraps one of
these chaps around her little finger suf-
ficiently for proposal to follow, he i'm
mediately insists upon a gold facsimile
of the flesh and blood original. It is a
pretty conceit, and is being followed
by every westerner who is in subsection
to somebody's little finger"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-08-19
THRILLING LOVE TALE.
sioux Maiden wooed and Won By a
Cultured Foreigner.

Reeently there was wedding cere-
mony at Bismarck. y. D., that
was the elimination Of an ex-
traordinarily strange love romance.
Thomas Dulaine Cronan married Pic
ture Eyes. Cronan is young Irish
man of fine family and excellent con-
nections in Ireland and England. Pic
ture Eyes is the daughter of John
Moose, a full-blooded Sioux Indian.
Picture Eyes is very pretty Indian
maiden. She is now well educated and
her tastes, inclinat.ons and surround
ings are cultured. She is % years old,
and as pretty, well-dressed and we'll
groomed girl as IS to be seen shop
ping in Bismarck.
The story of the love THAI won her
and changed her condition of life, men,
tai and material, is as melodrmnatic as
a tale of 0uida's. Seven years ago
there came to this section of the coun-
try Thomas Dulaine Cronan, young
Irishman, a stalwart chap, good look
ing, well-dressed, welleducated, and
with the manners of man Of the
world. He came over to look after the
interests of an English syndicate with
large holdings near Bismarck
His ponsor was Moreton Frewen,
the noted English advocate of bimetal-
lism. who visited the United States last
fall to write of the strenuous cam
paign of the free silver men TO he
London Times. Cronan one night
rode into Medora, the town established
by Marquis de Mores, when that
young French nobleman embarked on
his fantastic enterprise of raising cat
tie for the worlds markets, and at the
same time running the beef monopoly
established and maintained by Chi
cago's big Four and found mob
surrounding the jail.
The mob was clamoring for the life
of an Indian who was a prisoner III
the Jail charged with horse stealing.
A plucky Iittls deputy sheriff was on
the steps of the All standing off" the
mob by his pistols. Cronan leaped
from his horse, and actuated by a GU
riosity TO see such wild western
scene as a lynching. shouldered has
way into the MOP. While listening 10
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-08-19

the imploring speeches of the deputy
sheriff and tine threats and curses of
the crowd of lynchers, he saw an In
dian girl, blanketed and moccasined
darting hither and tllither among the
clamorous throng, frantically and tear
fully making a plea in Sioux, tongue
unknown to the tenderfoot from Ire
land.
Cronan quickly learned that she was
the daughter of the accused Indian, for
whose life the mob was clamoring
Struck by her beauty and helplessness,
Cronan forced his way through the
throng, and, leaping up on the steps
beside the little deputy sheriff, drew his
weapons and added his voice to the
pleadings of the deputy sheriff Gro
mans eloquenoe, added to the officers,
was effective, and the mob dispersed.
The next day the Indian proved an
alibi and was released. Cronan sought
out the Indian girl, the life of whose
father he had been instrumental in
saving. He found her in miserable
unclean tepee in the Indian camp on
the outskirts of the town. He fell in
love with her. His love making was
all in the sign language, for Cronan
could not speak word of Sioux, and
Picture Eye was equally ignorant of
English.
Cronan again returned 10 England,
but not until he had made arrange
nents for Picture Eyes education.
When he saw his bride next he found
her a demure, pretty. well-dressed,
well-educated girl, thoroughly wen
able to hold her place in any society.
N. Y. World.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-08-19
PRINCE WITH A LONG HEAD.

unlikely he will ever find himself in the
"hard-up' condition Of his father, who,
until his marriage 10 Princess Beatrice,
the queens daughter, bad difficult
task to make both ends meet.
Little Prince Alexander recently APP
piled to his mother for an extra allow
ance. Of pocket money, which was
promptly refused. lie thcreupon wrote
the queen. telling hcr Of lbs grievance,
luther ma iesty only reiterated The good
advice 81 her daughter
TIE prince. 81 a. age when money
talks and good advice" is lost prompt
Ii SOLD laa gfandmothe letter for
four pounds and ten billings aad ap-
pri@ed her 81 the fact. = is reported
that hes majesty was someNl1a, aet.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-08-19
TRIALS OF A TEACHER.
Striking a Boy Who Was Not Well
Up I'm Arithmetic.

Striking a Boy Who Was Not Wen
Up I'm Arithmetic.
Teaeher-Suppose Fritz, you have a
stocking on one foot and you put an
other stocking on the other foot, how
many would you have on both feet?
Boy never wear no stockings.
Teacher-Suppose your father has
one pig in a pen, and he buys another
pig and puts it in the pen, how many
pigs viii there be in the pen
Boy-Dad don't keep no pigs.
The teacher blew a heavy sigh from
his tired lips, wiped the perspiration
from his scholastic brow and went at it
again with renewed courage.
Suppose you had one jacket. and at
Christmas your father makes you a
present of another jacket, how many
jackets would you have then?
Boyle amt that kind of a father.
He never gives nothin' al Christmas.
Teacher Suppose you have one APP
pie, and your mother gives you another
one, what viii you have then?
Boy-Stomach ache. Our apples are
all cooking apples.
The teacher then began to suspect
the boy was not well up in arithmetic,
but he resolved to make one more eff
fort, so he said:
IF poor little beggar boy has a
cake, and You gave him one more, how
many would he have then?"
Boy dunno always eat my own
cakes
Then the teacher told the children TO
go out and play-Tit-Bits
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-08-19
A United States Officer
SOME INCIDENTS OF his LIFE AND HARD.
SHIPS In the LATE WAR.
From the Gazette, Medway. Mass.

The thriving town of Midway. Mass. has
no more reputable citizen than Capt. John Z.
l.. Grant, the carpenter and builder For
months he was a sufferer from wrecked di-
geStlon, loss of memory and the keenest of
rheumatic pains arising from a life of ambi-
hous labor and arduous exposure as an officer
IN the late war, and later as a u. s. mail carrier
A representative of this paper called on
Capt. Grant for his story. He met the news
paper man cheerily, and in his own honest
simple language said:
was born in South Berwick, Ne. Dec
30, 1884 and when two years old, moved
with my parents TO Old York, Me- When
10 years old ! was apprenticed TO a promi-
nent builder, Samuel Colcord, of Exeter, n.
H., TO learn the carpenters trade with the
added privilege of attending Philips Acad-
emy, then as now famous seat of learning.
graduated from there and went to Portland,
Me-, where | served two years with Hon.
VIM. q. kimball, a noted builder of the time.
worked in Newburyport two years and
then established myself in business in West
Amesbury. During this period | was mar
ried at Chaflestown. In 1862 | removed to
York where | enlisted in the L. 5. service.
| served nearly three years, participated in
torty-three battles, some of them the hottest
fights of the war; was twice wounded and for
time disabled, and at last was discharged
at Augusta, Me-, in 1865.
secured and kept the contract for car
rying the mails between York and Ports
mouth, n. H.. for twelve years l removed
to Medwav in March, 1887, where | have
since resided, in business as a carpenter and
builder. ! have raised a family of ten child
rem, and have now family of six residing
with me.
about three years ago / was suddenly
attacked with dizzy spells, protracted in dur
alton and more frequent us the weeks went by
With these attacks came incesSant vomiting
and spasms of coma so that instantly | would
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-08-19
urr Hesort far cata.

A New 4orl lady and her daughter
recently opened q hotel for cats, and it
seems q have turned OUT = pos ag con-
Germ. for tHeg receive d large number Of
hath winter and summer baardera. The
eats hoteI is situated close he HQd-
sgu riser, and rejoices f. the name of
Nanrashaan farm. For three dollars a
cat is boarded for one month, and there
are no eNtras. Each cat has its own
little home and even its own yard,
which Il turfed. Pussy Is an exclusive
creature, and often dislikes to be made
70 eat, q, indeed, to mix much with
her fellows Curionsly enough, the only
other boarders taken are parrots and
oanariee.