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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-06-04

'municasions. The committee on Bible ana
overtures made partial report. 1t rec
commended that women be forbidden the
use of pulpits for publ: addresses to mix
ed audiences, and that it be pronounced
improper to give notices of such meetings.
This precipitated lively debate. DIR.
Pitzer took the position that While tho
Bible absolutely forbade female ordina-
ton it did. not forbid all kinds of public
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-06-04
D1v1NEs WHO HAVE BEEN MoDERAToRs.
DR.. Craig l1S,3l.
Dr. johnson [1sS2l. DIR. Marquis 1881.

testimony by woman. DIR. Walden and
DIR. Smoot strongly advocated the adop-
ton of the report. The order of the day
put an end to the debate.
DIR. Mclean of the American Bible
Society made a stirring appeal in behalf
of the institution, whose labors, he said,
were essential to the doctrine and activi-
ties of the church in America and abroad.
The assembly then listened to DIR. Daniel
on polity and worship in connection with
Westminster celebration.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-06-04
HELD FOR SMUGGLING.

Millionaire Dry Goods Merchant of
st. Louis Is Accused.
Richard NJ. Scruggs, the millionaire dry
goods merchant who was arrested in New
York Saturday for smuggling jewelry and
fine laces, is one of the most eminent and
respected citizens of St. Louis. He and
Edward G. Langhorn, general manager
of the American Arithmometer Company,
who were passengers on the American
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-06-04
SAYS II Will Help FARMERS.
New York Man Has an Original FL.
naucial Plan.

naucial Plan.
Mr.. John II. Dos Passos of New York
will ask Congress to give its sanction to a
plan which, he thinks, will put an end to
the discomfort in the agricultural regions
Of the South and West. He intends to
secure the introduction of bill charter
ing the Loan and Mortgage Company Of
the United States, modelled after the
Credit FonGer of France and similar in
stitutions which have been tried with sue
cess in other European countries. Mr.. Dos
Passos, after three months of work, has
Just completed the measure containing the
charter.
Mr.. Dos Passos explained that the pur-
pose of the company was to enable farm
ers to borrow money at low rates of in
terest. 1t is proposed to establish the
company under special capital of $780,
100000, in shares of $40 each. II possi-
BILE, the whole amount will be sold in such
manner that no one person shall hold
more than $1,000. The Government
shall have the right to appoint its presi-
dent and two directors and an auditor,
who shall make monthly reports.
The company will be authorized to make
loans on improved real estate and agri-
cultural staples, not exceeding fifty per
cent of the value, determined by apprais-
ers, for terms not exceeding fifteen years,
repayable in full at the end of that time, OF
for periods of from fifteen to seyenty-five
years, repayable in quarterly payments.
including principal and interest. The
rate of interest on long term loans will
be $50 per cent, which will wipe out the
debt at maturity in the case of seventy
five yo0r nOQns Tho Onfn0l ipxoroo% ,,o,,
ment is 4.65 per cent.
The company shall have power to issue
$4,000. 100000 in 1865 per cent bonds, in
denominations us low as $40. These may
be issued to borrowers in lieu of money,
and are expected to circulate as freely as
money. A reserve fund of $25,OOOOOO
shall be retained. The company shall
have power to do general banking and
trust business, to own and operate ware
houses and grain elevators. Mr.. Dos Pas
sos thinks that the effect Of these powers
would be to supply needed currency, en-
hance and fix values and encourage thrift.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-06-04
REFORMED PREsBYTER1ANs.

General Synod of the Church Com
yenes- in Pittsburg.
AT the session of the general synod OF
the Reformed Presbyterian Church in
Pittsburg, Rev. Thomas PEBBLES of Min
neapolis was unanimously elected mod
orator. Rev. James Y. Boyer of Phila-
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-06-04

Scruggs and Langhorn went to London
to dispose of the European rights for the
manufacture of the arithmometer, a cal
culating machine. The sale was made to
English capitalists, and Scruggs, rs pres
ident and treasurer of the company, sign
ed the contracts and received $500. 600.
Having completed his business. he
bought few watches, rings and pins to
present to relatives and employees. He
was told that it is customary for Ameri-
cans to bring in articles for their own
use or intended for presents without de-
claring them and paying duty as on arti-
cles intended for sale. The penalty for
smuggling may he anything from a light
fine to fine of 5000 and imprisonment
for two years.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-06-04

II. w. Stewart. merchant of Mndale.
Tex, was recently enticed from his home
by a negro and murdered. Edward Jones.
a negro, was arrested ard in confession
implicated Will Jones, white man. Jones
was paced in Jail. Shortly after o'clock
in the morning mob appeared at the
county Jail at Tyler. broke in the doors
aud shot Jones to death. They refused to
kill the negro who kille,i Stewart.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-06-04
Sparks from the Wires.

The Spanish recapture of the port of
Banes is again denied.
Turkey, after many futile efforts, has
secured a loan of f5O0,0OO at . per cent.
part of which will be applied to war ex-
penses.
Weyler has again informed the war cor
respondents at Havana that the rebellion
is in its last throes and predicts speedy
end as the result of his latest plans.
An Indian tribe, which has been for
twelve years engaged in war with Mex
leo, marched into Ortez Sunday and made
treaty of peace with great ceremony.
George Hops, wealthy farmer living
near Warsaw. Ind, while in a fit of de-
spondency, took a dose of morphine and
then hanged himself. He was dead when
found.
BY favorable turn in the rate of for
eign exchange the Treasury Depar artment
is relieved of the fear of further large
shipments of gold out of the country, at
least for the present.
1t is again stated that the resignations
of the German chancellor and minister of
foreign affairs are in the hands of EN-
peror William, but that no action has vet
been taken in the matter.
The Secretary of State has issued a
warrant for the surrender to the authors
ties of Germany of Carl Volger, who il
wanted in Prussia on charge of arson.
and is now held at Keokuk for surrender.
The present royal family of Greece
are not the first Norsemen to figure In
Greek affairs. The tottering Byzantine
Empire was upheld for many years by
the varangian Guarl. composed OF
Danes. swedes. Nov 1kesians aid Sax
ona.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-06-04

John Wolf, who had been scolded by
the foreman. drowned himself in vat
of l,eer ut the Sloerlein brewery in Gin
c:nnati, Ohio.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-06-04
First conceived in Illinois, the Order
Z Has Had 5000 Posts with Mem.
bership OF Over Half Million
Death Making Inroads.
A Famous Society,

illinois is the
birthplace of the
Grand Army of
the Republicans
the home of the
first post organic
ed-writes j. A.
Watrous in the
Chicago Times
Herald, but Wis
consin bears an
honor enual fOif in
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
Lesson for Apple Growers.

A Lesson for Apple Growers ought tc
be learned from 1896. The best apples
were worth 81 a barrel-or more. This
is Tor the well selected stock-havine
been properly stored. The first need
Is good cold storage room. This any
farmer can have. 1t is not so costly an
affair as supposed. Construct a eel.
lar under your barn or carriage house.
Make the walls frost proof. Double
the floor above with tar paper between.
DO not grout the bottom, for apples
need moisture. Close the windows
ana bank in leaves in November. Keer
the fruit in bins about one foot deep
If properly picked and handled and
sorted, apples will keep in such cellar
with very little decay. all winter.
Those who threw away their apples
last fall had they placed them in care.
full storage would have received a fail
compensation.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
RESPITE FOR ..DURRANT.
California Supreme Court Grants Writ
of Probable Cause.

San Francisco, Nov. 12.-William Hen
ry Theodore Durrant was not hanged at
San Quentin to-day after al, the supreme
court of this State having granted him
another respite at the eleventh hour. Up
to O'clock yesterday afternoon, when
the news flashed over the wires from Sac
ramento that the court, now in session
there, had granted writ of probable
cause, and instructed Warden Hale not
to carry out the execution Of Durrant
until further orders, there WAS apparently
no further hope for the condemned MUIR
derer of Blanche Lamont and Minnie
Wllllams, as his attorneys. Messrs Dick
lnson and Boardman, had made futile
esort to secure another writ of haheas
corpus in the United States courr. and
had not even been granted permission to
appeal from that decision to the supreme
court of the United States
Meanwhile, however, Attorney Duprev
nastened to Sacramento and applied to
the State supreme court for writ of
probable cause, for the purpose of STAY
ing the proceedings against his client
upon the grounds that no official knowl-
edge of the action of the supreme court
OF the United States in the matter of
Durrant's appealing from the decision cf
the Federal court had yet been received;
that the superior court had acted too
hastily in sentencing Durraut to be
hanged to day, rs the law required that
he be given AT least sixty days grace and
thirdly, that the tendency of an appeal in
the supreme court affecting the con-
demned was of itself sufficient cause for
stay of exec ntion
The matter was partially argued in
chambers, and later argued before the
full court and taken under advisement.
Shortly aftelward the court announced
its decision, granting the writ applied
for, in which all the justices conquered.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
NEW ORLEANS OPEN.

All Quarantine Regulations Have Been
Abolished
New Orleans Nov. 12.-There is moth.
ing to report in the yellow fever situation
except slight increase in the names of
new cases and deaths The record. how
ever, Is regarded with little concern.
Board of health report: Cases o! yellow
fever to-day, L; deaths to-day, G; total
cases to date, SO; total deaths, 2o7; recov-
cred, l,O77, and under treatment, 449.
The board of health tonight by resolu-
ton abolished all guarantees of whatso
ever nature, both territorial and house,
within the confines of its jurisdiction.
This does away with all guards i'm the
city and throws New Orleans open to the
world. The board, by the same resolu
ton, abides by the system of disinfection
OF infected houses and all personal effects
from known affected localities.
Springfield, ILL.,, Nov. 12.-Dr. Eagan.
secretary Of the State board of health is in
receipt Of Il letter from DR.. C. p. Spanp.
OF Thebes, ILL.,. informing him that the
writer and another physician have in the
last three weeks treated eleven suspicious
cases presenting symptoms of yellow fe-
YER Two had black vomit One death
has resulted and one patient is in criti-
cal condition. Dr. Eagan has given in.
structions for an investigation and report
and necessary steps will be taken to estab-
Iish Qual antine.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
Trnnsplantlng Vegetables.

In setting out cabbage and celery the
top should be shortened severely so as
to lessen evaporation. This will
make n very vigorous growth, beside
preventing the setback which a with
cred leaf on transplanted plant al
ways gives. With each transplanting
there will come large mass of roots
so that after being twice transplanted
the cabbage or other vegetable will
grow without any perceptible check.
If the weather is not suitable heel the
plants in, covering tops and all for two
or three days. Then the roots will be
ready to grow ut once
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
Smallest Train In the World.

An interesting exhibit at the trans
Mississippi exposition at Omaha is to
be the Tom Thumb" train, so called
because it is said to be the smallest in
the world 1t is the work of a young
man without technical training. The
engine weighs A50 pounds, and It's
length, with the tender is six feet seven
and one-half inches. The cylinder is
11aX2h inches, and the driving wheels
are eight inches in diameter. The en-
CINE, however, hauls six observation
cars. in each Of which two children
may be comfortably seated. The en-
tire length of the train is twenty-rine
fee. Six gallons of water In the tend
er t,'nk and five in the boiler will fur
nish sufficient steam to propel it for
two hours
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
TO BACK THE SULTAN.
Turkey Will be Admitted to the
Triple Alliance.

Washington, d. c., Nov. 12.-Lesting
diplomats have been informed that Ger.
many and Turkey have just concluded n
military convention, whose effects will Re
iar'reaching. Italy. Germanyand Austria
have called 'check" in the internn
tional game ut cness, and Turkey practi-
ca.ly becomes at least defensive mem
Der OF the Triple Alliance. The contract
provides that Germany shall furnish a
Turkish iieet and supply Turkish army
with the arms required to render the
nghtinR power potent factor in the Eu-
ropean peace patrol.''
Turkey agrees to keep ready at least
2oU.UOO men t" move at moment notice
AGAINST Russia and to negative any de-
signs OF the Gar in the Caspian region
or on the Elropea n Asiatic frontier.
The elect of this military convention
is that Turkey is q practical member of
the Triple Alliance, and adds upward of
700, 600 fighters to the strength that EN-
peror William has been marshHling to
preserve the status quo in Europe. Ca
Germany has arrived ut that stage OF
development where she is satisfied Aus
eria and Italy have nothing to expect
from European war but dismeu. Der.
ment. Russia and France hope for re-
7enge and increase of territory from any
embodiment, while the vast colonial pcs.
sessions of England shine is a prize for
the snatching.
Neither Turkey nor Germany Is ready
or willing to hamper England directly.
put both desire that she should be iso-
lated.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
TWO YEARS FOR wRECKER.
Convicted OF Receiving Deposits After
Insolvency Was Known.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 12.-president
j. j. Darragh, who has been on trial for
the past week Mt independence, charged
with 'vrecking the Kansas City Safe De-
post and Savings Bank, was found
guilty shortly after o'cock yesterday
and sentenced to two years in the State
penitentiarJ. Notice OF new trial was
made and leave given to apply therefor.
The bank failed on July TO- 1898 1t
was the largest savings bank in the State,
1t had $4,000, 600 in deposits, nearly all
from poor people, and when it failed only
81 700 in cash was in its vaults Darrah
and Elmer c. Sattley, the banks cashier,
were both arrested, charged with receiv-
ing deposits when they knew the bank
was IN failing condition. Sattley owed
the bank $4,000, all except So, GOO of
which was unsecured. and Darragh owed
1t Sl64, 600. of which $50, 600 was pro-
tected by doubtful securities.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13

There was one substance--leather-
which was extensively used in the
"aunted age Of chivalry. Leather
could be nodded, and as CUR bouilli"
was much worn. Even the helm was
ornamented with cuir-houilli. The
helm" always will cause wonder, for
how did the wearer see at all? A man
IN fight may have another enemy
approach him at the side or back, and
with his visor up the knight never
could tell exactly the whereabouts of
the next fee. In some of these helms
the wearer must have been forced to
bend his neck if he could bend it,
away down. or away up, to see any
thing ut all. Perhaps there were many
random blows struck in former fights,
and tourney was full of plumbers.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
Indinns With B1uc Eyes.

One of the mysteries of Mexico is
presented by the Maya Indians, who
lnhabit the Sierra Madre Mountains in
the lower part of Sonora. They have
fair skins. blue eyes and light hair,
and students of ethnology have always
been puzzled to account for them.
There is tradition, however. that
these Indians are the descendants of
the crew and passengers of a Swedish
vessel wrecked on the Mexican coast
centuries before Columbus discovered
the New World. But this tradition is
founded on nothing more substantial
than folklore tale, current among
them that their ancestors came over
the big salt water hundreds of moons
ago.
The Mexicans have never been able
TO conquer this people. Nominally,
indeed, they are under Mexican rule.
but really, they are governed by their
own chief, and whenever the Mexican
Government has interfered with them
they have taken up arms, getting the
best of the scrimmage every time.
Their nearest Indian neighbors are the
faquis, and these two warlike tribes
have reciprocity down to q fine point.
Each helps the other when The Mexi.
cans attack them.
The Mayas live principally by the
chase, although they cultivate some
corn and garden truck. The men are
large and we'll formed, and some of the
women are remarkably handsome
blondes.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
Placing an Order for Snakes.

DO you keep snakes?" she asked rs
she peered through her glasses at the
parrots and guinea pigs in the bird
store.
Il have ella monster and some
chameleons," said the bird man.
Il don't think they would answer.
You see, what | want is n regular
snake. one of the long field kind that
are not poisonous. | may as we'll tell
you that my husband has taken to
drinking, and want the snake to put
in his boots.''
IF ] were you," said the man, I'D
wait. and If he keeps on drinking he'll
see snakes anyhow"
mo. he won't and he wouldn't care
If he did if they weren't real But if
he sees live snake he'll quit. and I'm
going to try it on. Couldn't you get
me SOme?"
"Ycs'm, | can fill an order. If you
call around Tomorrow you can get the
snakes" and the man took down the
address of his customer
Its a test case" he said as the wo-
man went out. and feel sort Of Gu
rious to know how it will turn out NV
i-ea is that the husband will be so
mad when he finds the snakes in his
boots that he'll go out and get az
drunk as billed OWL but maybe il
will work the other wayne hope it
will"
Then he sent his boy out to hunt for
snakes in the hedges and bitches of
the prairie.-Chicago Times Herald
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
Novel Project in tn. Gold Region.

w. r. Gourley, ex-immigration in
spectOr, of New Whatcom. is in the
city. arranging for novel enterprise
at Skaguay. says the Portland Ore.
gonian." He has purchased the gov.
eminent snag boat Skagit. and Is fit
ting it up for a business block Mt
Skaguay
1t is his purpose to locate it in the
creek opposite the town, and rent the
lower part for business purposes and
use the upper part for n hotel 1t will
be steam heated all through. In the
lower apartments rooms have already
been leased for IA photograph gallery,
drug store. barber shop. restaurant,
cigar and tobacco stand. physicians
office and bakery. Should the popu-
lation leave Skaguay he will locate in
some other good locality.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
CASToRrA
The fac n
,slnile ~ <<------s 10 On
hBnsturo( ASH1'N every
Of ~S<<IL <LLcE<% wrapper.
THE SURPRISE or ALI.

Mr.. James Jones, of the drug firm of
Jones Son, Cowden, ILL.,, in speaking
OF Dr. Kings New Discovery, says that
last winter his wife was attacked with In
grippe. aud her case grew 50 serious that
physicians Mt Cowden and Pana could do
nothing for her. 1t seemed to develop
INTO nasty consumption. Having DR..
King s New Discovery in store, and sell
ing lots of it, he took bottle LONE, and
TO the surprise of all she hegnn To get
eetter from first dose, and half dozen
dollar bottles cured her sound and well.
Or Kings New Discovery for consump.
ton, coughs and colda is guaranteed o do
this good work. Try 1t. Free trial
bottles Mt Masse's Pharmacy
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
Fancy Baskets of fruits fixed ND i,
style at !. J. Catogni's.

w. X. ANDREWS e. CO., el9 Salem
avenue, have had years of experience in
the coal and wood business. They know
what Is required in the business. They
have the LARGEST and most convenient
yafd in the city. They handle every va.
rlety OF coal sold in the city. They have
more shed room and keep more teams
than any other dealer in the city They
have polite and accomm odatinv drivers
and deliver promptly coal and wood
nice and dry, from their extensive sheds.
Their teams are all belled
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
An Application for rroe Wounds.

AS an application for wounds made
in trimming the Colorado State Board
OF horticulture recommends the fol-
lowing: Take n quart of alcohol and
dissolve in it as much gum shellac as
will make liquid of the consistency
of paint. Apply this to the wound
with common brush, always pairing
the wound smoothly first with a knife.
Tho liquid becomes hard and excludes
the air and is not affected by any
change OF weather.
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
BARTLEY's SHORTAGE ss7O, 900.

Amount of Nebraska's Estate Treas
uer's Defalcation Has Been Determined.
Lincoln, Neb. Nov IL. Otto W. Hell
big, the expert who has been engaged for
several months in examining the books
ami accounts of eXState Treasurer Bart
icy, has submitted his report to the leg
islatlve investigating committee, showing
Bartley's shortage to he SS70.000 The
amount of the defalcation has been var'-
ously estimated at from 100000 to n
million. BARLEY is now in Douglass
county Jail under u twenty years SEN
tence in the penitentiary. An appeal has
been taken to the supreme court and mr.
gument on motion for II new trial will
soou be made
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
4 PaIin6rOue

Palindromes-or words, verses or
sentences which are the same when
read backward or forward-are not
very common in the English language.
The British-Indian troubles at the
khyber Pass. however, have called the
attention OF the world to a man whose
name is entitled to be listed with the
palindromes-the Mullah of Haddah.
Haddah is true palindrome. although
the palindromic tsupposed) speech of
Adam to Eve: Madam. I'm ADAM
is more ingenious
The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-13
ROMANCE AND POLITICS.
Populist Candidate in Petticoats With
draws and Marries Oppouent.

uia"S ANU NarrleS opponent.
Tekamah, Neb., Nov. IA romantic
marriage was celebrated here Mt noon.
The contracting parties were Miss Alice
Thompson and Prof. c. S. Laughin.
The young lady was nominated by the
Popuiists OF .Surt county for the position
OF superintendent of schools at the recent
election. Laughlin received the same
nomination ut the hands of the Republi-
cans. The campaign became very ami
mated. Finally the two candidates came
to secret understanding, and on the eve
of the election Miss Thompson withdrew.
Her opponent, having no opposition,
was elected.
Their wedding announcement was sent
outthe day after election. aud the mar
riaRe occurred to-day. Now they.declare
that they had been engaged for some
time, but kept it secret for the verys
purpose they finally accomplished. The
young lady would undoubtedly have
been elected, but she says .she withdrew
to avoid humiliating her lover by defeat.