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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
FIREMAN KILLED.
Walter Seaman the Victim of a Firebox
Explosion.

llillsboro, Tex, Jan. 2S.-(Spccial.)-
Walter Seaman, Il fireman on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railway, was
killed one mile north of Abbott by a fire
box exposition at | 40 this morning. He
was in front of the fircbox door, break
ing coal preparatory to putting some coal
III the trebOX, when suddenly, without
warning, there was a violent conclusion,
which blew off the firebOX, throwing Sea
man into the water tank. This was fol-
lowed by Il dense volume of steam and
smoke. putting out the fire. The engi-
neer, Garlic DunGn. who was up on his
side of the cab, escaped injury, as did
Head Brakeman c. s. Edmonds, who was
up on the hrcman's side of the cab, look
ing back to see If the train was coming
all right. When the explosion occurred
Edmonds jumped out of the cab window
When light was produced Seaman
was lying partly on the tank and partly
on the cab floor, his left leg and arm
horribly manglcd and broken and his
body and head badly bruised. He groan-
ed slightly once. Engineer Dunin raised
his head and called him by name, but
he never uttered word and in three
minutes was dead
Scaman'S remains were brought to
llillSboro ON the Flyer ut 1870 this mora
ing and taken to the residence of j. w.
Coblc, his brothcr-in-law. They will be
buried tomorrow.
Seaman was married TO Miss Nora
Smith of this city, December n last, and
had consequently been married one month
and three days. His wife came up from
Smithville this evening and is almost
Frustrated with grief.
The train was an extra south bound
freight, engine lI3, and was in charge
of Conductor j. b. Stalker. The engine
had only been in use Il few days. The
engineer thinks the EXPOSITION was
caused by the crown sheet of the firebox
giving way and letting the water and
steam pScaDp
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
BRYAN BANK REOpENS

u Bryan, Tex, Jan. 2S.-(Special)- Tbr
lire, Mercnd N and Planters bank, which was
r ' december -, pending an arrange
t thenl Oh ITS affairs, and has since been in
. .ne hands OF Examiner j. II. McDonald
iIie sIp this morning with j. W Enr,
d ,1s,; PRESIDENT; NJ. ID. Cole, vice nresi.
u s;s. D. n Cole and A. d. McConnic as
T. I arn,I,. cashier. The deposits today
'"fsely exceed the amount drawn out
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
PREFER DEATH TO PROMISES.

New York. Jan. 2S.-Refcrring to the
report that Spain is about to concede II
home rule measure to the Cuban insur-
gents, Thomas Estrada Palma of the
Cuban junta said today:
Unconditional and absolute independ-
ence is all that Cuba will ever accept
from the government of Spain. If she
can not have it, she prefers cxtcrmina-
ton. 1t is scarcely worth while to dis
cuss Il home rule proposition. It has not
been made and if it should he it would
receive no consideration at our hands.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
WILL MOVE TO THE FORT

Fort Worth. Tex. Jan 2S.-(Special). j.
Beginning February l, the Texas head.
quarters of the Pacific Express company
will be moved to this city. The officials
to come here are Superintendent o. w.
Case; VIM. G.. Lyall. chief clerk; LouiS
rrice, Stenographer Tracy Richards,
money order department: Webb Rich.
ards. trace clerk and stationer. ]. w
Webster. route agent at Big Springs,
comes here February /.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
II. OF p JrDc,tI,~rr

court Ito odpp Jan. 2s-The supreme
Of Pytb Gy the grand lodge of the KNIGHTS
Of this s''i las against Kocncr Lodge No. 6
because cry depriying it of it's property one
seced ,Sf fr 1T mad adopted a resolution to
form V = IRON IOdl, the knights of Pythias and
Bund lodge of the Indiana Zeitung
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
DERyISHES RETREATING.

Massowah. Jan. 2S.-Advices from
Agordat say that the dervishes, who We're
believed to be advancing on that place.
have abandoned their fortified camp at
kmidcb and are retreating in the direc-
ton of Aimoasa. pursued by the friendly
natives. Ii is further announced that
there no dervishes in the vicinity of Kas-
Snla
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
NOT FOR THE PUBLIC.

Iordon Ian. 2S-ln the house OF com, +,
mons today Mr.. Chamberlain, a anI pownIi'
a question of Sir George Baden fo U"
said that the Pacific Cabie co da1 thot
had made its report. But, he added, t dis
rs it was the subject of confdehtlai t tho
cussion between Great Britain AM anu IA .t 10
colonies he was unable to give the na''
Of its presentation to parliament
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
:. CLAIMED nv TIIE CIV,

man " OF Jan. 2S.-Chorles II Jv
Of nnc al ahe navy died in this citv ~ tod a.,
grip p"eGIInonia following an nfta ey t9d ~
obqerr, ne has been attached t 70 TX o, .nI
L rmona since last Novcm N ,ne n ;a'i
Kenr "a was navigating ofGcer 81 n1 the
Samoa. ""e' she was castaway in
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
EA>tI\E RAINY FELT

Solarpore. Jan. 2S.-(Copyrighted, 1897,
by the Associated Press.l-Thc special
correspondent of the Associated ross.
who is visiting this district. finds it badly
Effected. The scarcity of food is as Sc
verely felt Mt Talukas, Sangola, Mazda
and Karmala. Solarpore City is the cen
ter of the weaving Industry, and its in
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
OFFJCtALpLAGUE REPORT

Bombay. Jan 2S.-According to the Of
fetal report just issued there has been
417O cases of the plague in Bombay, and
1925 deaths from that disease. At ku-
rachi 461 cases and 326 deaths have been
reported At Porrnah there have been
65 cases and TO deaths, and few cases
have occurred at Surat Baroda, Ahmad-
ahnd. Khalinawar and Dutch.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
ANOTHER ONr D,,,.

nant TRS niI5,, Tenn. Jan. 2sNThc Cove
tod ir Building Hiding and Loan COMPANY nv failed
last y wod making the seventh R Within tn
the week week A receiver was osk. sP'f for in
CONT f'i M manner as the othcSs u on ~ sc-
obligstiSnIrIt their not being funds to pay
made during the pan; n. OF wyhdra"aiS
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
a SSlG\\JE\-r

NJ. B. DT mnI,, lex.' Jan. 2s.-(Special)-
tation nouunlavy; stock raiser and Man
named I o or creditors. Oscar Is Kirt,. md nd
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
THE TOPOLOBAMPO FAILURE.

THE TOPOLOBAMPO FAILURE.
chihuahua, Mex, Jan. 2S.-Jamcs
Mcdsker, who was among the number of
Americans who took up their residence at
Topolobampo, the cooperative colony
west of here on the Pacific coast, Il few
years ago, has arrived here in II desti-
tue condition and is seeking to get back
to the United States. He states that
the few colonists remaining at that place
are entirely without means of support
and that they are suffering for food. They
are GOO miles from railway, and have
given up hope of returning to their old
homes. The government cancelled con
ccssions under which the colony was es-
tablshed. and the members have no
special favors or privileges. The atten-
ton of United States Minister Ransom
will be called to the condition of the col
onistS
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-02-04
The b|MEIALL|C MOVEMENT
SENATOR WOLCOTTS TRIP HAS
AT LEAST GOT AGITATION
STARTED.
DR.. OTTO ARENDT'S VIEWS THEREON
Says Only England Blocks the way
Germany and France Can Be Count
ed Upon-Vicws Of an Eminent
French Authority.

London. Jan. 2S.-Thc February num-
Der Of the National Review will contain
an important review of the bimetallc
movement in Europe by the leaders OF the
movement in England, France and Ger
many, and arranged especially in view OF
the visit to Europe of Senator Edward U.
WolcOtt of Colorado, who is now in Paris
Edmund D'Artcrs, secretary of the
French metallic League, contributes Il
careful article on the situation and the
steady growth of the movement i'll
France. In it he declares that there Is
no doubt that the French government
and a great majority of the French par
lament are in favor of bimctallism, add
ing: Our hopes today are greater than
ever because we believe that the .Ameri-
can election has revealed to Europe gen
orally and England in particular the I'M
passc into which gold recommendation has
led the world. 1t has shown cOnclusively
that bimetallists are far more logically
partisans of sound money than monomet-
allists."
DR.. Otto Arcndt of the Prussan diet,
honorary secretary of the German Bi-
metallic League, declares that only Eng
land blocks the way. Germany, he
adds, will participate i'll Il conference
called by any other power But he
explains. Germany will not, as in 1892,
be represented by fanatical gold men,
but will contribute by raising and fixing
the price of silver, liberal free trade,
while the socialist press, with the entire
parliamentary left, are fighting the dou-
BILE standard, which they represent as a
means of enabling debtors to repay gold
mortgages with deprecated silver and
illegitimatcly cnriching American mine
owners. But the leftists neither control
parliament nor the government
and" continues Herr Arendt, SHOULD
a conference be summoned the German
parliament can be relied upon to be It's
strongest supporter
Lord Alderman, who is a director of
the Bank of England, devotes much
space to refuting the arguments of the
Gold Standard Defense association,
which declares that Senator Wolcott was
unable to answer the first question asked
by English traders and bankers.
His lordship thinks the month of
March will enable Mr.. Mckinley to carry
out the st. Louis program in regard to
bimetallism, and concludes with remark
ing:
There is no doubt that France and
the United States. by agreeing together,
could maintain bimetallic law, but for
greater certainty and confidence it would
be reasonable that they should ask for
England and Gcrmany's cooperation"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-12-14

Professor Crookes, in his recent re-
markable lecture On diamonds. men
toned some interesting facts concerning
that always popular subject When in
examining diamonds under polarizcd
light the black cross Of the polar1zer re-
wolves around a particular spot in the in
side Of the crystal and the point is exam
med with a high power. slight flaw and
more rarely a minute cavity are some
times seen. This cavity is filled with gas
at an enormous pressure, and the strain
which is set up in the stone by the eff
tort OF the gas to escape is not infre-
Guently removed only by the explosion
of the gem. 1t is not at all uncommon
for diamond to explode soon after it
reaches the surface, and some have been
known to burst in the pockets IF the
miners or when held in the warm hand.
Large crystals are more liable to burst
than smaller pieces. Valuable stones
have been destroyed in this way, and it
is whispered that cunning dealers have
often done handsome stroke of bust
ness by allowing responsible clients to
handle or carry III their warm pockets
large crystals fresh from the mine Bv
way of safeguard against explosion some
dealers embed large diamonds in raw
potatoes to insure safe transit Oh the
ocean voyage
Professor Crookes showed that a dia-
mond could actually be too hard. From
rich yield of beautifully white dia-
monds i'll New South Wales great things
were expected When parcel Of many
hundred carats came to England, it was
found they were so hard as to be prac-
tlcally unavoidable as gems, and they
were ultimately sold for rock boring
purposes. The intense hardness of the
diamond was illustrated by an expert
ment. The diamond was placed on the
dattened apex Of conical block of steel,
and on it was brought down Il second
cone OF steel. AS these cones were forced
together by hydraulic power the image
OF the diamond and the steel faces of
the cones were projected on the screen
with all electric lantern The stone was
seen to be squeezed right into the steel
blocks without being injured in tie
slightest degree.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-12-14
THE FARM.

Young pigs, just weaned, should never
be put into a lot with older ones until
they have learned to "hustle" for them
selves.
Short whiffletrees one foot long are
useful in blowing among trees. With
them horse can walk close to the tree
without danger of bruising it.
Use your spray pump for whitewash-
ing the poultry house inside. Pour car
bolic acid on the lime before shaking,
make the wash very thin, add plenty
of salt, apply literally.
Denmark's foreign egg trade has
grown to tremendous size, mainly with
England. Twenty years ago the annual
Danish export Of eggs was GOO, 900; now
it is reckoned at III 100000.
Sc mething that follows and takes the
::plae e of asparagus is Swiss chard. The
:yor ing and tender leaves make excel
len greens, and when older, the center
Or ib becomes large and juicy. Trim of
lea lies and cook like asparagus. .
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-12-14
ITEMS OF ALL SORTS

vo,,Dr w., =; T.
Souls .!'':' ~ oston mas trained
'ollNe! 20 rue d olcycle.
No pereo', under IS years of age is
@ 1r1ansn 80 '''er Il 'nea1sr or tavern in
lne,iso!''!o'
Mlcl:'S>>a @o':'a'rs about 4,545 lakes
aii'1 aI''i ~: . cams, and is con-
s'oere> I. :: ;>';'se fer anglers.
fasse'e >~>,:' Gu We open cars of Bos-
ton' Tor IN t!>"'H ere TO seats, arc
noe alio' e<' 10 Ft':'d G: cbstruct the
VIC" Vi lose 40 ere seated.
n sub';.: &c tv:':"l I } connect Scot
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-12-14
ABOUT PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Gen. Cadorna, who commanded the
Italian troops when they took posses
sion of Rome in 1870, died recently at
the age of 50 years.
DR.. Jameson, according to the Cape
Town Times, will return to South
Africa to carry the Rhodes transconti-
Mental wire to Lake Tanganyika.
The duchess Of York was married
July 6, 1898. June %, 1894; December IA
1895, and April IS, 1897, are the dates Of
the births of her three children.
NJ ISIS Mary Isabella Potter, who was
ord aimed as an Episcopal deaconess in
New Haven recently, is the first wom-
an to take orders in the diocese of Con-
ne< ,ticut.
e. movement is on foot to erecta monu-
nv ent to Henri Vieuxtemps, the famous
b elgium violinist. The monument will
he erected at Verviers, the birthplace
al the musician.
Gov. Robert L. Taylor, of Tennessee,
who, it is said, will resign, achieved no.
toriety during his candidacy by playing
a violin, while making speeches. He
now says he is tired of the ingratitude
of politics.
Senator Wellington, of Maryland, in
terests himself while the senate is in
session in looking over newspaper clip
pings about himself. He subscribes to a
news-clippings bureau and reads every.
thing that is said about himself with a
great deal of interest.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-12-14
JOANsON'S BOSWELL.
The Alleged Original Source Of Ou1
knowledge of English Literature.

The Alleged Original Source Of Our
knowledge of English Literature.
To some of us-I suspect, indeed, to
q good many-Boswell represents the
original source not only of knowledge
about johnson, but of our knowlt dge G
English Literature in general. lie was
our introducer to the great anonymous
club formed by English men of letters
from the days when Shakespeare met
Ben Jonson 10 the days when Carlyle
discoursed t., Froude. We became men,
bers of tho craft in spirit under Bos-
wells guidance, whether we have or
have not become actually identified
with it in the flesh. It therefore be-
comes next to impossible to abstract
from Boswell-all our later knowledge
has been more or less ingrafted upon
him, however far we may have travelled
from the source. Boswell gave the uu-
cleus, and more or less consciously we
have used his world as standard inev-
itably taken into account in all later
judgments. To suppose Boswell nonex-
lstent is for such readers to suppose a
kind Of organic change in our whole es-
innate of literary characteristics
When reading, especially about some
of the other famous takers, Coleridge's
monologues or Sydney Smiths explo-
sions of fun, l find myself thinking how
they would have sounded at the Miter
or the Turk Head Thanks to Boswell,
take the Johnsonian article to be a
fixed datum like the official yard at the
Tower, and to be asked to put that out
Of my head is to be invited to deprive
myself Of my only measuring rod. 1t is
exceedingly difficult, at any rate, to put
oneself outside of Boswell and to con-
strue portrait of johnson simply out
of such other materials as are here put
together.
have read Hawkins and Mrs. Piozzi
and the rest, but always with the help
of the preconceived notions. Where
they could be fitted into Boswell have
accepted them as considerations, but
when they differed | have probably re-
jected the uncongenial elements with
perhaps careless assumption that they
must be inaccurate, and yet it seems
only justice to these respectable persons
to consider whether we ought not to re-
open the point If Nine. D'Arblay saw
something of Johnson which was not
revealed to Boswell, may we not discov-
er similar supplementary hints in the
other attempts at portraiture?-Leslie
Stephen i'll National Review.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-12-14
The Old, Old Story.

A farmer who had purchased an
eighty-fve dollar bill of goods from a
travelling vender was in town yester-
day with his purchase. A leading
merchant fully examined the goods
which the man had purchased and
after doing SO asserted that the whole
bill could be duplicated for $50 here
at the highest retail prices, and if the
purchase WAS made Of any one dealer
at one time no doubt a cons iderable
discount would be given from that
figure.
Yet Notwithstanding this fact the
purchase of goods from travelling
vendors goes merrily on. Misrepre-
sentation in claiming that local mer-
chants are charging excessive profit,
smooth talk and other like methods
are inducing many honest, hard work
ing residents in the country to make
investments which they are certain to
regret thereafter if those who have
purchased do not do so already
Red Wing Republican.
Warnings against this class of ped
dlers cannot be too strongly drawn
nor too often repeated. AS the cold
weather sets in they are sure to be
around with their boosted articles
which, even if the goods should prove
what they are represented to be, will
fill u house with goods not very much
needed. Such pcddlers are n nuisance
equal to the vendors OF lightning rods
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-12-14
HINTS TO HOUSEkEEPERS.

Much coal is wasted by keeping
draught on unnecessarily.
Sterilized milk is safer for infants
than is milk simply warmed.
All cold vegetables left over should
be saved for future use in soups or
salads.
People of small means can live we'll,
if care is taken that there is no waste in
the kitchen.
Wealthy people spend double as much
as is necessary from lack of care in
domestic matters.
Cold water put into glasses or dishes
from which eggs have been eaten will
soften the egg and make washing
easy.
A good jelly may be made from rhu-
barb by boiling to pulp, stra ming, and
after adding a pound Of cat sugar to
each pint of juice boiling, Swimming
often, until it jellies on the skinner
If tinted willow furniture is very
dusty, wash in clear water. Using a
brush in the crevices and dry in the
shade. Willow or rattan furniture in
natural color may be thoroughly
scrubbed with stiff brush, warm Wa
ter and white soap. Dry in the sun and
wind.
Often very rich cream will not whip
up readily; it should have q little milk
added to it. Cream should be very
cold to whip easily and quickly. If il
is well chilled there is not the danger
of the cream whipping to butter as
housekeepers frequently complain il
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-12-14
LimblesS Cotton.

All interesting sight at Opeli'ka, Ala,
is patch OF "linlbless'' otton The
plants are from five to seven feet high
and have no limbs or brar. ches at all
The bolls form on little twigs two and
three inches long, and when in bloom
the stalk presents the appearance of a
white column. A crop of about four
bales to the acre is what is expected un-
der fair conditions. This Alabama patch
is the property of the lev l. N. Fitz
patrick, presiding elder OF the negro
Methodist church, and such is his care
OF his unique crop and his confidence in
his neighbors that he watches it at night
with dog aud gun. Exchange.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-12-14
HAPPENINGS ABROAD.

Hans Delbruck, editor of the Preus-
sische Jahrbuecher, has been appointed
to the chair of history in Berlin uni
versity, held by the late Heinrich Won
Treitschke.
Lamartine's manuscripts of his poems
have been handed over to the Paris
National library by M. Emile Olivier,
as the literary executor of Mile Valen-
tine de Lamartine.
Italy has music trust, well-known
firm of music publishers controlling
copyrights and theaters so that no
opera can be given without it's consent
and no singer engaged save at it's dicta-
ton.
When the duke of Connaught's term
as commander at Aldershot expires he
will be made quartermaster general.
His next step toward the commander
in chief will probably be the adjutant
generalship. .
Three thousand Lascars, specially i'm
ported, are to be turned loose on Lon
don by the Peninsular and Oriental
and other steamship lines plying with
the east as their contribution to the
picturesqueness of the queens celebra-
ton.
Important frescoes of the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries have been dis
covered under the plaster on the walls
of the Church of San Domenico at
Riete in Umbria. Among them is a
coronation of St. Peter Martyr by
Pinturicchio.
Guesen, the primate of Poland's see,
is celebrating the ninth centenary of
it's patron, Saint Adalbert, who was
put to death by the heather Prussians
he was trying to convert in o97. His
body lies in solid silver shrine in
Guesen cathedral.
In Italy only half of the criminals es-
cape detection, according to Signor
Ferriani, who has written a book on
"Clever and Fortunate Criminals" He
asserts that while 5000 crimes whose
authors were not detected were COM
mitted in France in 1925, the yearly
number of such crimes is now 10000.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-12-14
BASEBALL.

Detroit recently released four of it's
players.
Tim Donahue is the hardest loser
among the colts.
Danny Friend is pitching winning
ball for Kansas City.
McJames, of Washington, doesn't
like to pitch on Sunday.
Buck Ewing's CUTTERS" is what the
reds are now being dubbed.
The colonies make n speciality of
double plays in their practice work.
The colts lead the league up to date
in the number of double Plays made.
Dick Cooley is just nov &c boss bat
ter and base purloiner Of Tic l'hillies.
Frank Selee is said to &c wiling to
wager that Boston will finish one-two.
Catcher Camel is the only bean
eater who has been with the team eight
years.
1t looks IS if Tommy fuckers days
in the big league are over. Nobody
seems to want lin.
St. Paul seems to have a circh on first
place in the western league race, for the
present at least.
Buck Ewing is said to have the pref
test set of baseball fingers of any
player in the business.
The St. Louis blcacheries roast Won
der Abe whenever they get glimpse of
him in the stand or en- the field.
Many veteran ball player has been
| relegated to the bench this season and
many youngster has developed into a
| star.
Bar St. Louis, the western teams have
shown themselves to be fully as strong
as their eastern rivals on the present
shift around.
Catcher Charley Farrell is said to
have Row tricl: this season. In prac-
tice he ;'>.>':'c::'''- has '~e~t difficulty
in throwing t!r ball Cow, to second
but when the came starts l.e nips the
first base runner who tries to steal the
bag.