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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-11
IN HELPLESS CUBA.
Houses Entered at Night and Female In.
mates Taken Away.

Houses Entered at Night and Female In.
mates Taken Away.
There is ugly news from Mantanzas
and Cardenas.
The hapless people there have felt it's
influence very much, as they have been
the victims of the soldiers right along.
The stores have been looted, the men
ill-treated and roughly used, while the
stories Of outrage on the women and girls
have been numerous and we'll authenti-
Gated. Many houses have been entered
at night and the female inmates taken
away, in many cases the Spanish officers
not deemng it necessary to disguise
themselves. The camps of the pacificos
on the outskirts have been left to the
mercy of the common soldiers, and right
well have they availed themselves of the
implied liberty. Women and girls from
the country have been assaulted with lit
tie secrecy or precautiOn, and the paciG-
cos have been so cOwed that they sell
dom resist when troop of soldiers in
wade their camps. Instances are known
of detachments taking possession of
their huts turning them out, taking all
the women they could secure and hold
ing a wild orgie all night, the men not
daring, under fear Of instant and cruel
death, Bto modest them. 1t is fearful
story that comes from that section, and
! the worst can scarcely be printed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-11
THE STREET PIANO.
Parades Washington Every Evening at
Twilight.

Parades Washington Every Evening at
Twilight.
One prominent feature of Washing
ton is the street piano. | reckon that
Is what you call it; anyhow it is mag
nified edition of the hand organ, very
much improved edition, however.
They are rolled around from place to
place, and one hears their music where
ever he goes. The one / see most fire.
.quently is performed upon by an ltal-
ian and his wife. Every evening just
about twilight they come, and up and
down the street, wherever they are,
you generally see a crowd of children
gathered around them and dancing up
and down the sidewalks to their music.
This is the usual twilight scene as one
passes along the str eets-the people
sitting on their steps after the days
work is over, the street piano playing
and the children dancing up and down
the asphalt streets. Some of these
little street-raised girls follow the mu-
sic at this twilight hour for blocks and
dance everything from the waltz to
| the ballet.-G. G. Cox in LAGRANGE
Graphic.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-11
BEEYES IN YOUR POCKETS.
A Chicago Druggist Reduces Beef to the
Form of Tablets.

Chicago Druggist Reduces Beef to the
Form of Tablets.
A northside druggist of Chicago has
discovered method of reducing beef to
the form of tablets. He is keeping the
preparation secret until he can protect
it by patents.
His tablets are about as big as nick
ell, but trihe thicker, and six of them
have sufficed Mr.. Fry for his breakfast
each m ,rning for this last two weeks
He says that each tablet has the sus-
tanning power of a quarter pound of
beef.
The tablets are very light, and man
could carry the equivalent of two entire
beeves.
Just what the ingredients of the tab
lets are Mr.. Fry refuses to tell, but he
declares that every particle of the con-
densed food is nLtritive and healthfuI.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-11
FUCKERS RESIDENCE.
Report That He Win Move on Peachtree
Exercises Atlanta's Four Hundred.

Report That He Win Move on Peachtree
Exercises Atlanta's Four Hundred.
1t is reported that the fashionable
Peachtree street residence of Maj. W. H.
Smythe of Atlanta, who was a candi-
date for the Internal revenue collector
ship, will be rented to Henry A. Ruck-
err, the negro who succeeded in securing
the appointment, and certain Atlanta
society circles are very much stirred up
oyer The matter. The whole trouble APP
pears to be, according to a dispatch,
lhat the major was not satisfied with
the quality and quantity of the indorse-
ments the Atlanta people gave him. The
Atlanta people considered the appoint
ment of Rucker bad enough, as did al
most everybody else, but his appearance
as an inhabitant in the midst of the
Gate City's swell section will no doubt
be looked upon as the height of r6pub-
hcan indignity.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-11
Yon and Your Grandfather

are removed from each other by span
of many years. He travelled in slow-go-
ing stage coach while you take the light
ming express or the electric car. When
he was sick he was treated by old-fask-
toned methods and given old-fashioned
medicines, but you demand modern ideas
in medicine as we'll as in everything else.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is the medicine Of
today. 1t is prepared by modern meth
DDS aud to its preparation is brought the
skill and knowledge of modern science
Hoods Sarsapar:lla acts promptly upor
the blood and by making pure, ricf
blood it cures disease and establishes
q God health.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-11
RESENTED The INSULT.
EIGHT HUNDRED REFUSE TO
WORK WITH NEGROES.
A Monster Strike in Atlanta Over
the Employment of Negro
Labor. White Women
First to Quit.

Two hundred women and girls employ
ed at the Fulton Bag and Cotton mills
in Atlanta have struck because of the
employment of negro help by the man
agement. The operatives learned that
twenty-five negro women were to be put
to work in the folding department.. The
white women employed in the mills
gathered about the main entrance next
morning and waited the arrival of the
president, Mr.. Jacob Elsas. The newly
employed negro women were already
there. When Mr.. Elsas came the white
women wanted to know whether it was
true that he proposed to put the negroes
to work with them. He said that he
did, and the white women refused to go
work. At noon four hundred men and
women employed in the mills walked
out in obedience to the orders Cf the
Textile Workers Union and in sympa-
thy with the striking female operatives
This forced the closing down of the fac
tory. The strikers gathered in angry
groups about the mills and for time it
seemed as if there might be riot. The
Fulton Bag and Cotton mills is one of
the largest ,ncerns of the kind in the
south. About SEQ men, women and
children are affected by the strike.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-11

The readers of this paper will be pleas
ed to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages and that is
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now kaOwn to the medical
fraternity. CatarIh being a constitution
al disease requires constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation Of the
disease and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and as
sisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors haye so much Iaith in its
curative powers that they have offered
One Hundred Dollars for any case that
it fails to cure. Send for list Of testi.
monials. Address
F. j. CHENEY & Co Toledo, o.
| 20 Sold by druggists, 75c-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-11
ARM FROZEN In FREE TER.

Jersey City Boy to Lose an Arm for Plate
OF Ice Cfeam.
Samuel Wolf, cOnfectioner of Jersey
City, n. j., offered dish of cream to
the boy who would hold his arm the
longest time in an ice cream freezer. A
number of boys around the store con-
tested for the prize, but Willie Lock
wood outdid them all. Although suf-
fering excruciatng pain he held his
arm in the freezer for four minutes.
When he had withdrawn mis- arm it was
frozen stiff. The boy was taken TO the
city hospital where it was said that
it would be necessary TO amputate the
arm.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-11
SHEEFIED SEEKS PROSPERITY
AN ESCAPED CONVICT RETURNS TO
PRISON.
After Staying Ont a Year He Went
Back to the Camp, Saying Times
We're Better on the Inside.

The following is a special from Kra-
mer, Ga, to the Atlanta Constitution:
John Sheffield, a negro convict sent up
here from Terrell county in 1891 for a
term of ten years, made his escape last
year from this camp, and all efforts to To-
cate him were futile.
Yesterday evening he walked into the
camp and asked for his striped suit
again. He stated that he was unable to
secure work enough on the outside to
make living and was hungry and wish
ed to come back where he could get
plenty to eat and have a good home.
This may seem strange to people who
are not familiar with the convict bust
ness, but Sheffield is not the first prison
er to run away from this camp and re-
turn of his own accord, as at least half
dozen have done so in the last five or six
years.
Sheffield says he would not have left
at first if he had not heard the people
say that if Mr.. Mckinley was elected
president we would have good times,
and he thought he would meet them
half way, but he declares that the re-
port was a false alarm and that times
are better for people of his kind in the
penitentiary than among the free people
on the outside.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-11
PIRATES TAKE A STEAMER.
The Pegu, British Vessel, Captured Off
the Acheen Coast.

The steamship Belgic from Hong
Kong and Yokohama, via Honolulu,
brings the following advices to San
Francisco:
News has been received from Hong
Kong of the capture of the British
steamer Pegu by parates on July IA.
A gang of Chinese took passage on the
Pegu and while at sea murdered Cap
tain Ross and seven Of the crew and
wounded sixteen others. They looted
the ship and fed to the Acheen coast
Acheen is on the island of Sumatra
The people are Mohammedans and are
noted for being desperate characters.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-11
RYDER TO BE AVENGED
PINKERTON DETECTIVES ON TRAIL
OF THE LYNCHERS.
Five Thousand Dollars VIII Be Ex-
pended to Capture Them. The
Governor Threatened,


The lawlessness of the mob that
lynched DR.. Ryder is becoming notori-
Gus.
An anonymous letter has been written
to the governor threatening his life if he
continues to prosecute this case against
the Talbot county lynohers. Both of the
brothers of the deceased man have re-
ceived several communications of a sim.
liar character in which it has beon stated
that if they do not discontinue their eft
forts to bring the lynchers to Justice
they will 60 the ''same route the victim
of the mob went.
Col. Nesbitt, the commissioner of ag-
riculture, was down in Talbot county
last week, and in speaking of the condi-
tiOns of the feelings of the people of that
county says that they were very bitter
against Governor Atkinson for the stand
he had taken. They openly denounced
him for his utteranCes given out at the
time the reward was offered The truth
of the business is, according to the i'm
preston of Col. Nesbitt, the people of
Talbot expected the governor to merely
conform to certain amOunt of the for
mality of the law governing such cases
and then to sit quietly down and let the
matter die out.
DR.. G. A. Ryder of Gainesville has been
in Atlanta arranging some of the details
of the case, which have now been placed
in the hands OF Pinkerton and his men.
The doctor said that at no time had he
been hopeful of any assistance from the
officials of The county where his brother
was lynched and that he is not surprised
to hear the muttering of discomfort
among the people of Talbot.
DR., W. L. Ryder carried So 900 of in
surance on his life and his brothers state
that the insurance companies have mott
fed them through their agents that the
full amount will be paid.
"This money" SAID Dr. c. A.. Ryder,
twill be spent, if necessary, in avenging
his DEATH"
The very best men in the Pinkerton
service have been employed to work up
the case against the lynchers, and two of
the party are already at the scene of the
trouble.
The Ryder brothers claim that they
have already secured considerable
amount of evidence against the lynchers
1t has gone so far that the detectives
have been furnished with the names Of
three of the members of the mob who
have been, it is claimed, positively iden.
titled.
A singular feature of this case is tina
DR.. Ryders brothers have never beer
able to find watch and 500 diamond
ring which he had worn just before tn,
killing of Miss Owen. He is also said tC
have had over 500 and that but $18 hay,
been accounted fer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-11

Johnson's Chill and Fee
yer Tonic is a ONE-DAY
Cure. 1t cures the most
stubborn case of fever in
"a Hours.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-11
''"' PARKS. R. L. BELL
ESTABLISHED 1876.
Insurance Agency Of
JIG. paktS &GO.
DAWSON, GA,

Is now entering upon the
tWenty-hrst year of Its success
tuI operations in this cOmmun-
lty During the past twenty
years this Agency has paid
many thousands of dollars in
losses, and has always dealt
fairly with the insuring public.
Companies represented are all
strictly frst-class and are the
oldest and STRONGEST in
the land, Policies issued at
reasonable rates, insuIing
against loss by fires, storms
and accidents; also for persons
aeslrIng to give bond for any
purpose,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-08-11

Physical strength and energy contrib
ute to strength of character, and both
may be had by taking Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
Chicae 90 Live Stock.

Chicago, Nov. .-Cattle-Prices
were as follows: Extras, 5.3O@5.S5;
choice steers. 5.OO@5.25; fair beef
steers, 4.30@4.55; common, 5.75@4.25;
COWS and heifers, 3.99@9.75.
Hogs.-Fair to choice, 3.45@3.60;
heavy packing, 32OQA25; common to
choice. 5.35@D5.60; good 10 choice light,
S.S5@3.521a: pigs, 2.S0@S.60; culls, LOCO
$40
Sheep.-Sheep were salea,ble at 5000
$50 for the poorest natives UP to 4.75Q
500 for the best, westerns selling at
3.5003.T5, mostly at 3.75@4.50 Prime
sheep are scarce and few sales are
made as high as 475.
Lambs.-Lambs were in demand at
4.G0@6.20.
Receints.-cattle, 1900; hogs, 1900;
sheen. 6nnO
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
MONUMENT TO WASHINGTON.
Movement to Erect a Building to
Washington.


The women of Massachusetts have
launched q movement having for its
object the erection of a George Wash
tional purposes, TO be one of the build
mss Of the University of the United
States, at Washington. a central as
ISOLATION has been organized, with
branches in the various states. 1t is
their aim to raise at least $3.50, GOO. and
to lay the corner stone on Feb. %. 1899.
The next anniversary of Washington
birth has been designated as a day
upon which offerings may be made TO
this cause. Mrs. Ellen a. Richardson
Of Boston is at the head of the move
mert
One of the dearest wishes of George
Washington was that a great national
institution of learning should be estab-
liShed at Washington, and in his Will
he beQueathed so, 900 for this purpose.
Not only have his wishes gone unheed-
ed, but the legacy itself seems to have
been lost
The language of his will was as fol-
lows:
I give and bequeath in perpetuity
the so shares value $500 each) which L
hold in the Potomac company (under
the aforesaid acts of the legislature of
Virginia. toward the endowment of q
university to be established in the Dis
tTict of Columbia, under the auspices OF
the general government, if that govern
ment should incline to extend 4 foster
ing haad toward it; and until such
seminary is established and the funds
arising on these funds shall be re-
quired for it's support, my further de-
sire IS that the profit accruing there
from Shall whenever dividends are
made, be laid out in purchasing stock in
the Bank OF Columbia. or some other
bank, at the discretion of my executors,
or by the treasurer OF the United
States for the time being under the di-
rection Of congress; and the dividends
proceeding from the purchase of such
stock is to be invested in more stock.
and so on until o sum adequate to the
accomplishment of this object is OBJ
tanned"
This sum, if invested as Washington
directed. would now amount to four and
one-half million dollars. What became
of it, and why it was never expended
as directed, are likely to become the
subjects of congressional inquiry.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
Liverpool Market and Russian Adj
vices Affect Wheat.

Chicago, Nov. 13.-The speculative
trade in wheat opened dull, and for
the first hour the trend was downward,
the most weakness, however, being in
May, which sold half cent below the
close last night, while December kept
steadier and sold only Nc below the
close yesterday. May opened at 9O15
and sold to 90A while December
touched 93B. The Liverpool market was
again tame and seemed inclined to sell
off some, while dispatches from New
York said the frosts in Argentine were
slight, and the outlook for a good crop
favorable. Trade was light for time
but later speculation became heavy and
there was a gradual rise in December
and May.
The demand for December became
quite brisk, and it was rumored that
the bull clique was bidding it, when
the shorts made an effort to cover,
which gradually sent the price to 947s.
and May moved to 907s in sympathy A
rumor that some of the wheat received
from Duluth had been rejected by the
inspection department contributed to
the alarm displayed by the December
shorts.
The exports from both coasts for the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

H.. 81; p. M. 81 Direction of wind.
6 a. M, north; 6 p. m. south. Velocity
of wind, miles per hour. a. m, three;
6 p. M, five. State of weather. 6 a m,
cloudy; D. M, clear Maximum tenn
perature. So degrees; minimum temper
ature, II degrees. Mean temperature. 80
degrees: for % years, SO degrees; ex-
cess for this date, II degrees; accumu-
lated deficiency of temperature since
Jan. /. 1897, zoe degrees: accumulated
excess of temperature since Nov. l. %.
Precipitation Including rain. hail and
melted snowy. .03 inches: for % years,
-04 inches: deficiency for this date. .01
inches; accumulated excess since Jan.
l. So inches: accumulated excess since
Nov. 1, "a inches.
FORECAST FOR TO-DAY.
Following is the forecast for Salt
Lake City and vicinity for the "a hours
ending at D. m. today: Fair; station
airy temperature. J. II. SMITH
Observer, Weather Bureau.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
CLEAR|NGS ARE MISLEADING
BANK BUSINESS NOT so GOOD
AS REPORTED.
Loans Reported Over Million High
er, Whereas Business Shows a
Falling OF of Five Million.

New York, Nov. 1s-The Financier
says:
The statement of the New York
clearing house banks for the week end
ing Nov. 19, viewed on its general re-
suits, is decidedly misleading The
loans, for instance, are reported S1,2Sl,-
loo higher than the week previous
whereas the loans of 81 of the So banks
in the Clearing House association have
fallen off no less than S., 137 100.
The decrease having been more than
offset by the increase of Sc, 200, re-
ported by one large bank, which occu-
pies a prominent position with refer
ence to the Union Pacific settlements
now pending. Just what the heavy
loan expansion indicates specifically is
hard to determine but that it is in
voIved in these settlements is doubtless
true The same bank has deposited
with the government something like
nine millions Of bonds to secure the
Union Pacific deposits, which further
bears out this assumption. Otherwise
the business of the banks has not been
so good, AZ of the institutions, individ-
ually considered, having decreased their
loans.
The item of deposits is also of mis-
leading character, and, with one bank
been 1924, 200. Adding the increase of
Sc, Alb, 800 reported by this bank. the
gain becomes 81, $50, 700, as given in the
clearing house totals. Here, too, the
Pacific payments are in evidence. But,
treating the statement in this manner,
it is, considering the bank making the
greatest change apart from the rest, 1t
is found that the total gain of $1,331,
100 in cash made by the banks is to be
as the bank reporting the heavy eXpan-
sion in loans and deposits has almost
precisely the same reserve carried the
week previous.
AS the increase in loans and depos
its of this institution were identical. it
follows that the GA banks lost heavily
in loans, decreased their cash $1,000, 600
and their deposits So, 425, 200 The state
ment thus treated does not balance,
but that is all that can be made out OF
it. The actual facts are that the banks
are gaining money and, as interior in
situations are over-supplied with cash,
the chances for a firmer money market,
even with the heavy payments due
the treasury, are growing less from
jday to day.
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT.
The weekly bank statement shows
the following changes:
Surplus, reserve, increase. ....$ 593,925
Loans. increase. -. ,281, 100
Specie. increase. 80. 80. $50, 800
Legal tenders. increase. 49,. $50, 500
Deposits. increase. -. 2,9SS, 100
Circulation. decrease. ..... Il, 500
The banks now hold 81, 100 $50 in ex-
cess of the requirements of the % per
cent rule.
SPECIE EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
The exports of specie from the port
of New York for the week amounted
to S4,793 in gold and 1919, 447 in silver.
The imports were: Gold, S6,114: sill
yer, $4,000; dry goods, $1,384, 563; gen
eral merchandise, $9,748. 1872.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
GUILTY OF MURDER.
Denver Assassin's Story Too Thin
For the Jury.

Denver. Nov. 13.-The jury in the case
of Frederick c.. Sanchez. who killed his
wife in the Colorado House. in this city.
Oct. 80, returned a verdict of guilty Of
murder il the first degree today. San
CHEFS defense was that he accidentally
shot his wife in a nightmare, imagining
a robber had entered his room. Her
life was insured for $11.00
Judge Allen sentenced Sanchez TO life
Imprisonment the maximum penalty
under the law.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14
Omaha Live Stock.

Omaha, Nov. 7S-Cattle.-Receipts
500. Market for beeves stronger, 1O@15c
higher than last week; feeders, weak;
native beef steers. S4@47O; COWS and
heifers, $3.25@4; Gamers, $2@3; stock
ers and feeders. $3.25@4.25; calves, $50
6; bulls, stays, etc, $2@3.25.
Hogs.-Receipts $780, Market was &c
lower; heavy, $9.25@3.371a; mixed, $50
@3.40; light, $3.4O@345; bulk of sales,
$330@335
Sheep.-Receipts 1000. Market quiet;
fair to choice natives, $3.75@435; fair
to choice westerns, $3.50@4.1O; common
and stock sheep, $S@3.75; lambs, $4.5O@
$50.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-14

week aggregate 5,445, COO bushels,
against 5,590,000 bushels the. week be
fore, and 4,65400 the corresponding
week last year, and Broomhall, of the
Corn Trade News, scabled that in order
to keep up present stocks Europe
would have to import between now and
April next 1855, 400, 600 bushels of wheat.
Cables also reported that the Russian
ports on the sea of Azof We're being
closed by ice shutting off Russian sup
plies, but the report had more effect
here apparently than it did at Liver
pool, which led many to doubt its re-
liability
There was a sharp break during the
last hour, and May sold off Is to so
cents, and December lost III, selling
down to 9S9s, after having sold at
947s The weakness abroad and the
dull and narrow trade caused the early
buyers to sell out and the market be-
ing so weak that longs We're not dis
posed to carry holdings over the Sun
day holiday, this selling contributed to
the weakness AT the close. May was
80 bid and December 941G. or "A over
may, where the difference last night
was only 315.
Corn was dull and heavy, and at the
close sc lower for the day. Trading in
the pit was largely in the way of
changing December to May on the ex-
listing difference.
Oats opened firm and for awhile
prices were higher. Later, however,
the firmness gave way to weakness,
caused by liquidation of a moderately
large scale.
Provisions were dulIer than even
their ordinary state of depression.
Changes in price were SO small as to
be hardly worth recording.
The leading futures ranged as follows: