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The leader., 1897-11-17

If it wasn't for the weather there are
lots of men who would never look to-
ward heaven.
If the domestic troubles of q mar
ried couple are only little ones they
ought to be happy.
If an up-to-date girl is pressed to
tell man she loves him she lets him
keep right on pressing.
II you want to attract a woman's at
tention to any particular thing. just
place it in front of nlirror.-Chicago
News
The leader., 1897-11-17
AMNESTY FOR MELTON.
The Young Kansan Soon to BE Released
from Cuban Prison.

young Kansas correspondent who was
captured in April, 1896, with several
other men on the schooner Competitor
and has since been in prison here
awaiting legal action on the charge of
ilibustering, will be included in the
general amnesty decree soon to be is
sued and he and his companions will
be set at liberty. Young Melton
will at once return to the United
States and will visit his relations in
Kansas and will recuperate from the
effects of his long imprisonment.
The leader., 1897-11-17
TO DISFRANCHISE NEGROES.
Proposed New Election Law In Kentucky
That Would Increase Democratic Major

FRANKFORT, KY, Nov. 13.-The lead,
ing democrats in the recently elected
Legislature are preparing bill to
amend the election laws so that all de.
vices on the fetal ballot shall be
done away with, and requiring each
voter to write on the ballot the name
of the candidates for whom he votes.
The larger majority of the negro
voters in Kentucky cannot write, and
should this bill become operative it
would thus disfranchise at least 60, 0OO
voters and greatly increase the demo,
cratic majority.
The leader., 1897-11-17

DeWolf Hopper has accepted new
opera, "The Charlatan." with which be
viii open next season.
The leader., 1897-11-17
NOT A COMPETENT WITNESS.
sairii LLa lisi az :, NLxGl Er,Iiuds l

United States Judge Adams Releases Fay,a
spiritualist "Faker," on Novel Grounds.
ST. Louis, Nov. 13.-In the United
States circuit court, Judge Adams sus-
tanned a demurrer to an indictment
charging Prof" l. c. Fay, spiritual
list medium, with using the mails to
defraud. The evidence was conclusive,
but Judge Adams held that any man
who was SO mentally dwarfed as to be
swindled by representations such as
Prof" Fay made should not be a COM
petent prosecuting witness in the
criminal prosecution of the man who
made them
The leader., 1897-11-17

RECENTLY negro colony was organ.
lied at Cedar Lake, Ala. The colony
was projected and is backed by Mrs.
Lillian X. Ray, a wealthy English
woman. The land upon which it is
situated comprises 357 acres of some of
the finest soil in the Tennessee valley.
This is not business speculation by
any means" said Mrs. Ray. 1T is
simply plan for solving the race
problem. My plan is to colonize the
most intelligent and progressive ne
groes in city of their own building.
encourage and aid them in building
factories and shops of their own"
The leader., 1897-11-17
A Young Farmer Injured.

Charles Neff, young man, was badly
injured last week while operating a
corn shredder on the Bond farm, three
miles east of Jackson. His left hand
was caught in the machine and his arm
drawn into the machinery nearly to the
elbow before it could be stopped. His
arm was amputated below the elbow.
The leader., 1897-11-17

DR. JACOB ID. GRAYBILI., of New
Orleans, has just received a patent for
an airship conceived on novel lines.
The machine is cigar-shaped, and is
said to be built of aluminium. Hydro
gen gas is the lifting power, and the
machine will be controlled in ascents
and descents by the use of air ballast.
The leader., 1897-11-17
BODY STEALER CONFESSES.

DIR. Drummond, of ChiliicOthe, o., Says He
Robbed a Grave, but 1t Was the Wrong
One.
CHILLICoTHE, o., Nov. 13.-Dr. p. X.
Drummond, one of the best known
practitioners in the county is in Jail,
having confessed to having assisted in
stealing the body of c. w. Kelley from
a cemetery. The body was taken by
mistake, as the faculty desired that of
Sam Jones, who killed himself by
drinking three bottles of peppermint.
The leader., 1897-11-17
a HOTEL BURNED.
A Wooden Structure at Kankakee Is Con
snmed-Gnests barely Escape.

sumed-Gnests Barely Escape.
KANKAKEE, ILL.,, Nov. 13.-The River
view hotel burned to-day. The fire
originated in the basement. The loss
is $50, 900; insurance, $50, The no.
tel was a wooden structure and it
burned in 80 minutes. Robert Good
win and C. w. Best saved themselves
by jumping from third-story win
dow. Goodwin was badly bruised.
Best received broken leg. Forty
guests barely escaped with their lives.
The hotel burned SO quickly that the
guests lost most of their clothing and
yaluables
The leader., 1897-11-17

The English government has dem
oDstrated that the balloon in warfare
can be made complete success En-
periments just concluded at Lydd have
shown that explosives can be accurate
ly thrown from balloons at any desired
height and the discharge thereof regu-
lated by means of an electric coil 1t
really seems as if the balloon would
prove as valuable an adjunct to an
army as the artillery itself.
The leader., 1897-11-17
An Engine Strikes Four Men

ASHLAND, Pa, Nov. 13.-While watch
ing the Pawnee Bill company load
their stock at Girardville station last
night Enoch Davis, aged 10 years;
Henry Jones, aged 81 years; Edward
Davis, aged %, and Frank Grady, aged
"a, were struck by an engine. Enoch
Davis and Henry Jones were killed.
The last two were seriously injured.
The leader., 1897-11-17
Claims it Was Accidental.

Nathan johnson, aged 6 years, was
Shot and seriously wounded with load
of squirrel shot, on Charlie Jones place,
near Meridian, last week. The shot
gun was in the hands of Elias Welsch
when discharged. Elias claims that
the firing of the gun was accidental.
An eyewitness tells different story.
The leader., 1897-11-17
Passenger Iramc Resumed.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. 12.-For the
first time in several weeks the full
train service on the Kansas City, Fort
Scott & Memphis railroad between
this city and Memphis and Birming-
ham has been resumed, the yellow
fever having entirely disappeared from
the Memphis district.
The leader., 1897-11-17
A suicide for Love for Her ChiIdren

New YORK, Nov. 13.-Mrs. Anna
jackson, a professional nurse, COM
mitted suicide in the bath room of her
apartments by asphyxiation. She has
been a widow for seven years. and
finding it impossible to bring up her
children in comfort, became despond-
ent and used these means to end it all.
The leader., 1897-11-17

NEARLY all of the roads are asking
an extension of the time in which the
law requiring safety couplers and APP
pliances shall go into effect. The law
becomes operative January 1, unless
the time is extended A number of
petitions have been filed asking that
the law be extended and the interstate
commerce commission has set date
for the hearing of argument
The leader., 1897-11-17

TEN years ago there were only sc
miles of electric railway track in the
United States. Now there are more
than $4,000 miles. The number of
electrically operated cars has increased
from 172 to 81, ZOO. In 1855 the horse
car tracks represented more than 81
per cent. of the total of street rail-
ways, and the electric tracks little
more than one per cent. At the begin
ming of the present year the horse car
tracks were less than seven per cent.
of the total, while electric railway
tracks represented more than SO per
cent. The growth of the electric sys-
tenn is phenomenal.
The leader., 1897-11-17
Amendments by the Governor.

Gov. McLaufin has made the follow
ing appointments: w. Il. Webb, notary
public at McComb City; Hon. Clay Shar-
key and Thomas McClelland, both of
Kinds county, delegates to the eighth
annual convention of the Boys and
Girls National Home and Employment
Association, to be held at indianapolis.
The leader., 1897-11-17

A BILL is to be introduced into the
New York legislature for a constitu-
tional amendment to be passed and APP
proved by the United States govern
ment, divorcing l6 counties of the state
and making them into the state of
Manhattan. The plan proposed is for
the counties of New York, Kings,
Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, Westches-
ter, Orange, Putnam. Columbia, Dutch
ess, Ulster, Greene, Rockland, Albany,
Rensselaer, and part of Schoharie, to
be formed INTO one state with a popu-
lation of 5000 as compared with
1881, 1873 for the remaining A coun-
lies.
The leader., 1897-11-17

THE British secretary of state for
the colonies intends submitting to
parliament a bill providing for COM
pulsory arbitration in disputes between
capital and labor, on the ground that
strikes and lockouts. originating often
from the merest trifes, constitute an
injury to the entire community and re-
suit in irreparable harm, extending
far beyond the parties to the conflict.
The leader., 1897-11-17
No Liquor to Indians.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Nov. 12.-Justict
Mitchell, of the supreme court, in one
of the five decisions handed down to
day decides that under the law of 1884,
liquor cannot be sold to any Indian
no matter whether he has abandoned
his tribal relations and become a cit
izen of the United States or not.
The leader., 1897-11-17

THE general missionary committee of
the Methodist Episcopal church, re-
Gently in session at Philadelphia, de
cided to appropriate 81, 2O9 $40 to mis-
sions the coming year, on the basis of
IS per cent. to home and So per cent. to
foreign missions
The leader., 1897-11-17

A NEW an@sthetic which relieves at
once the pain of deep burns, of ulcers
and of cancer has been discovered by
Drs. Eichorn and Heinz, of Munich
1t is preparation of benzomethyiic
ether in the form of powder, to which
the name orthoform has been given.
The leader., 1897-11-17

CAPT. BERNIER of Quebec, Cam, is
organizing an expedition to the north
pole and expects to start on March
in the steamer Windward from point
the name of which he withholds, but
which is on the north of Siberia. His
crew will consist of seven men, a ge-
ologist, surgeon and five men. or
eight men in all, including himself.
He intends to travel at the rate of six
miles day, making the journey to the
pole in 800 days. His mode of travel
ing will be with dogs and reindeer,
especially the latter, on account of
their meat as well as their services in
hauling.
The leader., 1897-11-17
The Deaf aud Dumb Institute.

The Deaf and Dumb Institute at
jackson will open the session for the
present year on Nov. "a. Students will
be received except from infected points,
BY that time it is hoped that all quar-
antine restrictions will be removed.
The leader., 1897-11-17
Kelley Graduates Industry.

T. w. Walker, Kelley graduate and
temperance lecturer, is in Jail at Meri-
dian. Walker sold whisky without
license to planter from Kemper coun-
ty. Officer Van Hand witnessed the
sale and made the arrest.
The leader., 1897-11-17
The National RasahalI laa,

The National Baseball league mag
mates. in session at Philadelphia, voted
to abolish Temple cup games. 1t was
also provided that hereafter no player
from minor league can be drafted by
the National league until he hes been
with such league two years
The leader., 1897-11-17
A Cow Causes a Serious Wreck.

TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. is. = 1t was
learned here last night that a Rock
Island freight train struck a COW near
the station of Renfrow, Ok yesterday
afternoon, causing the engine to leave
the rails and run ON the ties for dis
lance of about 100 feet, then, turning
over, killing Engineer Berry.
The leader., 1897-11-17
Lyuched bV a Mob,

ST. LOUIS, Nov. ia special from
Birmingham, Ala, says: A late report
from Eutaw says that the rapist, Bud
Beard, has been lynched at Carrollton.
The mob succeeded in breaking into
the Jail and getting Beard out before
the arrival of the state troops from
The leader., 1897-11-17
Adrian Anson to Retire.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 12.-All indica-
tons point to the fact that Adrian C..
Arson will retire from the manage
ment of the Chicago ball club at the
end of 1897 and that Tom Burns, the
old Chicago third baseman, will sue
aaa1 him
The leader., 1897-11-17
Two Rows Blown to Atom.

GUTHRIE, Ok, Nov. 13.-Two sons OF
Hiram CARRIER, aged respectively six
and eight, found stick of dynamite
in the street They played with i,
when the stick exploded. The lads
were literally blown to atoms and The
house was wrecked.
The leader., 1897-11-17
CURRENT COMMENT.

JONI l. SULLIVAN, the pugilist, is
talking of publishing an autobiogra-
phv
The leader., 1897-11-17
Great Revival at Sbuoualak.

The Rev. Mr.. Mcintosh, of Grenada,
has just closed d revival at Shuqualak,
the result of which was goodly num-
Der of accessicns to the churches.
The leader., 1897-11-17
Cheering News from the south.

New ORLEANS, Nov. 13.-No new
cases, no deaths, was the cheering
bulletin issued by the board of health
regarding the yellow fever situation
to-day. At Mobile, Ala, there were
only three new cases.
The leader., 1897-11-17
Creek Indians Being Enrolled.

CHELSEA, /. T., Nov. 13.-It is re
ported by the Indian agent of the five
tribes that the Creek Indians who re-
fused to allow the Dawes commission
to enroll their names on the new c;t:,
zenship rolls are now focking to the
towns to meet the commission.
The leader., 1897-11-17

Mrs. MARGARET BoUoHAN recently
died at her home in Chicopee Falls,
Mass. She was born in Ireland and
claimed to be 1874 years of age. Her
husband corroborated her story.
The leader., 1897-11-17
A Hunter Drowned.

BURLINGTON, Ia, Nov. 13.-Walter
Gray, of Lomax, Ia, while hunting on
the Mississippi river, was knocked
from skiff by the recoil of his gun
and drowned.
The leader., 1897-11-17
A Rank ROhber Seufences:-

DOVER, N. H., Nov. 13.-Joseph E.
Kelley, one of the Great Falls bank
robbers and self-confessed murderer of
Cashier Stickney, was to-day sentenced
to 80 years imprisonment
The leader., 1897-11-17
Yield OF Cotton Per Acre.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-Preliminary
reports to the statistician of the de-
partment of agriculture indicate an
average yield of 1919 pounds of cotton
per acre.
The leader., 1897-11-17
The President Favors Mexico.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-The presi-
dent has issued a proclamation sus-
pending all discriminative duties
against the repu bile of Mexico.
The leader., 1897-11-17

An Expert Opinion.-"Great men, 70.
marked the thoughtful youth, care fire..
quently misunderstood by the public"
That" replied Senator Sorghum, gravelv.
''is very true. And mighty lucky It is for
some of them. "-Washington Star.
The leader., 1897-11-17

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WILSON
says this country sends abroad every
years4OO, 900, 900 for products that might
be raised on our own farms.
The leader., 1897-11-17

CHARLES ID. CAMPBELL and William
]. Nixon. members of cycling organ
ixation. recently left Philadelphia,
Dounted on a tandem, for IS, 1000 mile
ride Tney were escorted as far as
Wilmington by about 800 local riders
The men RIDE as the result of wager
that they cannot complete the distance
inside of one year and on their return
show 81, 0v3. the start To be made with
out any money and with onry the nee.
essary clothing that can be carried in
9 travelling ease. They are required 70
be In indianapolis at the national L.
A. w. meet next year. The men will
ell bicycle supdries TO earn snr s., zoo
The leader., 1897-11-17

The Crushed Worm.-Mrs. Henry pecL
bah! | only married you because pitieJ
you when nobody else thought anythina
about you" Mr. Henry Peck (weafilyl|
"Ah, well, my dear, everybody pities me
now."-Boston Traveller.
The leader., 1897-11-17

THE Chicago Times-Herald says that
Samuel M. Jones, mayor of Toledo, o.,
is more remarkable than his name. He
was nominated for mayor because he
believed in the golden rule, although
he was not an aspirant for office, and
he is running the city of Toledo on the
golden rule plan. He has successful
factory, and the only regulation posted
about the premises is copy of the
golden rule. AS one result his en-
pioyes get big wages a@e work only
eight hours. He believes every man
willing to work ought to have a chance.
He reasons that the eight-hour day
will give more men employment.
The leader., 1897-11-17

THE estimate of the cotton crop in
the United States is over 10000, 900
bales
The leader., 1897-11-17
His Advantage.

Slapshard- old man; how are
you?
Spunkup-You have tie advantage of me,
sir.
THAT'S so. don't know you."-N. Y.
Journal.
The leader., 1897-11-17

AT Newport. And you?" First Ocean
Wave" Atlantic City. / have no crest, YOU
see."-Detroit Journal.
The leader., 1897-11-17
IRONpCAL IFS.

The Office never gets left when il starts
nut to seek the man.-Chicago News.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-04


A memorable incident Of this session was the
,nneachment of the Secretary OF war Generai
w W. Belknap. The committees OF the House
on expenditures of the different Executive De-
,artments having been instructed by the House
70 investigate and report if expenditures were
justified by the laws. the Committee on Expen-
d,,nres of the War Department made the unex-
nected discovery of malfeasance in office by
General Belknap, who had accepted sums OF
,nnav from post traders to secure their appoint
Uni Tn thoce lucrative positions. This fact was
nnnr,ed tn the House March :, 1875 by Mr..
C,r,ner Dem PENN. who recommended the
;mnaa chment of the Secretary OF War. General
DiInan aware Of the discovery. FASTENED 10
~ president the same day and rendered MS
rns;,nation which was. with Indignation. ac-
cnnted nv the President at once. ON March q
co,nmi,tee from the House appeared before the
S.nate and presented articles Of Impeachment:
Tire was doubt on TIE part OF n number OF
senator's IL trial could be had after the retire
,,ant of AN official 10 private life. triai was
rd.red however. and duly took place. on
august I 1876 the Senate pronounced the Sec
,atsrv OF War guilty by a vote OF ~ to -.
Those who voted In the negative rose In turn.
80. voting and declared that the reason they
~. vo,ed was that they doubted the constitu-
,ionai right 10 mpeach an official after he had
hacnme a private citizen. The record was 90
vess III Republicans, II Democrats) to 70 nays
IAN Republicans). Impeachment faiied toT lack
Of a two-thirds vote In the Affirmative
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-13
TOWN AND VICINITY.
A ScrInnage.

A man named Mallen. an agent of
the Wrought Iron Range company,
aud F. W. Craig, recently here with F..
c.. Beall in the interest of the Majestic
company's range, collided in keyser,
W. Va, the other day. Mallen reach
ed wrought-iron poker first and hit
Craig a majestic blow, downing him
into speechlessness. 1t was some time
before Craig could talk about water
backs, ovens and ash. pans again, 1t
seems that in the beginning Mallen
was madden than Craig at an eloquent
request of the latter for some money
alleged to be due him. Craig is a
hustler for business, but Mallen beat
him in getting mad and distanced HIM
in reaching the poker. Otherwise, the
result might have been more harmful
to Mullen.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-13

Carrie K. Fife A., Louisa X, James
Madison Porter. Grace S., and Sarah
Bramwell, all of this place. There are
also three grandchldren-Ruth. Bran
well and Ralph Mason, of Kansas
city, Mo.
He provided for an transformations
funeral and selected as his pallbearers
the first four named being his as
sociates in church council-Messrs
Frederick Mitchell, William Hum
berston, d. F. Roland, Conrad Ort,
John N. Layman and A. j. Wilson.
In accordance with every detail his
directions were carried out Thursday
afternoon at the family residence. his
pastor, Rev. G. A. Britt, of the English
Lutheran church, officiating.
Out of respect to his memory the
Citizens National Bank, Of which he
was a director. and the stores closed
from 2 to 81 o'clock p. M. The re-
mains, attended by large concourse
of neighbors and friends, were laid in
the family lot where rests Harry
Frost, the son who was drowned in the
Potomac in 1883.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-13
Henry Il. Shaffer.

Henry Bramwell Shaffer was born
at Schellsburg, Bedford county, Pa,
Sept. 10, 1928, and died at his resi-.
dence, this place, Monday evening,
March s, 1897, aged 6S years, 5 months
and 10 days.
His first position was that of mail
carrier. While yet IL boy he tiaversed
tri weekly the route between Schells-
burg and Alum Bank, Pa.
Wearying of the routine of mail
carrying, he began the manufacture
of cigars, working successfully at
Donegal, Somerset and Stoyestown,
ending with seven years work at his
native place, Schellsburg, with John
kemerer.
On the 18th day of February, 1853,
he married Mr.. Kemerer's daughter,
Louisa, who survives.
The last half year of his residence
in Schellsburg he made cigars during
the day and taught school at night.
He moved to Mt. Savage shortly
after his marriage. and in 1851 settled
in Frostburg, continuing here his trade
of making. He occupied a room
of the old Franklin Hotel, owned by
Thomas Beall.
Mr.. Shaffer was one OF the first
members of Frostburg's Know Moth
ing society, and, at Mr.. Beall's solicit
tation, he sought and secured the
nomination of that party to succeed
him (BealD as magistrate, and was
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-03-13
Political.

The republican primary for to
nominate ticket for city officers of
the torn of Frostburg," says an anna.
teur poster, twill be held on Wednes-
day, March 81, 1897 1t will "open
at 7 o'clock and close at 9 o'clock p.
M" The further information, sup
posed to be guaranteed. is-that the
"election will be held April 9Th, 1897"
The JOURNAL has been able to learn
of only the following candidates:
For Mayor-C. f. Nickel.
For BaHif-Samuel Bowen and James T.
Johnson.
For Policeman-Justus Yungerman and
Jabez ]. Mealng.
More to follow.