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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-29
To Ally France Against England.

London, April 25.-The Times cores
pondent at Paris has been informed that
the object of Prince Hohenlohe's visit to
NJ. Hanotaux, the French foreign min
lister, was to discuss the situation in the
Transvaal and to pursuade France. and
through her, Russia. to support Germany
in resisting Great Britain's imperious
attitude towards the Beers in exchange
for Germany's support of France in the
Egyptian question.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-29

s,an,inc, says shat battle Is proceed
ing around Matt, Up TO 3 o'clock last
evening" the Turks had not been repuised'
No further information has yet been re-
crivcd Of the results of the suhscqueH'
fighting.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-29

Aarau Switzerland, April 4.-The
Red Cross society is organizing an am
bulance corps for the purpose of assist
ing the Greek wounded.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-29
A Battle Was In Progress.

Athens, April PA cabinet council
lasting long time was held here last
evening.
Official news received from the Greek
commander in Thessaly, Prince Con-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-29
Italian Volunteers Detained.

Rome, April 24.-The departure of vol
unteers for Greece is being prevented by
the police of the various towns.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-29
Greeks. sail From Gotham.

New York. April 24.-Four hundred
and fifty Greeks sailed for Havrc. en-
route to the scene of war between their
native country and Turkey.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-29
En- Route TO St. Petershury

Vienna. April 24.-Emperor Francis
Joseph, with Archduke Otto and Count
Gouchowski. the Austro-Hungarian for
eign minister has started for st. Peters
burg
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-29
An Editorial Writer Dead.

New York, April 25.-Abram Peicb
since 1873 member of the editorial
died today. ""'' "ei'une,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-04-29
May Dash Through the DardanelIes.

Athens, April 24.-It is rumored that
the Greek warships are preparing to make
dash through the Dardanelles.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25
GOULD is OPTIMISTIC.

just Back from Europe, He Declares
United States Conditions Never Before So
Good.
New YORK, Sept. 90. = George j..
Gould, with his family, returned to
this city Saturday. For three months
while he has been resting in Europe
the business revival has added at least
SIS, DOC, 900 to the value of the Gould
securities. He said:
There never time when conditions
promised much for the United States
Everything looks all right. There has
been strengthening in the markets
all along the line. Business men
abroad realize that the United States
is now master of the situation. We have the
goods to sel1-grain. cotton. etc The crops
are short, their needs are great and they must
buy of In moving enormous crops
there will be increased activity in railroad Sc
curitjes and the railroads that are benefiting
by this busy building cars and engines to
handle the immense tonnage which must be
hauled this fall
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25
CRISIS IN THE FLOUR TRADE.
Corn Starch Flour Threatens Drive Win.
ter Wheat Mnlers the Wall.


Corn Starch Flour Threatens Drive VIM
ter Wheat Millers the Wall.
ST. Louis, Sept 2O--In the opinion
of experienced millers the fight result
ing from the adulteration of wheat
flour by mixing it with corn flour has
only just begun The havoc wrought
by the introduction of regular corn
flour has been greatly increased by the
discovery that flour made from corn
starch is of a superior quality in many
respects, is whittier, can be ground
finer and is much less apt to be de-
tected in an examination of the doc
tored goods A representative of a so
called glucose sugar refining company
of Chicago arrived here and has been
making the rounds among the milling
interests in the interest of a corn
starch flour which is being rapidly in
troduced as an adulterant, particu-
larly throughout the northwest
The mil1ers pronounce it the most
dangerous thing to the Legitimate
flour trade that has yet been discov-
cred, and declare that unless the adul-
iteration of flour with it can be stopped
it will ultima tely result in either driv-
ing them out of the market or forcin e
all manufacturers of flour to adulterate
their goods in order to meet the ruin
Gus competition with which they find
themselves surrounded.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25
NEW RELIGIOUS SECT.

ssOrder of Holiness Claims the Power to
Cure Invalids with '.Sacred OIL"
JONEsBoRo, Ark, Sept. 20--There is
intense excitement in Nettleton over
the strange actions of members of a
religious sect calling themselves the
''Order of Holiness" Recent converts
have shown pronounced symptoms of
insanity, and demands are being made
for a judicial investigation. Converts
claim to be sanctified and immured from
sin. In sickness they refuse medical at
tention and perform strange ceremo-
MES by the bedside of the afflicted and
anoint the patient with a mysterious
fluid which they denominate sacred
oil' As result of this two children
of Undertaken Hall, of this place, have
died within the last week. Hall
anointed the little sufferers with the
sacred OIL" and absolutely refused to
admit physician to his house.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

ANDY SMITH and his wife, cOlOred, liv-
ing in the country near Donalds, S. c.,
locked in the house six children while
they went to church. An hour later
neighbors heard fright ful screams COM
ing from Smiths house, the interior of
which was in flames, but it was impos-
sible to reach the children and all per-
ished- 1t is supposed an oil lamp left
burning was overturned.
A DISPATCH from Madrid to the Paris
Temps stated that Gen. Woodford had
delivered an u1timatum to the Spanish
government that if Spain did not end
the war in Cuba during the month of
October the United States would in
terfere
NJ ID. RATCHFoRD, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, gave
out a statement at Washington con-
corning the miners strike. He said,
while miners have done the striking,
trades unions and organized bodies
have supplied the neceSsaries, without
which the miners could not possibly
have succeeded, and so it was victory
for organized labor and not for any
particular trade.
WILLIAM TRIFT, aged 80, employed
on the government tug boat Alpha
from Cairo, Ill, was taken to the Ma
rine hospital at st. Louis on the 21st
as a yellow IeVeT ITOm SdiTO
THE ella river, swollen by excessive
rains, did considerable damage around
Phoenix, Ariz-. on the 21st and many
farms were ruined and animals and
houses swept away.
In head-end collision on the Georgia
& Alabama railroad near Americas,
Ga. engineer and fireman were
killed and a conductor dangerously
wounded. The two engines were
totally wrecked, together with IL box
cars
THE Austrian steamer Ika collided
with the British steamer Tiria in the
port of Flume, Austria, and the former
vessel was sunk and most of the pas
sengers were drowned in full view of
thousands who crowded the pier in the
greatest excitement
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT MCkENNA an
nounced his opinion in the matter of
section % of the new tariff law at the
cabinet meeting on the 21st. He holds
that goods coming directly into the
United States from foreign countries
through Canadian ports are not sub
ject to the discriminating duty of 10
per cent, and also holds that foreign
goods shipped from countries other
than British possessions in British
vessels are not subject to discriminate
ing duty
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25
The Canopied Ceiling.

The canopied ceiling has been marred by
vandal hands and its stars are echpsed by
whitewash. The time was when the cell
ing seemed like summer night, a blending
of starlight and the light of other days. A
merchant prince in the days which old New
His bedroom was finished with this won
derful ceiling, which arched up and dropped
at the corners like the great sheet which
the apostle saw. An Italian artist came.
over the sea especially to paint this Won
drous ceiling. He mixed his colors while
his minds eye saw a night upon the Yes
summers day washed with darkness The
stars shone from out the field of blue like
glittering clasps of the trailing garments of
the night. Beneath such a sky man might
find repose. Then the evil day came to the
house of the canopied ceiling. The neigh
borhood became no longer fashionable and
the house became the home of tenement
jewellers. The new tenants splashed the
canopied ceiling with whitewash and blotted
out the stars forever.-N. Y. Telegram.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25
AMONG THE CLOUDS.
Kite with Four Miles of Wire Reaches .
Height of 1O,O16 Feet.

Kite with Four Miles of Wire Reaches q
Height of 1O,O16 Feet.
BLUE HILL OBSERVATORY, Mass,
Sept. 2O.-All kite records were broken
here yesterday when the topmost kite
of a string of seven, all of the Har-
grave type, with four miles of wire,
attained an altitude of 1O,O16 feet
above the sea level, or 9,3S6 feet above
the summit of the hill. An aluminium
box was sent up containing an instru-
ment for recording pressure, tempera-
ture and humidity. and was swung $50
feet below the topmost kite. At the
highest point the instrument recorded
a temperature of IS degrees, while at
the same time it was So at the surface
of the earth. At a height of 1000 feet
the humidity rose rapidly, but sank
again at a mile, where it was quite
low. At 1000 feet it rose again and
soon reached a point where there was
almost a complete saturation in the
air. From there up the atmosphere
became dry, until at the highest point
there was scarcely any moisture re-
corded
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25
TO COLONIZE NEGROES.

j. Albert Thorne Says Southeastern Africa
Is the New Land of Canaan.
New YORK, Sept. 2O.-Dr. j. Albert
Thorne, native of Barbados, and a
graduate of the Edinburg medical
school, now in this city, believes in the
colonization of negroes in Africa DIR.
Thorne SAYS United States and West
Indian negroes cannot thrive on the
west coast of Africa.
We are the descendants of slaves brought
from the highlands of the interior The black
race in America should gradually return to
that part of Africa whence it came We have nc
future either here in the West Indies 1t is
my plan to start general exodus to southeast
ern Africa In few years thousands of poor
disconnected Afro-Americans will be taking
ship for the new Canaan
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25
DEAREST WAS THIRD.
a Wheelman Gets Some TaHy Not In
tended for Him.


There is one amusing feature about wheel
new ones, must have noticed. That is the
way moderately proficient rider will carry
on conversation with some one behind him
without really knowing who that some one
may be- A moderately proficient rider
isn't clever enough to turn his head to look
dark.
The other day a wheelman was coming
up the Dodge street hill. There isn't much
OF a hill on Dodge street, but slight as it is
1T bothers the new riders. Just ahead of
the wheelman in question, who was riding
on new bike Halfway up the incline
the wheelman was astonished to hear her
call out:
Coming, dear?''
The wheelman didn't answer He felt
sure the inquiry couldn't be to him, and he
"All out of breath, dears" she called
again.
And again the wheelman made no reply
Don't be discouraged, she cheerily
shouted. you'll get there by and by, dear
est
The wheelman thought so too, but he
made no mention of the fact
Does 1T tire DOR little armies so muchee?e
continued the stout lady.
That was too much for the wheelman He
put on steam and passed the lady. As he
whirled by she caught sight of his smiling
countenance.
"Oh, 1 beg your PARDON she cried, and
narrowly averted tumble
When the wheelman had gone a little
further he looked back over his shoulder
and saw lank young fellow, with fuzzy
little side whiskers, toiling YEARLY up the
hill.
And he feels pretty sure that was dear
eSt.'-Cleveland Leader.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25
Struck q New Lead.

The professional beggar is nothing if not
ingenious in connecting up-to-date story
that is likely to touch the sympathy, and
the pocket of anyone incautious enough to
listen. The. latest of these narratives was.
sprung in the cafe of hotel in Chestnut
street one evening recently. man who.
was shabby, but neat, walked up to group
of gentlemen, and said: Gentlemen. l was.
my way to the Klondike with $500 in my
pocket, and it was stolen from me. In
stead of having prospect to gain fortune.
now have no prospect of getting supper
am going to work all winter and save.
enough to take me to the gold fields in the
spring. I will not forget you if you assist
me now, as l propose to keep record of
the names and addresses of all who aid me.
in my great misfortune" He took out a.
soied notebook and pencil, as if he fully
expected to put down the names of all
present. One of the men handed a dime
to him, and told him to run away and get a
drink, and to reflect that nose paint" costs
so cents a glass in Alaska.-Philadelph
Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25

j. l.. MALCOLM. we1l-knOwn attOr>
ney of Denver, Col, grub-staked Mike
Gideon, a miner. who went to Alaska
The attorney has received letter
from Gideon, dated from Dawson City,
Alaska, announcing that he has made
81, 900, 600 and that he will deliver half
to the attorney.
A COLLISION occurred near the Union
depot at St. Louis on the 18th between
an outgoing Wabash passenger train
and an incoming St Louis, Kansas City
& Colorado passenger train and four
persons were injured.
THE business portion of Wilmore,
KY, was entirely destroyed by fire,
supposed to have originated from
sparks from a passing train
In the match race at Indiana polls,
Ind, on the 18th between Star Poin ter
and Joe Patchen the former paced a
mile in 2:01, lowering the worlds race
record one-half second. Joe Patchen's
time was 2:0134.
Two men and woman went out
the lake at Chicago for boat ride
the 10Th and the boat capsized, owing
to the rough water, and both men were
drowned The woman managed to
grasp the upturned boat and was res
cued.
Two sections of freight train on
at Helpers station, O., and the engi-
neer and three tramps were killed.
SIX new cases and two deaths from
yellow fever were reported on the 10Th
at New Orleans. At Mobile. Ala, IL
new cases were reported, at Ocean
Springs, Miss, three new cases and a t
Edwards, Miss, four new cases and no
deaths.
IT was said that DIR. v. A. Norgaard,
of Denver, Col, has discovered a sure
cure for cattle fever by dipping.
Should this prove true, the cattle mar
ket will experience revolution, as
stock will be shipped north during the
prohibited season. A meeting of all
states and territories that handle cat
tie has been called at Fort Worth. Tex,
on September 81 to examine the cure
AT a crossing over the track of the
Versailles &c Midway railroad near
Versailles, KY, train struck car
riage containing Ambrose H. Wilson
and J. w. Bridges, killing the former.
The latter jumped in time to save him
self.
THREE daughters of Preston Howard
were burned to death at Port Alma,
Can, on the shore of Lake Erie.
MARIAN BILLINGsLY, a widow. went
to prayer meeting the other night. after
locking up her five children in the
house at Richmond, Ark. On return
ing home she found the house in ashes
and the children cremated.
GEN. LUQUE reported to Gen. Wcyler
that his column of 5000 soldiers had
utterly destroyed 1900 farms in the
province of Santiago de Cuba. The
country people the farms were
obliged to march with the soldiers and
afterwarded were herded around Man
zanil1o as concentrates. Officially
only 100 were reported as arriving at
Manzanillo. The others, numbering
over 2, 900, are not men toned in Gen.
Luque's dispatch. News from Cuban
sources said that they were shot by the
column.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25
Reflections of n Bachelor.

Some folks are so humble that when they
get to Heaven they will go way around and
knock at the back door.
When a man gets excited in an argument
he always says it does make him mad to-
hear people talk so foolish.
Nothing makes girl so mad as for man
to pretend not to notice when she has fixed
her hair up the way he likes it.
When a man goes out to shoot bear and
ends up by picking huckleberries, he is very
apt to tell it the other way round.
A man will go to the devil for woman,
If she can't get one from somebody else
When a man has to work hard to get
along his wife always says it's because he's
so good -natured he lets people impose on.
HMM. Y. Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25
DAMAGES FOR LYNCHING.
First case to he Tried in Ohio Under
New Smith Law.


URBANA, O.. Sept 20.-Suit was COM
menced against the county commits
sioners yesterday by B. F. Church. add
ministrator of the estate of Click
Mitchell. who was hanged June 4. to
recover So 600 damages provided by the
Smith anti-lynch law to the next of kin
Of a person meeting death by mob vio-
lence- The Smith law fixes the amount
of damages to be collected and pro-
hibits a compromise 1t is the first
suit in the srate commenced under the
law, and in this instance payment will
be resisted to the end.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25
THE WORLD AT. LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


DOMESTIC exports from the United
States for August were the largest of
any August of which the bureau of
statistics of the treasury department
has any record. They were valued at
S79, 497, $50, as against S66, 6S9,9s1 in
August, 1896, an increase of So, S07, 939.
FIRST ASSISTANT PosTMAsTER-GENER-
AL HEATH has received a letter from
Senator Wolcott, in which the senator,
who is in Europe and is at the head of
the international monetary com mis-
sion, speaks very encouragingly of the
outlook for securing an international
understanding in behalf of silver.
AS the Universal Postal congress re-
Gently held at Washington had agreed
upon scheme of colors for postal
stamps to be used by all nations in the
postal union the two-cent stamp of the
United States will still be carmine and
the proposed change to green will not
be made.
COMMISSIONER EVANS, of the pension
bureau, stated on the 18th that it would
be necessary this year to ask congress
for a deficiency appropriation on ac-
count of pensions. He estimated the
total payments would be $i47, 500, 600
and the appropriation was Sal 1868, 500.
THE treasury department has decided
to resume the coinage of silver dollars
and fully 1000, 600 will be coined this
month and the output doubled next
month.
SECRETARY GAGE has decided to es-
tablish what he calls an honorary
service rolr' by transferring all clerks
who have served 80 years in the civil
service and have attained the age of 20
years and pensioning them off.
DIFFERENCE of opinion was report
ed as existing in the cabinet over sec
ton % of the tariff bill, relating to the
discriminating duty upon goods inn
ported into the United States by for
eign vessels The president wants it
sustained and Attorney-General Nc
Kenna wants it knocked out on &C
count of ambiguity.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25
GENERAL NEWS.

The Chinese authorities are at last
taking steps to put an end to the dar-
ing acts of piracy which have made
the southern Chinese coast notorious.
in southeastern China. The death
sentence was pronounced and they
were Immediately beheaded.
EARTHQUAKE shocks occurred at
Lima, Peru, at 11:30 a.. M. on the Goth.
Great alarm was caused among the in
habitants.
YELLOW fever was reported as rag
ing in a malignant form at Santiago
de Cuba
The sovereign grand lodge, indie
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, met for
its annual session at Springfield, Ill,
on the Goth. Delegates from every
state and many from Europe, Canada,
Australia and other foreign places
were present.
JOE STURCH, of Chicago, and Dave
Richards, of Cincinnati, We're to fight
Is rounds the other night for the Io5
pound championship of America at
Cincinnati, but Richards was knocked
out in the tenth round
THREE tramps held up a Great North
ern cattle train at daylight on the Goth
near Smithlake, MINI. They robbed
several cattlemen in the caboose. One
rested.
THERE is intense excitement in
Nettleton, Ark, over the strange
actions of members of a religious sect
calling themselves the "Order of Holt
ness" In sickness they refuse medical
attention and perform strange ceremo-
MES by the bedside of the afflicted and
anoint the patient with a mysterious
fluid which they denominate sacred
OIL"
SUIT has been commenced at Urbana,
o., against the county commissioners
by the administrator of the estate of
Click Mitchell, who was hanged
June 4, to recover SIS, 900 damages pro-
vided by the Smith anti-lynch law to
the next of kin of a person meeting
death by mob violence.
GEN. CALIXTo GARCIA has been APP
pointed to succeed Gomez as command
er-in-chief of the Cuban insurgent
troops Gomez becomes minister of
war of the Cuban republic.
FULLY 90 900 visitors were in Column
bus, o., on the 10th to attend the OPEN
ing ceremonies of the AID annual con-
vention of the German Catholic Central
society of North America. About 500
delegates were in attendance.
The negro postmaster of Hogans-
vile, Ga, was recently shot by I'M
known men. He was appointed by the
administration over the protests of the
white residents of the section, and the
post Office has since been boycotted.
THE yellow fever situation at New
Orleans assumed a serious aspect on
the 18th, eight new cases being report
ed. At Vicksburg. Miss, Is cases of
the fever were reported for the day. A
case of death from yellow fever oc-
CURED at Augusta, Miss, and it was
feared that a new focus of the plague
had been started.
ACCORDING to Bradstreet's report
there were 1859 failures in the United
States for the week ended the 18th,
against SIS in the corresponding week
OF last year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-09-25

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