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The times., 1897-05-17
AUCTION SALES
DUNCANS ON BROS. ,Auctioneers-
SURVIVING TRUSTEES SALE OF BA z
WINDOW BRICK HOUSE, CONTAIN
ING SEVEN ROOMS, NUMBERED 432
VENIH SCR t.E.<i, NliRsIlH Z A tsI

SURVIVING TRUSTEES SALE OF BA z
WINDOW BRICK HOUSE, CONTAIN
ING SEVEN ROOMS, NUMBERED 432
TENTH STREET NORTHEAST.
by virtue OF deed OF trust duly recorded
In Loer No 1796, at folio 2S0 ct seq,
one or the land records or the District OF
Columbia, We will sell, In front or the
premises, on FRIDAY, THE 21ST DA Z
Or MA 7, a. ID. 1897, AT 5 O'CLOCK 2.
M Tie folio owing-deScrIDed real estate, sit
uste IN the city or Washington, D. G., 70
VII All that certain piece or parcel OF
lanu and premises known as lot sixty-Jhree
tb3), IN Charles A. Shields subdivision OF
lots ia square nine hundred and thirty seven
1877, as per plat recorded In Liber No.
Is, roiio IL, or the records of the sur
veyor s office of the District Of Coiun-
Ola, subject, however, to q right OF way
over the rear three feet OF said lot for
alley purposes, together with all and sin
guar the improvements, ways, easements,
rights and privileges 70 The same belong
ing or In any wise appertainiag.
Terms OF sale: One-tnird cash, balance In
one and Two years at o per cent per annurn,
interest payable senli-annualiy, secured by
deed or trust on the property sold, or
all cash, at the option OF tue purchaser
A deposit OF $500 required at time of sale.
SonNeyancing, etc, at purchaser COST.
Terms OF sale 70 be complied with In fif-
Teen days from date OF sale otherwise the
trustee reserves the right To resell at the
RISK and cost OF the defauIting purchaser
after five days advertisement OF such re-
sale IN some newspaper published In Wash
ngton, u. G JOSEPH r. JOHNSON,
myI z-d&ds Surviving Trustee
The times., 1897-05-17
SOLDIER BOYS GO HOME.
Return to New York After an Enjoy
able Outing Here.

The First Battalion OF the American
Guards, OF the New York grammar schools.
who have been in Washington for several
days, with a Reinforcement of fifty far
girls, spent the day yesterday visiting
new points of interest
They Were the guests and especial favor
ties of Mr. Allison Naylor, who has on
several occasions manifested a deep IN
terest ia the welfare OF the organization
Through the generosity OF Mr.. Naylor,
Arlington and Fort Meyer were visited,
he having furnished conveyances for the
trip. At Arlington the entire party regis
tered at the historic mansion, and as
Fort Meyer the boys seemed TO greatly
please the soldiers by their visit, for by
special invitation OF the latter, they were
escorted through all the quarters of the
cavalrymen.
The party returned to the city at I
o'clock, and took lunch at the Oxford,
Regent and Elsmere Hotels, after which
the CorcoTan Art Gallery was visited.
They left for New York at D. m.
The times., 1897-05-17
Yesterday at Marshall Hall.

An unusually large crowd went down the
river yesterday Co Marshall Hall and spent
delightful day at this famous resort.
The planked shad dinner was the star
feature Of the day. and, as usual, it wa
served in fauitless fashion. IN true Marshaf
Hall style.
During the day Schroeder's Orchestra aIx
band discoursed sweet music. both at IL
grounds and on the boat
a tired, but perfectly happy, crowd re.
turned to the city last evening, delighted
with the days entertainment
The management is TO be Congratulated
on the perfect order always maintained ut
this resort.
The times., 1897-05-17
An Immense Furniture House.

The stock OF furniture carried by Mayer
Petit, 415-417 Seventh street, IN
pointof size andvariety, cannot be matched
by any other house in the city In addition
there is the annex, In which is complete
line OF ladies' mems and chiIdren's cloth
ing. In all departments OF this big store
successful efforts have been made to pre-
sent an almost unlimited choice 1T prices
always most moderate, and on occasions
such as the present sale, phenomenal in
their Iowness. Credit, of course, to all To
whom it is convenience
The times., 1897-05-17
RAID IN SMITHS ROW.
Beer and Whisky Captured in Mary
Thornton's House.

Detective Hartigan, accompanied by
Sci ct. Hamilton and Policemen Lynch,
McNamee, Cox and Hayes, early yesterday
morning ralded the house kept by Mary v.
Thornton, colored, at No. 3 Smiths row,
in the Sixth precinct. A considerable
quantity of beer and whisky was con-
fiscated and taken TO the station-house, 10
gether with the propnetress of the place
and three witnesses The house Is said
to be one OF the lowest dives in that
section of the city, and has been under
the ban for some time.
The case will come up in police court
this morning, when a considerable amount
OF evidence will be introduced against the
woman.
The times., 1897-05-17
MARRIED.
USpERTAKERS.
AGAINST TICKET SCAIPING.
State Railroad Commissioners' Ma
tional Convention Takes Action.

State Railroad Commissioners' Ma
tional Convention Takes Action.
At the ninth annual national convention
of State Railroad Commissioners, which
was held at Planters Hotel, st. Louis,
Mo. on May II and IL, 1897, and at
tended by representatives from the states
OF California, Connecticut, Georgia, Int-
nois, Iowa. Maryland, Michigan, Mime
sofa, Mississippi, Missouri, New York.
North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont,
and Wisconsin, and of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, the folio wing was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved. That this association in
dorses tie objects and purposes OF the
measures now pending before Congress
known as the 'anti-scaIping bin,' believ-
ing If it becomes a law gross diserimi-
nation and frauds on the travelling public
viii be abolished We earnestly urge
upon the members OF Congress early and
favorable consideration and acton ON
said measure"
The times., 1897-05-17

You never had a chance
before to get our sort OF
tailoring for S12 and SIS for
suits = 81 for trousers =
made to your measure.
In the suits you have a
choice of handsome Scotch
plaids and mixtures-and
plain blue and black serges
and cheviots.
Every garment cut on the
premises and a faultless fit
guaranteed.
The times., 1897-05-17

Salvation Army Mercy Box League.
the Mercy Box League of the Salvation
Army, which DR.. Frederic Nice, adjutant
In the Salvation Army, is holding, will he
concluded with meeting this evening
at the Vermont Ayenne Christian Church
and another tomorrow evening at the
town hall In Rockville. Dr. Nice has
been successful, as usual, in his meetings
here at the Metropolitan Methodist Church
on Saturday and at Salvation Army Iiall,
No. $50 Pennsylvania avenue, ON yester-
day He plays the violin exquisiteIy.
Ensign Shano and other Officers and
auxiliaries of the Salvation Army are as
sisting in these meetings
The times., 1897-05-17
stenographer Digley Breaks His Leg.

Harry Digley, stenographer OF the Civil
Service Commission, broke his right leg
above the ankle by failing from his b.
cycle whiIerriiing on the pike near Bla-
densburG yesterday afternoon. DR.. Cox
set the leg and said that both homes wer.s
badly shattered The injured man was
removed to his home in Washing gton.
The times., 1897-05-17
.It Is the Best ON Earth. |.

That is what Edwards & Parker, mer-
chants, Of Plains, Ca, say of Chamber
lain's Pain Balm, for rheumatism. lame
back, deep-seated and muscular pains
Sold by Henry Evans, Wholesale and Re-
tail Druggist. 988 F ST., ana Conn., ave.
and 8 ST. hW.l
The times., 1897-05-17
Controct for Coal Awarded.

The contract for furnishing the Con-
gressionai Library with $500 tons Of
furnace coal has been awarded to James
E. Rose
The times., 1897-05-17

Furniture stored, 81 to So per month,
with B. 6 o. Storage Co.. 10 to IS st.
ne Telephone 112.
The times., 1897-05-17

DO poa know aat you can hare the HORN
ing, Erening and Sunday Times delicered u
your residence for ffty cents a month";
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21

never more than half alive at best. Yet
they live, if not happily, still with an apa-
thetic content unknown to the Caucasian.
In the best years, they drag their ema-
ciated bodies back and forth from their
work seemingly with no other use in the
world than to figure in statistics illus
trating the greatness of the British en-
pire, to whose far distant seat of power
their surplus grain is shipped, while they
live on as they have always lived-from
hand to mouth, in the most literal sense
of the word.
With little or no clothing, except cot
ton rag, with hardly enough to eat in a
week to keep an American laborer alive
for day, they are still peaceful, I'M
complaining and seemingly contented as
long as they can manage to barely exist.
Famine Levels All Castles.
From year to year they barely exist.
nntil the monsoon on which they depend
for rain fails them Then comes famine
with pestilence in it's train. The streets
of the cities are filled with the cries of
women begging morsel of food for their
starving children. High-bred gentlemen
and ladies of the Grammar caste, who
dread the breaking of caste laws worse
than any ordinary death, mingle in the
streets with rariahs and outcasts. Fam
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21
Told in a Few Lines.

The question of a century celebration of
the death of Edmund Burke is being
mooted in Ireland.
Because he was out of money and had
nothing to live for, Henry Miller (also
spelled Mueller), who was formerly a
prosperous butcher in Chicago, shot him
self in the left lung at San Francisco and
is now dying.
Ahlwardt, the notorious Anti-Semitic
agitator and member of the German
reichstag, who recently came to the Unit
ed States to organize a crusade against
the Hebrews in this country, is said to
have deserted his family in Germany.
The Pope has issued an order forbid
ding priests not belonging to the Roman
diocese to dwell in Rome under penalty of
suspension. 1t also threatens measures
against the resident clergy who are seen
on the streets after the religious curfew
bell.
The premises of the Russian Oil Com
pany at Purfeet, Eng, have been burned,
doing immense damage. Cataracts of
burning oil were poured into the Thames,
illuminating the river from Greenwich
to Gravesend. The Purfeet powder mag
azine and the Anglo-American Oil Com
pany adjacent, were saved by the efforts
of the fire brigade
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21
HORRORS OF FAMINE.
APPALLING CALAMITY THREAT
EMS THE INDIAN EMPIRE.
Millions of Human Beings May Perish,
as in 1S77-7S, of Hunger and Pesti-
1euce-1he Peoples Miserable Con-
dit;on-Measures of Relief Devised.
CHASTITY Records OF the Past.

GhaStty ReCOrOS OF the HaSI.
The famine prevailing in the north and
northwestern parts of India is, according
to the best information available, one of
the most appalling calamities which has
ever visited the great peninsula. The DIS
trict affected is many thousand square
miles in extent and the failure of the
crops has been almost complete. The mill
ions of India live from hand to mouth,
and when from any cause even single
crop fails the effect is at once apparent
in widespread suffering. With 1,25O,OOO
people on the verge of starvation in the
Deccan alone and the gloomiest prospects
in other great agricultural provinces, the
civilized world may be shocked by re-
currence of the unspeakable horror OF
such famines as those of 1859 and 1870
IS, when people died not by the thousand
or the ten thousand, but by the million.
The population of British India is now
estimated at 240,0OO,OOO people-twice as
many as the Roman empire had as its
period of greatest strength. Yearly all
these millions are laborers living from
hand to mouth, and the giving such sur
plus as they produce to support the Brit
ish imperial establishment and their own
priests and hereditary rulers.
India's Pitiab1e Condition.
At best, their condition is utterly mis-
cradle from any standpoint an American
can occupy in looking at them. These
strange people living in the hotbed of ma
ons, speak language which in some of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21
DOINGS AT MADISON.
FORTY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEM-
BLY, IN SESSION.
John c. Spooner the Choice of the
Joint Cancus for Senator-1h he ChoiG$
Was Unanimous, for the First TiiI
in the State.
solons at Work.


The forty third session of the Wiscon-
sin Legislature convened at Madison at
noon Wednesday, and organization in
both houses was perfected in consonance
with Republican caucus action. Tribute
was paid to the formalities of notifying
the executive, of voting statues to mem
bers and committees, of adopting the OLD
parliamentary rules and assigning seats,
and then adjournment for the day was
taken, to await the Governors message
John G.. Spooner was nominated by
unanimous vote at the Republican legls-
lative caucus the night before for the
United States Senate. This is the first
time in the history of the State that
man has been honored with the nomlna-
ton for this important Office without OPP
position.
The caucus of the Assemblymen and
Senators was called to order by Senator
McGillivary. Senator Mills was chosen
chairman and Assemblyman Mills secre-
tary. Senator McGillivary presented the
name of Col. Spooner. A vote was taken
Immediately. Mr. Spooner was brought
before the caucus and made brief ad-
dress.
After thanking the legislators for the
honor they had bestowed on him, he dis
cussed the financial and tariff questions.
He praised the gold standard Democrats
for the manly, Independent, and patriot
ic course which they took in the late cam
paign, and said that while they did not
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21
HoRpEs OF STARVING PEOPLE SWARM THE ROADS IN INDIA

clouds laden with the seeds of death in
many forms-and among them that swift
est and most dreaded of all forms of death
in Asia-cholera. Whole villages, weak
ened by hunger, are swept away by it.
Father, mother and children die together.
There is no one to bury the dead. Houses
in the outlying villages are filled with
corpses, and the gaunt wolves and jack
ais from the jungles are emboldened to
enter the deserted streets in search of the
food which famine, though it has made
them lean in the beginning, supplies them
in SllDera hundance in the end.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21

it's dialects is so strikingly like our own
that there can be no doubt of their blood
relationship to us. Yet they seem to be
utterly without the race impulses which
force the European into ceaseless activity.
Given a matched hut with little rice or
grain enough to make cake on the heat
ed stones of the hearth and they do not
care for the future.
The jungles near which they make their
villages are full of fierce quadrupeds and
yet more deadly reptiles. Tigers kill and
devour them, cobras sting them to such
an extent that the deaths from this cause
alone run into the thousands every year.
The deadly miasma Of the marsh and the
jungle saps their vitality until they are
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21
Minor State Matters.

'rhe Oshkosh County Board has APP
pointed committee to compromise with
ex.Sheriff Horn on his suit for 81, 800
fees disallowed at previous session.
Appleton friends have received the an
nocncement of the marriage, in st. Paul's
CT urch. Kenwood, Chicago, of Jessie
Alameda, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Mel
vile E. Dayton, to Charles Lyman
Brown.
Frederick Weyerhauser has begun
work on large tract of pine on the
Arlnicon The timber was recently dis
covered to be badly damaged by fire.
There is about 100000 feet on the
tract.
August Radloff, Sheboygan laborer,
had Just returned from drug store with
so1le powders prescribed by his physician
and a few minutes after taking one OF
the powders he fell dead. He was 60
wears old and married.
The Sheboygan curfew ordinance has
del in committee and will probably never
be yesurrected There is a decided change
in sentiment and the ordinance is favored
by but small proportion of those who
were early in its advocacy.
Reports from r. Shipman, of Apple
ton. who was recently badly wounded by
tha accidental discharge of his gun while
hunting in the woods near Oconto Falls.
are not hopeful, his condition being still
regarded as very critical
Owen Ferguson, for six years clerk of
Fond du Lac County, shot himself twice,
eaca time a little too high to reach the
heart. About a year ago his wife died.
At the last election he was defeated for
recollection to the position of County Clerk,
and a few months ago he broke his leg
It is also reported that he is short sew
oral hundred dollars in his accounts. 1t is
not expected he will live. He has one
child. and is a member of the Royal Ar
<.anu... with $4,000 life insurance. His
parents live in Byron.
Alfred Hammett, an old resident of Jol-
lot. Ill. was found dead in bed at the
Hotel Wellington, Milwaukee. He died
OF heart disease.
1t is now practically certain that it will
he inpossible for the committees of the
semi..entennial to raise the sum of $780,
OOO before Jan. Is, but $4,000 will be
pledged.
The Commercial Bank of Eau Claire,
.capitaI 10000, is closed. The failure is
<1ue 70 the suspension of the Allemania
RAM of ST. Paul. President Allen says
the institution will wind up its affairs and
that depositors will be paid in full.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21
BLEACH THEIR OATS.
An Illegal Practice Attributed to
CHICAGO Grain Dealers.

Considerable interest has been aroused
over the discovery that oats bleached
with sulphur have been handled in the
Chicago market. 1t is against the law
Of the State to use such process, but the
poor quality of the present oats crop has
proved too great temptation to certain
mixers, who have frightened up the oats
with sulphur to help out poor lots. The
fact became generally known when in
surance inspectors made complaint to
two or three concerns, and raised the in
surance on certain buildings. Later all
the large concerns handling oats We're
questioned as to whether they were using
sulphur. Most of them denied it en-
phatically. The innocent ones in the trade
are highly incensed at the use of the
process by others, as it is claimed it will
hurt the reputation of Chicago oats.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21

ground parches under a sun which bakes
it until it is dust with no drop of moisture
anywhere to make even a cooling dew.
The brooks vanish. The rivers become
mere threads or dry up altogether. The
pools of water on which the villages chief
ly rely are foul at best, but in a prolonged
drought the water in them evaporates
until it is of the consistency of slime.
And this slime, foul with animal and
vegetable putrefaction, the people must
drink as the horrors of thirst are added to
those of hunger. Up from the dry jun
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21
Plaster.

Land plaster is very valuable on all
our soils when used In connection with
clover. 1t is not in itself fertilizer
but 1t takes up the ammonia, and holds
it in the soil as plant food. Chemists
tell us that all vegetable matter while
decaying generates ammonia, and as
that evaporates at so degrees, it goes
back again into the soil by being con-
densed with moisture, then the land
plaster takes it up and holds it for
the soil.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21

To Jules Stewart, the American
painter, has been awarded a gold med
al by the Berlin International Exhibit
ton Among other American exhibitors
are John w. Alexander, b. A. Bridge
man and Julian Story.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21

inc, the great leveller, brushes away dis
tinctions like cobwebs. In the agonies OF
hunger they forget the religion which
made them apathetic and meek, and in
great crowds they throng around the
headquarters of the local governments,
demanding bread with ferceness which
gnawing hunger can inspire even in a
Hindoo-the mildest of all slaves.
During the famine period of 1S77-7S
the British Government spent $40, OOO, 900
in attempts at relief, but in spite of all it
did in relief work, there were Lose, 600
deaths in single year in the single prov
ince of Madras.
Horror of Pesti1ence.
But famine is not the worst-or per-
haps it is truer to say, the most formula
BILE to the spectator, for with it comes
pestilence. At his best, the Hindoo is
really half starved, and in famine year
he is inevitably victim of the horrible
diseases of his condition and climate. The
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-21
ALL OVER THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN BADGER.
DOM.

milwaukee Official Makes Startling
Charges Concern n /. Evasion ofTaxes
Pre- Nuptia1 w. cs of Joseph Krue-
Ger--Suicide Of West Superio Man
The Dickinson press., 1897-09-25
THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE
Lalg Trsuble,s and Consumption Can 10
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A Eniaent New York Uslalst and Sci.
enlist Makes . Fres :Onar
to Our Readers.

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ist,E T. A. Hlocum, demonstrating his
Of Il reliable and absolute
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The Dickinson press., 1897-09-25

Udney 7. Wilson, contractor and Sbuildss,
living In Detroit, Mich, at 81 High Street,
West aid regarding DR.. Williams' Pink
Pills for Pale People: "For years I have
been out Of doors in all kinds Of bad weather,
looking after my building contracts. I have
worked many days in the rain and cold to
complete some building. About two years
ego I noticed I could not get around as !
Should, and commenced to have o severe pain
IN my back. I tried the usual remedies with
out getting any relief, and for nearly . year !
suffered intensely. I kept up a. long as !
could, as / had several contracts for buildings
that had to be completed.
cat night I could not sleep. My phyh.
clan said It was my kidneys. and every day
I went out doors they would keep me awake
nearly all the following night. Instead Of
getting better / became worse, and worried
. great deal about my work. The doctor
said I must quit work and 80 to bed, or he
would not be responsible for my life.
"All the medicines / took only helped
me temporarily. Some days l would feel
fined to my bed for weeks at . time. One
day my wife suggested that I try DR.. vii.
1saes.d FIT y 81 H u.s.. for g Pale People, and J
aFinally when I got into such 2 condition
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hope of relief, ] tried the pills. They helped
me from theistart, but ] would not tsckncwl'
edge II and said It was the other medicines
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