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Evening journal., 1897-05-15
ConneotIcut River Overfows.

Lancaster. N. H.. Nc 15.-The Con-
necticut river here is very high, and the
water has flooded the interval for
miles. The Boston and Maine tracks
are under water. and trains are delayed.
Reports from other sections indicate
high water In all the streams.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
Supposed Murdered Man Found.

Lancaster, n. Y, May 15.-The de-
composed body Of a man was found IN
the woods a short distance from here.
What appears 10 be a bullet wound di-
reetly below the left ear indicates foul
play. From the appearance OF the body,
death must have occurred three or four
plonths ago.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
ordered to Leave Paris.


Paris, May 15.-Tom Mann. the Eng
lish labor agitator, who arrived here
Monday to address a labor meeting. has
been given p hours by the police to
quit France. He replied that he would
obey the order. The meeting was to
have beea held last night.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15

The most retroactive feature of tho
Dingley bill is the provision for paying
back 70 the big manufacturers their cam
paign contributions
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
EDMUND c. KNIGHT DEAD.

Edmund C. knight, on ex-council-
man, died yesterday at his home. No.
2205 Market street, after a short illness.
He was sc years Of age, and served two
Evening journal., 1897-05-15

The Greater Wilmington Printing
and Publishing Company, southwest
corner of Fourth and Shipley streets, is
prepared to do printing OF every de-
scription quickly and efficiently.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15

en- in sufficiently large quantities, it
will keep ali foreign germs ont Of your
system and leave you happy, prosperous
and
u. S.-Hold on there, doctorl You've
said enough TO convince me that, like
all advertised panaceas, it's quaclk
remedy. Besides, I've tried it and found
it about the nastiest dose / ever took.
It's effects were also bad-very bad Il
deranged my whole system and filled it
so full of trust germs that I've been laid
up ever since. don't want any moro
of your protection" pills and don't
see why they called a protection doctor
again. 1t must have been by mistake.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15

The Greater Wilmington Printing
and Publishing Company, southwest
corner of Fourth and Shipley streets, Is
prepared to do printing Of every de-
scription quickly and efficiently.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15

Pennies and small change can be had
at the counting-room Of the Evening
Jo. rnal Office.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
Weather Predictions.

The weather will be clear in the early
morning; cooler; fresh westerly winds.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
Argument Begun.

The arguments in the case were be-
gun by Lawyer Dos Passos. represent
ing the state and city. He made plea
against the exemption from taxation Of
the S5OOO,OOO which went to George
Gould under the eighth paragraph Of
the second codicil of the will as fol-
lows:
MY beloved son, George j. Gould,
having developed a remarkable busl-
ness ability and having for twelve years
devoted himself entirely to my inter-
ests and during the last FIVE years hav-
ing taken entire charge of all my diff
cult interests, ] hereby fix the value Of
his said services at S5,OOOOOO-"
1--WE contend" said Mr. DOS Passos,
that this S5,OOO.OOO was gift and that
the state Is entitled to its proper tax on
the money; that Appraiser Mcclure
erred in emitting 1t from the taxable
property in his report"
Ex-Judge Dillon, replying for the
Gould estate. attempted to prove that
the S5,O00,000 was not a bounty, but a
bona fide payment for services rendered
and consequently not subject to the
state tax. He quoted from two papers
belonging to the late Jay Gould 10 show
that for years previous to his death and
previous TO the making of his win IL
was his intention 10 reward the services
of his son.
On the second round Of the argument
Lawyer DOS Passos said IL was absurd
to appraise the value Of a big block OF
securities at the price they would bring
| II all were thrown on the market al
once, because such a sale would cause
a semipanic in the market and put quo
tations abnormally low.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
THE GOULD MILLIONS
Heirs Dissatisfied With the Sur
rogate's Appraisal.
WANT A REVISION OF THE DECISION.
Tho other Side Is Also Dispicased and
WIN Apply 60 Have a Change
Made In the Ruling OF
the Court.

New York, May 15.-Some eighty odd
millions of dollars left by Jay Gould
were involved in a legal argument when
an appeal from the order OF the surro-
gate was heard IN the appellate division
of the supreme court.
The fact at issue was the determina-
tion Of the value OF the estate as a
basis for the inheritance tax, and the
title of the suit, as set forth in the pa
pers. was: "In the matter of the ap-
praisal of taxation. under the act in re-
lation to taxable transfers Of property
OF the estate Of Jay Could"
Both sides appealed from the surro-
gates decision. The Gould executors
thought the surrogate erred when he
refused to allow 1 per cent (among 9TH
er things) to be deducted from the es-
tates value Of SSO,9Si,5 ,5SO.79 for the ex-
penses of administration, instead Of the
S15O,0O0 allowed.
The sum Of S5,OOOOOO was allowed by
the surrogate TO George Gould for his
services in his fathers employ during
the last ten years of Jay Goulds life.
The comptroller claimed that this S5,-
600 600 was a bounty and that II should
be taxed He appeals from the surro-
gates order, which holds that It is not
taxable.
Dillon & Hubbard and Winslow s.
Pierce appeared as attorneys for the
executors--George j. Gould. Helen M.
Gould, Edwin Gould and Howard Gould
The state comptroller and the comp
troller OF the city Of New York had as
attorneys Of record ex-senator David
b. Hill and Benjamin Il. Dos Passos
The total value of jay Gould's estate
as determined by David M. Mcclure
the appraiser, was $50 1874, $50. This ap-
praiser found debts and liabilities OF
over $4,000 600. which included. how
ever, the S5.000O0O for George J. Gould.
The surrogate decided that the states
! Inheritance tax should be paid on sun
between $40 900 900 and $4,000 600.
All the justices-Van Brunt, Ingra
| ham. Williams. Patterson and Rumse.
were on the bench when the case wa
/ called.
Evening journal., 1897-05-15
FnnIInr the Enrmer.

Sample taxes from the Dingley bill,
with comparisons showing the over
whelming foreign competition to which
the farmer is subjected and what pro-
lection the ways and means committee
regards as indisnensnhle:
Evening journal., 1897-05-15

years in city Council from the Ninth
ward
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

The iackrabbit, long regarded
by the farmers OF the great San
Joaquin valley in California as
q pest, may yet be esteemed for
his fur. The hatters of the East
are discovering that this particular
kind of fur is excellently adapted to
the manu- facture OF felt Of the best
quality, and in the near future we may
sec big shipments of the skins to the
Matchmaking centres unless in the mean
time We have the sagacity to utilize
the product at our doors and engage
in the manufacture OF felt on our own
account
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

The New York Elevated railroad is
about to test an air motor. II success
full, it will be introduced on the whole
system.
NJ. Levat informs the Acade mie des
Sciences that steel tempered in COM
mercial csrbplic acid is much superior
to that tempered in water.
An electric underground railway
under the present one is the latest
project suggested in London. It
would be used for express trains only.
A man who has tried it says that
two or three dandelion leaves chewed
before going to bed will always in
duce sleep, no matter how nervous or
worried o man may be.
The fact should never be lost sight
Of in the home that new-laid egg
contains all the necessary elements to
support the body, and, therefore, is
in itself a complete food.
The longest known telegraph cirouit
made on this continent for actual
business was the report from San
Diego to Boston recently. The line
was cut out the full 3400 miles.
San Francisco, CAL, is soon to
have the largest plant in the world
for cremating the city's refuse. There
will be thirty.two furnaces, with ca
pacity of disposing OF 400 tons OF
material day.
Nansen, the explorer, asserts that
scurvy can easily be avoided in
Arctic expeditions by the use of
properly preserved meat and fish.
supporting the theory OF Professor
Torup OF Christiania that the disease
is due to poisoning from bad meat.
Scurvy was not SO long ago the usual
attendant of all sea voyages.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

Charles II. Clark of the Hartford
Courant, now travelling in Mexico,
writes "Ono custom prevails on
this road that the Courant has long
urged for Connecticut. Whenever
they kill man they put up a black
cross. You see them all along the
road; here one, there three; at one
spot are ii. Take Connecticut
with its 100 grade crossings and its
annual butcheries, and before long we
would have such on array OF crosses
that the grade crossing would have to
go. Here, OF course. the road is the
rarity. No fence pens in the railroad.
If anything is on the track the engine
removes it. A trainhand told me that
one trip, being late, they hurried,
and in consequence killed three steers
and five burros in eight hours. All
along the track are skeletons stripped
by the turkey buzzards and whitened
by the sun. But cattle are as plenty
as they are big down this way"
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11
How for the officers of militin O

How fur the officers of militia Or
CARNATIONS may go in furnishing mem
bers is o question which has recently
come before the supreme court Of
Minnesota. That tribunalhas decided
that the captain Of a company Of the
national guard OF the state when IT 10
not noting as military force ha1lpo
authority summarilx to punish n &-
Nsr Of his company BY imprisonmsnt
for refusal to obey his orders
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

There are nov 40 state colleges in
the United States having an attend
ance OF about $4,000 students. Min
nesota educates the largest number,
3O14, at state expense, Michigan being
next with 2575, then California with
2400, followed by Wisconsin with
1900, Nebraska with 1900, Iowa with
1900 and Illinois with 100. Tuition
fees are charged in only six states, the
fee in North Carolina being $50, in
South Carolina $40. in Iowa $25, in
Missouri $50, in Oregon $40 and in
South Dakota, 50.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

r. A. +. Penrose, Jr., brother of
Senator Boies Penrose. of Pennsyl-
vania, who is citizen Of Arizona, says
of that territory: al would not ex-
change Arizona for any part of this
Union. The man who goes out there
to take look at the country, as l
did, generally becomes q permanent
resident. / live in the extreme south
ern section, close to the line OF old
Mexico. Two weeks ago we were eat
ing luscious strawberries raised in the
open air. We are away ahead OF
Southern California in the matter of
raising fine fruits, and ours mature
three or four weeks earlier. In gold
mining am confident that Arizona
is going to take a conspicuous place. I"
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11
A Beam OF Light.

A LEAN Of light from the infinite depths OF
the midnight sky, .
Painted with infinite love, star In a con-
vict's eye;
When 10 the ghosts Of his sins were afraid
and fed with curse,
And the soul OF the man walked free In the
fields Of the universe!
John ]. Rooney In the Philistine.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

An English newspaper man, who
visited this country recently, has
written book in which he says that
Boston "breathes refined golden me-
diocrity." And the newspapers Of
the city are puzzled to know whether
he intended this for compliment or
not, as was the Congressman in the
play when somebody col him q
dodo. - Z
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

Some facts Of M Instructive nature
relating to the stone industry are fur.
nished by Mr.. Day in the annual re-
mort of the. United States geological
survey. 1t appears from this that GER
tain of the Southern states are grad
ually coming into prominence as ex-
tensive producers Of stone, and also
that the sorts Of stone quarried have
been modified of late years. An in
stance in point is to be found in Ala
bama, which in 1895 furnished more
than $3.50, 600 worth of stone, mostly
limestone, although some sandstone is
worked there. A similar illustration
10 presented by Connecticut which
once divided the sandstone yield
with New Jersey, but produced last
year very little moro sandstone than
Massachusetts, while New Jersey
showed only one-third as much as
Connecticut and little more than Kan
sas or Michigan; and Pennsylvania,
unknown few years ago as supplying
sandstone, recorded product in 1898
about equal to Connecticut and New
Jersey combined aud more than any
other state except Ohio. In granite
production Massachusetts, keeps the
first place, with Maine not far OF,
while Vermont is rapidly overtaking
Maine, and Rhode Island keeps up the
output from its splendid quarries in
and about Westerly to nearly 81 '0O0.'
600 worth q year. New Hampshire
comes fifth on the list, with abou,
half ms much. In marble Vermont, al
usual, leads all the other states, its
output being about double that OF
Georgia, which is second in amount
Tennessee is third -.~.-. .. ..- .---a%
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

The chief proofreader of the Lon
don Times is q Cambridge graduate,
who has salary of $4,000; but then
he is great scholar, not only in the
English language, but in all ancient
and other tongues. not excepting Ash
attic ones He is permitted to query
and suggest excisions or additions to
the work OF the writer's and editors.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

Thomas A. Edison, Jr., must DO q
chip OF the old block. lie is 20 years
old aud has already invented over a
hundred articles. 1t is good stock to
perpetuate, thinks the New York Adj
vertiser.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11
o wink that night, buA

ly think I slept wink that night, bua
tossed feverishly upon my bed, won.
dering whether I had not acted very
Toolishly in thus running away when I
was perfectly innocent Undoubtedly
by so doing had strengthened the
chain OF evidence against me, but
under the circumstances did not see
what else I could do. There was still
a chance for me, thought. Cuttings
groom was, no doubt, q new one, as
his face was not familiar to me, and
he probably did not know who was.
No one else in Hopeville knew me. I
had not mentioned my. intention Of
going down there to anyone in New
York. Ny only hope lay in keeping
perfectly secluded until the thing had
blown over, and this I thought could
do as well in my hotel as anywhere
else.
Then when would arrive at this
point in my reasoning the thought of
that clew that the detectives were
working on would come to me, and I
would break in a cold perspiration
from nervousness and anxiety. How
I ever got through the night I cannot
tell. AS soon as 1 could get into my
clothes in the morning procured q
morning paper. There I found a
fuller and more thrilling account OF
the MURDER most of which l skinned
through hurriedly until reached the
following words:
Detectives Warden and Seabury
OF the Pinkerton force reached Hope
vile shortly after noon. having been
telegraphed for by Mr.. Cuttings fam
lily. They at once set to work upon
a clew furnished them by Davis, the
groom, who was with Mr.. Cutting
when the fatal shot was fired. Davis
was sitting with his back to Mr.. Gut
ting, but happening to look toward
the side of the road he saw a man,
whom he recognized as discharged
servant of his employer, level pistol
at Mr.. Cuttings head and fire. Mr..
Cutting fell to the ground and Davis
jumped to his masters assistance, only
to find him instantly killed. The
horse had taken fright and run away,
when Davis, happening to look up,
saw figure in the roadway. Instinct
lively he ran toward him, but tho man
darted behind the hedge and Davis
lost sight Of him. lie was unable, how
ever, to identify the Murderer fully
when he was arrested by the detectives
late last night The tha pse naine
is James Simpson, was found In an
empty hay shed, not two miles from
the scene of the murder. When con-
fronted with his crime he became
panic-stricken and made n full con-
fession."
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

The present royal family of Greece
are not the first Norsemen to figure in
Greek affairs. The lettering Byzan.
tine empire was upheld for many
years by the yaraugian Guard, com.
posed at Danes, Swedes, Norwegians
and Saxons.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

President George Falcon of the
Ohio fish and game commission says
that the supply of fish in Lake Erie
will be exhausted in two or three
years unless the existing laws regulat-
ing the catch are quickly revised and
thoroughly enforced.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

Japan has added up the cost of the
war with China aud finds that it is
1000, 900 yen or silver dollars. The
war department spent I'll 900, 900 and
the navy department 40, 100000.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11
unlea.

Germany pays foreign countries
about $1,000, 600 year for fruit. The
recent move against American apples
may have been toward reducing ex-
penses and not because the deadly ba-
cillus was present in them.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

Parents in some of the suburbs OF
Chicago complain bitterly that Nor.
mon elders have been working secretly
in their neighborhood ever since last
fall and have gathered colony, in
Guiding large number of young
girls, which have left for Salt Lake
City.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

The only states west of the Mis-
sissippi represented in Congress by
natives are California, Oregon, Texas
and Utah.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

The Boston library has 62s,OOO vol.
umes, with $4,000 separate editions
OF Shakespeares works. 1t stands
second to the Congressional library at
Washington in the number Of it's vol.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

''Hatwife" is proposed in London,
after the analogy Of housewife and
fishwife, to designate woman who
persists in wearing big hats to the
theatre.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

A French statistician has calculated
that the eye travels about 5000 feet in
reading on ordinary.sized novel No
wonder the eye gets tired.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

An extraordinary fast is, says .
prison doctor, that large proportion
OF criminals can draw and sketch
we'll.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

Recreant men cashiers OF several
Minneapolis establishments have been
replaced by women, and the action
has led TO O discussion whether women
are more Trustworthy than men.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-06-11

And that was the nearest I ever
came to being hanged. Philadelphia
Times.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-06
wHEELING DAILY NTELLIGENoER SATURDAY. NoVEBnR 1884,

Wlcks's twin sister She was about the
same height and build, possessed the
same nondescrtpt collection of features,
and crowned the whole with a Grape
bonnet that was the very double OF
Mrs. Wicks's headgear. She was also a
widow, the late Midgetts, like the ditto
Weeks, having turned up anything but
trumps In the matrimonial venture.
Mrs, Mldgetts's room was, like her.
self, clean TO the point OF aggressive
ness, but differed from Mrs. Wicks's
apartment, inasmuoh as there was no
mangle; Mrs Mldgetts's bed, with It's
blue and white check counterpart, &C.
cupying the place OF honor. To make
up for which disparity, It appeared
that Mrs Midgetts (who was discovered
at tea when in a literary sense the
curtain rose upon herr was engaged
with a bloater which might have been
a connection by marriage OF the two
for which Mrs. Wlcks and Emily had
Just made themselves personally re-
sponsible.
III gou'll promise to 70 on with your
tea, same as though / wasn't ERE" the
visitor stipulated "else III SO, an come
back bit later"
You won't do no such thing" per-
emptorily "set down now do, and
take cup a-longer me. I'm sorry there
amt another bloater-"
Don't you mention It, nov, Mrs, Md
gets, don't, Men Em'ly's but this min
nit finished; what's more, we 'ad n
bloater same as you're doin',"
"Well," was the answer, Il must say
enj'ys little eomethnk with my tea.
Dinner / don't get much time for, 'cept
It's Sundays. And 'ow's you an Emily
bin gettin on this while?"
"Only middling, Emily, she can't
abide Bankers Buildings, an she's been
an set 'erself agen the Flinderses next
door, an what with one thing an mother,
she's always a-growlin, Fack ia, II IL
weren't for me an the Munger, she'd like
to 20 out 10 service. She always was
genteel from child, was Emily, and Ter
minds set on them long-talled caps what
they're a-wearlng now"
"Well," said Mrs. Midgetts. as she
wrestled with broken epouted teapot
for its last dregs, we've most OF us set
on something, come to that. You'n me,
we've got our fads an fancies, l should
MT wonder only we keep 'em TO ourselves
more"
"Ah, you're right there, Mrs. NUGGETS;
you're right there. dunno low It's with
you, but IL there's one thing I'm set on.
it's the country. There Amt nothlnk l
wouldn't give II I'd got It, to be able TO
go back to them parts come from, as
amt set eyes on for night eight-an'-
twenty year. I'm feelln' 1t worse'n ever
Just now, an I'll tell YOU why There's
my brother jim's wlfe--he was good
bit youngern me, was rundown at
Whlttlebridge, she writes me n letter to
say as old Mrs. Jenner's going to give up
business, going to live a-longer 'er son
what's well to do an don't like to ave 1t
said as is mother gets 'er living by the
wash tub while he drives Ia own green
grocer's cart, quite the gentleman. And
a nice little business It IS, too goodwill
and fixters an the lease o the cottage all
going for twenty pound, Twenty poundl