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The herald., 1898-12-04
A Jockey Club Case

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-After being
out all night the jury in the case against the
officers and managers of the Washington
Jockey Club came into court this morning
and reported a disagreement, except in the
cases of Mar; Cassidy, starter, Charles D.
ritow, who by order of the court was ac-
quilted. This agreement applies to the
prosecutions against President Rowland
and Messrs. Ross and Brown, forming the
board of stewards of the club, and also to
the executive committee. 1t is understood
that the jury stood ten for acquittal and
the Judge expressed regret at the inability
to agree and said that he would not now
announce when another trial of the accused
would occur The three acquitted officers
were formally discharged.
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short man, with large buttons on his coat,
who has not the same amount of dignity,
but who has a collection of languages that
enables him to challenge all corners. These
two manage to keep the straight and narrow
way which leads to the busy offices pure and
undefiled by interlopers. Within is a series
| of connecting rooms, with imposing desks
in the center of the floors and secretaries and
stenographers and translators, who are turn
| ing the talk at the secret meetings into
piles of typewriter sheets.
If there is a meeting Of the joint commits
sion, the members whirl OFT about clock
in the afternoon to the foreign office. There
they talk and listen to the interpreter and
grow extremely weary of the Philippines be-
fore dark, when they return for dinner to
the hotel or prepare for the evenings BAN
quet.
| In the intervals of these occupations there
are the newspaper men to dodge. The latter
haunt the corridor of the hotel, waylay the
unwary commissioner and endeavor to en-
| trap him into some hint of the latest devel-
opments, with very little success, however,
for these gentlemen are sworn to awful
| secrecy and they are experts in the matter
OF holding their peace.
Mr.. Ferguson, the official interpreter,
acts unoffcially as press agent. At least he
succeeds fairly well in keeping the repre-
scntatives punched in the cafe, and that is
good thing. In this cafe the official inter-
prefer talks quite freely about everything
but the subject the newspapers want him
most to talk about. He has the ability to
hold his tongue on this subject in the two
official languages of the commission. There
are plenty of interesting stories and reminis-
cences told by the members of this congenial
group, however. The ever-interesting details
of the Cuban campaign are graphically de-
scribed by Mr.. Creelmen, who is beginning
to use his wounded left arm again. 10 the
accompaniment of clouds of smoke and
gushing liquor, old campaigns are fought
again and old assignments talked over. But
The herald., 1898-12-04
Nevada's Senator

WINNEMUCCA, New, Dec. 3.-Congress-
man Newlands passed here yesterday on his
way to Washington. In an interview with
the "Silver State" which issued today, he
states that he is a candidate for the United
States Senate. He says in part: "A clear
issue was made in the Legislative fight before
the people that the contest was not conduct
ed on straight party lines, but that the po-
litical forces divided themselves into Stew
art and anti-Stewart forces; that the Stew
art forces were defeated and Stewart had
lost the Legislature; that the field was now
open to the other silver party men, and
that he was candidate for the Senate.
The herald., 1898-12-04
THE CITY MAY JOIN
Finance Committee Favors League of
American Municipalities

The finance committee yesterday dcided
to recommend to the council that the city be
come a member of the League of American
municipalities. This action was taken be.
cause the committee believed that the in.
formation obtained from the league bu.
reau would more than cover the expense of
Joining and dues, the latter being $50 a year
information on many subjects of interest is
furnished by the league bureau. AMONG
them are pamphlets on street lighting.
sprlnkling, sweeping, drains and the munici.
pal control of such public utilities as water
and gas works.
Among the many demands passed was
the bill of w. Peterson, the contractor
whose business is to dispose of dead ami
mails. He asks for $234.25 for November
work. number of demands for tax re-.
bates were also passed
The herald., 1898-12-04
McKane Set Free

NEW YORK, Dec. 3-John Y. McKane,
former political ruler of Gravesend, has been
relieved of any further accountability to
the law for the offenses which, it was al.
legged, he committed during the last few
weeks of 1893, and for one Of which he was
tried, convicted and sentenced to State
Prison for six years.
In all there were eleven indictments found
against McKane in connection with the
election of that year, and the other ten
have been hanging over him ever since.
Judge VIM. j. Gaynor has signed an or.
der dismissing these indictments. He did
so at the request of Edward M. Shepard.
former Deputy Attorney General, who took
q very active part in the prosecution of Nc
The herald., 1898-12-04
A Prison Question

SACRAMENTO. CAL, Dec. 3.-R. T. Dew
lin, State Prison Director, today filed with
Governor Budd supplemental report to
the biennial report of the Board of State
Prison Directors, in which he argues against
the introduction of the indeterminate SEN
tence system. He holds that it is open to
many grave objections, among them being
the fact that those in authority would be con-
stantly subjected to political pressure to
allow the release of persons not entitled to
release,
The herald., 1898-12-04
TRUNDLE-BED TOWN

Every man who's under seven
Knows borough much like heaven,
With four towers round and tall
Just inside the nursery wall.
All it's streets are through and through
Paved with cuttings red and blue,
And a boulevard of white
Runs along its bolster site.
Mother is the borough's queen.
But the only ruling seen
Is her taking tax of prayer
Nightly from each resident there.
Hushed and still it Is by day,
For the dreams are made that way;
What save silence could devise
All the night-time's sweet surprise.
Innocence and sleep abide
In this town at eventide.
Only men devoid of sin
Having right to enter in.
Pillows soft and white and fair
Help to answer mothers prayer
That her men rest sung and sound
While the wheels of night go round.
I went up there, years ago,
Every sght, 1 loved it so.
And I wish I knew the way
Up there still at close of day.
Norman C. Schlichter In Youths Com.
panion.
The herald., 1898-12-04
Got Off Easy

PITTSBURG, Pa. Dec. 3.-Ex-Assistant
aiding and abetting Major w. c. Moreland
former City Attorney, for embezzlng s20
600 city funds, was today found guilty anc
sentenced to serve one year and ten month,
in the county workhouse and pay fine o1
$1,000. This was Houses third trial. Major
Moreland, who was sentenced to three wears
in the western penitentiary, was recently
pardoned after eighteen months of his sen
tence.
The herald., 1898-12-04
CITY LIBRARIANS REPORT
Many Books Put in Circulation DURING
the Year

"A short session of the board of library
directors was held yesterday afternoon. The
librarians report for the year shows the
total receipts to be $50, ,997.77; expenditures,
S22,7W5O; leaving a cash balance of Ss297 81
During the year, 402,924 volumes were cir.
culated to home readers and about l27 OO(
to readers in the library.
Outside of the salaries, which amounte
to Sl2,34l.SO, the other expenses were as
follows; Books, $4l5542; periodicals, $685.
0o; binding, $ll2S35; insurance, 1854.
Miss Emma Hands resignation as library
attendant was accepted. Miss Hand was
given vote of thanks as an expression of
appreciation for her efficient services.
The herald., 1898-12-04
A Long Sentence

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. 3-Charles South
all, whose dealings in fraudulent time checks
were said to have caused losses to firms
and individuals all over the country to an
amount aggregating $75O,OOO, was today sen.
fenced to State Prison for ten years at hard
labor. The specific charge against Southall
was grand larceny and his conviction was
one OF half dozen or more indictments.
The herald., 1898-12-04


indispositious. He is too busy making
money. He says he leaves sickness to the
women folks.
That is the way men commit suicide
tens of thousands of them. A woman can
stand between this danger and her husband
If she will. A little watchfulness-a sur-
gestion now and then and little of good
general remedy always at hand may save
her husbands life. DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery is q remarkable remedy
for hard working men and women. In q
that It goes down to bedrock and cures tne
disorders that sre responsible for the ma
jority Of serious illnesses It strengthens
the stomach end makes the appetit. keen
and hearty. 1t iuvigorates the liver. It
aids the neutral processes Of secretion and
excretion. It makes tt. assimilation of
the food perfect. It purifes the blood
and flls 1t With the nfe-siv;ng e!smeuts
that build new are healthy fe.h Tissue. Il
tones the 1erves. It Is the greet blood.
maker end sssh-builder. I. cures eS per
throat end k;ad.ed affections, wi:;ch. #
neglected. lead UP to consumption. Il is
also a. erfailirG remedy FOR ell rervo.s
disorders. An hoEest dealer will 20. urge
subs.itute.
Last winter teak s!cx with what the doctors
FAIRFAX, AtcAison Co., No. WAS Sc; io- abor.
e Sn :y sssa sa sshag sg s sH ;isea sd
sumption. Sesrsksa Up b;oaa ics long s aSiie, SI
aS Sas s:s Y y: sssa sSE: astD @
e: sSs Az as sss wsa i s. ss s'i ss.r M
have tsxer two bottles Of the Golden Nedice!
tsoa and fsei Better thaa ever belize in Wy iiie"
The herald., 1898-12-04
Bessie Bailey's Death

SAN JOSE, CAL, Dec. 3.-Chairman ]
X. Purnow Of the Board of Managers O
Agnews Hospital, says he views the death
Bessie Bailey. with suspicion and that h,
Will lend all aid to full investigation. Will,
the Doctor makes no charges he insinuatei
that there are suspicious facts in connectior
with the case and cites some alleged visits tr
the young woman's room as irregular.
The herald., 1898-12-04
War Over Whisky

PEORIA, ILL.,, Dec. 3.-Jacob Woolner
now states he intends to fit up the great
grinding 5000 bushels of corn a day. His
action has greatly angered his brother,
Samuel WooIner, vice-president of the
Standard Company, and he has filed in the
recorders office evidence of Jacob Wool
ner's Indebtedness to him, amounting to
S47 600
The herald., 1898-12-04
Bridge Bids Ready

At the next meeting Of the council the
bids on the four new bridges which were re-
ferred to the city engineer two weeks ago.
will be returned. These bids vary greatly
in amount and also in the matter of the
specifications. The engineers department
has had much trouble in arranging these
bids in shape so that they could be com.
pared.
The herald., 1898-12-04

Harbert, fled with the city clerk yesterday
petition asking the council to abandon
proceedings for the sidewalking in front oil
her property on Broadway, which is be-
tween Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets.
She promises to do the work in first-class
manner, but requests to be allowed to have
the improvement made under private con.
tract.
The herald., 1898-12-04
The Haldeman Killing

CINCINNATI, Dec. 3.-The jury in the
case against j. William Haldeman, charged
with the murder of ex-State Senator Rich
ardson, September II last, gave verdict of
acquittal after three hours deliberation to-
day. The parties were business associates
and the killing was in the office of their
mills at Lockland O.
The herald., 1898-12-04
Sewer Connections

A petition asking to be allowed to con
meet new house on Olive street with the
sewer was filed with the city clerk yester
day by NJ. A. Lott.
The herald., 1898-12-04
TREASURY BALANCE
Auditors Weekly Report Shows
Healthy Condition of Funds

The report of the city auditor for the week
ending December Sd gives the treasurer's
balance for the week as s57S, ,233. .Gs. as com
pared with S530,040.64 of last week. The
report also shows that there is a deficiency
OF $3O2.79 in the East Los Angeles park
fund; shortage of $43.25 in the Hollenbeck
park fund, and $1,000 deficiency in boiler
permit account
The funds with balances to their credit
are: Cash $l9,375.l4, salary sl74s 10. fire de-
partment $39l9.77, common school S25 "a IA
library s35l2.GS, new water s9O. 30. general
park $669.l7, park nursery s247. 90. street
lighting $s4lS.SO, street sprinkling $4O22 .G5.
Favors Private Contract
Flora Hnnsa thrnnnh h.. aI m "a
The herald., 1898-12-04
PROMINENT FIGURE IN THE DREYFUS TRIAL

1t Gen Freederz who according
document which Dreyu convicted The general then Russian
Paris Nine DIeyu
acknowledges that the the
of deception which had been p1aciced him.
The herald., 1898-12-04
November Business of Police Court

Department one of the police court, pre-.
sided over by Justice Owens, enriched the
city with last months business just sl4S
The report filed with the city clerk yester-
day shows that 50 cases were tried during
the month.
The herald., 1898-12-04

all agree that the task of extracting news
from the Paris peace commissioners is about
the toughest proposition ever faced.
The herald., 1898-12-04

WIN. II. DAVIS, GOVERNOR CAGES EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
Governoreect Gage he
10 appoint william a. Davis as his executive Mr. Davis
sen sen with the WORK OF the eru6ean party and particularly active
Ds Judge Of the superior court Of sutter and Yu counties
The herald., 1898-12-04

Favors Private Contract
Flora House, through her agent, F. B.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06
Around the state.

There will be plenty of work for Wash
ington's laboring men this summer. Our
new hundred-thousand-d college, now
in course of erection, and the nineteen
blocks of yitrified-brick streets to be put
down will furnish employment for several
hundred men at fair wages.-W ashington
Democrat.
Oakland school, in Bono township, Law
renee county, closed last Monday with a
magnificent dinner, served by the patrons.
A large crowd was present to enjoy the
occasion, and If the didn't do it, with f1f-
teen big cakes, a tub full of fried chicken
and sixty-f1ve pies, they do not deserve to
be mentioned as rational human beings.
Orleans Examiner.
Twenty-Five years ago this town was Wis
tied by Riley & Smith. painters and deco
rators. The Riley is now well known as the
''Hoosier Poet" James Whitcomb Riley.
They left souvenir in job of decorating
Tor George A. Crowell on the walls of the
hall on the floor which was at that time
occupied by the American Club, a galaxy
of young men of that day who are still well
known in this city and whose names are on
the walls of the clubroom.-Peru Repub-
lican.
President Mckinley has selected Lieut..
Mat r. Peterson to succeed Capt. Samuel
w. Miller as instructor in military science
at Purdue. Lieutenant Peterson has been
instructed to report for duty March 16, but
will probably reach the city several DAYS
before that date. Lieutenant Peterson was
born in North Carolina and was appointed
to the Military Academy at West Point
from that State. He entered West Point
in 1885 and graduated in 1889, receiving a
commission second lieutenant. He was
commissioned first lieutenant on Aug. q,
1896, and is now serving with Company B.
Sixth Infantry, United States army.-Lafay
cite Call.
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WILL RETURN TO WORK
employees OF TWO COTTON MILLS
DECLARE THEIR STRIKE ENDED.
Operatives Have Lost Nearly $4,000
sessment for Defense Fund.

BIDDEFORD, Me-, March 5-The strike
Of the $500 employees of the Pepperell and
Laconia cotton manufacturing corporations
which began on Jan. II, when general re-
duction of 10 per cent in wages went into
effect, was declared off this afternoon, and
the big mills which have been silent since
that date, will start up on Monday morning.
The operatives voted to return after COM
mittee appointed by them waited upon
Agent Macarthur, who is the representa-
tive of both corporations, and were in
formed that the mills would not be the last
in New England to pay the old wages when
the cotton goods trade should warrant
restoration. The operatives have lost nearly
$2lO,0O0 in wages since they came out on a
strike, and business has been paralyzed.
Agent Macarthur stated tonight he would
start both big corporations in every depart
ment Monday. So many French Canadians
have left the city since the strike was be-
gun that it is feared that some of the de-
partments will be short handed. There are,
however, many idle operatives in the York
mills who are still out on a strike, and prob
ably many of them will apply for jobs in
the Biddeford mills Monday. To-days con-
ference between the Biddeford mill hands
and mill management was brought about by
the priests of st. Marys and st. Joseph's
Churches.
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London Letter.

AT last 1t seems to have been definitely
decided that the lost tribes found their rest
ing place, or rather, abiding place, in At
ghanistan. In the first place the Hebrew
aspect of the Afghan Is striking, and in
the second place all the commonest names
are biblical. In England, such facts con-
corning the Buffet State" between the
Asian empires of Russia and Great Britain
revived more or less wildly at present, ow-
ing to the war with the Afridis. Common
Afghan names are Yusuf (Joseph) Yakub
(Jacob), and Ishak Qsaac.) Afghan ira
dition, moreover, to quote DR.. Moore, who
writes at great length on the subject in the
distinctly indicates an Israelitish descent,
and the modern Afghans still call them
selves Beni-lsrael, or children of Israel: Nor
will American students find that sacred his
tory conflicts with Afghan traditions; for it
states that the ten tribes were deported
to Media, and Mesopotamia, and adds, in
the book of ESdras, that they travelled for
a year and a half to farther country,
called Arsareth. If Arsareth is Afghanis-
tan, many striking circumstances are eX
planned such as that of the hill of Takht-i-
Sulieman (Seat of Solomon), having been so
called, according to tradition, before the
rise OF Mohammedanism, and that one
great SECTION of the race should nave been
named from time immemorlal YuSufZaiS, or
descendants OF Joseph, i. e., the tribes of
Ephraim and Manasseh. The Oldest Afghan
customs, moreover, distinctly suggest
Israelte origin. Such are the obligation of
marrying deceased brothers widow, and
the capital punishment of stoning. But the
strongest evidence of all is discovery by
DR.. Moore, which ought, If established be-
yond doubt, to settle the question. He
states that number of archaic inscriptions
exist in Afghanistan which cannot be inter-
ton into ancient Hebrew, when their sense
becomes clear.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06
VIII Go Into Oil Business.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
MONTPELIER, Ind, March 5.-The
stockholders of the Fort Wayne Gas Com
pany, which secured the bulk of it's gas in
this county, south of this city and east of
Hartford City, have decided to go into the
oil business on large scale. They already
have a paying oil production, with wells
located on the Godfrey Reserve, east of
Montpelier. The company owns a vast
scope of territory, which for gas purposes
is almost worthless, but is in the oil field.
When some of their gas wells were first
drilled in this county they We're void of the
slightest particle of oil, but in late years
oil has been increasing so that they had to
be shut off of the main gas line, and many
others are used only by the aid of separat-
ors. The extra expenses of making good
oilers out of these wells will be light, as
they will only drill few feet deeper and
shoot them, and this is what the company
expects to do. The increase in production
of oil for this company will not he small.
as some of them are already making as
high as forty and fifty barrels. On an
eighty-acre farm south of here they have
fourteen wells, and all of them are show
ing considerable oil. They will also drill
several new gas wells.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06
Sensational Literature.



Outrageous stimulation" is a very happy
combination of words to describe the effect
OF the great mass of novels of the sensa-
tional order. 1t is kind of intemperance
to which readers of these novels are addict
ed they have brought themselves into such
an abnormal condition that they cannot live
without undue and constant excitation of
the imagination Their reading constitutes
a genuine debauch, in which the faculties
are as completely destroyed in the end as
the body is destroyed by the excessive use
of alcohol. The sensational newspaper be-
lcrgs in the same category. 1t furnishes a
daily dram for the Incorporate, who cannot
get through their work without the stimu-
LUIS of horrors, scandal. gossip, exaggera-
ton. distortion. and that fundamental and
ingrained lying which makes the sensa-
tional newspaper concrete mass of false
hood from cover to cover. The latest and
perhaps the most effective illustration of
the Inward vileness of yellow journalism
is furnished by the New York Journal,
which recently, in case of probable muir
der interviewed q condemned murderer as
an expert, in order to obtain his opinion on
the method by which the killing was ac-
complshed, and in large type reported this
murdeTer's pride" at being consulted on so
important a matter by SO importan. a soursf
nal There is no deeDer deuth of Journalists
tic degrndatiom
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-06
Science Teachers Adjourn.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind, March 5.--The annual
meeting of the Indiana Science Teachers
Association closed to-day, the session to-
day being held in the High School building,
instead of at Earlham. Prof. c. T. Lane,
of Fort Wayne, read a paper on Thine to
be Given to the Sciences and Their Best
Teaching Order Prof. Ryland Ratliff, of
Paramount Academy. read paper on
Time and Place of Botany in the Second
airy School Course" and Prof. G. A. Abbott
of Evansville, read a paper on Should
Chemistry Precede or Follow Physics? ?" The
report of the committee revision of
science courses was presented by Prof. M.
Is. Thomas of Wabash College. The first
desire of the committee is uniformity in
science study in Indiana schools, though not
on ironclad courses. Its recommendations
were: First, a minimum course of four
years in the high school; second, no spe-
cializing, but a general and thorough
knowledge; third, the first two years should
be devoted to botany, zoology and physiolo-
gy, in the order named; fourth, the last two
years to physics, chemistry and physical
geography in the order named. The assoc
citation chose the following officers: Presi-
dent, Prof. A b. Grove, Fort wayne; sec
rotary, Prof. George l.. Roberts, Green's
burg; treasurer, Prof. w. A. Fislxe. Rich
mond. The time and place of the next
meeting have not been decided.