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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-23
Attempt to Derail Express Train
Near P. V. Junction.
PASSED OVER IN SAFETY
FREIGHT TRAIN FOLLOWING
WAS BADLY WRECKED.
Supposed to Have Been the Work of
the Robbers Roost Gang-Believ-
ed That the Train Carried a Large
Amount of Cash-ohcials Are Re
ticent.
,fsnecial to The ReraIdl

Price, Utah, Sept. PAN attempt
was made to wreck the eastbound pas
senger and express train on the Rio
Grande Western at a point known as
Sharps Spur, some four miles this
side of Cotton, or P. V. Junction, last
night, which is believed to have been
the work of train robbers.
A heavy piece of iron had been in
serted in the switch and the ties loosed
from the rails. The passenger train
passed over the obstruction in safety,
but a freight train which came along
some time later was badly wrecked.
If the railroad officials here know
anything of the matter they refused to
talk However, the facts as above
given were tonight learned from j. w,
Warf, prosecuting attorney, who was
in that vicinity today. Mr.. Warf has
no hesitency in saying he believes 1t
to be the work of the Robbers Roost
gang Several members of which are
known to have been in that vicinity.
The train going east carries all the
through express and last night is said
to have had on a large sum of money
with which to take up the checks of
railroad employees at Helper and
other points on the line. If the train
carried the Helper money, there must
have been some $4,000 aboard. 1t is
the custom of the Western to bring
money down the day before and leave
it with the Helper agent, with which
to cash checks next day. Today was
payday along the line.
Last nights passenger train, which
came into Price over three hours late,
was an unusually heavy one and had
the plans of the robbers carried there
would no doubt have resulted great
loss of life.
Superintendent Welby passed
through here for the east today, but
your correspondent was not in posses
sion of these facts in time to interro
gate him. Nothing has been done here
by the officers as yet to detect the
guilty party or parties.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-23
RUSSIA'S VICTORY.
Important Concessions Through
Secret Compact With China.

London, Sept. pa dispatch to the
Globe from Hongkong purports to give
details of the secret convention signed
at Pekin on March q. 1t appears that
Hsu Ying K'Ouoi, of the Chinese for
eign office, thereby concluded an agree
ment with st. Petersburg by which
China ceded Port Arthur and Ta-Lien-
Wan, STIMULATING that only Russian
and Chinese Warships enter or dock at
Port Arthur.
Russia, it also appears, gets the ex-
elusive use of the inner harbor of Ia
Lien-Wan, and the sole administration
of the coded territories and a tract of
land north of TaLien-Wan is des g
mated as buffer belt
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-23

Pekin, Sept. PAN important edict, just
issued, definitely Announces that the En-
peror of China has resigned fis power to
the EMPRESS (dowager empress) who has
ordered the ministers to deliver to her in
future their official reports.
1t is difficult to obtain reliable informa-
ton at the palace in regard to the pre-
ceding, but the recent reformatory edicts
probably caused the change. While the
emperor was subservient and a mere
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-23
Killed In Mimic Battle

Pittsburg, Sept. 22-Captain John
D. Adams, aged 80 years. and Captain
Charles Miller, aged % years, his as
sistant, were instantly killed while
conducting fireworks display and re-
production of the Manila battle on the
Allegheny river in front of the expo
sition building tonight.
In some way, as yet unknown, the
bomb which was intended to blow up
the Spanish ship was exploded almost
directly under the skiff in which the
men were working.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-23

Claude MacDonalds attitude since Ii
Hung Changs fall. She has granted to
NJ PavloT. the Russian charge d'affaires
several lengthy audiences. Probably Ii
hung Chang viii return to power, but not
to office
The widest rumors are affoat. It is re-
ported the emperor has had alterations
with the Tsung Lii Yamen and the dow
ager empress.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-23
MURDERED IN OREGON.
Probable Fate of John Wolf of San
Francisco

San Francisco. Sept. 22.-It is now
generally believed by friends and bust
ness acquaintance that John Wolf.
president of the Wolf Wooden company.
who has been missing since Aug. %, is
a victim to the murderous greed of
some thief or thieves in southern
Oregon. Both his wife and his bust
ness associates have about given him
up for dead. 1t is stated that Wolf
had no object in making away with
himself, his private affairs having been
placed in excellent condition. His ac-
count with the firm for which he
Travelled was all right.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-23
China's Imperial University.

Washington, Sept 22.-The state de-
partment has received from Minister
Conger at Pekin information that Will
liam A. p. Martin has been appointed
to the important post of president of
the Imperial University of China, re-
Gently established by imperial decree.
DR.. Martin is a citizen of the United
States. but went to China as a mis-
sionary about 40 years ago, and has
passed most of his time since then in
that country.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-23

been anchored out in the harbor and
used as refuge ships by the various
consulates, returned to their berths at
the river quays and, after discharging
their passengers, proceeded to ref1t for
their former occupations, pending the
decision of the prize court as to their
ultimate fate. This has caused an
enormous amount of traffic along the
water front, and both the custom house
and captains of the port office have
been deluged with business for the past
ten daVS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-23
UTAH SOLDIERS
WERE To BLAME
Recent Fatal Encounter at
CaVite Investigated.
ONE OF THE NATIVES
SENTENCED TO DEATH
But Gen. Anderson Says Our Sol
dierS Were Responsible.

viii Ask That the Insurgent Be Re-
1eased-Situation In the Islands
Is One of Expectancy-Spaniards
Believe the Islands Will Be Re
stored to Them Alleged That
Aguinaldo Is Willing to Be
Bought-Business Is Reviving.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-23
WILLIAM ], BRYAN
MEETS NJ KINLEY
Democratic Leader Calls On
the President.
MADE EARNEST PLEA
FOR SICK SOLDIERS
0ne-fifth of the Nebraska Troops
Are Ill.

Colonel Bryan Urged That They Be
Sent Home, But the President
Would Make No Promises-Bryan
Did Not Ask That the Regiment
Be Mustered Out - Conference
Lasted For An Hour-Alger
Blames the Newspapers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-23
Wyoming Postmaster.

loDtCIdI 10 The HeraId.s
Washington, Sept. 22-Henry River
was today appointed postmaster at
Wood River, Big Horn county Wyo..
vice William Tenbrooks resigned.
An original pension of $3.50 per
month was today granted to Ruth d.
Potter of Caldwell, Ida
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-23
|CNOBLE FALL
Of AN EMPEROR
Chinese Monarch DepOSed By
His Mamma.
WAS TOO PROGRESSIVE
TO SUIT THE EMPRESS
Ii Hung Chang Will Be Returned to
Power.

Russian Influence Will Gain Ascend
ancy and English Interests Will
Suffer-Coup of the Empress Was
to Prevent An Alliance With
Japan-Contemplated Reforms Are
Now Impossible-Emperor's Adj
wiser Took to Flight.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-23
The Empress Incensed.

London. Sept. 23.-The Daily Nails Pc
kin correspondent, telegraphing Wednes-
day, says: The dowager empress is great
Ii Hung Chang's degradation and Sir
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-08-24
Below the Standard.

The Clemson College authori-
ties have reported four fertilizer
companies as selling goods below
the required standard. Two are
Richmond companies, one Viii.
mington and one Charleston. Pro.
weddings will be instituted against
them at once. Record.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-08-24
July 13-Truce.

July 14-Santiago surrenders.
July Spanish Cabinet de-
clare martial law.
July 16-General Shafter an
nouneeS terms of General Toral's =
surrender.
July 17-American flag is
raised over Santiago de Cuba
and General McKibben made
military governor.
July 1S--War council orders
invasion of Porto Rico; Manza
Milo bombartled.
July 19- British naval officers
at Manila promise to help Dew
ey.
July 20-Spanish cabinet re-
ported as agreed to negotiate for
peace.
July 2l-General Garcia with
draws his army from Shafter's
support.
July 22-General Miles sails
for Porto Rico with an advance
guard: American lines close
about Manila; General Wood is
appointed governor of Santiago.
July 23-Spaniards continue to
surrender; Tapeka captures Porto
Nipe.
July "a Shafter reported ac-
tive; Emperor William said to
have asked our intentions in the
East.
July 25-General Miles lands
at Guanica Porto Rico.
July 26-Spain formally sues
tor peace thu ough the French
ambassador.
July 27-Ponce, Porto Rico,
surrenders.
July 2S-General Miles raises
the American flag over the cap
ital of Porto Rico.
July 29-President Mckinley
replies to Spain's peace over.
lures.
August 1.-The President
signs peace protocol.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-08-24
ABSTINENCE AND APPLES.
Eat Them and Keep Sober All
the Time-Sure Cure for
Whiskey Habit.

"A new doctrine has been pro
mulgated. That elastic territory
known as the medical world has
announced that the eating of ap-
piles Is dead sure cure for inc.
briefly.
"Eat apples and live forever"
said Bronson Alcott. Eat apples
and become n teetotaler, say the
doctors. At least those OF the
new school say SO. This regime
promises to work a revolution
The Kceley euro will find itself as
lonesome rs ham sandwich nt n
Hebrew picnic and the corner sa
loon will be as lonesome as two
such sandwiches.
The corner apple stand will do
proportionately thriving bust
ness. The Romantic will take the
place of the Roman punch and the
gin-fz will yield to the pippin. -
The apple of Concord will redeem
that celebrated fruit from the
odium which has rested upon it
ever since the apple of discord
made its appearance. 1t will once
more grow upon the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil and
dessicated world will sober down
accordingly. We expect great
things from the apple cure.
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-08-24
IMPORTANT

Notice by Board of Registration.
The board of Supervisors of
Registration for Lancaster county
met this the 7th day of March,
1898, and organized by reelection
of w G A Porter, chairman and
Montgomery Caskey secretary.
According to notice already
.iveu, the board will not keep the
ooks open for the registration of
electors between the consecutive
days in each month until thirty
days before the general election
this year.
Electors who registration in
1896 and 1897 and still remain in
their respective polling precincts
are not required to register. Those
who have moved from one pre-
clnct to another will have to cor, a
forward and have their certlfica'
changed to conform to tn cir Or,
ent precinct.
w G A Porter,
Chairman.
j Nj Caskey,
Secretary.
ancaster, S c., March 7, 1898.
eag Pay Up.
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The Ledger Semi weekly, The
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and Home and Farm, all three pa
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The Ledger (Semi, weekly, The
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Home and Farm, all three papers
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The Ledger (Semi weekly and
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The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-08-24
Heroes of the War.

The New York Times off hand
records the following names as the
most popular heroes of the war
Rear Admiral George Dewey,
of Vermont.
Lieutenant Richmond Pearson
Hobson, of Alabama.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. of
New York.
Rear Admiral Winfield S Schley
of Maryland.
Capt. Robert D. Evans, of Vir-
ginia.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, of Ala.
bama.
Capt. Charles Edward Clarke.
of Vermont.
Lieutenant Commander Richard
Wainwright, of the District of
Columbia.
Commodore John w Philip, of
New York.
Ensign Worth Bagley, of North
Carolina.
Lieutenant Victor Blue, of
South Carolina.
Cadet Joseph w Powell, of
New York.
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CHRONOLOGY OFTHE WAR.
Sss This Out and Preserve in
Your Scrap Book.

&Prh 21-Presidcnt signs or
Tsr for North Atlantic squadron
ss sail for Cuba.
april 22-Squadron leaves Kew
Nest.
April 23-Presiden issued call
-t~ 125, 900 volunteers.
april 24-Asiatic squadron
'ssss for the Philippines.
&pri! 24-Spain declares war.
April 25-Congress declares
,'er aas existed since April 21.
april 27-Batteries at Matan-
- humbarded.
kpril Batteries at Cien>
ss-os bombarded.
&pcil 20-Batteries at Cahanas
,s>ssharded.
Say l-Spanish fleet at Ma
y - destroyed.
Nay 7-Matanzas forts shell,
-
Nay Eight off Cardenas be-.
~~sn the Winslow and three
sniSh gunhoat~.
3ay 11-Eusign Worth Bag
.~ and four sailors killed on the
Z .asiow in an action off Car
.'~rsss-the first blood she'd in the
-. Also on the same day the
%.'sek was made on Cienfuegos.
Nay 12-San Juan de Porto
20 bombarded.
lay 12-Cardenas shellcd.
lay Flying squadron
&'s> IS Hampton Roads.
.&Ay 1S-Flying squadron
'"n les Key West.
M1y 18-Santiago bombarded.
hay 19-Cervera's squadron
IL santiago harbor.
My 25-President issues sec.
,'''t call for rs, 900 volunteers.
Nay 25-Flrst Manila expedi-
hn leaves.
May 31-Santiago forts bonn
arF.,ad.
Iqne 3-Collier Merrimac sunk
ftne 6-Bombardment of San
slnse~ forts.
-sHne S-Shafter's forces leaves
eanfpa.
June s-Caimanera lombard
JI1ne 9-Marines land at Guam
anaulo.
June 11-FIght at Guantana-
mo; :%paniards repulsed.
.iu"e 14-Army sails from
grn,'n.
j" e 15-Spanish defeat at
Guamtdnamo.
ju"o 16-Fort Caimanera de.
NIL hod.
June 19-Shafter's army ar.
siveo at Baiquiri.
Jnne 21-Charleston captures
ibe L"jrones.
Junc % and 23-Shafter's
'rmy lands.
1nnc 23-Juragua captured.
1dh". 2f-Fight at La Quasi
N; Spatiards repulsed.
June rs -Cadiz fleet at Port
said.
J~ or '6-Shafter occupies Sc
gitI2
JhMe 27-Shafter within three
miles Of Santiago.
JnHr 2S-Thlrd Manila expe-
iiti>a liIs.
Js", 20-First expedition ar
xipcs ut Manila.
june 3O-Caney evacuated by
simuiar'ls.
July Outer defences of San.
Eiago t,Nen.
Ja'IB San Juan, near Sapti-
The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1898-08-24
LANCASTER AND CHESTER
RAILWAY.

BETWEEN CHESTER AND LANCASTER.
Schedule in effect Daily except Sunday
on and after May IL, 1898.
WESTBOUND EAsTBOUND.
Nos. IA and 16. Nos. is and IL.
Nj. Nj. A NJ. M
A 800 Ar Chester Ly 1lO5 725
90 526 Richburg 1I4I $40
AZ 5ls Bascombville 1850 20
PM
20 500 Fort Lawn 1905 40
40 80 Ly Lancaster Arl235 $40
Train No 10, Sunday Only.
a. Nj. p. M.
90 Lv. Lancaster Ar. s55
30 Fort Lawn S25
46 Bas Dmville $40
955 Richburp sm
10 30 Ar. Chester l,y. 72s
Connects at Chester with Southern
Roi'way, Seaooard Air Line aud Car
olina and North Western Railway.
Connects at ancaster with the Ohio
River & charleston.
Leroy Springs, Pres, Lancaster, S. c.
j M Heath, G.. p. A.,
w III Hardin, V p aud Aud, Chester
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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1898-02-04
The English ana the French.

It has been the writer's fate TO live
a good deal on both sides of the English
channel, and nothing is more amusing
than to hear the absurditiss that are
gravely asserted by each OF their neigh
bors TO an Englishman Frenohman
will always be ga tiger or monkey" OF
Carlyle, while to the French mind Eng
ish gravity is only hypocrisy to cover
every vice. Nothing pleases him so
much as q great scandal IN England,
and he will gleefully bring yOu the pa
per containing the account to prove how
true is his opinion 1t is quite useless
to explain (as she writer has often tried}
to the British mind that Frenchmen do
not all pass their lives drinking absinth
on the boulevards, and as Englishmen
las Max o Rel says seem to leave their
morals in valise at Dover when of
for a short visit to Paris, to be picked
up on their return, it would be time
lost trying to make Gaul understand
what good husbands and fathers they
are.
These two great nations always seem
to stand in the relation TO each other
that Rome and Greece held Our Eng
lish cousins are the great conquerors OF
the world, the great coloniZers, with a
vast capital in which wealth and mis-
cry jostle each other in the Streets q
hideous conglomeration Of buildings and
monuments, without form and void,
very much as old Rome must have been
under the Caesars, enormous buildings
without taste, and enormous wealth,
while the French seem to have Inherit
ed the temperament Of the Greeks fhe
drama, painting and sculpture are the
preoccupation of the people The yearly
exhibitions are almost the unique sub
tect of conversation IN drawing room Oh
club The state protects the artist and
buys his work. Their 'conservatories
form the singers and their schools the
painters and architects Of Europe and
America IN New York Post
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1898-02-04

mon points, as against SI.75,
the old rate before the cut.
The association refused to
recognize the Lone Star line,
and failed to bring in the Kan
sas City, Pittsburg ard Gulf.
Neither, although generally &C
copied as responsible for the
present condition of rates in
the southwest, is bound by the
action taken by the associa-
ton.
In the case of the Lone Star
line, it goes without saying that
they will be glad to participate
ID any advance in the rate, but
to what extent it is impossible
to learn. Within afew weeks
their fleet will be enlarged by
the addition of the Merrimac,
due here this week from her
initial trip abroad, and she will
be placed on the Galveston
line and a regular weekly sail
ing will be maintained thereaf-
ter.
Among those well informed
the action taken is considered
a hopeless attempt to save the
association form going to pieces
The efforts made to reorgan-
ize the association to include
all lines failed, and before
adjournment another meeting
was called for May 9, when
further efforts will be made in
that direction. The present
association agreement termi-
mates May 81, 1898.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1898-02-04

coat Shortly after 2 o'clock
this morning he entered the bar
room of the fremont House and
called for a drink of settler wa
ter, remarking that this was
bis last day and that his fu
neral would take place tomor-
row. He then took a seat In the
rotunda and died.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1898-02-04

PERHAPS the income and in
heritauce tax may not be demo
cratic, but it is bound to strike
the average man as nothing
but just that the capital of the
country should bear its proper
tioB Of the burden Of support
ing the gOVernment-and what
is democracy lift is not synony-
NOUS with iusticef
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1898-02-04
Greoo-rurkfsn Strategy and Football.


The strategic position of the Greek
and Turkish armies in the hate cam
paign was but little more complicated
than the strategic position OF two foot
ball teams when they are lined up for q
scrimmage When the game began, the
Greeks had possession OF the ball, aud
they rushed 1t into Turkish territory.
where they lost it almost Immediately
On a tumble, and after that the Turks
drove them rapidly down the field, go
ing around their ends and breaking
through their center very much as they
pleased
The Greeks were outnumbered three
to one, but there are many people who
think that they would have run away
even had the number Of men on both
sides been equal There is, however, 10
way of proving that they would have
done this while it can be proved that
they were outnumbered and were near
y always for that reason attacked as
strongly on the flank as la the 'front.'
This fact should be placed to their ored-
it side in summing up their strange
conduct. IF an eleven from Princeton
played three elevens from Yale at the
same time, one can see that the game
would hardly be Interesting, and to car
~ out the si1nile still further and then
to drop it, it was as though this Prince
ton eleven was unframed and had nc
knowledge Of tricks or Of team play
and absolutely no regard for its captain
as a captain. Richard Harding Davis
In Harper's Magazine.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1898-02-04

rs.a ses sssa.os sish D. MilsF Pasai'Piilla.'E
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1898-02-04
FORMERLY OF
TROOP F, 9TH. CAV.
Ex-Soldier Who Committed
Suicide by Taking Morphine.
San Antonio Light.

San Antonio Light.
Quincy, H., Jan. 28-HaTry
q. Van DuYn, aged about %
years, died ct the fremont
House a little bsfore 8 O'Clock
rfis merning from a dose. OF
morphine taken with suicidal
intent. He was a commercial
traveller and had made frequent
visits here as 8 representative
: of the Woolson Spice and Cot
fee company, of Toledo, O, but
Il appeared from memoFan-
dun in his pocket that he had
been out Of work since last
December. He was native OF
Georgetown, HI and from Sep
TEN Der, 1893, TO DeeemOeT'
1896; served as a private in
Troop F, 5th Regiment OF Unit
ed States Cavalry from which
be was honorably discharged
His father is q Presbyterian
minister whose BONE is IN
Woodland, Ind. In his pockets
was found 8 notice from the
American Surety company
withdrawing from his bond.
he vas apparently without
means, as he had recently
,..ryyssS sie iewelrp and egep.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1898-02-04
HIS RECORD GOOD.

News Of the suicide of 81. E..
Van Duyn, commercial traveller
and ex-soldier in Quincy, III /,
was read with interest at the
post, the man having been we'll
known there. His official record
in the army shows that he en-
listed for company E, Seven
teenth infantry, September II,
1898, was transferred to troop
F, Fifth cavalry and sent to
Fort Sam Houston Texas, De-
cember 10, 1895, and was hon.
orally discharged December
II, 1896, under G.. O. No. so
(three years. act,) On this
discharge his conduct was
marked good" by his COM
mauding officer, Capt. G. b.
Paddock, how in Milwaukee on
recruiting service The troop to
which be belonged left this
post January Is for Fort
Brown.