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the only ones who ever sold penitentiary
coal. The above figures, which are from
the records, show that Republicans sold
more coal on the open market in ter
rtory where it was brought into open
competition with that mined by free la
bOr
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Joe Griley, Shawnee.
John Barber, Shawnee.
John l.. Rippetoe, Jackson.
r. H. Kellar, Brown.
r. ]. Williams, Marshall.
A. Urbanski, PottawatOmie,
DIR. P. Daugherty, Geary.
John X. Blair, Lyon.
John f. O'Connor, Lyon.
b. F. Singleton, Greenwood.
Ed F. Green, Cowley.
Ed Jaquins, Cowley.
DR.. F. B. Lawrence, Butler.
F. P. Gillespie, Butler.
Warren Peck, Chase.
G. G. Jones, Marion.
z. T. Harvey, Morris.
John Hellar, Dickinson.
]. ]. Marty, Clay.
J. T. Summers, Washington.
William Moore, Republic.
l.. M. Newburry, Cloud.
Taylor Miller, Saline.
J. B. Fugate, Harvey.
w. ]. Babb, Sedgwick.
w. J. Anderson, Sedgwick.
J. A. Ray, Sumner.
G.. d. Newman, Sumner.
Glenn Fairchild, Kingman.
B. d. Crawford, Pratt.
J. A. DeBald, Reno
Marion Watson, Reno.
Isom Wright, Barton.
w. M. Kenton, Rice.
S. P. Dinsmoor, Russell.
It. ]. McCurry, Lincoln.
T. G. Rodgers, Mitchell.
VIM. Rosegrant, Osborne.
David Jones, Jewell.
F. G. McLaren, Smith.
F. G. Johnson, Phillips.
J: e. Basgall, Ellis.
B. ]. Albertson, Kiowa.
r. H. Estill, Comanche.
David Swinehart, Ford.
A. M. Kelson, Ness.
Frank Reeder, Decatur.
S. G. Hopkins, Sheridan.
Il. HI. Epperson, Scott.
The Advocate and news., 1898-09-07

of the peace in the immediate locality
could investigate every loss and trans,
nit his report to the Insurance depart
ment, which would make an ASSESS
ment, as fraternal societies do in case
of death, and transmit the proceeds at
once"
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Most Of the above sales were made in
the latter part Of the sos, but lot more
sales were made during the Morrill, ad-
mlnistration, but in these cases payment
seems to have been made. The following
sales were maze to prominent Topeka
parties:
August Isl. G. Gordon. $1,000
September 13-J. J. Cox........ 29.35
October 1S-R. N. McCaw. 28.55
December Wv. G. Edwards. ... 1926
December 11--Copeland Hotel. go. 281O
December 27-James Jack ........ 30.15
January 16-Western c. B. A..... 2S.75
January 25-Santa Re hospital. ... 3O.6O
February 6-Santa Fe hospital. 5000
Republican papers endeavor to make
people believe that the Populists are
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the following letter was received by War
den Harry Landis:
Office of Clerk Of the District Court,
Douglas County.
Lawrence, Kas, June 30, 1898.
H. S. Lands, Esq, Lansing, Kas.:
Dear Sir--I notice in to-day's X. G..
Times that am indebted to the State of
Kansas in the sum of $2l.00 for coal. l
clearly remember getting a car Of the
penitentiary coal or 10 years ago, and
remember getting statement Of it,
The Advocate and news., 1898-09-07

Lifes often lost from little ills
Which might be saved by little pills.
That is to say, if you suffer from bill
iousness, constipation, dyspepsia, or tor
pid liver, use DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pei
let's
The Advocate and news., 1898-09-07
Duncan Gets Off Easy.

A full report of the proceedings of the
court martial of Assistant Surgeon L. G.
Duncan of the Twentieth Kansas shows
The Advocate and news., 1898-09-07
cervera and llls E1en Released.

The release of Admiral Cervera and
his officers and men has been authorized
by the Navy department Reports show
that the men are in good condition and
The Advocate and news., 1898-09-07

prominent in Kansas politics, who not
only forgot to pay for 1t but have not
yet done so:
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27
Bank CIearings for the Week

The bank clearings for Birmingham for
the past week were $536,OS7.12 For the cor
responding week of last November they
were only s450, 436.S1 showing an increase
this year of $50 ,600.31.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27
WAGON LOAD OF
TOY TORPEDOES
Exploded on First Avenue Yesterday
With Great Noise.
THE CAUSE is UNKNOWN
Driver and Wagon Hurled High in Air
Mule Uninjured.
The CAUSE is UNKNOWN
NEGRO WAS NOT FATALLY INJURED
Torpedoes Were Manufactured by Mr.
Hollins worth at East Lake Sent
Into City to be Sold During Hol-
idays "A Ludicrous Incident.

A negro driver, a wagon, a mule, load
of torpedoes, such as good little boys ina
in their stockings on Christmas morning,
and explosion, go to make up very in
teresting and in many respects very ludic.
rous incident which happened out on First
avenue by the Mary Lee furnace yesterday
afternoon.
The hour was about $780, The wind was
blowing strong, as it had been all day. The
driver was cold, and apparently paying lit
tie no attention to the load Of small
boys Delights which he was hauling in
the wagon behind him. According to re-
liable witnesses who were on the electric
car a block or two away, there was a sud-
den, loud explosion, which was heard in the
city, and the next thing the passengers saw
the driver and the wagon were sailing
around in the air about the top of the troll
ley poles.
When the Mortified spectators had de-
cided that there was more danger and
had approached the spot, they found that
the driver, though in a very badly bruised
condition, was alive and not fatally in
jured. The wagon was torn into kindling
wood, and as some of the negroes around
afterward asserted, Some of dat wagon
part of all was that the mule kept straight
on down the road toward Birmingham,
without ever changing his gait, and APP
parently without knowing that anything
extraordinary had happened. The driver
was placed on a and brought to the
city, where his injuries were dressed by
Dr. Riggs. He was finally able to go to his
home and he left the Doctors Office without
anyone thinking to ask his name.
The Sequel of the Story
After several hours of investigation and
inquiry the full sequel of the story was de-
veloped, which also proved very interest
ing.
There is a shoemaker living at College
Station, East Lake, by the name of Hollins-
worth, who as a side line to his shoemak-
ing business has for a number of years
spent his spare time in making torpedoes.
This Is one of Greater Birmin gham's in
dustries which comparatively few people
know anything about, but the manufac-
turer has been very successful in his torpe-
do making, and the boys of Birmingham
pronounce them bully
He has been working for some time past
getting ready for the Christmas trade, and
he had succeeded in making thirty cases of
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27
STATE CONVENTION
Of the Miners Will be Held on Deem
Der IL.

The annual convention of the Alabama
division of the United Mine Workers oil
America will be held in this city on Mon
day, December Il. 1898, and promises to be
an interesting meeting.
Beside the election of officers, action Will
be taken on several legislative questions OF
Importance to the miners. The official call
for the convention was issued yesterday as
follows:
Birmingham, Ala, November rs, 1898.
To the Members of the United Nine Work
ers OF America, District 20, Alabama,
Greeting:
In accordance with the constitution, the
annual convention will be held in Clerk S
hail. Nineteenth street, between Second and
Third avenues in the city of Birmingham,
on Monday, December II. 1898, for the pur-
pose of electing the following officers,
namely: President, vice president, secre-
tary, treasurer and six members of the eX-
ecutive board also TWO auditors.
The following questions will be brought
before the convention Amended mining
law, semi-monthly pay bill, mechanics and
Delegates must come prepared to vote yes
or no to those questions.
The following will be the basis of repre-
sentation, VIZ One vote for fifty members
OF less, with one vote for every additional
fifty or ma jority fraction thereof.
The convention will be called to order at
9 a. m. promptly. w. r. FARLEY,
j. l.. CLEMO, President.
Secretary-Treasurer
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27
JEFFERSON VOLUNTEERS
Held Meeting Friday Night and Talked
Over Old Times During the War.

The members of the Jefferson volunteers,
late of the First Alabama volunteers, and
formerly of the Third Alabama National
guard, held a very interesting meeting in
their armory Friday night. number of
the men were present, and all of them were
so busy talking over the old times during
the war, telling their experiences at Miami
and other places where the regiment was
stationed during it's six months service,
that no attempt was made to get the boys
to drill. and the meeting was purely So
cial one.
Next Saturday night however, very i'm
portant meeting will be held, as officers are
to be elected and other important business
transacted. Captain Kennedy requests that
a full attendance be present.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27
OPENING BALL
Of the Y. M. H. A. Tomorrow Evening
Entertainment Tonight.

The first of a series of entertainments to
be given by the Young Mems Hebrew asso-
citation will take place this evening at the
rooms of the association in First avenue.
An interesting programme has been ar
ranged consisting of several papers and
musical numbers.
Tomorrow evening the opening ball of the
associa ton will take place and will be
largely attended. President M. M. Ullman
and the entertainment committee have left
nothing undone to make the affair the
most enjoyable in the history of the or
ganization.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27
The Owner of the Mule
MONUMENT
To the Memory of the Late Sergeant
Phil Finch.

Next Sunday afternoon Magic City Camp
No. 4, Woodmen of the World, will unveil
a monument over the grave of the late
Sergeant Phil NJ Finch, of the First Ala
bama regiment, United States Volunteers,
who died at Jacksonville, Fla, from typhoid
fever contracted in camp.
Sergeant Finch was a prominent member
of the Woodmen, and the Magic City camp
has invited the local military companies to
take part in the ceremony.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27

John w. Hargrove, of Hartselle, is Wis
iting his son, James w. Hargrove, deputy
clerk of the city court.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27
PERSONAL.
kl..l

Prof. c. Harry Miles of the Athletic club
went to Admission yesterday to arrange for
the game of football which is to be played
in that city with the army officers about
two weeks from now.
Representative ]. B. Gibson will come up
frCm Montgomery this morning to spend
the day in Birmingham.
John w. Hargrove, of Hartselle, is Wis
iting his son, James w. Hargrove, deputy
clerk of the city court.
d. s. Orcutt proprietor of the st. Charles
hotel, Pittsburg, Pa, accompanied by his
daughter, Miss circuit, is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. M. D. circuit in Avenue K.
Misses Stevenson and Allen, graduate
nurses of the General and Victoria hospi-
tails of Toronto Canada, have located in
the city for the purpose of practicing their
profession. They are at present stopping
at the residence of Judge J. B. Head, 1872
Tenth avenue, South.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Simmons have re-
turned home and are at the Florence ho-
TEL after six weeks visit to New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Senator Frank S. Moody of Tuscaloosa
was in town last night, en- route home to
spend Sunday.
Senator John w. Abercrombie, of CAL
houn, is in town.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27
WILL MAKE CADETS OF THEM.
Students of Owenton College to be Uni
formed and Put Under Discipline.

The Methodist college at Owenton is TO
adopt the military system for its students,
and within very short time, it is said, all
of the students will have been made cadets
The uniforms have already been ordered,
and the faculty are selecting the officers
Prof. Blalock, it is understood, will be the
commandment.
No attempt will be made to establish bar
racks for the boys to live in, but they VIII
board around the college with neighboring
families, just as the students do at Auburn.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27

Representative j. B. Gibson will come up
frcm Montgomery this morning to spend
the day in Birmingham.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27
Meeting of the Trades Council

The regular semi-monthly meeting of the
Birmingham Trades Council will be held
this afternoon at $3.50 o'clock in Clerks
hall. corner Third avenue and Nineteenth
street. President Leath will probably an
nounce his committees and make special
report of interest to organized labor.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27
Special Meeting of The B'nai Birth

A special meeting of Birmingham lodge
No. 1868, Independent Order of B'nai Birth
has been called for this morning at the
rooms of the Y. M. H. A in First avenue.
Important business will be transacted and
sixteen new members will be initiated.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27

Senator John w. Abercrombie, of CAL
houn, is in town.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27
Suit for Dana ges

Pleas Moore has filed suit in the cit!
court against the Birmingham Traction
company for 1000 damages. The complain
alleges that on July 26 1898, while engaged
with gang of men in unloading iron cross
fngs from a car near the corner of Twenty
third street and Sixth avenue plaintiff wa
thrown to the ground, breaking one of hi
legs and spraining the other.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27

them. each case containing one hundred
torpedoes This entire output he consigned
to j. w. Lee in Birmingham for sale.
Mr.. Lee bargained with street drayman,
whose name is also unknown, to go out ana
bring the torpedoes in from East Lake.
This negro then employed another negro
to make the trip, though the formers mule
and dray was used. Mr.. Hollinsworth de-
livered the torpedoes to the deputized dray-
man. packed with sawdust, he says. in six
empty sugars barrels and three boxes The
rest of the story is already told.
is supposed that the driver carelessly
allowed one of the boxes or barrels to drop
out of the wagon and the conclusion ex-
ploded the whole load. The negro in his
lucid state of mind sometime after the acci-
dent, said that he didn't know how 1t nap
pened. He said that he did remember
family hearing the explosion
The Owner of the Mule
The negro who owns the mule gave some
accounts of the affair after he had been out
and viewed the wreck, which were very
amusing.
AZ heered some niggers out dere say dere
was still some tarpeters hangin' aroun,
he said, but I'll tell you, boss, dere
want a piece of dem sugar barr'ls lef' ,
much less any 'er the tarpeters. MY ole
mule is def in bof years; that's why he
didn't stop walkin. He want hurt much,
only benumbed little in his hinderparts.
Is powerful glad | want drivin' that load,
er 1 mighter been benumbed myself"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-11-27

A motion for a new trial in the case Of
Joe Ayers, who was convicted of an assault
on Forest Jackson, in the criminal court
was argued yesterday and was denied. The
prisoner was sentenced to six months at
hard labor, and pending notice of appeal
sentence was suspended.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-19
The Retired burglar.

81 don't think was ever very much
scared" said the retired burglar, "but
I have been as much scared by slight,
little things, that were of no real ao-
count, as by anything else For in
stance, by the scratching of a rat, start
ing up suddenly and running around in
the wall. was never more disturbed
than / was once by the absolute still
ness of "a room that was in. 1t was
dead and oppressive, and I couldn't ac-
count for it.
81 swung my lamp around and saw
the usual things that you might expect
to see in such room--it was dining
room-including clock on the mantel
1t was q pendulum clock, one of the
kind that has little clear space in the
lower part of the glass front, through
which you can see the pendulum as 1T
swings back and forth. The lamp SIM
ply swept across the face Of the clock,
as l swung it around, but an instant
later / realized that l had seen no PEN
dulum swinging back and forth behind
that clear space. 1t wasn't swinging.
The clock hN stopped.
81 set my lamp on the shelf and
opened the door of the clock and started
up the pendulum, and then 1 heard the
regular ticking of the clock. And thai
was all that was wanted. But what
relief it was to hear it could sort ou
the spoons now with che full spirit. ,
New York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-19
THE MOUNTAIN MAID.



As my horse, putting like a porpoise,
drew rie and my blackboard up the last
sharp activity Of the mountain road
that led out into the pass between the
SUBMITS rising on either hand he would
have exercised his privilege and stopped
q moment to blow, but 100 yards ahead
of US saw bright bit Of calico gleam-
ing in the morning sun, and, driving on,
! came up to buxom mountain maid
sitting on stump at point where a
footpath leading up from the valley
met the main road.
Good mornin," she said before !
had chance TO stop, and there seemed
to be an anxious tone in the voice.
GOOD morning." l responded, and !
was on the point of asking her how far
1t was to the next place, favorite man.
ner of starting conversation on noun
tain roads, when she broke in.
"Air you a preacherf' she asked.
mo" answered, with smile, for
had never been asked that question be-
fore.
Nor a squire?'
"No"
"Well, Jim Martins comm along
this away purity soon now, an l wuz
| jis' akin SOS thar wouldn't be no mis-
takes"
~ don't quite understand your ex.
PLANTATION, / said, completely in the
dark as to what she was trying to get at.
II reckon not, but / amt takin nc
chances, an ! thought I'd better stop
you while had the chance"
"Thank you, I'm sure, but if you
will tell me what's up / may be able to
know what you are talking about !"
She laughed good naturally.
well, you see it's this away" she
said. Jim, he's been a-courtin al
a-sparkin round me fer about two ye'l
now, an last night he popped an says el
how eff I'd be here this mornin ez h'
come along we'd go down to Logvill'
an git hitched, an jim S mighty onreli
able, an likes not eff we got thar an TIT
preacher ner the squire warn't thar II
never git Jim in the mind ag'in, so
kinder thought mebbe you might be tn
squire er the preacher an / didn't wan
you to git away. Eff you meet Jim any
where's down the road, don't tell hin
you seen me, fer l don't want hir
, skeert. Washington Star.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-19
ABOUT THE WEATHER.
Mr.. wingieby Explains to Georgia About
the Seasons.

"You see, George, said Mr.. Win
gleby, whose youthful son had asked
him how we came to have different
kinds of weather, 1.-THE weather is put
up in tin cans, days weather to a
can, and usually they put up about
years supply ahead, enough to last
through a spring, summer, autumn and
winter In filling the cans they sort it
all out as well as possible. Sometimes
when they get can full there may be a
little left over, and whatever remains
in this way they throw into one lot.
When they've got pretty nearly all the
cans full and the regular stock of wealth
er has run out, they fill up from that
lot of odds and ends The cans so filled
contain what is called variable weather,
because it's mixed, but most of the
weather they get pretty well sorted out
according to the season.
"When they've got all the cans filled,
they stack 'em up where they'll be
handy to get at, and there's man that
does nothing but open them. Every day
he cuts can and pours out the weather
for that day, and Of course great deal
depends upon him. Sometimes this man
gets careless and pulls down lot OF the
wrong cans, getting them, say, from the
July shelf in the month of April and
likely as not getting down week 8
supply at once, SO as to have them handy
on the opening table. OF course he dis
covers his mistake the first can he opens,
but he is too lazy to put the rest back,
and SO he keeps on then until he has
opened them all, and that's how II
comes about, as it sometimes does, that
we get hot spell at a season when we
ought to have nothing but cool weather.
"But of course those April cans are
not lost. They must be around some
where, and we get 'em later. Maybe
the man will sprinkle them along with
the hope that we won't notice them
much, but as likely as not he opens
| them one after another together, maybs
after some terribly hot spell in July OF
| August, when they are sure to be
blessed relief, and if he does this we arr
pretty apt to forgive him his mistake II
April. louisville Courier-Journal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-19

Paper makers are discussing the pc
culiar fact that for many centuries there
have been periodical Investigations into
the deterioration Of paper" Recently
the Society Of Arts in London appoint
ed special committee to make an in
vestigation of this character. Old rec
ords show that fault has been found
with the quality Of paper in almost
every age, and most Of the famous mu-
seums and libraries in Europe have
specimens of pure rag paper which
show decay due to flaws in the texture.
Away back in 1886 Peter ii of Spain
issued proclamation commanding the
paper makers of Valencia and Xativa
Ito restore the paper to its old good
quality, unless they wish to be found
guilty Of fraud and punished according
ly." About 1920 an emperor of Italy
directed that all public documents on
paper should be declared invalid. All
records covering the previous two years
were ordered to be transcribed ON parch-
ment in order that they might be pre-
served more securely.
1t is recalled that in 1875 the Academy
of Sciences in Paris offered prize for
the best answer to this question, (Which
are the real reasons for the general de-
cline in the quality of paper and which
are the best means to remedy the evil?'
This prize was never awarded, for the
reason that nobody undertook to com
pete for it. Experts disagree as to which
period in the history of paper making
| produced the most durable and the best
quality of paper. Soon after the art o.
making paper was transplanted from
Africa to Spain complaints were made
and recorded that the Christian success
sors of the Moorish paper makers wer'
making an inferior paper. At first thu
art was imperfectly copied. New Yorl
Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-19
A Sermon with

A clergyman in tho ". ountry had
two curates, one a ccT. atively old
man, the other very youi With the
former he had not been able to work
agreeably, and on being invited to an
other living he accepted 1t and took
the young curate with him. Naturally
there was q farewell sermon, and we
can imagine the feelings Of the curate
who was to be left behind when he
heard the text given out, abide ye
here with the ass, and I and the lad
will go yonder and worship"
Sterne once declared in regard to the
widely respected maxim, de mortuis
nil nisi bonum." that there was nothing
right about it but its Latin. This view
was evidently shared by certain Edin-
burgh minister who, being asked to
preach the funeral sermon Of q miserly
brother cleric, chose as his text the
words, "And the beggar died. Cham
bers' Journal.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-01-19
A Domestic Echo.

An east end man went down town in
q Euclid motor few days ago, and by
the time the car reached Durham avenue
he was fast asleep. The conductor came
after his fare, but the citizen was obliv-
ious of the fact. The conductor reached
forward and shook him. The citizen
swayed slightly, but he didn't wake up.
Then the conductor reached forward
again and gave the sleeper a violent
push. The latter merely shook himself
and then growled in q distinctly audible
voice:
"Quit your pushingl There's plenty
of room on your side. +"
The laugh that followed woke him
up.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.