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HIS OWN SON.
James McDevitt Begins . Suit Against
Thomas McDevitt.

Thomas McDevitt.
Great Falls. June 21.-In the district
court this morning James McDevitt,
the weIl-known cattleman of Pondera'
instituted proceedings against his son.
Thomas McDevitt.
In the complaint, plaintiff alleges
that he is the father of Thomas Nc
Dewitt. who is a minor and under his
control and management; that on June
s plaintiff purchased a certain interest
In a business enterprise in Great Falls
for attendant and IL was agreed thai
nIsintin should furnish defendant with
,he sum of g.. 900. and that the plaintif1
Aid Furnish said defendant such sum
That after defendant received the
money he failed n neglected to a
Tor the business interest agreed upon,
hut placed a portion Of the money in
the Great Falls National bank, and on
June 20 drew out of said bank about
81, 900 or 81. 400 of said money n Is
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Subscribing for Bonds.

Great Falls. June 21.-This morning
the subscription list for those desiring
to purchase the last issue OF United
States bonds was opened at the post
office and the banks. The people re-
sponded very quickly, and tonight
something over $50. 900 has been sub
scribed. The bonds taken were mostly
of the $500 denomination.
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Omaha. June 9.-Cattle-Receipts. Asoo.
Market steady. Native beef steers. N.iod
40; Western steers. 1.sod<.eo; cows and
heifers. 81. 6Oa4.4 40; Gamers. g 5043 80:
stockers and feeders. Std5.8.
Hogs-Receipts. $500. Market stronger.
Heavy. 8. IS: mixed. 8. seas s2hs:
light. S3.75Q3.s so: bulk of sales. %.
Sheep-Receipts. 1000. Market strong.
Fair to choice natives. 8. so: fair TO
choice Westerns, So. 7oai.so: lambs. 1850
SIS.
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Financial ~CabIegram.

New York. June 2l.-The Evening Posts
london financial csblegram y Inc
stock markets here were quiet and irreg-
MAR to-day. Americans were better. The
tendency here is to buy. but as soon as
prices here go up over the New
York parity that market sells. conse-
auently the market closed dull. Spanish
as were firm at one time on the announce
ment by the Bank of Spain of the pay
ment OF the next coupon Brazils were
hotter
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BOSTON Wool Market.

Boston. June 21--The conditions of the
wool market remain about the same and
there is hardly enough business being
done to keep prices established. Territory
woods: Montana fine medium and ine, Is
alec: secured. sc. staple. +sc. Utah, wy
oming. etc. fine. medium and fine. 1+d
I5c. staple. fsc: secured. sass. Australia.
secured basis. combing. superine. OQ72c:
good. sSGssc; average. seqsSc: Queensland
cnmhing. sc.
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hobSon Is All Right.

New York. June Ain response to an
Inquiry. Mr.. Ramsden. the British con
sui al Santiago. sent the following dis
patch to the World:
Nothing has happened to Hobson or
others during the bombardment."
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Mrs. wissisvss Soothing Syrup.

IONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN
WHILE TEETHING With PERFECT SUCCESS
II sOOTHES the CHILD, the GUNS.
!. the best remedy for DIARRHoEA Sold BY
Druggists In every part of the World Be sure
and asa for Mrs. Winslows Soothing Syrup"
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Cash Quotations.

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour.
dull and neglected. No. 2 spring wheat. sc
dssc: No. 3 spring wheat. s2a12c; No. 2
red. 75c: No. 2 corn. s2i.aS2lzc; No. 2 oats.
&c: No. 2 white. sa2sizc: No. . white.
&c: No. . rye. 4ic: No. 2 barley. 32u35c.
No. I fax seed. 81 .io1: prime timothy
seed. 2.s5: mess pork. per barrel. S.s5d
s.75: lard. per 100 pounds. s. 75d5. -: short
ribs sizes. loose. S.3d5.S: dry sailed
shoulders, boxed. 4s.4Sc; short clear sides.
- & S-ns o.
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New York. June 21.-Pig iron warrants.
81. s5. Lake copper. II .756l2c. Tin. 1S.l5T
Is. 25c. spelter. 5a5. 25c. Lead. s.75d4c. The
firm that fixes the selling price for min
ers and smelters quotes lead at 3.Iec at
the close. Bar silver, 5sAc.
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ness in bankers bills at S4.s5kd4.ss1A for
demand and A.s3l1d4. s3N for GO days.
Posted rates, A.s5d4. s6is. Commercial
bills. A.s3. Silver certificates. i9uos
dollars. 45lec. Government bonds
firm. state bonds dull. railroad bonds ir-
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c.r Ovr Coast he Effectually Blockaded?

~ confidence can be felt In the opinion OF mill
tarv and naval officers in high places at the seat
81 government, such is the vast extent OF our sea
cosst IN blockade IL enectually, even IL our navy
ana sea coast defenses could offer no adequate
rsststsnce' seems TO be impossible. When a
blockade OF the bowels exists, relieve consups,
,ior ~itb Hostetter's Stom sch Bitters, which
sonauers dyspepsia, malaria rheumatism and
kidney trouble.
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San Francisco. June ~21.-Spring woods
Nevada clip. l34l4c: Oregon. eastern
choice. i2dlic: poor. snllc; valley. l2dlcc.
Fall wools-Southern coast lambs. 1nsc:
San Joaquin lambs. 7Gsc: Northern
lambs. Hole: San Joaquin plains. Idsc:
Humboldt and Mendocino. lac i5c.
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Everybody Says So.

Casc,rets Candy Cathartic, the most wonderful
medical discovery of the age, pleasant and ~
freshine TO the taste, set gently and positively on
the kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire
system. dispel colds, cure hesdsches, fever. habit,
nal constipation aud biliousness. Please pay ana
SoId ana ruarsnteed to cure by all druggists.
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Statement.

Washington, June 2l.-To-day's state
ment Of the condition of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance. siSs07alsl;
gold reserve. 1854. 722 .03l.
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New York Mining stocks.


New York. June H.-Money on call. In
Ia per cent. Last loans. Ia per cent.
Prime mercantile paper. 3Isa4 per cent.
Sterling exchange weak. with actual busi-
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San Francisco Wool.

Boston. June H.-Boston a Montana
2oi: Butte g. Boston, 23h: Parrot. 2k.
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Receipts.
Articles
Visible supply.

New York. June Especial csbie and
Geographic dispatches to Bradstreets
Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-22
Over SO Small a Matter

A 81 bill, and two indiscreet men, came
near disrupting the Vineland Presby-
terian Church few days ago. The
trouble began in 1896, when Mr.. Winter.
as treasurer. received one dollar from a
lady, marked "a gift to our dear pastor.
Mr.. King" This dollar Mr.. Winter re-
turned to the giver, and said he had moth
ing to do with gifts, but that all the
money he received went into the general
fund. The lady again gave him the gift.
and told him to put it in the general fund.
He did so. In his letter to the annual
meeting Mr. King spoke of the dollar, as
being diverted from the course intended.
and Mr.. Winter took the reference to
mean reflection on his honesty. He re-
signed as treasurer, and jolly row took
place, which was eventually settled by
an apology from Mr.. King, and treaty
OF peace signed by all concerned.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-22
Made Sick Eating Cabbage,

Mrs. Owens, of this city. is lying i'll in
Philadelphia, the result of eating cab
bage on which Paris green had undoubt-
edly been sprinkled. Mrs. Owens was on
a visit to friends in Philadelphia, when
she was suddenly taken ill, after eating
the cabbage for dinner. A physician was
called and he pronounced it poison from
eating cabbage, which he thought had
been saturated with Paris green, to keep
off the bugs. The woman is now out of
danger, but still feels the effect of eating
the cabbage.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-22
GEN. aORDON's LECTURE.
The Opera House Crowded to Hear the
Great Confederate.

The Opera House Crowded to Hear the
Great Confederate.
Through pelting rain crowds poured
into the Opera House Monday, to listen
to the lecture by Gen. John B. Gordon on
the "Last Days of the Confederacy" The
General was accompanied by Prof P. W
Lyon, whose guest he was, and who in a
happy manner introduced the distin-
guished speak er to Bridgeton audience.
The General was suffering from a
wrenched shoulder, the result of an acci-
dent; he carried his hand in sling. The
old soldier begins to show the signs of
age, but his vigor in speaking and elo-
quence carried the people with him, as he
portrayed the incidents and events that
preceded the downfall of the Confederacy
and her armies. in which the General
bore conspicuous part. The audience
was lavish in their applause as the
speaker recited story after story of the
valor of the soldiers, whether of those
who wore the blue or the gray. At times
the eloquence of the old war veteran was
grand. and his tributes to Lee, Grant,
Hooker, Custer, Stonewall Jackson and
others-both men and women, moved the
audience visibly. Altogether it was a
great treat, and at the close of the lecture
numbers of those who wore the blue
eagerly sought the old veteran and gave
him the warmest greeting.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-22
AN EEL's SLIME
Caused William Edgecomb to Lose the
Sight of an Eye.

Caused William Edgecomb to Lose the
Sight of an Eye.
William Edgecomb, better known as
Sailor Jack, has entirely lost the sight of
one of his eyes. 1t happened in most
peculiar manner. Edgecomb is a fisher
man and lives at Bayside. One day last
September he was skinnig a large eel,
which he caught among others, when the
fish gave flop and struck him in one of
his eyes, leaving some of the slime on the
sight. Besides smarting sensation. he
thought nothing whatever of it, but after
few days the eye began to hurt him and
kept on getting so bad that he finally
went to physician. 1t was then thought
cataract was growing on the eye, it
having that appearance, but later on it
was learned that such was not the case,
and that his sight failing so fast was the
cause of the poisonous slime from the
eel. Edgecomb is entirely blind in one
eye, and besides being blind, the eye
causes him severe pain all the time.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-22

crease OF 1923 in total number of cases of
tardiness; decrease of 122 in the num-
Der of rejected applicants for county GER
tificates: an increase of $2S, 427. so in the
amount expended for textbooks and
school apparatus; an increase of $50. .465
in State School tax; an increase of S49S.
l35.35 in district school tax; an increase
OF $4,000 in appropriation for industrial
training; an increase of S., in appro-
priation for manual training; an increase
of $500 in appropriation for teachers in
stitutes; an increase of 4S in number of
districts levying tax for teachers, salaries.
an increase of 81 in number of districts
levying tax to build school houses: an in
crease of % in the number of districts
levying tax to pay debt and interest: an
increase OF Al In number of districts levy
ing tax for textbooks and school appa-
ratus; decrease of five in number of dis
tricts levying no tax there are but four
districts In the State that now levy no tax
for school purposes), an increase of Ala in
number of visits made by county super
intendents.
Superintendent Baxter deprecates the
practice in vogue among some School
Boards of visiting the schools under their
charge only when some complaint is
made against the teacher. Mr.. Baxter
recommends the enactment of a law max
ing 1t the duty of each member of a Board
OF Education to visit each school in his
district at least four times year, and
while 1t is In session. He congratulates
the superintendents who have adopted
the plan of giving public exhibits of
work done in the schools.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-22
WILL BE ABANDONED,
Ex-President Cleveland Will Give up til.
School Farm

Ex-President Cleveland VIII Give up the
School Farm"
Ex-President Grover Cleveland has de-
cided to abandon the "school farm''
which he, in company with others, under
took early in the summer. Mr.. Cleve-
land shortly after taking up residence
in Princeton purchased large farm near
the place as an investment Mr.. Vroom,
an enthusiastic student of social subjects,
succeeded in interesting the ex-President
in plan for ''school farm" for home
less boys.
1t was intended to train the boys in the
best methods of agriculture, at the same
time giving them the advantages of q
good communal home" The youths
were to be allotted certain sections of the
farm and were to be given credit indi.
vldually for the amount of farm produce
raised on their respective lots. BOYS
from all over the country fiocked to
Princeton, en- route to Mount Rose, the
name by which the "school farm" was
known. Hundreds of letters of applica-
ton were received, demanding large
proportion of the time of the ex president
Tor the purpose of making explanations
for refusing admission to the boys. The
project, however, did not prove success
and the ex-President decided to return te
the original method of farming.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-22
WILL NOT MARRY SHAW.
Miss Nelson Has Changed Her Opinion of
Eli Shaw.

Eli Shaw.
A Woodbury. despatch Saturday given
to the newspaper, says:
Eli Shaw will not wed Miss Mabelle
Nelson, the young woman who stood by
him SO faithfully through his trial for the
murder of his mother and grandmother,
IN Camden. Their engagement was
broken Friday, when young Shaw came
down to call upon Miss Nelson.
SHAW had been at the house only few
minutes when Miss Nelson told him
that their engagement was at an end, and
that he mnst even cease calling upon her.
"Seen afterward at her pretty home,
and asked her reasons for breaking the
engagement, Miss Nelson said: My
opinion of Mr.. Shaw has greatly changed
of late, and I do not intend to endure the
scorn of my friends any longer. I am
through with him, and I wish it so under
stood by the public.
Several memb bers of the Nelson fam
lily, who, since the famous tragedy have
opposed the mrrriage, are overjoyed by
Miss Maybelles action"
Eli Shaw, who has been lodging news
paper men since public announcement
was made that his sweetheart, Miss
Mabel Nelson, had refused to marry
him, returned yesterday to the home of
his uncle, Foster Zane, at 321 Beckett ST.,
Camden. With manifest reluctance he
gave reporter his version of the rupture
| OF the engagement by Miss Neilson:
THE breaking of the engagement was
a complete surprise to me-" said Shaw,
"and came like thunderbolt from clear
sky. On Wednesday last, my uncle,
Foster Zane, attended funeral in South
Jersey. On returning we stopped off in
Woodbury. to visit the Nelson's. was
asked to stay over night. and did so 1
was received with the usual warmth, and
there was nothing to indicate that any
thing unusual was about to happen.
Mabel and her mother were just as pleas
ant as ever when [ left the house on
Thursday morning and returned to Cam
den.
ION Friday afternoon I received a let
ter. 1t was postmarked Woodbury., and
L at once recognized the handwriting as
MabeFs. | tore open the envelope and
began to read. That blow / will never
forget. She told me our engagement was
broken, and she would not marry me.
The only explanation she offered was
that she had lost so many friends on
account OF me-"
Shaw denied that since his acauittal of
the murders of his mother and grand
mother he has made his home with the
Nelson's, in Woodbury.. He says he
visited there frequently. to see his sweet
heart, and what few clothes and other
articles he had there have been sent him
at Foster Zane's house, where he makes
his home.
II also want to say that Miss Nelson
never contributed any money for my de-
Tense, as reported" remarked shaw.
while shall not visit MabePs home
still hold the same affection for her as I
did before receiving her letter."
Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-22

There are few men more wide awak a
and enterprising than II. w. Fithian
who spares no pains to secure the best of
everything in his line for his customers.
He now has the valuable agency for DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption;
Coughs and Colds. This is the wonderful
remedy that is producing such Juror all
over the country by its many startling
cures. 1t absolutely cures Asthma,
Bronchitis, Hoarseness and all affections
of the Throat, Chest and Lungs. Call at
above drug store and get trial bottle
free or regular size for SOC and 81 co.
Guaranteed to cure or price refunded.
10 mwf
Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-22

BOARD OF EDUCATION.
The Board Still Insists the Pear Street
School Should be Enlarged.

The Board Still Insists the Pear Street
school Should be Enlarged.
The December meeting of the Board of
Education called to order Monday with
the following persons present:-M essrs.
Lambert, Watson. Johnson, Messec,
Hancock (President) Rice, Service Jonas
/ and Reeves.
Minutes of the last meeting were
adopted.
Bills paid:-H. w. Fithian, $3.50, for
books and stationery: E. j. Barnes, S6 40,
| for repairs; VIM. Riley, sos, for repairs:
Geo. W. MCGOWAN, Sl4OO services as Sec
retary to date.
The report of the Supervising Princi-
pal was read and filed.
Resignation of Miss La Sturgeon was
presented and accepted.
| The committee appointed to consider
the needs of more school accommodations.
reported:
| WHEREAS: The Board is now renting
| three rooms to accommo odate the over
| flow of school children in the First
and Fourth wards, in buildings which
| it is impracticable to comfortably heat
and properly ventilate. and the use of
part of which will be denied us at the
termination of the present lease, and
| WHEREAS: The number of scholars that
will enter the High School Department
next fell is so large that they cannot be
! seated without providing more room
| for the younger scholars in the above
| wards; and also, the certainty that
there will be large number of new
scholars to come into the schools.
| ResoIUed, First: That while the imper-
| feet conditions for proper teaching in the
Second ward school require better facili-
! ties in that ward as soon as practicable:
it is the sense of this Board that tt neces-
sites of the case demand prompt action
on the part of City Council that the work
of our schools be not embarrassed at the
opening next September
| Resotued, Secondly: That it is the opin-
ion of the Board that this end will be best
| effected by immediate steps to enlarge the
Pearl street school.
Resolved That City Council be re-
quested to raise $4,000 for increasing the
school facilities at North Pearl street
| school, and purchasing a site for school
| building in the Second ward.
! The report of the committee was re-
ceived and adopted as the sense of the
| Board of Education, and the committee
was instructed to present the same to
| City Council
Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-22
Mrs. Jacob Heritage Dead.

Thursday Afternoon, at her home in
Pitman Grove, Mrs. Jacob Heritage
passed away, having suffered from a
most painful disease. There are very
many friends in our community who will
sincerely mourn the death of this yery
estemable woman, and who will sympa-
thize deeply with the surviving daughter.
and bereaved husband.
Mrs. Heritage was formerly Mrs,
Jennie Rancorn, and for years her home
was in Bridgeton. She was member
of Central M. E. Church, and known as
an earnest christian worker.
Some years since she married Jacob
Heritage. who was engaged here in the
Coal business. Recently Mr.. and Mrs.
Heritage removed toPitman Grove, where
she died as stated.
Her surviving child is Mrs. May, wife
of Robert Mayors of Trenton.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-22
ELMER EXCITED.
Rather Than be Arrested, an Elmer Ply
sician Commits Suicide.


sician Commits Suicide.
The pretty little Borough of Elmer was
thrown into state of high excitement
Tuesday morning about o'clock by the
report that DR.. Campbell, well.known
physician of the place, had committed
suicide.
The news spread like wild fire through
the village and the entire town was in a
high pitch of excitement, increasing all
the time as the news spread from house
to house.
1t was soon current that the cause of
the suicide was that the doctor was to be
arrested Tuesday, and that rather than be
disgraced as he would have been, he
sought death in preference.
Tuesday morning, in talking to some
persons, the doctor said, Before noon
you'll hear of sensation in this town %
And soon after there was sensation, as
the speaker had placed revolver at his
head and blown out his brains.
Further particulars of Elmer's sad
affair reached the PIONEER later, and
states that DR.. Campbell was arrested last
night, but not locked up.
The cause OF his arrest was the fact that
he forged a note on his brother-in-law, a
Mr.. Kiger, for 500. He had the note
discounted by the Woodstown Bank and
the forgery was not discovered until the
note became due Monday. Then his
arrest followed
Instead of locking the doctor upMonday
night he was put in charge of two men at
the Mayors office, who guarded him all
night. Tuesday morning his guards left
him and during their absence, he shot
himself, dying almost instantly. He car
ried the revolver in his pocket.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-22
Some Foolish People

Allow cough to run until it gets beyond
the reach of medicine. They often say.
"Oh, it will wear away" but in most
cases it will wear them away. Could
they be induced to try the successful
medicine called Kemp's Balsam, which is
sold on positive guarantee TO cure they
would Immediately see the excellent
effect after taking the first dose. Price
25c and SOC. Trial size free. At all drug
gists. 1254w
Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-22
Bucklen,s Arnica Saliva.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts
5rlnses. Sores. Ulcers. Salt Rheum, Fever
sores, letter, Chapped Hands. Chilblains.
Jorns. and all Skin eruptions, and posi-.
lively cures Piles. or no pay required,
1t is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
ton or money refunded. Price rs cents
per box. For sale at Fithian's Drug Store
1mwf ly
Bridgeton pioneer., 1898-12-22
JERSEYS SCHOOLS.
Record of the Year is Very Gratifying
Schools Should be Visited Oftener
by Officials.

by Officials.
TRENTON, Dec l9-The report of State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Charles j. Baxter, has been delayed ow-
ing to the padded school census returns
in Jersey City. Aside from the school
census figures the report is entirely COM
plete. AS already stated Mr.. Baxter
urges the incoming Legislature to take
some action looking towards the estab-
lishment of High Schools and the Kinder
garten.system in all the school districts of
the State.
The report calls attention to the fact
that there has been a large increase in
teachers salaries during the past year.
The average salary of male teachers dur
ing the school year of 1S96-97 was ISL. 80,
and the average salary of male teachers
during the school year of 1Ss7-9S was
$S5.S2, an increase of $4.43. The average
monthly salary for female teachers for
the school year of 1S96-97 was $4S. 10, and
for 1897 9S, S49.72, an increase of S1.53.
From the statistics gathered from the
various counties Superintendent Baxter
points out that there has been during the
school years 1S97-9S, over and above the
years lS96-97, an increase of 1886, ,422. 81
IN the amount paid for teachers salaries
an increase of 407 in number of teachers
employed; an increase of 81 in the num-
Der OF school buildings; an increase of ST.
99o,9oS In the value of school property;
an increase of 65 in the number of school
puliolngs owned; an increase of $500 in
average daily attendance; an increase of
1867 in average daily enrolment: an in
crease OF 2'l67 in number of pupils who
have been neither absent nor tardy; de-