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The evening times., 1898-09-29
THE cuFFLEss STATESMAN.
Citizen Josh Ashley, of South Caro-
linn VIII Have n Third Term

Charleston, S. c., Sept. 29,-When the
votes at the recent Democratic primary
election In South Carolina were all In. il
was announced that Citizen Josh Ashley
had won out over a field of competitors
and had been chosen to go to the legisla-
ture from the red hills of Anderson Coun
ty There was great rejoicing at the lit
tie farm house of the Ashleys that night.
for in the county there was strong ele-
ment formed to do him up.
Ashley was a farmer. When Ben TIL
man left the plough for the governors
office he saw that the day had come for
him. and he quit the fields temporarily
for politics. His neighbors thought it u
joke one morning when his name appear
ed in the Anderson papers as candidate
for the lower house. He paid s. to see
his name in the list and when he had
invested so much in the game he was not
the man to back down. SO he went at
work to see his old friends and make new
ones. He wore his farm clothes as he
rode his mule over the county making
speeches and kissing babies. He went
electioneering as a simon-pure Tiliman
Democrat, whatever that meant, and he
said he would win. A lot of young men
got together one night and formed an
Ashley club. They sent him box OF
linen cuffs and letter in which he was
told that he could count the club as his
if he would attend meeting and wear
the cuffs He sent back word that the
club and cuffs could go to thunder: that
he had no cuffs on his arms when he was
born and he considered them an aboml-
nation in the sight of the Lord. This in
ci6ent ended the career of the Ashley
club, but it brought him many votes and
helped to elect him.
When he was finally elected and the
time came for him to leave his farm for
Columbia, the people in his county won
dered how il all would end. He gazed
| about at the strange buildings when he
| quit the train at the station in Columbia,
/, and then asked d policeman TO show him
| the cheapest boarding house in town. He
! got 1t. The next day he arranged to have
! his son made a page in the house, and
| the boy came down 10 help swell the
! familys earning capacity. After the leg
! islature adjourned nearly all the members
! got away in debt, but Ashley had saved
! his money. His fame grew, and when
| the time came for another election ne
| went in second time without a ripple.
On his last run a determined effort was
| made TO down him. But with all the
! fighting and the worry he landed third
! time, and during the next two years he
! will fix things for the congressional NOM
/ ination in his district. That is the office
| that fills his nights with dreams. for he
! says that Washington shall be his home.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
SEVENTEEN INJURED.
Explosion of Powder Causes n Fatal
Blaze in St. Louis.

Explosion of Powder Causes n Fatal
Blaze in St. Louis.
st. Louis, Sept. 29.-Seventeen people
were injured IN a fire caused by an ex-
plosion OF powder at No 41o North
Fourth Street. The store was occupied
by c. & w McClain, dealers in fishing
tackle and sporting goods. The explosion
occurred in the basement where a guam
tity of powder and shells had been stored.
1t set fire to the building. Four girls
were caught in the second story, but one
escaped by walking the ledge to an ad-
joining building. Two jumped to the
pavement and the firemen took one out
of the building, but dropped her to the
ground.
Dead-Pauline Bruger; jumped from a
second story window.
The list of those injured follows:
Fatally injured-Fiorence Highly, dying
at the City Hospital.
Wounded-Tom German. Joe Angelo,
Joe Detler, Fred Bohley. Herman Jan
sen, Caleb T. Stone. A Ragon. Annie
Kobinsky, w. A. Mckenzie. ]. Frats.
Louis Moll, Richard Winters. ]. A Vail,
Robert Russell, John II. Deyine.
The damage is estimated at $4,000 on
the building and stock, fully insured.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
PROPOSED FLOUR DEAL.
Alleged Attempt 10 Consolidate the
Milling Interests.

Duluth. Mimi, Sept 29--An effort is
being made by Mr.. Macintosh, OF New
York. 10 consolidate the big flour mill
properties of the country. He asked for
figures on the mills here, the Minkoia
and Imperial Mill Companies properties.
The millers here are not anxious 10 sell
Said an official of one company:
81 here IS not one chance in tho
that the scheme will go through. We are
asked our price, and We named what our
mill is worth. Like everybody else, We
would sell if we got enough money. /
do not think Mr. Macintosh can swing
il.
Il talked with one of the biggest Min
neapolis millers about ii, and he has no
faith that the scheme can go through.
Any combination must include the Pills
bury properties. The stock is scattered
all over this country and England. which
is a big obstacle"
The manager of the Imperial Mill said
that nothing had been done by his COM
pany toward entering the proposed COM
bination. He would not say whether the
matter was being considered.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
TRIED HARD TO DIE.
Stuck a Fork in His Neck and Butted
HIS Head Against u Wall.

Philadelphia, Sept. 29--GiIbert BouIton
tried to end his life last evening by stick
ing a table fork in his neck and buttins
his head against the parlor walls.
Mrs. Boulton last evening shortly after
her husband had tried TO kill himself
said: My husband had been to Trenton
and returned on Tuesday evening He
acted very strangely. and kept walking
the floor all night, occasionally declaring
that some one was after him This
evening my husband locked me out OF
the house, and then attempted to COM
nit suicide by jabbing a fork in his neck.
l broke the door open and rushed in and
took the fork away from him. He then
went into the parlor, and getting down
on his knees began butting his head
against the wall l never saw him act
that way before, but suppose it must
have been caused by some drug given to
him while at Trenton
The evening times., 1898-09-29
TO PROTECT URUGUAY.
Her Neutrality Between Chile and
Argentina Maintained.

Montevideo, Sept. 29--It is officially
stated here that the United States min
lister offered to Uruguay the protection
of his government for the maintenance
of her neutrality in case of i war be-
tween Chile and Argentina.
An American syndicate established
here for the expectation of cattle has an
nounced that an American commission
will soon arrive to study various queS-
tions, principally the construction of
Montevideo harbor.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
THE PRESIDENTS VACATION.
Invitations to Visit Western Cities
ShOwered Upon Him.

Pressing invitations to visit Western
cities are being showered upon the Presi-
dent by senators. representatives, COVER
nors, mayors and boards of trade. Every
DAY brings additions to the list.
One of the most pressing invitations.
and one the President would be glad to
accept, has been presented by Denver.
But to do SO would pro,ong his trip for a
week. Then he would have only a month
in which to prepare his annual message
to Congress. Last year he was engaged
for six weeks on the message and the
matters then considered were not SO i'm
portant as those which are now claiming
his attention.
The statement has been published that
the President will visit Pittsburg. but 1t
Is now considered not probable that he
will be able to stop in that city.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
DIED IN A STATION HOUSE.
Man Had ApopleNy, But the Police
Thought Him Drunk.

Philadelphia. Sept. 29-The coroner's
jury yesterday decided that Charles Zim-
mer. of No. 2l53 Sergeant Street who
died in a cell In the Seventh district po-
lice station, on Monday night, came to
his death from apOplexy. He was found
unconscious in an alley near Fifth and
Poplar Streets, Monday afternoon. The
police. thinking he was intoxicated. lock-
ed him up. His condition became worse,
and he died before a doctor arrived
The evening times., 1898-09-29

For striking contrast of political
methods we have only to so to New
York There the nomination for governor
was made for the Republicans by Sena-
tor Platt. and the only business of the
convention was TO ratify his choice. The
Democratic convention, on the other
hand, is without any such dictation, and
has exercised the right to make its own
selections
The evening times., 1898-09-29
FELL FROM A TRAIN.
Young Soldier Killed just as HI
Arrives Home.

Philadelphia, Sept. 29.-JOseph S. Van
zandt, a member OF Company T. of the
First Regiment of Pennsylvania VOlun-
teers. while on his way home from Knox
VILE. on the Pennsylvania Railroad, yes
terday morning when in sight of Broad
Street Station fell out of the train. His
head struck the hard roadway. fracturins
his skull and producing a hemOrrhage O.
the brain. The injured man was taker
to the Presbyterian Hospital where he
died some hours after his admission
Yanzandt had gone out on the plat
form of the car with a pet cat in his
arms which he was bringing home 10 hi:
sister AS the train emerged from the
Market Street tunnel it gave a sudden
jerk and young Vanzandt was thrOwI
head foremost on the hard roadway.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
The crocker Estate Divided.

the late Charles F. Crocker was finally
distributed today. BY decree signed by
Probate Judge Coffey the vast estate Of
nearly SS.O00.C00 in value passes out Of the
Jurisdiction of the courts and into tn,
hands of the children, each of whom will
enjoy his or her share on coming of age
The commissions of the executors
amounted to $4,000 and s3e, poo was paid
out In attorneys fees.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
ra,apese Minister to Resign.

Yokohama, Sept 29-The minister of
Justice, Nj. Ohlgashi. will resign because
of the agitation among the members of
the bench and bar. who charge unftness
for the Office he has been holding.
The agitation in favor of the State pur-
chase of the railroads continues.
The evening times., 1898-09-29

1t becomes more evident every day that
the Spaniards are fostering the inde-
pendence movement in Cuba in order to
embarrass the Americans. Nobody OBJ
jects to the Independence of the islands.
which it is our aim to secure, but the
movement is in the hands of a faction
with purely selfish objects in view. If
Spanish sovereignty had been smashed
when the protocol was signed, we should
have avoided a good deal of threatened
trouble.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
ANARCHIST PLOTS.
Suspected AssafIanf of the King
of Roumanfn Arresfed

Buda Pest, Sept. 29.-Upou the strength
of notification from foreign police sources
the Hungarian police. upon the arrival OF
Danube steamer at orsova today. went
on board and arrested man who at first
gave his name as Peregrini and after
wards Demetrovics
He had on his person two pistols two
dagsers and a bottle of poison. He re-
iused TO answer any questions. but it is
believed that he had designs upon the life
OF the King of Roumania who is return
ing to Buda Pest from Switzerland ac-
companied by the Queen and Princess
Royal. and passed through Vienna this
morning
The evening times., 1898-09-29
STEAMER ADULA TO BE SOLD.
Marblehead's Prize Should bring
$4,000.

New York. Sept. 29.-The British steam
er Adula. which was captured by the
cruiser Marblehead off Guantanamo Bay
last June. arrived here yesterday from
Savannah. The Adula attempted TO put
into Guantanamo while our fleet was
there. She declared she was going in to
take off refugees. but when she was
searched she was found to have on board
large quantity of contraband of war
She was condemned by the prize scourr.
and this decision was sustained by the
circuit court at its session AT Macon. Ga
In the hope of obtaining a fair price
for the prize she was brought to this port
and is now tied up at a Brooklyn pier.
She will be advertised for sale at once.
The Government has fixed 800. 900 as the
lowest price for the steamer.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
THE NINTH CAVALRY.
TrafnIOads of COIOred Troops Go
West,

West.
A special train bearing the Ninth Unit
ed States Cavalry arrived in Washington
yesterday afternoon at o'clock over the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad en- route to
Arizona.
The regiment arrived recently from Gu
ba, and started yesterday morning from
Jersey City.
The command Travelled in three sec
tions. The first section carried the horses
and impedmenta of the troopers, while
the remaining sections. consisting of fif-
teen cars each, carried the officers and
men.
The Ninth Cavalry was on the right of
the First Volunteer Cavalry at Las Quasi
mas. and participated with great credit
in the action at Ell Caney.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
DEAD FROM LoCKJAW.
Boy Dies From n Wound inflicted by
His Brother.

Frederick City. Md. Sept. 2s.-Cleve-
land Harper aged fourteen years, son of
Richard X. Harper, of Hansonville, Fred
erick County. who was accidentally shot
in the eye by his brother. Allen, Septem-
Der II. died yesterday morning from lock-
jaw. The young man was reclining on a
cot in his room on Sunday when Allen
who had only recently purchased a new
double-barrel gun, began firing blank
cartridges. When the seventh cartridge
was discharged it proved TO have been
heavily loaded with gun-cotton, and PEN
etrated the youths eye, smashing the
eyeball and lodging beneath the base of
the skull, making wound two inches
deep and as large as a silver half-dollar.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
PERSONAL MENTION.

Mr. William Evans, assistant clerk To
the Ways and Means Committee of the
House. has returned from Atlantic City.
Mr.. Storrs Anderson has arrived Ia
Washington after an absence OF two
years which he has spent in business in
the New England States.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
The Peril of the French Republic.


The third republic is undergoing its most
crucial test The army, which has been i,s pride
and hope, is. by confession of its own officers,
saturated with corruption and is nest of forgers
Only BY doing exact justice 10 the wrongly-con-
victed man on Devils Island the honor Of
France be saved and it's fair name cleared from
the stain put upen it by the army And 1t is
by means certain that this can be done pace
ably
The evening times., 1898-09-29

If the Presidents commissioners, ap-
pointed to compile a history of Secre-
tary Alger's conduct of the war, could
induce General Miles TO address them,
they would find their task more interest
ing, at least.
The evening times., 1898-09-29

We learn with sincere sorrow that
General Shafter is quite i'll again, with
the fever that has done so much harm to
our brave soldiers VIII Secretary Alger
fault?
The evening times., 1898-09-29

The Advertisers Guarantee Company. of Chi
c5go, hereby certifes that it has. by its expert
examiners, proven and attested the circulation
of THE TIMES, Washington, ID. C. The daily
average PAID circulation for the month OF Au-
gust, 1895, was 5000 copies
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The country by BOND Of $4,000 in the Fid liy
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with the Northwestern National Bank, Of Chicago.
ADVERTISERS GUARANTEE COMPANY,
By J. r. MASON. President.
The evening times., 1898-09-29

that with the utmost sincerity in fol-
lowing up the charges the commission
cannot satisfy the people because of the
greater Importance which it gives to
other things than those about which we
want to know.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
A HERO BURIED.
Private George Morgan Died @

Private George Morgan Died of Ty-
phG-2 Sever mt Camp Meade
Frederick, Md, Sept. 29.-The remains
of Private George Morgan, of Company
A, First Maryland Volunteers. which
have been in the vault at Mt. OIivet
Cemetery since their arrival here from
Camp Meade where he died Sunday
morning of typhoid fever, were inferred
yesterday afternoon.
The evening times., 1898-09-29

Those who have fancied that General
Miles has been intimidated will gain
some light by reading the intense words
with which he condemns Secretary Alger
for the slander OF our brave soldiers.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
A Town Deprived of Water.

Reading, Pa, Sept. 29.-By the termina-
ton of the lawsuit brought by Hahn &
Klopp against the Robinson Iron Com
pany, whereby the plaintiffs won. the
town of Robesonia will be deprived of
water
The evening times., 1898-09-29

The Wild West is encroaching on the
East, when trains are help up and pas
sengers successfully robbed within twen-
ty-five miles of Cleveland.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
BURGLARS ARE ACTIVE.
One store in Wiliiansport Robbed
Three Times in Six Mouths.

Wiliiamsport, Pa. Sept 29.-Burglars
have been reaping a harvest in this city
during the past two or three weeks and
many houses have been robbed Early
yesterday morning they broke into the
hardware store of Kline & Co. and Sc
cured about $500 worth of booty.
This is the third time within six months
that this store has been visited by rob-
berS.
The evening times., 1898-09-29

Oyster Bay is iubilant. Is 1t because
1t is dead sure of collecting the personal
taxes of so rich a man as Roosevelt?
The evening times., 1898-09-29

Communications intended for publication In
THE TINES should toe tersely and plainly written
and must in all cases be accompanied by the
name and address of the writer. Rejected COM
municctioEs viii not be preserved. and only man
uscripts OF obvious importance will he returned
&C their authors.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
A Necessary Adjunct.

(From the Atchison Globe.)
We have never yet fashiight picture OF
a parlor that didn't ccntan palm If
hasn't a palm she has ambition to have her
parlor photographed.
The evening times., 1898-09-29

Readers of THE TINES who may at any time
be unable TO procure copies of 1t at any news
stand or railroad station or on railroad trains.
VIII confer favor upon the management by send
ing t. this Office information OF the fact
The evening times., 1898-09-29

the last Of a school that has played a
great part in shaping the destiny of the
nation.
The evening times., 1898-09-29

THE TINES. IN all it's editions, Morning. Even
ing and Sunday, will he mailed TO one address
for FIFTY CENTS per month Addresses changed
as often as desired.
The evening times., 1898-09-29
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

The circulation of THE TIMES for the
week ended Sept n, 1898, was as follows:
SUNDAY. September is. 2o.ioo
Monday. September t9 46,334
Tuesday. September 20 1902
"Wednesday. September u 46,S97
Thursday, September D . 46,oSo
Friday September 3 46,i99
Saturday, September 2i =. 46,222
Total 299,S74
Daily average Sunday, 2o,ioo, ex-
oeptedl 46.6,9
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-14

the highest standing in the councils of his party, who received his information from headquarters in New York; The story proceeds to say
 The letter was not stolen from the Unit ed States mails, but was secured by an agent of the Cuban Junta in the postoff1ce at Havana. Don Jose Canalejas, to whom the letter was addressed, never saw the original. He did not know until eight days after the letter reached Havana that sucn letter from Spains representative at Washington had been written him. De Lome wrote the letter in his private resi- dence in Washington instead of at the spanish legation. The paper, however, was marked with the official type and read in the corner Legation de Espana- The same inscription was upon the left hand upper corner of the envelope.
 Senor de Lome did not mail the letter from his house. In fact, he had not quite completed It upon the morning it was written and carried it to the legation. where 1t was first seen and noticed by person who is in the employ of the em- Dassy, acting in sub-official capacity. The letter lay upon the desk of the min- ister in his inner office. the outer office being his place of reception to visitors. Ourlng an absence of a half hour from the inner office of de Lome the clerk in question saw the open letter and read some of 1t.
 The next day this same person sent word to his Cuban associates in Wash ington to the effect that he had seen a letter from De Lome to Canalejas, in which President Mckinley was vilified and autonomy called a scheme.
 The letter reached Havana five days after it's postmark in Washington. An agent of the Cuban party who is an employe of the Spanish postoffice. knew that the letter was on the way, and when 1t came into his hands it was carried from the poStoffice and a copy was made of it. Word to this effect was sent to the Cuban leader in Jacksonville, Fla, who at once asked the secret Cuban junta in Havana to secure the original letter that a copy was not what was desired. The Havana postoffice clerk was not will- ing to do this at first, but afterward consented, as he was obliged to ac- count for it to the other employees of tho department. The original was then taken, several blank sheets were substi- tuted in place of the paper upon which De Lome had written, and the letter fin- ally postmarked in the Havana office and sent on its routine way.
 Eight days from it's arrival in the Ha- vana office, the sealed envelope prop erly addressed to Senor Canalejas was delivered at the Hotel Inglaterra. Senor Canalejas did not regard the matter ser 1ously at the time, although the hotei boy who brought him the letter and the postoffice employe who had charge of it were arrested. So, also, was the hotel employe who went several times daily to the postoffice for the mails. All three were discharged after an examination.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-14
SEVERAL RAILROADS
 ARE ENDOWED.
Prevented by Court Order From Carrying on the Boycott on the
 Lone Star Line.

GALVESTON, Feb. 13.-David B. Bryant of the United States Court has issued an order restraining the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, International and Great North ern and Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail- ways from putting Into effect the notices they served on the Lone Star line as re- suit of the New York conference that they would. after February i5, cancel all divisions with the Lone Star line and ac- cept no freight from it without the pre- payment of all charges. The news came in the following telegram from M. c. McLemore, attorney for the Lone Star line:
 JEFFERSON, Texas, Feb. 12.
 "To Daniel Ripley. Galveston, Texas: Judge Bryant sets case down for hearing February q, and has entered the follow ing order: Tn the mean time respond ents are directed to maintain with com plainant the same relations with respect to rates. divisions and freights as are by them granted to the Mallory iine.'"
 It is assumed that this will put stop to the boycott; at least until the in1unc- ton is finally passed upon and either made permanent or dissolved
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-14
ENDS LIFE WITH
 AK AND KNIFE
Suicide of Rancher John Roq- CTS at His Home at
 Old Gilroy.
Takes . Tragic Method of Gaining Relief From Continued
 Illness.
Special Dispatch to The can.

Special Dispatch to The Call.
 GILROY, Feb. 13.-John Rogers. a Por- tuguese resident of Old Gilroy, aged about 55 years, committed suicide this morn ing at 8:3O o'clock. Rogers had been sick with stomach affection for many years, and 1t is supposed that tenn porary fit of despondency induced the act.
 Rogers seemed in his usual good spirits this morning, and left the house presum- ably to hitch. horses to a wagon to bring his family to church. Instead he went to the granary a Short distance away and struck himself four times on the head with an ax. He then took out a pocket knife and cut his throat from ear to ear His wife, having dressed her self and the children. went in search of her husband and>found him lying dead with blood streaming from his wounds.
 The news was brought to town and City Marshal Rives and Dr. J. w. Thayer went at once to the scene of the trag- edy There was no doubt that 1t was a case of suicide.
 Rogers was the owner of tract of rich land at San Felipe. He was living on rented land at Old Gilroy. He was known as an honest. goOd-hearted Por- tuguese, devout In his religion.
 Mrs Rogers and the four children are at a loss for 8 cause for the tragedy, other than that he was Respondent from his long suffering.