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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-01

Simms' Unequaled Cough Syrup for
coughs, colds. whooping cough, measles,
etc, and is without an equal the children's
Cough Syrup, 25 cents. Depot sos King
street, Wilmington, Del, wholesale by
jobbers, retail by regular druggists
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-01
CITY Of Chester and Bfan1YWlns;
MONEY TO LOAN

Do you need laensy p 1n,ss prs.stnE d
mands. Psap loqR j. eNrAxe OA~ y.
money ON mezIl AlSla and fnRn3AaEs I'D
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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-01

Cuppins and leechine, 1os Z Second.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-01

The flremen of our city, gave good &C
eount OF themselves at the fire that do.
stroyad the livery stable Of Mr.. Charles b.
Dougherty on Wednesday evening. Ouf
volunteer departT ent is as good US any of
the paid fire departments in any of our
sister cities. AL honor to the brave and
unseltlsh men who compose our volunteer
fire depaI tment. They don't work for pay
except the thanks Of the community. Mr..
Dougherty thanks them for their kind
assistance in putting out the fire and saw.
Ing his nrOplrtY
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-01
Not Just or Honest,

A new city assessment Is badly needed.
1t has been years since q now assessment
has been made, except copied by one asses
sor after another who often have no more
knowledge Of the value Of real estate than
= ten year old boy. The prices at which
real estate has sold in different sections Of
the city for four years past has proven that
fact beyond doubt. We can give sever
d instances where the property had been
originally assessed ten years ago, and re-
mains the same today. Three properties
on East Eleventh street near Poplar were
assessed at $500 each and sold 1T the Court
House for 800 each. A house on East
Seventh street near Poplar was assessed
,Sor $500 and was purchased ct private sale
for less than $li0o A two story brick
house on lowering Avenue and Jackson
street was assessed Tor $500 and the asses
sor would not take one dollar of. which
We would DO willing to go on record that
not one half Of the homes of the mechan-
les of Wilmington would bring the assess
Cd value placed upon them hy the city.
This is all wrong and should not be and
would not be If The assessment was made
In q business like manner. We don't say
that the present assessor don't know but
he don't appear to care. Both of the as
yessments Of these properties were appeal :.
ed, but what did it am punt to? Nothing
The two chairmcn of the Republican
First District Committee, will meet this
evening, when both of them will resign
and u new chairman be selected. The
name Of Mr. Harry Brown has been quito
prominently Iuen lionel fer the p sit.on.
He has been nc lively identified with the
Republican party and is well thought OF,
being man easy o. approach and fair in
his views toward tho members OF The Re-
publican party. The party might 80 fur
ther and fare no bolt. in their selection
Of n chairman. The ruling ideu now is
to get the party together and thus win d
victory whero defeat has met the Repub.
hcan party, owing to the detection in its
ranks We are for Brown or any othel
GOOD level headed man for chairman.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-12-10

By virtue OF q writ OF fieri facias issued out
of the Eleventh Judicial District Court,
In and for the parish OF st. Landry,
In the above entitled and numbered suit,
and to me directed, have seized and will
proceed to sell, at public auction to the last
and highest bidder, at PefferRorn's saloon,
In the town of Opelousas. on
Saturday, Dec. f7tfs, l808,
at II O'Clock. a. M. the following described
property, to-wit
One pool table; one screen: ls barrel
cider; one keg sherry; one OIL can; one
water cooler.
TERMS.-To be sold on credit OF twelve
months, the purchaser being required to
furnish good and sufficient Joint security.
bearing Interest at the rate OF eight per
cent per annuln, and to pay In cash out OF
the adjudication, the amount OF costs,
which will be about ten dollars.
w. g. FRAZEE,
dec3-St Sheriff. Parrish of st. Landry.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-12-10
ORDER OF COURT.


By virtue of Section 2, Act 1853 of the
Legislature of 1898, the following ses-
sions of Court will be held In tho Parish
OF st. Landry for the years 1893 and 1909,
viz:
Third Monday In October, 1888.
Fourth Tuesday In Novem Der, 1895.
First Monday I'm January, 1899.
Second Monday in February, 1900.
Third Monday In March, 1899.
Fourth Monday In April, 1890.
Firss Monday tn suhs, gsse.
Third AEDnasyi ia EsepsefA6ar, sazae.
Fourth Mnndsy lin 0ctcbas, laea
Wrt Monday In December, lefe.
Sessions of the Court Will be hold q
Acadia, 90 follows:
First Tuesday In October, 1888.
First Monday In November. 1893.
Third Monday In December, 1898.
Fourth Tuesday in January, 1899.
First Tuesday In March, 1869.
Second Monday In April, 1859.
Third Monday In May, 1869.
Fourth Monday In June, 1899.
Second Monday ic October, 1890.
Second Monday In November, 1859.
Fourth Monday In December, 1899.
Ii is further ordered that the fixing Of
the sessions OF the I1th Judicial District
Court, shall not affect the authority or
duty OF the Judge to set at any time in
any Of the Parishes OF his District when
the public interest may require it.
Given in open court at OpeIousas, La,
this 2lst day of September, 1898.
Signed: GILBERT L.. DUPRE.
Judge Itch Judicial District OF Lin.
lodi Sfrsr h<x,s fot
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-12-10
Succession of Mrs. EIns.

The property OF succession Of M ary e.
Barker, deceased wife OF Geo. o. Efms,
including the residence and grounds in
0pelousas, will be sold at Public Sale i'm
Decent Der next.
sep242rn GEORGE q. .ELMs.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1898-12-10
CHERRIES SALE.
JNo. BLANK s. co. VS., CHAs. PEFFER
KORN, AGENT.
No, ii, 1888.

l1th judicial District Court, Parish OF st.
Landry, Louisiana.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-29
The Right to Interfere.

CFrom the indianapolis News)
If America interferes in Cuba because
It does not approve of Spain's treatment
Of her subjects. is il not creating a pre-
cedent likely to plague us in the future?
Why is it our business to heed the cry
Of suffering humanity any more than any
other nation in Christendom? II Spain
is guilty if harbarity and cruelty. why
should not all Christian nations unite in
a protest or in active measures to put
an ond TO the reign Of terror
These questions are asked by many peo-
pie. Well. there are many answers.
What is everybody's business is nobody's
business. the old adage says. 1t is diff
ficult for governments to act together
either to aid or to cOerce some other ma
ton. Witness the failure of the European
concert to protect the Armenians from
massacre. The ma tons of Europe could
not agree for months on what course to
pursue, and the fendish activity of the
Turks went on. Now, the civilized ma
tons stand aghast at the horrors Of the
Weyler policy. But before they could or
would agree to interfere, thousands more
mortality.
Moreover. the United States has de-
clared itself the special guardian and
champion of liberty on this continent. 1t
has more interest and more vital inter-
est in its next neighbor than nations
more remote can have. Precisely as a
man is more interested in what happens
in his immediate vicinity than in what
takes place i'm some other part of the city
or in an adjoining State.
A man might well interfere to preserve
achld from the cruelty of his parent if
he was directly cognizant of the cruelty.
But the fact of his interference in such
a case would not imply any obligation to
go TO a remote part of the city or to an
other State TO interfere in a similar case.
In other words, the obligations of man
or of a nation are greater in respect of
his neighbor than of the neighbors of 9TH
er men or other nations far away. The
very fact of nearness creates a certain
degree of responsibility. One need not
be afraid of establishing bad precedent
by anyone interfering to protect men,
women and children from being starved
to death.
Every case of interference must be de-
cided on its own merits. Cuba is at our
doors, our ItidtioiiS Win IL aic NioSc anu
intimate: our material interest in the is
land and it's trade and commerce are very
great. We sympathize with the strug-
gle of it's people for freedom from gall
ing tyranny. Our hearts are touched by
the barbarity TO which the non-combat-
ants have been subjected. In the name
of humanity, we have a perfect right, il
not an obligation, TO interfere; looking to
our interests, we have innumerable pre-
cedents in history to justify us in inter-
feTing.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-29
4 General Revolt.

Hardly among all of the newspapers
which have been thick and thin sup
porters Of the Administration policy
can one be found today which does not
concede national Indignation against
the stand taken in the Presidents mes
sage. supplemented by reports that Mr..
Mckinley and Senior Sagasta had reach
ed an understanding, on the stock tick
or basis. OF an armistice until October,
a new scheme Of autonomy and an in
ferential intention on the part Of the
Cuban Republic.
There was a heroic attempt this
morning TO break the force Of the lat
ter blow. by contention that the plan
alluded to had not yet been agreed upon,
but that it had been presented by Min
lister WCodford in the form Of an in
curry" from the Spanish government.
The explanation would have more ef-
feet if il were not admitted at the same
time that the proposition was made by
WCodford to Sagasta after a full un-
Outstanding that it would be agreeable
to the Washington authorities TIE
admission could not wei be avoided.
since the general features Of the plan
agree with the scheme for settling the
war and giving Cuba the equivalent Of
independence" credited to Mr.. Mchin-
ley ten days ago by his confidential as
sociates.
Certainly it has raised a storm, and
one which il is doubtful can be calm
ed. save by the most immediate and pa
triouc action The bare suggestion #
an armistice until October which would
give Spain a chance to rest and recreate
her army, and deprive the Cubans Of
their best fighting season. is intolerable
TO every friend of liberty. To spend
millions in the meantime. nominally to
feed the reconcentrados, but practically
TO provision the Spanish army in Cuba,
has hardly an advocate in Congress.
The consequences Of such policy and
action are too simply plain. At the end
of the armistice, Spain would be in eX-
Cellent fighting condition on land again,
and would have a Gordon Of warships
around Cuba t. keep US out. The Gu
bans, too. would be cut off from sup
plies in the interim. There would be
neither policy, honor nor common hu-
manitv in the scheme. and that is the
I sentiment of a vast majority in beth
4 houses Of Congress. according to the
Administration press Of this date.
But if the whole plan were not ut
terly obnoxious otherwise. its complete
and CallouS ignoring of the Cuban Re-
public and the patriot army in the
premises would surely knock it on the
head. if the people and their repTesen-
tatyes had any power to kill it.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-29
Austin Inyokes His Muse.

London. March 29.-The Daily Mail, un-
der the caption of "a Voice From the
West" prints a poem of Alfred Austin.
the poet laureate, which is based on the
idea of sympathy and cooperation be-
tween Great Britain and the United
States A part of the poem follows:
What is the voice | hear
On the wind OF the Western Sea-
Sentinel. listen from out Cape Clear
And saw what the voice may be.
IT'S proud free people calling loud
To a people proud and free.
And it saws TO them. kInsmen, hail.
We severed have been too long;
Now let us have done with wornout tale,
The tale of an ancient wrong.
And our friendship last long as love doth last
And be stronger than death is strong.
Answer them, sons of the self-same race,
And blood of the self-same clan.
Let us speak with hach other face to face
And answer as man to man.
And LOYALTY love and trust each other
As none but free men can.
Now fling them out TO the breeze,
Shamrock thistle, and rose
And the Star SpaHgled Banner unflrl with these,
A message to friends and foes,
Wherever the sails of peace are seen
And wherever the wind blows
A message TO bond and thrall to wake,
For wherever we come, we twain,
The throne of the tyrant shall rock and quake
kad his menace be VOID and vain,
For YOU are lords of a strong young land
And we are lords of the main.
The final verse, which is not cabled, re-
echoes the second.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-29
No Armistfce for Them.

After the repeated declarations of
Gen. Gomez, Gen. Garcia, President
Maso and the Cuban Junta, that their
people would fight to the death before
they would accept anything but COM
plete independence, ii almost seems
cruel that any Cuban authority should
have felt compelled again to reiterate
the noble and devoted spirit of that
government, army and people. But ex-
posture Of the armistice and new au-
tonomy plan yesterday brought from
the representatives of the young re-
public a new declaration. which ought
to be accepted as final In a statement
made in New York yesterday MIR. Ho-
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-29
Irreyerent Sarcasm.
From the Mexican Herald)

Nrum the Mexican Herald.)
Our amusement-loving public. its sens
cs all faded, and its mind deeply ennuied
with races between 'doped" horses. and
pulling jockeys, even finding latter
day bull fights not up 10 the highest
point in the noble art of taurOmachy. has
been demenading new and piquant sensa-
tons.
And Col. Pate is about to give them
to us in the form. as announced already
i'm this journal, of combats between ma
tive bull and royal Bengal tigers and
African lions. the latter not of the weary
and worn kind encountered in MENACE
ries. but something fierce and bounding.
Here is genuine sport which the clerk,
confined all the week behind the cOun-
ter. may enjoy. and. at the same time.
utilize to get fresh points in natural his
tory. The sensatiou-loving American
tourist. including wandering deacOns and
lady leaders in Chautauquan circles.
who come to Mexico to cast off all re-
straint in one wild final fling before they
90 to Paradise. will welcome this news.
They have been the props and pillars
Of the bull ring, and women who weep
over n singed cat up North Will sit en-
raptured a whole Sunday afternoon to
witness picturesque bull-sticking. The
only thing that will be lacking after we
have seen the Bengal uSefS IedpinS on
the backs of agile and fiery Mexican
bulls and the African lions tossed and
gOred will be gladiatOrial shows such as
the Romans delighted in. that noblest
of all forms of combat in which the skill
and courage of man is matched with the
strength and animal ferOcity of wi =
beasts With this elimination in sport
our civilization will advance upward
many notcheS!
Col. Pate has been a pioneer in sport
in Mexico; he has made horse racing in
teresting (until the crooks took hold to
spoil it alb and now he throws himself
with characteristic energy into giving
us a new diversion which will make the
blood to chill in our veins and afford to
the rising generation studies in natural
history in advance of anything described
in dull and stupid text books.
If this sort of thing can be kept up
several years, the tide of travel will be
turned here as never before and the rail-
WAYS will have to abandon regular for
excursion traffic. Surely We are going
ahead in this fine old tropical city, and
the salutary effect of these spirited
combats in rousing us from our lotos-
like languor can not be over estimated.
Surely Allah is good to Mexico.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-29
Bears on n Spree.

Watertown. y. Y, March 29.-JOhn S.
Early. an old North Woods guide, re-
turning through the woods from Fourth
Lake recently. passed a deserted lumber
camp and heard a great connection in
side. He peeped in and saw three bears.
a female and two haIf-grown cubs, ca
vortiug around the shanty.
They ran bowling around and around,
tumbling over each other and acting as
if insane. Early had no weapons except
a knife and revolver, 50 he went to the
Bald Mountain Hotel, on Third Lake,
and got two men to so back with him.
The bears were gone, but their trail
through the forest showed that they had
staggered from side to side, and had fall
len sprawling in the snow every few rods.
on searching the cabin the cause of
their hilarious conduct was discovered.
In nosing around the straw under a
bunk they had found three bottles Of
alcohol. which the lumhermen dilute
with water and drink, and which had been
secreted there. The bears had got the
corks out OF the bottles and Tapped up
the contents, and had had bowling
spree.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-29

Again there is a Liberty Day in the
American Senate. Again the floor, gal
Ielies and corridors Of the Capitol have
been crowded to suffocation to hear the
ringing voice Of Senator Mason, known
Of all men as a hopeless lingo: which is
another way of saving that he is a
warm-blooded, fearless American pa
tr!ot
AS on other like occasions, the enthu-
siasm Of Senator fIawley's mob could
not be repressed. Loud applause greet
ed the speaker when he declared him
self for war! The speech. which we
reproduce in our news columns in full,
viii be read with interest by everybody
in Washington. Its arraignment Of
Spain and Spanish tyranny and treach-
cry is blistering. Others have spoken
bitterly of the plan of starvation by
which four hundred thousand Cubans
have been murdered. Senator Mason
reminds US that among these Wet ms Of
SPANS deviltry, with American con-
nivance, there were eight hundred
American citizens.
The story Of the Maine massacre. as
brought out by Mr.. Mason. is another
torch dropped in the powder magazine
Of national rage. He gives it as the
story of assassination on a dark night
The crime was committed in the waters
of a Spanish harbor, over Spanish SOIL
controlled and patrolled by Spanish
forces. The mine exploded under the
Maine was a Spanfsh mine which couId
have only been fired by Spanish au-
thority and agency. Spain is guilty.
THE dead appeal to us, and their wild
ows and orphans cry aloud for ven
geanpef"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-29

could MIR. Cannon, of the Chase Ma
tional Bank, was in the city on Satur-
day in company with other influential
financiers. and their presence probably
was not unconnected with the famous
Sunday midnight conference, to which
allusion has been made heretofore.
Mr.. Moore, of the firm of Moore q
Schley, those eminent brokers who have
done so much to assist in the gliding
of political existence in Washington,
was in Florida, and was wired to come
on. lie reached here on Monday, and
so did many others of the elect. Short
ly after his advent, sugar shares,
which on Saturday went begging at
1G7lh, suddenly jumped to III; while
other stocks in the Washington list
went up correspondingly.
1t is wise to direct attention to the
fact that the theory of a State De-
partment leakage printed by an organ
Of the Administration is an exceedingly
useful explanation Of an episode which
is certain to excite great deal of pub
lie Indignation. 1t is a possible one,
like the theoretical possibility of mod
ern miracles. At the same time, it is not
good philosophy to assume supernatur-
al causes where natural ones will MT
a given case.
There is a widespread suspicion, ap-
parentIy justified by many peculiar
phenomena, that there are certain Ia
vored ones to whom nothing is secret
in any department of the Government,
and who learn everything as soon as
il comes to hand. albeit the same may
be withheld from Congress, and even
the Cabinet 1t is quite as easy to be-
lieye that the leakages and tips have
that genesis as to assume that some
poor devil of a State Department UNI
derling has been selling his honor and
! that Of his country TO the sharks OF
! Wall Street.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-29
RAID ON UTIGA'S MAYOR.
Thomas e. Kinney said to BE IN
Alien.

Utica, n. Y, March 29.-Proceedlnss
were begun today to test the eligiolilty
of Mayor Thomas F., Kinney to act as
the chief executive of the city. 1t is as
serted that Mr-IKinaey is not citizen
of the United States. and that he has
never been naturalized. Documents have
been received from 1.-THE War Depart
ment in Washington which show that In
1864 Mr.. Kinney was placed under ar
rest in the Capital, while on his way to
Virginia, where he was law student III
the State University. He secured his
release through the intervention OF the
British consul, Mr.. Kinney making affi-
davit that he was a British subject, nav
ing been born in Canada, and never nav
ing renowned his loyalty TO the BRUSH
government. After the war he returned
to this city. where he has since prac-
ticed law and been an active inquire IN
politics He served as city attorney IN
1861 and 1865. and was mayor from 1887
to 1889 He was reelected last Fall on
an independent ticket with Republican
| Endorsement.
4 search of the Oneida County natural
| ization records does not show that hr
| Kinney ever became a citizen of the UNI
| ted States The proceedings against nm
| will be in the form of an application to
the attorney general to compel him 10
| show that he is eligible to the office MI.
| Kinney will make a bitter fight. He de-
MES the charges in strong terms, anu de-
| nounces those who challenge his citizen
ship.
| When Mr. Kinney was elected II is SAID
| he gave promise TO the local Republican
| organization that his administration
| would be friendly to II. and that Repub-
| leans would be preferred to Democrats.
Immediately after getting in office he
| started an investigation of the police de-
partrent and made demand through
| the police commissioners for the removal
of Chief Charles NJ. Dagwell. The chief
| refused to resign. Then the mayor and
| Corporation Counsel James Coupe pre-
| ferred charges against him after they
| had succeeded in removing Commissioner
| Boyce who was friendly to him. The
! chief is now on trial before the police
! board, and evidence has been presented to
! show the existence of numberlcss dives
and gambling places.
| Mr. Kinuey's administration thus faI
has been distasteful to the organization
leaders in both parties. He was elected
on a platform of clean men, clean meth
DDS and clean streets" and he IS trying
to carry out his campaign pledges with
a common council opposed TO him.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-29
Who Is the Traitor.

1t is reported today that the State
Department has reasons for fearing
that its secret cipher has been placed
at the disposal Of a certain, clique Of
spectators, who are thus enabled to
play the stock market on original in
formation derived from the dispatches
which pass between this and other gov
ernments. and between the department
and our representatives abroad. 1t is
stated that the basis Of this fear is the
fact that SPANS acceptance Of the
Hanna -McCook plan Of settlement,
cabled by General WoOdford, first
reached the public through the Wall
Street stock ticker. after the manipu-
lators had made out of the tip all they