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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-05-11

DOR SALE CHEAP, A THREE-FOURTHS
l. blood Herford bull, FIVE months old: large
fine animal. Inquire of r. Ellacott, one mile
east of Viroqua.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-05-11
second Hand Road Grader for sale.

Any town in need of q good second
hand road grader or machine can secure
bargain bv calling soon on JOHN h.
SpEbIUM, Chairman Public Property
Committee, City of Viroqus.
Window shades made TO order at
Towner's.
Buy the Pickwick system at Geo.
Michselsohn's.
For sale cheap t,r cash or on easy
! terms, a Kimball organ. Inquire OF
Axel Nordrum.
If you are going to paint your
house or harm buy your supplies Of
Towner and save money.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1898-08-13
The Wiser Way

GLOW fresh and rosy you look,
Nora" exclaimed Isabel, who
had just returned from the beach,
and was greeting her friend.
eyes, DEAR replied Nora, 81
am feeling splendidly, and
mamma says l have an alarming
appetite. "
"Where in the world have you
been since / saw yOu:"
81 have remained at home, -
replied Nora, "and have worked
hard every day. But l have
been taking that wonderful med
icine, Hoods Sarsaparllla, and it
has done me-, oh, SO much good.
You see | always like to feel well
when | 90 away, and | leave for
the mountains next week"
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these officers if yoT offered them
500 a week. They say they
don't mind being Shot at or killed
in battle, buG they do hate to be
starved to death. L. isn't so
hard on ,me, for L have almost
nothing 40 do. The man-of-war's
men say that the ten command
mentS are amended IN this way:
"SiX day shalt thou tabor and do
hard work and on the seventh
coal ship" The navy is Il great
thing to educate and discipline n
man in. Ii | am able to get q.
little butter on my bread, | con-
slider thai l am rolling in the lap
OF luxury, and if L get Il plate Of
oatmeal for breakfast without
butter, milk or sugar, it makes
me so proud and arrogant that
| have to come down to salt horse
and hard tack for nearly a week
before l can believe that
l Am not q commissioned
officer. have gotten used to
drinking warm water now and
don't mind it at all.
Any one who could have seen
that Santiago battle need never
have anything told him to make
him realize all the hOnOrS Of war
fare. | have seen men burned to
death and torn 10 pieces by shells
by the hundreds and if any man
Can actually see all that and then
clamor for war | don't know what
kind OF O. man he Is.
Ii you see any of the fire boys,
tell them that il | don't get
killed or starved to death, and
the war is over in time. | will try
to run with them in the toulna-
ment in November.
S. ID. SMITH.
Ponce, July 81.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1898-08-13

be asked that the army be al
lowed to depart honOrably, and
that assurances be given guaran-
teeing that Spanish and foreign
interests will not suffer. The
army, which has not been con-
quered, will return to Spain with
its guns, arms and munitions.
In regard to the Cuban debt, as
the United States refuses to as
sumo it, Spain will endeavor to
arrange with the Cuban treasury
to pay it when the island is aoIe.
The question Of d treaty Of com
merce will lead to considera bic
discussion, and the matter will
be submitted to commission Of
diplomats, under the presidency
of Senor Castillo.
TROOPS LEAVING SANTIAGO
Washington, Aue. l2.-The
War Department received the
following cahlegram today:
''Santiago, Aug. 12.-Adjutant
General, Washington d. c.: The
ST. Louis left MOrro during the
night OF the 11th with the Ninth
and Tenth Infantry and two COM
panies Of the Seventy-tirst New
York. The ST. Paul should have
left Guantanamo last night or
this morning with the Second In
fantry and four companies of the
Seventy-lirst New York and Gen
eral Kent and his staff. The
Morteno leaves in a very few
minutes with the 21St infantry.
The Rio Grande, with Colonel
Sargent's regiment on board, has
Just arrived. SHAFGEH."
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1898-08-13
Don't

Buy garden or field seeds before
getting my prices. Wy twenty
two years experience in Florida
planting, testing and handling
seeds from every section of coun-
try, enables me to procure the
best at lowest prices. Send for
price list. J. B. SUTTON,
Seedman, 28 Exposition ST.,
Ocala, Fla.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1898-08-13
To Cleanse the System

Etfectualiy yet gently, when cos
tive or bilious, to permanently
overcome habitual constipation,
to awaken the kidneys and liver
to u healthy activity, without
irritating or weakening them, to
diSpel headaches, colds or feverS,
use Syrup Of Figs made by the
California Fig Syrup Go.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1898-08-13
4 City Ticket Office

The Plant System has reoprned
the city ticket office in the Ocala
House office, which was discon-
tinued about two years ago, and
Miss Jessie Maughs, operator ia
the Florida Southern Jelegrap ph
office, will be- the ticket gent.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1898-08-13

With A String Tied
To 1t
THE BLOCKADE RAISED
And the Advancing Armies
Ordered to Halt
SPAIN HAS THIRTY DAYS
In Which to Garry Out Her
Promises-Her Evasion
Will Cause More
SPAIN HAS THIRTY DAYS

Madrid, Aug. 12.-The Span
ish government this morning
notified the French minister of
foreign affairs, M. del Casse of
It's acceptance Of the protocol,
and asked the French govern
ment to transmit to Ambassador
Cambon at Washington such
power as in conformity with
President Mckinley's expressly
formulated desire will authorize
hun as ambassador of France to
sign the protocol.
WAR NOW OVER
Washington, Aug. 12.-The
French ambassador at 1870 re-
ceived his Instructions by tele-
graph to sign the protocol, which
will be signed some time this
afternoon.
AS soon as the signatures are
placed on the document, inStruc-
tions will be sent to the Ameri-
can commanders of the army and
navy that hOStlIitieS have ceased .
THE BLOCKADE RAISED
Washington, Aug. 13.-Ord"r<'
have been sent to Admiral Sanp-
son to raise the blockade of
Cuba and Porto Rico. The New
York, Brooklyn, Indiana, Iowa,
Oregon and Massachusetts, will
go to New York to be dry
docked. The monitors will re-
main in a safe Porto Rican har-
Dor. Admiral Watson with the
Newark aud some other cruisers
will remain at Guantanamo. and
an adequate squadron will re-
main at Key West.
SPAIN EXPLAINS
Madrid, Aug. 12.-the queS-
tion Of the acceptance of the pro
tocol having been finally settled
and the signature authorized, the
government is now cons derin 2
the domestic stu ttion for bnc
best means Of allaying excite
ment, and propagating the idea
that Spain's surrender is not So
complete as Indicated by the bald
terms of the protocol. AS a first
step in this direction a semi-offi-
clal note has been issued as fol-
lows:
"The government is Of the
opinion that most critical
period Of the peace negotiations
has now arrived, as it depends
upon the arrangement of details
as to whether peace will be more
or less advarta geouS Spain
wishes to preser'e her sovereignty
over the whole of the Philippines
to which she proposes to accord
political and administrative re-
forms consistent with the main
tenance Of her sovereignty.
'1n regard 20 the evacuation
Of Cuba and Porto Rico, it viii
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1898-08-13

Reduced 10 10 cents. The
old reliabl 25 cent DR.. Sdrder'S
Eve Lotion, genuine, 10 cents, at
Tydmes & Go.
Nice Florida syrup in cans
and bottles, will rIrklc your
palate Only at GcriS & Cos.
Fresh and salt water fish OF
all kinds on ice every day at j
w. Da Wis.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1898-08-13
An Ocala Boy AfiOat

writes as follows of his eXper-
fences to n friend in this city:
st. Thomas has splendid
natural harbOr; the town is built
at the foot OF q mountain and
runs part of the way up the
mountain. 1t Is spread out be-
fore you like a picture and Is one
of the prcttlcst scenes l ever had
the fortune TO view. 1t seems
like vcritable garden spot of
the world. We had hardly drop
ped anchor before the bumboats
began to come alongside and
Yesterday for the first time since
| have been aboard the Dixie, |
got enough to eat. L ate bananas,
cOcoanuts and other tropical
fruits until | could eat no more
and was sorry | couldn't eat
enough to last me a month.
The officers would allow no
beer or any kind of intoxicants
to be sold to the crew, but some
of the men got some bay rum,
which by the way, only costs 25
cents for q five qnart bottle, and
is much better than that usually
sold in the states. and as Il con-
sequence five men are resting in
double irons today.
The fire room gang smelled
like barber shop in full blast
yesterday afternoon.
The negroes around St. Thomas
seem to be far more Intelligent
than the negroes in the sta teS.
Some of them speak three or four
languages very iluently. The
bananas you get there have IL
much better taste than those you
get in the states.
While at ST. Thomas, | saw
the first women | have seen in
over two months; Il great many
people came alongside in smlli
boats TO look at us, and there
were II great many ladies among
them. We have been cruising
around Porto Rico nearly a week
now. The first day we got near
the coast of Porto Rico we took q
prize. She was Il very pretty
steamer and was flying The
French flag, but it Is said she
was loaded with ammunition for
San Juan and had a Spanish
crew on her. Any way we put a
crew aboard her and sent her to
Charleston. You ought to have
seen the town of Ponce, which
we took Wednesday. 1t is a
lovely little town. The Dixie,
Wasp and Annapolis steamed
into the harbor Wednesday af-
| ternoon and the town surrender
ed without firing a shot. The
Dixie is q swift ship but it is very
hard to get anything to eat
on her. l haven't had enough to
eat but once since | have been or
her and that was the day we
were in ST. Thomas and got so
much fruit. | am IN a petty
officers mess; there are Is in
my mess and we put in 81 a
piece extra a month and still dc
not get enough to eat. The fire
men and coal paSSerS, / don't SEE
how they stand it. | have seen
them sit down to supper OF
breakfast many u time and have
nothing but hard tack md coffee.
Besides that we have to pay our
mess cook 50 n month. They say
they are giving us govern
ment ratiOnS; maybe they
are, but | know that on the Iowa
we never put IN one cent extra
but still had plenty to eat and
! always had some to throw away
and never had to pay our mess
cook one cent. For three days
this week we had stewed onions
and bread and coffee for break
fast and supper and corned beet
and hard tack for dinner. They
had a quantity of fresh meat
aboard last week; they KEEP hold.
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HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Results in the Death of Four Men
Near Horn Lake, Mississippi.

HORN LAKE (Miss), May 1S.-A
horrible tragedy occurred at the Foster
plantation, four miles southeast of this
town, this morning, resulting in the
death of four men.
Four Deputy Sheriffs, r. B. Campbell,
r. H. Campbell, w. c. Cooper and G.
l. Jones, visited the Foster place to
arrest NimrOd Littleffeld and William
Littlefeld his son, both negroes, charg-
ed with a murder committed in Boil
var County several years ago. The ne
groes resisted the officers, whereupOn
Deputy r. b. Campbell fired, killing
Nimrod Littlefeld.
The younger ne gro seized a Winches-
ter rifle, and it was used with fearful
effect. His first shot killed Deputy
Cooper The infurlated negro then
turned on II. r. Campbell, shooting him
in the head, death resulting instantly,
while a third shot brought Deputy
Jones to the ground a corpse.
Deputy r. B. Campbell beat hasty
retreat for assistance, and upon re-
turning to the scene of the tragedy a
posse found the bodies of the dead men
horribly mutiated, their heads having
been beaten into a jelly.
Bloodhounds were secured and imme-
diately put on Littlefield's track. and if
he is caught a lynching will occur.
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SOME COMMANDERS.
Men Who Almost Deity Their
StOmaehs

Americans are eternally quarreIing
over the question of wine drinking.
Some want their claret hot, in small
glasses, while others take it in pint
tumblers with ice. Still others mix it
with water or vichy or carbonic-
a thoroughly vicious habit. In the
French boarding houses in this city
the cheapest clarets are diluted either
in the cellar or at the table. Fine wines
are slipped from small glasses, and
never more than a gill is drunk When
the quarrel waxed warm at Faccini's
he would settle it by the brand-that
is, by cost and quality. And he is al
ways right. His chianti must be drunk
in one way, his valtellina in another, his
zinfandel in another
AT Faccini's a man is permitted to
eat according to his particular style
and capacity. Many Italians went there
years ago, and many go there now,
though it is really more frequented by
Americans. I have seen artists, sing
ers, actors, writer's, preachers. gamblers
and poets at the same table. each eat
ing as If he expected a famine. 1t was
no task for some of them to drink a
gallon of wine at a sitting and eat a
peck of macaroni, not to mention in
detail weights and measures of what
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ON WHOM WAS THE JOKE?
1t Seemed Funny at First, But
Aroused Suspicion

There is a certain woman in this city
who nourishes a ranking suspicion ir
her heart, and would like to know whe-
Their she is the victim of joke or guilty
of an unjust SUSPICION. This woman
ACCOMPANIED by her husband, attended
theater one evening recently. HeI
husband, who was smoking an excep-
tiona1ly good cigar and did not care &C
throw it away, suggested that she &C
in and take her seat and that he would
come in when he finished his cigar She
consented, and passed inside After fin
ishing his cigar the husband passed into
the lobby, and, as the curtain was up
and an impressive scene on, he decided
to wait a few moments before he took
his seat. Standing in the lobby was a
woman who seemed actuated by the
same reasons. He glanced carelessly al
her and noticed that she was a rather
handsome girl and we'll gowned. For
some reason she seemed to take an in
terest in him, and he gazed curiously al
her.
In few moments, vaguely wonder
ing if he had ever met the woman any
where he passed down to his seat and
thought no more about it, The play was
over, he started out an dtrailed some
way behind his wife. Again he encoun-
tered the same woman. and again she
seemed to take an interest in him, and
was apparently not aware that he was
with any one. The attention was so as
sured that he decided to play a joke
When the woman turned her head aside
he called his wife's attention to her, and
said: Il think she is trying to f1irt
with me. I'll tell you what I'll do. III
tear a piece off my programme, pre-
tend to write something on it, and then
go up and hand it to her, and the joke
will be on her when she opens it,"
His wife's eyes sparkled in anticipa-
ton, and she stepped aside. He care
fully took a pencil from his pocket, tore
piece off his programme and went
through the motions of writing some
thing on it, All this time the other wo-
man had gaZed at him in puzzled way.
Then he walked past her and deftly
slipped it into her hand. She started
abruptly, then seemed to reflect and
tucked the paper in her glove and
walked off. Then the man rejoined his
wife, and they started for home, laugh
ing heartily over the promised discom-
future of the woman
Suddenly his wife stopped laughing.
Her face wore a troubled expression and
sombre light came into her eyes. Her
husband noted the change and asked
anxiously what was the matter She
spoke like a woman in grave doubt
when she answered.:
We'll, / am just thinking. There IS a
chance that this joke is on me, don't
you know? Did you write anything on
that paper ?'-New York Tribune.
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SPANISH MINISTRY.
Sagasta Succeeds in Completing the
New Cabinet.

MADRID, May 1S.-The new Spanish
Cabinet has been formed as follows:
President of the Council of Ministers,
Senior Praxades Sagasta.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senior
Leon y Castillo.
Minister of War, Lieutenant-Gen
COrrea
Minister Of Marine. Senior Aunon.
Minister of the Colonies, Senior RO-
nero Giron.
Minister of Finances. Senior Lopez
Puigicerver.
Minister of the Interior, Senior Cepde-
pom.
Minister of Justice. Senior c. Greiz-
ard.
Minister of Public Instruction, Senior
Gamazo.
Senior Sa<asta will submit the names
OF the Ministers to the Queen Regent,
and the Cabinet officers will then be
sworn in. The Premier will act as
Foreign Minister pending the arrival
here of Senior Castillo.
Senior Sagasta has telegraphed Senior
Leon y Castillo, now at Paris, to come
to Madrid Immediately to take up the
Foreign Office portfolio.
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A STEAMER CAPTAIN
Has Lively Experience While In
a Spanish Port.

BALTIMORE (Md), May 1S.-Cap-
tain Wood of the British steamship
Elswick, which arrived here from Huel-
va, reports that he had an eventful ex-
perience in the Spanish bort He ar
rived there on Asril 22d to take on a
cargo of 300 tons of sulphur for Bal
timore. Public sentiment was running
high against America and Americans,
and he gave it out that his cargo was
destined for Rotterdam. He loaded
5000 tons by April 9th, when he
thought discretion the greater part of
valor and weighed anchor
when the Spaniards found out it
was going to the United States" said
Captain Wood, they became wild with
rage and refused to put another pound
OF cargo into the ship. A mob came
down to the dock and began rioting.
They were armed with sticks and stones
as well as biz knives. They expressed
their hatred for Englishmen just as
much as for Americans, and declared
they would destroy my ship and all
aboard. 1 decided to get away as soon
as passible.
Il gave orders to get ready for sea,
and visited the Venezuelan Consul, who
represented the United states Govern
ment. to have my papers attested.
no sooner left the ship than a crowd be-
gan following me, hooting at me- |
paid no attention. and continued on up
the street until l reached the Albion
Hotel, where the Consulate is located.
The DISTINGUISHING mob gathered out
side the hotel. and when they discov-
cred that I was in conversation with
the Consul of Venezuela they stoned the
place. The American flag, which was
III the Consul's office, was torn to rib
bons and trodden upon in the streets.
and the American coat-of-arms was
shattered to atoms. The eagle was
kicked into the mud and spat upon.
THE mob then went for me. They
bembarded the hotel with stones and
smashed every window in it. They
threw a dozen or more huge stones at
me, several of which just grazed my
head. They then drew murderous look
ing knives, crying that I was an Ameri-
can and tried to kill me. 1 slipped out
of the back way, and by making a de-
tour reached my ship unmolested. AS
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might be termed accessories. "A poet,
when he is not poetizing, is fearful
eater-fearful of starving. Preachers
come next.
A gourmet is one thing. a gormand
another Yousouf, the Terrible Turk,
eats eighteen chops at breakfast and
drinks two quarts of beer He is
belly god. Brignoh ate dozen mutt
ton chops after singing at the academy
and drank three bottles of champagne.
He was a gastronome. Pouyer Quertier
ate q leg of mutton at meal With
sundry vegetables. while the limit of
his capacity for champagne was never
reached. John H. Inman, a disciple of
teetotalism, killed himself with eating.
His appetite was so ravenous and his
capacity for food SO illimitable that he
was ashamed to eat in public. New
York is full of human cormOrants. but
those that take the butchers" are such
as Ike Fromme, Pat Divyer and Mayor
Van Wyck in their steak devouring con-
tests All gastronomic tournaments are
disgusting. York Press.
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Delegates to the Grand Lodge En-
tertained at Santa Rosa.

SANTA ROSA, May 1S.-The dele
gates to the Grand Lodge of Knights
of Pythias and Rathbone Sisters, now
being held in this city, spent the entire
day in the redWOOds at GuernVille,
over 200 people participating.
This evening a grand ball rendered
by the Santa Rosa lodges to the visit
ing delegates and friends took place
at the Athenaeum.
No business of any Importance was
transacted at this mornings session
Of the Grand Lodge.
At the coming election of grand Off
GERS c. L. Patton of San Francisco will
probably be elected Grand Chancellor,
and H r. Arndt of San Diego Grand
ViCe-Chancellor.
Tomorrow evening the opening
event of the big Rose Carnival will
take place, the browning of the Carni-
val Queen and the turning over of the
keys of the city by Mayor James S.
Sweet.
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COUNTY SUPERVISORS.
Second Days Session of the Con-
Veutiou at Mana.

NAPA, May 1S.-The County Super
pervisors of California continued their
convention to-day, the following addi-
tional delegates being present: j. i.
Linscott, Santa Barbara; II. c. Putnam
and H. w. Austin, SonOma; and f. H.
Jordan, County Clerk of Alameda.
John Mitchell of Alameda delivered
an able address on the County Govern
ment Act of 1897, advocating levying Il
two mill tax for road building and i'm
proVementS.
NJ Price followed. advocating making
one road at a time until all We're good.
Supervisor S. +. Ayres read an in
teresting paper on sprinkling, as illus
trated in Santa Clara County. During
the year 1897 the expenditures for good
roads and bridges il that county cost
S113,5 93 He said the counties must
build their own roads. The State Bu-
reau of Highways has cost to March,
1893, $42, 462, but the Supervisor said
it had been of little benefit.
Supervisor Smith said that it costs
Alameda County 1853 per mile per
month for road sprinkling, but was a
good investment.
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HAWARDEN, May 19.-Mr. Glad
stone died at o'clock this Thursday
morning. Mr.. Gladstone had been I'M
conscious practically all day, though at
times he seemed to recognize for a mo-
ment some of the watchers about him.
Certainly he did recognize his Wife, who
was beside him all day except when the
physician prevailed upon her to take
rest. She tenderiy clasped her hus-
bands hand as she watched him. APP
parently he slept a good deal. Occa-
sionally he uttered a few words in ar
incoherent, dreamy way, words which
those who were watching were unable
to catch. Their only consolation was
that he was not suffering pain. No
narcotics were administered.
About o'clock quick movements
about the corridors of the castle and
glimpses of people passing hurriedly -
and fro before the lighted windows gave
evidence that the supreme moment
could not be far off. Naturally, it was
impossible to obtain information as all
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soon as l got aboard l saw the mob
coming down the quay, yelling, like
mad, to renew the attack. l ordered
the lines cast off, and as the tug was
alongside, we were soon out of their
reach: We went out little way and
anchored, after which l got back on
shore on the tug boat and secured my
papers, after which we sailed imme
diately
Soon after we left Gibraltar, two
small craft were sighted astern, and it
did not take US long TO make them out
to be Spanish torpedo boats. They
We're evidently in pursuit of US, and
for thirty miles they followed US, but
when night came on, we put on a full
head of steam and ran far out into the
open sea We kept going lively all
night, and when day dawned our pur-
suers were nowhere in sight"