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Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-23
Want to Serve Under the spanish Flag.

TORONTO, Ont, April 22,-Chevalier
Thompson, Spanish consul in Toronto,
has received 80 applications from quail.
fed members of the Canadian militia
for service under the Spanish flag,
while four medical men have volun.
teered their services.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-23
Yehlele TaI Reduced.

COLUMBUS, o.. April 22.-The senate
Friday made law of the Kemper bill
reducing the vehicle tax in Cincinnati
about one-fifth. and of his bill for sll,-
900 bonds for West Sixth street side.
walks
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-23
''e.rvIces OF Georgia Miiltia rendered.

ATLANTA, Ca, April 22.-Gov. Atkin.
son Friday wired President Mckinley
rendering the services of the Georgia
militia.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-23
Sherlf's Sale.
MAUD E. spRAGUE, Plaintir,

DELLA R. SPRAGUE. EFT AL, Defendant.
By virtue of an order of sale in partition
duly issued by the Court of Common Pleas OF
v ashington County. Ohio. in the above en-
titled action. aud to me directed, Will offer
for sale. at pub ic auction at the door Of the
Court House, in the City OF Marietta on
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-23
Drove Across the Track.

DELAWARE, o., April 22.-Frederick
Fox. wealthy farmer, aged 81, was
instantly killed Thursday afternoon
by passenger train striking him as
he was driving across the road cross
ing.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-23
Red Cross Society Onsrs Its Services to

HAVANA, April 2e.-The ladies of the
Red Cross society have called on the
captain general TO offer their services
during the war.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-23
Notice in Attachment.
John Grandstaff, Plaintif

John Grandstaff, Plaintiff
VS..
F. j. Foster and G. E. Bennett. Defendants.
Before A, d. Bell, j. p, OF Adams Township
Washington County, Ohio.
On the 10th day OF March, A. d. Is9s said
Justice issued an order Of attachment In the
above action for the sum of ninety two dollars
and sixty-ive cents Said catise will be for
hearing on the 9th day OF May 1898. at O'Clock
a, m JOHN GRANDSTAFF.
Lowell, Ohio. April lst, 1898.
Ralph Starting, Attorney.
April sth-sw.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-23

2 Herds Of Performing Elephants
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-23
THREE CIRCUSES IN 3 RINGS
HUGE ELEVATED STAGES
GRAND ; IMPERIAL 5 HIppODROME

Water Carnival and High Divers
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-23

DIR, A KINGSBURY, DENTIST. Room 1
Leader Building, Corner Front and Putnam
Street.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-23

ray DR.. e. L. Grimm, Dentist. ONCE 3O4
Front street, Opposite Soldiers Monument.
Telephone 2S5,
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-23

nB-s. M HART, Dentist. once over Witt
lig's Jewelry Store, Front ST. Hours from
o a. m. to s p. m.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-23

ER-DR. Il. S. WARD, Dentist once in
Union Block, over Charles Blume's Jewelry
store. Front street, below Putnam.
Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-04-23

eWDR c. v. DYE, Dentist. Marietta. Ohio
Once 262 Front Street, over Boston Millinery
Store.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-16
THE NEWS epITOMlZED.
Washington Items.

Surgeon General Starnherc said not-
withstandinC the sndien chance of climate
and the terrible rain which the troops in
. Tennessee, Virginia and Florida had suf-
fered. the sick reports showed that less
than two ner cent. OF the volunteers were
ailing and that only DOZEN or more men
in all the entire army OF 100000 men were
seriously Ill.
From nearly all the Southern and from
several OF the Western States earnest pro-
tests are coming against the increase otfhH
numerical strength OF the regiments. be-
cause it depriyes them OF so many officers.
In honor OF the name OF their old uni-
versity given 70 the Transformed rrriser
Harvard the alumni ofthe university liv-
ing in and around Boston have bought 4
six-ponnd NordAnfeldt gun. which the Nav,'
Department will order mounted on the
man-of-war the first time she enters port.
or the additional army of 75.00n men
called for hv President Mckinley AZ .000 will
he required to hiring the regiments already
In the field up to the standard the law de-
mands.
Detective William ". Williams. who WAS
in the Secret Service Of the War Depart
ment during the Civil War. and who was
conspicuous in the work OF ferrntinc ont
the consniracv which resulted in the death
OF President Lincoln, is dead.
The War Department has found material
suitable for uniforms to he worn in the
tronics, and few contracts have been
made.
The operation OF the law preventing the
payment Of money for extra duty does not
affect the allowance OF one-ffth additional
TO officers and enlisted men in time OF war.
Privates will receive 1850, and not S13,
the amount paid in time OF peace.
General Merritt has been directed to ev-
anime the vessels OF the Pacific Steamship
Company, and IL they are suitable for
transports, to impress them. The War
Department says there will be no more de-
lay through extortionate demands by
owners or agents OF vessels. and ships
needed by the Government will be taken.
The Government has decided to raise the
Spanish warships sunk nv Admiral Dewey
at Manila and has asked Pacific coast firms
to bid for the contract
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-16

mire" How easy it would be for
them, and many other counties SIM
iliary situated, to improve their high
ways is plainly shown by the Sutfern
Independent.
There are sixty miles of road, and
an expenditure of $500 per mile on
them would create an Indebtedness
of $150,OO0. Suppose this amount
was borrowed on bonds payable in
from one to fifteen years at four per
cent. BY paying the annual interest
and six per cent. on the principal, the
whole amount could be paid in twelve
years and the roads kept in order,
without a greater annual expenditure
than the SIG 900 now required for re-
pairing worthless roads. The assess
ment of the county rs, in roundnum-
bers. $40, 200, 900 OF which $50, 900 is
three.quarters of one per cent. Now,
taking the average assessment of the
taxpayer to be $1,000, his proportion
of the eutire debt would be $3.50, and
his assessment for each year for this
purpose would be seventy-tive cents. .
Figured down this way, there seems
nothing wanting to securing better
highways but the will to make the
start
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-16

A feature of the ,postofiice depart
ment display at the Omaha exposition
that is expected to attract much at
tention in these war days will be an
exhibit of photographs OF soldiers
taken during the civil war, which mis-
carried and landed in the dead-letter
division of the postoffice department.
There are about l6,000 of these old
pictures, and they form most inter-
esting collection for variety of rea-
sons. During the civil war it was a
common thing for soldiers III the
Northern armies who happened to be
near q town to have their pictures
taken to send to wives, sweethearts,
parents, or friends at home. In thou
sands of cases the addresses were de-
fective in some particular or became
entirely separated from the picture in
the course of the rough handling TO
which some of the mails were neces-
sarily subjected at times, and the
postoffice authorities were unable to
deliver them. They were preserved,
however, and have now become val
uable collection from a historical
standpoint. There were many thou
sands of them originally, but large
numbers of them were claimed from
time to time, and the number has now
been reduced to about $4,000.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-16
Colonelcy. J. Mack Tanner is a son OF
Governor Tanner.

]. W. Etting killed his wife at Hot
Springs. Ark, and then committed suicide.
The crime was committed with razor,
and the body Of Mrs. Etting was slashed
in twenty places before she received the
stroke which almost severed the head from
the trunk. No motive has been discovered
for the crime, but it is believed that Etting
was suddenly seized with homicidal mania.
Nearly hundred men are under indict-
ment at Fort Scott, Kan. for participa-
ting in the burning OF two innocent In
dians. near Newark, 1. T.. last January,
and Kinder H. Hargo, a full-blooded Sem
ionle, Is q prisoner at Miami, charged with
the murder Of Mrs. Laird, for whose deata
the two Indians, Sampson and McGelsey,
were lynched.
Frank Heinkle, OF Tampa, Fla, sixty
three years old, left home apparently In
good health and seemingly on good terms
with the world at large. On his return his
wife was slow in handing him some keys,
and he shot her in the head just above the
eye, with fatal results. Then he killed
himself. They had family OF nine chill
dren.
Robert Dyas, a clerk in Evarts, Choate 4
Beaman's law Office, New York City, con-
fessed that he had stolen jewelry worth
$500 from his employers.
Charles Zanoli, the insurance swindler,
was sentenced in New York City to nine
and half years Imprisonment. He was
the man who was arrested in February last
on suspicion OF having poisoned his four
wives. The crime for which he was sem
fenced was swindling the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company by palming of
the dead body Of one OF his workmen as
his own and then collecting the insurance
money on his own life.
The Twenty-second Congress District
Republican Convention met at Pittsburg,
Penn, and nominated John Dalzell. In
the Twenty-third District, William h.
Graham was nominated to succeed Will
lam A. Stone, recently nominated for Gov
ernor OF Pennsylvania.
A party OF scientists, headed by David
Starr Jordan, Of Stanford University. Cali
fornia, have started for Flagstaff, Arizona.
This place will be made their base OF sup
plies, and trips will be taken into the sur
rounding country for archaeological in
vestigation. The Grand Canon OF the Col
orado and the Enchanted Mesa" will be
fully explored.
An unusual suicide occurred in Brooklyn
when Chinaman tired of life killed him
self. His nationality makes the popularity
OF the affair. T. Louis was his name. He
conducted laundry. Business had been
very bad with him for several months past.
Lately 1t went from bad to worse.
Japhet Connolly, ten years old, only son OF
Ephraim Connolly, disappeared few days
ago. He was last seen In company with
William O'Mara, On illiterate musician, 60
ing into the woods west OF Somers Point,
n. J. O'Mara was arrested. A searching
ark,, ~ a W m
been strangled, covered with leaves in the
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-16
Narrow Versus Wide Wagon Tires.

Scientific experiments extending
over two years have been made under
the auspices of the Studebaker Broth
ers, the widelyknown wagon builders,
to determine the relative qualities of
wide and narrow-wheel tires. The
The results are too extensive to give
in full. Every kind of road was used
to test the question. 1t was found
that on macadam roads the narrow
tires were far inferior to the wide, and
they required much greater effort to
draw a given load. In deeply-rutted
clay road, the narrow tt es running in
the ruts and the wide tires on top, the
narrow tires were far more efficient.
This was also the case with wet mud.
But as soon as the mud began to dry
the wide tires showed vast superior
ity. In general, the only justification
for narrow tires proved to be thor
oughly bad roads.-Youth's Com
panion.
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woods. O'Mara admitted having killed

the boy.
The home OF Judge James NJ. Hobson,
father OF Lieutenant Hobson, at Green's
boro, Ala, is advertised for sale under
mortgage for $4,000. Alabama citizens
started fund to buy 1t for the Hobsons,
but their aid has been refused, Judge Hob
SON declaring that the claim Is unjust and
will be fought in the courts. He says he Is
not financially embarrassed.
Under a rule prepared by Chief Surgeon
Girard. Of the Second Corps, at Camp AL
ger, ambulance corps men and nurses must
not 90 on the battlefield to succor the
wounded until the battle is over.
Thirty Of the big Dahlgren guns. which
have been in the Charlestown Navy Yard for
many years, have been reftted for the
State OF Massachusetts, and will be re.
moved to different points along the coast.
These guns are all OF the 9-inch type.
The entire plant, rolling mill and steel
plant OF the Burgess Steel and Iron Com
pany at Portsmouth, Ohio, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire. The loss will aggregate
$3.50 900, and the insurance is about $780,
900. Eight hundred employees are thrown
out Of work.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-16
inexpensive Road Repair.


A correspondent suggests that the
system of continual supervision and
repair of road-beds used by the rail
ways would not be practicable on the
highways, because the railway section
foremen depend for their positions on
the thoroughness of their work, have
only short distances to care for, and
can make themselves thoroughly fami-
liar with them, while highway COM
missioners frequently know and care
nothing about roads, and have long
stretches with which they have little
time or opportunity to become ac-
quainted.
AS long as pre-elt conditions OBJ
tain, and highway commissioners are
chosen for political reasons, and de-
vote little time and attention TO the
roads, not much in the way of i'm
provement is to be expected. 1t is the
system which must he changed, and
it will be when the people realize the
importance to the community Of hav-
ing hard and smooth roads on which
to travel. 1t is not necessary to al.
ways build expensive roads costing,
perhaps, from one to ten thousand
dollars mile, but present roads can
be vastly bettered by giving them con-
slant care, together with proper grad
ing and drainage. This work has
been successfully undertaken in some
quarters and good results obtained,
as in the case referred to last week, in
which the expense was so small that
the road tax had been reduced, while
the roads had been improved.
AS long as present methods prevail,
"D" thinks that the farmers, and those
living off the main roads should be
interested in some way in looking af-
ter the roads that pass their. own
doors, so that they would remove
stones, fill up holes and see that all
water ran off quickly, and suggested
that they could pay small part OF
their road tax in labor in this way,
under the control of the road commits
sioner. The old plan of working
out road taxes has been complete
failure, but it does not necessarily fol
low that something of this kind would
not work in some districts, especially
if the people first become i'll some
measure convinced Of the Importance
of the step.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-16
An Incomplete Estimate.

In the following estimate Of the
cost of laying stone roads some i'm
portant items have been omitted.
The Indiana Farmer says that "!he
cost of broken stone for building
roads is not so great as many suppose.
1t can be bought at the crushers for
forty cents per solid yard, and the
railroad will freight it forty miles or
less, at about fifty cents per cubic
yard, making total of ninety cents;
but suppose we call it 81. Then if the
road-bed is nine feet wide and the
stone is piled on foot deep, cubic
yard will cover three feet linear at a
cost Of 81, making one mile (176O
yards) cost as many dollars. But as
only about nine inches are necessary,
one-fourth of this amount, or $40,
should be deducted, making the ex-
act amount only 1920, which is cheap
enough for q trst-class road, the ma
terial for which must be brought forty
miles by rail-"
Substantial roads can be built ut q
thickness of nine inches, but the
stone used is by no means the only
item of expense. The labor of hand
ling, placing and rolling it must be
considered and, more important still,
careful grading and thorough drain
age must be secured. Hard roads can
be built much more cheaply than
formerly, but "frst-class" one can
not yet be laid at such low figures.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-16
The Crusade Against Ruts.

Never allow pools OF water to stano
on a road. If a road is not properly
drained it cannot long remain good.
1t requires longer time and more
power to haul light loads over bad
surfaces than to move twice as much
on good roads.
Anything that facilitates intercourse
between people tends to- civilize them.
Nothing helps so much toward this
end as perfect highways.
Two buildings were lately destroyed
by fire in an outlying ward of Cleve.
land, Ohio, on account Of the depth
of the mud, which prevented the en-
gines from reaching them in time.
Common roads may be vastly i'm
proved by being properly crowned
and thoroughly drained, and the work
of making and keeping them good will
be simplified if the traffic on them is
on wide tires.
The Governor of Massachusetts has
recommended wide-tire law and the
subject is being taken up seriously.
Such simple and effective means of
improving poor roads and maintaining
good ones ought not to be neglected.
Nature is not road-builder-she
never prepares artificial means of liv-
ing. But she furnishes ample ma
terial for every need, and science long
since learned to utilize what she offers
to meet the necessities of our COM
plex civilization.
The farmers along q road in Central
New York have donated twelve hun
dred tons of stone, picked from around
their farms, for road improvement
purposes, and a neighboring stone
crusher has been rented to properly
prepare the material for use.
The ever-increasing tendency to
concentrate in big cities can be coun-
teracted by making country life at
tractive. But country life cannot be
permanently attractive to cityresidents
unless good highways afford inter
communication and easy transit.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-16

One of the ideas offered by inventors
to the Washington authorities is to
build tanks to contain crude petroleum
at convenient places nearthe entrances
of exposed harbors, so that the sur
face of the water may be flooded with
oil in few minutes when warning is
given OF the approach of the feet Of
the enemy. Then with rockets this
oil may be set on fire in various places,
and offer barrier of fame, which the
invadey cannot cross without inviting
his own destruction.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-16
GOOD ROADS NOTES.



A Typical Case.
What is to be done under conditions
that obtain in many parts Of the coun-
try? is the question raised by men,
Der of the League of American Wheel
men. He says:
''We have III this township assessed
roughly at $3.50, 900 some sixty miles
of road. We cannot spend $4,000,
$1,000 or even 500 per mile on these
roads. There is not enough money
in the township, all told, to do it, and
the law lin its the bonded indebted
ness. 70 select a few miles of the
principal highway is not just to the
poor fellow who helps pay FOR it and
must drive five or ten miles to reach 1t.
much better work might he done
than we are doing, but it remains
that many miles must be attended to
with few dollars. What most is need
ed is careful consideration of existing
conditions-how best to spend $1,000
or $500 on sixty miles of road, re-
serving 800 or $500 of that for the
winters SHOWS. Teach us serviceable
lessons for communities of this sort,
and do not expect asphalt, macadam
or steel until the fellows from town
help to build them land they haven't
built their own yeti.
''No wonder the rustic kicks if the
road is to cost more than the entire
value of all the farms through which
it passes. He appreciates good roads,
bat must remember his slim pocket
book. He laughs little, too, at the
big saving heavier loads would make
for him. Nine out of ten of him at
that time of year have little to do for
self or team aud are not crowded with
what they have to market. He would
rather make two trips than one, as he
and the horses both need the exer-
else"
The tendency in such cases as this
is to underestimate the beneficial ef-
fects of hard roads and to assume that
they are of value only during the win
ter. They are Of enormous value then,
and Of equally great value in summer
and the busy seasons. when the posi-
bility of hauling big loads is money
in the pocket.
In the past, the farmer has been left
too much TO his own resources in the
care of the highways. Now, however,
State aid is srapidly being acknowledged
as the proper means of promoting the
good work, and the States are slowly
but surely falling into lire in adopting
it. Until it is generally in force, there
may be time for much good work to
be done, and the first steps toward
real Improvement can be taken by Sc
curing careful grading, thorough drain
age and the adoption of wide tires.
In this connection the experiences
of two southern counties is right to the
point. In one, the loads average 2466
pounds and the tax is ten cents hun
dred. In the other the loads are but
800 pounds and tho tax twenty cents
hundred. Improved methods reduced
the road tax one-half, and greatly i'm
proved the roads.
This county owns grader, plows,
carts, implements and six mules, and
a superintendent and five men are
kept at work on the roads. The work
costs S55.17 a mile and though the
roads are only plain "dirt," they are
kept in such good condition that three
times as much can be hauled as on
roads cared for in the old way. Here,
surely, is cheap and easy way to be-
gin.-L. A. W. Bulletin.
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Foreign.

Havana tolls night and day upon her de-
lenses, the civil governor and other Of
fcials len ding their hands to the work.
The German first-class cruiser Kaiserin
Augusta has left Nagasaki, Japan, for
Manila.
President Dole and other members OF the
Hawaiian Government met the transports
bearing troops to the Philippines and ten
dered them the freedom Of the island.
Citizens raised $4,000 to entertain them
during their stay in Honolulu. The Ha-
waiians say they will raise fund to build
US battleship II the war proves long
one.
The Congregational Union OF Ontario and
Quebec, In Toronto Wednesday, passed
resolutions OF sympathy with the United
States In their war with Spain. They also
indorsed the project OF an Anglo-Saxon al
lance.
The Spanish garrison In the neighbor-
hood Of Gibraltar has been reinforced by
additional troops at San Rogue, with
further reinforcements at Tarifa, Barrfos
and Algeciras.
Ernest Terah Hooley, the biggest COM
pany promoter IN England, and who was
supposed to be a multi-millionaire, has
gone into the hands OF Il receiver. Actions
to recover S2,O0O,0OO are pending against,
him.
England makes s2O,OOO,O 900 a year profit
out of its postoffice.
The recent census showed 62 900 Protes-
tants among the 81, 900, 900 Of Italy.
The British warship Talbot sailed from
Havana for Jamaica with number OF
English refugees.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-16
Domestic.

The torpedo boat Mackenzie has had her
trial trip. Her test was made over the
Government measured knot at Deepwater
Point, Delaware Bay. Penn, and was en-
tirely satisfactory. With the tide she made
considerably over the tweuty-knot require
ment, and averaged the twenty knots
against the tide. The fastest mile was
covered in 2.55.
George A. Banes, Lieutenant Colonel OF
the Canadian-Amerlcanr regiment, rendered
tho regiment to Governor Tanner, OF Illi-
nois, and said the regiment asked the Gov
ernor to appoint j. Mack Tanner to the