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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-12-17
Big Money in Life Insurance.

Henry 3. Hyde, president OF the
Equitable Life-Insurance company,
who is supposed to draw the largest
salary of any man in the world, lies
dying at his home in East 10th street,
New York. Mr.. Hyde has been a
man of intense energy and constant
activity, and, although possessed OF a
large fortune, he has labored night
and day to build up the great institu-
ton of which he is the head. He has
worked more hours and has taken less
vacation time probably than any man
in his employ, and his present illness
is simply the result of physical ex-
haustion.
MI. Hyde started the Equitable Life
Insurance company in 1860 with a
capital of 500, 600 which was contri-
buted by ten men, each taking 100
shares Of 500 each. The capital of
the company has never been increased,
although it's assets are now more than
$40, 900, 900. Mr.. Hyde purchased
the interest of several of>his associates
from time to time until he 10Y owns
$40 shares. or $4,000 of the stock,
and absolutely controls the company.
1t is understood among his friends
that he has placed his stock in the
hands of trustees with instructions to
keep it intact forever, and has provi-
ded for the distribution of the income
in an equitable manner among his
heirs. His principal heir is his son, a
young man of excellent character and
intelligence, who has been in the Of
flee Of the company since he was
graduated from college a few years
ago, being trained to fill his fathers
place.
Friend Jastremski of the Shreve-
port Outlook has a peculiarly happy
way of puncturing a fraud. His latest
effort in that line is a sharp prod at
the Texas wind bag Bailey who in a
speech recently at Dallas bewailed the
prospect of American w~orkingmen be-
ing placed in competition with the
cheap and servile LABOR Of our newly
acquired possessions. Gen. Jastrem-
ski says:
DIR. Bailey has got down to using
the Republican clap trap campaign
argument for protection, notwith-
standing the fact that the exports of
alleged high wage American manufac-
lures have %quintupled in the last thir-
ty years, in competition with alleged
cheap labor abroad. The price of
commodities is usually regulated by
quality, supply and demand-and the
wages paid to produce them seldom
cut any figure IN raising or lowering
prices. Our cotton and sugar plant
ers and the farmers, can speak adj
visedly on this point. Surely, the
Filipinos wont come to raise 4 cent
cotton, or dig coal for % cents a ton
that the coal trusts sell to the people
for five dollars or in many places,
but it is more probable that Ameri-
can colonists and capital would give
better wages to the Filipinos, if it paid
to do it. MI. Bailey had better hunt
up something fresher than this old
and stale chestnut.
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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-12-17
e. |. ADDISON. Publisher
Saturday, December II, 1898.

Bloody riots are prevailing in the
cityN Of Havana. Several Spaniards
and Cubans have been killed.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-12-17

The Monroe city council passed the
eCurfew law over the veto of the
Mayor by a vote of six to three.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
HOW THEY DIED.
The Sad Fate of MI. and Mrs.
Pollok,

The Sad Fate of Mr.. and Mrs.
One of the table walters on the Inflated
Bourgogne gives the following details
which probably contain all that will ever be
known of the last moments of Mr. and
Mrs. Pollok. He did not serve their table
but knew them by sight. He said he saw
Mr.. and Mrs. Pollok come up the compan-
ionway from their state room. They had
life preservers around their shoulders, and
Mr.. Pollok had his wife's arm and was
assisting her. They made their way with
the other first-cabin passengers toward the
bridge, where the captain was. and took
their stand beneath the bridge. leaning
back against the deckh3use. The captain
treasured them, saying there was no dam
ger, that all would be saved, that they
would reach Sable Island, sixty miles away.
The first-caotn passengers remained tran
Gull and calm. There was nc struggling
they appeared to have confidence lii the
captains statement.
The waiter left the ship in one of the
beats about ten minutes before the end.
His last view of the first-cabin passengers
showed that they were still resting against
the deckhouse, with upt1rncd faces, wa1ch-
ing the captain. That Dorfion Of the deck
here the bridge was sank beneath The
water for few momen.3, then rose again
before finally settling. when 1t went Gown
the first time the passengers were still
there. When 1t rose again all were gone
and he saw no more Of them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL RULES.
The Bourgogne Was Going mt Excess
stve speed I'm q Fog.


In commenting upon the question Of the
liability OF the French liner La Bour-
gogne for the loss of life In the collision
of July 4. a competent legal authority here
today said:
From the description thus far published
It appears that La Bourgogne violated rule
IL of the International rules, which re-
guires vessel in fog to go at a moderate
rate OF speed. constantly sounding her fog
morn, whether other vessels are heard la
.he vicinity or not She is reported TO have
o ,s going shead at seventeen knots.
o"sn our courts held I'm the case OF the
cessfve 80 1870
q, eut rule is goes even further, providing
T., Nneh steam vessel hearing apparent
~, Nsru OF her beam the fog signal Of
,essei, me position OF which is not as
csrtsiheo' shail. SO far as the circumstances
s. stop her engines altogether. She
a! lhciI navigate with caution until the
oahger or collision is over.
me new international rules and the
practice OF the admiralty courts are 40
sSrlct III requiring steamer to act with
me utmost prudence and caution in a foa
mat there Will be no doubt that the Gro
lhaTtys hlre Will bring suit against the Com
Pagnie 1rsnsatlantique In some English
court. whether that company will file a
cross hoel in some French court seems I'M
eerlah. Under the general admiralty law
e1ere Is no liability for causing the death
Va passenger upon the high sea
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
SITUATION AT THE FRONT.
conditions Described I'm n Df.nat.s
From Shafter

In sie.i Of published allegations that the
troops were on short rations, General Shat
ter was wired as 20 the proof OF the asser-
ton His telegram Saturday said that on one
Day only were any troops on half rations
ana on this day the only troops which SUI
fered were few at the furthest potut from
the supplies.
The general says there was considerable
complaint on account of lack OF tobacco
but added that there was sufficient food
tobacco and other necessary supplies on
tne ships to last at least two months and
they VIII be brought ashore at the earliest
possible moment. Everything he reported
70 be in most satisfactory condition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11

Former Consul to Annaburx Frozel
In a Snow Storm on ManOok Trail.

Former Consul to Annaburg Frozen
In a Snow Storm on ManOok Trail.
The. schooner Hattie /. Phillips, from St
Michael, yesterday brought to San Fran
cisco the sad news of the death on the Ma
nook trail of Victor F. Maidhof of New
York, who was United States consul to
.Annaburg, Saxony, during the first adj
ministration of President Cleveland. Maid
hof attempted to cross the Portage from
Unalakik to Kaltag. bound for Manook, In
company with H. NJ. Morgan, correspondent
of the Associated Press. Deserted by their
guide. they lost their way in a binding
snow storm. Their provisions were ex-
hausted, their hands and feet frozen, and
after subsisting on dog meat for several
days Maidhof died and was buried in d
snow drift. His companion, Morgan, be-
came snowbound and was found by party
of Indians.
After he had lain four days in his sleep
ing bag at the point of death. Morgan was
resuscitated at the Unalakik mission, al
though some his of toes had to be ampu-
tated. The Phillips also brought word of
the drowning In a hole in the ice while
crossing the bay at st. Michael of George
Clark of Glasgow, Scotland, and more re-
Gently from Victoria, B. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
Going to Manila.

George F. Becker of the United States
geological survey will accompany the
troops under General Otis from San Fran
cisco TO Manila. He is detailed by the De-
partEne Mt of the Interior to make such in
vestigations as he can with the mineral
resources and other geological features OF
the Philippines The military authorities
are directed to afford him such facilities as
may be practicable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11

Son of ME-. Morgan ID. Lewis Lost a
Santiago.

SON OF Mr. morgan u. Lewis Lost at
Santiago.
Second Lieut.. Louis H. Lewis of the 9th
Infantry. who was killed at Santiago. was
the son of Mr. Morgan D. Lewis. the man.
ager of the Pcrtner Flats of this city
Lieut.. Lewis was twenty-six years OF age
and great favorite. He was born at
Ccbleslin. N. Y. and appointed to the
Military Academy at West Point In June
$780, After graduating he was stationed
at Madison barracks, N. Y, and later did
duty at Sacketts Harbor. He was hur-
rIed south with the first expedition to Cuba
Yesterday the War Department gave out
the news of the death Of Lieut.. Lewis,
which was the first intimation his father
had Of the loss Of hts son.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11

FOR the choice OF lawn,
percale. batiste and dim
fty shirt waists, which
sold for as high as 81 80
-snd IN the hantsumest
patterns you've ever be-
held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-11
MARRIED..

McDANNEa-J0NES. On Monday, July H. 1855
ut 81. Andrews Church by the Rev. Josiah d.
Perry, LUCY JONES OF Washington ID. C. and
THOMAS HUMEs MCDANIEL Of Baltin,o-e
Nd.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-14
NEW TRIAL ASKED.
Plaintiff Seeks One in Case Against
East Greenwich.
At Previous Trial the jury Returned
Judgment For the Town.

The plaintiffs petition for a new trial
In the case Of Jose A. Seamon and wife
against Levi N. Fits, town treasurer of
East Greenwich, was Heard by the APP
pellate Court this afternoon. The plain
tiffs sued to recover damages for injuries
received by defect In the main thor
oughfare of the town, which defect was
due to the improper filling of an excava-
tion made for water pipe and the jury
found verdict for the defendant.
The main ground on which new trial
was asked was the refusal of the presiding
justice to charge the jury that notice to
the town surveyor OF the district in
which the detective highway was. was
notice to the town. ana If he was guilty
Of negli geDce In refusing to put the same
in proper condition the town was liable
for any damages resulting from the
neglect OF tho surveyor.
William III. Greene and i. DE V.
O'Connor were attorneys for the plaintiffs
and Samuel W. X. Allen repres, ,nted the
town Of East Greenwich
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-14
LODGE ISLANDER CASE.
Defendant 0'T0ole Asks For an
Arrest of judgment.
Contends WORDS COMPLAINED OF DO Not
Furnish Ground For Action.

The controversy between Alexander j.
o'Tooe and his Lymansvile neighbors. who
sell liquor which at one time wHxed warm
was recalled today by the hearing on defend
ants motion in arrest Of judgment in the Ap-
pellate Court i'm the SANDER suit of Joanna
Lodge against O'Toolo. A jury in the common
pleas division of the supreme court gave Mrs.
Lodge a verdict for s25. The ground OF the
suit was that Mr. O'Toole accused Mrs. Lodge
Of drinking in Burke's salon at Lymansville
with other women and OF being drunk in pub
lie.
Attorney James A. Williams, counsel for
O'Toole after the verdict made "A motion in
arrest OF judgmon and for cause alleged that
the plaintiff In her declaration did not set
forth n ground of action. Mir. Williams relied
upon the decision of the court i'm the case of
Edward +. seery vs. Albert Vial, where the
court declared the accusation, alleged and
proved, i'm this case that of bong drunk, is not
one that involves moral turpitude nor does 1t
constitute a common law or statutory offence
The plaintiff claimed that as the town pun
ishes intoxication under certain circum-
stances. IL becomes an offence thereby the
charge of which is action per SO bat the co ur
held 10 the contrary. A there was no allega-
ton Of any special damage Mr.. Williams ar
gued the ulaintin had no right to her verdict.
G. frank Parkhurst, counsel for Mrs. Lodge,
said that IL was TOO late n day 10 uphold the
doctrine that charge that n woman was
drunk in public was not aciionable per so for
il was one of the most serious charges that
could be made against woman..The jury had
by its verdict decided that the defendant bad
CHARGED the plaintiff with drunkenness so as
TO amount 10 a violation Of decency, and that
in the case of Kelley w. flaherty reported in
the l6 X. 1. where the court cited with rap
proyal the Massachusetts, case of Brown
vs. Nickerson, in which the broad ground was
taken that where an offence is charged which
IL proved, brings disgrace although the pun
ishment is not ignminious the charge was
actionable.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-14
Charges Made Against
the Rev. MI. OakeS.
SAID TO BE A SOCIALIST.
He Is Also Accused OF Card Playing
and Bicycle Riding.
CHASSIS TO CONSIDER THE CASE.

Kingston, n. Y, Feb lL-Ever since
the days when the deacons and elders of
the old First Dutch church resolved that
"the Rev. Hsrmanns Blom be instructed
to SEQ that hereafter his wife do let her
skirts hang at full length, this town
has been noteworthy for its church
qnarrsls. Along in the ffties of the
present century part Of the members
seeded and formed the Second Reformed
church, which was erected on Fair street,
but strife between tho various ministers
and the consistory OF the church did not
END with the secession.
Tonight at meeting of the Chassis of
Kingston. the consistory of the Fair
Strset reformed Chulcn will prefer Sc
rious charges against the Rev. Chandler
A. Oakss, the pastor OF that church. ana
il possible, he Will DO 0usted from his pas
torate.
As an opening wedge the cons.story will
claim that TIE minister has conducted the
church In IA careless manner and AT varl-
ance with the wishes OF the members and
prejudiclal To their best interests.
The consistory believes DIR. Oakes will
resign ut once when this charge Is pre-
ferred against him before the Chassis.
then the many charges SD long hanging
out. Among these, IL Is alleged, are card
playing and bicycle riding, wniis the thorn
that rankl6s in the flesh of the consistory
and church member alike is that DIR.
Oakes has long openly avowsd hiins as
n Socialist labor agitatOr, and bas spoken
in public, In the church and elsewhere on
thu ubject.
DR.. Oakes's friends declare that tho
minister will make good fight He will
retaliate against the mem bers Of his con-
sistory by charging them with uDchristian
actions. He, like the consistory, has not
yet shown his hand, and when he does
there will. indeed, he turmoil in the old
church. These friends further aver that
10 is because of the refusal Of the Rev. DIR.
Oake S To vote MS a prominent member of
the consistory Il. sired him to at the last
municipal election that he is now being
prosecuted.
Ii is also claimed that the member OF
the consistory spoken of has son-in-law
who is q minister of the Dt tch Reformed
church, and that he desires TO have Dr.
Oakes depossd and mis- son-in-law In
stalled in his place.
For the last few days affidavts and
petitions have been circulated ana secured
by both DIR. Oakes and the consistJry.
Among those who have petitionsd for
Dr. Oakes to ramain in charge of the
church ara ex-Congressman Loun sbsry,
ex-Judge Westbrook, ex-Postmastsr VOL
ven anu some three score other church
members. 1hs Rev DIR. Oakes was oncs
the assistant of tho Rev. Dr.. De Witt
Ialmage in the Brooklyn Tabernacle.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-14
AGED KANSAS PIONEER.
Hagaman at Seventy Will Lead . Colony
to the Klondilse.

Early next spring Kansas will send to
the Klondike gold regions man who
probably has encountered moro western
blizzards than any pioneer west OF the Mis-
sissippi river j. NJ. Hagaman, who Is
now organizing the Kansas Klondike col.
ony, is 20 years old. He is the editor of a
newspaper at Concordia and will take with
him small printing office and print Is.
sues of the Kansas Klondiker on his way.
His party will take the short cut across
the country in wagons Speaking Of his
trip recently, Hagaman said
81 know what it is To travel and camp
out, having driven OK teams moro than
3, 900 miles over the wilds of Kansas and
Nebraska before civilization got foothold
and have slept out in all kinds of weather,
many time having TO scrape the snow
away to find ground to make my bed on.
i have driven over snowdrifts 20 feet deep
In Kansas and Nebraska and have forded
streams in the winter when cakes of ice as
large as houses were floating down and
when the clothes would freeze the moment
one left the water l have faced for miles
on a drive as violent billiards as ever blew
in middle Nebraska, the mercury being
below zero, and have never hurt toe or
finger. am not alarmed about the cold
weather up in the Klondiko region. But
some will cay, You were young then and
could stand more hardships.' Applied to
some people, that argument would be
sound, but II has no force with me. have
not burned myself out with the use of in
toxicants nor wasted my physical energies
with ciissolute habits. Reasonable exposure
In youth helps old age.
Hagaman will select recruits for the
Kansas Klondike colony with view 10
their sobrioty and former temperate habits.
He wants no one In the party who ever has
been or is now addicted 20 the use OF whis'
Ky. for, he says, whisky drinkers could mol
stand the hardships in store for them.-
New York sun.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-14
CRIMINAL APPEALS.
A Number Dismissed Today For Want OF
Pros cuti0n.

Attorney General willard B. Tame
called mp number of cases in which the
state had obtained verdict of guilty
against law breakers In the common pleas
di,i ion In the Supreme Court tc day. Tho
defendants in all the cnsts Ind expressed
their opinions thrt tho verdiots wore un-
iustiilable. nut today thev failed to appear
and prosecute their appeals. The appeals
were all dismissed for non-prossoution
and the cases were Stats vs.. Guissppe
DE Ioiro; state rs. Minnie THOMPSON.
state Va. Patrick Mcguire. stats VS.. Nora
Conners; state VS.. Daniel w. hreen; State
vs.. William flynn; state VS.. Joseph koss;
state vs.. Ann Mcsolev; State vs. Micha.i
Glblin; State W. Michael Gorml,y; Stat,
vs.. Thomas Ready; Siato We. James
Mc(irath.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-14

where it wss held that when a statute
makes IL q crims To do this, or that, or
that mentioning several cognate matters
distiucti-ely, the complaint or indict-
ment may ordinarily charge them all
conjunctlvely in a single count.
Concerning tho alleged defect In the
statute, in not stating whether the per-
centaee vf watery fluids, milk solids anu
milk fats ia the milk complained OF
shall BE- determined bv weight or volume,
Mr.. GreenouRh said that hn analysis OF
milk by volume for the purpose OF de-
termining tile total solids and wutery
fluids is practical impossibility, ana
that the analysis employed by the local
milk Inspector is the standard method
used by Missao husetts and New York, by
the Association Of Official Agricultural
Chemists Of tho United States. the
Society of Public Anaiyslsts Of Great
Britain, and by all acknowledged special
lists in the analysis of milk.
4 he court held the case for ndyisement.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-14
FIRST SILVER WEDDING.
Origin OF the Custom Dates Back TO tss
Reign of Hughes Capet.

The fashion OF silver weddings dates
back to the reign of Hughes Capet, king
of Franco In 9S1, says Vogue.
Once, as Hugues was arranging his un
cle's affairs, he found on one of the estates
servant who had grown gray in the serv-
ice of his relative. He had been such n
friend of his masters that he was almost
looked upon ~ one of the family.
on the farm with this old man was also
serving woman who was as old rs he,
and also unmarried, and who had been
tho most devoted and hard working of the
women servants of the kings uncle. When
the king heard these praises of the two, he
ordered them to bo brought before him,
and said TO the woinsa:
"Your service IL great, greater than this
mans, whose services Were great enough,
for tho woman always finds work and
obedenco harder than a man, and there
fore will give you reward At your
ngc know Of none better than n dowry
and husband. The dowry is herc--this
farm from this time forth belongs TO you.
III this man who has worked with you five
and twenty years Is willing 60 marry you,
thc:. the husband l. ready"
"Your majesty" stuttorcd tho old peas
ant confuscdly, "how is it possible that we
should marry, having already silver
hairss"
"Then IL shall be- q silver wedding. an
swered tho king, "nnd here give you n
wedding ring. drawing costly ring
from his finger md placing the hand, ~
the thankful old people together
This soon became known ell over France
and raised such enthusiasts that IL Inc.
came fashion after "A % year. marriage
~ celebrate u silver wedding.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-14
A DESPERATE DUEL.
Probably Fatal Fight With Pistols
and Knives at Louisville, Ky.

louisville, KY, Feb. l4-A desperate duel
was fought with knives and pistols between
George Vogt and Arthur b. Waldron at
Fourth avenue and X street last night. Fred
vogt, the son OF George Vogt was also drawn
into the encounter. As n result Wadron is ~
ing at the city hospital in n precarious :condi-
tion and is not expected to live. Fred Vogt
is at the Gray street intrmary badly wounded
and the elder vost is in Jail charged with ma
licious shooting.
The primary cause OF the trouble was mur-
der case tried in the jefferson county court
about eight years ago. The elder Vogt was
charged with murder and the father of Arthur
Waldron was one of the principal witnesses for
the state. In consequence bitter hatred has
always existed between the two families.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-14
sioo REWARD 800.

The readers of this paper will he blessed 10
learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able TO cure in
all it, stages, ana thst il Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure Is the only positive cure known
TO the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires consiit utional
treatment. Hall Caiarrh Cure Is taken IN.
mucous surfeces Of the system, thereby de-
stroying the foundation OF the diseRsc, and
giving the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature In doing its
work. the prorrietors have NJ much faith In
It's curative powers that they offer one hun
dred dollars for sny case that IL fails 20 cure.
SEM for ia. ~ testimonials.
Address, r. !. CHENEY 81 CO., Toledo, o.
sold by Druggists, zoe.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-14
Or. Wheaton Dead.

ST. Paul, Mimi. Feb. "a DR. Robert
A. Wheaton, one OF the best known sur
geons In the county. disd suddenly last
evening Of apoplexr. DIR. Wheaton,
while but 30 years Of age. had national
reputation as surgeon. lie was born al
Northhsld. MINI, and graduated at
Harvard For year and half be was
in the Massachusetts General Hospital In