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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-07-14
Chinese Barred.
The Resolution signed.

Washington. July s.-President Nc
Kinley signed the resolution for the
annexation of Hawaii at seven o'clock
last evening and Admiral Miller will
proceed to Honolulu at one on the
cruiser Philadelphia to hoist the
American flag and take possession of
the islands
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-07-14

o-Sies the Pleasure of a Drive.
~arriage doubles the pleasure 81 driy.
eaudiug buyers of carriages or haf-
~ save dollars by sending for the
lsts rec catalogue Of the Elkhart Carriage
a. Harness Mig. Co. Elkhart, Ind.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-07-14
Assume Public Debt.

THE public debt OF The republic of Ha-
passage of this joint resolution, including
the amounts due 10 depostors in the Ha-
waiian Sostal savings bank, is hereby as
sumed by the government of the United
States; but the liability of the United States
in this regard shall in no case exceed 81
0U0.OO0. So long, however, as the existing
government and the present commercial
relations of the Hawaiian Islands are con-
tinued as herenbefore provided said gov
ernment shall continue 10 pay the interest
lid deb
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-07-14
Lizzie PARE. Potosi. Wis.
HOODS PILLS are the favorite

MUMMY QUINN VTV- Td~V % IINT. tIsV
to operate. p ce9ts
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18
A Negro Burned at the Stake.

Two weeks ago a horrible and
CHASTITY tragedy was enacted at Doy-
line a small station in Webster parish
on the V. S. & P. R. r. 1t was the
burning alive at the stake of a negro
who had a few days previously crimi-
naIly assaulted and beaten most bru-
tally a poor white woman, whom be
met on the road about dusk. Leay-
ing his victim for dead the fiend made
his escape, she recovered by daylight
and was found wandering around in
a dazed condition. The Bienville
Bell gives the following account of
the capture and execution:
Suspicion fastening on William
Street, a yellow brute, on Tuesday
evening he was arrested at the Allen
ton mill and conveyed to the Minden
jail. He protested his innocence,
even proving his presence elsewhere
on the night Of the deed by two negro
witnesses, but when confronted with
his pistol covered with blood and
shreds of hair, he weakened and con-
fessed his guilt, c%orroborating the
woman's story throughout. This
sealed his fate and it was resolved to
burn him at the stake on Friday even
ing. At the fatal hour a surging,
eager crowd, fully 1000 strong,
gathered by rail, vehicle, horseback
and afoot. A strong stake was driven
down and to this the doomed wretch,
exhibiting remarkable nerve, was
bound by passing a log chain repeat
eddy around his body. Around him a
lot of dry wood was piled to the
height of three feet and over this and
the culprit five gallons Of oil were
poured. In a short talk he declared
his innocence and said his soul would
soon mount to heaven, but recanta-
ton Of his confession brought no re-
prieve. and several lighted matches
we're applied to the rude pyre, the
fierce flames seeking their victim and
like fiery serpents winding their sting
ing folds in agonizing embrace around
his quiyering form. No cry or groan
escaped him, but when the whitening
blast was hottest he was seen to raise
his hands to his face as if trying to
beat back the p@itiless element that was
pressing the bitter cup Of death to his
lips. In about 10 minutes he sank
limp at the foot of the stake where
ready hands piled the glowing embers
upon him soon reducing The body to q
oharred, ~blackened mass.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18
Yellow Fever in Mississippi.

Last Thursday the Mississippi State
Board of Health, announced that
there were several cases of yellow
fever at MeIIenry, a small town on
the Ship Island railroad, ii Harrison
counsy, about 20 miles from the gulf.
The Boards Of Health Of Mississippi
and Louisiana have both declared a
quarantine Of ten days against all per
sons coming from the coast counties,
Hancock, Harrison and Jackson. A
detention camp has been established
at Fontainebleau.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18
.IudHmHnt.
STATE OF LoUIsIANA,-7h
judicial District Court,-Parisb {
Vermilion,-No.
Rosa M. Feray
Rosa M. Feray
VS..
Henry J. Stansbury.

In the matter of the above MN
bered and entitled cause the p~laiptiff
having been duly authorized to stand
in judgment and default having bean
entered and no motion made to set Tho
same aside or answer filed, said al.
fault was on motion confirmed. AMI
the law and the evidence being i,
favor Of the plaintiff and against tbp
defendant.
1t is therefore ordered, adiudged
and deereed that the plaintiff Rosa
M. Feray be and is hereby separated
in property from the defendant Henry
j. Stansbury, and that the conmu-
nifty of acquets and gains heretofore
existing between said parties resulting
from their marriage be and is hereby
dissolved.
1t is further ordered that the said
plaintiff have the sole administration
of her separate estate and business
affairs, free from the control of her
husband, Henry j. s~tansbury.
Thus done, read and signed IN open
court this 4th day Of June, 4. I. 1858.
(Signed) G. DEBA1LLoN,
Judge 18th Jud. Dist. Court.
Filed June 4, 1898.
(Signed) ALcfDE LEBLANC.
Clerk of Court.
] hereby certify the above to be 4
true and correct copy of the original
on file in my office.
Given under my hand and seal Of
office this 18th day Of June, 1928.
Jos. G. LEBLANC,
Dy-Clerk of Court.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18
Daniel L. Boone Passes Away

Daniel L. Boone, a son Of one Of
the early mayors of Chicago, and a
great-grandnephew Of Daniel Boone
Of Kentucky, died on March 18th
at bis home, 877 Southport avenue,
after a long illness. He was born in
Elkton, Ky, July II, 1884, and
came to Chicago in 1886 with his
father, DR.. Levi D. Boone.-chicago
Record.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

The London Times, q Journal not
given to Righteousness has been moved
to remark that Ceryera's feet has ac-
complished nothing thus far, but the
consumption Of coal; and that is a
fair characterization Of its record.
Invincible in peace, it played to be
Invisible in war, but was not sly
enough to escape detection by our
Schley naval commander.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

The latest news is to the effect that
Germany is going to send her entire
Pacific squadron to Manila. 1t is
supposed that she wants to have a say
so in the final disposition of the Phil
ippine islands. Since her success in
tae Franoo-Prussian war Germany has
developed the big head to such an ex-
tent together with an unsatisfied de-
sire to NEEDLE in the affairs of other
nations, that it is about time she was
tlrashed into a condition Of ordinary
deeency and civility.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18
Notice for Publication.

Land Office at New Orleans, In.
June s. 1898 !
Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing-named settler has filed notice OF hls
intention to make final proof in snppofs
of his claim, and that said proof will De
made before Clerk District Court, Yer
milton Parish, at Abbeyille, La, on Juiy
16, 1898, viz:
Leoscar CORNER,
who made Homestead Entry No. Il, 2Ss,
for the NE fri !, S s., Up Il SR ",
Louisiana Mer. Il.
He names the following witnesses 70
prove his continuous residence upon anu
cultivation of, said land, viz:
Euclide Meaux, NnIna Meaux, CypTlenl
Lege, Jr,, Zephiren Clement. all OF Fer-
million parish, La.
G. Med. BRUMBY, Registrar.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18
Constable Sale.
STATE of Lonisiana-Parish Of
Vefmilion-2d Justices Court
No.
Robert J. Young
Nine Elizlbeth Sannier.

BIZ vistne of d writ Of feri faciss
issutd By the Honorable Second
Justices Court. in ihe matters of tho
above numbered and entitled sai,,
authorizing and commanding me To-
seize aud sell the property Of sail
defendant. to satisfy said writ, will
proceed 10 sell at public auction To-
the last aud highest bidder. at ,he
olfee Of the Second Ju-tice's Court
III Henry. in this Iarish on
Saturday, July 9, 1898,
between The legal hours prescribed
by law, the following described
property. selzed to satisfy said writ
to vit
twenty-five arpents 81 lani sifaa-
ted III The parrish Of Vermlliob, On
the east side OF The Vermilion river
and bounded north by Jps. 9'hibo-
deanx, south nv 0~neziphore Thiho-
deaux. east hy Emile Soirez aud west
By Albert T'hihodeaux.
Terms-Ca>h
FRANCIS HARRINGTON.
Jnne 4, 1898. Constable.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

STATE OF LOUISIANA,-17th
Judicial District Court,-Parish Of
Vermilion,-No. 1862.
Succession Of Henry Il. Bartels.
Notice is hereby given to all parties
interested or having any opposition to
to make to the tableau of debts and
charges and final settlement and also
application to be discharged as admin
istrator Of said succession and bis
bond Cancelled, fled by Solomon Wise
administering said estate to file the
same in writing in the office of the
clerk of the district court within ten
days from the date hereof.
Given under my hand and seal Of
office this 18th day of June, 1898.
ALcIDE LEBLANC,
Clerk of Court.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

Among the mass Of laws proposed
in the present Legislature is a lot OF
drag net legislation, which if enacted
into law viii prove quite onerous to
those within their scope and afford
lots of perquisites to certain officials.
One of these is House bill No. IS re-
curing a record of all corporations in
the State to be kept by the Secretary
of State.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

Here's something real good, and
you must figure il out: Make the
figures representing the year in which
you were born; to this add 8; and
then add your age at last birthday.
Multiply this sum by 1000 and from
the total thus obtained deduct $685.
4s3; then substitute for the figures
thus obtained the corresponding let
ters of the alphabet: that is, substitute
A for |, B for 2, G for 3, and SO on.
The letters thus obtained will divide
themselves into three words, which
may express what you are.-Morgan
City Review.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18
Leoscar Corner.
TAKEN UP.

I have taken up a red-brown bull.
about two or three years old, branded
but too disfigured to be made out.
Owner will please come forward and
identify him and pay all costs other
wise he will be disposed of according
to law after due advertisement.
June 1898. JESSE e. WHITEs
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

A country that IA carry on a war
and feed the world at the same time,
has no equal on earth. And that is
just exactly what our Uncle Samuel
is now doing, and will continue to do
until the flag Of Spain is driven from
the Western Hemisphere.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature declaring that a theft Of
property to the value of SIS shall con-
stitute a misdemeanor only. This il
passed will largely increase the chicken
and hog thieves and should be pro-
perly styled ian act to encourage and
promote the crime of petty larceny
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

After an absence of several months
we are pleased to find on our table
once more the Louisiana Rice Journal,
that handsome 16-page semi-monthly
published by Our friend 1. 5. Scott,
of Crowley. 1t is growing in excel
lence and is almost indispensable to
the wide-awake farmer.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

The Republican party through John
Sherman, Grover Cleveland, SHARK
Hanna, and 10 Letter have brought
more deprivation, suffering, and dis
tress upon the human family and
greater loss to property values in this
country, than all the wars and cpl
denies and drouths and cyclones that
we have encountered since the treason
of Benedict Arnold.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

William. j. Bryan, has been of
fered by the Governor Of Missouri the
c~olonelcy Of a regiment, but has de-
clined as he expects to command one
from Nebraska.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

House bill No. 16, by Hon. R. 2.
Leblanc, providing an additional JUS
tica Of the peace for the 9Th ward Of
Vermilion parish passed the Senate
last Monday and win become a law as
soon a signed by the governor.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

Pedagogue-"Coniugate the verb
TO do.'' Pupil-"Do, Dewey,
DONE" Pedagogue-Correct, my
boy; you shall have a Manila hat
next summer. Boston Transcript.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

A bill has been introduced in Con-
gress to enlist 1905 900 negroes to be
used as an army Of occupation in
Cuba when the island has been Wrest-
ed from the Spanish.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

The government paid S342, 900 for
the Merrimac less than two months
ago. 1t is rather an expensive cork.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18
SPANISH MISRULE.

SPANISH MlbHULE.
The American people can conceive
no idea of the official thieving and OPP
pressiYe taxation to which the Spanish
colonists are subjected. A writer in
the New York Sun, gives the follow
ing graphic description Of the way the
natives of the Philippines are plum
dered under the guise Of taxation:
"Of late years the rapacity Of the
Spanish has increased, and the poor
people are desperate. They long for
any other governing power than the
Spanish. I can't begin to think now
of all the taxes and licenses that the
people in the islands pay for their
government. All males over twenty
one years Of age must pay an annual
poll tax hat equals SIS ii our money.
Ali females must pay $I4 as a poll
tax. A person must get a license to
gather cocoanuts from his own trees
and sell them. | have myself paid
hundreds of dollars for licenses for
poor farmers who wished to harvest
their indigo crop and sell It to me.
Every article of furniture that costs a
sum equal to So in our money is tax
ed. The curtain never goes up at
theatres that SO is not paid to the
government. No one in the Philip
pines may kill his own animals for
market, clip his sheep, or cut down q
tree without first paying a fee to some
of the army of collectors that infest
the country. A couple pay a tax
when they wish TO be married, besides
q fee to the padre. The natives love
snowy funerals, and the Spanish de-
cided a few years ago that the grave
diqger must collect S1.50 for the gov
eminent before be can bury any one
in the cemetery. These sums seem
petty, but it should be considered
that the average native has little OPP
portunity to work for hire, that ii he
does succeed in securing employment
his wages are often not more than five
cents a day, and hat he is usually
unable to dispose of his farm products
for cash, being compelled to exchange
them for other commodities. In ad-
dition to these and other taxes that /
do not recall there is a tax on beasts
Of burden, a tax for keeping 9 shop,
a tax on mills or oil presses, a tax on
weights and measures, and a tax on
cockfghting. At every turn the poor
native finds himself face to face with
the dire necessity Of paying tribute,
and be frequently spends his life in an
Intellectual effort to meet the obliga-
ton thus imposed. The revenue goes
to Spain to pay the soldiers and navy.
"There is no escape from these
taxes. l have seen women whipped
in the rural towns because they had
perhaps failed to get a license before
they sold their annual crop Of cocoa,
nuts or had secreted a cow or a goat
SO that the tax collector did not seei it
in his official rounds"
Yellow Fever in Mississippi.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18
A LONG NEWS NERVE.

more than I4.UUU miles, over 4 dozen
or more cables, and three or more
overland wires, before it gets to this
city. Very few persons, among the
thousands who watched the bulletin
boards these days, stop to think,
when a Manila dispatch is posted. that
the message was repeated over and
over again, as it was sent from cable
office to cable Office in the long jour
ney from the Philippine port to the
American shore. 1t travels across
seas, CULTS, bays and straits, NOUN
tains, valleys and plains. But on
Monday the news that Commodore
Dewey was ready to lombard Manila
was known in this city thirty-five
minutes actual time after the British
operator at Manila opened his key.
The cables were rushing things.
The eastern cables are owned by
British companies. Across the China
sea, from Hong Kong to Cape Boil
mao. on Luzon island, in the Philip
pines, a cable was laid in 1880. The
cable is 529.11 miles long. From
From Cape Bolinao across the island
Of Manila is a telegraph line about
100 miles long. All Of the news w
have received from Manila has been
first t~elegraphed from Manila to the
cable station at Cape Bolinao, and
from there sent on by cable to Hong
Kong.
From Hong Kong to New York a
message has an interesting course.
From the Chinese port it is first sent
down to the Chinese sea over a
4G0-mile cable to Saigon in Cochin
China. Another cable, $50 miles
long, conveys it to Singapore, on the
straits, or it may be sent to the island
of Labuun, Borneo, and then>to Sin
gapore.
From Singapore itruns around the
Malay peninsula to the island of Pc
nang. on the western coast Of Lower
Siam, a distance OF 388 miles. Across
the Bay Of Bengal from Penang to
Madras the message is repeated on d
cable 1893 miles long.
In India the message reaches the
first land telegraph line after leaving
the island of Luzon. Across India
TO Bombay the message runs over 800
miles of wire. Then it is put on a
cable again to cross the Arabian Sea
to Alden, on the Gulf of Alden, a dis
lance Of 1851 miles. Up through
the Red Sea to Suez is another long
cable, 1,403 miles. Again the mes
sage goes overland the 200 miles of
wire from Suez to Alexandria.
The Mediterranean has DO direct
cable from Alexandria to Gibraltar.
The message must be sent over a 3D.
mile cable to the island of Malta, and
then repeated over the Gibraltar cable,
1925 miles further, From Gibraltar
to CarcaYellos, near Lisbon, is a short
cable, 337 miles long, connecting the
Mediterranean port with the 856-mile
ocean cable from Lisbon to Perth
curno, the cable station at Lands
End England
Eleven ocean cables connect the
English, Irish, and French cable sta
tons with America, and the message
from Manila, upon reaching Lands
End, may be sent v e any Of these
cables. The Western Unions mes
sages are sent from Sermon Cove,
near Lands End, direct to Dover
Bay, near Canso, Nova Scotia, 1851
miles from there they are repeated
over the coast cable to New York,
888 miles more. Coming by this
route the MESSAGE from Manila 10
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

The expense of the government in
recruiting the volunteer army averaged
about 50, 900, 900 a days but de-
creased to about one-half. The sec
ond call for $4,000 volunteers viii
cost about $40, 600, 900.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

Pierre Dupuy, Of Lite Pecan, who
attempted to commit suicide BY cut
ting his throat with a razor was still
alive II last acooants.-cameron
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

General Fitzhugh Lee is to have
charge of a military expedition Of
10, 900 men which is to sail the last Of
this week for San Juan, Porto Rico.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

Several cases of fever have develop
ed in Colfax during the past week,
and some Of them are thought to be
cases of sssloB'' or continued fever.
In view Of the approach Of the sickly
season, it would be well for the au-
thorities to look after the sanitary
condition of the town, and every citi-
zen should see to it that his premises
are properly cleaned and all necessary
d~isinfeetion attended to without de-
lay.-Colfax Chronicle.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18

Hobson is q southern Democrat.
Dewey is a Vermont Democrat.
Pretty good kind Of patriots after all.
aren't they
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-06-18
Saturday, Iune 10, 1895.

Married men always have more
buttons off their clothes than batche-
lors.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-01

II direct proof Of the bad con-
dition of labor were required, we
need only point to the strike still
in progress in Cleveland. The
men on strike there have had their
wages reduced twice since the
presidential election, until at the
time when the strike began their
wages were SO per cent. less than
when tho men wore marching
through the streets of Cleveland
bearing the banners of "the adj
vance agent of prosperity
Though organs of speculation are
full of assurances that we have
tumbled into the butter tub of
prosperity, the fact remains that
opportunities for profitable en-
ployment Of labor, like oppor-
tunities for profitable investments
of capital, are as restricted as ever,
and that wages of labor, like in
terest on capital, are still declining
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-01

The Michigan politician and
lumber dealer, at the head of the
war department, was most salts
factory tigurehead in time of peace.
The mistake made was in keeping
him III office in time of war. With
different times coming. with new
issues ahead, with the need of COM
parative military readiness which
new responsibilities are in some
degree bound to impose upon us,
Alger is not the man to retain in
his present position minute long
er than can be helped, and if his
partisan champions don't know it,
the men who suffered in Cuba and
in the mobilization camps in this
country do.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-01
FORECLOSURES SALE.

Notice is hereby given, that that certain mort
gage, executed and delivered by William
lQerbrun, mortgagor, to Farmers Trust Com.
pany MORTGAGE, dated the 31st day of May,
A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-five and
filed for record in the office of the register of
deeds of the county of Cavalier and State of
North Dakota, on the 9th day of August, A.
at page 131, will be forcclosed by sale Of the
premises In such mortgage and hereinafter de.
scrlbod, at the front door OF the Courthouse in
the town Of Langdon in the County of Cavalier
and State of North Dakota, at the hour of
O'Clock p No. on the 18Th day of October 1898, to
satisfy the amount due upon said mortgage on
the day of sale.
which viii be sold to satisfy the same, are those
certain promises situated in the county of Cava
licr and State of North Dakota, and described
as follows, tO-wit: The north half of the north
east quarter OF section twenty one and the
outh-half and the northeast quarter of tho
utll-east quarter of the southwest quarter of
section sixteen, township one hundred and
sixty-three north of range sixty west of the
Fifth p. NJ, containing ITO acres moro or less
according to U. s. government survey.
There will be due on such mortgage at the d. "
of sale the sum of Fifteen hundred and twenty.
two dollars and seventy-six cents principal and
interest together with tho sum of twelve
dollars and ninety cents for taxes necessari
ly paid on said mortgaged premises by said
MORTGAGE and interest, also the sum of Seven.
ty.five Dollars Attorneys fees for foreclosing
Dated at Fargo North Dakota, this 23rd day
of August, 1885,
FARMERS TRUST COMPANY,
II. n. CosHUN, Mortgage.
Attorney for Mortgage,
40 Fargo, N. Dakota.