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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-24

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-24
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-05
LOVE CRAZED AND CURED.
Sight of Sweetheart Restores a Girls
Mind.

New York. July 5.-Philomena Zieg-
Ter was eighteen years old when she
met Ernest Kuhlen. They met at a
dance and loved at first sight mat
was five years ago.
Young KuhIen announced to his
parents his intention OF marrying pretty
Philomena, and met with strong OBJ
1ectiOns. They said he was too young
and that the girl was not suited to him.
Nevertheless the young people contn-
ued to make love and met whenever
they had a chance.
a friend they disagreed about some
trifiing matter. The girl drew from her
finger the engagement ring Kuhlen had
given her and threw it at his rect: he
picked 1t up, put it into his pocket ana
left the house.
make up" but she was disappointed.
To friends who interested themselves
he said he would have nothing further
to do with her. The girl Wept ana
mourned continually, the strain tod on
her mind and within three months she
was sent to a sanitar1um- Or MS Iee4-
ings Kuhlen gave no sign
For nearly five years the young man
neither asked for nor received any IN
formation concerning the girl In April
visitors at his fathers house said the
girls malady was incurable. The next
day KuhIen presented himself at the
sanitarium, and with difficulty per
suaded the doctor in charge to allow
him to see her. Much to the surprise
of that learned gentleman the girl be-
came rational at the sight of her lover
When he left she relapSed INTO heF
former state, but his next visit brought
back her scattering senses The visits
followed at frequent intervals, and the
girl recovered and was allowed to leave
the institution.
on June Is Ernest Kuhlen, strong
and proud, and PhilOmena Ziegler,
handsome and happy, were married by
the Rev. John Weylan, pastor or ST
Nicholas Roman Catholic church-
Ernest Kuhlen was disoWned by his
parents but he does not worry, and
every night his pretty wife greets him
when he returns from work to a little
cottage in Hudson Boulevard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-05
MAIL ROUTE TO SANTIAGO.
The Postal Authorities Will Have One
in Operation Soon.

Washington, July 5.-The postoffice
department has arranged for the estab-
ishment of a postal route between Key
West and Santiago de Cuba, so that the
soldiers and sailors of the United States
forces can hear from home and send
back letters to relatives and friends in
this country at regular stated times.
Through the cooperation of the navy
department the naval transport Fern
and another vessel will be placed at the
disposal of the pOstoffice authorities for
carrying the mails to and from San
tiago. The Fern is expected to leave
Key West on her initial trip in a few
days, and thereafter runs will be made
between the American and Cuban ports
semi-weekly, or at least twice in every
ten days.
To facilitate handling of mail matter
for the use of troops and sailors, their
letters and other postal packages will
be placed in pouches different in color
from those now in use. These pouches
will he placed on board the mail steam
ers at Key West, thus doing away with
opening them at the pOstOffice there.
Bags of the special design will be furn-
ished postOf1ices and railway postal
cars It is said at the postOfice depart
ment that a private soldier at Santiago
will be as sure of getting his mail under
the new system as he would were he at
home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-05
GOLD FROM SILVER.
American Chemists Efforts Do Not
Gain Public Favor.

New York. July SIN a recent issue
of L'Hyperchimie, the organ of the So
ciete Alchimique de France, reference
was made to the efforts of DR.. Stephen
H. Emmens to convert silver into gold.
And it was announced that the Ameri-
can has been anticipated fully so years
ago by a Frenchman named Tiffereau
The attention of DR.. Emmens having
been called to this story a few days
ago, says the New York Tribune, he
remarked:
lone point of difference between his
method and mine is that he combines
his silver with nitric acid, first having
reduced the metal to fine grains with a
file, while I rely chiefly upon tremend-
Gus pressure to effect the conversion
Tifereau also placed his stuff out in
the sunshine, and he is now inclined to
believe that this is an essential phase
Of the process. He says that he con-
sumed about IA days in the operation.
I have tried his method recently, but
thus far without definite results
"A test was arranged finally. It was
to be conducted by the officials of the
French mint. They insisted that the
experiment should be conducted with
absolutely pure silver, instead of Mex
lean silver. Tifereau submitted to this
requirement. From the point Of view
of the French officials the result was
unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, it is a
matter of record that their silver con-
tanned a little gold before they got
through, although they began with what
they believed to be absolutely pure met
al Ever since the odds have been
against Tiffereau and he has been IN
able to interest f1nanciers, chemists or
other persons Of influence"
DR.. Emmens suggests that an at
tempt be made to raise 81, 600 900. He
agrees to provide 100000 in behalf of
the Research society and to endeavOr to
secure $500 900 more on this side of the
Atlantic, thus leaving only half of the
total amount to be provided in Europe,
say $125, 600 by each of the four foreign
countries named.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-05
|. 600 PEOPLE
WENT DOWN.
A Bridge Falls at Shelby, Ohio,
While
A Public Wedding is Being Gel
ebrated Upon It.
KILLED AND INJURED
Number Over Many BrOk-
en- Legs and Arms.
Crash Came Just as Ceremony
Was Completed.

Shelby, Ohio. July 5.-A bridge eros
sing the Mohiean river here fell yester-
day afternoon with 1000 people Four
were killed outright and hundred in
jured, some of them seriously. A pub
lie wedding was being celebrated on the
bridge as one of the features of the Gel
ebration. Just as the ceremony had
been completed the bridge went down
with a crash, precipitating the people
a distance of Is feet. Those killed were:
CYRUS KUHAN of Shelby aged so.
Mrs. LOUISE MONAHAN of Edison,
aged 80.
ADA BLOODHART Of Shelby, aged
r.
FRANK KECKLER of Shelby, aged
II.
The panic which ensued was indie
scribable and it was impossible to get
anything like a correct list of the
wounded Many persons suffered from
broken legs and arms, but very few If
any of the injured are likely to die.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-05
LOYAL TO WHEELER.
Alabamians Forget Partisanship In
Their Desire to Honor Him.

Decatur, Ala, July 5.-If the express
S1onS of hundreds of voters of every
shade of political opinions can be taken
as any Indication General Joseph
ish in Cuba with perfect cOmplacency
and never give a thought nor worry
about his chances for reelection to
congress in the coming election. AS
Gov. Johnston decided not to call
special election, that incident IS closed,
and the question now is, ''Wiu Wheeler
suffer in the regular electton?" Every
thing indicates that he will not. Dem
ocrats, Republicans, Populists, one and
all, state most unequivocally they will
now vote for Gen. Wheeler against all
corners. Some of these men in former
campaigns have been strong Richard
son men, but now they do not hesitate
to declare they are going for Wheeler
against all corners this year. Capt.
Jos. M. Kinds, eX-Consul General to the
Argentine Republic is a lifelong Re
will cast aside his political prejudiceS
and vote the Democratic ticket for
Joe" Wheeler, Said Capt. Kinds:
Il would like to see the convention
nominate either one of Wheeler's op-
ponents, just to see how the people of
the Eighth district would rally to his
support. Richardson and Blackwell are
both clever men, but they will have no
than jack rabbits in a snow storm.
can say that I know the Republican
pulse well in the Eighth, and they will
go for Wheeler to a man."
Similar expressions were made by
Joe Barker, Charles Bassett, city clerk
of New Decatur; Capt. J. B. Kinds and
Col. C. c. Sheets. These are all men of
prominence and know the sentiments
of the people well. Col. Sheets calls
attention to an editorial in the Chicago
Inter Ocean, as follows:
''It would be a disgrace to Alabama
to retire Fighting Joe Wheeler from
congress. He is one of the ablest and
most useful men in the house, and
Alabama can't afford to be party to
any petty meanness at his expense. One
of the best immediate results of this
war with Spain is the obliteration OF the
old southern idea that patriotism is
loyalty to ones state instead of ones
nation. The spectacle of Gen. Wheeler,
an ex-confederate, fighting under and
for the old flag shows that we are in
deed one people"
Gen. Wheeler was accorded a pc
culiar honor Sunday. A new Meth
odist church is being erected here and
during the dedication ceremonies DR..
Arson West, the presiding elder in
serted a photograph of the general in
the corner stone, upon which was this
This day, July 2, 1898, the
Gen. Joseph Wheeler. of
whom this is a counterfeit; is fighting
the battle Of Santiago de Cuba in the
Spanish-American war"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-05
BROWN POTTER SUES.
Seeks Divorce From Cora Urquhart
Potter.

London, July 5.-After many years
separation, James Brown Potter is en-
deavoring to secure a, divorce from bis
actress wife, Cora Urqhart Potter.
He wants to get it ION the cheap as
his London agent expresses it.
Mrs. Potter is living in a fine old
house at St. Johns Wood which she re-
Gently purchased. A few days ago she
learned that a, detective was endeavor-
ing to bride her servants to furnish evil
dence for POtter's action. The queer
part of it is that the detective gave the
servants small sums, ranging from six
to ten shillings, saying that Mr.. Potter
couldn't afford much and wanted to Sc
cure a divorce with as little expense as
possible.
Mrs. Potter's solicitors took charge of
the matter and secured affidavits of the
detectives work. One affidavit reads:
II, John Morris, certify that have been
approached by a certain man giving his
name of J. @. Littlefeld, purporting to
come from and to be agent for James
Brown Potter of New York City, and
offering me a sum of money as a bride
to make statements detrimental to the
morality of Mrs. Brown Potter. Any
such statement made by me would be
false
Through the death of his mother Pot
ter recently came into possession of
500 600, half of which. under the law,
would have to go to Mrs. Potter, despite
the elder PotteT'S will, as the money
was accumulated after their marriage.
Mrs. Potter's friends say that this is
the reason for his attempt to secure
divorce
Mrs. Potter has told her friends that
she viii fight to the bitter end any at
tempt to divorce her or to defame her
character. She goes next month to
south Africa for a theatrical tour OF Is
weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-05
HAS WORLDS RECORD.
New York Postmaster Serves Contin-
uously for Seventy Years.

Ithaca, N. Y, July 5.-Roswe1 Boards
ley celebrated the conclusion of his seven
tIeth year of continuous service as post
master of North Lansing, TOmpkins coun-
ty, last night. That makes him the old
est postmaster in the United States. Post
master General Smith sent him a letter in
which he said:
ITO have served continuously for 20
years as postmaster of your village is an
experience without a counterpart in this
country, if in the world. Approaching, as
hcial and individual, existing between the
village postmaster and the community
which he serves, a relationship sometimes
productive of reSentmentS as well as of
confidence and friendship, nothing could
more elOQuently testify to the estimation
in which you are held by your immediate
fellow citizens than this unbroken tenure
of seven decades
Those who rejoice with you in com
memorating this event may be glad to
know, if indeed there could be any room
for doubt on this score, that your official
record in this department is absolutely
without a flaw. There does not appear
ever to have been the slightest occasion
for criticism or repriman nd, while your long
series of quarterly reports, the work of
your own hands, are models of accuracy.
'Accedtng to office under the admins
the recommendation of New York S illus
trjous statesman, William H. Seward, you
have served under nineteen presidents and
thlrty-fOur postmaster generals to the en-
tire acceptance of all. Born during the
very infancy of the century now closing,
you have been witness Of events stu
and unparalleled in any equal period OF
the worlds previous history.
TO the feTVent hope of your immedi-
ate neighbOrS and friends let me add mine
providence of God they shall be few or
many, may be cheered and frightened by
the retrospect of public duties faithfully
performed for period equalling the limit
OF life allotted to the PSalniSt.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-05
TALL POLE CUT DOWN.
Chicago's Tallest and Thinnest Citizen
is Dead.

Chicago, July SIN the death Of To-
seph Blacisyewslf Chicago has lost its
tallest and thinnest citizen. He was
born in Poland forty-one years ago.
His height was seven feet eight inches,
and at the time of his death he weighed
just 125 pounds. Blacisyewski died of
consumption.
1t was learned at the health DEPART
ment that no coffin could be found in
the city long enough to fit the corpse
and one had to be made. The under
taker had no hearse that could accom-
modate such a long coffin and about a
foot and q. half of it protruded from
the rear end of the vehicle when the
funeral started for the cemetery today.
Blacisyewsh was a laboring man in
humble circumstances. Just before he
died, concluding that he had but a
short time to live and that his anatomi-
cal structure was unusual to say the
least of it, he applied to a medical sci
entific institution for the terms upon
which he could dispose of his body af-
ter the vital spark had fed. Underta-
ker Dyrsh says a sale was Accomplished
under the terms of which BlacisyewsI1l
received 500 from the medical college
and the latter was to have received the
tall mans remains after his death
How the conditions of the sale can be
carried out now that Blacisyewski's re-
mains have been buried is puzzling both
the medical institution and the health
authiritie5
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-05
DESIGNED BAIQUIRI PIER.
Samuel Artingstall, FormerCity Engi-
sneer of Chicago.

Chicago. Ill. July 5-The man who de-
signed the now famous iron pier at Bal
quiri, upon which the great siege guns
that are soon to be trained upon the forts
of Santiago de Cuba are being landed,
was Samuel G. Artingstall, city engineer
of Chicago during the administration of
John P. Hopkins. In 1890 J. H. Clutches
representing the Spanish-Amerfcan Iron
company of Santiago de Cuba, sent a re-
quest for preliminary specifications for an
iron pier of great sustaining power to be
built at Baiquiri. ArtingstaIl sent the de-
sired specifications and the result was the
pier which is now being used by the
troops in landing from their transports.
The pier was built to withstand the great
waves which the hurricanes often raise on
the Caribbean sea Away out from the
structure of piles steel, cement, concrete
and iron caissons. Then this artificial
island is connected with the land by a
powerful iron bridge of trestIe work con-
struction Upon the bridge there is a
it is now being put its construction is adj
mira -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-05
WELL-TO-DO SUICIDE.
Distant Female Relative of President
Pierce is Dead.

New York, July 5-'I-cannot endure
these headaches any longer. I hope I
shall be forgiven. Please have my body
cremated."
This MOTEL lying on a table in the room
in which her lfeless body was found,
was the only explanation left by Mrs
Martha Pierce for taking her life.
Mrs. Pierce, who, it Is said, was
distant relative by marriage of former
United States President Franklin
Pierce, came to this city last spring.
She had been married, but her husband
died several years ago She was rather
tall, very graceful and refined. She
might have been called handsome and
was about 35 years old. Her originally
dark hair was streaked heavily with
gray and was cOmbed well back from
her high forehead. Her eyes were dark
blue.
Mrs. Pierce was fond Of church work
and when she came to this city from
Pittsburg she was full of life and vigor.
She went to live at the apartment
house, No. % West Thirty-second street
known as the Van Rensselaer, She
had a suite of rooms on the third floor
Her rooms were well furnished and the
woman knew how to make her apart
ments look bright and pretty. There
was something about this bIue-eyed
stranger that made everybody who
came in contact with her feel cheer
full.
Mrs. Pierce told fellow-tenants at the
Van Rensselaer, that she had been a
widow for some years, that she had no
children, and that she had left her ma
tive town in Pennsylvania with view
of making New York her permanent
home, provided she could learn to love
the great metropolis
Il would like to go into some bust
ness to occupy my mind" she used to
say.
1t was shortly after noon that a
strong odor of escaping gas was noticed
throughout the house. The chamber
maid tried Mrs. Pierce's door. It was
unlocked She threw the door wide
drawn tightly. The air was filed with
gas. The maid pulled the shades open
and saw Mrs. Pierce on the bed. A
long tube connected with gas jet was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-05
NEW STYLE MORTGAGE.
European Loan Plan introduced by
Chicago Credit House.

Chicago, July 5-The first mortgage
ever known to have been written in the
United States on the Advertisement
plan was written by the land credit
company of Pearsons & Taft of this
city. The loan is for 50, 500 for 20 years
on 100 acres of land (the appraised val
ne of which is $4,000 in Vermilion coun-
ty, Ill.
The ''amortizement''m method is an in
PRODUCTION from Europe, where 1t is
widely used in agricultural communi-
ties where borrowers have to repay
loans out of the yearly products Of the
soil. The principle is that of paying
small annual installments on the loan
out of yearly profits, these installments
going Simultaneously toward payment
Of interest and toward the reduction of
the principal debt.
Regarding the "amOrtiZement' loan
made yesterday, H. A. Pearsons Of the
firm of Pearsons & Taft said: This
system of making farm mortgages has
been in operation in Europe for over
10O years, ana while it has proven itself
to be thoroughly satisfactory at every
possible point and decidedly the most
advantageous to the borrower Of any
method that has ever been devised, it
was only today that it was used for the
first time in this country. Nine-tenths
of all real estate mortgages are now
made this way in Europe, and believe
that the advantages of the system will
also in time be generally known to the
agricultural borrowing classes of this
country. To explain how it works, sup
pose loan is made of 81, 600 for 20
years. The annual payments will be
$s7.1s The first year this will be APP
piled as follows: Sixty dollars will pay
interest at per cent on LOCO for one
year, while $2718 represents the bal
ances, which goes to reduce the prin-
cipal debt, leaving a balance due on the
principal of $972.S2. The payment Of
$S7.1S next year will be divided as fol-
lows: Fifty-eight dollars and 81 cents
viii be used as interest at per cent on
the balance Of the principal debt of
s972. 50. and S28.S1 viii be applied to the
reduction of the debt. This method can
be kept up for 20 years unless the Dor
rover wishes TO prepay the principal
debt, which he has the privilege of do
ing At the time of making the last
and twentieth payment the principal
debt will be reduced to S82.24, While "a. "a
will be the final payment of interest on
this unpaid principal. On the amor
tizement' plan there would be a saving
on a 20 year loan Of 81 coo of exactly
s456. 40 over a Straight 81, COO per cent
loan for the same Time"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-05

I was seriously afflicted with a cough
for several years, and last fall had a
more severe cough than ever before. I
had used many remedies without re-
ceiving much relief, and being recon-
Tnended to try a bottle Of Chamberlain
Cough Remedy, by a friend, who. know
ing me to be a poor widow, gave It to
me, I tried 1t, and with the most grati-
tying results. The first bottle relieved
me very much and the second bottle
has absolutely cured me. I have not
had as good health for twenty years
I give this certificate without solicita-
ton, simply in appreciation OF the graf
itude felt for the cure effected.-Re-
spectfully, MRS. MARY A BEARD,
Claremore. Ark. For sale by all drug
gists.
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pity and even the admiration of men and
women, but it is question whether such a
man ever thoroughly gains their respect.
The man whose arteries bound with the
rich, red blood of health carries with him
force and intensity that command re-
spect, even though he be slightly inferior
mentally to the weak, nervous man. While
no medicine in the world will add an irch
to a mans stature, there Is one famous
medicine that will fill the veins and arte-
Ties with the rich, red, bounding blood of
perfect health. It is Dr.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. It is the great blood
maker and blood-puriheT. When the blood
Is pure and rich and red and plenty, and
filed with the life giving elements that
uourish every tissue of the body, it is i'm
possible for a man to suffer from iIl-health
of any description When every little
blOod-vesse1 in ths lungs quivers with the
rush of healthy blood, It is impossible to
have unhealthy lungs. When the walls of
the stomach are nourished with healthy
blood, dyspepsia and indigestion are i'm
possibilities. When the liver is supplied
with healthy blood it is bound to be active
The skin that is nouTished with healthy
blood viii be clear and fresh and glow with
health " Discovery" is sold by druggists.
BIr. Isaac E. Downs of Spring Valley Rock
land Co. N Y, writes: - For three years suf-
fered from that terrible disease, consurn ptiou I
had wasted away to a skeleton. To-day tip
the scales at IS7, and well and strong. The
Golden Medical Discovery cured ne
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-05
PATRIOTIC WORM.
Caterpillar Arrayed in Red, White and
Blue Appears

Syracuse. July Sup in northern New
York, a new caterpillar has been dis
covered. It's color is of a blush shade
above and below, with dull red sides
and row Of white spots along the
ing great damage to the trees through
all the great forest region IN that part
OF the state. 1t eats the leaves of the
forest trees and builds it's nest against
the trunks Of trees or beneath the Iarg-
er branches.
Clisiocampa SyIvatica is its scientific
name. 1t natures about the middle Of
June, and after that goes into q cocoon
to hatch into a heavy brOwnish moth,
which deposits egs on the tWigs of trees.
These will hatch next spring.
This caterpillar has not been In the
state before. Next year they will be
still more abundant unless something
Is done to prevent their deVelopment.