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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-07-28
NEWS AROUND
TAzEWELI.
Three Years in the Pen
itentiary.
The Presbyterian Meeting-An
Option on Ten Thousand
Acres Timber Land.

Acres Timber Land.
Personals.
Attorney j. w. Hicks was at
tending court this week.
IL. G. Shufliebarger came to court
yesterday, as hot as it was.
We have one house to rent, and
only one-the only vacant house,
we believe, in town.
Mr.. Jas. Howard was i'm town
yesterday with load of fine wheat
OF his own raising. 10. says he
wants some old fashioned biscuits.
The many friends of that excel
lent lady, Mrs. W. II. Gillespie,
will be glad to know that she is
better, and in fair way toa rapid
recovery.
Rev. Mr.. Wayts delivered an ad-
dress in Bluefield Baptist Church
on Wednesday night, before the
Missionary Conference of that
church
Miss Bessie Peery, the accom-
phshed young daughter of Mr.. A.
II. Peery of Burke's Garden, is
visiting Miss George Crockett,
daughter Of DIR. j. III. Crockett.
Mr.. j. l.. Brown, of the firm of
JAS. l.. Brown Il Son, of the Alb
ingdon Marble Works, passed
through town yesterday, and paid
this Office pleasant visit.
We are getting up fine cat
alologue for the TazewelI High
School which is said to be, SO far.
the finest piece of work ever sent
out from an Office in this town.
Our paper is almost new this
week, or nearly all our ads are
changed. Don't fail to look over
the advertisements. The leading
merchants and business men speak
weekly through our columns.
The Government has decided
that no one shall issue q check
without stamping and cancelling
it himself. If the government gets
its stamp what difference who
stamps it9 Uncle Sam had better
attend to his own business.
A prominent gentleman on Wolf
Greek has given a Northern Syn
dicate an option oil some ten or
twelve thousand acres of fine tim
ber. There are important devel-
ments for that section in the near
future.
Rev. Mr.. Ruff has returned from
his campaig gn in Lebanon, and re-
ports fine meeting. He had
nine additions to the church there.
We have few more sincere or
conscientious worker than this
gentleman.
We acknowledge the receipt of
a copy of the 1899 Report of the
Board of visitors of the United
States Naval Academy, kindly sent
us by Col. j. S. Browning, q men,
Der of the Board. The meeting
OF Board was held May 29-June
2nd.
Prof. .Houskeeper, the new Pres
ident of Tazewell College, has h ad
eleven years experience as teacher
in Lehigh University, and nine
years as Supt. of City Schools. He
is we'll qualified for the important
position he is undertaken to fill
here:
In the County Court this week,
the case of the Commonwealth VS..
Chas. Garter, alias Blue Steel, for
) burglary resulted in a verdict OF
t 3 years in the penitentiary. He
8 was afterward tried ON the charge
of assault resulted in a verdict OF
acquittal.
4 Our Presbyterian brethren have
been holding services every night
this week preparatory to the series
OF meetings to begin next Sunday
fN0z0UnII Iii l.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-07-28
New Limb of the Law.
CUPID IN THE VALLEY.
Examination Waved-Death OF
Ebeneza Howard-The Ruling
Passion-Tazewell College.
Preachers M @ o ng.
Church Social
Preachers Meeting.

Rev. J. b. Ward and j. II.
Frazier, p. Il. passed through town
on Wednesday to attend Preach.
ers Conference, now I'm session, at
Mt. Olivet, on Clear Fork. Rev.
@. +. Painter met the gentlemen
here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
MASON IS ASHAMED.
Illinois Senator Expresses Great Sym
pathy For FiIipinos.

Washington. Sept. 21-In an inter
|, view with a Post reporter Senator
Mason, of Illinois, said
ION the floor OF the senate shall
continue my opposition TO the war upon
the FiIipinos I would sooner resign
my seat than treat a dog the way We
are treating those people am
ashamed of my country People make
a great mistake" he continued when
they say that 1 am against expansion
I am not. But expansion by purchase
or other honorable means is one thing
expansion by force is another I do
not believe that there was any necessi-
ty for this war upon the FilipinOs- I
believe that if we had adopted a res0lu-
ton in congress assuring those people
as we assured the CubaDs. that we had
no selfish designs upon them, we never
would have met with any opposition in
the Philippines. The fact is that we
have given the FilipinOs every reason
to distrust US and they are fighting Tor
their own liberty.
Talk about hauling down our flag"
continued Senator Mason. VIII not our
flag come down in Cuba2 Certainly It.
will if we are true to our promises And
the day that it comes down viii be the
brightest day in our history. because
it win show that we are a great un-
selfish nation devoted TO the eternal
principles of right and honesty If the
Cubans want to be annexed later. that
is another question. Why can not We
deal with the FilipinOs in the same
Way2"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
PAPER GOES Up.
Cost to New York Papers Increased
$4,000 a Day.


New York. Sept. 21--Newspaper has
gone up a quarter of a cent q pound
within the last three weeks. The news
papers of New York city. according TO an
official of the company, which supplies
all but one of the papers printed in this
city use 400 tons of paper daily at a cost
of two cents a pound. The recent sharp
advance-4neans e, 600 a day more to the
newspaper or $3.50 600 year over the
price which has heretofore obtained
The cost OF consumption is now $4,000
a day The tendency is to raise the price
still higher The advance is due partly
to the drouth of last summer, which SER
iously impaired the water power of the
paper mills.
Book paper has also gone up a quarter
of cent pound and letter paper from
three-quarters Of a cent to one cent a
pound.
The price of shoe leather has gone up
from 215 to per cent within the last week
owing to the scarcity of coWhide mater
ial. Shoe manufacturers have signed
contracts with wholesale and retail shoe
70 come. and the patrons of retail
houses will not feel the advance until
December
In the meantime the manufa cturers
who have bound themselves by contract
Will be the sufferers from the rise in
price a sharper advance still has been
made in the price of crude sole leather
lily going up. and yesterday it had adj
Vanced six cents per pound above the
market price paid in August. Still higher
prices are looked for by manufacturers.
The increased cost is due to the scarcity
of cattle as compared with the demand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
FROM NEWTON.
Personals and Items Concerning San
ia Fe Employees

Fireman I Mason has secured a
thirty days leave of absence and A. F.
Leap has his run with Johnston on
1 and S.
Fred Spudig writes that he arrived at
Albuquerque in good shape last Thurs
day evening and went to work at noon
Friday.
Engineer VIII Stevens. of the Hutch
insOn local, has been granted a thirty
days leave of absence and will go east
on a visit soon.
Engineer Walter Saunders will leave
tomorrow for Orchard, Ark. where he
has a farm which needs his attention
for a few weeks.
Sam Corey is on one of the local runs
at Hutchinson, having traded with
Fireman Shafer, who takes the switch
engine at that place.
Another assignment of Eremen has
been made. Dick Jett and Jerry Dun
kleberger have taken the JetmOre run.
Hubbard and Arnett have been as
signed to the 5 and run; Dischner It
and 2 and WiselOgel and 8.
Yardmaster G. 3. Anderson has re-
turned from his western trip and is
confident that he has had the best time
of any OF NewtOn's residents who have
had an outing this season. He took in
everything there was to see and then
some. He has been gone about six
weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
EMULATEs GUERIN.
Former Mayor of Algiers Invites a
Siaca

Algiers,. Sept. 21.-NIax Regis, formerly
mayor of AlgierS, and a notorious Jew
batter. returned here recently haunted by
the idea that the government intended 70
arrest him and emulous of the nOtOrlety
of the jules Guerin, shut himself IN for
four days with party of adherents in a
villa labelled ''antijlIif'' just outside town.
He laid in a stock of provisions for
siege.
absence of any move on the part of the
police he issued forth and entered the
town, stirring up anti-Jewish demOnstrsl-
lions. during which the windows Of sew
eral shops owned by Jews were smashed
The Jews responded by firing revOlvers
and the mob raised the cry, Death to
the Jews
evening and finally the troops charged
with drawn swords and dispersed the
rioters. Regis regained the villa and bar
ricaded himself and his companions.
During the ARRAY nine persons were
stabbed or shot, among them three police
agents and two inoffensive citizens.
1t is reported that some Jews were
among the wounded Order was finally
restored about midnight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
Speed Calls Out q Protest

If Engineer Graves, who runs the
passenger engine on the Rock Island
between Salina and Herington, doesn'
quit dropping instead of running
down the hill from Pearl to Deer Creek
Valley, when his train is late, one of
these afternoons he viii fill newly made
graves with dear Ones-very dear per-
haps for the rOad-and the pearly white
gates instead of Pearl station will be
where he viii register his train. and in
stead of dropping into Deer Creek Val
ley he viii land down in the Dark
death valley" Conductor Jim Collins
hair is turning gray and he seeks the
society of the preachers who ride in
the chair car and listens to their ad-
monition instead of enjoying society
and stories of the commercial men in
the smoker. There is a great change
in James since Graves has been pulling
the throttle: he is becoming grave and
quiet. A Fire Brandite was seen talk
ing with him a few days ago and it is
noticed that he is letting his hair grow
long and parting it in the middle.-Sa-
lima Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
G. A. r. is INSULTED.
By Being Assigned to the Rear of the
DeW V Procession.

New York Sept 21-Unless the plans
of General Charles F. Roe, chairman of
the land parade committee of the Dewey
celebration are changed. the @. A r..
Organization viii not be represented in
Joseph ". Kay. department commander
of the New York Grand Army of the Re
public, has sent letter TO General Roe
declining the invitation for a number of
reasons. These are in brief that the G.
A. r. forces have been placed at the end
of the procession instead of the head of
no cognizance of Comman der-in-C Chief
Albert d. Shaw and has sent him in
vitation TO any Of the FUNCTIONS; that the
to participate in the parade has been ex-
II. H. Adams and that General o. o.
Howard has been placed in command Of
contrary to the rules OF that organiza-
ton. The decision to decline the invita-
nder-in-Chief Shaw, department
Commander Kay, Past Co0mander At
kinson and Colonel j. A Goulden, chair
man OF the memorial committee of the
The matter has been placed before Cen
eral Roe VINO refused to reconsider his
plans. Commander-in-Chief shaw insist
ed that the G. a. r. organization should
have the head of the line of march and
should be under command q its own Of
hcers- lie pointed out that General How
ard, who had been designated to COM
out the posts ana that they could not re-
spond TO his call even if they 50 willed.
The officials of the G. A R consulted
with Mayor Van Wyck recently and he
expressed MS approval of the change they
demanded Ihey referred the matter also
to Governor Roosevelt and received a tel
egram from the governor stating that he
was in favor of the change and that it
should be made. it would be ono of
the most desirable testimonials of the
feeling toward Admiral Dewey. a member
of the G. A. R. if he We're escorted by
a guard of honor composed of his COM
radeS.
Chief among the reasons given by Gen
eral Roe in his final refusal TO alter the
positions assigned to the Grand Army
was that the parade would be in every
sense military one and that according
to regulations such an unarmed body Of
men as the G.. A R. can not march be-
fore a body of men bearing arms.
The G. A. R officials, however. claim
that the parade is in no sense q military
one. but city one.
General Roe estimates that there viii
be % 800 men in line. from New York.
New Jersey, Maryland, District of Col
umbia. Ohio. Connecticut, Georgia. Texas.
Florida, South Carolina, New Hampshire.
Rhode Island. Mississippi and Missouri.
There may be others. but these enunerat-
ed are all that have reported to the com
mittee as certain to be here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
ANDRADE is WHIPPED.
President of Venezuela Preparing to
Run Away.

New York. Sept. PA Herald dis
patch from Port of Spain says Cen
Castro, the leader Of the Venezuelan
revolution. holds possession Of the city
of Valencia.
1t is reported that President Andrade
meditates an attempt to escape from
the country. 1t is said ne has a yacht
waiting for him at La Guayra
The flibustering schooner J0sedta
which left here with a load Of arms.
taking on board refugees outside the
harbor. arrived off the Venezuelan
coast, communicated with the revoIu-
tiOnists and later landed its supplies OF
war material.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
RAILROAD LOCALS.

Henry DeCamp, formerly of the shops
here. but lately of the Albuquerque
shops, has returned to Topeka and has
again accepted a position in the Topeka
shops.
There is a noticeable number of the
shOpmen laying off on account of sick
ness.
Assistant superintendent of Ma
chinery Geo. Hancock is travelling in
the east. He has been away for the
past two weeks.
Engineer ]. NJ. Kelly has reported for
work.
one of the foremen at the shops
missed his dinner Wednesday. He was
going through the shops and stepped
into the case hardening room of the
blacksmith shop and while there one
of the men locked him in. OF course no
one knows who did it. but strange to
say he was rescued just in time TO go
to work in the afternoon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
AN ISLAND SUNK.
Off the Alaskan Coast by the Recent
Earthquake.

Seattle, Wash, Sept. 21.-The steam
ship City of Topeka has arrived from
Lynn canal with news of a terrible
earthquake. which began September 3,
and continued until September 10.
Steamer Dora carried the news to Ju-
neau. The earthquake extended from
Litueya bay $50 miles below Yakutat.
500 miles northwest into the Cook inlet
country. 1t was the greatest phenOme-
non witnessed in Alaska since a similar
occurrence in the Russian days Three
distinct shocks were felt at Juneau.
Buildings We're badly shaken. The
earthquake was most severe at Yaku-
tat. Kanan island, at the entrance to
Yakutat bay, sank twenty feet into the
sea. At high tide only the tops of
trees are visible. Huge assures opened
in the east. Dora passengers say that
in two minutes the ocean rose twenty
feet above high tide and almost as
quickly subsidized Indians at Yakutat
have deserted their homes and are liv-
ing in tents on the beach. Many have
gone to Juneau.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
CATHOLICS AROUSED.
Young Mems Union Passes ResoIu-
tons on Church Dissertation In
Philippinea

New York. Sept. 21.-The National
Union of Catholic Young Mems socIe-
ties. in session at Newark. adopted the
following resolutions:
Whereas. For sometime past many
rumOrs have appeared in the public
press. and have been affirmed by pTi-
vate advices. that Catholic churches in
the Philippines have been desecrared
and despoiled of sacred vessels and
vestments by soldiers OF the United
States.
Resolved. That We. the Catholic
Young Mems National union embrac-
ing so. 000 men in the United States. do
call upon the president OF the linked
States. having every confidence in his
fair mindedress, Justice and respect Tor
all religions. and through him upon the
other proper authorities. for a thorough
investigation and report upon such ru-
mors as to their truth or falsity. and
Resolved. That If upon proper in
VeStigatiOn these TumOrs should lie
found true in whole OF in part. we de-
mand,
First, The punishment Of those
guilty or responsible for such outrages
upon our religion and,
Second, That the necessary meas
ures be adopted 10 prevent the recur-
renee Of such dissertation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
RAILROAD NEWS.
Proposed TranscontinentaI Line
a Certainty.
YanderbiIt's Death viii Not
Affect the Project.
IN CTnnU
A BILLION OF STOCK
Will Be Represented In the
Combination of Roads.
VIM. Rockefeller Will Direct
the Big Deal.

New York. Sept. 21.-The Journal and
Advertiser says:
While the death of Cornelius Wander
bilt may temporarily delay the con-
summation of the big NanuerDllt ueal
for a transcOntinental line, II IS not
believed that railway and nnanclal
circles viii much longer be kept IN the
dark concerning these plans Inc en-
trance of VIM Rockefeller into the
directory of the New York Central,
which was made possible by the death
of Mr. Vanderbilt it is believed, viii
further the deal. From reports now cur
rent the projected combination of roads
viii by no means be composed eX-
clusively of Vanderbilt properties
At the present time the deal which IS
more comprehensive than any hereto
fore brought about in American rail-
way properties representing nearly q
billion in capital stock includes Hunt
ington, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt
roads. Not only will there be a through
nid-continent line from New York to
Puget Sound. but there will also be a
southern transcOntinental line
The Chicago & Alton viii figure in
the deal as a connecting link between
the New York Central-Lake Shore at
Chicago and the Missouri, kansas &
Texas at St. Louis and Kansas City.
The Southern Pacific VIII be reached
by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, Civ
ing a through line to Southern Cali
fOrnia. which is q much nearer point TO
the Philippines for shipping than any
port on Puget Sound.
Mr. Rockefeller as a. director in the
New Haven road and an important
factor in the Boston and Albany viii
throw to the New York Central the
control of the New England roads. He
is also an important factor with the
Nanderbilts in the Chicago & North
western and Union Pacific which viii
be combined for the most direct trans
continental line. practically under one
management. This viii be the northern
arm OF the gigantic railway system
which viii include the Oregon Short
Line and the Oregon Railway & NaTi-
cation, which have in fact, been al
ready taken over by the Union Pacific
Mr. Rockefeller controls the Missouri.
Kansas & Texas and is largely interest
ed in the Chicago &, Alton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
a REmARKABLE ENGINE
Illinois Central Secures Heaviest Lo-
connective manufactured

Chicago, Sept. 21.-The Illinois Cen
trails new freight engine. the largest
and heaviest locomotive ever manufac-
Uured in America has arrived here.
The monster locomotive was built by
the Brooks company of Duulzirk- n. Y,
and is calculated TO do twice as much
work at one time as any other train
puller on the road. It is twelve
wheeler and, with its tender, weighs
$4,000 pounds. 1t has eight driving
wheels, each of which is Z feet and s
inches in diameter Its cylinders are
% inches in diameter and have 30-inch
strokes. The boiler is feet and 10
inches in diameter and the firebOx is ,
feet wide and II feet long. There are
42O 2-inch dueS, and the steam pressure
is 21O pounds. The tank is capable Of
holding 5000 gallons OF water at one
time, and there is room enough in the
tender for 10 tons of coal
The engine, which, as soon as it re-
ceives a proper test. viii be put into
service on that branch of the line ex-
tending from Carbonate. Ill. to Full
ton. KY, is guaranteed to haul q train
weighing 1000 tons. or 1000 tons more
cOmpany'S present service. It is said
10 be capable of pulling such a train up
a grade OF forty feet to the mile and OF
covering a 5-degree curvature without
trouble Within a short time the Roger
Locomotive company viii deliver to the
Central a consolidation engine, that is
one which may be used for hauling
either passenger or freight trains. This
engine viii be about the same size a.
No so and viii be expected to do as
much work as the newcomer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
HAGERMAN OBJECTS.
Considers Pecos Valley Road Too
Valuable to Sell

Denver. Sept. CIV. E. Skinner gen
eral agent for the Chicago stock yards.
was at the Brown Palace yesterday
having just arrived from visit down
IN the PecOS valley Mr. Skinner was
asked as to the recently reported Dur-
chase of the Pecos valley railroad by
the Santa Fe. and he said he didn't be
lieve the branch could be bought. Mr.
Bagerman regarding it as too good an
investment.
Speaking of the cattle industry the
Chicago man said there never was a
time in the history of the country when
the business looked so promising. Fewer
but better cattle were being raised and
this accounted for the good prices now
prevailing. Cattlemen who were form
erly known merely as cowboys are now
thinking business men, and they have
learned that there is more money in
1guring uDon quality than in quantity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
THE EVILS OF A RATTLE.
a Pathetic Story of Sherman, the Bo-
vine, and the Engine.


The boys at the shops. and especially
In the round house, noticed the tired
and worn out look which Geo. Sherman
had on his face Wednesday, He looked
as though he had lost his last friend
but it was OccasiOned by him having
trouble with his first COW He looked
tired but who wouldn't look tired af-
ter playing a hide and seek half the
night with a rowing, playful Holstein
COW It all happened this way:
Not very long ago. Hugh AIcGiveru
OF the boiler shops conceived the happy
idea OF rafting Off his COW. Sc he made
al the necessary arrangements and as
ms COW was well known to all his shop
friends he easily persuaded the boys to
take chances on the COW. and by Tues
DAY noon all the numbers We're sold.
The drawing was scheduled to take
place at 1890 noon, and exactly on time
the mum bers We're drawn and No. 80
took the COW.
Sherman held No. 90 and looked
pleased when he found that the COW
was his He sulilingly received the
congratulations OF his friends. That
night the fun began
About o'clock. Sherman got q Ione.
rope and started over to NcGfvern's
house at the corner of Third and Adams
streets TO get the cow He had no
clHlculty IN nnding the house. and with
the help OF the MCGiverns he succeeded
IN getting a rope around the cows
horns and started along Adams street
toward Fourth street for home.
4 am sure that You VIII like the
COW" said McGivern as Sherman and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-21
NO COMPROMISE.
Boilermakers on Government Trans
port Stand Firm

San Francisco, Sept. 21.-The strike
of the boilermakers is still on and work
on the transports must be further de-
layed. Captain Bainson of the quarter
masters department told the commit
tee representing the strikers, the quar-
termaster's department would grant
the demands of the boilermakers for an
eight hour day on all vessels actually
owned by the government and on work
chartered. The strikers told Captain
BainsOn that they would not do
stroke of work on the government own
ed vessels until they force the owners
of the others and the contractors 10
make the scale they demand.
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Troop ships Exnected.

San Francisco Sept. 21.-The trans
port Zealandia and Valencia with the
Montana regiment on board and few
discharged regulars are due here Fri
day or Saturday next. The City of Para
is due here sometime on Tuesday or
Wednesday next The Para has on board
members of the Twenty-third, Twenty
second. Fourteenth infantry regiments.
Third artillery. Fourth cavalry and
Eighteenth and Nineteenth signal
corps. who enlisted under general order
No. 4 and who are known as volunteer
regulars.