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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-01-11

they were hurled headlong. knocked
fonseless and many killed outright
The two engines. from which both
crews had jumped, came together with
an awful crash. The excursion train
was probably going about 10 miles an
hour Tho local engine turned a COM
pleta somersault ANA came crashing
down beside IT, now demolished ob-
struction. But is career was not ended
before II had iammed the tender Of the
excursion rain FROM one end 90 the 9th.
er of the first car from shamokin. The
tender stopped a few seats from the rear
door. Tho CIR, or what was left Of 10,
rolled over, carrying with it the tender,
the fragments Of a dozen bodies and the
imprisoned wounded, VINO had been car
ried with the jagged iron on its releni.
less course through the coach. Il was
in the first car o. the excursion train
that all the deaths and most Of the cas-
ualties occurred.
Tbs other cars. though their occu-
pants were badly shaken, stayed on the
track and were In condition 20 be hauled
of. The baggage car In the front Of the
local train was badly smashed.
Harry Rutland was the operator at
South Piainheld, and IL was be who
gave the signal for the local 70 proceed.
Rutland stated that he received no or.
ders 10 hold the train and as the track
ahead was supposed 20 b. clear he all.
lowed the train TO go upon the single
track.
The dead are:
Martin Keenan,, hotel keeper, Mount
/ Carmel. Pa
W. Il. Kinke1, contractor, Mount
! Carmel. Pa
Jacob Hlller tailor Mount Carmel,
I Pa
II Z. weikoll, Mount Carmel, Pa
I Frank Fischer. sho3 dealer, Mount
. Carmel. Pa.
William Leader. dry goods dealer,
Mount Carmel. Pa
Frank Market, shamokin. Pa.
Theo. Kohn. Snamokin, Pa
Abner S Ke.fer, carpet dealer, Potts
vile. Pa
| William r. Markel, shamokin, Pa
james Jarvis, l2 years o.d, Mount
Carmel. Pa
Two women, who are still 10 be- ident-
fled.
Of the % injured, there Is but slight
hopes o. Z surviving aud no hope Tor B.
Most o. the remainder are but sligh tly
. hurt
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Topeka, Jan 10 In view of tac rrus
ent interest In the fact uma made oy
lines competing Tor mail contracts tEc
fast run made by the santa F's Imiicl,
which arrived in Chicago Monday, 0.
interesting The limited rarlet Ia
Juuta. Colo rour. lato ANA coyeri
tine 2Uli miles of prairie iu Q hours sand
90 minutes, reducing that time 80 mia.
ute- aud running at an average sprca %
$3.50 miles per hour From symcuso tC
Garden CRY the limited maintained d
snced oi CJ miles GA hour Drlaeuis
delays Dor taking water and cream q
fires, thenciua. uuuas time was u,aIig
a m.Iu Il m-lU,n.
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BOLD ACT OF THIEVES.
They Capture a Policeman and Rob
Men la Hotels.

They Capture a Policeman sad Rob
Men Ia Hotels.
Fort Scott, Kas, Jan. TO- Three
masked mon yesterday morning cap
tursd a policeman. took him into the
woois. bound and gagged him aui with
rare GOODNESS held up and robbed nine
men In the Cottage house and the
Sayre', house, two hotel. on prominent
streets Alfred Meade, nn engineer on
the kansas City, Fort Scott and Mem.
nhi.. who was one of the victims. was
shot by one of the robbers. aud g. IL
Young, a cooci man, was mistaken
for ono oit.om ANA ,Hol several hours
after the robbery the roice identified
the bandit %. they n'asded tne ST.
Louis.bound Ms.0us Kansas and Tex.
a. passenger tram ami Hil p.tcn 0at-
lie with them, but they got away.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-01-11

Houston. Jan lO-rnrougn che ,su..
ful work %: Texas rangers the $1,000.
600 ,cJntiy stolen from tha Weils.iar.
go Express has been located and one OF
the Foobcrs arrested a secona man Is
under surveillance and thsthru or priu-
cipal i- almost within grasp. The OH
GERS are nos ready 20 TAX yet For the
present no details are given out, bat
they are certain they are ON the right
trail
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Cincinnati, Jan. 10 Another suit 70
foreclose mortgages on the Baltimore
and Ohio Southwestern railway was
brought In the United States court
This "a by tho Farmers Loan and Trust
company OF New YORK. This suit is for
SiG, al ,OO0
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-01-11

Pittsburg, Jan, lO.-A Mononghela
traction car became unmanagoabie near
Duquesne, Pa, and went over % foot
cmhankmont near Ranking Bridge
When the oar toppled over the stove
upset. and several passengers were
burned, but all will recover.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-01-11

New York, Jan. l0.--The Herald says
that five of those wounded in the Lehigh
Valley railroad collision NJ Dunellet,
\. j., died during the night, making
the total dead IS
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Tyler. Tex, Jan 10 -;luo 10 frowsor,
a boiiormak in she employ '. tue Cot
ton Belt while returning hlma f.l
from a trcste on the laieuauoaa. ana
Great Northern and sustained injuries
from which he di.d
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Austin. Jan. 90 Tire iudacr.ou into
Office Of Attorney Genera. e.ect Thomas
s Smith ana hls force %, Office assist
ants aud two stenograpaers took place
to-day.
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,t.p.on charged win KIliug

Bacvillo, Tex. Jan. l0--Mr Arnell,
living one mile from Reiugio, was kiiled
Sunday night Aeric Terry, his step
son. is IN JAIL charged with the killing
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Topeka. Jan no. Governor Stanley
took the oath %. office Monday, the state
administration changing from Populist
70 Re1u1. can
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01

they are still untitled for work by their
physical weakness and suffering born of
want of the necessaries Of life. There is
no idleness among them. They never
beg. except for work. The former insur-
gents have cast aside the character of
guerrilla soldiery, to assume that of pa
tient and laW-abiding citizens, under con-
ditions, the hardships of which we in the
United States can hardly understand.
They bestow no attention on the ranting
of the politicians or dissatisfied ex-mili-
tary officers
Surely such people as this are not I'M
worthy of the great sacrifice which has
been made for them, or untitled to have
given to them the fullest and freest op"
portunity, to say how and by whom they
shall be governed in the future.
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THE FINAL MOVEMENT.

Events in South Africa are fast rush
ing to a crisis. Within a few days either
war or peace will be established as
continuing condition.
The fate Of two young republics hangs
in the balance. For the attitude
assumed toward the controversy by the
Orange Free State casts the lot of that
nation in the scale with her sister repub-
lie.
We cannot refuse the expression of adj
miration at the devotion and heroism Of
a mere handful of men such compose
the adult male. Inhabitants of the Free
State in accepting for themselves the fate
which is apparently reserved by England
for the sister. nation. rather than see that
republic go down, unaided. in blood. Even
though we admit that the people of the
Orange Free State are convinced that
ultimately pretevt will be found by Eng
land for treating them as the Beers have
been treated, they are none the less de-
serving of the admiration and sympathy
of all men who believe in the principle of
national sindepe Edence.
1t is especially desirable at this time,
when events in South Africa are about to
culminate either in war or III permanent
peace. to look at certain circumstances
which attend the existence of that condi-
ton
Sir Walter Peace is the general agent
fer Natal In London. His language in
this crisis hardly sustains the idea that
he came by his name legtimately. He
knows the conditions and requirements
as viewed from the British official stand
point. Here gre some OF his expressions
addressed to the representatives of the
American Associated rress at London:
''In order to make pacification effective
Great Britain must assume absolute con-
troll over the hole of South Africa
1t is the luckiest thing in the world
that the Free State has been foolish
enough to take a hostile attitude for
that means her addition to British pos
sessions. & Hail measures would
only prolong unrest and produce more
disturbances Kill $50 of them (the
Boers), and all that would remain for
England to. do would be to send few
shiploadsnof crepe
All this should be read in the light of
the concurrent statement of the Free,
State volksraad, that the Transvaal gov
eminent has made every effort to Sc
cure peaceful adjustment Of the differ
ences whichdt declares were raised by
the aliens Of the Transvaal ana taken up
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01
A LITTLE HISTORY.

Now that the Dewey celebrations APP
proach a close, and the Republican
editorial brother has convinced himself
that the admiral has decided, Caesar-like,
to wave aside the presidential crown, it
may be worth while to look at the future
of this admirable character in the light
of history and precedent.
The American people from the begin
ming have shown a consistent and enthu-
siastic desire to eleN ate to the highest
post of honor every man among them
who has distinguished himself above all
others in his generation in military or
civil station.
The historical record which may be
cited in proof of this begins with Wash
ington, and, down to the present genera
ton, may be said, up to the present, TO
have closed with Grant.
Nor does there appear at any time or
by any man to have been offered posi-
tive veto on this disposition on the part
of the American people.
Washington was followed by Adams;
Adams by Jefferson; Jefferson by Madi-
son; Madison by Monroe. All of these
men had rendered some signal service
which had lifted them to high plane in
the popular love and admiration such
as Dewey now occupies. They won the
distinction over opponents who, only in
lesser degree, had captured the pubic
esteem.
In a later generation, Andrew Jackson,
William Henry Harrison and Zachary
Taylor, not to mention John Quincy Ad-
ans or Martin Van Buren,, were lifted by
popular acclaim by reason of their he
roism in momentous crises in the ma
tons history, to the presidency.
In a still later generation We have Lin
coin and Grant, both of them chosen be-
cause of some signal achievements which
appealed to the patriotic impulse. as does
now Dewey's performance in Manila bay
Now, how many of these mems contem-
poraries before whom the presidential
nomination was placed, as the result of
their services to the state, turned away
from it and refused to be Iured to the
White house?
Not one.
Aaron Burr, John Jay, Henry Clay,
Daniel Webster, John c. Calhoun, Thorn
as H. Benton, Daniel Marcy, Andrew
Johnson, Benjamin F. Butler, Charles
i Francis Adams. George E. Mcclellan,
Horatio Seymour, Roscoe Conkling, James
G. Blaine, William NJ. Evarts, Samuel ].
Iilden, Allan G. Thurman, George T.
distinguished men were nominated; or
willing TO be nominated. Tiiden was elect
ed, and defrauded out of his election.
No one of them ever regarded himself
as disqualified, either by wisdom or ig-
ncrance. No one of them ever absolutely
refused nomination but Tilden. His
nomination and election a second time,
Notwithstanding that refusal, ere pre-
vented Only by the monumental. stupidity
OF his party ard personal friends.
In the face of all human experience
We are asked to believe that Admiral
Dewey would refuse a presidential norni-
nation and election Party devotion goes
tar to blind many far-sightod men. 1t
will not see.
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A VALUABLE ARRANGEMENT.

A VALUABLE ARRANGEMENT.
While the general attention is attracted
only by those events in public life which
appeal in some degree, greater or less, to
the dramatic element, there are always
transactions cof government of surprising
importance (Which never attract more
than passing attention from the general
public, but which in their influence work
| with great force to produce valuable and
enduring effects.
Such a transaction is that which has
recently been contaminated between this
nation and the German empire. 1t is i'll
the form of an agreement between the
two people on postal arrangement
which provides for the transmission be-
tween the two countries, through the
mails, of parcels of merchandise at
minimum rate.
Under the terms of the arrangement
packages or parcels of not to exceed eleven
pounds in weight will be carried from
the United States to Germany by mail at
of pound. From Germany similar pack
ages will be carried at 2 marks and 40
pfennigs per pound at whatever weight,
or, in case the parcel does not exceed one
pound three ounces, at the rate of 1 mark
and sixty pfennigs.
This arrangement possesses special val
ue to Americans. A recent communication
published in these columns, addressed to
formerly of this city, and now acting as
government agent at Bamberg, Germany,
sets forth with much clearness the diff
culties which beset American trade in
Germany by reason of the inability of our
commercial Representatives abroad in
seeking to introduce American articles to
present theirsproposed customers with ad
equate Samples of the goods for which
they seek a market. This international
arrangement will enable our merchants
to send abroad in many cases the neces-
sary samples of their goods at a compare
lively Insignificant COST thus materially
aiding in sustaining the conviction which
everywhere prevails throughout Germany
that at beast fcertain Americana manufac-
tured articles are so far superior to art-
cles of the same kind placed on the. Ger
man market by other traders at higher
prices as to be beyond competition.
Everywhere throughout Europe the idea
has been sedhIously cultivated that Amer
lean products are Of the cheap and nasty
variety, and our merchants have succeed
ed II In overcoming this falsehood only
when they have Been able to lay samples
of their products before their proposed
customers.
But beyond the immediate commercial
significance of the new postal convention
between the two countries, 1t possesses
muchsvalue ON account of its tendency to
strengthen the feeling ,of national and
commercial friendliness which has been
constantly growing between the. two peo-
pies and which such desperate. efforts
have been made to avoid in recent times.
1t brings the two races more closely to-
gether and is in direct line with all that
the German emperor has been doing for
many years past to establish the most
friendly relations between the two ma
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LOOK ELSEWHERE, MIR. MAYOR,

Mayor hiefer may. or may not have
misunderstood or exceeded his official du-
ties in calling the attention Of the judges
of the municipal court I'd the record of
tteir judicial conduct furnished by the
G o b e. Ffe showed thereby that he
pGrtment Of the administration of Grim
iraI justice in this city. If he had shown
q like disposition in other directions,
where there is apparently much greater
demand for it, one would be disposed to
overlook any blunder he may have com
mitted in this particular case. But he
does not and ne has not
IL. for instance, Mayor Kiefer had TAX
en- Judges hine and Orr into his official
confidence ne might have learned Of GER
tain conduct on the part of police officers
connected With the municipal court in
their relations toward prisoners and at
torneys which is not only reprehensible
in itself, but criminal under the law.
AS chairman of the board of county
commissioners it would be of great adj
vantage in this direction if he would
seek remedy for the disgraccful fire.
ony are rendered abortive by the removal
of material witnesses from within the
jurisdiction Of local courts. He could do
this without interfering with the political
to keep intact his VIGOROUSLY incompe-
tent and corrupt police Administered ton.
suitable place for the detention of
necessary witnesses in important cases
would be furnished if he and his asso-
GATES on the body named would do their
duty. The facility with which such wit
nesses defeat the ends of justice by run
ming away has been cause of bitter
complaint on the part Of the county at
torney's office ever since this city and
county have been controlled by our Re-
publican brethren.
AS city executive Mayor Kiefer could
by half the watchfulness he exercises over
the municipal judges put an end TO the
record of unpublished crime which is add
ed to in this city each succeeding day.
No one thinks of holding the municipal
Judges responsible for this record. Tt is
due solely and alone to an incompe ent
police system.
With such crimes as that of the Fourth
street tunnel, the prosecuting witnesses
in which were allowed to run at large,
and that committed on helpless woman
at Kent street and Selby ave- nue. on Friday
evening repeated day after day, it is
puerile for Mayor Kiefer to as:ume the
character Of police court censor. =eeet 2
1t is the injury done the good name of
the city which chiefly. concerns the
Clio b e lin these directions. Life sand
property are needlessly imperiIed, for no
apparent reason other than that the may
or does not think 1t compatible with his
political obligations to have proper protecr
ton extended to them. Our reputation is
going abroad in this behalf Not a daily
paper in the country but has publis he'd
within "a few days the Associated Press
dispatch from. New York announcing the
tga..- az = =
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A DEVOTED PEOPLE.

So completely has the stage of public
opinion been occupied by the subject of
the trusts and the progress of events in
connection with the Philippines for many
weeks past that but little attention has
been bestowed on the situation of affairs
in Cuba
In the ever-faithful isle the work of re-
construction goes on. Today, as at any
time since our occupation of the island,
are circumstances arising which arouse
the shame and indignation of all just men
at the awful havoc committed on Cuba
and its people through the barbarity of
Weyler and the other representa- of
Spanish power and folly
Poverty and suffering is still the lot of
the bulk of the people scattered through
out the island away from the centers of
population. Social chaos is still prevalent
everywhere. The misfortune of continued
drought has added to the sufferings of
the people. From all sides come reports
of ruined crops. Corn, tobacco, sugar.
coffee in fact every staple product of the
island is in state of utter backwardness.
Nor is the situation in the cities much
improved. There is little business of
any kind, and the withdrawal of the
American troops has materially lessened
the money in circulation in business cir
cles. 9G-e
This is truly disheartening state of
affairs for the Cubans The only industry
which seems to have any activity is that
of the issuance of political manifestos
and the organizati ton of new political par
ties. The rights Of man. the liberty of
ban National league and of the Cuban
National party are all subjects which are
deeply concerning a few belcose patriots
in the cities and enable them to maintain
| themselves before the public
But. In the face Of all this desolation
and discourage the attitude of the
| Cuban masses has remained what it has
been from the outset. No degree of in
| terested abuse or Misrepresentation has
sufficed to rob them Of the high character
/ which they have won for themselves as
| a people patient even to the point OF
heroism, Industrious, accomplishing and
hopeful. The splendid testimony borne
| by Gem Wood to the superior qualities
/ of the people of the province of Santiago
t..
brace, black and white. They work when
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AIDING CRIME.

Ii is with no view to prejudging her
case that the C OBJ directs attention
to the dangerous line of treatment ex-
tended by certain foolish but we'll mean
ing, people of Chattanooga, Tenn, to
the woman now under indictment in that
city for the murder of an actor. The
woman and her victim were members of
the same thea trical company. During the
performance OF their play the woman
used a revolver with fatal effect, as the
result of Il somewhat brusaue demand
that she appear on the stage.
So far as the news dispatches show.
Miss Morrison had no more immediate
provocation than the personally often
sive manner Of her victim In addressing
her She has since declared that she had
been ''hounded' into her homicidal act,
the intimation being given that she had
for some time previously been subjected
to gross indignities by the man she
killed.
Since the arrest of this woman she has
been the recipient of such attentions as
arc usually reserved by sympathetic per-
sons for those who have performed some
highly meritorious act. The customary
supplies of flowers have been furnished,
and a daily bulletin has been issued as to
the condition of her health and Ape
tite. She mas received assurances Of
sympathy and sustainment in great num-
bers So far has this scrt Of thing been
carried that members of the grand jury
who indicted her have visited her In
person and told her that the Indictment
was a mere formal matter, and that they
knew she would be acquitted under the
evidence produced before them
Assuming to be true all that IS SAID
in behalf of the woman in this case as
to the treatment to W hich she had beea
subjected by the deceased, there is a5So-
lutely nothing TO justify her wicked
deed That she chose to remain Vlr-
tuo,,s woman under the conditions which
it is said attended her professional leia-
lions with her victim no doubt reflects
credit on her. How his previous conduct
toward her can exonerate her from the
awful crime of forcing him before his
Maker with all his sins upon his head
can never be made plain to any right
minded man or woman.
Miss Morrison's deed will act as a warn
ing to Hbertines such as the public were
given to understand her victim was
She will doubtless be acquitted, just as
was that murderess in Canton, O., re-
Gently. in despite of law and reason. But
it will not be forgotten by resp 3nso
people that she had at all times the
means of Kidding herself of the atten-
tons, however oppressive, of him whom
she killed; and that no woman not cruel
and vicious at heart could have done
such q deed under like circums ,ances.
Unless the jury who pass on this Wom-
ans case are in spirit and fact 1alse
To their oaths, she will be given the
fullest opportunity to reflect at leisure
in prison on her brutal crime. But,
whether she be convicted or acquitted, the
foolish sympathy bestowed on her ana
such as she must be promotive in no small
degree of the class of crimes which she
has committed.
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by the imperial government as it's own
cause, which endeavors have unfortunate
ly had only this result, that British troops
wera concentrated on the border of the
ened."
There is light to be had from all this.
And it is light which, unless the Trans
vaal people commit the unspeakable folly
OF doing violence or declaring war, will
not reflect with favor on sny policy of
aggression which England may adopt.
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temporary presence in that city of num-
singled out in that dispatch as the one
outside city whose contribution to the
army of outside criminals who operated in
the metropolis during the Dewey celebra-
ton was deserving of especial mention.
The mayor is the only official whom
the pubic can look to for putting an end
to this state of things. AS long as he
refuses to do so they must regard his
recent lecture to the municipal court
judges as the product of something more
than official impertinence or individual
Ignorance.