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r.,n, Acciden, In Washington.

WASHINGTON. September 3o.-James
r. Wlnet. postmaster OF Washington un-
der President Cleveiand's last admin
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-01

z<a,.er Commitments Won Diedcrichs
BERLIN. September 20.-Srecial dis
ntehes tonight say that the emperor,
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
WILL NOT B SHOT.

Washington-Private Thomas Nc
Weigh, Company g. First Wyoming
volunteers. was tried by general
court-martial convened at linus, p. l.,
in June last on the charge of striking
his superior officer. He was found
guilty and sentenced to be "shot to
death with musketry at such time and
place as the proper authorities may di-
rect" two-thirds of the court concur
ring In the sentence. President Nc
Kinley has directed that the sentence
be commuted to dishonorable dis
charge. forfeiture of all pay and allow
ances and confinement at hard labor
for the period of three years.
Alcatraz Island. CAL, has been, desig-
mated as the place Of confinement
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

and taunted the whites with being bad
losers. The negroes were all together
in the bow of the vessel. A large
party of the white soldiers gathered for
a rush on them. The negroes prepared
to stand by one another.
Just as pitched battle was immi-
nent Captain Devere called out the pro-
vost guard and the fight was averted
For the remainder of the trip the pro-
vost guard was on duty keeping the
whites and blacks apart. When the ves-
sci arrived here the negroes were given
shore leave, with strict injnnctions to
keep out of trouble. The ringleaders
Of the trouble among the whites were
not given shore leave at all. The Pu-
ebla will probably sail tomorrow.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
GAMBLING ON A TRANSPORT.

Honolulu-There was race war on
the transport City of Puebla, which ar
rived here this morning. For four
days during the voyage the provost
guard aboard the ship was under arms
night and day. The cause of the
trouble was craps" The men were
paid after the vessel sailed, and every
body had money to gamble with.
Craps was the game. OF the GIL men
aboard about eighty were colored SOL
diers. AS the play proceeded the lat
ter seemed to have all the luck. This
provoked quarrels.
On Thursday morning, when two
days out at sea, some of the white SOL
diers claimed to have been robbed both
in the games and from their clothes.
They accused the negroes of robbing
them. The negroes denied the charge
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
FROM FOREIGN LANDS,

The Queen Regent of Spain has
signed decree proclaiming martial
law in the province of Viscaya.
American sewing machines to the
amount " of $270,O00 found places in
Mexican homes last year, an increase
of 100000 over the year ending June
80, 1898.
The United States purchased nine
million dollars worth Of sisal grass
from Mexico during the last fiscal year,
more than the combined purchases of
the two previous years.
A Berlin cable says Charles Allen, a
mail robber, who escaped from Ludlow
street Jail, New York, in 1895, and Sgd
ney Wennie, pickpocket of Washing
ton, have been arrested at Frankfort.
Cape Town: In the Cape House of
Assembly the Premier, Hon. w. P.
Schreiner, admitted that there had
been forty-two deaths from bnbonic
plague at Magude, near Lourence MIR
quez, Delagoa Bay. He said that every
person attacked had succumbed to the
disease.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
TRAGEDY FOLLOWS AN ELOPE-
MENT.

Longview, Tex-Panola county, es-
pecially Beckville, Is excited over q
triple tragedy. The trouble started
with the marriage Of Forsythe,a highly
respected young man, and Miss Ollie
Simpson, a belle of the neighborhood.
1t seems that Forsythe did not have the
approval Of the girls father, Andrew
Simpson, in his suit for the hand Of
his daughter, but, with several young
men in the neighborhood, he succeeded
in eloping with the young lady and
they were married Saturday night.
This so angered1 the old gentleman
that when he learned of the wedding
last evening he saddled his horse and
loaded double barreled shotgun and
took his pistol, declaring he would kill
the whole party concerned. As he
rode up to Forsythe's home he saw his
son-in-law fleeing through. the orchard.
He brought him down with seven buck
shot in the groin, leaving him for dead.
He then rode toward the house. Lang
H. Forsythe, father of James, came out
to see what the trouble was and was
instantly killed with load of buckshot
in the abdomen. Simpson then dis
mounted and rain into the house with
his pistol, saying he would kill his
daughter, but the mother Of young
Forsythe ran between them and held
his pistol until the girl was helped
away. Simpson then walked out the
front gate, put the pistol to his fore
head and killed himself instantly.
Young Forsythe Is desperately wound
ed, but may recover.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
HONORARY MEMBER.

Chicago-The Times Herald says:
The bricklayers' and stonemasons'
union of Chicago at it's regular meeting
voted to Issue a card of honarary
membership to William Mckinley,
president of the United States, SO that
when he handles a trowel in laying
the cornerstone of the new government
building, October 9, he may not be
branded "scab."
According to the present plan the
card of honarary membership will be
personally presented to President Nc
Kinley in Chicago on the morning Of
the day set for the ceremonies. by
George P. Gubbins, president of the
Bricklayers' and Stonecutters' union.
The organization instructed Financial
Secretary VIM. A. Stamm to make out
the card and notify President McKin-
lev by letter that he had been made an
honorary member of the body.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
CHIPPEWAs WANT TO FIGHT.
President Petitioned to Authorize an
Indian Company.

Washlngton-Colonel James H. TILL
man of South Carolina, nephew Of
Senator Tillman, was at the White
House recently and asked the Presi-
dent to authorize the Organization Of
an Independent company Of Indian
scouts for service in the Philippines. 1t
is proposed to make Mr.. Tillman. who
was colonel of the First South Caro-
lima regiment during the Spanish war,
captain of the company and Joseph H.
Woodbury., "Hole in the Day." the
chief of the Chippewa Indians of Min
nesota. first lieutenant and some men,
ber of the regiment of Rough Riders
second lieutenant 1t is said that
many more than a company of Chip
pewas are ready to enlist in case they
are allowed to go to the Philippines
as an Independent organization. The
President referred his callers to Sec
retary Root.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

and bears all the dignity and red tape
of military order.
The nurses affected by the order are
Susan H. Barnes, Katherine Connors,
Carolyn C.Foote, Helene M. Gottschalk,
Louise F. Henig, Helena e. Jones, Ma
rie E. Moore, Annie A. Robbins, Inge-
borg Stoke, Victoria Tullis, Barbara
Weidmann, Mary A. Welsh, Minnie A.
Winslow, Ellen L. White, Elizabeth e.
TAFT, J. e. Duncan, HE. Sigsbee, Maud
Moshier, E. r. Portius, Hannah M.
Nichoff and Annie M. Magee.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

thousand years Of Christianity. But
the swarthy President Of San Domingo
was simply reiterating in a blunt way
a principle that has been discussed
and even defended by generations Of
novelists. The fight goes on in the
stock exchange to-day as fiercely as
1t did in the age of totemism, when the
struggle for food was mans first and
only occupation. As for the latter half
Of life's object shelves Of yellow
backed novels bear testimony that
Heureaux stood not alone. Why must
the heather be saved, mutters the pes
simist, when respected members Of So
ciety, who pay their annual pew rent,
IL they do not actually indorse Heu-
reaux's philosophy, believe in the max
i'm, "Be virtuous II you can, II you
can't be careful" Does the latter
show any moral superiority to Heu-
reaux's frank definition of life?
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
AGAINST CONSERVATIVES.

Sacramento-At the session of the
Board of Health, DR.. D. D. Crowley in
troduced a sensational resolution pro-
viding for the Quarantining of con-
sumptives. The resolution is as fol
lows:
Resolved, that the State Board OF
Health considers the propriety OF
quarantining against human beings
and domestic animals, affected with
tuberculosis"
Before presenting the resolution for
the consideration of the board, DR.
Crowley went deeply into the question
of the increasing growth of tuberculal
diseases, explaining the reason for his
resolution. The resolution was passed.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

The United States weather bureau
has published the results Of investiga-
tons it has made as to the value Of
property destroyed and the number Of
lives lost in this country, by lightning.
for series of nine years. The records
are reasonably complete and the show
ing Is as curious As 1t IL interesting.
In the last nine years 312 persons
have been killed annually by light
ming, but Of all the years considered
that Of 1895 was the most disastrous,
426 persons having lost their lives in
that manner. Last year the mortality
was 367, and in the entire nine years
the average number killed was five to
each million of population. Fatalities
are less frequent in cities and thickly
settled localities and most common in
agricultural sections Of the country.
OF the states having most deaths
from this cause Ohio takes the lead,
the average being "a for each 100000
persons engaged in farming. The
greatest proportion of fatal strokes is
found in the Missouri valley, the great
plains and in the region Of the Rocky
Mountains. Last year 1896 buildings
were destroyed or damaged by light
ming, which involved loss estimated
at $1,440,SSO. OF other property lost
the report mentions 964 cattle, 300
horses, 80 mules, 116 pigs, 426 sheep,
the estimated total value Of which was
$4S,257. This makes the total loss Of
property 1,495, 1877, caused by only
TO lightning strokes. 1t is stated that
so far as the loss Of life is concerned,
practically all the fatalities take place
In the five months from April to Sep
tember, most Of them being in June
and July. The report says that much
of the damage caused by lightning
in the agricultural districts might be
avoided by grounding wires" at
proper distances along lines Of wire
fences, (which are death traps to
stock, the fatal shock being inflicted
often through the medium Of the wires
at a considerable distance from the
point hit"
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
A High Compliment. t.

Frederick Douglass told me-" says
a writer In Harper's Magazine, ''that
in spite of his long experience, he never
could entirely rid himself of stage
fright. During the first fifteen min
utes when face an audience he said
my knees will knock together
When he got fairly into his subject
however, this nervousness, which al
speakers have sometimes felt, passed
away. He put his points we'll in any
argument, and his eioquence was Of q
high order. His tribute, in one sentence
to Abraham Lincoln is an unsurpassed
compliment.
"Mr. Lincoln" he said, sis the only
white man into whose presence l was
ever ushered who did not make me fee
that l was q negro"
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
ASSAULTED NATIVE WOMEN.
Two American Soldiers Sentenced to
Death-Another Condemned.

Manila-Cabled from Hongkong-
The local papers assert that Corporal
Damhoffer and Private Conine Of Co.
B, Sixteenth Infantry, have been SEN
fenced to death by court-martial and.
that Private McBennett has been con-
demned to twenty years Imprisonment
for having criminally assaulted native
women in Manila a month ago. The
crimes, it is said, greatly aroused the
natives.
The papers assert also that General
Otis has recommended that President
Mckinley approve the sentence, and
that he desires a public execution of
the men sentenced to death as a warn
ing against repetition of the crime.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

Captain William A. Andrews, who
undertook to cross the ocean in a dory,
did not complete his voyage. He was
picked up by a steamer 700 miles from
land In such an exhausted condition
and so glad to get aboard that he did
not even try to save his boat. 1t is not
possible to feel any sympathy for the
captain. 1t was foolhardy piece of
business, which IL it had succeeded
would have accomplished nothing Of
value. If he should safely cross the
ocean dozen times it would not con-
vince any one that 1t was not much
easier and safer to go on a steamer.
Captain Andrews should be thankful
the steamer picked him up and quit the
silly business In which he Is engaged.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
DREYFUS PARADE.

London: The Jewish atonement day
was celebrated here, especially in the
East End, with Dreyfus demonstra-
tions. A procession with banner in
scribed "Dreyfus-The Martyr; All the
Civilized World Demands His Instant
Release" marched through Spital
Field
Chief Rabbi Adder, preaching in the
great synagogue, said: "The day Drey-
fus was sentenced was more disastrous
for France than Waterloo and more
humiliating than Sedan
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

The admission fees to recent prize
fight in New York exceeded $85, 700,
the largest amount ever received for
any single performance. This has been
cited as startling commentary upon
the times. Bloody noses and cracked
crowns, however, are not the delight
of the vast majority Of our people, nor
are bounce and buster yet widely ac-
cepted as the principal virtues of the
world.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
GALLANTRY OF A BRIGAND.

Rare gallantry has recently been dis
played by one Yorgaki, a Turkish bri-
gand. Some time ago he and his men
captured Mr.. Chevalier, a French en-
gineer, and his wife, who were travel
ing in Turkey. They were defended by
a soldier. who acted as their bodyguard
and he was killed while so doing.
The Porte having paid Yorgaki the
ransom of $4,000 which he demanded
for their release, the brigand has not
only sent $35 to Nine. Chevalier, beg
ging her to drink a few glasses of
champagne to aid her recovery, but
has forwarded $2500 to the family of
the soldier killed by his men.-Chi-
cago Chronicle.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
SOLDIER sLAsHEs A WOMAN.

San Francisco: A.C. Lollis, private
in the hospital service of the Army,
had a dispute with Mrs. William Spiro
in Bottle Koenig's" Montgomery ave-
nue. theater over the payment for a
bottle of beer and slashed the woman
with knife on the right cheek. Lollis
was arrested, taken to the California
street station and booked for assault
to kill. The woman was removed to
the receiving hospital, where several
stitches were taken in the cut. She
was not seriously injured.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

The predominant aspiration In the
boy nature is the desire to be man.
As he cannot be man until he Is
grown he initiates the man to the best
of his boyish ability. Next to his de-
sire to be a man his strongest impulse
is to do what the other boys do. The
boy Is gregarious. He goes in droves
usually, following the leadership of the
loudest-voiced and most pugnacious OF
his fellows. These two traits Of the
boy nature explain the recent strikes
among the newsboys and messenger
boys in New York, Pittsburg, Syracuse
and Philadelphia. The men, when they
want their wages raised or shorter
hours Of labor, strike. 1t il only nat
ural that the boys should follow the
example Of their elders. Adult strikers
frequently mob other men who are will
ing to take their places, calling them
''scabs" and other opprobious names.
Boys follow their example by beating,
or threatening to beat, their fellows
who afe willing to add to the family
income by sticking to their employ
ment. If the workingmen win strike
In New York or Boston, others are en-
couraged to 60 on a strike. If the
newsboys and messenger boys Of one
city stop work for better pay, the strike
epidemic spreads straightway among
the boys IN all cities. It's an old saying
that boys will be boys, and 1t Is equally
true that boys want to be and do like
other boys. While boys strike lasts,
however, it is usually lively one. The
spirit Of gregariousness In the boy ma
ture insures this. What one boy does
all the boys will do or want to do, and
when all the messenger or newsboys
are on strike and preventing other
boys from doing their work, there will
be plenty Of life, a good deal Of mis-
chief and some destruction going for
ward.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

The plain truth appears to be that a
very large proportion of the population
of the United States is Indifferent to
books, and we have still rather a small
strictly student element. 1t is the fault
OF very heavy and mixed immigration,
Of the backwardness Of the large rural
population In the South, and of the rap
i'd growth Of the country. with enforc-
ed strict attention to practical affairs
of business kind.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

A fruit novelty is reported from Cali
fornia. 1t is half lemon and half or
ange, with the shape Of the lemon and
the color Of the orange, the juice hav-
ing the flavor of both. 1t Is, of course,
artificially produced. Heretofore the
phantom lemon, which figures In picnic
assets, has had the chief distinction as
a lemon curiosity. The fruit world, 1t
will be seen, shows tendency to COM
bination as well as the business world.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
MARRIAGE OR DEATH.

Amelia Gomez, Of 1923 Oregon street.
San Francisco, swore to warrant in
Police Judge Graham's court charging
John Pryor, a sailor. with making
threats against her life. She alleges
that Prior gave her the choice of mar
riage or death.
GAL ONE ASSN
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

Simple directions for treatment OF
lockjaw are making their appearance
here and there. 1t should be borne in
mind, however, that prevention Is bet
ter than cure, and that the toy pistol, a
frequent cause, can at least be prohib-
tied.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
NURSES FOR THE PHILIPPINES

A corps of women nurses will leave
the United States general hospital at
the Presidio and report to the com
manding officer Of the hospital ship
Relief for transportation to Manila.
The order has been issued by Assistant
Adjutant- General ]. B. Babcock. by
command Of Major General Shafter.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

If the horse goes, the coachman must
20, too. A family coachman way down
East has gone. He took a $4,000, 900
bride with him.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
JEWISH POPULATION OF AMER
ICA.

Chicago-The American Jewish Year
Book. just issued, estimates the Jew
ish population of the United States at
1,043,800. New York has 100000, I'LL
nois $4,000. Pennsylvania $4,000, Ohio
$4,000. California, $4,000. Maryland 35.-
900 and Missouri 5000.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

The declaration of the late Presi-
dent Heureaux that the object Of life
was "to fight man and love woman"
brings us back to the age when man
had all he could do to hold his own
against other beasts. 1t will strike the
gentle reader a little odd to hear such
O pre-hist0ric admission after two
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

A man 100 years of age recently chas-
tised his youthful son aged 70 for mis-
behavior. There is nothing like putting
q son on the right path while he is still
under 80. The boy may yet turn out
all right.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

An investigation shows that the As
tors instead Of being descended from a
noble line of Spanish courtiers came in
straight line from German butcher.
If the Astors were good sensible people
they would be glad this discovery has
been made. Better an honest German
butcher any day than a hanger-on at a
Spanish court.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
A Field Day for Both Parties.

She-People talk Of Sunday being a
day Of rest, and yet look at the way
the poor women have to work to get
their husbands to go to church.
He-Yes. and yet look at the way the
poor husbands have to work to get out
of going,-Brooklyn Life.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

That is dangerous admission made
by the Boston Herald that the Boston
street boy has abbreviated "motor car"
to tomato" Sometimes a name like
that sticks ridiculously.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

1t probably would not require very
near sighted man to recognize in slim
Sarah Bernhardt's Hamlet the time
honored hypothesis Of Hamlet with
Hamlet left out"
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

Writers may come and writer's may
go, but no one will take the place Of
the late Horatio Alger In the hearts OF
the men who used to be boys.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

A magistrate has declared 1t Illegal
Cor man to make love to q woman
without her consent. The legal form
WIN read: May ask you II may ask
your" and It is feared this complicated
question will completely befuddle a
great many suitors.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

Edison thinks the name "electro-mo-
bile" should be selected for electrical
carriages. That has a euphonious
sound, and how would gasomobile an
swer for those run by gasoline power?
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

The announcement that the kissing
bug is myth, the creation of an imag-
NATIVE reporter. is little hard on the
people who have been bitten by the
insect
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

Small bills are said to be scarce. But
most persons can testify to the fact
that the monthly bills" big and little,
are as numerous as ever.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

Let It no longer be considered re-
proach to be seasick. Admiral Dewey
had NAL demer during the battle Of
Manila.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29
Berlin Coachmen

Among the coachmen Of Berlin are
seven retired army officers, three pas
tors and sixteen mobiles.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

The proposal in q love story is to
girl what the pie at q dinner is to q boy.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

We reserve our hero worship for the
man who can invent a mucilage pot
that won't get gummed up.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

It Is understood that Don Carlos has
quit sitting up nights to pretend.
Mesa free press., 1899-09-29

The meat trust makes no bones Of
charging high prices.
The Norfolk weekly news. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1888-1900, 1899-04-27
FRIDAY FACTS.

Tomorrow is Arbor day.
G. f. Lemont returned from Bloom.
field last evening.
There promises to be o good deal Of
building this season
A. II. Winder of Meadow Grove has
moved to this city.
S. X. Warrick of Battle Creek spent
the night in the city.
The public schools held arbor day ex.
ercises this afternoon.
Otto II. Mas, the Battle Creek drug.
gist, was in the city today.
The banks of the city will be closed
tomorrow, it being legal holiday.
Mrs. l.. r. Pritchard of Meadow
Grove is visiting friends in the city.
Rev Vollbrecht and wife of Stanton
are the guests of Rev a. +. Siegler,
Harry Woodall returned from hunt