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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07

train and was hurried from Bangor with
physicians and nurses. President Wilson,
of the Maine Central railroad, was near
at hand when the disaster occurred and
he gave orders TO spare no eXerton IN
relieving the distress. Many persons had
been injured in the struggle on the edge
of the wharf and in the water and such
of these as needed immediate attention
were taken TO the high bluffs near the sta
ton and waited on by the physicians.
The sufferers from injuries will not be
as numerous! as those who suffered from
shock and exposure due to the immersion
in the water. OF these several were re-
ported tonight to be in critical state
Miss Sweeney, of Bangor. was taken to
the Hotel Bluffs. suffering from pneumonia.
George Spaulding of Orono, is also at the
Bluffs and may not recover; Mrs. George
Brooks, of Ellsworth. will recover. al
though her case was once pronounced hope
less. After the bodies in the freight house
had been identified the coroner gave per-
mission TO have them removed and rela-
tives and friends soon after took each in
charge and attended them to their respect
i've homes.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
TOOK LONG ODDS IN BETTING.
Several Wagers Laid in England
That Displayed Faith in
Luck.


Quite an astounding number of annual
occurrences are made the subject of wager
ing. Years ago, before the vagaries of the
weather had brought the four seasons into
discredit, wagering that snow would be
found on the ground on Christmas morning
was very popular. Even now. when the
weather behaves with sublime indiffer-
ence to the time of year, Wagers are still
made as to its raining forty days if st.
Swithin's be wet.
One enthusiastic supporter of this hoary
legend few years since wagered all he
possessed on one wet anniversary that
there would be rain every day during the
prescribed period. 1t did rain twenty-five
days, but the twenty-third ruined him.
A we'll known bookmaker who lays him
self out for what he calls fancy wager
ing has stated that the amount of money
which was wagered on the late William
q. Gladstone reaching the age of so was
simply enormous. He also says that be-
ing a believer in the unexpected happen
ing in politics. he accepted at the time
Of the home rule q split it in the Liberal LII party
Mr.. Chamberlain would one day be prime
minister of England. The stakes are
deposited in a bank under a deed which
provides for. the drawing of the interest
until 1904, the date when the wager ex-
pires.
During the building of the Tower bridge
one of the workmen wagered to cook a
big pudding ten feet under the surface of
the Thames. Needless to say. so impossible
a feat led to a deal of money being laid
that he couldn't. On the appointed day
the pudding was tied in a sack and sunk
crowd being greatly amused with the care
full manner in which the performer handled
the sack. At the end of three hours the
pudding was drawn to the surface and was
found to be thoroughly cooked, the only
fault being that it was little too well
done. The sack was half full of lime
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
John f. Swearingen, of EdgefieId, Is
a Wonderful Student at
Twenty.

From the Boston Transcript.
John Il. Swearingen, of Edgefield. who
was made totally blind by an accident
when years old. has just been graduated
from the South Carolina college, Column
bia, at the age of 20, after having made
the highest record during the entire four
years of any man since the founding of the
college, in the first part of this century
He was first honor man, delivering an ora
ton entitled Our Heritage" The faculty
regard MIR. Swearingen as a wonder. Rev.
Or. j. w. Finn, said he had been pro-
in half dozen colleges of high standing,
including Heidelberg, and" said he. Il
pave never met man to compare with
he must stand at the top. He is uncertain
whether to study for the ministry or the
law. As lawyer he would make great
make mark as an author His imagina-
tive powers of mind and fine logical rea-
soning are astonishing. His memory is
such as few other men have had; for in
stance, he can deliver a lecture complete
that he has heard once but not in the same
language. II vital points have only been
touched upon by the professor he will bring
them out and elaborate them. In such
branches as mathematics, astronomy and
psychology, as now taught, where the sense
of sight would be considered so important,
Swearingen never faltered. He answered,
with less than two minutes thought, a
complex mathematical proposition that 1
nave never had answered by another stud
ent. He has a perfect conception of rela-
tive positions and distances of heavenly
bodies. and experienced no difficulty in
drawing correctly geometrical figures"
In further exemplitication of the mans
extraordinary faculties DR.. Film said he
had tested him in various ways, even to
his own astonishment, when one day he
handed Swearingen a wooden nutcracker.
The cracking portion was a finely carved
head of Bismarck, giving a capital like
ness. The young man passed his fingers
over the face and unhesitatingly said:
why, that is Bismarck" A class and
roommate read aloud his studies in Swear
iingens hearing. That was how he studied
in COLLEGE
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
NO SURPLUS OF ORE.
Product All Sold or Contracted In the
JOplin-Galena Mining
nysS, srf


JOPLIN, MO-, Aug. 6.-(Special) There
Is no surplus of ore in the mining district
All of the product is sold or contracted,
and unless the association authorizes the
resumption of night shifts there is likely
to be scarcity, as buyers are contracting
FOR every pound of ore they can get at
present prices, thus indicating that they
want all they can get Ii Is probable that
with the resumption of night shifts at the
mines and mills, which the board of di-
rectors of the association will likely order
at Monday nights meeting, all previous
records will he broken, both in production
and sales, and it would not be surprising 10
see next weeks output reach over $3G0cO0
in value.
The sales of zinc were over 100000 less
than last week, while lead sales amounted
to over 100000 more than last week. Prices
were the same as last week, $i5 per ton for
top grade jack, and $3.50 for lead, the
value of the present weeks output being a
few hundred dollars less than last week $
sales.
For the corresponding week of 1893. sales
of zinc ore We're S,52605O: lead 9S6,l60 and
| the value at $26 for jack and S2350 for lead.
was $l2S,70S. For the thrty-one weeks of
| the present year, S16,S53,9O0 pounds of zinc
have been sold, while last year for the
same period it was 2,121 .4SO. Lead sales
so far this year foot up 2S.3l5.09O: last year
1t was 33,674.5SO. The total value of the
output so far this year amounts to $685.
366 Last year at this time it was 3.751.I 800.
The various camps report sales as fol-
lows:
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
IMPORTANT DECISION IN A con-
sULAR COURT At SHANGHAI.
CHECKS SHIPMENTS OF ARMS
FORCES CHINA TO EXERCISE ALL
POSSIBLE VIGILANCE.
Heretofore She Has Been Acting Only
When Attention Has Been Di-
rected by American Consuls
Ships Bond Must
Be Paid.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-John Goodnow,
consul general of the United States at
| Shanghai, has rendered decision as ref
cree in the consular court, which will be
of far reaching Importance during the con-
tinuance of the war in the Philippines. The
case was in relation to the steamer Abbey,
charged with taking arms from Canton 10
| LuZon. 1t has been in contention for some
time. The owners of the vessel gave bond
| that the ship should land the arms pur-
chased at Singapore, but she did not do so
| The bond was demanded by the Chinese
authorities. Mr. Goodnow holds that 1t
must be paid. The Importance of the decis-
| ion is pointed out by the Shanghai Mer-
| curry, which says:
1.-The effect of the decision of Mr.. Good
now reaches much beyond the mere fact
| of being judgment for the plaintiff with the
penalty of the bond and the costs of the
| suit. Hitherto the American forces at Ma
Mia have had to fight against Filipinos
| well armed with modern rifles and guns,
and it is no secret that the majority of
| these arms have been landed in the Phil
| ippines from Chinese ports. When United
States consular officials have received in
| formation that cargoes of weapons were
about to be shipped from China, their ur-
ping shipments. But when the United
| States officials, through want of knowl-
| edge, have been ignorant of such contra
band runs, the Chinese officials have like
wise been blind to these shipments, though
| no doubt well aware of such. 1t is in this
respect that Mr.. Goodnow has scored such
an important point. On the strength of
| that judgment the officers of the imperial
maritime customs of China must necessari-
ly do all in their power to stop shipments
of arms to suspicious destinations. 1t has
! been decided on the motion of the Gus
| toms, that China is liable for any ship
ments of arms which get to the Philippines
through lack of diligence or honestyjon the
part of the customs or the Chinese off,
cials. Therefore, the Judgment in the case
| of Drew against Sylvester will be the
means of checking the chief source of sup
ply of arms and warllke material that the
| Filipinos have possessed"
The North China Daily News publishes
the decision of Consul General Goodnow in
| full and comments editorially upon its i'm
portance in the matter of preventing fur
ther shipments Of arms to the insurgents
in the Philippines, and says that 1t will be
| far reaching in its effect in stopping the
sending of arms to the Filipinos.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
ONE MANS DEFINITION.
Robert Louis Stevenson Declared That
Happiness Is n Question of
Morality.

From Scribners.
And on the other hand, happiness is a
question of morality-or of immortality;
there is no difference-and conviction. Cor
don was happy in Khartoum, in his worst
hours of anger and fatigue; Marat was
happy, 1 suppose, in his ugliest frenzy;
Marcus Aurelius was happy in the detested
camp. Pepys was pretty happy, and l am
pretty happy on the whole, because we
both somewhat crowingly accepted via
media, both liked to attend to our affairs,
and both had some success in managing
the same. 1t is quite an open question
whether Pepys and l ought to be happy,
on the other. hand there is no doubt that
Marat had better be unhappy. He was
right df he said it, that he was la misere
humane, cureless misery-unless perhaps
by the gallows. Death is great and gen
tie solvent; it has never had justice done
it, no, not by Whitman. AS for those
crockery chimneypiece ornaments, the
bourgeois Quorum parsl, and their coward
ly dislike of dying and killing, it is merely
one symptom of a thousand how utterly
they have got out of touch of life. Their
dislike to capital punishment and their
treatment of their domestic servants are
for me the two Haunting emblems of their
holloWneSS.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
FAMOUS CRIME RECALLED.
n. U. Strike Dies in Prison of
ConsumptiOn.

JOLIET, ILL, Aug. 6.-Harry c. Girls
void, aged 30 years, a life convict in the
penitertiary, died to-day of consumption.
The death of Griswold recalls the great
railway trouble of 1894, and the shooting
of detective in Chicago during the strike
Griswold was from a wealthy Brooklyn,
n. Y, family, and during the worlds fair
he came to Chicago. He became associated
with Frank Lake, railroad employe, and
one night Griswold went to the stock
yards district. During the night a de-
teetive was shot and killed and Lake and
Griswold were arrested and convicted of
the crime The trial was a sensational one
Both were tried together at Waukegan, Ill.
and both received life sentences in the
penitentiary here.
Lake, a year ago went insane and was
transferred to the state asylum at Chester
III. Griswold's parents have been working
for a pardon, which was to have been
granted this week.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
STEAMERS MARROW ESCAPE.
City of Grand Rapids, With 200 Per-
sons on Board, Comes Nenr
Foundering.

SOUTH HAVEN, MICH, Aug. 6.-The
passenger steamer, City of Grand Rap
ids, with 800 persons on board, narrowly
escaped foundering in midlake last night.
The steamer was bound for Milwaukee and
was thirty-three miles out when large
quantity of water was discovered in the
hold. The water was pouring in from many
leaks and to make the situation more des-
perate, the engineer was unable to start
the pumps. When the water rose until 1t
was within two inches of the fires, the
steamer was turned around and headed
for South Haven.
The passengers were awakened and told
10 prepare themselves for what might hap
pen. 4 wild scramble for life saving ap-
paratus followed. Just before the fires
were put out by the incoming water, the
engineer succeeded in rigging up one of
the pumps, which held the water in check
uptil port was reached again at o'clock
thS morning.
Two inches more of water would have
shut off the supply of steam from the
boilers. and the steamer must have sunk
in mid-lake, most likely with great loss
of life.
1t is thought the leaks were due to de-
fective caulking.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
ILLINOIS BROOM CORN POOR.
Drouth and Insects Have Damaged
the Crop in the Sucker


CHARLESTON. ILL. Aug. 6.-Reports
from nearly every school district in the
Illinois central broomcorn belt, which
grows two-thlrds of the worlds crop, in
dicate that. under the most favorable con-
dtions during the remainder of the sea-
son, there Will not be more than one-half
of last years tonnage produced.
To the south, where the land is poor, and
last year produced a good crop on ac-
count of rain, the fields are almost burned
up this year, and chinchbugs are making
great ravages. To the north. where rains
have been more frequent, the growth is
thrifty. and some few crops are ready TO
be cut But new worm, resembling a to-
bacco worm in appearance. only smaller is
killing the brush, and fields that gave
promise of a large yield will be utterly
ruined.
Many fields that had to be replanted
tsome as late as July y are not yet far
enough along to take into considerat tion.
1t depends on the fall rains and the LATE
ness of frost. About the only consola tion
IS that the farmer who does produce a
crop will get good price for IL. 1t ought
TO start of at 500 ton. and, unless con-
ditions rapidly improve, $50 will be easily
realized.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
YAQUlS WELL PREPARED.
1t Will Take Mexico n Long Time and
a Large Army to Subdue
Them,

TBRRAzAS, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO,
Aug. 6.-The Yaqui Indians are arranging
for prolonged war, and it is going to take
the Mexican government a long time and
a big force of troops to quell the rebellion.
The Yaquis are better prepared now than
ever before for a long and bloody cam
paign. They are all well fixed financially.
nearly all of them having saved the $500
per head which the Mexican government
paid them when they signed the treaty of
peace two years. They have been making
money since then, too, and 1t is known to
be fact that they have been laying in
big supplies of arms and ammunition for
some time.
1t has been common talk among the
American prospectors in the Yaqui valley
that the Indians are preparing for another
outbreak, but as the braves had always
shown q friendly spirit toward the Ameri-
cans IL was thought they would not modest
them when they did go on the warpath.
They are determined to recover all of their
lost country, however, and will kill every
body they find within the limits of their
number of miners and ranchmen in and
near Cocori have been slain and their prop
erty laid waste.
ceived, here to-day by private advices Is
10 the effect that the Mexican army will
open up active and continual warfare on
the Yaqui Indians tomorrow. For week
the Mexican soldiers already in the Yaqui
territory have been engaging the Indians,
until the main body of men could be mo-
biized In doing this, they have lost quite
a number of their soldiers, while the In
dians have lost comparatively few war
riorS
1t was stated to-day, however that the
Mexican soldiers were about mobiliZed-at
least there are about 1000 on the field, and
that is considered to be a sufficient number
TO justify the troops being moved into the
mountains, with instructions to push
through and, If possible, exterminate the
Indians.
The situation is worse even than 1t was
during the ten years war. The Indians
are determined that they will fight until
they regain every foot of the territory
taken from them by the treaty three years
ago. and he Mexican government is deter
mined 20 effectually exterminate the In
dians. so as to secure all the land from the
Indians and prevent any further trouble.
The Indian has already waded rather
deep in blood, according TO official advices.
having killed something like 100 miners and
as many soldiers. With both sides thor
oughly aroused. the war, which will open
in earnest tomorrow, promises to be long
prolonged.
II is given out that, taking up the line
of march tomorrow, the Mexican troops
will advance directly into the mountains
and try TO reach the Businesses of the III
dians, giving them no time to rest from
one attack to another, in the hops that by
this procedure they will be worn out in
short order and either surrender or all be
killed.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
BOTH VESSELS WENT DOWN
Coal Steamer and Car Ferry Sunk in
Collision in the Detroit
River.

DETROIT, MICH, Aug. Gas a result
of collision the steamer w. B. Morley,
with a cargo of hard coal, lies sunk in the
river two blocks above Woodward avenue,
and the car ferry steamer Landsdown is
sunk in its slip at Windsor
The Morley was bound up with hard coal
for Duluth. The Landsdown, one of the
Michigan Central car ferries, was crossing
the river from Detroit TO the Canadian
shore. There was some mistake in signals
and the two boats came together with a
terrific crash.
Immediately both captains headed their
boats for the shore. The ferry was headed
for Canada and kept on that way. The
water was pouring through a huge rent
in its stern, but the vessel reached its own
slip before it sank. The Morley went TO
the bottom when 800 feet from the dock at
Detroit. Both crews escaped.
A diver has been patching up the Lands
ed out and the boat raised by Tuesday
noon,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
WHOM is HARRIS FOR?
jor w. II. Harvey for the
G0yernOrshfp.

TOPEKA, Aug. 6.-(Special) The ques-
tion now is: Has Senator w. A. Harris
deserted the Breidenthal forces and Joined
in the movement to down the bank COM
missioner for the Pop nomination for gov
ernor? Certain it is that the senator's pri-
vate secretary, w. II. Sears, is against
Breidenthal. and 1t is taken by the politi-
clans that Sears actions reflect the senti-
ments of Senator Harris. Sears is for Ma
jor Harvey for governor.
Harvey was lieutenant governor under
the Leedy administration and later went
to war as major of the Twenty-second
Kansas. He is very strong among the
younger element of the party. and 1t is be-
lieved that Senator Harris sees in Harvey
the coming boss of the Pops in Kansas
and wants to hitch to the Harvey kite.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
NEW YORK SUN STRIKE.
Walking Out of Printers and Stereo-
typers Forces Suspension of
Publication.

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-The compositors
and stereotypers of the New York Sun, 120
in number, who went on a strike Saturday
night, were still out tonight. The press
and composing rooms We're in darkness,
but the editorial rooms presented the usual
appearance. The Sun appeared this morn
ing with only four pages in its news Sec
ton.
In an editorial, the Sun of this morning
says that it may be impossible for the pa
per to be published tomorrow morning.
The strike, which was ordered and sane
toned by Typographical Union No. 6, was
ratified to-day in Teutonia hall at one of
the largest meetings ever held by the union
The meeting unanimously passed a reso.
luton offering the entire funds of the
union, amounting to $4,000, for the use of
their striking brethren in case of necessity.
A telegram was received from Samuel i.
Donnelly, of indianapolis, president of the
International Typographical Union, offer
ing to place the available funds of the
parent association at the disposal of the
local organization. The president of the
local union said tonight that he had as
sumed the duties and responsibilities of
the office with a full knowledge of the task
imposed on him.
There is nothing new to be said of the
strike he said, except that the battle
will win. All We can do is to watch
events. l am making no promises, but will
do my best
AT tTe headquarters OF tne union TO-
night the rooms were crowded with strik-
ers and their sympathizers. The talk was
mainly over the expected arrival of nom
union printers said to be en- route from
Philadelphia by steamer 1t was said that
the steamer had passed Long Branch this
afternoon. PicketS were sent out by the
strikers and instructed to watch all of the
possible landing places.
NEW YORK, Aug. 7.-Oficers of the
Typographical union received word early
this morning, that the steamer Endeavor,
from Philadelphia, was anchored off Sixty
fifth street, Brooklyn. with about 100 print
ers, who would be landed to-day. Accord
board were union printers, fully equipped
to persuade the others not to go to work.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
There's Danger in 1t.
From an Exchange.

From an Exchange.
If one cannot always have congenial sur
roundings it will at least be possible to be-
come Interested in some favorite occupa-
ton, and this is important if we would
avoid the experience of "self-boredom"
liant woman says: eff had not bored my
self so much in my life ] believe 1 could
have been very pretty. You smile? That
shows you are unobservant. Dont you
continually grow dingy, dull-eyed, heavy of
feature and graceless of movement? L
never knew boredom in congenial sur
roundings. But have died of 1t nearly,
and have certainly grown ugly upon it in
the long years that have been compelled
by duty to spend in dear little country
town, where the men all go to sleep with
their pipes after dinner, and the women
tittle-tattle by the hour about their secret
for making biscuits rise,
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
MILITIA TO BE WITHDRAWN.
Yesterday One of the Quietest Days
Since the Cleveland Strike
Began,

CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 6.-It is an
nounced tonight that all the military will
be withdrawn from Cleveland, perhaps be-
fore tomorrow night. This was one of the
quietest days since the beginning of the
strike. Violence has ceased entirely, and
there is no apprehension of fresh out
break The action of the merchants yes
terday in declaring their purpose to resist
the boycott has already had its effect. The
cars were well patronized to-day on the
Euclid and Cedar lines, and there was a
noticeable increase In the number of pass
engerS carried on other lines.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-07
A Story for Cricketers.


There is an amusing history attached fo
a photograph which Mr.. Hawkins took of
w. G. Grace on the Hove ground at Brigh-
ton. When the camera was put in position
Mr.. Hawkins found it would be Impossible
to reproduce wv. G. without Including
several of the youthful generation OF
photographer appealed to the sightseers to
give him more room, and so did DR.. Grace,
but all without effect In all probability
that photo would never have been taken
II wv. c. had not devised a method OF
clearing the crowd. Putting stump into
the ground and getting into posi-
tion for skier, he called out to Kitcat
who was standing near: kitty, 1 want a
little practice; come and bowl me few
full pitches to leg" The crowd dispersed
with an alacrity which did credit to their
acquaintance with the powers of the bats
man.