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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-18

their side of the question is marshalled
the demands of the humanitarians and
the scientists. While on the other side the
statisticians of crime under both systems
tell their mute story to the world. Civil
ization has not advanced to a point where
the issue can be definitely settled in
favor Of either system. Circumstances
must to a large degree determine the
question. t It's
Certain it is that in the punishment of
crime no distinctions should be made be-
tween males and females. The facts thai
Mrs. Place is a woman does notr affect
her. eligibility to the electric chairs She
murdered her s~tepdaughter in Just as
fendish q manner as one could we'll de-
wise, and it is hardly necessary to re-
spect her modesty to any great extent
in administering the fatal dose Of cleo
tricity. Her barred knee may only prove
to the witnesses of that solemn event
that no callouses have been worn by
frequent appeals for divine grace. ri
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-18

A Difficult Si~tuation.-"It's too bad"
said Sagasta, in a tone of deep pathos.
II wish they wouldn't send such unreas-
enable people to the c%Ortes."
whats the trouble?"
You can't get anything through their
heads. A number of them won't vote for
the treaty unless they are paid in ad-
vance some of the money which we can't
collect from the United States until after
the treaty is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Star.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-18
WILL BE KILLED.

Mrs. Place, convicted of the murder of
her stepdaughter, will be electrocuted
under the laws of New York early next
week. She will be the first woman to die
in the chair, and her case has therefore
excited widespread discussion The fact
that the top Of her head must be shayen
and her leg barred to the knee, to facili-
tate the work of the executioner, has en-
listed many women in her cause, and
Governor Roosevelt has been importuned
repeatedly to commute her sentence. But
the chief executive cannot be moved. He
has refused to interfere, and the decree
of the court will be carried out probably
on Monday.
This case has dom more than any other
event in years to stimulate renewed in
terest in the question of capital punish
ment. Those who oppose the death pen
atty for murder have a strong following
and are not likely to lessen their efforts
to abolish the gallows n the electric
chair from the storerooms of Justice. On
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-18
A MATTER OF TASTE.

It seems thai science is about to settle
the vexed question of appetite, the Uni
versity of Iowa having recently made
some interesting tests. that go to show
that taste Is merely a combination of re-
ports made to the brain through the sew
eral senses. In commenting on these ex-
periments, which are interesting if not
valuable. the New York Times says:
OF a large number of persons tested,
few could distinguish, when their eyes
were covered and their noses closed, be-
tween weak solutions of tea, coffee, and
q~uinine, and even those who were most
successful made frequent and ludicrous
mistakes. Still greater difficulty was
found in discrimination by means of the
unaided tongue between meats as unlike
as pork n turkey, especially when the
meat was first finely divided. The ex-
periments indicated that there are at
most only four real taste sensations,
namely, sour, sweet, bitter and salt, and
it is doubtful if there are more than two
sweet and bitter. This may suggest to
folks of frugal mind that a lot Of money
might be saved by going to table blind
folded, and with nose put temporarily
out Of commission by the application of
a convenient clothespin. One could then
call viands and liquors whatever one
chose, and the bills of the grocer, the
butcher and the wineseller could be ma
terially reduced by the employment of a
judicfous imagination. In the course of
the lowe tests a woman who is of great
local repute as a cook, made the follow
ing Judgments: Raw potato chopped she
called acorns, boiled pumpkin she said
was something sweet and fiat, fresh pear
she called sweet berry, slightly ferment-
ed; roast pork she called boiled beef; raw
turnip chopped she called cabbage sweet
ened, raw apple was grape juice, roast
turkey was called beef, and horseradish
she said was something she had never
tasted.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-18
Democracy a nd Silver.

The Standard is one Of the
newspapers that have felt that
an exact statement of the ratio
is not a vital factor in Si!Ver'S
restoration. ratio is a mat
ter of law;.it has varied slightly
in our own currency our ratio
has also varied slightly from the
one that has ruled in some other
countries. Tho worlds ex-
changes practically fix the ra-
tio-Anaconda Standard, Janu-
airy 9, 1899.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-18

The Charleston News Ind Courier
says that IF. Hopkinson Smith worked
the same gag in Charleston that he has
been accused of in different western cities
of appearing on the stage in business
clothes and explaining hat his trunk had
gone astray."
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-18

The following curious advertisement
recently appeared in 1.-The London Spec
tator:" thousands of people would be
glad to know of a religion without super
%stition, a faith without credulity, and a
worship without idolatry. Apply for
theistic literature to Mrs. Laing, the The
istic Church, ~Swallow-st., Piccadilly
London"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-18

The Helena Herald has tailed a pretty
good joke on the Independent. 1t recent
it accredited to the Independent. The Lat
ter repudiated the statement, said it was
ridiculous and absurd and had never ap-
peared in its columns, whereup0r the
Herald apologized for its mistake and
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-18
The Talk OF the Day.

Here are a few names taken at random
from the delinquent tax list of Hawaii
for 1898, as printed in one Of the Homo
lulu papers: Alapaki, Bila -Alapai, All
Kui, All You, c. j. All Fat, Boo Sau
Tong, Sow Lin, Dol, Ak Goo. Iokepa,
Ellen kahaunaela, Lukia Kaholoholo,
Leihuhu keohokalole, Kahakumakalani,
Not At and B. SO. The ks take up
three columns of space, being three times
as numerous as the delinquents under
any other letter.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-18
THEIR MO 7IvEs.

In advising Mr.. Mccarthy, the demo-
cratic nominee for mayor, to get off the
ticket and repudiate the platform upon
which h stands. the Butte Miner is I'M
uuestionahly right from a democratic
standpoint. Nothing would do more in
the nature of things to permanently dis
rupt the democratic party in this state
than the election Of a mayor by. the DEM
ocracy Of Butte on a platform that
brands tha democratic senator-elect from
this state as a common criminal, who
purchased his title from q democratic leg
islative assembly. The anti-CIark men
have made these allegations an issue in
the city campaign. and if successful at
the polls VIII materially strengthen the
fight which they intend to make against
Mr.. Clark in the senate chamber later or.
There is no question about this.
Every man who is running for office on
the anti-Clark platform is irr~evocably
committed to- warfare on the SENATOR
elect, until all his sims ARE burnt and
purged away" in the crucible Of party
hate. The election of Mr.. Mccarthy to
the mayorality of this city would be not
only an insult to every Clark man in
l l. .l..- r4--
litical interests in this state. The Miner
is doubtless alive to this fact when it adj
vises that gentleman to retire from the
campaign. 1t knows that such a course
only will pave the way for democratic
harmony in the future. 1t knows that il
the campaign of 1900 ripens up with the
democratic stronghold of the state off
cially on record against the democratic
party will be more in evidence than ever
before in it's history, and that it will &C
down to inevitable defeat in the election
of that year. The Logic of the situation
points to no other result.
It is a desire to save the democratic
party from ruin hat leads the Miner tt
offer the suggestion that it does to the
nominee of the late democratic conven.
ton. In default Of any olive branch that
is row in good working order, the retire.
ment of Mr.. Mccarthy is deemed the
least Objectionable method Of healing the
party breach and laying the foundation
for united effort in 1900. While the more
fair minded and far-sighted democrats
throughout the state Will the
course pursued by the Miner in defend.
ing the first United States senate
ever elected by a democratic leg.
islature in Montana from crimina
charges, inasmUch as the action
of that body cannot now be recalled
there are some who would like to see Mr.
Mccarthy remain on the ticket and make
vicarious atonement for the sins of his
party.
The anti-Clark men did not adopt the
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-18

stage. You see a girl of five years. But
there's another story. One millionaire
could Keep liquor out get people off the
street, and, what's most OF, ALI rnake them
happy. L have a. scheme But I'll tell
You about that another tlme."-Philadel-
phia Press.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-18

Weary Billie-Hello, there, old boss!
Where you been keepin' yourself?
Berry WILHELM boardin'
Weary Billie-Boardin'? How's dat?
Berry Wilie-Why, boardin' freight
oars, of courSe.-Harper's Bazaar.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-18

= woman evangelist lis converting
many sinners in Missouri. In one Of her
addresses the other day she said:
There is a man in this house who is
untrue to his wife! l I'M going to throw
this hymn-bOok at him."
She raised the book as if she was going
to throw it, and every man but one in
the house ducked his head to avoid the
book. Then she blistered the dodgers
and lauded the one true man. 1t was
afterward learned that he was deaf and
dumb.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-30
ANOTHER RACE RIOT.
White and Colored Miners Fight
in Alabama.
THREE OF THE NEGROES ARE KILLED.
Another VIII Die of His Wounds
Street Duel at Galveston, Tex, in
Which One Man Is Killed and
Three Wounded.

Birmingham, Ala, June rs. = Three
negroes are dead and one is not eN-
pected to live as a result of riot be-
tween the white and negro miners at
the ore mines near Cardiff, in Jefferson
county. The dead are: Ed Ellis, Jim
Dill and Adams Samuels. Wounded:
Rudolph Williams and George Thomas,
mortally.
The two races came to clash in the
late afternoon in Glasgow hollow,where
the negroes had congregated, armed
with winchester rifles. y white man
passing along the road was held up,
and besides being abused was roughly
handled. This news soon spread, and
an armed body of white miners moved
toward the hollow. 1t is supposed that
they went around by a circuitous route
in the mountains and came upon the
negroes unexpectedly.
Ed Ellis, the ringleader, armed with a
winchester and colts revolver, fell in
the first shot. A rife bullet did the
work. There was another volley and
four of the negroes fell. Jim Dill and
Adams Samuels died in few minutes
after being removed to negro house
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-30
IOWA STATE NEWS
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
Call Issued for Its Assembling I'm Des
MOines and Delegates Counties
Arc Entitled To.

Z. L. Hancock, chairman of the re-
publican state central committee, has
issued the call for the republican state
convention to meet in Des Moines on
Wednesday. August 9, for the purpose
of placing in nomination candidate
for governor, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Judge
OF the supreme court, superintendent
OF public instruction and railroad COM
missioner. The total number of dele
gates will be 1,2SO, the representation
from the several counties being as fol-
lows:
Adair TO- Adams. 81 Allamakee, -; APP
panoose IA; Audubon, s; Benton, l6; Black
hawk, Is: Boone 16; Bremen, 10; Buchanan
IS; Buena Vista, 10: Butler, ~; Calhoun, IL;
Carroll, 10; Cass. IA; Cedar, 10; Cerro Gordo,
IL; Cherokee, Q; Chickasaw, TO- Clarke, .;
Clay,S Clayton, 10: Clinton, 20: Crawford 10;
Dallas, 10: Davis, 3: Decatur. IL: Delaware,
u; Des Mones, IS; Dickinson g. Dubuque,
20; Emmett, z; Fayette, II; Floyd, IL; Frank
lin, 10; Fremont, 10: Greene, ~; Grundy, 8;
Guthrie, u; Hamilton. 10; Hancock, 8;
Hardin, 10; Harrison, IA; Henry. IL; How
ard 8; Humboldt, S; Ida, s; Iowa, IL; jack
son, 10; Jasper, IS; Jefferson, II; johnson,
Ia; Jones, IA; Keokuk, 16; Kossuth, IL; Lee,
10; Linn, 80; Louisa, 8; Lucas 8; Lyon, z;
Madison, -; Mahaska, 20; Marion, IA; Mar
shall, II; Mills, II: Mitchell, 10: Monona .;
Monroe, g.; Montgomery, 10; Muscatine, Is:
O'Brien, 10; Osceola, 5; Page. 10; Palo Alto,
8; Plymouth, u; Pocohontas, 6; Polk 80;
Pottawattamie, &c; Poweshiek, IA Ring
gold. IL; Sac, 10; Scott, q; Shelby, 10; Sioux.
~; Story, 10; Tama, Is; Taylor, Is; Union,
10; Van Buren,, ~; Wapello, 20: Warren, 10;
Washington, 10; Wayne, II; Webster. 16:
Winnebago, S: Winneshiek. l6; Woodbury.,
%; Worth s: Wright 70
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-30
TOO HARD ON THE MEN.
of Women Objects to Harsh-
ness of the Speakers.

London, June 2S.-The international
Council of Women, which assembled
Monday in the Convocation hall of
Church house, Westminster, is divided
into five sections, or meetings, which
were all crowded Tuesday.
Great interest is taken in the political
section, which discussed 1.-THE parlia-
mentary enfranchisement of women"
the vice president of the council, Mrs.
May Wright Sewall, of the United
States, presiding.
In the professional section, Nine. An
toinette Stirling created some excite
ment by declaring, with much emotion,
that she thought the speakers were too
hard on the men, and adding that WON
en- only realized the full value of hus-
band when the latter was lost.
An immense meeting attended by
more than 1000 persons was held in
Queens hall in the evening, the countess
of Aberdeen presiding for the discus.
sion of resolution, proposed by Baron.
ess Won Suttner, of Austria, calling upon
the international Council of Women
to do all in its power to advance the in.
terests of international arbitration
Letters were read from Cardinal Glib.
bons, of the United States, Cardinal
Vaughn, of England, and Carolina.
Logue, of Ireland, all of whom wrote
strongly in favor of the resolution
Lady Aberdeen then introduced Arch.
bishop Ireland, who addressed the au.
dience. The speech was received wifi
great enthusiasm. Mrs. Mary Wright
Sewell, vice president of the council
also spoke upon the resolutions
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-30
M1LwAUKEE,s CARNIVAL.
ed with Pleasure Seekers-Opens
with Aquatic Parade.

Milwaukee, June 2s.-With magnifi-
cent water display upon Milwaukee
bay at night, the second annual Mil
waukee midsummer carnival was ap-
propriately launched. The event was
known as Venetian night" A large
number of small boats participated in
an aquatic parade, accompanied by a
grand display of fireworks. To begin
with, there We're eight special illumina-
tons of variegated fire. Following this
came grand salute of 13 aerial guns
or dynamite rockets exploding at a
great height with tremendous force.
Other displays included meteoric bal
loon ascensions, carnival rockets,
salvos of bombs of various -di-
mansions and displays of almost
every kind of fireworks known, wind
ing up with two immense electric fire
fountains. Numerous bands rendered
selections from different water craft
and on shore there was singing by the
Arion Musical society and the Lyric
Glee club, with about 200 voices. Over
100000 people viewed the grand spec.
tacle, though rain spoiled part of the
programme.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-30
TO ALASKA IN A CATBOAT.
Young Lady VIII Make the Trip With a
Female Companion.

Carrie R. Hope, young lady, says
that she is going to Alaska in a catboat.
Miss Hope was born non the Great
South Bay, Long Island, and she has
almost lived on the water. Her father
is in Dawson, or was when she last
heard from him, and she is going to
join him there If the fates are kind to
her. She proposes to purchase a boat
large enough to accommodate two per-
sons, and she expects to find woman
In this city venturesome enough to ac-
company her on her dangerous trip.
She knows all about sailing, and she
will only ask her companion to look
after the vessel while she sleeps. Her
destination will be Skaguay, and when
she arrives there she expects to sell
her boat for enough to pay her ex-
penses and the expenses Of her COM
panion to Dawson. The young lady
expresses herself as being entirely
fearless of the perils of the trip to the
north. She will follow the course of
the north-bound steamers, and when
storms threaten will find a haven in
the lee of some friendly shore.
The yacht will be loaded with pro-
visions to last for month, and Miss
Hope believes she can make the voy-
age In that time. Once in Dawson, she
will endeavor to make living keeping
bakery. She says she knows how
to make bread and cakes SO well that
she believes the miners, after having
tasted her cookies, will not be able to
get along Without thsn--seattle Corr.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-30
A MYSTERY.
A Badly Disfsured Man Turns Up In
Jackson Company and Applies
for Medical Aid.

Reports come from Jackson county
that another murder came near being
committed there, and the result is a
man is badly disfgured and yet refuses
to tell how it happened. The first heard
of the trouble was when Carl Hyperion
and Gee Houston drove up to DR.. Ris-
tines office at Iron Hill and asked to
have Hyperion fixed up" Heneeded
it badly for his jaw was broken, his chin
split open and big cash cut in one of
his cheeks. Both men denied knowing
how the injury was inflicted, but it is
believed they know quite we'll. They
were both in Maquoketa the day before,
and it is reported they went away
drunk. They stopped at Nashville early
in the morning and were not hurt then.
Whatever happened took place during
the morning between there and Iron
Hill. 1t was suspected that they had
been waylayed by man with whom
Hyperion had quarreled but that
seems not to have been the case. Rip
perton is dangerously hurt.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-30
ALGER SEES PRESIDENT.
They Confer on the Michigan SEN
atorship and Gov. Plngree's
Alleged Ctterances.

Washington, June 2s.-Secretary AL
ger called twice at the white house
Tuesday. He was among the first to
welcome the president to his home, and
in the afternoon called again to have q
more extended discussion of the situa-
ton in the Philippines. 1t is under
stood the situation in Michigan as to the
senatorship and Gov. Pingree's alleged
utterances also were talked over. When
the secretary left the white house, and
his attention was called to reports in
certain quarters that he intended to re-
sign from the cabinet, he promptly and
emphatically denied their truth. He
added that his resignation had not been
asked for, that he certainly did not in
tend to offer it and that he intended to
remain in the cabinet until the expira-
ton of this administration. Relative
to Gov. Pingree's published interviews
Secretary Alger said that he did not
care to express himself, not being OF
the opinion that Gov. Pingree could be
charged with responsibility for all OF
the statements attributed to him by
the newspapers.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-30
END OF A HARD FIGHT
Kentucky Democrats at Last Name
a Candidate.
TWENTY-SIX BALLOTS ARE TAKEN.
Goebel Defeats Hardin for the Nom
nation, stone Having Been
Dropped-Love Feast Fol-
lows the Result.

Louisville, KY, June 2s.-William
Goebel, who with an iron grasp has
ruled the democratic state convention
since it assembled nearly week ago.
was on Tuesday night nominated for
governor on the twenty-siNth ballot
after a contest unparalleled in this
state for bitterness and determination,
or on the part of the winner for sllillful
manipulation. The end of the long, ex-
hausting fight brought reasonable de-
gree of harmony to the factions which
have been waged through the fight re-
lentlessly and battled for every inch of
ground. Nearly everybody joined heart
lily in demonstration when their can
didate appeared for the first time be-
fore the convention to accept the nomi-
nation and return his thanks.
The Goebel forces held the opposition
closely down to business all day, fore
ing continuous balloting, defeating
them when they showed signs of weak
nessand sought sine die adjournment,
compelling vote on proposition to
drop the hindmost man on each ballot
after the twenty-ffth, and came out of
the final trial of strength shortly after
ten o'clock at night with colors flying.
Stone was dropped on the twenty-fifth
ballot and Hardin proved unable to con-
troll enough of the Stone votes to win.
The twenty-sixth ballot stood: Goebel,
$50; Hardin, 331. The scenes during
the last ballot were dramatic, though
not so exciting as many in which the
delegates had participated.
After the nomination the convention
enjoyed few minutes of relaxation.
Speeches were made by Congressman
Wheeler, Judge Tarvin, ex-senator
Blackburn and other managers for the
three candidates and the theme of all
was: "Get together and win"