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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1899-09-21

SHARP & DGNLIy
w }. Eouse has painted and
OF hcrWis" Improved his resi-
dencc property on west Summer
St. There are Others who
should do likewise.
b G. Moss and wife, d NJ
Proctor and wife and Miss
Susie Smith are attending the
Bethel Association or Baptist
love feast in Palmyra.
The evening times., 1899-07-20

ent excellent system of handling and sell
ing his tobacco, affording him better fa-
ciiities and more advantages than he has
heretofore enjoyed. The biggest item to
the farmer. however, is the reasonable
hope held out to him of obtaining in the
main better prices for his product than
he has been recently getting And another
item has removed all the wrath the farmer
felt against the trust, and that is the COM
pany proposes to lend him money or Sc
cure it for him at a smaller rate OF inter-
est than he mas been paying. Like cot
ton producers, tobacco raisers sometimes
have to borrow money to make their crops
and they have been in the habit from time
immemorial of paying per cent for this
accommodation. The company promises
TO see to it that they hereafter pay not
over 5 per cent, possibly not more than A.
These announcements have removed pretty
much all of the opposition to the trust and
it is a fact that a number of well-to-do
farmers who few weeks ago were clam
oring for independent warehouses to hight
the trust have taken stock in the big COM
pany
The evening times., 1899-07-20
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

pretty wedding solemnized at Belts
vile, Nd, yesterday in. the presence of
many friends. number of whom were
from this city, was that of Miss Elizabeth
L. Mitchell. daughter of the Rev, DIR. Wal
ter Mitchell, rector of Zion Episcopal
parish, and the Right Rev. Joseph Blount
Cheshire. D. d.. Bishop of the p. E. do
cese of North Carolina. Mr.. Edwin Mitch
ell gave his sister in marriage, the cere-
mony being performed by her father, as
sisted by her uncle Rev. James A. Mitch
ell, rector of st. Paul's Church, Center
vile, and by Rev. j. Taylor Chambers, of
Grace Church. Weldon, N. C. The groom
was attended by his kinsman, Gen. William
X. Cox, Secretary of the United States
Senate, and the ushers, who were also his
relatives. We're Mr.. H. NJ Daniel, of Phil
adelphia, and DR.. Edward Greer, of Balti-
more. The bride was attifed for travelling
in tan cloth and carried bouquet of pink
roses. The bridal party and Baltimore
guests left for that city by special train.
Bishop and Mrs. Cheshire expect to reach
their home in Raleigh in about two weeks
time
The evening times., 1899-07-20
Changes mt n University.

Lexington, Va, July 20.-At a meeting
OF the board of trustees of Washington and
Lee University, held for the purpose OF
filling the vacancy in the chair of Latin
caused by the resignation of Prof Edwin
". Fay, Prof. George H. Denny, of Hamp-
den-Sydney College, was selected from a
list OF thirty-seven applicants and elected
to the position. Prof. Denny is an A. NJ
and A. b. of Hampden-Sydney, and a Phi.
d. of the University of Virginia. He was
for three years teacher at Pantops
Academy, and for the past three years
has filled the chair of Latin at Hampden-
Sydney. He, with his bride, who was Miss
jamie Junkin Strickler, of Richmond, Is
now travelling in Europe. He is twenty
eight years of age. At the same meeting
the action of President William l.. Wilson
in appointing Dr. Charles L. Crow, of Nor
folk. adjunct professor of modern Ian
guages was confirmed. This divides the
school of modern languages and Englis /
and gives the latter in charge of Prof w.
S. Currell, who has been in charge of all
DIR. Crow will also teach Spanish. He
graduated from Washington and Lee in
1888, with the degree of A. NJ, and Cot
tingen, Germany, in 1892, conferred the
degree of Phi. d. on him. He has been
teaching at Weatherford College, Texas.
The evening times., 1899-07-20
boarded by IceherGs.

Gloucester. Mass, July 2O.-Capt J.
Hayes, of the schooner Admiral Dewey,
which arrived from Bacaleu Bank yester-
day, says huge icefelds were met during
the last trip. One calm day the Dewey was
nearly submerged by great ice mountain
The vessel was lying almost motionless
when a berg drifted right into the ship
The dories were got out and lines attached
to the vessel, and every energy bent toward
getting her out of range. The men worked
with a will and succeeded in saving their
vessel, but not before a berg glanced and
struck it blow just forward of the rig
ging on the starboard side. Although
pounded hard, the Dewey stood the shock
some bad chaing and the starting of some
planking being the only result of the in
jury. Another berg barely grazed the main
boom, and for day the crew We're active
ly engaged in lodging these floating ice
hills and saving their lives.
The evening times., 1899-07-20
LITIGATION OVER A GIRL.
Habens Corpus Obtained to Keep hei
From Her Brother.

Hagerstown. Md, July 20.-Constable
| Jonas Rowland yesterday arrested Miss
Mollie Sigafoose, pretty young girl from
Winchester, at house on North Jonathan
Street The officers had been securing the
| city for her for four or five days. Last
night they got track of her. Several
houses were searched. She was finally To-
| Gated at the house, where man slammed
| the door in the face of the officer, VINO
was accompanied by the girls two broth
ers. who came over from Winchester 10
assist in the search. Taken before Justice
Ward the girl said she was over eighteen
years of age and declared she would not
return to Winchester and live with her
stepmother. Both her brothers swore she
was not eighteen, and one of them. Sam
uel F. Signafoose, swoTe out a warrant
charging her with being incorrigible She
was sent TO jail in default of bail for a
hearing which took place yesterday aft
ernoon.
Justice Ward dismissed the case against
Miss Sigafoose and turned her over to
Sheriff Seibert until her brothers could
| take her home on an evening train. A. j.
Long, her attorney. claimed she was lille
gally held and took out habeas corpus pa
pers In the meantime Samuel F. Siga-
foose induced his sister to go with him
TO Williamsport. From Williamspor1 they
drove TO Berry's station, in Washington
county, to take the evening train for Win
chester. While waiting the train pulled
in and Deputy Sheriff B. F. Newcomer
alighted served the habeas corpus papers
and brought the couple back to Hagers-
town. The case will be heard today. Neal
Reede. was arrested. charged with enticing
the girl away, but the State abandoned the
charge.
The evening times., 1899-07-20
THE WOMAN ONLY WAS LEFT.
Perils of an Expedition Into KIon.
dixie Gold Regions.

Seattle, WASH. July 20.-Among the nu-
merous vessels constructed in the ship
yards of Seattle last spring during the
great Klondike excitement was a little
steamer known as Elk No. l. She was
built by Capt w. Bens, an old navigator
on the chain of lakes. She sailed for Kotze-
bue Sound a year ago last June, with
party CT seventeen including the crew. Ar
irving safely in the sound party of thir-
teen proceeded TO the new gold digging5
reported on Selawick River but being un
successful three proceeded to Koukuk
River in which direction a stampede was
general. The distance was 300 miles by
the shortest route. Captain Bens and his
wife headed the expedition. 1t was a
weary trip, but they finally reached Teg-
ragawick River in an exhausted condition.
Exposure and insufficient food was begin
ming to tell and one by one all but Cap
tain Bens and his wife sickened and died
of scurvy. Captain Bens and wife sue
ceeded in getting TO Husskaulana River
but there the captain died on May 10.
The woman, left alone on the trail.
miles from any human habitation and
short of supplies. contemplated suicide.
but finally decided to make one more trial
for her life. Putting a light pack across
her back she started down the river. She
had travelled about nine miles when she
found a camp of prospectors from Peavy.
They went back on the trail and buried
Captain Bns. The plucky woman was then
put on a sled and hauled to Peayy.
The evening times., 1899-07-20
FOR A COTTON COMBINE
The Latest Trust Project Cigar.
tic One.
Investigations of the Value of Fall
River, Mass, Miiis-Competition
South Expected to Be Eliminated.
Capital Said TO Re 1926, 900.

Fall River. Mass, July 20.-Among the
great industrial combinations which have
been formed within the last year the cot
ton cloth producing business has stood out
as shining mark for an advantageous in
yestment, and now when about every other
important industry has been made into
trust it appears that the mills of the coun-
try which transform cotton into cloth are
the next on the list.
For some weeks a quiet investigation
has been going on as to values of New
England mills making coarse grades. If
the mills of Fall River combine under c.:e
head or are bought out by single organi-
zation. this, it is expected, will be the
nucleus of a gigantic combination of cot
ton mills interests all over the country,
Involving the expenditure of more than
Oo,OOo,O0O. combination would stop
the present competition between Southern
and New England mills.
Since Fall River began to change its
method of doing business by having the
cloth OF all mills sold by two men and
not by thirty-five different ''treasurers,"
as they are called, there has been a decided
Improvement in the trade. The men who
are responsible for this changed condition
have been considering the question of
electing a purchasing committee as well
as selling committee, and there have
been attempts to sound stockholders who
have large holdings OF mill certificates.
1t was at one time considered feasible
to take all the local mills and exchange
ka rorti6cata- Of fo- a continuation
stock This was considered good tn
for the reason yIt no money would be
needed in the transfer of investment, but
the plan OF combination OF local nj L.
without any exchange of capital has beel
abandoned for the more ambitious SCENE
OF combining all the cotton mills of he
country.
II is expected that when the men who
are now at work on the project get et tie
bottom of the details IS 10 the deDt and
the earnings per spindle there viii be
distinct offer made for each concern in the
city except the fine goods and yarn mil s.
A mill treasurer who has just returned
from New York says that the Standard
Oil Company, under its charter, could ac-
quiTe the cotton mills OF the country, and
that il was the interest which the Stand
ard Oil men and some New York bankers
had shown in the project that had caused
the investigation which has proceeded 50
far. 1t is estimated that for $225, Coo, Geo
the cotton mills combine can take in all
the mills of the country. There is one
somewhat formidable obstacle in TIE
scheme on foot. NJ. C. D. Borden, of New
York, q great producer and distributor o,
cotton goods, is said TO be antagonists to
the scheme and his objections may go a
great way toward keeping it back.
The evening times., 1899-07-20
An Effort to Render Assistance Re.
suits in a Double Tragedy

Chestertown, Nd. July 20-Johu T.
Hodges and his son. William Hodges. aged
seventeen years, were drowned Tuesday.
They were Fishing for soft crabs in mar
row cove in Piney Neck, Kent county. The
boy, who was large for his age, but could
not swim, said he wanted to take a hath
The only witnesses of the drowning were
two small boys about nine years old. from
Baltimore, who accompanied Mr. Hodges
and his son on the trip in search of crabs.
The boys give the following account of the
double drowning:
William Hodges said 10 his father that
he would take a bath and at once proceeded
to undress. He walked out into the water
and in few minutes went down and called.
Pap. come to ME quick!" The father.
with all his clothes on. rushed 10 the res
cue and both sank TO the bottom The bows
say neither ever came to the surface Mr..
Parson, who was not more than a hundred
yards away, thinks he could have saved
both had he been called, but the boys were
so badly frightened that they hurried home
and gave the alarm to the grief-stricken
wife and mother without stopping 10 no.
tify anyone on the way what had happened.
When the bodies were drawn from the wat
er about three hours after the accident il
was discovered that in all probability the
unfortunate boy had actually drowned his
father. The fathers head was held in a
yice-like grip between the boys legs, and
the arms of both were in such position as
to indicate that after being grabbed by his
son the father had broken away but in the
effort sank only to be clasped around the
neck i'll the strangling embrace of the legs
of his drowning son.
Mr.. Hodges was about forty-four years OF
age and from boyhood had been noted as
one OF the finest swimmers in the neigh
borhood in which he had lived. The boy,
who was large and muscular for his age.
could not swim, and both were evidently
unconscious OF the fact that at the point
at which the boy went in to bathe within
about twenty feet of the shore, the water
becomes very deep.
During the search for the bodies the
wife and mother of the victims had a mar
row escape from a similar fate. Maddened
by grief she was unwilling to wait for the
waters TO give up their dead and rushed
into the stream.
The evening times., 1899-07-20
MRS. cLEws' NARROW ESCAPE.
The Turning of Her Life PreserVer
JeOpardizes Her Life.

The Turning of Her Life Preserver
JeOpardizes Her Life.
Newport, r. l., July 20.-Mrs Henry
Clews had a narrow escape from drown
ing at Bailey's Beach today, and had 1t
not been for the prompt and efficient work
of Swimming Master Boyer, her life would
have been lost. Mrs. Clews was bathing
in the surf, which was running quite high,
and had a life preserver strapped around
her waist.
Mrs. Clews waded out into the surf and
did not notice an exceptionally large COM
ber approaching. The wave struck her
with considerable force and knocked her
from her feet. While she was struggling
in the water in an effort to regain her
feet another wave turned her completely
over, and the life preserver slipped below
Mrs. Clews' waist and held her head un-
der the water.
In this position she f1oated. and was
gradually working out from the shore by
the action of the waves, when Swimming
Master Boyer saw her legs above the wa
ter and hurried to her assistance. He
reached her none too soon, and with diff
Guilty carried her to the beach. where Mrs.
/. Townsend Burden assisted in restoring
the unfortunate woman to consciousness.
Mrs. Ciews swooned again. then had hys-
terics, and was taken to her home in a
carriage
The evening times., 1899-07-20
DANvILLE's TOBACCO TRUST.
The Leaf Warehouse Deal Now Prac-
ticaIIy Completed.

DanYilie, Va, July 2O.-The Danville
Leaf Tobacco Warehouse Company. that
much -talked-of trust, is now practically
fixed. There were rumors of hitch in
some of the arrangements that might make
the attempt to consolidate all the leaf to-
bacco warehouses OF Danville under one
management a failure. These fears on the
part of two or three of the Danviile men
interested grew out of some minor COM
plications in the situation of the affairs OF
one CT the houses proposed to be taken
into the company. This complication has
now been Strengthened out and the deeds
TO the purchased property and the contracts
for the leased houses were forwarded yes
terday to the Produce Exchange Trust
Company, in New York, which will hold
the same until the stockholders shall COM
ply with the terms of the agreement, that
is, pay in the 81 600, 000
Now that the whole matter is settled
beyond any possibility of a failure, except
by the interposition of a miracle. the COM
pany is making known by degrees its plans
and purposes and the more they make
known of them the more popular the trust
becomes in Danville and the immediate sur
rounding country, and all the talk about
the establishment of opposition warehous-
es has blown over or at least given place
to a sentiment to give the Dig company a
fair showing, and if it keeps its promises
TO tote fair with the farmers. with DAN
vile and with the Tobacco buyers then It
need not fear any building and operatin.
of independent warehouses.
The company declares now its purposes
to be to make Danville the largest lei
market in the world, by concentrating all
the bright leaf tobacco raised in Virginia
and the Carolinas here. Where fle leaf
is for sale the buyers will come, end
hence the trust expects to have every large
factory in the world that consumes the
bright leaf represented on this market. If
this scheme, or this part of it, works out
successfully, 1t naturally follows that Dam
ville's greatness as a leaf market will far
exceed its present mammoth proportions.
The next important paragraph in the
company's announced plan of operations
concerns the farmer directly. For him
they propose to greatly improve the pres
The evening times., 1899-07-20
FARMING IN MEXICO.
An Inviting Field for American Cap
itnI and Brcyyn.

An Inviting Field for American Cap
itnI and Brcyyn.
Consul General Pollard, of Mexico, writes
the State Department as follows on MeXi-
can farming:
Mexican farming is widely different
from that in the United States. Irrigation
is necessary in the greater portion of this
country, and, on account of the scarcity of
water, a large extent of land cannot be
utilized. When the owner of the land has
sufficient water for the purpose indicated
he holds on to his property and rarely can
be induced TO SELL as it is of permanent
value to him. For the last 800 years, large
tracts of land have been owned by individ-
uals or families who have spent heavy
sums of money for canals and dams in or
der to make them productive. On account
of this and the attending expenses OF irri-
cation, there are fewer small farmers in
Mexico than there are in the United
States.
The cost of labor is from 25 to so cents
~ to "a cents in United States currency
per day, depending on the locality. There
are two crops of corn season, upon which
the farmer averages $50 (s24.O5) per acre
gross. Sugar cane. turned into piloncillo,
or brown sugar. averages from $3.50 TO
5000 ($7215 to $96.20) per acre gross; beans,
from $50 to $50 (s2S.S6 to s3S.4S) per acre;
rice, from SIS to s100 ($36.0S to $4S.10) per
acre; all other products realizing corre-
spondingly high prices. Thus it will be
seen that the profits of the farmer must be
large. Hay is not made in any great guam
tity but corn fodder is sold to advantage.
Baled oat and wheat straw sell at from
$50 to $50 ts24.O5 to s2sS6) per ton.
Cattle raising is, and has always been,
a profitable business in Mexico, consequent
upon cheap labor, low taxes, and the large
tracts of cheap land which are suitable for
grazing only.
Dairy farming in the neighborhood of
large cities is lucrative, milk selling at so
cents GA cents) per gallon, and butter at
IS cents to 81 (36 cents to 4S.1 cents) per
pound. Those engaged in this business
make money rapidly.
Fruit and vegetable farming is beginning
to attract attention. Formerly, this
amounted to simply enough for the home
market. Now, an effort will be made to
supply the United States with early fruits
and vegetables The movement is in it's
incipiency, but it is destined to grow into
large proportions. Oranges. lemons. toma-
toes, beans, etc., are produced in Mexico
from four to eight weeks earlier than in
the United States. Hence, this will be a
profitable business in the near future
Parts of the country are adapted to the
growth of tropical products, viz coffee,
vanilla, rubber, cocoanut, cocoa, etc., the
quality of all being first class.
Taken as a whole. farming in Mexico
is an inviting field for persons of capital
and intelligence.
The evening times., 1899-07-20
OLD DOMINION NEWS NOTES

Mrs. p W. Zeilor, of Frederick county. died
Sunday, aged eghty-two years.
An immense pork-packing house is to be es.
tabished near Bristol, Va.
Rev. Sam Black, venerable Methodist preach
er, died at his home in Greenbrier county. w
Va. few days ago, in the eighty-second year
of his age.
A Chicago glove combination made an unsuc-
ccssful attempt to absorb the William C. Graich.
en- Glove Company, of Winchester, which gives
employment to nearly 500 people
The twenty miles of road former Senator
Camden is building from Camden-on- Gauley to
Cherry River, opens up section not only rich
in timber, but it taps the great Pocahontas
vein OF coal. the finest in the world. None ex-
GELS this coal. it being used by the navy in
preference to any other.
The evening times., 1899-07-20
A victim of a Vicious joke

Westminster, Nd July 2O.-Jaeob Pow
ell, colored nearly lost his life Tuesday
at Manchester, through a trick parpetrate /
upon him. He had been drinking and had
gone to the stable connected with hotel,
where he laid down. While in his stupor
some unknown person tied a rope to his
leg and throwing the rope over beam,
drew Powell up until his head just touch
ed the foor. In this position he was dis
covered by one Of the guests of the hotel
1t is not known how long he had been tie1
up, but his life was very nearly extinct.
Drs. Preston and Ruby, of Manchester,
were called on and worked increasingly
for several hours before there was any
evidence of life,a and it was not until yes
terday that he was out of danger.
The evening times., 1899-07-20
335 Pounds Ride in n Toy Craft.
L

Charles Burns, who weighs $50 pounds and
who is a member of the ''Neversink'' Boat Club
on the Hackensack River, waSered with sew
eral fellow members Tuesday that despite his
weight, he could safely row across the river in
a boat only four and one-haif feet long The bet
was $50 side, and Burns won. although when
he reached the opposite side of the river his toy
craft was half full of water
The evening times., 1899-07-20
Volcanic Eruptions

Are grand but Skin Erupsions rob life OF joy
Bucklens Arnica Salve cures them. also Old
Running and Fever Sores. Ulcers. BoiIs Felons
Corns, Warts. Cuts, Bruises. Burns Scalds
Chapped Hands. chiblains. Best Pile cure on
Garth. Drives out Pains and Aches Only p
cents box. Cure guaranteed Sold by Henry
Evans, Druggist, 0Ss F Street.
The evening times., 1899-07-20
Good Enough.
From the Chicago Times Heral,

(From the Chicago Timss-Herald
'.And is your son going to be good business
MANI"
II guess so. They to think pretty well
of him down at the office. anyway. They haven't
said word about discharging him. sa spite
Of the fact that his handwriting IL IN sssHe as
it was when he came out OF school,
The evening times., 1899-07-20

Lieut.. j. w. Lee, U. S. r. c. s., accom-
panied by Miss Lee and their family are
at the Colonial, Ocean City, Md
The evening times., 1899-07-20

Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, who
went abroad earlier in the season to take
course of water treatment at Carlsbad
is now in Dresden with his wife and
daughter, feeling greatly improved in
health.
The evening times., 1899-07-20

Mrs. ]. II. Brigham and the Misses
Brigham. wife and daughters of the AS
sistant Secretary of Agriculture, left yes
terday for Martha's Vineyard.
The evening times., 1899-07-20

DR.. and Mrs. Heger are spending the
summer at their home in the Berkshire
Hills.
The evening times., 1899-07-20

The Misses Henry, who are spending the
summer n continental travel, will not re-
turn to this country for a year or more.
The evening times., 1899-07-20

Miss Ransom. the artist, is spending tn
summer at Asbury Park
The evening times., 1899-07-20

Mrs. ]. P. Sanger and Miss Sanger are
at jamestown. r. /.
The evening times., 1899-07-20

Mr.. and Mrs. d. A. Mcknight are spend
ing July IN the Blue Ridge Mountains
The evening times., 1899-07-20
Odd Lots Upholsteries.

A lot of Bedspreads. fun size for
double beds = in neat Marseilles
patterns - all hemmed - Hnc
slightly soiIed-sold at 81 hui
and S1.25-for. w
The evening times., 1899-07-20

Just one fine quality Jute Smyrna
Rug-in pretty pattern-size by
II feet-that sold al SIS 4 n no
will be sold TO the first NH IN
The evening times., 1899-07-20

Mr.. Dewitt Croissant will sail Saturday
for Bermuda for summer cruise
The evening times., 1899-07-20

Short ends Of genuine Irish Point.
Tambour Lace. and TambouF Brus-
sells Curtains = samples of nAC
curtains imported to sell at Ht
So TO S9-each end for-.....-6O
The evening times., 1899-07-20

Appointed to he Colonel.
Capt. William E. Birkhimer, of the Third
Artillery, has been appointed colonel of the
Twenty eighth Infantry.