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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-22
AGAINST CONVICT LABOR.
TWaterloo Reporter.l

lWaterloo RepOrter.1
One of the planks Of the democratic
platform this year recommends that
convict labor be employed SOLELY and
only in such work as will not bring it
into competition with free labor" 1t
would have been just as honest to de-
clare against convict labor of any kind.
There is nothing convict can do that
does not interfere to some extent with
free labor. To use convicts with the
least interference with labor is per-
picking problem. 1t should not be a
political question. No one anywhere
desires prison labor to compete or inter-
fere with free labor. But convicts
must be employed. All humanitarians
agree in this, and the real question is
how 1t can best be done-not how to
make partisan capital out of it-but
along the broader lines Of humanity and
justice, and with the least interference
with the wage Garner.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-22
IOWA NEWSPAPERS.
sETTLEp WITH CASH

louAiAA6e LUZ 4AckW hSyS.l
The sensational breach OF promise
suit instituted by May Elbright against
Rev. r. Lincoln Wilson has been set
tied by the payment to the plaintiff in
cash and land in full Of her demand.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-22

Something like half the districts have
named their republican candidates for
the next legislature. The rest will come
along in rapid succession during Sep
tembef s
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-22
AN IOWA TRUST.

AS several Iowa papers have pointed
out the Iowa state board of control is
a trust or combine. Iowa has done
away with dozen boards of control,
combined them into one, reduced ex-
penses, made saving Of large sum
of money and cut down the state tax
levy and reduced the taxes of the peo-
pie of Iowa. According to the demo-
pops of Iowa that is very great evil
and unless these sorts Of trusts are de-
stroyed these sorts of trusts will de-
stroy the government.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
A SHERIFF ARRESTED
For Aiding and Abetting in inc Occur d'Alene Outrage.
A County Commissioner Who Was Slow About ReSigning Was Gaih- cred in by inc Troops and Held as One Of inc Rioters.

WardEer, Idaho, May 6.-J0nes D. Young, the sheriff of Shoshone coun- ty was arrested today upon order of State Auditor Sinclair, the acting per- sonal representative of Governor Steunenberg. The arrest was made by the United States troops and the sheriff is now confined in a barn with three hundred other prisoners, charged with aiding and abetting the riot. Proceedings will be commenced immediately by Attorney General Hayes to remove him from office In the meantime Coroner France acts as sheriff.
 After the sheriff had been placed in custody the attorney general asked for the resignation of County Com missioner William Boyle. He asked for time in which to consider the mat ter, but this was refused and a squad of troops placed him under arrest
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
ATklNSON'S DEFENSE
The Traitor Tells What He Wrote
 to inc Attorney General.

Boston, May 6.-Edward Atkinson addressed an open letter to the at tOrney general of the United States rD the recent action of prohibiting the transmission of certain pamphlets through the mail by MT. Atkinson, in which the writer denied that the mat ter was of a seditious nature and re- peats what he previously said in in- terviews, that the pamphlets appeared as public documents in connection with the proceedings of the United States senate
 MT. Atkinson also denies that he has sent a communication of any na- ture to any soldier or any regimental officer in the Philippines. MT. Atkin- son says it has been authentically re- ported to him that the parents of the Nebraska volunteers were not allowed to communicate with their sons on duty in the islands, and prompted by indignation, he decided to make a test and to do so mailed the pamphlets to the Philippines and wrote to the sec retary of war telling him what he had done.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07

repeatedly expressed the intention of committing suicide. His jailors were ordered 'to watch his every movement, and they removed everything with which he could possibly injure him self, even his kitchen utensils being taken from him.
 Early in 1898 the prisoner asked Dr. Veugncn for a certain medicine. Tue doctor supplied him with a dozen harmless pills, telling him to take only two daily. He subsequently found that Dreyfus had swallowed the lot at one time, evidently believing that they would kill him.
 Dr. Veugnlcn does not think that he will try suicide now, the possibility ot revision having shed a ray of hope. but if Dreyfus is disappointed, Dr. Veugnon would not be surprised by any act of desperation.
 Dr. Veugnc1 says that the prisoner never meniicns the accusation against him except tcl protest his innocence.
 One of the chief warders told a Telegraph correspondent positively that Dreyfus was ignorant of what had occurred in France since his incarce- ration, and that his isolation waa complete.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
HAWAIIAN pEOPLE
The Japanese Gaining an AScendanoy
 Over inc Chinese.

Bos5cn, May 6.-Joshua K Brown. the United States Chinese inspector at Hawaii, has made report to the ccm- missioner of immigration relating to the introduction of Asiatic labor into the islands. The whole number of Japanese 1abor1rs admitted to the islands since annexation, MT. Brown says, is 22,1S0. Of this number 1,197 were free, the only requirements being that each individual shall be the pos sessor tlf $50 in gold or its equivalent. The remainder were contract laboTers.
 These contracts are simply that the lalborer shall work for a contractor three years on stipulated terms. At the end of that period he is at liberty to remain in the country or leave it at his own pleasure. About half the population, MT. Brown says, is Asiatic and the number of Japanese exceeds the Chinese by about 10000. He pre- diCls that before the end of the present year the Asiatic population of the is lands will largely exceed aE cther na- tionadities combined, and the excess of the Japanese over the Chinese will be fully GcIuble what it is now.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
TORNADO PICKS UP PRAIRIE FIRE
Carried It Over Farm, Killing Two Persons and Doing Great Damage.

Coleridge Neb., May GA prairie fire, burning in the hay flats along the
 northern tier of counties of Nebraska, ten miles from here, passed into the track of tornado yesterday afternoon and was swept diagcnally across this county for twenty-five miles, destroy- ing everything in it's path. The prop erty damage is known to reach into the thousands
 The only hives reported lost arc those icf Mrs. Rolla Livingston and her 5-year-old bay. The woman saw the fire coming and ran to pasture 10 release the stock. The boy followed her. Both were knocked down by tho terrified animals and the fire passed over them. The body of the boy vas almost consumed and Mrs. Livingston lived but a few hours.
 IA number of herds of cattle were overtaken and consumed. A large number of farm houses were destroyed and the families escaped only ny Ae1O1ASo bCy O1Au CII6 u dCh LII lue StOl !u- The path of the fire was nearly one mile wide. The farmers manage1 lC put cut the flames along the bottoms after the tornado had passed over
 Some of the losses are: Rolla LIV> ingstcn home and stock, S15, ,000; SJan- ley Martin, home, granary, stock ard farm implements, S20,000; David Walker, home, outbuildings, stock, ve hicles and a large quantity of grain, S10,000; Isaac Pritchctit, cutbuEdings and grain, 1000; w. A. Bennett, house, barn, grain and stock, s6,0O0; Joseph Sedgin, house. barn, 500 bushels corn, 1000 bushels oats, granary of wheat, $20,000; William Weber, one Of the wealthiest farmers in the section, lost stock valued at 25,000; James Par mond, 300 head of stock, grain and farm houses, 12,OO0; William Zook, q large number of blooded horses and much stock, s10,OO0; John Dicks, al outbuildings and grain, $5,000.
 The junction of the storm and the fire is considered the most extraordi- nary thing that ever happened in this section. It passed through the weaBthiest agricultural part of Ne braSka
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
LAwToN's MOVEMENTS.

Manila. May 6.-4:15 p. m.-Major General Lawton's column advanced to position two and a half miles north of Bahug today. Before making q foy- ward movement General Lawton sent back two wounded men from the Minnesota regiment and one of the Oregon's hurt in yesterdays battle besides twenty sick men. General Lawton's advance met with but slight opposition. Outside of Mausin, 2,000 rebels who occupied an entrenched po- siton were routed in short order. Many corpses of the rebels have been discovered along the river at San Tomas. Scores of rifles and other arms have been recovered from the river into which they were thrown by the rebels. Major General MacAr- thurs division is resting at San Fer nando making extensive reconnci- sances.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
A FINANCIAL BILL.
MT. Babcock Says One Has Been
 Agreed Upon.

Washington, May Representative Babocek of Wisconsin is in the city, having returned from Atlantic City, where the house caucus committee on the currency; of which he is a mem- Der, has been in sesison. The com mittee has adjourned, subject to a call from the chairman, to consult with the republican members of the senate finance codnmittee upon the H. ject in hand.
 MT. Babcock said that the house caucus committee has reached an agreement upon financial bill. It is tentative, however, and the members of the committee have agreed not to disclose the nature of the proposed plan until it is submitted to the men bers of the senate who are to confer with them. He said the meetings cf the house committee were harmonious and the conclusion reached was unani- nous.
 MT. Babcock thought that the plan for currency reform, which the con- ferees adopted, will receive the in- dorsemenl5 rcf the republican house, and will be satisfactory to the 5usi- ness interests of the country. The meetings of the committee were execu Five and no suggestions were received from any sourc. The committee had all the material it needed upon which ito act, and unnecessary friction was avoided by clonining the deliberations toi the members designated by the re- publican caucus for that purpose.
 With respect to the speakership con- test, MT. Babcock thought that all in dications pointed to the election of western man. The west had three out of five members, he said, an1 there was no reason why westerner shoulG net be chosen.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07

of the nursery which she owns. This money she placed under her mattress. This fact was generally known in the neighborhood and is believed to have led to the crime. Although the bed ding remains intact, the honey is missing.
 Mrs. Madarasz was the daughter of Count Pjahsz. governor of a Hun garian province, who allied himself with the Hungarian uprising against the union with Austria and Hungary He committed suicide in this city.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
The Press Reflects a Great Deal of Soreness over Samoa.
GOVERNMENT IS ASSAILED
Win Charges of |5k1uCkIIng Down fo inc Americans" and inc Govern menf Is Exhorfed 10 Restore inc preSfiae of inc Em@ire by Quickly Putting on a Bold and UnYIeIdfng Front.

Berlin, May 6.-TJhe belief has taken complete possession of the public mind in Germany that German interests in Samoa have been bruiaIly and ruth leslry disregarded by b-th England ard lIhe United States. It seems this view is steadily gaining strength with nearly all classes. The press certainly reflects the sentiment win increasing violence. The government has done nothing the past week, either to fortify or disperse this trend lof public opin- ion The government press has been strangely silent upon the subject
 The agrarian newspapers and many other journals have seized the oc- casfon eff tha birthday anniversary of the imperial minister of foreign af- fairs, Baron Ven Bud12'w, to severely attack him fir what they style his su- pine disregard of Gernany's legitimate interests in Samoa and his alleged ob- sequicusness toward the United States and Great Britain. Tha matter of claims for damages beth in Samoa and the Philippine islands for German property destroyed in recent engage ments has also been injected into the press discussion with singular growing excitement The North German Ga zette mentioning the reports that English and American merchants in Samoa express a desire to see Germany annex the whole of the group, bitterly attacks the imperial foreign cffice for suEpressing this statement and keep ing 1t out of the press.
 The agrarian Deutsche Tagszeitung. tn the course i-f a severe review of Germany's attitude Upwards the United States during the past year, char ges the imperial foreign office with "knuckling down to the Americans" in every case, even recalling the instance of Admiral Won Diedrichs at Manila, "sol as ncta to hurt the feelings of messieurs, the Americans" Thel ar ticle concludes as follows: "Oniy now by showing a bold and unyielding front can the prestige of the empire which has suffered So seriously latter 1y, be re-established.'
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
THE FUTURE or SHMOA
Enaiand'S Cautious and IHquiring
 Policy.

London, May 6.-Muth as has been
 p.tnted for two or three days past
 about "the solution of the Samoan
 problem" any real and enduring ad-
 juS4iment of the government of the
 islands is still distant The kaiser
 and the astute Bulow may be antici-
 pating division Of the group to the
 advantage Of German trade and pres tige in the south Pacific. Semi official orir;on in Berlin may assume that the
 administration at Washington will
 cOnsc-i. tcl partition that secures the
 United States in it's naval station at Pago-Iagia Bue here in LondCn, the
 aacwly moving foreign office and it's
 cautious chief have not advanced be- yond the arrangement of temporary administration and a minute invesi- gation on the spot into present con&i- liens and past disturbances.
 Lord Salisbury has had some experi- ence Of prancing consuls and rough and ready admirals, out of reach of their superio1z at. nome, and he views them in d-tder and a clearer light than do the makers of laudatory para graphs in the newspapers for the man in the st~eds. The supreme authority of the joint commission in Samoa is to be a safeguard against both furor consularis and fuTo5 navalis, and he argued that it would be the more eff cacious if a majority determined it's course. When Herr von Bulow, with a natural presenitiment that the Eng fish and the American commissioners might sometimes be of one mind a against their German colleague, in sisted upon the letter of dne Samoan treaty, the premier withdrew his ob- jectiCn rather than delay further the to restore order in the islands.
 Beyond this provision fer a modus vivendi and an inquiry, the British government has not apparently gone. the three commissioners will make in due itime a joint report Certainly each will mako his own, which is likely tl, be confidential, to the government that has dispatched him. Then the exchanges of opinion wil fellow between the foreign offices of Berlin, Londcn ard Washington. There may even be another conference akin to that which negotiated the ex- sl-ing Berlin treaty. Or it may be pos 5ible to modify it's st:pulaisicms by less tedious means. If Samoa and it's af- fairs were ten dimes less remote and obscure, and the Samoan problem ten times more pressing, it would re- Iuire long for the three governments to agree upon a solution. Meanwhile, Lord Salisbury is content to await in
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
DREYFUS IS HOPEFUL NOW.
But His Doctor Says He Has Often
 I'm ea-en6d Suicide

London, May GA dispatch to the Telegraph from Cayenne says that Dr Veugnon, who until recently had the nCd4cal supervision of Dreyfus, has broken the reticence observed while so acting and says Tha, Dreyfus is a homeopathic subJe-i-, and the prIs0u regime has made him more so. The maIady displayed itself a year after his incarce1 aiulon began, when he was beset with uncCnquerab-e sadness. He complained of dyspepsia, exhaustion, prolonged ins-lnnia and headaches. Later he suffered from prolonged swoons.
 The prisoner was always self pos sessed in the doctors presence, but the jailors tcld the doctor that often when Dreyfus awSke in the morning he would break into a furious passion, burst into tears and gesticulate like madman. These outbreaks generally resulted in utter exhaustion and tor DOT and tometimes syncope.
 His irritability increased after he was told of the application for a re- vision of his case. He then became haunted and toImented with conjec- lures and was feverishly restless. He
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
The Filipino Instruction on the
 Edge of a Collapse.
LAWTON'S NORTHERN MARCH
Marked by Dead or Fleeing insuP. gentS-The Leaders Only hoId- Ing Out In inc Hope Of Ceiling fhS Best Possible Terms ln fhc Construction Of inc Philippine Government.

Washington, May 6.-Oficials of the state and war departments are look ing for a speedy collapse of the insur- rection in the Philippines. Not only is this expectation based on private advices from the Philippines commits sion as to negotiations going on be- tween that body and the insurgent representatives, but also on the de- velopment of MacArthur's and Law tons campaigns. The commissions reports indicate that the insurgents recognize the inevitable breakdown of the struggle and are simply striv- ing by prolonging resistance to se- cure the most liberal terms possible in the erection of a government of the Philippines.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
STAINS USE OF OUR MILLIONS
Bank Of Spain Accepts the Bills at Part Payment of tne Advances.

Madrid May 6.-The Bank of Spain has accepted in payment of part Of its advances to the treasury all the bi,Is the United States has authorized Spain to draw for indemnity. The bank has consented to regard the amount as 115, ,750, 900 pesetas, though the rate of exchange is over 19. The Deutsche bank and several Paris bank CTS have offered to take part of the bills from the Bank of Spain, which intends tl-I use the operation for strengthening it's gold reserve. The treasurys indebtedness to the bank is thus reduced ,o $215, 100000.
 The prospect ot peace in the Philip pines is received with lively satisfa: tion, both in view of the probable :c- lease of the Spanish prisoners held oy the Fiiipinos and the advantage to spanish commerce in the is-ands which is expected to resulC from the execution of the treaty of Paris
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
ENGLISH ADMISSION
That English Manufacturers
 arc Losing Ground.
Articles Appearing In inc British Press on inc AngI O-American Industrial and Commercial RiV-
 airy are flaffering to Americans.

London, May 6.-Public attention has again been directed to America 5 growing competition with England in the indusltriail world by the announce ment this week that the new English trunk line, the Great Central railway, has ordered a batch kf locomotives in America, while advicss from abroad show sFlat the Americans are beating the English all along the line. The British consul at La Rochelle, France, the Americans are fast taking the az. ricullura1 machinery business in his districS from English firms. The lat ter, it is r-inited out by the consul, would net conform to the farmers de- mand fer light machinery, whereas the Americans have adapted them selves ito flhe circumstances and make machinery ehat is exactly suited to the farmers requirements.
 The foregoing is only a sample of the tributes which are now constantly found in the consular reports to Amer ican enterprise and showing that American manufacturers are slowly elbowing their English rivals out of markets which the British thought were their own preserves. The articles on Anglo-AmeI;can industrial rivalry which are very 1attering to Americans constantly appear in Ehe English press.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
THE FRENCH CABINET
The Resignation Of De Freycine
 inc rfiniSter of War.

Paris, May 6.-M. Charles Freyci- net today presented his resignation to M. Dupuy, ,dhe premier, Of the portfolio of war. M. Dupuy immediately sum- moned a meeting of the cabinet. At the conclusion M Dupuy had a confer ence with President Loubet, with the result that M Camille Kanitz. minister of public works, was apEl-.n;ed to sue 'ceed M. Freycinet. Senator Monestier was selected as minisIer Of public works
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07

her and the watchman tried to reach her in time to step her, at the risk of his own life, as he was obliged to cross the tracks.
 She became panic stricken and lodged past him and had almost got across the track when she was struck on the side and back of the head by the eross-beam of the engine. She was thrown about twenty feet. She lived about ten minutes, but was un- conscious. The body was not mu- tiIated.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
c. A. MEYER KILLS HIMSELF.
Well Known Teacher of German at
 Albany Commits Suicide.

Albany, N. Y, May 6.-Prof Carl A. Meyer, teacher of the / German lan- guage at the Albany high school and assistant teacher of that study at the Albany female academy committed suicide some tiIrie last night His body was found at o'clock ttis morning. Tightly clutched in the right hand was a revolver with only one chamber exploded.
 The body was lying on the grass face downward. The tall hat which Prof. Meyer wore was still on his head and the body was fully dressed. Just over the upper waistcoat pocket on the left side was a small round hole. The bullet had been sent into the heart.
 Prof. Meyer, as was his hatit, visit ed his old friend Henry Parr at the Abbey hotel on yesterday afternoon, taking supper there- At 9:3O he started for his home. The autopsy showed that all the organs of the body were in a healthy condition, not withstanding the fact that the pro- lessor was nearly 80 years old. Last Christmas Prof. Meyer had a severe attack of the grip, from which he never fully recovered. It is believed that despondency was the cause of his ending his life. He is survived by four children. two sons and two daughters, and his widow.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
KILLED AN OLD WOMAN.
Daughter of an Exiled Hungarian Count Murdered for Her Money.

San Antonio, Tex, May 6.-Mrs, Helen Madarasz, an old woman was murdered in her bed in this city this morning and robbed of about $200. Oil was poured on the bedding and in the room and set on fire The house was burned to the ground.
 On two seorched mattresses the fire men found the remains of the woman. The back of her head showed where her skull had been fractured with a hatchet. Mrs. Mardasz collected S1S0
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
GOT THE BEST OF IT.
The Nicaragua Government Dealing
 With American Citizens.

Managua, Nicaragua, May 6.-(Via Galveston, Texas )-The Blue1elds' correspondent of Fl Commercial tele- graphs to that paper today that Cap tain William I. Merricke, United States minister to Nicaragua agreed to a settlement of the claims of the Unitd States citizens against the Nic- araguan government. The settlement, according to Fl Commercials cores pendent is favorable to Nicaragua and is in the nature of a triumph fo: the minister of foreign affairs.
Arizona republican., 1899-05-07
GIRL KILLED BY A TRAIN.
Miss Rose Sullivan of Elmira, N. Y,
 Struck By Train in Lockport.


 Lockport. N. Y, May 6.-Rose Mary Sullivan of Elmira, the 1S-year-old daughter of Florence Sullivan of that city, was killed by the New York Central train from Buffalo, which was due in this city at 10 o'clock this mornin. The accident occurred at the Hawley and Caledonia street crossing. Miss Sullivan had started for St. Patrick's church, where she was to sing in the choir. With her was her cousin, Miss Huston, daughter of Alderman Charles Huston, at whose home she had been visiting since Wednesday, She attempted to run across the tracks in front on the train. Her cousin tried to restrain