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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-03-07
Spring
WAIT FOR ITI

The grand display Of spring and summer
millinery ~ the Bon Ton millinery, g North
Main street, on March 10th. Il will be greater
and grander than ever. A full carload with All
the newest styles and latest designs In reAdy-to-
wear effects Sailors and walking hats from
the best upto-date manufacturers in New York.
Bostonand Philadelphia. We are the leaders
in millinery direct from the importers. Our
spring opening will contain the newest shades
in Ribbons, Liberty silks, Mirror Vel sets,
Pongees, Gauzes, Mauseline-de-Soiree, Chlnons,
Lsces, Nettiugs and Yelling. Also she hates
ornaments in hat trimming. SpAngles, Buckles,G
jets, Bal-Pins, Steels, Pearl, gold, oridined and
JeWeled Novelties. Our flower stock viii be a
thing Of beauty and Joy forever You cannot
help but admire the goods and rejoice over our
low prices.
WE PROnISE
To show at our spring opening the meet ex-
quisite line OF novelties prOonrAble from foreign
markets. Imported bats ~ well - our own.
Our 900 ready-tTimmed hats 10 be exhibited
for ladies, misses aud children Will be sold At
prices TO make you happy. Come yourself and
do yourself Justice at our opening on March
/ 10th, 1e9a
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-03-07
OUR FISH STOCK IS FULL AND COMPILE,

Fresh Creamery and Dairy Butter.
Fancy Full Cream Cheese.
Pure Kettle Rendered Lard.
Fancy California Navel Oranges.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-03-07
AGGRESSIVE
CAMPAIGN !
Against the Philippines Rebels Is
to Be Pushed,
REBELS THROWING UP DBFENsEs,

Meantime the civil Members OF the
Philippines Commission Are Await
ing the Arrival OF fEN-MinisterD DENLY
Before Proceeding with Their Work.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
STAYS HIS
FIVE YOUNG
CHILDREN

covered his senses and then he did not
try to save his children for he knew
that they must be dead, as the fire
had started in the room in which they
were sleeping. His riding away from
the fire he explained by stating that
his wife was away from home attend
ing a sick friend and that he went to
tell her of their loss. Moore showed lit
tie concern when the jury returned the
verdict charging him with murder.
The family came here from Emporia
about three weeks ago and rented the
little two-story house in which the
tragedy occurred. Mrs. Moore's father,
NJ. w. Franklin, whose family came
here from Emporia about the same
time, stated this evening that Moore
had always been a silent, morose char
acter, but that he appeared to have a
great attachment for his children OF
late, according to Mr.. Franklin. Moore
has been morbid over the fact that he
was out Of work, and the father-i n-law
seems to think that if Moore com
mitted the crime he must have lost his
reason brooding over his troubles.
Moore, however, seems to be sane.
and outside of his actions during the
fire there has been nothing to bear out
the insanity theory.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
K|DNAP CAPTAIN
VILLAGES CHILD
Crime of Sailors of the
Sea King.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

VICTORIA, B. c., March 26.-De-
sorting sailors from the bark Sea King,
now loading lumber at the Chemainus
mills near here for Sydney, N. S. w,
for which port she will sail on Wednes-
day, have wreaked a fiendish revenge
for alleged wrongs upon Captain John
Wallace, master of that vessel. Four
deserters from the lumber ship are said
to have stolen his five-year-old son.
1t was at fTst thought the boy had
fallen from the gangplank which ran
between the ships between which his
fathers vessel was moored, but from
evidence discovered this afternoon the
boy was kidnapped While the remain
ing sailors were dragging the bottom
of the bay members of party that had
been searching the wilderness in the
vicinity of the numbering towns re-
turned and reported that the child had
been seen late on Saturday afternoon in
company with three of the sailors who
had deserted. The quartet, who are
thought to. have taken this terrible re-
venge on the shipmaster,, left the ship
early last week, vowing when they did
so, according to their messmates, that
they would make it hot for the cap
tain
The crew shipped at San Francisco.
The trouble was caused by the refusal
of the captain to send them to- the hos
pital ashore when they were feigning
illness. The four men lay in their
hunks for weeks, refusing to turn to
and complaining of sickness, and when
Chemainus was reached they asked to
be sent to the Marine Hospital, their
plan being, now that they had secured
their advance, to get away from the
ship. Captain Wallace called a doctor,
who pronounced them in good health,
and the captain then made them join
the rest of the crew at work.
Seeing that the captain was deter
mined to keep them aboard they left
under cover of night, with threats of
vengeance, which it seems they have
carried out by kidnapping the captain S
son.
Mrs Wallace, who is with the cap
tain, leaves for San Francisco on
Wednesday, when the ship sails.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
ONLY A WIRE CABLE
THAT RUNS TO CABANAS

HAVANA, March 20.-Captain t. IL.
Huston of the Volunteer Engineers was
questioned to-day by a correspondent OF
the Associated Press on the subject of the
story printed by a. local newspaper at
Cincinnati, Ohio, saying that the location
of the keyboard by which the United
States battle-ship Maine was blown up IN
Havana harbor on February 10, 1898, had
been found by him in a gunroom or the
Fonseca prison while engaged In cleaning
out the Notifications. The captain said
the use of his name in this connection
was not authorized. He showed the cor
respondent a cable with several wires
running into the harbor from tonseca
prison opposite Cabanas fortress. one
wire was connected with a disused Ieie-
graph instrument in neighborlng GOV
eminent building. Though the caple mas
not been investigated by the OnteQ
States engineers, the supposltlon Is tnae
It runs to Cabanas, across the narDor,
and has been used for telegraphing.
There is remote chance that lne wires
in the cable were connected with MINES
or torpedoes, but there Is no lnulcatIoii
that it had anything to do with tne p4oW-
ing up of the Maine. The end or the caple
sticking out of Fonseca prison mas peen
seen by tourists for weeks past; Many
soldiers have also seen the caDie ana
many have expressed the belief that ii
was used to blow up the Maine
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
WAS THE LARGEST
CITY EVER Bull 7
Ruins Show Eleven Mil
lions Lived There.
DISCOVERED IN ARKANSAS
MAJOR FoNTAINE TELLS OF THE
WORK OF MoUND-BULDERS.
They Had Constructed Great Me-
tropolis and Hundreds Of
Canals Led Up
to It.
DISCOVERED IN ARKANSAS
MAJOR FoNTAINE TELLS OF THE
WORK OF MoUND-BUILDE
Special Dispatch to The Call.

JACKSON, Miss. March 20.-Major
Lamar Fontaine of Lyons, Miss, a
widely known and accomplished civil
engineer, has just returned from pro-
fessional engagement in Dosha, Drew
and Ashley counties, Arkansas, and
brings a story of the largest city in the
world. He said: In recent survey l
passed through the ruins of the largest
metropolis of the known world yet dis
covered. On a direct line east and west
for thirty-five miles, and as far as my
eye could reach, the ruins still con-
tinued Turning north for a distance
of twenty five miles the ruins did not
end.
Computing the area surveyed by me
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and estimating that each dwelling con-
tanned five inhabitants, l found that
II, 000, 600 people had their homes In
this great city.
This city is spread over three coun-
ties, namely, Dosha, Drew and Ashley.
in the State of Arkansas, and was the
grand metropolis of that prehistoric
race called mound builders. These peo-
pie numbered countless millions. and
the Yazoo Valley of the Mississippi was
their fields. The entire delta OF the
Yazoo was in a high state OF cultlVa-
ton. Every acre was utilized Tor agrl-
cultural purposes, and was the chle1
source of revenue for the busy little ex-
tinct dweIlers. Thousands of canals
were dug and used by them for irrl-
CATION and navigation, and countess
nottery factories show that they manu-
featured superior articles OF earthen-
ware for domestic purposes: Pots,
cups, plates and baskets in sundry ana
various patterns yet exist, some IN
beautiful colors of red, white and black
enamel. with ugures of man. bird or
beast raised or cut in intaglio upon
them.
MANY acres are covered six feet
deep with the bones of those unknown
people Their teeth, yet sound and
perfect, can be picked up by the hatful
at this distant day. They were small
race and their anatomy is precisely the
same as that of the Chinese in every
particular They came to this country
from the overcrowded regions of China.
1 have traced their footsteps from the
shores of Kamchatka and Siberia,
across the Aleutian Islands down the
Western shores of America, across the
continent to the valley of the M1ssls-
sippi and many of it's tributaries to the
northern confines of Mexico. There
they cease. No trace could | find in
South America Coming back to the
Yazoo, Miss, delta, we find that 80 per
cent of all the streams or bayous that
flow through it were dug by these peo-
pie, and all the gateways point TO the
great metropolis beyond the Mississippi
in Arkansas"
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skirts with Dr. Irvine and a male at
tendant on either side, almost shutting
out the view of the witnesses, and the
signal was given.
trician threw down the lever. The body
Strengthened, the fingers gripped tightly
into the palms and the little prayer
book she held in her left hand was
drawn across the wrist: No one had
expected that the shock would be given
SO quickly, and the body was relaxing
almost before the witnesses were con-
scious that the execution had occurred.
Only the womans mouth was visible
and it changed merely in the drawing
down of the lips and little darkening
Of the skin. Mrs. Place murmured as
she was seated in the chair, God help
me; God have mercy"
There was no sound after that, not
even a moan. The visible effect of the
shock was less than had ever been OBJ
served in the death house before.
There was not the slightest distortion
of the features; the eyes were covered
and when the straps were removed they
the body Strengthened out again and a
little foam oozed from her lips. When
the current was shut off the body re-
posed naturally in the chair.
DR.. Irvine called upon the woman
physician to make an examination,
waist and placing her stethoscope be-
tween the folds of the dress over the
heart. She performed her work quickly
and then the other physicians present
were asked to complete the eXamina-
ton. DR.. Irvine gave it as his opinion
that death had been instantaneous.
The body was allowed to remain in
the chair until all the witnesses had re-
tired, when it was taken to the autopsy
room and post-mortem examination
held. No one was present but the
operating surgeons and their report
was sealed and will be filed in Kings
County, together with the other docu-
ments relating to the woman's death
The autopsy was a rapid one, and al
though no information was made pub
lie. the indications are that the or
gans were found in a healthy condition.
The insanity plea entered in behalf
of Mrs. Place had never impressed ia
vorably those who knew the woman
best. Her spiritual adviser, Rev. DR..
Cole, was one of those who never for
moment thought Mrs. Place was any
thing but a sane woman, and this was
the opinion also of DR.. Irvine and
finally of the commission appointed to
inquire into the condition Of Mrs. Place
-Drs. Dana and Polk.
The body was taken to the Sing Sing
station, where it was shipped to East
Milestone, n. j. DR.. Cole was asked to
officiate at the funeral, but he felt that
he could not stand the strain. He
promised to be present, although he
could not conduct the public service.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21

! the suggestion of Governor Roosevelt.
Mrs Sage was the last of her friends
to say good-by. During the last few
minutes of her life Mrs. Place
was again and again urged to go
bravely to her death, and she promised
that she would. She told her pastor
| that she believed that her sins had been
forgiven, and asserted her faith in the
hereafter. She was buoyed up with this
feeling when the warden came to lead
her to the chair. She was dressed in
/ black, a gown that she had made her
self, simple and plain. She had expect
ed to wear it at her new trial, or when
she received her liberty.
A white band was. around her throat
and her light brown hair, now turning
gray, was brushed back smoothly over
her forehead 1t was clipped away only
where the electTode was to be placed
Mrs Place said simply that she was
ready, and the warden took her arm IN
his. They went slowly through the de-
serted old hospital building, along sew
eral Railways and finally through the
last corridor of all. On either side the
murderers' cells were draped with
heavy curtains, and the procession
moved more quickly through this dis
NAL place.
Meanwhile the witnesses had been
called into the death chamber The
electric apparatus had been given its
/ final test and all were waiting with
! suspense for the coming of the woman.
/ Suddenly the side door through which
/ the party would enter was thrown open.
| a keeper stepped in and called for an
other keeper and turned rapidly away.
The keeper returned and was followed
almost at once by Mrs. Place. leaning
heavily on the Warden's arm. Her face
was very white, her head uplifted and
her eyes closed. The white band
around her, throat seemed scarcely
whittier than her face.
The warden held her arm closely with
/ his and with his other arm he sup
ported her. Behind came the women
attendants, one a physician and the
/ other a day matron. Rev. DR.. Cole
| came next and after him were the two
! keepers. AS they came over the TIRES
hold Mrs. Place gave no sign of fear,
! nor did she even seem to know what
| was about to happen. She passed al
| most like a blind woman across the
/ short space that separated her from
! death She was gently pressed down
! into the frame, and DR.. irvine, who was
/ in waiting, stepped in front of her. He
motioned to the women and they. came
/ up on either side. 1t took but moment
/ to strap her in. The edge Of her skirts
| down over her shoe and the electrode
right leg. Then the skirt was dropped.
! straps buckled across the face and the
pad dropped over the forehead. The
two women stood with outstretehed
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
RAILROAD COMPANY
CAPTURES KNOB HILL
Southern Pacific May Drill Tor .O1i
in Los Angeles Residence
District.

LOS ANGELES, March 20.-knob lin
has been captured by the oil men ana the
Southern Pacific Railroad. The ordinance
that has stood in the way OF trespasseIs
in that aristocratic neighbornooo Is
amended This afternoon the report OF
the Fire and Water Committee was SUB
roitted to the Council and adopted the
nnIv dissenting votes being those OF Pres-
idert- Silver and Codncilmen Ton ana vet
Ter This report recommended the amend
ment of the ordinance, which prompted
oil well drilling within l6Vo 1eel OIL "es'-
lake and Sunset parks -
The amendment recommended .I
adopted by a 6 to vote was that lnsteau
Of the former comprehensive bounds
new line of demarkation be adopted. IL
happens that the new line is e8actly WIdt
the oil men and the Southern Pac1nc nave
wanted 1t will leave OUTSIDE the inter
dicted district the lots that nave .beeh
leased by the Southern Paclhc-that Is,
the Los Angeles Railway Compahy-loi
the purpose of oil development. =.
The opposing factions were pres.e7nfI II, I'D
full force in the lobby OF the CouncIi Ihe
oil men were there to flank the peutloh Of
a thousand business men asking Ior az
amended ordinance. The Westake PaTk
district citizens were there TO reno sup
port TO their protest against any change
In the protective measure. Ihe peuuo1
and protest were read and laid away and
the Knob Hill peoples hopes were
blasted ~ !
with its oil drilling.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21

the Bank Commissioners will turn over
to the alien board of directors all of the
property of the bank, to the injury of
the stockholders.
When the petition came before the
higher court to-day Attorney General
Tirey L. Ford represented the Judge
of the Santa Clara court, the Bank
Commissioners and the new board of
directors. His first move was to attack
the right of Braslan to take the matter
into the court upon writ Of certiorari.
He claimed Braslan was not director.
and consequently had no standing IN
the court. When action was begun in
the lower court all Of the directors were
served with the psners in the liouida-
ton action, and if Braslan was not
served with the liquidation of the bank
he was not subject to the order of the
court, and consequently his relief. If
he had any, would lie in Injunction,
mandamus or quo warranto proceed
ings. Mr.. Ford further commended that
the order appointing the new board of
directors was not a judicial order.
hence this was not a judicial proceed
ing to be reviewed. AS to the appoint
ment of directors not stockholders,
that was matter purely discretionary
with the court, which was conceded to
look after the best interests Of the
stockholders.
Attorney MSISOA TSPI SSSiibSQ NIL
Braslan He made an able argument
to show that the order of the Judge of
the lower court was a judicial order
and therefore subject to review, and
that unless it were reviewed and the
new board ousted the interests OF the
stockholders would suffer.
The Supreme Court Justices took the
case under consideration.
Louis CaIIisch Amasa Eaton and Cy-
rus Jones to-day filed withdrawals OF
their designations with the County
Clerk They were elected directors of
the bank after the failure. but subse-
ouently resigned and were reappointed
by Lorigan, Their action would fndi-
cate they think the Supreme Court will
overrule Judge Lorigan's action. Mich
olas Bowden, another director. asked
that, in case the appointment of the
present board of directors be declared
void, his resignation be considered
Withdrawn.
A lot of seeds stored at Santa Clara
was attached to-day in an action COM
menced by H. Cheeseman against Q. P
Braslan for S1050 alleged to be due fol
services and money advanced. Cheese
man was employed as salesman by the
Rraslan Company. Braslan denounees
the action as spite work because of his
part in Union Bank affairs. and saws
| the seeds In question belong to a Kan
| sas firm.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
SUPREME COURT
HEARS BRASLAN
Union Bank Directors
Petition.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


SAN JOSE, March 2O-The legal
wrangle relative to the closing of the
Union Savings Bank of San Jose has
fairly begun. The heavy guns of the
Supreme Court were brought into ac-
ton in San Francisco to-day. This was
upon the consideration of the petition
for a writ of certiorari by Charles F.
Braslan, who wishes to have reviewed
the recent action by Superior Judge
Lorigan in appointing a new board of
directors. The petition recites that the
bank in question is in the hands of the
lower court and the Bank Commits
sioners. At the time insolvency pro-
.ceedings were begun the board of
directors was served with the papers
in the proceedings. The directors re-
signed one by one and new board was
elected to fill the vacancies. Braslau
was one of the latter. On the Sth inst.
six of the directors elected by the
stockholders resigned, but Braslan, the
seventh, held his office. Soon after
ward Judge Lorigan of the Superior
Court made an order filing not only
the six vacancies but the position held
by Braslan.
IT was this order that the petitioner
asked to have reviewed. He contended
that the action of the Judge of the
lover court was illegal so far as he
was concerned, as he had been duly
elected by the stockholders and had
never been removed from office by the
,nartfes in interest, and, further, that
he is still a director. Another point
that Braslan makes Is that three OF
the directors named by the Judge OF
tho lower court are not stockholders
and have no right to voice in the set
tlernent of the affairs of the institution
The contention is made that unless the
order of the lower court be set ASIDE
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
SCHOOLS presided. and Miss Dufhcy actet

Schools. presided, and Miss Quincy acte'
as musical director; .,,.;of -
S1nerintendent Furlong, in a 'brlet IN
+rodnctorv address. outlined the work o.
the institute for the four, days 1t wi vii to BE-
in session and introduced L l. Heaton
professor of pedagogy at me CnlVersitJ
IF california. who spoke interestingly OF
the subject Of education FROM FROM na earnn
Ne Writh 311n teachers present he entered into
discussion dis of the third annual report q, o.
the State Council of Education, especially
with regard TO the subject OF nlatleiiisa''c'
D. ]. Sullivan, principal of the Alameda
public schools. invited the teacneI teachers as a.
sembled to visit that city and inspect lht
work in his department Tomorrow. anG
followed with good paper KIND On tine SfP {f9T
60 thant-f1IIv accepted, and the teachers
viii iii go to Alameda tomorrow morning or
the $50 train. The institute was sn9 G5
tendent FurIong TO report on the various
branches of the work they will inspect
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
MANIAC LASSOED TO
PREVENT HIS DEATH

thrown into
who bereft Oh
his A coach
repaired
Express
manC George Agn a citizens
small ledge Juttng from the
the ground He was oamng at the
rocks attention 10 calls
climbed the hill appeared
thrown
footth lower o
scratch bite the
Joseph AZVeda
will
Iunatic ed S a the officers
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
ACCUSES HIS DEAD
WIFE OF FRAUD
William Brattan Baker of San Jose
Sues His Sisters to Recover
PROPERTY.

Property.
SAN JOSE, March 20-William Brattan
Baker of this city to-day filed a sensa-
tional suit in the Superior Court, in which
he accuses his deceased wife, Emily
Maria Baker, and his three sisters-Ma-
tilda, Emily and Annie Baker-with de-
frauding him of $23 500 worth of stock in
the w. B. Baker Company. Baker S
father died some years ago, leaving a
valuable estate. This was afterward in
corporated into the Baker Company, with
a capital stock of 50,O00 Baker and his
wife each received $50 shares, valued at
$23, 800, and the rest was divided among
his sisters.
The complaint alleges that as soon as
he received his certificate of stock he
unknown to his wife, assigned it to her
in case of his death, but kept the matter
secret and the certificate in his pusses-
sion Shortly after his wife either found
or stole it and had the stock secretly
transferred to his three sisters. BY this
means he was ousted from the company
and deprived of his share of the property
He asks the court to set the transfer of
stock aside, on the ground that he was
fraudulently deprived of it, and return it
to his possession.
Bakers father was formerly Governor
of Indiana
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-21
ARTIST CONFER DEAD.

STOCKTON, March 20.-Charles Confer,
well known in this city, who mas peen
the head artist of the San FRANCISCO wasp
for the past two years, dropped dead at
the residence of his father, 120 North
Grant street. this morning of consump-
ton. His mother, a brother and sister
died of the same disease. The deceased,
next June. leaves a widow, who is at pres
ent in San Francisco, and brother,
Frederick Confer, living in Stockton. HIS
widow has been notified of his death.