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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-01-20

The vote for u. s. Senator was taken In
the legislature Tuesday, the 40 republican
votes were cast for Hon. j. G. Burrows and
the 10 democrat votes for Hon. ID j.
Campau.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-01-20

Colorado last year mined $27,S44,9-2
worth of gold and Sl4,96l.5s7 Of silver.
Lead and copper made the aggregate OF
mineral production over $4,000, 900. The
last has been heard in that state of silver as
the pivot of all values.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-01-20

The republicans of West Virginia have
nominated N. b. Scott for u. s. senators;
while In North Dokota, p. j. McCumber
was selected after prolonged contest.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-01-20

Gov. Piugree has appointed Q. q.
Vaughan, editor of the st. Johns Republi
can, as a member of the board of control of
the Ionia Prison. A first class selection.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-01-20

Detroit Journal: All the while that Char
ley Towne continues to grab of and APP
propriate those empty honors as compli-
mentary votes he manages to keep his
receipt book up.to date acknowledging the
payment of his $40, 900 salary a. chief fugle-
man of the ''silver republicans"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-01-20
FRANK q. WATSON, Chairman

The fusiOnist of the Minnesota Legislature
cast their AZ votes for Hon. G. A. TOwne
for u. 8. Senator. Senator G. K. Davis
was easily re elected receiving 1856 votes.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-01-20

The grass in April and May greens at
the first kissing of the sun in the valleys;
the days suddenly become VAIN, and then
commences the ascent. slowly in the spring,
since 1t Is we'll nigh to midsummer before
the snow Is gone from the heights. Ger
tain places are designated AS shearing cor
rails, and sheare-s 20 for miles to these
during the season for shearing. Thus the
life of the sheep owner aud herder goes:
Up to the mountains In the spring, and
down to the valleys in the fall.
Sheep values, except lambs, are about
the same In Colorado as In Michigan.
Roughly speaking, the wool pays all run
ming expenses, and the lambs are profit.
From the grade of sheep described in this
paper one dollar per head for wool from
ewes Is estimated. However, rCm's fleeces
are usually thrown In with the flock to
bring the price to this amount Unwashed
wool from such stock, brought at shearing
time in Colorado, 1917 cents per Id. Those
who held their wool expecting greater re-.
suits from the tariff were disappointed.
Pasturage costs nothing. Winter hay is
cheap, and an unsurpassed dry climate
makes Colorado prominently a sheep
country. Sheep owners this year have
made 3314 per cent. interest on their In
vestment.
Michigan flock owners could we'll afford
to investigate this country with view to
disposing of well bred rams. Canada and
,, Ohio seem to lead now in that line. ! have
| q theory of my own that eastern grain fed
ram stock, l. g., bred from animals who
have been led grain for generations, are
more prep otent, better boned, and have the
essential grease to preserve the wool fibre,
and that rams from the east should be used
ON dry climate grass. fed ewes. l am also
under the impression that the beef industry
In the west will go largely to the middle
west and east, where cheap labor, corn,
silOs, shredded fodder. etc will make beef
as cheaply as it can be done in the west.
| This will re.establish the equilibrium
between dairy and beef stock, and sheep
will succeed to the place of cattle largely in
the arid west.
| JAS. N. MCBRIDE.
L Hall. DO al
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-01-20

The republican judicial convention fo
this district will probably be held at Howell
early In March.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-01-20
SOLDIERS DISCHARGE
1t Secured a Vote for Senator Bur.
rows

1t Secured a Vote for Senator Bur-
Owosso, Mich, January 12.-(Special.) y
A matter came to light in this city today
which throws little more color on the
episode INDUCED in by Gov. Pingree and
Representative George Mason, of this city,
In Lansing last week. Mason refused to
be brow beaten by the governor, who be.
come furious when Mason announced he
had decided to support Adams for the
speakership. According to ex Representa-
tive Frank Shepard, a neighbOr of Mason,
Mr.. Mason was originally a Pingree man.
but he promised Burrows vote if the SEN
atOr succeeded in securing young Phil
Shepards discharge from the Thirty first
Michigan Volunteers. Burrows was sue
cessful in getting the discharge and Mason,
as he had agreed to do. turned the governor
down and went with Burrows, hence the
bad time In Lansing.
If the Detroit Free Press desires to re-
tain the respect of the people of Shiawassee
county 1t will call down the correspondent
who furnished the above item, which ap-
peared In its issue of the 18th. The article
does Representative Mason-than whom
there is not more honored citizen IN the
cOunty-a great injustice. Mr.. Mason was
pronounced advocate of Senator Burrows
reelection months before he was even
thought of fOr representative and did not
hesitate during the campaign to state just
where he stood. He had nothing whatever
to do with interesting Senator Burrows in
the discharge of Private Phil Shepard and
only knew that request had been made to
the Senator after the formal order for dis
| charge was issued by the war department.
Elk Rep. Shepard never made the state
ment attributed to him or said anything
that could be twisted to furnish founda-
ton for such charge. Further, Mr.. Ma
son has never been classed as "Pingree
man." althO he believes i'm and will support
some of the measures the Gov. desires the
legislature to pass. The entire item looks
like deliberate attempt to maiciously
SANDER Rep. Mason
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-01-20

BY are arrangement of the senate commit
tees, Senator Collingwood goes on two more
important commit, ees.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-01-20

No-To-B ac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-01-20

All forms of scrOfula, sores, bOils,
pimples and eruptions, are quickly and
permanently cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Evening star., 1899-12-02
Freight Carried by Trolley.
From the indianapolis Sentinel.


The utility of the rural trolley line as a
freight road Is receiving very full demon
stration at Toledo. The managers of a sub
urban line there have devised trolley
truck on which a loaded farm wagon can
be readily placed, the axles of the wagon
setting in sockets which hold 1t firmly In
place. The farmers using this style Of
transportation when teaming is bad. Re-
Gently, on day when the roads were in
very bad shape, one train that reached the
city included eightyseven sacks Of clover
seed and two wagon loads Of Eastwood
lumber.
The farmers sending this shipment lived
fifteen miles from Toledo and stated that,
with the roads in the condition they were
then in the seed would have made at least
three ordinary wagon loads and the lumber
six ordinary wagon loads. This would have
been equivalent to 270 miles travel for one
driver and two horses. With the trolley
service the hauiage was accomplished in
one hour, at a cost of SO per wagon from
the shipping point to the delivery point.
Such advantages, especially in regions
where roads are usually in poor conditions,
will naturally give an impetus to the con-
struction of rural electric lines. The ad-
vantages Of shipping the wagons without
loading or unloading at either end of the
line are obvious.
Evening star., 1899-12-02
Irish SuperstitiOns.

From Blackwo"d's Magazine.
On Inishkea a particular family handed
down from father to son stone called the
Ne-ogue (probably part of some image).
with which the owners used to make the
weather TO their liking. One day party
of tourists visited Inishkea, heard of the
Ne-ogue, saw it, and wrote about 1t in the
papers The priest in whose parish Inish-
kea lay either had not known of this sur
yival Of paganism or thought that no one
else knew of it, but when the thing was
made public he decided to act. So he visit
ed the island, took the Ne-ogue and broke
it up into tiny fragments and scattered
them to the four winds. The priest was
sacrosanct. but the islanders vowed ven
geance, and an unfortunate man of science
who had lived some time among them was
pitched upon as certainly the person who
had made the story public. This man af-
ter some time returned TO complete his in
Vestigations at lnishkea, and was warned of
danger; but he laughed at the idea, and
said the people were his very good friends,
as indeed. they had been. However he
was hardly out of the boat before they fell
upon him and beat him that he never
completely recovered-indeed, died in con-
sequence of his injuries some years later.
Proba bly, a like fate would befall any one
who touched the curSing stone on Tory
which was turned on" the Wasp gun
boat after she brought a posse OF baiiiffs
one knows, the Wasp ran on Troy and lost
every soul on board. Only the other day
heard that fish buyer stationed there dis
pleased the people; the owner of the stone
turned 1t on him" and month after the
buyers wife committed suicide
Evening star., 1899-12-02
War News Glossary,
From the London Mail.


Possibly the best-quoted word Just now
of Dutch-South African origin is Uftlander,
sometimes written "Outlander New
comer'' or outsider is perhaps the near
est that can be got to this in translation.
and the word is pronounced as nearly as
possible like eight-lander. The name Of the
president of the TransvaaI republic is writ
ten Kruger, but dt is neither sounded as
Krooger nor Krowger, but, as near as can
be indicated, Kree-er. The word Trans
vaal is, literally across the yellow Cor
yellowish-b brown, river. Rand, short for
Witwaters-rand, fs pronounced as if it
spelled rant. The word veld-the final ST.
is sometimes added-means field or COM
mon, and is pronounced felt"
Kopje-a hillock or piece of rising ground
is neither kop-jay nor kop-jee, but koppy.
Dr. Leyds' patronymic is pronounced Lides
The Boer parliament house is called the
raadzaal. and the parliament the volks-
is mountain, the plural being formed by the
addition of "en' after the ''g." A drift is
ford. and dorp town. or village. Thus
we have Krugersdorp. Leydsdorp, etc
a vlei (flay) Is a pool of water mostly
formed in the rainy season. Rooinek is the
term of contempt applied to Britishers, and
means red neck" 1t is not infrequently
domdy). Rooibaatjes is Cape Dutch for
Tommy Atkins" or red coats. stoep
pronounced stoop is a raised platform In
front of a house-something like yeranda
Mountaineering housewife-is pronounced
''frow." Slim-often applied to Gen. Piet
Joubert-is cunning or artful. or. slangily
speaking, fly" 'Keref' is chap or fellow.
Baas-pronounced so-is master and ba a :
op, boss up. To inspan is to harness or
tether horses or cattle; to uitspan is to un-
harness. Uitspan is also applied to the
resting place Of the animals. Worlog is
war.
Evening star., 1899-12-02
Narrow Escape in the Rockies.

From the New York Tribune
r. r. Leighton of Philadelphia, who Is in
the city attending the horse show, told at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday of an
exciting experience he had had in hunting
''hig horn" in the Rocky mountains: Il
started out from Vancouver B. c." said
Mr.. Leighton, "and when I arrived at the
little town to which I had been directed
found the guides asked the modest price of
$15 a day and their food. This was too
rruch for me. and | was in despair until
an Fnglshman who lived there volunteered
to go along for the fun of the trip. So to-
Only a shotgun and l a rifle. We had
thing until one morning We espied eve
and two lambs at a distance of some -four
hundred yards. II was idiotic to make the
Try, but | did. but with the shot a herd of
big horn came out an adjacent ravine. At
the time we were ledge not more than
three feet wide on the side of a mountain.
but I pumped lead into them at great rate
and secured two fine bucks and a eve. l
had enlptied my rifle and was starting to
reload when ! heard my companion yelling,
Shoot him, Shoot him! For heavens sake
Leighton. shoot him" and. looking round,
saw gigantic big horn charging full tilt
down the narrow trail upon us. Luckily a
tree was growing just beyond the ledge.
ard we got into that just in time to es-
cape being knocked over the precipice. My
big horn as he passed, but it apparently
did him no harm. II was a nasty squeeze,
though and one that ! shouldn't care TO
Evening star., 1899-12-02

centives to exertion and more powerful
spurs to military ambition. The general
supsrintendenee and inspection by the gen.
eral government Of the militia should be
made by officers Of the regular army, not
detailed through favoritisn or any politi-
cal "pull. = but tw men selected for known
erdor in the work and skill In the particu-
lar duties assigned.
Matter of Regulations.
If necessary. says the writer. let us have
official regulations applicable only to the
regular army, and a separate set appli-
cable only to the militia or volunteers when
called into the service of the United States.
the latter to be amplifed in detail 80 as to
show In a clear and unmistakable way to
an educated soldier not familiar with the
regular system what is required to be
done In an administrative way when the
militia Is called upon to volunteer into the
service OF the federal government. Militia
officers, as a rule, do not study the official
regulations Of the United States army for
TWO good reasons: first. they are only at
intervals accessible in any complete book
form, because constantly modified and
changed by orders from the War Depart
ment; second, because many Of the states
have regulations of their own which are
suff1cient for the needs of the local service.
The drill regulations must be the same
1or the army, for the volunteers and the
militia. To the oft-repeated objection to
the election of line officers by members of
the militia, 1t is pointed out that many
answers may be given. The majority of
the states, as shown by their laws, prefer
wherein the appointive system prevails the
orncers so selected are at best no whit
superior to those of states pursuing the
elective method
Evening star., 1899-12-02
Appropriations Needed.

The main need is money it is maintained.
and 1t must come from appropriations by
the general government. The present sys-
tenn Of awarding arms, munitions of war,
clothing and the like, according to the
theory of not less than 100 organized mill
tia to each congressional representative, Is
not the most wise. The writer declares
that certain sum must, at all events and
for many reasons. be given to each state,
but the militia fund appropriated by Con-
gress should generally be apportioned
among the states. not according to the
number of men of a partiular command
nor according to the number of representa-
dves state may have in Congress, but ac-
cording TO the proficiency of the militia
troops as shown by inspections made by
officers of the regular army. The sugges-
tion is made that in the militia no less than
In the army, in the routine and canker of
long peace, officers and men become negii-
gent, and therefore prizes should be award
ed for competition. at least among the
troops Of a particular state, for proficiency
in the things required to be known by the
militia. II these prizes could be made In
terstate. as well as among the militia of a
particular state. there would be greater In
Evening star., 1899-12-02
The Execution Included.

From the Boston Evening Record.
Smith-"Did you know there were pto-
maines in mince pies?
Jones-"No; but knew there was every
thing else"
Evening star., 1899-12-02

Continued on Twenty-third Pags.)
Evening star., 1899-12-02
Former Speakers.

And still thu speakershjp is by no means
siuveure Tom Reed has constitution
Ike that of a Percherou horse. and ha
could withstand TN. strain. The most of
the Spcakers who have preceded him have
mad their health undermined by the ar,!u-
uu~ duties 's tho position. / knew Sam
EIriLu when D." was Speaker. He was in
co1tiuua! pain from the goUt. and died
from "gcrNu"S in tho end. John q. Car
h-le came near breaking down during his
speaker hip lie grew as thin as rail and
a- SIilHyf JS ~-le leather. lie paid no at
'tuttnU tp physical exercise rode 10 and
from the Cau!tol in the street ears and
worked every day and Sunday. His only
recreation Was To- play solitaire and now
aud then quiet game Of poker with his
friends in Tie evenings. I don't mean thar
h. was q gambler, but he is 4 kCntucki1u
and likes the excitement OF cards The.
usual ante OF his games was > cents. some
times II rose tr In. sometimes -. and often
II was only "a penny. CarIisIes habit of
Playing solitaire = curious He has a deck
Of cards before him when lie is debating t.
his stcnogrJphsr. He will carry or a ga me
at the same time he is answering his let
terS or composing "A speech His mind
seems "a b. on the cards. but the r>r-is he
Utters show that he Is CARRYING on two
trains Of thought at the same time. After
n came t. the Senate Mr.. Carlisle took
things more easily. He fattened up and
increased his weight. He grew fatter still
while hc was Secretary Of the Treasury
Like Tom Reed. he is now lawyer in New
York He still owns his house in Washing
ton but docs not spend much time here
7 undersj and that Senator Carlisle is
making money in New York. II was for
financial reasons that Reed gave UP
the Speakersiip and went back TO law He
will probably make a fortune He is thrifty
and he has the Yankee ability to bargain.
Ho Will got single fees much larger than
bis Speaker>hip salary, and he could make
4 big income from his literary work if he
cared 10 DO so. He Is q master of
English. He writes rapidly and always
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-28

10 prevent La Grippe take a dose or tvp
OF VI. Mules Restorative Nervine dsiiy.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-28
JUDGE LYNCH IN THE SADDLE
Searchers After a Negro Who Criminal
~ Assaulted a White Woman

Columbia, S. c., April PA special
to The State from Greenville says: Not
far from the city the wife of Silas
Williams, an industrious while farmer
living on the White Horse road, was
brutally assaulted between 5 and 6
O'Clock this afternoon by a negro,
dressed in uniform, who suddenly ap-
peared in the house where Mrs. Will
liams was engaged in ironing. The ne
gro seized her and in committing the
assault he choked her severely and
bruised her right arm.
The negro vanished at once, and was
afterwards seen on the road to Pied
mont before the alarm was given in
the n~eighborhood. Williams had start
ed to town n was only a short dis
lance from home when the assault on
his wife was made. He was quickly
informed, and, afteD returning home, he
galloped to town for a physician and
for assistance to catch the wretch who
had invaded his home.
In a few minutes men were mount
ed n it was not long until the road
to Williams home was thronged with
riders, the number from the city alone
being estimated at 200, while the neigh
bors for miles around Joined in the
search.
AT 10 o'clock the rumor came that
the negro had been surrounded sew
eral miles below the residence of Will
liams. The woods will be thoroughly
searched, and the capture Of the negro
will end beyond question in a lynching.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-28

Major Thomas was not molested.
Then, with the understanding that
Lige Strickland was to be delivered to
the jailer at Fairburn, Major Thomas
saw the negro he had pleaded for led
off to his death. The mob took the ne
gro to a grove near the home OF Mar
shall ]. J.. Owens, OF this place, and
again the moose was adjusted around
his neck. He was hauled OF the ground
but was let down TO allow him to con-
fess. He refused TO do so and the
lynchers were about to haul him up
again when the son OF Marshal Giveus
came upon the scene and asked that
the l~ynching not occur near his faith
ers home. The negro was hen taken
10 the yard in the rear OF DR.. W. s.
Zellers' home and hung up to a per-
simmon tree and left hanging. A coro-
ners jury held an inquest over the
body this evening and rendered the US
ual verdict: Death at the hands OF
parties unknown"
Another mob IS hunting the country
for Albert Sewell, who has made him
self obnoxious by remarks concerning
the treatment given the negroes by the
whites. There is no prospect OF his
capture, however. a. he has bad a days
OF his pursuers.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-28
A Disastrous Levec Break

Raceland, La, April 24.-Notwith-
w~ithstanding strenuous efforts by the
people of the LaFourche valley. the
levee gave way early today at a point
five miles below Raceland on the bank
Of Bayou LaFourche on the upper con-
fine Of the Clotilda plantation of Bar
ker and Lane The break quickly wild
ened and the water poured over some
Of the richest plantations, inundating
hundreds of acres of cane and corn.
All plantations within a radious of five
miles will suffer a total loss OF all
crops.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-28
The Rewards for the Capture Of Sam
HOae

Atlanta, April al. B. Jones, n
OF the captors OF Sam Hose came to the
city today and collected $500 OF the re-
ward which had been offered for the
negro's arrest. One hundred dollars
was from Jacob Haas, Of the Capitol
City bank and the remainder was from
The Atlanta Constitution. The other
rewards offered are $500 from the state
and $3.50 from Coweta county, making a
total Of $3.50. The states reward has
not yet been paid. Mr.. Jones and the
men from Griffin, called on the govern
or today and put in their claims, but
Governor Gambler said he would hold
up the matter for three days until he
could investigate the affair. He had
conferred with the attorney general
and it was the latter's opinion that the
governor ought to be convinced there
was no collision between the captors
and the lynchers and that the delivery
to the sheriff at Newman was made in
good faith, before the reward vas paid.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-28

Memphis, Tenn. April 22.-Colonel NJ.
Lewis Clarke. Of Louisville, prominent
in turf circles throughout the United
States. killed himself by shooting at 3
o'clock this morning, in his room at
the CASTOR hotel. Colonel Clarke came
TO Memphis to act as presiding judge
Of the races at Montgomery park on
April 18th, and it was noticed by his
friends that his spirits seemed 10 be
much depressed. Continued i'll health
contributed to Mr.. Clarke's melan-
choly frame OF mind. He could no Ion
ger stand the many trials which his
duties at the track made upon his
strength and complained frequently Of
fatigue.
Louisville, KY, April 22.-The news
of the suicide of Colonel NJ. Lewis
Clarke, at Memphis today. was receiv-
ed in Louisville with the greatest sur
prise and shocked mis- friends. who
We're legion, beyond measure.
Colonel Clarke was SO years of age.
He was the son of General Meriwether
Lewis Clarke and Abigail Churchill.
His father was the son Of Governor
William Clarke, of the famous Lewis
and Clarke expedition to the Pacific
in 1S04-06. His mother was the daught-
er of Colonel Samuel Churchill, of Lou
isville. Colonel Clark was born and
reared in Louisville and began his
business life in the Citizens National
ban He married Mary Anderson,
daughter of Orville Anderson. of Lou
isville, who, with one son, Churchill.
who live in Chicago, and two unmar-
ried daughters, survive. Mrs. Clarke is
now with her two daughters, Mary
and Caroline, in Paris.
Colonel Clarke was one of the most
notable hgures Of the American turf.
W. twenty-five years of his life were
devoted to it, during all of which no
breath Of scandal has ever assailed his
name. He was the author of a major
lty of the turf rules or laws of the
present day, the founder of the first
American turf congress, the maker of
the hrst uniform scale of weights. the
pioneer in a system Of stakes and
races hat has been followed by every
race track in America and the author
OF many notable reforms that have
tended to the publication of the turf.