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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-16
ITEMS FROM
NEW CASTLE.
Correspondence Of tho REPUBLICAN,
March IS, 1899.

There is spirited contest at present 60
ing on between Captain e. E. Rogers aud
George Pustill. Before the patrol Dill
passed the Legisture plans were laid to
secure the appointments as Patrol Guard.
Both men arc hustiing and tho result Is
awaitol with interest. Rogers seems to
have the ear OF the Governor on account OF
being a captain in the army and thereby In
touch with the Staff.
Asa reward for hard work for the party
, Pustill claims that ho should be appoint
cd. His supporters are the plain people
and tho men that do the hustling on the
day of election. 1t Is rumored here that
the will of David S. Lewis will be contest
cd on the ground of undue influence. This
!, grounded on the fact that he failed to
remember some of his relatives
Mira. Hamilton. William Hamilton,
Professor w. ". Knowles and Leslie Car
nagy a tended reception at Summit
Bridge last night.
New Castle hundred Is satisfied with
the ro sult of the Legislature. 1t issatis-
fed with tie work done by it's Represen-
tativo Harry W. Hushebeck and the
Union Republicans will nominate him
in 1900 He performed his duty faithfully
according to their opinion. Regular he
publicans find fault with Mr.. Hushobeck
for adherng to Mr.. Addicks throughout
the session.
John Schuhardt, Jr. while at work mot
with painful accident by running nail
into his right hand.
Tho Delaware Iron Works employed all
the men that could bo secured yesterday.
The big plant Is rnnning with an old time
vim.
The Knowles Mills are getting into line
and from present indications they will be
running on full time In few days.
Flats to be Vacated.
Tho newspapers will miss several good
sto les during the coming year If the past
year can be taken as criticism, Over the
hoel of Michael Sharkcy at sos Market
street arc situated the Mulcahy fats There
have boon several families living tbere and
from time to time Judge Balls Court was
tho scene of several trials.
The tenants on the upper floors have
been ordered nut and the building will be
remodeled. With the present building
Mr.. Sharkey will then have rs sleeping
rooms and proposes to run flrst-class
family hotel at moderate rates. Since
taking possession of the present building
he has built up large trade and once had
to rant a house on King street to accomo-
date the boarders he had at that time. Tho
new building will also give him ap'ivato
entrance so that the guests will be able to
reach tho hotel without passing through
the barroom and will enable Mr.. Sharkey
to mako other changes
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-16

Drink tho Hartmann and Fehrenbach
Goa Shamrock Beer, brewed especially
for St. Patrick's Day.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-16
TEE1lNUS TONIGHT,

Drink the Hartmann and Fehrenbach
Co.'S Shamrock Beer, brewel especially
for st. Patrick's Day.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-16

d &. Jones successor to John ii. Turner,
Best Quality Lehish Coal Wood and
Lime: Water street between King and
French. Dolmarvia Phone 408.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-16

Drink the Hartmann and Fehrenblch
Co.'S Shamrock Bee:, brewop especially
for st. Patlick's Day.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-16

DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup Is the Best
medicine for pulmonary troubles. One
bottle will cunyince you Of Its excellence.
Try 1t.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-16

Drink the Hartmann and Fohrenbach
Co.'S Shamrock Bocr, brswed especially
for ot. Pntrick's Day.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-16

>pianos SO and $l0O Ludwig & Co.,
5l5 Shiploy street. Hod .Aieu's Hall.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-02

Strangely enough, | once had an
impression that a cats tendency was
to travel north, and to face the north
as a magnet does, and that this ten
dency had some intimate association
with the electrical strength of its far.
In brief, | looked upon a cat as
lightning conductor on a small scale,
and that according toits temperament,
negative or positive, did it face north
or south, or just as the points of its
fur were attracted by the negative or
positive poles OF the earth. l was led
to this by some observations l had
made some years previously in the
London suburb. Then I noticed that
the cats of that particular district had
tendency to walk in particular di-
rections on the walls that faced the
north rather than to walk ON walls
that ran east or west.
As to the idea that cats are good
weather gauges, I do not credit that.
| believe that the reason a cat washes
itself over its ears or not is bound up
with the particular method by which
the particular animal cleans itself Its
main object in washing, to my mind,
is Just to complete an electrical circuit,
for by so doing it generates heat and,
therefore, a pleasing sensation IN its
fur. .-Cassell's Magazine
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-02
Political wiles OF No Account.

A large forid woman sat in a West
Side car recently, holding little boy
in her lap.
Next to her was pleasant looking
middle aged man, who seemed to take
q great interest in the child. He
screwed up his features for the little
fellows benefit, winked at him and
made wonderful motions with his
hands. The mother knew that some
thing was going on, but she paid no
attention.
Finally the boy became restless and
at length began to whine.
Then the man who had been play
ing with him pulled paper bag ont
of his pocket, and, gently tapping the
mother on the arm said:
"Madam may l give your little boy
a piece of candy? He is such dear
little fellow, and reminds me of the
child l had-once." "
The forid lady looked at him sharp
ly for a moment, and then replied
"You can give him the candy if you
want to, but you needn't think no
political sharper is goin to git me on
his side with his tatfy."
The pleasant looking man passed
over the piece of candy for which the
child was reaching, and then settled
back and became thoughtful. -Cleve-
land Leader,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-02
WHY He Married.

In the north of England, where
rabbit coursing is very much in vogue,
swift, we'll trained dogs often win
large sums of money in prizes. 1t is,
therefore, little to be wondered at that
the owners of these animals should
bestow so much attention upon them.
An old Yorkshire collier, well known
for his success in the coursing field,
recently surprised all his mates by
marrying very unprepossessing
woman. He had always been reckoned
a confirmed hater of the other sex.
"What has ia gone and got splced,
lad, at thy age?" one of his friends
asked him.
"Oh, that's not much of a tale, "
answered the old man, stolidly. Il
agree WI ye at Betsy yonder is no
beauty if she had been 1 shouldn't
have we'd her. But there dog O. mine,
he was simply pinin' for somebody to
look after him while [ was away at
t. pit. 1 couldn't bear to leave him in
the house by hissen, so 1 hit on the
idea of marryin' Betsy. She's not
handsome, but she's mighty good COM
pany for the dog. "-Tit-Bits.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-02
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

The young leaves and roots Of ferns
supply considerable portion Of the
food in the mountain districts of
Japan.
A Hamburg Germany chemist has
succeede with the aid Of oxide Of
aluminium in creating a heat of up to
80, 600 degrees.
Although the brain is perpetually
active, yet the whole of it is never at
work at one time. The two hemis-
pheres, or halves, do not operate sim
ultaneously, but alternate in action.
A turnip seed increases its own
weight fifteen times in Il minute. On
peat ground turnips have been found
to increase by growth -, 800 times the
weight of their seed each day they
stood upon it.
Circular or elliptical halos round
the sun indicate violent storms, espe-
cially if the halos are dark IN tint or
OF large diameter. lightning and
magnetic disturbances may also be ex-
pected from these signs.
1t is computed that the death rate
of the world is 81 and the birth rate
10 minute, and this seemingly light
percentage Of gain is sufficient to give
net increase in population each year
Of almost 200, 600 souls.
The phenomenon of the milk-white
sea, much more luminous than the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-02
The Last of the witches.

Yeldham, a highly civilized village
in the county of Essex, is now in a
happy and contented frame of mind.
1t has buried the Last of the Witches
the end of the long line of Sibyls
which commenced at EndOr. There
have been the Last of the Goths,"
the ''Last of the Postboys," and the
Last of the Potwallopers, and no
valid reason can be urged why the
witches should not have terminal
representative also, Why the poor
old lady should have been regarded
as the possessor of an EVIL Eye" is
a mystery known only to her super
stitious fellow villagers, except, in
deed, it was owing to the sorrows and
misfortunes she suffered. Her daugh-
ter died few days ago, and her
brother was accidentally killed some
hours afterward. These calamities,
instead of arousing sympathy, only
led to belief by the villagers that
she cast her evil eye on them, because,
knowing her own departure was at
hand, she did not wish to leave them
behind. The poor old woman had a
hard life among the villagers who
boycotted and insulted her on account
of her alleged supernatural gifts, and
attributed every petty accident that
occurred in the locality to her malign
influence. Now she is at rest. Lon.
don Telegraph.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-02

The earliest reported instance OF
the use of the N-rOy process in evil
dence seems to have been in the dis
trict court of Arapahoe county, Col
orado, in 1896. More recently in
Tennessee it was held that an X-ray
photograph, showing the overlapping
bones of one of the legs of the plain
tiff, broken by an injury for which
suit was brought, taken by physician
and surgeon familiar with fractures
and with the process of taking such
photographs, who testified that it ac-
curately represented the condition of
the leg, is admissible in evidence.
The court said; "The pictorial repre-
sentation of the condition of the
broken leg of ths plaintiff gave to the
jury much more intelligent idea of
that particular injury than it would
have obtained from any verbal de.
scription of it by q surgeon, even if
he had used for the purpose the SIM
plest terms Of his art, Law Notes,
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-02
BAD ROADS IN PORTO RICO.
General Stone Believes Electric Road
VIII Take the Place of Wagon Roads

General Stone Believes Electric Roads
viii Take the Place of Wagon Roads.
General Roy Stone, United States
volunteers, formerly director of the
Office of Good Roads inquiry of the
department of agriculture, recently
returned to Washington from Porto
Rico where, in addition to fighting
with his regiment, he investigated
thoroughly the condition of roads on
the island. General Stone found the
means of communication between the
interior and the coast and between
the towns generally to be very poor.
A railroad runs partly around the ISL
and, but is badly planned, poorly
supported and miserably managed.
The roadsin the interior are constantly
muddy, SO much so that passage is al
most impossible, the men sinking to
their knees and the wagons to their
aIles. This renders the transporta-
tion of the products of the island from
the interior to the seaports a very
difficult and expensive undertaking,
and hampers to great extent the
commerce Of the island. Coffee is
brought from the plantations in the
interior on the heads of the men and
women or on pack animals, at a cost
of 50 per hundredweight. This cost
hinders the successful cultivation of
the large coffee plantations. 1t is
equally detrimental to the interests of
the sugar planters, many of whom
have plantations in the valleys of the
interior Tobacco is more easily
handled, so that its production is not
so much affected. General Stone
said to n Sun reporter:
II am convinced that Porto Rico
will never have complete system of
wagon roads slch as some of the
states have. Roads are enormously
expensive in that island, the cele-
brated military road costing in the
neighborhood of 500, 900 per mile.
The enormous rainfall distributed
throughout all seasons is ruinous to
any road unless thoroughly we'll
drained and constructed on a hard
foundation. 1 believe, however, that
the place of the wagon roads will be
more than filed by electric roads, of
which am certain there will soon be
network over the island. Steam
railways would be too expensive to
construct or to operate, there being
no coal on the island, while there is
an abundance Of water power Tie
rivers rise in the mountains in the in
terror and have an average fall Of $500
feet in their short race to the sea. aud
,1ayr;n, ri1p' ! 80 always abundanc 80 NpItq; ~.
L'''' . asls CulId ~- .-......Y y,
these falls at little expense, the roads
could be easily graded and the rain
would not affect an electric road as it
does a wagon road. These roads
would open communication between
the interior and the coast and place
the coffee, sugar and tobacco of the
plantations within easy access OF the
seaboard. regard the possibilities
for the investment of American capital
in Porto Rico as something immense. "
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-03-02
THE TolLER'S RECoMPENsE.

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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
Mutaafa Disarmed.

Washington, June THE secretary of
state has received the following cable
gram from Bartlett Trip, the United
States representative on the Samoan COM
mission:
"Apia, Samoa, May 81, via Auckland
Mataafa disarmed. Over 1900 rebels sur
rendered..
Malietoa and Tamasese have visited the
members of the Samoan commission on
board the United States transport Badger.
Mataafa visited them the following day.
Neither was recognized as king.
Mataafa blamed the Europeans for the
trouble here. The commissioners informed
him they had power to establish govern
ment with or without a king. Mataafa
thought the SamOans should have a king
but expressed willingness to disarm his
followers and leave the matter in the
hands of the commission.
The Germans acted, for the first time
in many months, 18th the representatives
of the other powers and have officially
sent guard ashore.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Two babies, children of Mrs Carl Dett-
lof of Poplar Grove, lll.,v ere instantly
He'd Tuesday. The mother left the cab on
the depot plltform while she stepped into
the station. \ gust of wind blew it in
front of fast incoming freight train
which mangled both children.
A second battle with the dynamiters of
the Union Pacific express train has been
fought in the mountains 40 miles north OF
Casper, Wyoming, by the sheritf's posse
which has been in pursuit since Sunday
morning, and as a result one man and
probably more lie dead. The first battle
was fought Sunday on Teapot crek, 80
miles north of Casper. No one was wound
ed during this engagement but several
horses were killed.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
WILL MAKE Nd CONCESSIONS
THE PRESIDENT STANDS FIRM.
The President of the Philippine Com
mission Recommended Moderation
Oregon Regiment to be Mustered Out
In Portland New cable Laid.

New York, June IA special from
Washington says:
President Schurman of the Philippine
commission, in a dispatch to Secretary
Hay, has, it is believed, recommended
more liberal concessions to the Filipinos,
with a view of ending the instruction at
once.
An official acquainted with the message
sad 1t reviewed the situa ton in the ISL
ands and was of an encouraging nature,
ne dispatch was considered by the presi-
dent and Secretary Hay, and the president
has sent reply. The nature of the ans
wer is not divulged.
1t is significant, however, that coinci.
dent with his message to Mr.. Schurman, a
cablegram was sent to General Otis with
instructions in line with the president 5
belief that the restoration of peace can
only be reached by the complete subjuga-
ton OF the Filipinos. General Otis will
continue his military operations through
out the rainy season
1t IS apparent that the president does
not look for the close of the rebellion I'M
TIL the tlIipinos are convinced of the mill
tary superiority of the United States. The
concessions already offered are liberal, the
administration believes, and as far as the
president can go without authority from
congress, and it is doubtful if the new
propositions made by the commission have
rec eived his approval
The war department is preparing plans
to send the 5000 men needed by General
Otis to make up the 10000 which he says
he must have in order to control the stu
alton. Regiments will probably be with
drawn from Cuba and Porto Rico suf-
ticient with other regulars to be taken
from the United States to make up the
number desired.
General Otis advises the war department
that the Oregon regiment will leave for
the United States this week. 1t will be
sent direct to Portland, Ore, for muster
ing out at Vancouver barracks.
The state department has telpgraphic in
formation that the arrangement made by
General Otis with the cable company ope-
rating in the Philippines for establishing
direct cable communication between Iloilo
and Cebu, has been successfully accom-
plished and it is now open for business.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
Indians Were Drowned.

Layagan Alberta, June 5.-Between p
and 80 Indians including men, women and
children, were drowled in the Lake of the
Clouds, near the Canadian Pacific railway,
while crossing to the reservation to attend
a potlatch. They we're travelling in boats
rudely manufactured of cariboo skins when
when two long boats collided. Both were
rendered useless and the entire party lost.
The third beat, beaing the skins of deer,
bear, etc, manned by four Indians,
reached the spot as the last survivor
slipped from the cpsized boats and dis
appeared into the ghcier-fed waters of the
lake.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
Hall Reaches MoronE.

Manila, June THE American forces
have occupied the peninsula and General
Halls column is encamped at Morong.
Major Truman, marching across the Bin
angean, found it impracticable to form a
Gordon, and the insurgents, with the ex-
ception of a hundred or two, escaped
through the mountains after General Pho
del Pillar, dragging their battery by buff
faloes at night. A few, however, may be
trapped.
The Washington troops have returned
to Pasig, but the program of the other
troops is uncertain.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
Mrs. Stanford Leaves for Europe,

Sen Francisco, June Mrs. Jane
Stanford has sailed for Europe.
In an interview she repeats her decision
not to allow more han 500 female students
admission to the Stanford university at
once, her desire being to prevent the insti-
tuition from becoming a school for girls,
rather than for boys, for which it was
originally intended
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
Burial of n Missionary Bishop

The burial at Vancouver of Bishop Dur
len who for % years worked among the
natives of British Columbia, was the occa-
sion of remarkable scene.
Surrounding the bier We're 5000 Indians
chanting death Song in the native gut
tural tongue, swaying their bodies in uni
son to measured strains of music while
on an elevation in the rear of the cata-
fllque the crucifXion of Christ was being
enacted, a lay figure representing the Say
Tor being lowered from the cross by In
dams dressed in vestments of Biblical
characters.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
EventfuI Voyage of the ship sachem.

Tacoma, Wash, June 6.-The Ameri-
can ship Sachem, which sailed from Phila-
delphia last fall laden with kerosene oil,
has arrived at Shanghai, after an eventful
voyage.
Before she reached Hong Kong her
master died and was buried at sea. In
Formosa channel she was struck by light
ming. Her foremost was reduced to splin-
tiers and over half of the crew was knocked
insensible. The mate, who was one of the
victims, remained unconscious for six
hours.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
Printers to Combine.

Chicago, June Printers and litho-
graphers met here for the purpose of tax
ing action against the threatened advance
in the price of print paper when the COM
bination of manufacturers of paper is
completed. A temporary organization
with w. B. Brewster of ST. Paul as pres
ident was formed
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
Three Girls Drowned,

Lebanon, Ill, June Miss Ruth John
son Of Lebanon, Miss Florence Spies of ST.
Jacob and Miss Hallele Jack of Beaucop
ILL.,, students of McKendree college, were
drowned in Silver creek two miles north
of here while bathing. Miss johnson
went beyond her depth. The other two
girls went to her rescue and all were
drowned
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10

Chicago, June THE American Ship
building Company has closed contract
for the four largest steel ships ever built
ON fresh water. Each will be 500 feet
long and have a cargo capacity of 5000
tons. The total cost will be 81 100000
A. B. Wolvin of Duluth, who ordered the
vessels as trustee, is supposed to represent
the American Steel and Wire Company.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
Stole the Body of Their King.

San Francisco, June THE report
comes from Honolulu that when the tomb
OF Lunalilo, the barefoot king of Ha-
waii'' was recently opened, it was found
that the remains had been removed and
that the metal casket contained only por-
lions of the grave clothes.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
Looks Like Murder.

Chicago, June S.-NIartin Meier, a
wealthy and eccentric Swiss, was found
dead at his home, which for years he has
occupied alone The condition in which
the body was found points to murder,
with robbery as the object.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
Hot weather over Europe.

London, June S.-A heat wave, similar
to the one affecting New York, prevails
over Europe,
There have been several deaths from
heat A commercial traveller committed
suicide yesterday: Il must get out of
the world; | will not suffer the heat"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
Colorado Mines Closing Down.

Silverton, Colo, June Sowing to the
strike at the Durango smelter the Iowa
Tiger and Silver Lake mines have been
closed, throwing 500 men out of work. 1t
is predicted that operations will be stop
ped at every mine in San Juan county
within a week.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
The Alaskan Controversy.

London, June S.-A high authority Of
the colonial office has informed the Asso-
Gated Press that negotiations with refer
ence to the Alaskan situation are iii the
rosiest possible condition, after the inter
view which United States Ambassador
Choate had yesterday with the Marquis Of
Salisbury at the foreign office.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
woman Captured Chinese Murderer

Fresno, Cal, June 8.-Ah Chung, who
killed Chung Sow, another Chinese at Por-
terville two weeks ago and for whose cap
ture a reward of 5000 was offered, has
been captured and brought to the county
jail by Mrs. O'Neill, resident Of MADEIRA
conntX.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-06-10
Murdered wireback Hanged.

Lancaster, Pa, June S.-Ralph W.
Wireback, the murderer of David Lands,
was hanged today in the presence of sew
eral hundred persons. This was the fifth
execution in this county since 1858.