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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-15
WANTS no EAT EsIERHAZY.
Another American Challenges Him to
Mortal Combat.

Columbia, S. c., Sept. 1.-THE fol-
lowing challenge to mortal combat was
cabled this morning to Count Ferdinand
Walsin Esterhazy, at his address III Lon
don:
.'Sir: believing you to be answerable
for the misery and humiliation of Cap
tain Dreyfus of the French army, and
he, Captain Dreyfus, not beiIg able to
call on you personally for satisfaction.
| as an American, freeborn, loving lib-
erty. do volunteer in my own right TO
meet you on the field of honor in behalf
of Captain Dreyifus at amy time and
place agreeable to You.
(Signed) paul IL. AVER,
,,.Ja,.-on e. -
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-15
FEVER AT PASS CHRISTIAN.
One New Case at Mississippi City SitFl
tion in Jackson Unchanged.

jackson, Miss, Sept. 14.-Dr, j. J.
Harry State Health officer i'll charge a
Mississippi City, reports tonight that one
case of yellow fever has developed at
that place since hast night. The case is
of u mild variety and the patient is 10
Gated III one of the formerly infected
nOuseS.
A newly infected point is announced,
Pass Christian, on the Gulf Coast, r.
porting one mild case. The premises are
closely guarded with the local health Of
hcer in charge.
The situation in Jackson shows no
change tonight and no new cases are re-
ported Major Porter, the only patient IS
hanging tenaciously to life, but the at
tending physicians say he has scarcely
one chance in fifty to recover.
FIFTEEN NEW CASES OF FEVER.
Key West, Fla, Sept 14,-Fifteen
new cases of yellow fever have been
reported in the past a hours and one
DEATH
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-15

Aver is son Of the late General Aver
Of the Confederate Army and was
sergeant of the First Sonth Carolina
volunteers in the Spanish war.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
HIGH TREASON CHARGED.
Former British Officers Arrested In the
Transvaal Accused of Plotting
Against the Republic.

JOHANNESBURG, May IA number
of men have been arrested here OH the
charge of high treason.
LONDON, May 1.-THE foreign dis.
patch probably explains the telegram re.
ceived by The Argus of Cape Town
from Pretoria, saying the Iransvaal
secretary of state confirmed the report
that number of unusual arrests had
been made and that it was rumored
that the prisoners were British officers.
PRETORIA, May 1.-THE officers ar,
rested, who are eight in number, are
Captain Patterson, formerly of the Ian
GERS; Colonel r. f. Nichols, Lieuten.
ant j. Tremlott, Q. A. Ellis, lately a
private detective at Johannesburg; Lieu
tenant John Allen, formerly of the
Horse artillery; Quartermaster Mitchell,
former Sergeant j. Fries and former
Sergeant r. p. Hooper.
None of them have been in the employ
OF the British South Africa Chartered
company.
The executive of the Transvaal was
sitting i'll secret session, considering the
arrests.
CAPE Town, May 17.-According to
.advices from Pretoria the charge against
the prisoners is that, while staying in
the Rand privately, they We're really
engaged in enlisting men for the pur-
poses of rebellion when they were
ready to give the signal.
1t was said that the enlistment roster
included 1000 men and that a number
Of discriminating documents were found
at the time the arrests were made.
JOHANNESBURG, May II. - Further
warrants were issued.
1t was asserted that the officers al
ready arrested were also preparing to
organize corps in Natal, the British
colony between the Orange Free State
and the Indian ocean, to assist the pro-
jected movement at johannesburg.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
WRECKED BY a FIEND.
Tamaqua, Pa.-One Killed and
Four Injured.

PHILADELPHIA, May ia special tt
The Inquirer from Tamaqua says man
has been arrested there charged with
placing the railroad spike on the track
at Long Acres curve. which: causeds.th,
fatal accident at that place. The spec.
ial also says that the man is said to have
confessed. The name of the man ar.
rested is not given.
TAMAQUA, Pa, May IA passenger
train was derailed at Long Acres curve
a short distance from here and ran int,
a passing coal train, killing one person
fatally injuring another and three
others were seriously injured. The
dead and injured were:
Killed:
Samuel Grier, New Berry, engineer
of passenger train of Shamokin.
Injured:
John Short, Philadelphia, fireman
coal train, fatally hurt.
Lott Kersttner. Shamokin, fireman
passenger train.
Peter J. O'Neil, Port Carbon, pas
senger.
Frank Bastian, Mahanoy City, pas
senger.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
JOHNSON CONCEDED A POINT.
The Sale of Detroit Railway to Munici
pality May Be Consummated.

DETROIT, May 17.-Tom L. Johnson,
a representative Of the street railway
companies, has conceded one of the
main points of difference which have
been blocking negotiations for the pur.
chase of the roads by the city. The
clty's commissioners refused to execute
any security franchise to secure pay
ment of the purchase price unless that
instrument provide for present rates Of
fare on three-cent as well as five-cent
lines. This concession has now been
made.
EtThe most important question remain.
ing at issue is whether the proposed 30
year security franchise shall run from
the date of sale or from expiration of
present franchises, averaging about III
years hence. The commissioners assert
that they will agree to no franchise eX-
tending longer than 30 years from date
of the transfer. 1t is understood that
the two sides can agree upon price of
between $40, 900, 900 and $l7,000,000 il
30-year bonds or about $15,300,000 cash
if the commission can itself float the
bonds,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
bishop Denounced Divorce Laws.

CLEVELAND, May 17.-Bishop Leonard
in his annual address before the Ohio
Episcopalian diocesan convention here
scathingly denounced the divorce laws.
"The good people of the United States
are raising great cry" said the bishop,
against the admission of member OF
congress, who is polygamist, when
practical polygamy is being practiced
all over the country" Bishop Leonard
further along said he wanted the church
laws made so severe that a divorced
person cannot be remarked at all by an
Episcopal clergyman.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
A Mark Twain story.

Apropos of the Portuguese reis (pro-
nounced rays), when Mark Twain vis-
tied Fayal some years ago one of his
companions invited him to dine, with
eight others, at the principal hotel in
that happy island AS soon as the cloth
was removed and the wine placed on
the table the host called for the bill.
which amounted to 81, 700 reis
"Go, leave me to my misery, boysl"
calculated the unhappy man. There
isn't money enough in the ship to pay
that bill am a ruined community.
Landlord, this is mean swindle
Here's $3.50, and it's all you'll get. III
swim in blood before I'll pay cent
more. "
The landlord looked surprised, but
Immediately had his little account
translated Into a language that
Christian could understand, when it
was found that, at the rate of 1000
reis to a dollar, the demand actually
amounted to $21.70 More refreshments
were ordered forthwith. Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
HIGH TONED BOOK AGENTS.
Hen Who OnIy Sell Volumes worth
From $50 to $500.

"There is distinct upper class OF
book agents who never come in contact
with the general public" remarked
Mr.. Charles H. Meyers. 81 have been
interested in art publications for
number of years and know most of the
tiptop statesmen in the country. They
handle books that range from $50 to
$500 in price and only call on people
who figure on certain select lists. These
lists are the result of the cullings of
years, and combined, they represent
nearly all of the high class book buyers
of the United States. Each publishing
house has its own collection of names,
and they are valued highly.
81 call to mind one firm that failed
and went out Of business several years
ago and it's roster of buyers was consid-
cred its very best asset. 1t was pur-
chased for something like So, 600. The
class of books handled by the agents to
whom l refer would greatly astonish
the everyday patron of the shops. They
are printed in very limited editions,
and every refinement of mechanical art
is lavished on their preparation. Some
times the edition numbers only 20 or
80, and as soon as it is off the press the
type is taken down and distributed.
The illustrations are frequently water
color paintings or artists proofs OF
etchings, and it is quite common for
the vignette letters to be tinted by hand
"Such books are never advertised,
but are easily disposed of to the inner
circle of rich connoisseurs. The agents
who take the orders are the princes Of
the business. l know one who makes
easily $4,000 a year, and they are
nearly all we'll to do. They are continu-
ally on the go, but if you were to en-
counter one of them at a hotel the
chances are you would never guess his
vocation. What are the topics Of the
books they sell? Oh They range frcm
Shakespeare comedies to Walton's
complete angler-a little of every
thing. New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19

VAN WICK BECAME ANGRY.
Deuied He Was Connected With Pool
rOoms-Not Under Croker's Orders.

Deuied He Was Connected With Pool.
rooms-Not Under Crolser's Orders.
New YORK, May 17.-Mayor Robert
A. Van Wyck was ON the witness stand
before the Mazet investigating commit.
tee. He gave it as his opinion that che
conduct OF affairs under the new char
ter had been REMARKABLY satisfactory,
but refused to express any opinion re-
garding changes in he city offices that
might tend to improve the admins
tration of the city's affairs.
When he was questioned by Counsel
Moss regarding the rumored connection
of "a man named Van Wyck" with b
number Of poolrooms, the mayor be-
came very angry and declared that Mr..
Moss had asked the question for the
purpose of "insinuation. He de-
manded that if any evidence was OBJ
tanned to prove any such connection it
should be produced before the commit
tee. He denied most emphatically that
he had any connection with any pool
rooms whatsoever or any illegal business.
Mayor Van Wyck asserted emphatic
ally also that he had never consulted
with any one regarding the appoint
ments he had made and that he himself
was the most powerful factor in the
city administration, that he was guided
absolutely by his own affairs and not
those of Mr. Croker or any one else.
Police Commissioners Sexton and
York and ex xChief McCullagh were the
other witnesses
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
CLEVER MILITARY TRICK.
The Stratagem by which Sir Francis
We're Defeated the Spanish.

When Philip II debated the question
Of coercing with fire and sword the
Dutchman, who did not like the taxes
which they themselves did not vote, the
Duke of Alva counseled violent meas
ures, for in his eyes the rebels were
only "men of butter" Nevertheless he
found that these men, SO fond of cows
and hens, could hold his veterans at
bay, finally overcome them in the field,
and after 80 years leave poor Spain "a
broken backed tiger.
Indeed in time Of war country foIk
with baskets of eggs and butter excited
no suspicion even to alert sentinels
Taking advantage of this fact, Six
Francis We're determined to recapture
from the Spaniards the Zutphen sconces,
or forts, by a stratagem. In 1891 he
picked out some lusty and handsome
young soldiers and dressed most of them
like the Gelderland egg women and the
rest as Beers. With bundles of vegeta-
bles, baskets Of eggs and butter but
also with daggers and pistols inside
their clothes, they were ferried across
the river by twos and threes. They sat
near the gate Of the fort being already.
at the break of day, chatting and ges-
ticulating, as if in some tremendous
argument about the rise or fall of mar
ket prices
Then, according to arrangement, We're
sent some cavalry forward, as if ap-
preaching, and the pretended country
people ran in feigned terror toward the
fort. The gates were at once thrown
open to receive them. They all streamed
in, threw off their disguises, and in a
few minutes were in possession of the
forts of the town, where the gallant Sir
Philip Sidney afterward lost his life by
being more rash and less shrewd than
the veteran We're. -Harper's Bazaar.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
CHARGES AGAINST 0NG.
Ex-Judge of Cleveland Accused of De-
frauding Creditors While He
Was n Bankrupt

CLEVELAND, May 17.--H. r. Hatch 81
Co., one of the creditors of former Com
mon Pleas Judge Walty Q. Ong, who
became voluntary bankrupt some time
since with liabilities amounting to about
100000, filed petition in the United
States district court opposing his dis
charge from bankruptcy, in which SEN
sational charges were made.
Judge Ong is accused while bank
rupt of fraudulently concealing prop
erty from the trustees for the creditors,
with having fraudulently conveyed and
enc1mbered property, with having
sworn falsely in his schedule of per-
sonal property and his schedule of debts
and with having failed to keep correct
books and records. Judge Ong ap-
peared in court and asked for an inn
mediate hearing ON the petition, but
Judge Ricks declared that the case
must be taken up in its regular order
and that testimony must be heard be-
fore the referee in bankruptcy.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
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BKUOkh'S ORDER MODIFIED.
Mayors of Cities VIII BE Repositories
For Cubans' Arms Trouble Not
Likely Go BE Serious.

ksAvANA, May 1.-THE manifesto
which General Maximo Gomez is pre-
pairing to issue will not only review his
own position as to the payment of the
Cuban army, but probably will direct
the forces to disband.
The manifesto will allude, according
to Colonel Carlos Cespedes, to the diff.
Guilty regarding the surrender of the
arms and will say that General Gomez
has arranged with Governor Gene;al
Brooke that the mayors Of the various
cities shall be repositories for t''e anne.
The manifesto will call upon all Oubans
to display real patriotism by laying
down their arms ana taking up akri
cultural implements.
Following it's publication Governor
General Brooke will issue modified
order eliminating the necessity for the
participation of any Cuban commits
sioner in the distribution of the $3,-
000, 200.
Members Of the late Cuban military
assembly and other discontented per-
sons belonging to the new revolution.
ary club styled the Veterans associ-
alton, mer at Cerro and INDUCED in q
prolonged debate on the question of the
Cuban troops surrendering their arms.
One group was in favor of entrusting
the arms to the brigade chiefs or Cuban
municipalities. Another group was op.
posed altogether to surrendering the
arms, saying it might be necessary to
'use them against American preten-
sions."
Public feeling in Havana was GER
tainly excited, but those whose judg.
ment was worth most considered the
agitation to be superficial and to consist
merely of phrasings which will never
lead to an overt act. Governor General
Brooke will go ahead as inoffensively as
possible in the disbursement of the
$3,eO0,000 appropriated for the Cuban
troops. This cannot begin, however
until next week. If the Cubans wish
to surrender their arms to the munici
palities all will be well. The American
authorities will raise no objection.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
CONTRIBUTE TO DEWEY HOME.
National Committee Issued an Address
Asking subscriptions.

National Committee Issued an Address
Asking Subscriptions.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE national
committee of the Dewey home fund
consisting of Frank A. Vanderlip, as
sistant secretary Of the treasury, Chas
B. Allen, assistant secretary of the
navy, Brigadier General Henry O. Cor
bin, Perry s. Heath, first assistant post,
master general, and Ellis II. Roberts,
treasurer Of the United States, issued
an address to the people of the United
States, calling for subscriptions. The
address said in part:
subscriptions may be sent at once to
the treasurer of this fund, at the treas
ury department, Washington. TEN
porary receipts will be promptly re.
turned and as soon as 1t can be pre-
pared duplicate of the same date and
number, bearing fine portrait of Ad-
miral Dewey, will be forwarded 20 every
subscriber.
Immediate response will enable the
national committee to convey to Ad-
miral Dewey, as soon as he lands, prac-
tical evidence that the American peo-
pie have provided for him home at
the national capital.
"The committee invites the newspa-
pers of the country and the governors
OF all states to cooperate in this move
ment."
The cash contributions received Tues.
day amounted to 1867, making che total
6al7,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19

Guests were expected to dinner at
little Flossie's home the other evening,
and she was in consequence hustled off
10 bed and milk and bread an hour ear
ier than usual
"Here you grown up folks" she sigh
ed as she was laid away, "are going to
sit up in your best clothes all evening
and eat all those nice things, while I've
got to go up stairs with nothing to eat
but old bread and milk and go to bed
early Never mind" after reflective
pause. "After a while I'll grow up, and
then I'll have all the nice things, and
you'll II all be dead. kansas City Star
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
WOMAN SHOT HER HUSBAND.
Quarrel Caused by Jealousy So Ended at
Fairchance, Pa.

UNIoNTowN, Pa, May II. - Mrs.
Long, wife of P.oprietor George W.
Long of the Central hotel at Fairchance,
shot and probably fatally wounded her
husband. The shooting was the end.
ing of quarrel. Mrs. Long fired one
shot at her husband, the bullet lodging
in the abdomen. She then rushed out
of the house and her screams apprised
the neighbors of what had happened in
the hotel. Mrs. Longs face was COW
cred with blood and there were traces
of struggle.
Long has been keeping hotel in this
county for ten years, but has not had a
liocnse for four years. He was formerly
proprietor of the Eureka House at
Everson and the Baltimore House at
Connellsville. Mrs. Loug is his second
wife. Jealousy Is said to lie at the bot
tom of their trouble.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
MEETING OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS.
Nomination of n Successor to Bishop Wat
terson Under Consideration.

Nomination of n Successor to Bishop Wat
terson Under Consideration.
CINCINNATI, May IA meeting o.
the arch diocese Of Cincinnati was he'll.
ut the cathedral, presided over by Arch.
bishop Elder. Among the dignitarles
present are Bishop l. #. Horstmann, ID.
d., of Cleveland; Bishop O. p. Macs,
d. d. of Covington, KY; Bishop JOIN.
s. Foley, ID. D., of Detroit; Bishop b.
j. Richter, ID. d., of Grand Rapids
Bishop William McCloskey, ID. D.,
Louisville, and Bishop L. s. Byrne, l.
D., of Nashville.
One of the most important questions
considered was the nomination OF a.
successor to the late Bishop Watterson
Of Columbus and three names will be
submitted to Rome. 1t is possible that
a coadjutor bishop will be named TO-.
the diocese Of Fort Wayne. There Sc.
lections are not made public.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19

Last summer while seining caught
a catfish that was literally starving,
with food in his mouth, He had at
tempted to swallow a smaller catfish,
but it's fms had caught in his mouth
and pierced through on both sides
Nearly all but the head had been di'
gested, think this is going Tantalus
one better. Forest and Stream.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
APenaIty of knowledge.

ut seems to me, remarked the high
browed theorist THAT people positively
resent education. A man who is mora
than ordinarily wise is usually left to
himself as much as possible.
perhaps you are right, " answered
Miss Cayenne. when man knows
such a very great deal, he makes one
apprehensive. There is no telling when
he may be going to sit down and try to
tell it all "-Washington Star.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
ANDREW CARNEGIE FLED.
Went to skibo Castle to Escape Men
dioants.

LONDON, May 17.-Andrew Carnegie
left London for Skibo Castle. In an in
terview published he is quoted as
saying:
81 am looking forward to protection
in my highland solitude from the army
of mendicants that every hour is i'm
portuning me for subscriptions to every
conceivable object. Even were / dis
posed to accede to these applications for
promiscuous assistance, my resources
for philanthropy have already been hy-
pothecated, and bombarding me with
further appeals Is simply adding to the
postal revenue"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
Hotel Fire In Toledo.

TOLEDO, May 1.-THE Hotel Madi.
son, an eight-story family hotel in the
business portion of the city, caught fire
early this morning. The guests had
not all been rescued and firemen were
working with great difficulty on ac
count of smoke.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
Rev. DIR. Mast Dead.

CINCINNATI, May 1.-THE Rev. DIR.
William Mast, the founder of German
Methodism in America, aged 92,is dead.
He was born at Stuttgart, Germany, edu-
Gated at Tuebingen university, came to
America in 1888, entered the Cincinnati
conference in 1889. From that time tC
the day of his death he edited The
Christian Apologist, the German organ
of the Methodist Episcopal church in
America
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
killed by His Brothor-In.l.aw.

HAMMOND, La, May 17.--H. B. Fitz.
gerald, lumberman, was shot and in
stantly killed by his brother-in-law, Ed
Strahlem. Fitzgerald was in his cups
and threatening to murder his wife, a
sister of Strahlem, when the latter
picked up his gun and did the shooting
The principals have lived in Hammond
for some years. Strahlem is from Cali
fornia and Fitzgerald from Michigan.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19

An Assyrian tablet in the cellar Of
the British museum has on ii repre-
sentation of the hanging gardens of
Babylon according to Herr Bruno Meiss'
ner. If he is right, this is the first testi-
mony to their existence found among
the cunsiform inscriptions
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
Waning Devotion.

"Dwiggins is getting over his bicycle
craze.
"How do you knowf"
"He let's his wife clean his wheel for
him. Detroit Free Press.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
soldisr,. peath Rsportsd.

WASHINGTON, May 17.--Gen. Brooke
at Havana has cabled the war depart
ment that Private Winfield Hegey, Com
pany 1, Seventh cavalry, died OF pneu-
monia, at Pinar del Rio. May ID.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19
Admiral watson sailed.

VALLEJO, Cal., May 17.-Rear Ad-
miral John o, Watson, who will re-
heve Admiral Dewey in command of
the Asiatio station. sailed for his new
command on the steamer City Of Pc
king.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19

Chinese, from the viceroy down, wor-
ship lizards. turtles, horses pigs. bulls
and insects
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-05-19

Antwerp is the principal market of
Belgium for paints and colora