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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1899-08-15
.PENNSYLvANIANS
SOON TO LEAVE

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug 1.-THE
Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers viii
remain at the rresldla seven days
longer and then leave Tor their Eaa,
srn t"mcs. escorted by the committee
u = that camr here g. receive them
According TO the present arrange.
nisntns only one stop wiii d. made
during the Journey 60 Pit;sburg. the
invitation 81 Mayor Frank y Moure
% Omaha having been accepted
Many other cordial Invitations from
cities along the route have been de.
eiinet on account q lack % time.
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LONDON Eng despatch
effects franchise 4 =
that the
peaceful
President accept Engands Joint In
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BANK clEARaNcES.

The statement u the Seattle clear
Ing house was smaller today than u
has been for weeks The clearance
we're is7i.7ls 20. aud balances. tl5l.
s02 0s.
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WASHINGTON D. c. Aug t5cen Second
Lieutenant jos MORSE of the Snh
Mnna ms morning Of typhoid fever
artillery and
upon The recommendation 81 Gen
daughter David NrKt,t.,
~ Pres dent McKnlcya
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Deputy sheriff Wilson returned to.
day from Portland having In Gus
tady W. g. Saunders. wanted for
stealing a horse from NJ. NJ. Tcater
Of this city. Saunders was captured
at Maxburg. orc.
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Miss Susie Barnes and Mr., Henry
Ross We're married at the residence
Of Mr.. and Mrs. George Barnes. 10
Nineteenth avenue Sunday night al
7 o'clock. Rev. Il. e. Thompson ON
Chatting.
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Harry Fesee. ~ the New England
hotel, twore out a complaint this
afternoon, charging Frank Ford.
formerly mate NJ Tho Humboldt. with
, appropfiatlng $3.50
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WAHHiN'FroN y g. Aug by
nc rga az .eh'n was not UNEXPECTED here Conau wiiman
linnFk'nE notified tho State department
brgahi'Fe was prevailing 10 alarming
hers practically dominated be- west rive terrotry.
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MANILA Aug l5The United States
rived here recently has been ashore
days Baltimore
ees3fa efforts float the Hooker have to
be
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apordng 10 nnt made the Ia
hss1 e t havm this enn gan discussed he
vii be s,men
be erad
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PUERTO PLATA San Domingo with
crushing aatn that almost
81 both sides II believed the defeat uprising
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Isaac Simon age -. died at his
residence isti Washington street yes
tef,iaY afternoon. Of blood poison.
ms
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-05-11
TRAITORS AND PATRIOTISM.

The defenders Of the administration
call Edward Atkinson a traitor and
defended the high handed action that
excluded his war pamphlets from the
Philippine mails. AS well exclude q
reproduction of the following from
Burke's letter to the sheriffs of Bristol :
II know it is said that your kind
ness is only alienated on account Of
their resistance; and therefore If the
colonies surrender at discretion, all
sorts of regard, and even much in
diligence, is meant toward them in
future. But can those who are parti-
sans for continuing war to enforce
such surrender, be responsible latter
all that has passed) for such future
use of power that Is bound by no
compacts and restrained by no terror?
Will they tell us what they call indul-
gcnces? Do they not ut this instant
call the present war and all its horrors
lenient and merciful proceeding?
''No conqueror that ever heard of
has professed to make cruel, harsh
and insolent use of his conquest. No!
The man Of the most declared pride
scarcely dares to trust his own heart
with this dreadful secret Of ambition.
But 1t will appear in its time; and no
man who processes to reduce another
to the insolent mercy of foreign arm
ever had any sort Of good will towards
him. The profession of kindness with
that sword in his hand, and that de-
mand of surrender, is one of the most
provoking acts of his hostility"
Or the following from the Hartford,
Conn, Times:
1t is queer confession for the ad-
ministration to make-this admission
that it has sent a lot of soldiers on
an errand where it is not safe to let
them read what Congressman and other
prominent persons say about the hell
ishness of war In general, and this
Philippine war in particular.
Or this pertinent utterance from the
Chattanooga Times:
Senator Edmunds says a citizen Of
New England has the same right to
advise soldier not to re-enlist when
he is in Manila that he would have to
give the soldier the same advice il he
were in Boston or Providence. That
is plain statement of sslf-evident
truth; and for a parcel of Jingo chat
terers to denounce such advice as an
overt act of treason is ignorance or
impudenc or something of both.
Or this shot direct from the Charles
ton, s. c., News and Courier:
Strictly speaking says tho New
York Tribune, there has been no war
in Luzon." We believe on reflection
that the Tribune is about right. 1t
has been more in the nature of raid
or, we might say, of a national lynch
ing bee--than of war.
But it is useless to multiply proofs.
The conviction is irresistible that
Atkinson is right and the administra-
tion wrong.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-05-11
VICTIM OF ROACH POISON.
Death Of Francis j. Gest After Drinking
Water From Can Be Han Picked Up.

Death OF Francis .. Gest After Drinking
Water From Can Be Had Picked Up.
The funeral of Francis J. Gest, aged
4 years, which took place yesterday
from the residence Of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Gest, No. Z Claymont
street, brought to light the fact that
the child was the victim of a most
peculiar poisoning case.
Monday week the little fellow, while
on vacant lot near his home picked
up a tin can, from which he took several
drinks of water. Subsequently he be-
came sick, but his parents did not
think the trouble was anything serious
and home remedies were applied. The
child became violently i'll, however, and
on Tuesday DIR. Elbert was summoned.
He diagnosed the case and found that
the patient had been poisoned. Drs.
Pyle and Stevens were called in con-
sultation by DIR. Elbert, but "a hours
having elapsed the poison had found
Its way through the lads system and
he was beyond medical MD and died on
Tuesday.
An investigation which was made
revealed the fact that the can from
which the little fellow had been drink
ing water contained roach poison and
1t had evidently been thrown there by
some person who had been using it.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-05-11
SARA TRAINoR SMITH DEAD.
We'll known In Literary Circles as a Write
nf RictInp

Miss Sara Trainor Smith of Sharon
Hill, Pa, who was well-known
writer of fiction, died last Thursday.
Although she had been ailing for sew
eral months, her death was rather sud-
den. The immediate cause was enlarge
mept OF the heart. Miss Smith was best
known as contributor to the Catholic
press Of the country. She was daugh-
ter of Capt. Frank and Mary G. Smith,
and was descendant of early Swedish
settlers on the Delaware. Capt. Smith
figured conspicuously in the Civil War
as commander of the u. S. s. Alabama,
and was an intimate friend Of Admiral
Dewey. Sara was born in Bohemia
Manor, Md. While still very young
she became a convert to the Catholic
faith, and has since been one of its
most devout members. She leaves one
unmarried sister.
At . very early age Miss Smith began
to figure prominently in the literary
world. Her first articles were accepted
by Harpers. Her style was simple, easy
and graceful, and her plots interesting
and well-defined. The fiuenoy with
which she wrote may be understood by
the fact that she wrote her stories on
the typewriter as she composed them,
and never made second copy. Miss
Smith wrote a number of poems, but
she was best known by her prose. As
writer of children's stories Miss
Smith gained much celebrity. Her
first long story appeared in Boys and
Girls Own, in the New Years
supplement of this year, and was on
titled "Fred's Little Daughter. " Tho
Rosary Magazine announced serial
from her pen to run for 10 numbers
and entitled SIN the Hill Country" T"
This charming work was not completed
whom its author died.
Miss Smith was a woman of genial
and courteous manner and Of sterling
character. As manager Of the Ameri-
can Catholic Historical Society she
has figured prominently for years. Her
funeral took place Monday morning at 9
O'Clock, from the Church of the Holy
Spirit, Sharon Hill. Interment was
made in Old Swedes cemetery. this
city.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-05-11
JURY or CONDEMNATION.
Applied For by the Pennsyivan,a Kaiire

Applied For by tho Pennsylvania Railroad
Co., Winch Is Trying Co Secure Land
Needed 10 straighten the Track Frnm the
ChrIstiana Bridge TO Earnhurst.
New Castle News.
On ,the failure Of the reaching an
agreement with the Trustees OF the
Commons as TO the purchase price of
two acres of land, the Pennsylvania
railroad has applied to the court for a
Jury Of condemnation in order to get
the land required to consummate the
arrangement for Strengthening the track
between the Christiana bridge and
Farnhurst.
Earnhurst station will be moved a
considerable distance further towards
Hare's Corner. The curve az it now
exists makes almost half circle and
trains are compelled TO considerably
lessen their speed for almost mile,
and the company intends to make a
straight piece Of track from the bridge
to New Castle. While the work is
under way, trains will run by way Of
the cutoff and Edge Moor.
The cutoff track is now being
streng gthened to permit this extra traffic.
A few years ago the railroad COM
pany purchased two acres of the COM
mons land for $500 per acre, but the
trustees were not willing to sell more
for less than 500 Fer acre, This
amount the company is averse to pay
ing, and hence the land will be ac-
quired by jury Of condemnation;
The railroad company has already
secured right of way through the
Jason Davis property, and purchased a
house ON the proposed cut, and about
three acres Of ground. II has also SO
cured an option on two and one-half
acres now in possession of the trustees
Of the poor. As soon as the settlement
is made with the Trustees of the Com
mons and the required land secured,
about 200 men will be placed at work
on the proposed alteration to the rail
road tracks.
1t is reported that tho railroad com
pany is negotiating for the rental of q
number of houses in Dobbinsville to
be occupied by thoir men while they
are at work at Farnhurst.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-05-11
KILLED BY A HEAVY BLOW
Sad Accident to Michael Mccall at the
Diamond State Iron Works.
STRUCK BY A CHAIN AND HOOK
His Head Crushed and Instant
Death Caused.
HAS TWO CHILDREN IN PHILADELPHIA

Michael Mccall, aged 3S years, an
employe Of the Diamond State Iron
Co.. was struck on the left temple by o
chain and hook and instantly killed,
Saturday morning,
Mccall has been employed as q
rougher in the bar mill for about two
years. He was q former resident OF
Philadelphia, where two children, aged
10 and IL years, survive him.
The accident happened shortly after
s O'Clock, when Mccall was at work
at what is termed the upper side of
the billet rolls. 1t is the first accident
of the kind known in the history Of the
works.
Mccall had taken billet from the
furnace to the rolls of what is termed
three high train. The pile of moltep
iron entered on the down side of thu
rolls and was taken to the upper side.
On this side Of the rolls hook is used
on the iron to feed the roller at this
place. The hook caught between the
pile and the roller and John Bradley,
the hooker-up, let go Of the hook when
it entered the rolls. The hook, weighted
with the iron chain to which il was
attached, few around and struck Nc
Call on the left side of his head over
the temple, crushing the bone and
causing instant death.
The deceased never knew what struck
him.
Bradley, the hooker -on, is about as
years old and has been in the employ Of
the local firm for number of years.
He was very competent man at his
business. His nerves are shattered
over the sad affair, and he was com
PEELED to quit work for the day. His
employers stated on Saturday that they
will give him other work to do, as he
asserts that he cannot perform the same
work again.
When the body Of Mccall was being
conveyed to the morgue in the Phoenix
ambulance, small boy carrying his
breakfast from the boardinghouse on
Apple street was standing at the gate
awaiting for Mccall to come out and
get the basket containing his meal.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-05-11
rsnnsylvan,s Railroaa's New Cars.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has
Just placed in service ON its principal
through trains between New York and
Washington and New York and Pitts
burg number Of new passenger
coaches and combined cars with the
latest pattern of wide platform and
vestibule. These vestibules, which
have been such a prominent feature of
the new Pennsylvania and Congress
sional Limiteds, are the ontire width
of the cars, and with their large plate
glass doors and windows form excellent
observation hooks, besides rendering
passage from Car to car easy and ahso-
lutely safe and comfortable. A train of
cars equipped with this improved de-
vice has the appearance, and all the
actual advantages, of one elongated
coach.
The passenger coaches of the Penn
sylvania railroad have long been noted
for their comfort and cheerfulness, and
the introduction of this new vestibule
adds one more appreciable improve
ment. 1t marks tho constant dis
position on the part of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Co. to provide for its
patrons all tho conyeniences which a
ripe experience can suggest.
Most of these new cars are also pro-
vided with lavatories, and equipped
with u very successful and satisfactory
patent window shade.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-05-11
GREAT sTORM Nv OKLAHOMA.
Four Counties Traversed on sunday by a
CyclOne.

Cyclone.
Guthrie, Okla i May S.--A cyclone,
which passed over Canadian county,
yesterday, destroyed at least 90 farm
houses. and caused great daamge to
growing crops.
AT Chickasaw, II buildings were
wrecked, and II persons injured. j.
II. Murray, railroad man, who was
caught under falling timbers, died of
his injuries.
A report says James Whitman and
his son George, farmers near okarche,
were killed in their field. At Okarche,
five houses were blown away, among
them the dwellings OF j. III. Swab and
John Teufel, both of whom were badly
hurt.
Rain fell in torrents. and many cul-
verts on the Rock Island railroad were
washed out.
William Walker. Indian agent at
Anadarke, who is in this city, has re-
ceived word that the cyclone IN the
vicinity of the agency destroyed crops,
cattle, fences and buildings. John
Head, ranchman, was killed.
Tho cyclone came from the south
west, and covered track one mile
wide, 1t traversed four counties, but
did its greatest damage in Canadian
county,
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-05-11
FIELD CAUB GOLF.
Tho Results of snturdsy's Play on tho Links
at Elsmere.

The golfers of the Delaware Field
Club on Saturday held the first of q
series Of handicaps which take place
on each Saturday Of this month for q
silver cup, given by H. B. Thompson.
Although the links wero in fast con-
dition the scores turned in were on the
thigh side.' G. M. Steward, with u
handicap of 30, won the first OF the
series.
On Memorial Day a team from the
Wayne Golf Club will play the home
team on the Elsmero links. The golf
committee has arranged team matches
with the Philadelphia Cricket Club,
Philadelphia Country Club and the
Merton Cricket Club, to take place
June Sd, 10th, 18th, respectively.
On Friday next, May 18th, o team
composed Of Mrs. W. g. Speakman,
Mrs P. I. Wright, Miss Adeline Jones,
Miss Elizabeth Candy. Miss Margaret
Shearman and Miss Emily McIlvaine,
vii! play team OF tho women's
organization of tho Philadelphia
Cricket Club on the Wissahickon links.
The following scores were turned in
on Saturday:
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-05-11
wnF THE MEAT WAS PA D.
Man Violated the Commands of the Bit
In Handling II.


"Meat-Why Skaters Army Suf-
fered in Cuba" was the subject OF the
evening sermon of the Rev. A. N.
Keigwin, d. D., in West Presbyterian
Church Sunday. He said that the
Bible teaches what should be eaten.
When in tho Garden of Eden. Adam
ate fruit; vegetables came into use for
food after tho fall, and flesh, after the
flood. DIR. Keigwin declared that man
would be "a fruit eater when he returns
to his pristine glory. Fruit is still
shown to be the best food. As to meat,
Gods command is that flesh should be
eaten on the first and second, and he
forbids it on the third day after it has
been killed. This Is direct revelation
of what We know as ptomaino poison
ing. 1t is the most deadly poison
known and develops and propogates on
the third day after meat is killed.
DR.. Keigwin said that whatever the
discussion may be OF the last court of
inquiry into the suffering of Skaters
army in Cuba, there was no question
regarding tho condition OF the canned
and refrigerated beef, that it was
due to the ignorance of man. There
was no carelessness, il was not Eagan's
fault, nor the fault of the packers.
A clause inserted in the contracts
said the meat was to be eaten in ~
hours after it was killed. This is
Just at the time the ptomaines develop.
Pamphlet No. 81 of the farmers Bull
letin, issued from the Agricultural De-
partment, which DR.. Keiewin scnt to
Gen. Miles, says that in boiling any
large pieces of meat, or boiling meat
in cans, the heat used is not sufficient
to destroy germs in the interior Of the
meat. The heat necessary to destroy
germs in meat is 250 degrees, and in
the boiling process about 100 degrees
are used. DIR. Keigwin said that man
disobeyed God by sending meat into
Cuba in improper condition for preser.
walton in the tropical heat, Man
should 60 to the Old Testament for
his diet as well as for food for his
soul.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-05-11
THE REAHLY MEETING,
To Open in Phhadclphia Next sundsy.

Opo" ." Fhhhuciphia Next Sunduy-
Programme OF the Exercises.
The programme for the Philadelphia
Yearly Meeting, which will begin next
SUNDAY at tho Meeting House, Fiji
teenth and Race streets, Philadelphia,
is as follows:
Sunday--l0 n. M, religious meetings
at Fifteenth and Race, Fourth and
Green, Ninth and Spruce streets,
Seventeenth street and Girard avonue,
Thirty-hfth street and Lancaster
avenue, and School strcot, German
town. . p. m., Annual iFirst.day
school Meeting, Fifteenth and Race
streets. $50 p. M, religious meeting,
Fairhill Meeting House, Tenth and
Cambria streets. 7.30 p. m., religious
meetings at Race street, Green street,
Girnrd avenue and West Philadelphia.
Monday--10 u. IN. and 3 p. M,
business sessions of the Yearly Meet
ing. lib p. M, annual meetings of
stockholders and election of directors
Of the Friends Book Association of
Philadelphia. p. M, general con-
florence of Young Friends Associations.
An address on 1.-THE Religious and
Public Life OF William PENN will be
delivered by Gilbert l.. Hall, of the
owarthmore Association, and will be
followed by discussion, opened by
Daniel Willis of the Trenton Asso-
citation. Upon tho conclusion of this
discussion Joseph S. Walton of the
Philadelphia Association, will speak
on William Penn and His Holy Ex-
pertinent. Tho discussion on this
address will be opened by the New
York-Brooklyn Association.
Tuesday-10 q, M. and 3 2. m, bust
ness sessions. 7.45 p. nj, meeting
under the auspices Of tho Yearly
Meetings. committee or Ihilanthropic
labor.
Wednesday a. III. and 3 p. m., ,
business sessions. Meeting of the
Philadelphia First-day School Asso-
citation, with special topics for con-
sideration.
Thursday 1880 D. M, religious
meetings ut Race street, Green street,
Girard avenue, and Spruce street. 3
p. M, business session. T.45 p. M,
meeting under the auspices Of tho
Yearly Meetings. committee on philan-
thropic labor.
Friday, 10 a. NJ. and p. M, bust
ness sessions of the Yearly Meeting.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-05-11

opinion Of the court, suitable ration
for troops when it can be issued to
them in good condition. "
The court also lends it's aid to the
meat packers involved in Miles charges
and in the volume OF testimony pro-
duced before the commission, and says
that the beef they furnished twas not
doctored or treated with any other
agency than cold air. Yet the testi-
mony to the effect that this beef was
chemically treated was overwhelming.
The tendency of the courts report Is
to scold General Miles, probably be-
cause the court found that it could not
disprove his charges. He is held to he
culpable because he did not open his
mouth sooner. How could he speak
until he knew the facts, and how could
he get at the facts with Alger turning
him down from the first, and keeping
him from position in which he could
have sooner made his horrible dis
coveries?
1t will also be noticed that Gen.
Eagan is made n scapegoat for the
courts condemnation. He can well
endure 1t, as the President kindly re-
lieyed him from the effect of his
previous court-martial, letting him off
on vacation Tor Elk years at full pay,
and he is now on q pleasure trip to
Honolulu, And yet even Eagan made
it clear that in awarding tho contracts
for the excessive quantities of unit
beef, he was controlled by Alger,
whose wish in the matter, he said, he
considered equivalent to an order. "
But docs the court condemn AlgerY
Oh, no. Does it condemn Mckinley,
who is sticking to Alger closer than u
brother? Oh, no.
The general public will accept the
report as an application of white wash
to a very black scandal upon the record
of the Mckinley administration. But
withal, despite the attempts to preju-
dice Miles and screen all the really
guilty parties, even this partisan report
admits that the canned beef furnished
for the sustenance of our soldiers was
unfit for human food.
And SO, after all, Gen. Miles is vim
dicated even by his enemies.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-05-11
a vast 1,auoa1lonal rn.,l,u,,on.

The study Of natural history is al
ways interesting, and an opportunity
to gain unlimited knowledge of tho
wonders of zoology will be presented
at Wilmington on Wednesday, May
18th, when the united attractions of
the famous Adam Forepaugh and Sells
Brothers immense menageries will be
seen. 1t has become quite common
for shows to claim big menageries.
and the display of wagons, made to
appear like animal cages on the streets
in parade is calculated to and often
does deceive the people, who are thus
led to believe they are to see credit
able collection of animals; but when
once inside the tents they learn that
the dummy cages contained properties
and baggage, and the few real animal
cages are filled with the most ordinary
specimens of NANCY lions and less ex-
pensive animal rubbish. They find
when too late that the menagerie"
was fake and the circus generally a
fraud and delusion. 1t is relief to
know that real menagerie will be
here, in fact, two of the biggest in the
world, exhibiting the only rhinoceros,
two Malay or saddle-baok tapirs, q
full-grown hippopotamus, a school of
seals and sea lions, double herd of
elephants, ostriches, cassowsry, and
emu, and enough rare, valuable and
interesting animals other shows can
rot afford to own, to stock score of
average shows. 1t was the pride
of Adam Forepaugh to own the
largest menagerie in America, and the
Sells Brothers. Show was close second
in this regard. Now, since both are
exhibited as one show, and both col
lections of wild beasts largely aug
mented this season, it don't require
great mind to comprehend the reason
why this show draws better class of
people and larger audiences than other
shows.