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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-10-09

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date proIuction
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02
GOLD HUNTERS
Captured and Tortured by Cannibals-
But One Escaped.

Vancouver (B. c. Cor. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat: Advices were re-
ceived by the steamer Aorangi today of
the capture and death Of some mem
bers of a gold-hunting party in New
Guinea, headed by two Germans named
Stoltz and Frost. They hired sever
kanakas, and, proceeding up the New
Guinea coast, entered the harbor dur
ing rough weather. They landed. and
the two Europeans were captured by
the natives, who are accredited wI,h
being %cannibals. The boat was seized
and burned and the Kanakas were
never heard of again. The two men
were terribly treated, and, becoming
sick, Frost shot himself through the
head TO end his sufferings. Shortly
after Frost's suicide Stoltz was tied to
a tree and hourly expected to be the
victim of the natives c%annibalistic
propensity. Instead of making a meal
of him. however, his captors decided to
treat him as a white slave, and took
all kinds of care to insure his captiv-
ity, when a vessel CHANGED that way.
His special vocation was to do the
carrying work for the tribe into whose
inhospitable hands he had fallen. but,
at the high festival, his chance came,
and while the tribesmen slept SOUND
ly he padded away in a canoe. He
had only a small amount of provisions,
and padded for ten days among small
islands along the coast before he found
a German settlement.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02
A BAT FLEW
Into the Room Where "A Professions
Was READING pOe's "RareuB

Into the Room Where "A Professional
Was Reading Poe's Raven"
"a weird sort of thing happened
down in Palm Beach about a monrn
ago" said a Washington man, recently
back from a trip along the South At
lantic coast. "A professional actor OF
some note was giving swell society
readings down there, and on this par-
tlcular night he vas rendering Poe's
Raven with accessories-that is, the
readings took place in the big drawing
room Of one of the large houses of
Palm Beach, and one end of it was
lifted up to represent the study of the
man who had the creepy experience
with the bird. There was the bust Of
Pallas above the chamber door, the
students lamp, the volume of long
forgotten lore which the actor pom
dered as he started the recitation. The
only accessory lacking was the bird
from nights Plutonian shore Per-
haps a hundred of the members of the
winter colony at Palm Reach were
seated in the drawing room listening to
the reading, when the queer thing hap
pened. The actor had arrived at the
knocking IN his chamber door, when
a huge bat flew in through one of the
open windows. The bat circled round
and round the room, humping against
the walls and ceiling, and finally went
smack against the plaster of paris bust
OF Pallas and toppled it over. There
was a whole lot of stampede in that
drawing room when the cry, "A bat!'
was sung out, and the women were in
a panic. The reader didn't seem to
ache to get on thick, talking terms
with the bird of evil omen either, and
he was on his feet and lodging as
quickly as any of his listeners. The bat
finally mace a swoop when the room
was almost emptied, and got it's
clutches in the hair of a young woman
who was just about to escape out of
the door, and she let out a series of
piercing screams and tainted. The bat
released its hold on her hair as she fell
to the floor, and suddenly sailed out
into the night through the window by
which it had entered. The reading was
not resumed, and the Palm Beach folks
were talking about the thing in whis-
pers for days afterward, and making
all sorts Of dire predictions as to the
probable fate awaiting the young wom-
an upon whose head the bat alighted."
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02

DICK RODNEY;
Or. The Adventures of
! An Eton Boy.
BY JAMES GRANT. ;

BY JAMES

against a stone and grunting hoarsely.
Excited and b%ewildered, as he came
on at a quick run, l charged my weap-
on full at him, and by the mercy OF
Providence, the point entered n of
his fierce, glittering eyes, which made
him rear up and recoil, while in his
rage and pain the bristles on his ridgy
back rose up like little blades Of steel.
Into his throat with your spear!"
cried Hislop; but l anticipated the sug-
gestion, for ere the words had left his
lips l had misunderstanding deep with
all the force that excitement and ter
ror gave me-the pointed teakwood
shaft down his red and gaping throat.
Choking in blood, in foam and fury,
the great boar writhed upon his back,
and in doing SO twitched from my
hands the weapon, which still remained
wedged in his throat and tongue, and
rendered him almost powerless. I
knew no what to do now. for If he
snapped it through, and thus released
himself, we, or at least I, would lie
lost.
But as he lay there on his back and
sides alternately, snorting, roaring and
covering the grass with bloody froth,
and tearing it by his bristles, Hislop
sprang forward and though weak with
many half-healed wounds, drove a
clasp-knife repeatedly into the throat
and stomach Of the monster, which
soon lay still enough.
When it was quite dead l drew out
my teakwood spear, and found the
point almost uninjured, for l had hard
ened it in fire.
We thrust two crooked branches
through the tendons Of the boar's hind
legs, and by these drew it to our hut,
which was about half a mile distant;
there u prize caused great congratu-
lation among our crew, and l obtained
no little praise for performing so hardy
o feat.
Our return diverted for a time some
excitement and surprise which had
been caused by the return of Tom
Lambourne, Probart and Carlton from
the mountain top, with tidings that
the studding sail boom had vanished,
and that not a trace Of it was to be
found anywhere!
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02
WHIP AGAINST SWORD.
How Il Plucky Woman Prevented Her
Husbands Assassination.

How Il Plucky Woman Prevented Her
Husbands Assassination.
The Civil and Military Gazette, pub
lished at Allahabad, contains an ex-
citing account of the manner in which
a plucky woman saved herself and her
husband against the attack of a Ghazi.
AS Capt. and Mrs. Spence were out
driving slowly they saw a Brahui
mounted on a Baluch racing mare COM
ing toward them at a walk. AS the
man approached he drew his sword
and made a vigorous cut at Capt.
Spence who, on seeing the naked
sword, instantly stood up and dashed at
the Ghazi with the driving whip, caus-
ing the mare to swerve and the sword
to pass harmlessly by, but uncomfort-
ably close to Capt. Spence's head. At
this instant Capt. Spence lost his bal
ance and fell under the wheels of the
trap, where he lay pinned down for
some time. Seeing her husband in
the act Of falling Mrs. Spence seized
the whip from his hand and jumped to
the ground. By this time the Ghazi
had wheeled on the road and was max
ing another rush. Mrs. Spence instant
ly stood between her husband and the
man, and there received the Ghazi's at
tack, whip in hand, cutting at him and
his mare and calling out for help. BY
making vigorous use of her whip she
keIt the Ghazi off and drove him away.
A second charge the Ghazi made was
similarly repulsed, except that on this
occasion the Ghazi's> cuts came more
perilously near, and Mrs. Spence was
knocked down. BY this time Capt.
Spence had e%Xtricated himself from
beneath the wheel of the trap, where
he sustained several bruises and a
cracked rib, and came to his wife's
help, and when the Ghazi made his
third rush he was driven off by Capt.
Spence, when he made off at a gallop,
but the pursuit was taken up and he
was ultimately run down and shot.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02
GOLD MINING
May Be Carried on Probably in tho
Philippines.

May Be Carried on Probably in tho
Philippines.
At this distance and with the slight
exploratory work which has been car
ried on in the Philippine Islands, says
the Engineering Magazine, the miner
ais that can be proftably exported are
hest known. Nj. George F. Becker in
his recent investigation has given a
very clear view of the present mineral
exploration in the Philippines, and has
shown that gold is found in a great
number of localities in the archipelago,
from Northern Luzon to Central Min
danao. In most cases the gold is de-
trial, and is found either in existing
water, courses or in deposits nov de-
serted by the current. 1t is said that
in Mindanao some of the gravels are
in an elevated position and adapted to
hydraulic mining. There are no data
at hand which indicate d~ecisively the
value of any of the placers, but the fact
that they are washed largely with CO.
coanut shells for pans by the natives Is
an indication of either rich deposits or
quite coars gold. In the province of
Abra, at the northern end of Luzon,
there are placers, and the river Abra
itself yields auriferous gravel. In lie
Planto there are gold quartz veins as
well as gravels, and here also is the
best developed deposit of copper ores,
although these are also reported from
a great number of localities on the
islands Of Luzon. Mindoro, Capu, Mas
bate, Panay and Mindanao. The last
island is practically unexplored and
full of possibilities.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02
THE RED L
"A Pretty Legend of the Flowers in the
Garden of Gethsemane.

"A Pretty Legend of the Flowers in the
Garden OF Gcthsemane.
The red lily of Palestine is in size
and shape much like our Easter lilies,
but they are yellow with purple
streaks upon the outside and a red
blush tint within. In the bottom of
each bell there are six drops of sweet
water-like tears. If you take these
away six more will at once take their
places. About this flower this pretty
story is told by the simple folk who
live near there: "Once the Garden
of Gethsemane was full of flowers of
all kinds, and among them none so
fair and queenly as the slender, stately
lily, with all her clustering bells proud
ly upright. 1t was eventime, and the
Lord came to walk awhile in His gar
den. AS He passed along, each gentle
Hover bowed before Him while He
breathed the refreshment of the quiet
hour upon them; but when He came to
the lily her naughty head remained
erect in the defiance of conscious
beauty. The Lord paused and locked
upon her. For a second she braved
that bright, mild eye of reproof, then
slowly bent her silvery bells, while
bushes swept in painful brilliancy
over them. Still the Lords gaze rested
on her; lower sank her head, deeper
burned her crimson; then tear after
tear welled up in the lily cups. At this
the Lord passed on. When morning
came all the flowers lifted theih heads
and smiled to see the light; all but the
lily, that once white queen among
them. Her head remained bowed in
shame, while to this day she bushes
oven her vanity, and the tears of re-
pentance still flow in the delicate cups
of the flower that refused to bend be-
fore the Lord as He walked in the
Garden of Gethsemane at the evening
hour"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02
PARA RUBBER FARMS.
TIE TRUST FIENDS BEATEN Ely
THE BRAZILIANS.
me Trade Is EnorInous-Tons Awaiting
shipment TO the Port OF New York.
An English Syndicate Makes IL Failure
la the Fields.

Syndicates don't have everything
heir W way down in Para, Brazil,
according to a report just received at
The state department from Consul K.
H.. Kennedy regarding trade there. He
says:
The profits O. the rubber trade have
attracted the attention of foreign CAPT
talists. The newspapers published a
lew lays ago a cable from London an
nouncing the formation of a syndicate,
with a capital of $4S, 665, 900, for the
expectation of the rubber business.
DlTlcultles will be encountered, how
ever, should the syndicate, instead of
making the purchase of the rubber it.
sell in Para, attempt to buy the rub
DER tarms. The estates are controlled
py the avaidores, who supply the rub
Der gatherers with food and clothing,
advancing money against the rubber
to be gathered. Unless an understand
ing IS had with the avaldores, the rub
Der gatherers will sell neither the
farms nor the rubber.
Another smaller syndicate, formed
IN england for the same purpose some
weeks ago, succeeded in buying a few
farms in the Marajo Island, near Para;
out the prices were excessively high
some say four times as much as any
one else would give, and more than
double the amount of their value. Sew
eral representatives of other syndicates
who have made accommodating trips to
the rubber regions of Para and ANA
Zonas, stated on their return that the
neld is enormous; that the further up
they go the more rubber they see, and
that rubber gatherers are only work
ing the smallest portion of the trees
in their estates,
The total quantity of rubber re-
ceived at this port during the month
or February already aggregates upward
or 1000 tons, and it now seems posi-
lively certain that before the end of
the month the figures will exceed 5000
tons, or nearly double the amount ever
before received at this port during
one month. This most extraordinary
movement has given room for the
widest speculation. Prices have gone
up and down. Every business house
Is heavily loaded with orders.
The Red Cross steamer Camatense,
which bears this report, is carrying a
record-breaking cargo of rubber. She
arrived here from Manaos with a tritle
over 400 tons on board, and she is to
take 800 and odd of the 1000 tons of
ruDbe now in Para waitinp for rom
IN the steamers bound for New York.
This total of over 1900 tons is nearly
double the mount usually shipped by
a single steamer. Fifteen additional
vessels have been added to the various
fleets plying between Para and outer
ports since the first of the year, the
majority Of which run up the Amazon,
passing through the newly explored
rubber states"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02
ARTISTS AND STATESMEN
They Are Having "a Pretty Row Over
Germany's Parlia ment Building.

Germany's Parliament Building.
A sharp conflict has broken out be-
tween the reichstag and the German
artists, says the London News. The
new parliament building is costing d
good deal for decoration. For the
ceiliag alone about 10000 pounds has
been voted, and half as much again has
been spent in all. The building COM
mlttee lately refused to accept a pic
ture ordered by Herr Paul Wallot, the
architect, from Herr Franz Stuck of
Munich, n of the leading modern
painters. The price was $500 pounds.
Two ballot urns made by another we'll
known artist, Herr Hildebrandt, were
also rejected. In the course of the de-
bate a vehement attack was made
upon the artists. DR.. Lieber, leader
OF the center party, for instance, called
Herr Sucks picture "a smudge,
which must disgust everybody who
saw it," Herr Wallot tried to con-
vince the members of the committee
that such paintings, meant to be looked
at from a long distance, could not be
90 " ~ q l4Sdl VIEW, puI AIAoiiJ
declared himself ready to ask Herr
Stuck to make some alterations. The
a1alr, however, has aroused the great
est indignation among the artists, and
this has now found expression in a
strohgly Worded open letter, signed by
all the leading painters, of Munich,
among them Herren Franz Lenbach,
EIlfZ k3ulh9ch ar1 Wow IIh5o T>hav
theoretically protest against he way
In which the most eminent artists
were spoken Of in the reichstag, and
express their deep regret that the
president did not interfere. They quote
the late Prince Bismarck, who, in
speaking OF the members of the par
lament, once said: There is not one
among us, who, from waging war to
catching a dogs fleas, does not under
stand everything better than all the
learned experts living" Finally, the
artists express the confident hope that
Herr Paul Wallot will not lose his po-
sltlon IN consequence of this occur
renee. This remark refers to the cir
cumstance that Herr Wallot, who still
receives a salary of 500 pounds a year
1or the superintendent of the decora-
tive work in the new building, is to
De given notice. Herr Wallot is a
man OF independent character, who
ooes not care much either for the SYM
pathles or the antipathies of influen-
tlal ~personages. Immediately after
me completion of the new parliament
Dulldlng he removed to Ores
den, from whence he comes now and
then to Berlin. He is highly respected
IN the artistic world, in spite of the
emperor's sharp criticism of the build
ing Which he is said to have called
when at Rome the acme of tasteless-
ness Herr Wallot has now resigned.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02
Brass Buttons for Money,

While the regiments from all over
the country were gathering at Chick
amauga the brass buttons of the SOL
diers' uniforms were in great demand.
Everyone was trying to buy them or
coax them from the soldiers, but it was
a little girl who struck upon a plan
of getting together a collection that
represented every regiment in camp.
She used to sell lemonade to the SOL
diers. and then when they offered to
pay her she would insist in a charming
way for buttons in place of n
She was a very pretty little girl, and
there were a great many soldiers who
had to pin their uniforms together on
account of this clever little lady.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02
BRAIN WEIGHED 81 OUNCES.
And There Was an Excess of White Over
Gray Natter.

Gray Matter.
DIR. O'Hanlon, coronet's physician,
recently performed an autopsy on the
body Of John Chester, IS years Of age,
807 Washington street, who was taken
to the Manhattan hospital with a
broken back, and who died the next
day, says the New York Commercial
Advertiser. Chester was found uncon-
scious leaning against a fence at One
Hundred and Third street and Amster-
dam avenue. A policeman learned that
Chester had passed the greater part
of Sunday night in a saloon discussing
mesmerism, and that he was expert
mented upon. He fell to the ioor Of
the saloon in the trance and was taken
fence where he was found, The autop-
sy revealed that the mans brain
weighed only thirty-seven ounces. The
average weight of the brain, DR.. Han
Ion said, in males, was forty-nine and
a half ounces, and in females forty
four ounces The maximum was sixty
five ounces and the minimum thirty
four ounces In addition to. the excess
lively light weight of the brain, there
was an excess Of white over gray mat
ter in it. This, DR.. O'Hanlon said, in
dictated a lack of intelligence and leth-
argic mentality. but also was indi-
cative Of strong physical Characters
tics. 1t was an indication OF the pre-
po%nderance of the animal qualities
over the mental. Such a man, Dr..
O'Hanlon said. could be mesmerized
easily. Chester's death, the doctor de-
clared, was due to a fracture of the
spine between the sixth and seventh
cervical vertebrae.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02
YANKEE ADVERTISING DODGE.
shrowd Hustler Makes a Good Cleanup
with Cheap Cigars.

From the Detroit Journal: An ex.
collector OF customs relates this as
among his experiences: Some years
ago and shortly prior to the holidays
a man came into the Office and said
that he wanted to talk with me per-
sonally. He looked like an unsophis-
ticated fellow who had come in from
the country to try his hand at business,
though he had sharp features and a
nasal twang.
Mister he began, when we were
alone, I'm in a kind of a snarl and
V come to you because / want to do
the square thing. l had a nice lot of
HaVaney cigars shipped to Windsor,
thlnkln could do a stroke sellin' 'em
here in Detroit. l had a man there to
take care of EN- till l came on, but
he. not knowing nothin' about the law
packs them cigars in a boat and brings
EN- over here without payin' no duty.
reckon it was smugglin', but he's
honest as the sun and l hurried right
here soon's l heerd of what he'd done.
o q Sample VI lueul CIGARS, as ne
held out a box, and l want to say right
here that l v had a more delicious
smoke. He took me to the little room
he had rented and showed me hundreds
of boxes on which he had paid the
duty. and l let the matter drop. It got
into the papers, ever to my verdict as
to the quality of the cigars,
Then my honest Yankee made a
special Christmas sale, patronized
chiefly by ladies who did not care SO
much about price as they did about the
credit Of having once selected good
goods. He was closed out in no time
and disappeared. There was a rank
odor in the local atmosphere that
Christmas. The cigars were cheap
Connecticut filters and cheaper Penn
sylvania wrappers. The cigars he ave
were q ringer Uncle Sam got
money that did not belong to him. but
1t was an advertising scheme out OF
which the Yankee made a fat thing"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02
THE TYPHOID FEVER OUTBREAK
\ Curious Fu,hllment Of "a Strange
Ancient Prediction.

NuraOuS rutnitmenc OF u Strange
Ancient Prediction.
In the Harleian library at Oxford is
! manuscript of probably the fifteenth
century, reprinted by the Camden So
ciety, and to be found in. the best
libraries in any large city. 1t thus
predicts what will happen when Christ
mas day falls on a Sunday, as it did
in the year 1898. The quaint spelling
is preserved, and is not the least in
teresting thing about this ancient doc
ument. Spectators in the grain mar
kets may find in it as good a "tip" as
the government reports of crop condi-
lions. Here follows the Jingle:
"Yf Christmas day On We Sonday be,
A trobolus wynter We shall see, :
Medlyd with waters stronge;
Were shall be goode without fabylle,
Ye somer, it shall be reasonable
And stormys oder whylys amonge.
Wynds tibet yeare shall be goode;
IYe harviste shall be wet with floodes;
Pestylens fulle in many a %countrie
And mony yonge pepylle dede shall be,
Or tibet seknes lynne,
And greet tempestes their-ynne.