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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-14
CASES AND DECISIONS.
Legal Notes Of Interest to
Laymen and
Lawyers.

A London magistrate has recently
had occasion to lay down the law re-
garding the right of woman to smoke
in a public place, in a proceeding de-
scribed by him as lone of those in
teresting cases in which all the par
ties are in the right" A well-dressed
young woman, a foreigner, after lunch
ing in a hotel. proceeded to smoke a
cigarette. The landlord told her she
must desist from such shocking con-
duet, but the lady stoutly maintained
that she had as much right to smoke
as any man that ever struck a match.
Thereupon he had her forcibly elected
and secured a summons to compel her
to answer charge OF disorderly con-
duct. The magistrate discharged the
accused, holding that no law prohibits
smoking on the part of the fair sex,
and that the lady was entitled to in
dulge in the fragrant weed to her
hearts content But on the other
hand he considered that. as smoking
by women was probably a tendency to
produce disorder, therefore the land
lord had a right to prohibit it and to
expel the woman, She, being a TO-
reigner and not familiar with the
beautiful mysteries Of the magistrate
made law, finds it difficult to under
stand how any one can have a right to
keep her from doing something that
she has right to do.
1.-THE man who attempts to alight
from a street car before 1t has stopped
does 80 at his own risk and the motor
man IN not responsible if he is injured.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-14

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that the
subscriber has been duly appointed ex-
late OF Southbridge, in the county OF
Worcester, deceased testate, and has
taken upon herself that trust by giving
having demands upon the estate of said
deceased are required to exhibit the same
and all persons indebted to said estate
are called upon to make payment 10
SUSAN H WEST, Exrx.
Southbridge July Is, 1899 Afi42i
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-14

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that the
ministrator of the estate OF MARY n
Wallace, late of Worcester In the eSintv
OF Worcester deceased, intestate, and has
taken upon, himself that trust by Swing
bond, as the law directs. All persons
having demands upon the estate Of said
deceased are required TO exhibit fhe
same; and al persons indebted 10 said,
estate are are, s called upon 70 make payment
Worcester, July 26 1899 aug1.7i4
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-14
INSURANCE.

Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.
0Iganized in 1896 AMI poDD p,asldo0,
Insurance in force January list. 1880
plus, IS, 394, 1879. n. SV-AO' our
- Dividends are paid each year to reduca
the cost or increase insurance. srbera ~
2 great difference in the management ~
insuring. Delore
MACGowAN g. McGowN. Manasors
Nos. II and 70 Day Building
Worcester, Mass
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-14
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Bears the 1Ih0 Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature e M4HAzzzM

Dyspepsia makes you nervous, and
nervousness makes you dyspeptic either
one renders you miserable. Carriers Little
Liver Pills cure both.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-14

A coroner's jury in New York re-
Gently brought in verdict that the
deceased came to his death "by falling
downstairs In manner unknown to
the jury" The jury failed to state with
what methods of falling downstairs
they were familiar.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-14

And whereas, upon said petition an or
der was adopted in the board of alder
men on July oath, 1893, and approved by
the mayor on July 9th, 1899 Of the tenor
following. that is TO say:
CITY OF WORCESTER--In Board of
Aldermen, July a, 1S99-Ordered: That
upon petition of Wilson Tyler and Others
praying for the widening of Pleasant
square, and the taking therefor of a
small portion of Elm Park, notice be
given In accordance with the provisions of
law and setting forth particularly the ex-
tent and limits of the portion of said Elm
Park proposed to be taken, and that such
notice be published in the following news
papers printed In the city OF Worcester. Ia
wit: The Worcester Telegram and The
Worcester Spy, Worcester Post and the
Worcester Gazette and that hearing there
on be given at s o'clock on MONDAY
EVENING, the EIGHTEENTH day of
SEPTEMBER, 1899.
Notice is hereby given that hearing
will be given to all persons interested
therein at the chamber of the board of
aldermen, in the city hall, at S clock on
MONDAY EVENING the EIGHTEENTH
day of SEPTEMBER. 1899
Aug. AHA
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-14

On June % the monograph made its
debut as a legal witness in San Fran
cisco police court. 1t had been used by
the police to record the statements Of
three men arrested on a charge of
murder, and was admitted in evidence
owe. the objection of counsel for the
defense. The next thing in order is a
kaleidoscope picture Of the crime to the
accompaniment of 'shivery' music by
concealed orchestra.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-14

the defendants counsel to plead "ben-
eft of clergy" They did so, and, upon
being rendered the constitution of the
United States, the negro read 1t, and,
after being burned in the hand, was
liberated. The plea was abolished by
the Kentucky legislature in 1S47.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-14

Telephone-Ofice, zlS-3; residence, 2s2.
Perfect protection. Rates reasonable.
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The statement is not infreauentlv
MADE that American decisions and
American text books are very seldom
cited by the English courts In a natri-
monial action recently tried in the mo-
bate, divorce and admiralty division of
the high court of Justice, before Mr..
Justice Gorell Barnes that distinguish
ed judge quotes the following passage
from the writings of the American
author Bishop, in that part of his work
on the law of marriage and divorce
which treats of the subject Of deser-
ton; 1T is immaterial which of the
married parties leaves the matrimon-
ial home, the one who intends bringing
the cohabitation to an end commits the
desertion," Desertion is therefore not
to be tested by merely ascertaining
which party left the matrimonial home
first. A husband whose continued mis-
conduct Is such as to justify his wife in
leaving their abode must be deemed to
have deserted her, II he persists in his
wrong-doing, according to the view of
the law adopted by Mr.. Justice Barnes
in the case to which we refer
The last time the plea of benefit Of
clergy was allowed in, Kentucky was
In the Barren circuit court some time
In the early forties A negro was on
trial Cor the rare Of a white woman,
and, owing to the bitter prejudice Of
the jury. was sentenced TO death, al
though the evidence was clearly insult
ficient Judge Buckner recognizing
the injustice Of the verdict, instructed
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-12
A REAL LIFE SPOOPENDYKE.
How Stanley Huntley Unwittingly
Ridiculed Horace Greeley.

Fourteen years after his death the
writings of the late Stanley Huntley
have been resurrected from their news
paper tomb and presented anew to the
world between book covers. Stanley
Huntley was as original character as
his Spcopendyke. He was a lawyer in
New York in the sixties, a reporter,
newspaper correspondent and editor in
Chicago and Dakota in the seventies,
and a humoYist en- the leading paper
in his native city in the eighties. He
gave to Bismarck, Dakota, its only
fame by editing the Tribune Of that
place, and he found and interviewed
Sitting Bull for the Chicago Tribune
in his hiding place in British America
after the Custer massacre His en-
trance to journalism is worthy CT rec
ord:
Huntley had tired of law. and sought
employment upon the New York Trib-
une early in 1870. His first assign
ment was to report a meeting to dis
cuss a proposed insurance law. AS
Huntley was an authority on insurance
| law, he made a good story cut of it,
and the next day he saw it on the first
page of the paper. His second assign
ment was to cover a meeting of the
| Farmers club, which, then as now,
met in Cooper Union. AS rule, the
club, which comprised several profess
sional gentlemen who knew even less
OF agriculture than they did Of other
things, discussed optical Affections IN
early potatoes and aural Affections in
late corn and such peaceful topics, but
On this occasion temper was aroused
and the meeting ended in a free fight.
Huntley wrote a vivid and eloquent
account of the affair, sparing no one.
When he finished writing, the city edl-
tor being absent he thrust the copy
into a chute and sent it whirring 20
the printers Then he went home.
Early the next morning he found the
story on the first page without the al
iteration OF a letter. To- say that ne
was proud feebly expresses his conceit.
He even showed it when he went down
to the office ait noon. Before he had
been there long the city editor called
to him:
Mr.. .Huntley, Mr.. Greeley wants to
see you
Thereupon Huntley walked out of
the room with a conscious strut, while
the other and wiser reporters smiled
Mr.. Greeley was in his paper-littered
den on the floor below and the door
was ajar. Within sat the old man, in
his shirt sleeves, deep in an editorial.
Huntley knocked.
Come in" called out Mr.. Greeley, in
his high, squeaky voice. Huntley went
in.
We'll, siri Well. sir! Who the devil
are ycu?'' asked the chief impatiently.
I'm Huntley, sir" said the reporter,
Strengthening up.
Oh answered the old editor, nod
ding his head. so you're the Internal
idiot that wrote that Farmers club
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-12
BRIDES BUY WEDDING RINGS.
\ Practice Which Oae Jeweltr TllinkS
Has it's Advantages.

Isn't that a new ;wriIiAIe?'' asked
the chance observer.
WHAT" said the clerk
For the bride to buy the wedding
ring" replied thsi observer. turning to
look at the young woman who had just
gone Out with her purchase of u IA
karat gold filled ring.
The clerk. who turned out to be the
proprietor also, laughed. Not at all
in this part of .towr-j,'' he said 1.-The
practice has been in vogue here for
several years and has continued 70
grow in popularity until it has become
quite the proper caper. Indeed. when
a man comes i'm here NOW ami asks 10
look at plain gold rings, we consider
him n little off color and feel rather
mean toward him as though he were
usu1ping a feminine prerogative. Any
way, why shouldn't the woman buy
the ring. lCJking at the matter from a
coinMmoqtSense standpoint: 1t saves no
end of trouble. A ring from Il wo-
mans Point of view is 4: matter not
only of sentiment. but also of adorn-
ment. She wants her jewelry how
ever cheap 1T may be, to be of the pro-
per cut and the proper size Nov
what man. I'd like to krow can 20 in
'fulu SeIeOC Iue TlSQC k1nu OF rlllg even
if he has got the measure? Not one
out of twenty. i is a lot more salts
factory for all concerned for the bride
to come in and pick OjIt what she
wants without troubling the bride
groom, except. OF course. for the
money. He always settles the bill:
at least l suppose he does.
You see, this is a neighbOrhood
where the people don't stacd much on
the fine points of etiquette They i'll
sist upon ths ring to tie up the con
tract with, but twolthirds of these
rings are unengravetf and sell for from
81 to 81. Its fun to see some of the
women when they first state their CT
raT1 They beat around the bush AID
make their wants known in such a
coquetltish way that 1 don't wonder,
sometimes, that the young man, who
ever he may be, has lost his head.
Maidenly m0desty, L suppose. makes
them Shy, and they begin by saying
they are looking for a plain gold rirc
for a friend with a finger about the
size of mime When they say that. L
always smile 1 know what it sneans. "
New York Sun.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-12
N. w. C. T. U. CALL
For Convention to Be Held II
Chicago.

Chicago, ILL.,, Sept. 1.-THE follow
ing call for the annual convention of
the National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union has just been issued
from the national headquarters in this
city:
'HThe twenty-sixth annual conven-
ton of the National Womans Chris
tian Temperance Union will meet in
the First Presbyterian church, in Seat
tie, Wash, Oct. 2O-25, 1899 Last year
at st. Paul, Mimi, we celebrated the
twenty-f1fth anniversary of that great
awakening of women to their relation
to the liquor traffic, which has been
fttingly styled the crusade. This year
we are to celebrate the silver annivar-
sary of the more permanent form into
which the crusade crystallized.
August 10, 1874, there went out a
call from the Chautauqua Sunday gen.
eral assembly, New York, signed by a
few devoted women, which resulted in
a mass convention in Cleveland, o.,
November IS, 19 and 20 of the same
year, where the national W. C. T. U.
was organized. 1t is fitting, therefore,
that white Tibboners everywhere
should contemplate with Thanksgiving
the wonderful evolution in twenty-five
years of the devoted though desultory
efforts of 1873 into a strong society
which includes every state and terri
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-12
UNNECESSARY CITY NOISES.
Affections of City Life tllat Ought to
he Abated.

There is no nuisance of the city Is
outrageous as the unnecessary noises
In the daytime they are bad enough
AT night they are almost uncomfortable
10 the sick the terrible disturbances
created for no reasonable object and in
mere watonners render every hour 4
period of torture; recovery is delayed,
OTTER 1T isNnot impossible that at the
crisis of disease. the racket in the
streets causes an unfavorabIe or fatal
change. To tired muscles and brains
seeking needed rest. the roar. shouts
IA tile. banging and changing bring sur
cease of sleep or cause it to be revel
in pandemonium- picnic of night
m,lreB.
One of the greatest noise nuisances
is the early Sunday morning cry of the
newsbOys, beginning at, daylight, an
hour before anybody who would buy Il
newspaper is awake and continuing
throughout the time when the morn
ing maps and d0Zes otherwise would be
so pleasant and healthful. The early
milk wagon. with every joint in the
structure rattlirg d devils tattoo that
can be heard blocks away-driven at
the full speed of Il foundered horse
Gathering along the hard pavement
and churning the milk into premature
butter-is another outrageous nuisance
too eXaSpeTating for description. But
space is lacking to name even a part
of the dissonant noises entirely un-
necessary. which produce discomfort
during the day and make the night
horrid for all bet those of castiron
nerves or The deaf.
4 fnU- Ha1-S n 1x-oIl Nh
Stefan visited the high authorities of
two railroad companies whose trains
are siwithced near a ohoice residence
portion of the city. The night noises
Of the trains. with the hulIa,baloo of
the trainmen while ait their work, woke
all the echoes of earth and sky,
making the neighborhood almost I'M
tribal itable. BY argument. Illustration
and persuasion he convinced the rail
road officials that the work on their
tracks could be conducted with COM
paratively little noise and orders were
given to that effect. The orders were
CbeYeG better than similar police or
dCrs and the residents of the meighbor-
hood in question: now know of sound
sleep. TO which they had been s;trang-
erS for years. This case lis cited TO
show with how little effort rightly d.
rected a seasonable reform may be eff
fected.
A New York inventor has devised
plan to muftie the mighty rattle and
roar of the elevated railroad trains.
He has taken out patent on the de-
vice. He only a9skes ,;hat a small sec
ton Of the elevated track be placed
under his control so as to use his APP
pfiaGces and make a test of their eff
cacy. 1t is Il ripe tins for all demon
STATIONS against the unnecessary noise
nuisance and outrage Every man and
should be considered a crusader
in the cause of this reform, Chicago
Chronicle.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-12
FOUR SHOT AT A CAKE WALK.
Negroes Made Things Very Warm al
Cedar Hill Park.

Culpeper, Va, Sept. 11.-Saturday
night Antony Guy, who lives about
two miles in the country, gave a festi-
val and cake walk, which brought out
the usual crowd. During the night
Bob Clark and Ed Atwell, OF Culpeper,
had difficulty with the Harsbrough
brothers, from Brandy station. but
without serious results. Last night a
cake walk and festival was held at
Cedar Hill park, a hitherto very or
derby resort for colored people, stu
ated just outside the cooperative
limits. The park affords a hall.
swings and other accommodations and
is a very popular rendezvous for the
negroes.
The crowd was large and the same
parties to the Saturday night broil
were there and appeared to have come
REINFORCED with their friends and bent
on trouble. Neither side had been on
the grounds very long before Walton
Hill, of Culpeper, became involved in d
dispute with one Of the Hansbroughs.
Temple Bland, a friend of Hill, took
up the difficulty. This precipitated a
fight and instantly pistols were drawn
and firing commenced. About fifty
shots were fired. The crowd fed in
great disorder The shooting resulted
in the serious wounding of four ne
groes. Walton Hill was shot in the
abdomen. John HansbIough in the
leg, Mathew Brown, Jr-, in the left
arm, and Temple Bland was slightly
wounded.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(From the Chicago News.)

(F'rom the Chicago News.)
Success is apt to destroy a man S
belief in luck
Live may be blind. but self-love is
nearly all Is.
The closer you get to a great man
the smaller he appears.
Every man thinks he cuts a lot of ice
when he gets a skate" on.
All is fair in love and war-that is
to say, before and after marriage.
A word to the wise may be sufficient,
but it depends upon who speaks the
word.
When you hear man say business
is business" he has just cheated some
body.
If you value mans friendship
never agree with him when he calls
himself a fc5l.
1t is easier to hurry a small boy off
on an errand than it is to make him
hasten back.
The man who shakes your hand the
hardest may be trying to get his other
one into your pocket.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-12
RAILROAD WAR RUMoR DENIED
Chicago & st. Louis Not Hostile to
''Nickle Plate" Management

New York, Sept. IA story that
minority stockholders CT the New
York, Chicago & st. Louis Railroad
company are preparing to wage war
on the poicy of the Nickle Plates man
agement, because money that should
form a surplus for dividends is spent
for physical improvements and
charged to operating expenses, found
neither corrobOIation nor belief in
Wall street today. The story made
John S. Kennedy, a director of the
road, maIcontent and one CT the
leaders of the minority.
There's not a word of truth in it,
said Stephen Baker, president of the
bank of the Manhattan company, when
he read the publication. Il have charge
of Mr.. Kennedy's affairs, and can
speak for him SO far from his be-
ing the largest stockholder CT the
New York, Chicago & St. Louis rail-
road his investments in it's shares are
not great, and besides his relations
with the Vanderbilts and others in
the management of the road would
make such hostile action on his part
impossible 1 cannot understand how
such stories originate
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-12

tory, the district of Columbia and
Hawaii, representing in all about TO-
900 local unions in our own country,
while similar organizations in forty
other civilized nations are the direct
results of the efforts of this, the
mother organization of the w. C. T. U.
cat our homes, in our churches, in
our unions, everywhere, this history
should be a theme till our families and
the public come to know definitely
something of the consecrated heroism
which carried the ,white-ribbon princi-
pies to England, as well as to many
countries in Europe, to Egypt and
South Africa; to Australia, Ceylon and
Madagascar: to Jerusalem and Syria;
to India, China, Japan, Iceland, Burma
and the isles of the sea.
Almost two years have now elapsed
since the departure of our beloved
leader, and the Christian character,
the self-control, the endurance and the
devotion of the white-ribbon army has
been magnificently demonstrated. The
training of twenty-five years has not
been in vain No matter how resource
full, how intellectual, how magnetic
individual workers may be, results
prove that the mantle of our great
leader has fallen not upon one, but up
on the many who renewed their vows
Of conservation and of self-secrifice to
the good of humanity when she was
taken from our midst. Love and 10y
atty have characterized the year, to a
marked egree, even under unusual and
trying circumstances. AS a result we
believe that the returns will show
great progress along all lines. Let us
come up to Seattle with a renewed de-
to measure up to our pos
seeking as never before the
power of the grace of
God
Signed on behalf of the National
W. C. T. U.
LILLIAN M. N. STEVENS,
President.
SUSANNA NJ. D, FRY,
Corresponding Secretary.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-12
MURDERED IN MUNICE, IND.
Young Business Man of the Place
Killed On His Way Home.

indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 11.-Elmer
Hamilton, a prosperous young business
man of Muncie, Ind, was murdered
last night in that town and his body
thrown into a vacant lot. When tne
body was discovered early this morn
ing, it was seen that the head and
face had been pounded into an unrec-
ognizable mass Some ten feet away
was a heavy club, broken in the mid
die, with which the deed had evidently
been done. 1t is not believed that the
crime was committed at the place
where the body was found. or there
was no evidence of a struggle, ard it is
thought that young Hamilton was
murdered elsewhere and the body
placed in the lot.
Several houses are near the vacant
lot where the body was found, but
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-12
LOST CAUSE" MONEY IN VERSE

lat Larned, Kan, an old confederate
$500 bill has turned up with piece Of
poetry on its back, written by a con-
federate. One stanza IS as follows:
Representing nothing en- Gods earth
now,
And naught in the waters below it,
AS a pledge of a nation that passed
away
Keep it, dear friend, and show it;
Show it to those who will lend an ear
To tale this trif1e will tell.
Of liberty born, of a patriots dream,
OF storm-cradled nation that fell.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-12
EXPRESS ROBBERIES.
Some of the Stolen Goods Recovered
and Night Clerk Arrested.

New York, Sept. 11.-By a mere ac-
cident the police learned yesterday Of
series of robberies in the office of
the Adams Express company, and
besides discovering some of the goods,
arrested a man from whom they hope
apprehension of an organized gang
of thieves which has been plundering
the company. In a bundle carried by
the man arrested was a quantity of
the finest gold and silver tableware
The police estimated the value of the
lot at $4,000. E. ]. Fogel of the Adams
Express company recognized the roll
of silverware as enc that had been
sent to this city through the express
company and had been stolen from the
Office.
Mr.. Vogel said that a number of
packages had lately been stolen from
the offices, and that the company had
tried unsuccessfully to find the Leak
in the office. He was confident, he
said, that there must be regularly or
ganized gang of thieves at work.
The man under arrest described him
self as George A. Downs, night clerk
for the Adams Express company at
the company's office at Park avenue
and Forty-eighth street.