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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-09
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Francisco. It is needless to say that
Bryan was not there to greet them.
Bryan lost interest In the war and mill
tary affairs when no more opportunities
were offered him to make political capt.
tai for himself out of the war business
The Waterloo Courier observes that
the heated term seems to make no diff
ference to the Des Moines Register and
Burlington Hawkeye. Some imagined
that. during the dogdays at least, they
would take rest from their work of
those who cherished this fond illusion
are doomed to disappointment. The
fight goes merrily on regardless OF the
seething mercury and the fact that no
one In the state is now interested
enough in the contest to consider Sc
riously what either paper says
The Iowa City Republican believes
that when hundreds of miners with
Winchester rifles march through the
streets to protect themselves from
strikers who refuse to work, there is no
particular cause for Boosting about
things"
The Clinton Herald thinks that .if
the people of Powesheik county are
made from the ordinary mould, there
will be no republican representative
elected from that county to vote for
any republican for senator, If the Bur
lington Hewkeye and Des Moines Capt.
tai keep up their contention. Powesheik
county Is about half way between Des
Moines and Burlington and it might be
called the Cherokee Strip, sort OF
reservation for white people, and the
Indians kept off. at least till after cleo
ton"
The Davenport Democrat remarks that
the members of the state board of con-
troll advance the idea of letting convict
labor to contractors. The people OF
Iowa are not going to look with favor
on this means of getting money, not I'M
til they have studied it very carefully
| from all points of view. The convict
labor question, however, is a serious
one. 1t will never be solved to the salts
| faction of everybody
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-09
DON'T LEAVE THE CITY.
Plenty OF Proof Right Here at Hon
IN Aarshalltown.

Plenty OF Proof Right Here at Home
In Marshalltown.
Claim is one thing. proof another.
Columbus claimed the world was
round
Did people believe 1t! Not until he
proved IT,
Unproven claims have made the peo-
pie skeptics.
Every claim made for the Little
Condueror" IS proven.
Proven in Marshalltown by local ex-
perience.
It's not what we say, but what your
heighbors say.
Doan's Kidney Pills are endorsed by
citizens.
Here is one case from the many on
hand
Mrs. &C. o. Fraser. OF Cos North Cen
ter street, says: Mr.. Fraser vas
greatly benefited by the use of Doan's
Kidney Pills. He suffered considerably
from pains in his back, the kidney Sc
cretions were excessive and contained
a sediment like brick dust. This spring
ds96) he learned about 4Doan's Kidney
Pills. Getting box at the Mcbride &
Will Drug Company's he used 1t as the
circular directed. He was much pleased
with the result. The pains were soon
relieved. the secretions were corrected
and the brick dust sediment disap-
peared from them. You are at liberty
to add his name to the many endorsert
Of Doan's Kidney Pills In Marshall.
town"
Doan's kidney Pills are sold by all
dealers. price 80 centA per box. Mailed
by the Foster Milburn Company. But
Halo. N. r.. sole agents for the United
States. Remember the name Doan'l
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-09

hated merit system of employment In
the public service. President McKin-
ley can be depended upon to protect
the public from the greed of the spoils-
men. but it is to be hoped that the re-
publican voters will become sufficient
ly aroused in the next convention to
compel an expression of their views on
this momentous subject.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-09
IOWA CROPS AND HARVEST.

iyN<A -NsflOfS>s AMI fffAflN ESI.
Mason City Times-Herald: Thresh-
inb has begun with the farmers, and
oats are turning out extremely well,
perhaps better than for number of
years back. Those that have been
threshed averaged from forty to sixty
bushels TO the acre. One load was mar
keted today. being hauled in 40-inch
box. 1t measured out from over the
machine so bushels, and weighed out at
the elevator 1912 bushels. This shows
the quality is as good as the quantity.
Pochahontas Record: about ninety
nine per cent of the small grain has
been cut in this county and some of the
farmers have begun threshing
Creston Advertisers: This is not good
hay weather and the farmers are be-
looming discouraged because OF 50 much
rain.
Winterset Madisonian: "A ride In the
country gave us a surprise as to the app
pearance of the corn crop. We hardly
think that there has been so heavy a
igrowth of stalks for several years. The
lseasonabe showers Will make 1t fill all
right.
Davenport Democrat: IF Saturdays
rain had been charged to the county,
we'd be in debt a long number of
years, said farmer this morning. The
hay Is under cover and the small grain
stacked or shocked and in fairly wealth
or proof condition. The corn is ear
ing OUT and, of all time of the year,
needed rain TO develop 1t just now
Many people. doubtless. have noticed
a new crop in the country. While
not new by any means-the unusual
quantity of nillet growing in the coun-
TRY this summer IS new. The meadows
were largely winter killed and SO, for
winter feed, the farmers have planted
lmillet. Millet grows here with an ds-
falfa abundance and makes an excel
lent rich feed for cattle. But owing
TO its being so very hard on the
ground very little of IT is raised ex
lcept when the hay falls short. Often. al
Icutting, its large heavy heads vii
stand as high as the horses. Three ton.
per acre is an average yield.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11
CABLE FLASHES

Russia denies that she ever sent to a
United States syndicate to negotiate
for large loan.
A crisis Is at hand in Bolivia, Presi-
dent Alonso's forces being near La
Paz, the capital, where the revolu-
tionists are.
with the portrait of lady at his
side Count Franz Karolyi OF Austria
was found dead in London a few days
ago. He had committed suicide.
The presents of money and valuables
sent to the pope during 1898 amounted
to more than s2,000.000 in value, in
Guiding $SO0,0o0 in Peters pence.
Thirty fresh expulsions of Danes
from North Schleswig have been or
deped. 1t Is said, in consequence of
the attendance of their employers at n
meeting addressed by Herr Hansen,
Danish deputy.
The imperial insurance department
of Berlin reports that 10000, 900 marks
have been paid to aged persons and
inyalids as pensions in the past year.
Dreyfus has not yet been brought to
Paris. The authorities fear a disturb
ance, His testimony may be taken by
telegraph and the expense will prove
enormous.
The London News says the anarchist
movement in France has received an
enormous impetus through the grow
ing fear of a military despotism. The
sum of 10000 francs has been placed at
the disposal of M. Sebastien Faure for
the purpose of establishing An anarch-
list daily newspaper.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11
REFRIGERATED BEEF COMMENDED.
HAD A GREENISH GROWTH.
Major Harrison Gives Testimony Before the
War Investigating Committee
Cattle Inferior.

Before the war department investi-
eating commission n few days ago
Maj. Harrison, Ninth volunteer infan-
try. whose regiment was raised near
New Orleans and Is now In service at
Santiago, said concerning commissary
stores, those i'm the United states were
the best that could be bought in the
open market. The refrigerated beef
sent from this country, he said, was
excellent
He had had much experience with
refrigerated meat, and he said that
while there was some disposition on
the part of the regmental cooks to
cavil at the appearance of the meat
IL was in reality quite good
He explained that the sudden change
of temperature on removing the meat
from the refrigerator ships produced
what is known as beard" a green
ish growth that had to be scraped off.
When this was done the meat beneath
was perfectly good. IL was served to
the men with excellent results, and
benefited the sick materially.
The chief trouble came when the
change was made to hoof cattle sent
from Porto Rico. This beef, Maj. Har-
rison killed himself. and personally
superintended its dressing and cool
ing.
But II would not cool in that elm
3
meat never lost its animal heat and
with its use our sickness increased 10
per cent In a country where our dead
putreiied In six hours you will easily
understand that meat killed and ex-
posed to the atmospheric changes with
coagulated blood and the attacks of
flies will spoil much sooner. our
board of survey had no work to do
except condemning and burying this
local killed beef"
OF the canned meat Maj Harrison
spoke with equal emphasis saying
that 1t was fully as good as the re-
frigerator beef, was well received by
the men and none of 1t had to be con-
demned
plant was established there whether
Cuban beef could be killed on the
ground and rendered fit for use by
the men. Witness said he thought
this would not be desirable, as the
Cuban cattle. while fine looking fur
nished the coarsest and most stringy
beef he had ever seen.
witness said he was thoroughly ia
miliar with the processes of refrig-
GRAFTON, and affirmed that he was
willing to state positively that there
were no chemicals used In any of the
American beef that passed under his
observation. on the contrary, he said
that there were no chemical prepara-
llon tHdt coulu ne uSeu on lne meat
with advantage to the packers with
out running their product before they
could get II to the army. He regarded
1t as highly improbable that anything
of the sort had been attempted.
Recurring to the hoof-killed beef at
Santiago, witness said the surgeons i'm
charge attributed the 10 per cent. in
crease in intestinal sickness to the use
of the fresh killed beef. There was a
proportionate decrease i'm sickness
when the regiment returned to the re-
frigerated beef
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11
OUR NEW POSSESSIONS.

All Spanish soldiers have now left
Havana.
The gunboats Princeton and York
town We're ordered to join Dewey's
fleet at Manila.
Gen. Rios, the Spanish commander
of llolio cables to Madrid that he blew
up IA forts and fleet of gunboats be-
fore he left the islands.
General Ludlow has caused several
private houses in Havana to be
searched for arms. Eighteen rifles
were seized at No. 40 Compostele
street. and eight in a house on Tenien-
ferey street.
Two hundred Spanish officers and
soldiers and 500 other convicts found
in Havana prisons will be released by
Major General Brooke. The chiefs of
the Cuban army held n meeting and
decided TO disband the army.
Gen. Ludlow, of Havana, is deter
mined to form a rural mounted police
of 300 men and to patrol the suburbs
with Cuban soldiers. They will be
chosen from Gen. Mario Menocal's s
forces. Each will be furnished with a
horse. revolver rifle. machete and
working suit. A squad win consist of
% men and four squads will constitute
q company. The companies will be Of
ficered, though the selections for these
posts have not been made.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11
MAINE PLOT RECALLED.
Cuban Newspaper Charges a Fugitive Havana
Judge with Destroying the Ship.


A dispatch from Havana says: Il
looks as If the question who blew up
the Maine?' is about to be answered.
Iacarias Bresmes, a Spanish Judge,
now fugitive from Havana, is accus-
ed by Cuban newspaper of being ac-
tive In plot for the destruction OF the
battleship.
good deal of excitement has been
caused by the charge, which is made
I'm El Reconcentrado, the organ of
cuba libre. The paper says that
when the Maine came into Havana
harbor Bresmes openly declared that
such an act of audacity could not pass
without stringent punishment. His
threats where direct" the paper con-
tinues, "and boded destruction to the
American ship. His associates were
Felipe Gonzalez, Dion Sio Vega and
Eusello Aszcue, violent Spaniards
Others with him were officers of the
volunteers.
These men boasted that the Yam
kees were about to get their due,
though no charge can be directed
against any save Bresmes. He and
the hot-headed Spaniards met nightly
at house near the corner of Murallo
and Habana streets, where the public
know the plot against the Maine was
concocted and all arrangements com
pleted. When the explosion took
place Bresmes was i'm the Tacon
theater with friends. At the sound OF
the explosion he cried: There goes
the Malnen Champagne was drunk In
honor of the terrible event at the mo-
ment when others We're vaguely in
quiring of one another what had hap
pened."
Bresmes' name was mentioned be-
fore the American court of inquiry,
but not sufficient evidence was then
forthcoming, and all reference to him
was suppressed in the report.
Capt Sigsbee, who Is here with the
Texas, said, when told of the charges:
II hope to see those punished who
sent my good ship and beloved men to
the bottom of Havana harbor."
Bresmes is said to be in hiding in
Spain
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11
CUBA NOT YET FREE.
So Says Gen. Conner in a Letter to His
Men.

30 onyS bcns Nofnck III Letter 10 his
Men.
Gen. Maxine Gomez, from his camp
200 miles westward from Havana near
Narciso. has addressed proclamation
to the Cuban army advising against
disbandment until the proceedings at
Washington regarding the pay of the
insurgent troops have been completed.
1t is dated December 20, and is in part
as follows:
THE moment has arrived to give n
public explanation of my conduct and
my purposes, which are always in ac-
cord with my sense of duty to the
country I serve. / believed IL was my
duty not to move, for any political or
other object. from the spot where l
had drawn my sword so long as the
enemies of the army had not complete
ly evacuated the island.
CUBA Is not yet free or independ-
ent. For that reason we must dedi-
cate ourselves to bringing about the
disappearance of the cause for Amer
lean Intervention. 1t Is necessary that
before the liberators of the people can
dissolve, as n guarantee of order, that
the debt which the country owes to its
soldiers should be satisfied. Awaiting
this result, l remain in my present
pOsition."
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11

General Leonard Wood has left San
tiago for Washington. The reason of
the Generals departure Is unques-
tionably the order to transmit the en-
tire customs receipts each week to
Havana. Compliance would involve
the abandonment of many necessary
public improvements, would throw
10000 Cubans out of employment and
send them to the hills to become ban
dts, and would revive Spain's prac-
tice of monetary realization, which
caused most of her troubles I'm Cuba
Colonel Naliente, chief of the gendar-
merle, says the Cubans fought 90
years against this policy, and they
necessary.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11
Elee,r,e.tv to Annjb,l,te Germs

A wonderful discovery of electric
force Is announced, whereby the in
ventor claims that he can send a mill
lion volts through the human body.
kin all forms of bacilli. including tu-
berculosis without, incidentally, an
initiating the patient. A New York
attorney is now in Washington filing
with the patent office the papers nee
essary to protect this remarkable dis
covery. He is very reticent, and
frankly admits that he fears ridicule.
From what was divulged, however. 1t
appears that the inventor proposes to
take advantage of the fact that glass
is not an absolute reslstent or nom
conductor, but that tremendous
electrical current striking against a
glass case, in which is enclosed hum
an body, is diffused over the wide ex-
panse of glass plates. and hence per-
meates all parts of the human body
inside the gllss case.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11
Give Their Policies as Security.

Under the lead of Mayor Taylor,
citizens of Bridgeport, Conn, are try
ing to carry out a novel scheme for
raising funds for public improve
ments. Prominent men propose to in
sure their lives and let the policies be
used as security for the payment of
debts to be contracted in the interest
OF the city. But for a provision OF the
city charter which prohibits the furth-
er bonding of the city for public i'm
provements, recourse to such a novel
proposition would be unnecessary. 1t
has been half a dozen years since the
Bridgeport authorities could engage in
important public works.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11
A TRIPLE MURDERER.
Wiie's Confession May Release an Innocent
Man From Prison.

Whes Confession May Release an Innocent
Man From Prison.
Sheriff George A. Storrs of Utah
county, Utah, left New York a few
days ago accompanied by Mrs. Jennie
wright. They are en- route to Utah
In an endeavor to clear up murder
mystery, and to free. If possible, a
man from life sentence.
At the Pelican Point ranch, Utah, in
1895, three young men were shot down
one night in their ranch house. The
stepfather of one of the boys. named
Haynes, had had trouble with the men
and was arrested. charged with the
crime. The bodies of the men were
found sunk In Utah lake. and the
premises they had occupied were loot
ed. Haynes was convicted on circum-
stantial evidence and was sentenced
to be hanged, but stay was secured
and the sentence commuted to life i'm
prisonment.
4 short time after the crime George
W. Wright left that locality and lived
I'm various parts of the West. finally
drifting to Fresh Water, Col. He was
graduate of Kalamazoo law college.
He soon became prominent. bearing
the sobriquet OF king of Fresh Wa
ter" one morning a man with whom
Wright was at odds was found shot
to pieces in his cabin. Wright assist
ed at the coroner's inquest and wrote
out the verdict Of murder by a per-
son unknown" Later Wright became
involved In a questionable sheep deal,
and after being arrested jumped his
bail and fled. He visited his wife at
her parents home at Gouverneur, N.
y, and then disappeared.
After he left the West evidence of a
positive character relating to the MUIR
der at Fresh Water is said to have
been found against Wright. and after
working on the case for over n year
Chief Harder ELECTED confession
from Mrs. Wright to the effect that
her husband had goods which figured
in the Pelican Point murders.
The Utah authorities were commun-
icated with and found articles just
where she said. Mrs. Wright said she
was willing to testify against her hus-
band for the triple crime. providing
he can be caught. She says her lips
have previously been sealed through
fear of him.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL,

Congress has appropriated $1,000. 900
for the care of the District of Colum-
bia.
B. +. Fifeld was appointed by Gov
ernor Smith, of Vermont, to succeed
the late Senator Justin Smith Morrill,.
The house refused to consider an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for naval charts
of the Philippines. They were still
considered foreign territory.
Southern Confederates have inform
ed Congress that they do not want the
government to care for the living SOL
diers or guard the graves Of the dead.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11
NEW SILVER CERTIFICATES.
First of Secretary Cages Uniform Design Put
In Circulation.

First OF Secretary Cages Uniorm Design Put
In Circulation.
Four thousand 81 silver certificates
of the new uniform design that Secre-
tary Gage has arranged shall apply to
each denomination of bill, whether
silver certificate, treasury note or
United States note, reached the United
States sub-treasury ut New York
Tuesday. They We're quickly distri-
buted to individuals and banks. The
new notes on both face and back.
show much white paper On the face
the central design is an American
eagle with outstretched wings guard
ing the flag. the background being a
view of the capitol. Below are small
portraits of Lincoln and Grant.
Each note has printed in blue on its
face n large figure | and the treasury
department seal. The other figures
denoting the denomination of the note
are all large and bold. Treasury
notes and United States notes are each
to have their denomination and seals
printed In n distinctive color. Sub
treasury experts say the new notes
will be more difficult to counterfeit
than the last issue. which was filed
up with engraved work.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11

A dispatch to Lloyd's says that the
Italian steamer Voorwarts has been
abandoned near Trevose head, on the
West Cornwall coast. She went ashore
in the gale that has been raging In
the Irish channel. Eleven members of
the crew, who put off in boats, were
drowned. Nine, who clung to the rig
ging, were rescued by the coast guard
lifeboat. Details received regarding
the wreck of the steamer at the en-
trance of Dieppe harbor show she was
the Anvers. The captain and IA Of the
crew succeeded in ciinging to the part
of jetty. one man perished from ex-
haustion, and four were drowned In
the engine room,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11
A SUCCESSFUL ROBBERY.
Al the Point of Pistols the Engineer Forces
Open the Express Car.

Open the Express Car.
The ninth and first successful at
tempt at train robbery on the Kansas
Ft Scott 81 Memphis route occurred
Tuesday night at S.55 o'clock, near
Macomb, five miles east of Mansfield,
Mo. One of the robbers got aboard at
Norwood, paying his fare to Macomb,
and compelling the train To stop there.
1t was Immediately boarded by five or
six masked men, who, covering all
members of the train crew with Win
chesters and revolvers. compelled the
engineer and fireman to cut loose from
the remainder of the train.
The mail, baggage and express cars
were then run up the line about two
miles and stopped in a lonely cut.
where Engineer Callander was placed
in front of the robbers and forced to
break open the door of the express
car, after which he was placed I'm front
of the foremost robber. and together
they entered the express car, covering
Southern Express Messenger Newton
and Baggagemaster Sieben with their
pistols. forcing them to adjourn to the
outside of the car. They then dyna-
mited the through safe.
Everything was taken from IL and II
is safe to say that they were well paid
for their trouble. The local safe which
contained all local money picked up
was not molested.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11
Encouraged Her to commi, Suicide.

1t has just been made public that
Eleanor Marx, daughter of the German
socialist leader, Karl Marx, was
prompted to suicide last March by the
knowledge that DIR. Aveling, the Eng
lish socialist with whom she had lived
as his wife had secretly married II
young woman. When she confronted
Aveling with her knowledge of his
marriage he admitted that it was a
fact and intimated that Eleanor Marx
should take her own life. He allowed
her to send out for prussic acid and
went out for walk while she drank
It, The public prosecutor would have
taken some action in the matter but
for Aveling's sudden death on August
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11
choked BY a Piece of Steak.

John Brady choked to death in a
Bowery restaurant the other night at
New York. The principal event In his
life was that several years ago he
saved the life of Vanderbilt by stop
ping a runaway team. Brady never
knew which Vanderbilt II was. but
each New Years day he has gone to
the Vanderbilt mansion and received
a $l00 check. Brady expected to go
celebrated In Bowery restaurant
Monday night by ordering a large
steak The first bite stuck In his
throat and he died of strangulation.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-01-11
Many skeletons Found.

The employees at Richmond, Va, a
few days ago. dug n trench near the
city almshouse and In what Is now Il
populous district. At distance of
two feet they struck "A large deposit of
human bones, in many individuals
the skulls and larger bones being
whole. The skeletons We're packed
closely together as II buried in one
large grave. Dark stains and shap $
in the earth show where collins have
once existed. About two hundred
skeletons were unearthed in n trench
seven feet wide. How the bodies got
there Is a mystery. An old citizen
suggested that they We're victims Of a
cholera epidemic here in 1870