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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-02-14
RAILROAD LINES.
IA M GyEEE HEE a
80 CHESAPEAKE
IN <ys<<SH NE AND
Ssessy6,,TrsST OHIO RAILWAY.
Effective January 10, 1899.

900 A. NJ. Daily, win PaIlor Car for
principal stations, Newport
News, Ola Point, NOriolh,
and Portsmouth. Connects
at Norfolk VITA New YORK
steamers. except tuesday.
3:45 2. NJ, Daily. with pullman Tor
local stations, Newport
News. Old Point, Norfolk.
and Portsmouth. Connects
at Old Point with Washing.
on steamers. daily. ana
18th Baltimore steamers, ex-
1920 A. n. bay Express, except Sunday,
for Clifton Forge. Connects
at G~ordonsville for Orange,
Calverton, Manassas. Alex
andria, and Washington; at
Union Station, Chariottes-
vile, for ~Lynchburg; at
Basic City fer Hagerstown.
2:10 T. NJ, Daily, with Pullman 10 Gin
cinnati. Louisville and st.
Louis. connecting At Cor
louisville for Orange, and at
Orange with Southern rail-
way, Dorth-bound; az Cow
ingtOn, Va. for Hot Springs.
stops only at important
stations. Meals served on
Dining Cars. No. l. local
train. except Sunday, follows
above train from Gordons-
Vile to Stanton.
o'oo L. NJ, Accommodation. except sun
day, for boswell
io;3o + d., Daily, for Cincinnati, with
pullman to Hinton. W. Va,
and GordOnsville 10 Cincin-
~cinnati and Louisville. Meals
served on dining-car. Con-
meets at stanton Except
Sunday for Winchester. Va,
and ar C~Ovington. Va, daily.
To- MHAAs4Ha ~ . CawFnnA
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TRAINS ARRIVE EIGHTH-sTREET
gTATEOK

$40 A. NJ, Except sunday. from Co.
lumbia.
gro p. NJ, Daily. from Clifton Forge.
Lexington, Va, and Lynch
burg; and. except Sunday.
from New Castle and Ros-
ney. JOHN u. POTTS,
Assistant General Passenger A&ant.
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W T. Guillaudeu, Vice-President and
Traffic Manager. New York. ia II
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TRAINS ARRIVE AT RICHMOND
RROAD-sTREET STATION.

500 4. NJ, Except sunday, from Dos.
well.
$40 A. NJ, Daily, from Cincinnati.
II 30 A. NJ, Daily. from Norfolk and Old
Point.
$50 p. NJ, Daily, from Cincinnati and
Louisville.
$50 y. n, Daily, from Norfolk and Old
Point.
7:45 p. NJ, Except Sunday. from Clifton
f0rgn.
TN RWnE FJGHTH-STREET
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COURT ORDERS.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF The
United STATES FOR L EASTERN
DISTRICT or VIRGINIA.
Buck. who sues. &C.,
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HIS HEART FAILS HIM.
MIR. II. $. SLAUGHTER, or MASCHEs-
TER, DIES SUDDENLY.
SOUTH-SIDE PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING.
A Number Have Been Nearly Frozen
IN Drath-FucI Very Hard to Get,
and Merchants Cannot Denver IL
Groceries Scarce.
Groceries Scarce.

Mr. r.. S. Slaughter, a weil-known resi-
dent Of Manchester, fell dead yesterday
morning about Z o'clock at the southern
railroad shops, where he was employed
MIR. Slaughter was in his usual heaIth
when he got UP and ate breakfast lie
hurried off to his work and ran through
the snow from his residence TO the shops.
when he reached the shops he was al
most overcome with the exertion. lie
stood by the fire 10 warm himself and
some Of his friends and fellow-workmen
noticed he was breathing hard, painting"
as it were. Suddenly he fell over, and
when those nearer rushed to him he had
expired. DR.. Merchant was called, but
also Immediately a messenger was sent
for the Coroner, DR.. BrodnaX. DIR. Brod-
max, examining the corpse, found u
Mr.. Slaughter had died from heart failure
due to o-ver-exertion. The body was then
turned over TO friends. Mr.. Slaughter
leaves a wife u several children
MUCH SUFFERING FROM STORM.
There has been a great deal Of suffering
from the storm on this side OF the river
y number of cases nave come " HsHl'
where p-ersons-colored people in all in
stances-have been nearly frozen TO death.
The proper authorities were notified, ana
efforts 10 resuscitate them were success
full. In one instance IL was thought that
a colored woman was already dead, ana
the Coroner notified. The Doctor sue
ceeded in bringing her back to things ma
terial after heroic Work.
FUEL HARD TO GET.
The greatest danger confronts all class
Is Of people-thOse who have money 10
buy. as well as those who have II not
because Of the difficulty 10 get fuel from
the coal-yards. The cOal-dealers cannot
deliver fuel. and grocers will not deliver
groceries. The stores are all supplied
with staple groceries, but not with green
groceries, fresh meat and vegetables.
Business, where it is not imperative,
has been abandoned entirely. The men
Of every family content themselves with
doing nothing but bringing in fuel and
water from the nearest wells. The great
majority Of MIGRANTS in this city are
frozen.
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A Little Gain.

IT has come to pass that the Chicago
Tribune is accepted as authority in
the matter of statistics that relate
to crime. That newspapers summary
of the bad side of life for the twelve
month just end is getting wide quo
tation. A summary of the record is not
without interest, and this the Standard
quotes herewith, accepting the Tri-
bune's presentation of the facts. 1t will
be seen that, on the whole, the record
for 1898 has some factors in its favor.
when the comparisons with former years
are taken into account.
The number of murders and lynchings
is generally taken as a measure of the
crime of the year. In both these re-
spects 1895 shows an improvement over
1897. The total number of murders
committed was 7,S4O, as compared with
$500 in 1897, 1852 in 1896 and TO-
500 in 1895. This is a significant fall
ing off, and as the decrease has now
continued for two years there is reason
to hope that this class of crime may
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Running Into Millions.

IN every department where there is
cent of public money 70 be spent.
Pennsylvania feels the bighting eff
fects of Quay's rule. This dishonest
man has run the whole works" 1t
will be remembered that, when fire de-
stroyed the old state house at Harris
burg, the legislature of Pennsylvania
set its face resolutely against costly
capitol. Taking account of that states
wealth, the money which it was pro-
posed to spend for new state house
seemed even a niggard appropriation.
Whether it was because of a popular
unwillngness to spend much money in
tumble-down old Harrisburg or wheth-
err scheme was on for the ultimate
transfer of the capital to some live
town, does not appear.
Whatever the motive, the plan for
cheap capitol was persisted in, and
Pennsylvania settled down to some
thing cheap. The result is that the
money already used up for the state
house exceeds all the sums originally
| proposed, the capitol commissioners
| want the legislature to appropriate
three millions more, and the Philadel-
| phia newspapers mournfully remark
| that this sum-millions more than at
the outset it was resolved to spend
| confessedly takes no account of the big
| dome which is laid out to be enormous
ly costly. So it goes in Pennsylvania
OF course, it has gone the same way
| in many another state. but the propo-
sition zealously put out by the Penn
| sylvanians was that they expected to
| profit by others blunders and that they
| would show the country a thing or two
| about building state houses.
| Montana has a state house on the
| stocks The scheme got a black eye
| the first thing it did-tens of thousands
were blown in, with nothing to show
| for the money. There is a prevailing
faith, however, in the present capitol
commission and a belief that it will do
the right thing,
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Not Our Kind.

~ O say nothing about consttu-
tional grounds the facts about
the population on the Philip
pine islands, when they all come out,
will not help the expansionist argu-
ment.
Yesterday the Standard referred to
Senator Vests article on the Philip
pines. in the North American Review
for January. The senator quotes excel
lent modern authority for the state
ment that of ten million natives, only
seven millions are "domesticatad"-
three millions are savages, none of them
up to the grade of our Indians. 1t is
shown that on the island of Manila the
population of about 100000 includes
100000 Chinese, $4,000 Japanese, 10000
native Malays and 5000 whites. What
must be the showing for the interior!
Princely revenues from fields of mar
Vicious fertility and from alleged min
eral deposits are pictured by those
who, for syndicate purposes, are press
ing the annexation scheme. The States
mems Year Book gives the revenues of
the islands as $13. 300, derived from
imports, government monopolies,
stamps, cock fighting, opium, gambling,
lotteries, raffles and Chinese CAPITA
ton tax" The annual expenditures
for recent years are $13,2S0, 100. the net
balance to the government being $780,
700. Fancy the deficit we shall have
to deal With Senator Vests cogent
comment is: when the enterprising
carpet-bagger and the hungry political
appointee have swarmed to this lew
field of plumber, it requires no stretch
of the imagination to measure the enor-
nous deficiency to be paid every year
by the taxpayers in the United States"
The appeal of the expansionsts is TO
the greed of American merchants and
exporters, they picture the large trade
we shall enjoy with China and Japan
when we settle down to do business
with headquarters at Manila. The
whole export trade of the islands, as
shown by this country's own statistics.
is barely more than $4,000, 1000 And
Senator Vest clinches a point which
silver's advocates will appreciate when
he remarks that I'VE shall be fortunate
if China and Japan, which are now
machinery for manufacturing cotton
goods. do not become our most danger
Gus rivals"
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The Spanish Crisis.

London, Jan. 6.-At a general meet
ing of the conservatives tomorrow
Saturday night Senior Silvela and
General Poliejeva will publicly an
nounce their cceptance of common
programme and General Pollejava will
recognize Silvela's leadership with the
full consent of Marshal de Campos,
Marshal Prima de Rivera. General Az
carraga, Senior Pidal and the Marquis
Villaverde. This coalition excludes on
ly two small and influential dissident
groups, led by the duke Of Tetuan and
Senior Romero Robledo. 1t will I'M
doubtedly be able to form a powerful
administration. The Weylerites display
the most annoyance at the coalition.
The Sagasta party pretends to regard
1t lightly. The outcome of the crisis is
awaited with the greatest interest.
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SATURDAY, JAN. Z, 1899.
TEN PAGES.
The Other Side.
asst nights summary of the sena-
torial situation printed in the

& Asst nights summary of the sena-
torial situation printed in the
Inter Mountain includes the
statement that although the fifteen re-
spublicans who were in caucus are
pledged to secrecy, it has leaked out
that all did not agree to abide by the
decision of the caucus"
Not many days ago, the Inter Noun
tain was wondering why there was so
little of publicity as to democratic sem
atorial plans. Evidently the scene has
shifted since the Inter Mountain started
its queries in re the democratic situa-
ton. Several days must elapse before
the joint test will be applied,
but already the democratic situation at
Helena is pretty nearly an open book,
as far as candidates are concerned.
But not so with the minority. Mr..
Carter is supposed to have lined up the
forces, but he has left Helena, and while
there is a great deal of guessing about
it, nobody is able to predict how long
they will stay where Mr.. Carter saws
he put them, now that his back Is
turned
The present situation at Helena is no
snovelty. In former sena torial contests
the question has been how many re-
publicans w. A. Clark could buy. In
the prolonged struggle of six years ago
some of the republican members of the
legislature stood like stone walls,
sneering in contempt at Mr.. Clark's eff
fort to brihe them. Indeed, that expert
aence is memorably true of the very
large number of republicans who We're
members of that Montana legislature
even the Clark thousands did not for
an instant tempt them: they went
Through the long and trying ordeal like
patriots and they came out of it like
men, every inch.
But it was a caution to see Clark
gather in the republicans who We're out
for the stuff in the senatorial contest of
1898. Clark got them; his agents said
at the time that they came dog cheap.
These men got their bargain-co
price; it is within the knowledge of the
people of this state that not one man
among them prospered as the fruit of
the bride he took-on the contrary, the
record is the other way.
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steadily lessen. Quarrels caused 1885,
of the murders, or almost exactly half
of the total, and as liquor Us the chief
cause of quarrels, it can be taken as
the greatest incentive to homicide. Only
201 murders are, however, put down as
wholly due to intoxication. Eighty-two
murders were due to highwaymen,
SO to insanity and % to riots. The
cause of about one third of the total
number of murders was unknown.
The lynchings in 1898 numbered 127 a
smaller number than has occurred since
1890 when the total was the same
There have been 2,3O1 persons murdered
by mobs during fourteen years past, or
an average of $50 year. The total of
last year, it will be seen, is much be-
low the average. The lynchings have
steadily decreased for seven years, with
the exception of 1897. or since 1892. when
the number reached 235, and it may be
hoped that the inclination of this bar
barous method of inflicting punishment
is lessening. The South as usual con-
tributes the greater number of these
lynchings, 11S having occurred in that
section, of which 102 We're of negroes.
Arkansas holds the bad pre- eminence in
this respect, having had seventeen lyn-
chings. while Wyoming had three, or
the only northern state with more than
one mob murder in 1898.
In like manner, there is decrease
in the total of suicides for 1898, although
the falling off is not so large as in
murder but it is much greater than in
lynching. There were $500 self-murde-s
last year as compared with $500 in 1897,
a decrease of $50. Dependency was
the cause of 1923 of these suicides as
compared with the 1859 who committed
self-murder for this cause in the pre-
vous year. If this classification is cor
rect very little insight can be gained as
to the influence losses in business,
which are supposed to be the chief
ing suicides. But as the cause of 1900
suicides is set down as unknown, no
safe conclusions can be drawn. The
male suicides numbered 1855 and the
female 1884 But the greatest decrease
in any class of crime is shown in en-
beZzlements and defalcations. These
amounted in 1898 to 1881 1868 as COM
pared with $11,24S,Os4 in 1897, or a de-
crease of nearly one-half. and the small
lest total since 1885,
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Transport Again Chartered.

San Francisco, Jan. 6.-Major General
Merriam has again chartered the
steamer Morgan City for use as a gov
eminent transport. She will sail for the
Philippines some time between the 18th
and goth of this month, in company
with the Scandal. She will carry most
ly freight and government supplies. Her
passengers will consist of few de-
tached officers, several regulars belong
ing to regiments in Manila, the fami-
lies of officers of the goth infantry and
several trained nurses. Among her
freight will be 325 miles of telegraph
wire with corresponding quantity of
material to erect that much needed line,
sufficient equipment for five construc-
ton and repair departments, equipment
for 40 separate telegraph offices and
four and one-half miles of submarine
cable. The 18th infantry will sail on the
Scandal
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Was Not His Wife.

San Francisco. JAM 6.-I-eon Guam Sing.
the Chinese interpreter on board the
steamer China, was arrested to-day
charged with having aided the illegal
landing of his countrymen at this port.
On the latest trip of the China Sing land
ed woman whom he stated was his wife.
returning after her 40 years visit in
China. Il was afterwards found the wo-
man was not his wife and he had been
guilty of aiding other Chinese to land
when they Were legally. barred. Sing is
said to be a paid agent of the powerful
syndicate that illegally lands Chinese here
for a considerati ton.
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that he holds nominal residence in the
state for senatorial purposes but that
practically he is an absentee
None of these considerations were
effective against Senator Hale. He has
been in politics since he was twenty
years old. He has been in the senate
since 1881: prior thereto he had five
terms in the lower house of congress:
he declined to enter Grants cabinet, in
1874, as postmaster general; he declined
the office of secretary of the navy in
the Hayes cabinet
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ANACONDA NEWS
PROBABLY INSANE.
Religion Believed to Have Turned II. j.
Jenkins Mind.

Jenkins Mind.
Rosser j. Jenkins is a poor unfortunate
man, who IS in the county jail with
charge of insanity pending against him.
Constable Dave Sheffield of deer Lodge
brought Jenkins to Anaconda early yes
terday morning on the delayed Northern
Pacific train. Jenkins is insane about re-
liSion. that subject over which so many
people lose their reason. He is perfectly
harmless, but his peculiar actions are
warrant enough for his detention. Jenk-
ms evidently believes that he is a preach
err He holds his hand high above his
head as though invoking the blessings of
heaven. When his arm becomes tired, he
supports it at the elbow with his other
hand. All the time he appears to be eX-
horting his auditors, for his lips move as
though he were preaching to some one.
Jenkins is quite an old man. and is well
known in the lower valley. He formerly
lived on a ranch between Deer Lodge and
Garrison, but lately has lived in the town
Of Deer Lodge He has number of grown
sons and daughters.
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~ FTER ALL it was easy for Senator
n Hale; at a caucus of Maine re-
! publicans, held night before
last. his nomination for another term
in the senate came without struggle
This result upsets the forecasts-there
had been a great deal of talk to the
effect that Mr.. Hale was about to have
the fight of his life in the effort to be
returned to the senate. Indeed, there
i is no doubt that an attempt was made
I to set the stakes for his defeat, and it
Els confirmed testimony that the senator
himself found it necessary to make
grand rally of all his friends at Au-
) gusta.
The pro-Spanish policy to which Mr..
Hale committed himself, at the time
when our troubles with Spain We're Gull
4 minating. made him the object of Sc
syere criticism not alone in Maine but
Has well. throughout the land. Pretty
sharsh things were said about the sena
tors motives; the side gossip was not
edifying.
In addition, the senator has incurred
the hostility OF certain OF the Maine re-
publicans who have much to do with
> that states politics. A good many of
them wanted to send to the senate
Charles E. Littlefeld. He was a dele
gate-at-large in the st. Louis national
republican convention of 1896. He was
an ardent advocate of Reed for the
presidency; he it was who, in public,
severely scored Manley for his alleged
desertion of Reed. Then, too, it has been
urged against Hale that he is practical
~ not resident of Maine-he is seldom
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20 Y the talk he has permitted him
u self to indulge in, Mr.. Roberts,
of Utah, is sowine seed which
will make it quite possible for him to
reap the whirlwind. In recent utter
ances. so it is charged, Roberts has be-
trayed an intention to place his plu-
rality of wives on high religious
grounds thus to get shelter
under this country's constitutional
guarantees of religious freedom The
government of the United States deals
in an entirely practical way with
polygamy-plural marriages are under
legal prohibition. The government at
Washington is not run on the policy
of revelations and the American
public cannot be induced to recognize
plural marriages as within the scope
of any mans duty. AS the Standard
has remarked. in former mention of
this celebrated case. the best opinion
seems to be that Roberts can be
seated, but that the house can expel
him. Evidently the house will be very,
strongly pressed to do that, and
Roberts encourages action of that sort
when he defends nolygamy as a divine
command-if, indeed. he has, as is
charged, done that.
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Were "a Little Hard"

London, Jan. 6.-Right Hon. James
William Lowther, NJ p, in the conser-
said he was not sure that the American
Spanish war was much of a matter for
congratulation, excepting the tie unit
ing the United States and Great Br-
tain had been tightened. He expressed
the opinion that the United States has
been "a little hard for he said: They
commenced this war by a declaration
of non-a ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and finished it
by taking the Philippines. which they
have not conquered
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-07
A CHINESE OUTRAGE.
A German Missionary Nearly Killed by
Mob

A German Missionary Nearly Killed by a
Mob.
Berlin, Jan. 6.-Letters received here
to-day from kaio Chou. the German for
titled settlement in the province of Shan
Tung, China. give details of an outrage
upon Father Stem, the German Catho-
lie missionary, on Nov, 5, last. The mis-
sionary was about to leave Tie Tau,
province OF Shan Tung, owing to the
anti-Christian feeling. Finding himself
confronted by crowds of Chinese who
We're clamoring for the destruction of
the Christians, he took refuge in a hut,
but was dragged out. his clothes torn
from his back and he was struck with
sticks and pricked with knives and
lances and his beard torn out. On the
following day his prosecutors prepared
to hang him by the wrists. Finally
mandarin interfered in his behalf. but
compelled him to leave the district with
a promise never to return.
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1t Was Good Beef.

Washington, Jan. 6.-Colonel Henry
Sharp of the commissary department,
who served at Camp Thomas and in
Porto Rico during the war, was be-
fore the war investigation commits sion
to-day. He said that he had sureIln-
tended the issue and inspection of re-
frigerated beef in Porto Rico and that
he had been in the commissary depart
ment for Is years. and that the quality
of the fresh beef issued at Camp
Thomas was equal to any he had ever
seen used in the army.
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The Ten Pin Record.

Chicago, Jan. 6.-The highest game
at 10 pins ever recorded in Chicago on
the new style wide American bowling
congress alleys has been made by Louis
Ullrich of the Fellowship club in a con-
test with John Abdender. Ulrich
scored 300 pins. the maximum in a 10
frame game. The night previous he
made an average of 223 in three games
during contest between his club and
the Oakland club in the Chicago league
tournament The latter score is said to
be the worlds record for the highest
average in three games.
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Retired Merchant Dead.

San Francisco. Jan. 6.-John l.. Bard
well, retired merchant of this city. was
found dead in his bed. He had apparently
expired from heart disease. He was a
native of Boston. Mass, aged CT years
He was prominent pioneer of California,
a member of the vigilantes committee of
1856, big Spectator in wheat and one
of the most liberal contributors to the
museum of Golden Gate park. His dona-
ton of oriental ivory carvings is said to
be the finest collection in the United
States.