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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
Too Realistic n Drania.

In Cardiff, Wales, recently, at tes
entertainment given to the parishion
ers by the National School, the pla,
Red Riding Hood" was acted. Th.
children had rehearsed in their ordin
ary dresses, and consequently the
wolf-skin was not seen by some o.,
them until worn on the stage. On
the VOLTS appearance at the bedside
of the grandmother, the child who
was playing the part of grandmother
gave a realistic yell of dismay aud
scrambled out of bed head foremost:
tho sight of her fat little form in o
tight nightdress caused much laughter
among the audience as she disap.
peared behind the curtains. Weekly
Telegraph.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
TALES OF PLUCK
AND ADVENTURE.
A Trapper's Narrow Escape.


Pierre LIE Count, an old trapper, of
Wisconsin, who died recently, retained
a distinct recollection of almost every
Incident of Importance in his long
life. Encounters with fierce beasts
were Of 80 common occurrence that it
was with difficulty he could be induced
to refer to them or to give details once
the incident was mentioned. The
killing of three bears in as many min
utes-one with q bullet from his old
fashioned muzzle-loading rifle, the
second with an axe aud the third with
knife-was one of LIE Counts recol-
lections, and four great scars across
his breast, which were visible when
his body was prepared for the grave,
bore evideuce of the fierceness of the
battle.
That happened in 1S43," said the
old man. II was trapping on the up
per waters of the Chippewa that fall.
1t was in the latter part of October, if
remember right, and I was following
up line Of traps one afternoon when
] broke through an old windfall and
fell over log, landing right in nest
of four bears-two full grown and two
six-months cubs. I was trapper and
not hunter, and usually let such var
mints alone unless they tackled me
but this time my rifle was up to my
face before I knew it, and 1 brought
down the old male with bullet in his
brain. The other three started off,
and as they went 1 let go Mt one of the
cubs with my little trapping axe.
There wasn't one chance in five hun
dred that would hit him in place
that would hurt him, aud 1 just
threw it more under the impulse
than with aIy expectation that
would bring him down.
But as luck would have it the axe hit
him square in the head and he went
down with a roar. His yell turned
the old mother into devil. She had
started off on dead run, but as soon
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
ROBBERS AT LARGE.

Five Postofhce hooters Climb Through
Chimney of Jail.
At Toledo, o., Sunday William Nil,
Ter, George Jones, William White,
Thomas Burns and Fred Williams, in
Jail for postoflice robbery at Leipsic
and North Fairfield, o., escaped by
climbing out of the chimney of the
Jail.
Miller unlocked the cells with q
piece of wire, and climcd up the chin
ney, putting down n rope made of
sheets, by which the other prisoners
got out. They dropped to the roof of
the !ail and then to the ground.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12

PRISONERS CLAIM IMMUNITY,

Federal COnvictS ut Raleigh Refused to
Work aud Were Whipped.
The Washington Star publishes n
complaint from number of federal
prisoners incnrceratcd in the state
pemtcntiary ut Raleigh, y. G.
The prisoners were ordered to work
at some hrickyards eight miles from
the prison and refused to comply,
claiming immunity under the law from
labor outside the prison walls, where
upon they We're logged.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12

!Hnt ife standard has been '-"e-."
since the close of tue civil war.
am no pessimist, but it is easy
TO see that methods and means
ore tolerated now that were
not then-methods in the TO-
rum, in the legislative halls, in poll
t;cs in business and in the pulpit
But still there is much a good ada thai III sveps eas
town and city and community 'nete .i',
nro move good men and women than
Ahrohom could find in Sodom. Athens
10 st;ll the central seat of art aud learn
;no Of good morals aud good manners
;zen is not to be envied whose love o
,"on o,d whose reyer.u /, his
- :ypon her hisfry of a hundred
.@ars. Blu ARR, in Atlanta Consti
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
HAS CAPITAL OF $22,O3O,OOO.

American Railway Equipment Company
Is Being Organized.
The Chicago Chronicle says that
manufacturers of specialties used in
the manufacture of railway rolling
stock have united, and will transfer
their plants to new corporation, which
Will bear the title Of the American
Railway Equipment Company.
charter will be secured in New
Jersey, and the company will be capt.
talized to the amount of S22, 600, 600.
OF this amount Sl0,OOO,OOO will be
preferred stock and the remainde
common. The president OF the new
company will be Chicago man, yet to
be chosen.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
BUYING IRON FURNACES.

kmpire Iron and Steel Conn pany Making
Many Purchases
The Empire Iron and Steel Co..
which was recently incorporated un.
der the laws of New Jersey, has nc.
quired by purchase the property of
the Greensboro Furnace COMPANY
Greensboro. n. c.; the property
known as the Henry Clay furnaces, of
Reading, Pa. ; the Upton furnace in
The Schnylkill valley; the Victoria
furnace on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad in Virginia, and the Huddle.
ston ore property i'll the Potte valley,
Virginia
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12


imply that mGNol
others seem to mn ann, M,
by giving them special inn Ssa,sTa, 40
In the latter class are La DHfcusslon
and La Lucha. In the formfH are Ell
Reconcentrado, La Libertad, La Pat
ria and all the Spanish organsA
According to dispatch fr}lm Glen
furos. Senior Jicotea Perez, y Spaniard
of high character and stan4ling, dis.
appeared on Sunday, and Th&rsday his
corpse was found near the city terribly
mscheted. The crime is attributed by
the authorities to the same band Of
outlaws that burned the cane on the
Constancia plantation. Bandits in the
same district attacked the plantation
: SSaSaa hE h%ESgelss' sss oallernSsi ewSsi "hH n1
Senor FL cisco Garcia; butthey were
final y repr'sed by the rural guards.
who killed two members of the band
that have not been identified, and a
third, who was recognized as Alfredo
Rodriguez, a well known brigan d
largely responsible for disturbances in
Santa Clara.
Governor General Brooke announces
that Senor Federico Mora has accept
ed the post of supreme court fiscal,
which was offered him Thursday, and
which he had said he would be unable
to accept unless upon his own condi-
tlons. No arrangements have vet
been mado erpo;1tirg his successor
, as civil governor of Havana, but a
decision on this point will possibly
be reached within brief time.
Senior DoTingo Mendezi Capote,
secretary of the government In Gener-
al Brooke's cabinet, VIII soon forward
to General Russell Alger, United States
secretary of war, report of the re-
forms needed in the province of Ma
tanzas and of those already effected
there. The collector of customs at
Matanzas proposes to construct float
ing warehouse and to receive goods
direct from vessels.
The Spanish minister OF marine,
Admiral Gomez Imaz, has cabled Cap
tain Peral, head of the Spanish marine
commission in charge of the Havana
floating dock, an authorization to sell
the structure at public auction Nav
31st.
The medical officers express regret
at the sending of recruits to Cuba at
this time of year, as such troops could
not become acclimated before the very
worst part of the season had set in.
They believe it would be better to
have depots in tho United States and
to send drilled men to Cuba in the
early autumn.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
HANGING AT WASHINGTON,

Two Negroes Swing From tho Same Scaf-
fold For Murder of Women
The double hanging of William
Strather and Charles Winston at the
district Jail ut Washington pa sed off
quietly Friday. The two colorcd men
started for the scaifold jnst at noon
and seven minutes later they were
swinging from the gallows.
Bo,h were murderers of women,
were the same age, and died on the
same scatfolu.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
DEWEY IN GOOD HEALTH.

surgeon Page. of the Olympia. Says a,
miral L. In Splendid Condition.
On the steamship City of Peking,
just arrived at San Francisco, from
China and Japan, was DR.. T.. Page
passed assistant surgeon, United States
navy, and surgeon on the flagship
Olympia for the past year and half.
He makes the following statement re
8arding Admiral Dewey's health:
Admiral Dewey is in perfect health.
He has not been more than twenty
miles away from Manila since the nrst
day Of last may"
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
CUBANS SCORE AMERICANS
RSY{ CONES FROM Ex! eMDERs
OF MILITARY ASsEXhLY.
GEN. GOMEZ WAS ALSO DF lOUNCED
All Occurred at - Banquet q Hs vsna
Given In Honor OF Cisneros! !H.ucia
and Roderigues.

special from Havana says: The
banquet given Friday evening by
members of the recently dissolved
military assembly in honor of the
aged Salvador Cisneros, Marquis de
Santa Lucia, the first president of the
second republic of Cuba, and of Gen.
ernl Maya Rodriguez was the occasion
for mn anti-American and aud anti.
Gomez demonstrations.
General Manuel sangu Colonel
Juan Gualberto G2uu pber of
the-s s 4ecdtlve nittee,
and other speakers denounceaG General
Gomez rs a traitor to Cuba in having
given aid to the intervening power,
"los yankees" who were referred to
in terms of dislike aud suspicion.
The only voice raised in protest
against such assertions among the
hundred we'll known Cubans who were
present, including the editors OF most
the local papers printed in Spanish,
was that of Senior Fidel Plena, editor
of El Independence, who saidthat the
Cubans would most speedily gain
their independence by cooperating
with the Americans, adding that the
purpose of the United States mill
tary authorities is to aid Cuba to pre-.
pare for self-goveY to leave
rs soon as p9ssil
= G rNS"I""8e
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
What Pluck Did.

1t is the bulldog fearlessness and
tenacity of an Englshman that makes
him conqueror even when he faces
mob Of barbarians. After the BON
bardment of Alexandria by the Eng
lish fleet had driven the Egyptian
troops out, tie city was looted by
thieves and cutthroats. Three or
four hundred bluejackets were landed,
who stopped the outrages by arresting
every person found with plunder in
his possession.
On arrest person was tried by
drumhead courtmartial, and the SEN
tence, shooting or hoyging, was ex-
ecuted without delay. An English.
man, Mr.. Hulme Beaman, who as
sisted i'll Furnishing the robbers, de-
scribes in his book, Twenty Years
in the Near East" dangerous ex.
perience from which he was enabled
to emerge by cool, fearless, bulldog
pluck.
He had been detailed to superintend
the fogging Of two prisoners and the
shooting of third, the sentence to be
carried out at their native village. n
nest of thieves. There were ten
thousand of the rif'ralf looking on .
Five policemen (Egyptians) and three
Englishmen en- represented law and order.
The prisoner, sentenced to be shot for
murder, was fitted into shallow
grave, and the policemen fired volley,
amid the execrations Of the mob.
Only Mr.. Beaman and the Egyptian
officer commanding the police under
stood what the mob were saying, and
the Egyptian begged the thrse Eng.
lishmen to get away while yet there
was time. They, however, insisted
on seeing the hogging carried out,
and remarked that the slightest symp
tom of fear would excite the mob to
murder them.
The fogging exasperated the crowd,
already excited by the execution,
and they pressed close round the Eng
lishmen.
1T Is time to put an end to infidels
torturing believers!" said a portly
old Arab sheikh, close to Beaman'
elbow.
The Englisbman seized the Arab,
and told the mob they should be
ashamed of themselves to sympathiZe
with a murderer and thieves. A sui
len silence followed. The prisoner,
placed in carriage, in which police
man and two Englishmen also rode
the third riding horseback alongside
was driven at walk through the
dense throng to Alexandria, where q
courtmartial ordered them TO be
hogged.
The next year that heikh called on
Mr.. Beaman at Cairo, brought with
him little presents, admitted the JUS
tice OF his punishment, and he and
Mr.. Beaman remained the best of
friends. The faintest sign of weak
ness would have turned that mob into
furious wolves.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
4 COMBINED PROTEST

i" lie Mad" tSainst Continuation Of War
In I'll" rhi'i 'pin"s
Another meeting Of citizens opposed
to the continuation of war in the Phil.
iprines is to be held in Chicago before
the end Of the mOnth.
Invitations to attend are to be issued
10 all the governors and senator's who
hnrc gone on record MS being opposed
To the lighting in the Pacific islands.
Arrangements for the meeting are
now being perfected
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
REMAINS OF GIANT MASTODON
Washed Up at Mouth of New River, In
North Carolina.

A dispatch from Marines, y. c.,
says: What appears to be the skeleton
of mastodon has been cast mp by the
sea ut the mouth of New river 4 sin
gle bone from the skeleton weighed
600 pounds.
strong sea current cut away the
shore, laying the skeleton, together
with several stumps of trees, bare. \
force OF hands is laboring to save the
skeleton.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12

po|u"IJ eUols II poQs!IOWap ATollWQ
s.3looS 'IIurs :. autI SIN ro nmsn
feet and cacle toward me like snow
slide. She looked as big as buffalo
and as ugly as a catamount. My empty
gun was Of about as much use as
snowshoe, aud as there was no time to
think OF tree just whipped out my
knife and faced the music. She was
about three seconds in knocking me
over the windfall, but as we closed l
drove the ten-inch blade of my knife
between her ribs. Her nails found my
shoulder and breast, and was laid up
eleven weeks. The scratch didn't
amount to much. would have been
well in week, but my partner was
greenhorn from Vermont, and when
l sent him out to get slippery e::. bark
for poultice he got ass$ood."
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
~ HONOR or GEN. SCRIYEN.
Government Reservation on Tybee Island
Il Given New Name

Il Given New Name
BY formal order issued from the
war department, the Notifications on
Tybce island, Georgia, and the mill
tory reservation Mt that point will
hereafter be kown as Fort Scriven, in
honor OF James Scriven, colonel and
hrisadlcr general of Georgia militia
during the war of tho revolution, who
was killed in action at Midway church,
November "a, 1873.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
a Periloua swim,

While our soldiers and sailors were
advancing the flag, last summer,
deed as brave as any Of theirs was
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-05-12
.saI so4 SNl56l11 i5l oosS5i hI5.

bank, only to find that his errand was
fruitless, as all the boats and canoes
had been destroyed.
For more than half on hour he con-
tinued his search, but finding the
enemy again pressing him, and feeling
weak from loss of blood, he was COM
PEELED to take to the river again, and
got back in safety.
A Hero of tho Zulu War OF 1879.
1t was at the time of the storming OF
the formidable fortress of Inhlobane
mountain. This was fastness CON
sidered by the Zulus impregnable, q
huge squa. u8 Jos. with precipitous
sides, and S1ilspr, -four or five miles
long. At - was q 49, Ee up
slble.
Major General Rodgers Butler haa
charge OF the operations at one end.
and before daylight his troops began
tho arduous ascent. All went we'll for
time, when suddenly they ell
countered large force of Zulus ap-
preaching at au almost Incredible
speed. 1t was necessary to retreat,
anu Duller attempted to accomplish
this though the other troops were un-
able to cover him in the perilous under
taking.
The Zulus thronged around the pre-
cipitous path, pouring volley after vol
ley at close range upon the deserted
band. But for Buller's Gefdiu exer-
tions the whole force would have been
exterminnted. He rallied them aguin
and again, cheering and encouraging
them by voice and action. Many
troops were dismounted, and to these
he proved an angel of salvation. He
took. two who were in imminent danger
OF being cut of, on his own horse, to
comparatively safe place. He person
ally saved six lives, besides all that
were saved by his orders and his ex-
ample. Although he had been forty
eight hours in the saddle, and was suf-
fering from n painful confusion, he him.
self covered the retreat, charging again
and again at the Zulus, thus gaining
time for his men to extricate them.
selves from the terrible volIey of
rocks.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-03-17
TRUSTEES SALE.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, THAT,
~ whereas, .Eediek ii. Bowden executed his
certain Trust Deed dated March ~, lse4. record
ell March H. 1891. In the office Of the CIerh OF
the Circuit Court DIST Francis County. State Of
Arkansas, to Charles C.. Courier. Trustee for
DE Sederlandsch AIherikaansche Land Mats
chappy; and. whessas. said Charles Z. Currier
has In writing resigned his said trust and the
said DE Ncderiandsch Amerkaansche Land
Maatschappy has duly appointed me as substi-
tutc Trustee and successor In trust to said
Charles {. Currer. and default having been made
In the payment OF said notes and Indebtedness
due said DE Nederlandsch Ancrikaansche Land
Mat clappy, the holder thereof, having re
quesIe me 10 make sale OF the real estate con-
yeyed in and by said Trust Deed. In order to pay
said Indebtedness. l will, Oh
Friday. the 24th day of March, 1899,
at the principal door OF the courthouse In the
Town Of Forrest CITY. In The County OF st. Fran
els. State of Arkansas. between the hours OF 10
AIN. and PM. offer for sale TO the highest bid
der for cash. tho following described real estate:
All that part OF lot two (al In the northeast
quarter OF Section six tc) lying west Of the st.
Louis, Iron Mountain L. southern railroad: and
all that part of lot three 81 In the northeast
quarter of Section six (6) lying west OF the st.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railroad,
ana south OF the lane dividing the lands Of 4.
I. Goodloe, and lands formerly owned by James
H. Cockril; also the south half OF lot two t2) In
tho northwest quarter OF Section six (6), all In
Township i've 80, north. Range three 81 east.
containing in all Us acres more or less, situated
In the County of st Francis, state OF Arkansas.
All rights to valuation or appraisement Of said
real estate. all rights of exemption, homestead
and dover, and all rights redemption have been
waived and conveyed in said Trust Deed. and the
undersigned rs Trustee, will sell said real estate
free OF all such rights or interests Said sale Ill
be made without warranty Of title. Any party "
whom said property. or any portion thereof, may
be struck of. must at oncc deposit In cash ono
tenth OF the sum bid otherwise the bid will BE-
iisregarded and the property at once reoncrsd.
N-3lI +. II. CARLTLE, Trustee.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-03-17
DO THEY WANT LAND?

A correspondent of yesterdays
Democrat, man with broad hu.
m unitarian ideas, in advocating
legislation making it possible for
evory man to acquire land enough
for home said:
Make it possible for every indus.
trious, sober man in the state TO
acquire a home, give him access to
the earth! Ifyou would have fish
to live and grow and multiply, you
would put them into the water,
would you not! And, more than
that, you would make sure there
was sufficiency of pure water,
not q little l0xl2 stagnant mud.
hole. Give our young men a
chance at the earth and IS per cent
Of them will sieze it eagerly. 1t is
their natural element and necessity.
And it will not be long before
there will be u demand for house
keepers among these men, and
then hundreds of women-and no
truer or better ever lived-will
find their natural element also, and
you will have done something in
q plain, commOn-sense, busin ess
way that will immortalize the pres.
ent session of our legislature. Be-
sides, you will have lightcned more
burdens and frightened more faces,
dispersed more shadows, dispensed
more sunshine, loosened more
bonds aud engaged more hearts,
than any public act since Presi-
dent Lincoln's proclamation OF
emancipation.
Theoretically this is oil right,
and the sentiment is most ad mira.
bic. But the landless and home.
less are not pining for lands. The
government might give every
homeless man an absolute title to
ten, twenty or forty acres for a
home, and in very short time the
number of the homeless would be
as great as now. There is great
restitution among the homeless,
and We are prone TO believe it is
due to land monopoly, but the fact
remains that nothing is so cheap as
land and that thousands and thou
sands of people are every year
giving up homes in the country in
the hope Of lettering their condi.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-03-17

Washington, Mavch IL The secre-
tary of war has made aloimenis AS
follows from appropriations for i'm
proving the Mississippi river from the
head of the passes 10 the mouth of the
Ohio river:
Greenviile. Miss. 5000 Helena.
Ark. $50 200 New Matirid. Mi $40, :
900 charlottesville, Mo-. $50. 600; Miss
iSsippi river commission. S25 600: sur
veys. gauges and observations. 1900
dredgrs and dredging. 1888 400 :, TX
perimental dykes. $50 600. First and
second district. Plum Point Beach, $50.
600 lopeiield Bend. S6U. 900: surveys,
first and second districts. 81 900; third
district, AshbrOok Neck. $50 900; Lake
Providence district, S25.O00; surveys ;
third district. $1,000; fourth district
kemple Bend revetInents. $3.50 900 ;
surveys, fourth district, So, 900; Plant
first and second districts, SIS 600 :
third district, $50 900 &; fourth district,
$G4. 444
The subdivision of the two general
allotments for levees for the several
United States levee districts has been
made rs follows: Upper st. Francis,
so 600; lower 81. Francis. s123 500 :
White river. s6l $50; upper Yazoo.
$12S 500 lower Yaz 10, S247 900; upper
T-nsas. Sl97 800 lower Tensxs, s2l7 ).
800; Atchafalaya, sos 500; pontchar-
train, S74 900; La Fourche, S37, $50 ;
Barataro, s24,7oo: Lake Borgie, ga,
200.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-03-17
Mayor Election Proclamation.

NOTICE is hereby given that there will
he an election held in the Incorporated
Town OF Forrest City. County of ST. Fran
els, and State of Arkansas. on
TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1899,
for the purpose Of eecting the following
officers for the corporation of the above
named town:
ONE MAYOR,
ONE MARSHAL,
ONE RECORDER,
ONE TREASURER,
FIVE ALDERMEN.
All legal voters within the Incorporated
Limits of the Town of Forrest City are EN-.
titled to vote.
Given under my hand as Mayor of the
Town OF Forrest City. Arkansas, this the
Sd day OF March, 1899.
JNU. II. Upton. Mayor.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1899-03-17
A Good Potato Fertilizer.

When stable manure of good quality
is used in conjunction with cons mercial
fertilizers for hotatnes the results are
most satisfactory. There is considera.
b.e opposition To the use of stable ma
nure at all for potatoes. the argument
being that it does not contain sufficient
phosphOric acid 10 offset the large per
cent of nitrogen. However, rs long as
stable manures are the cheapest aud
most abundant fertilizer the farmer II 8
IL will not do t. dia the line too CLOSE
ly IN their use. A good combination If
soils OF average fertility fairly heavy,
would he an addition of 20 pounds I
nuriate of potash and the same Of phos.
phoric acid to each ton of stable ma.
nure. II could be mixed with the ma.
nufe IN pitt on broadcast after the ma
nnre had been ploxed under. On light
soils 30 pounds of muriate of potash
and 80 pounds of dissolved phosphate
rock added to each ton of stable ma.
nure would make u profitable fertilizer
for potatoes. After applying, the land
should be thoroughly narrowed, wheth-
er the chemicals are mixed with the
manure or applied separately.-Ex.