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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08

When an unmarried woman dies in
Brazil, the coffin, hcnrsc and livery Of the
coachman are all scarlet
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08

If the Fame Hose Company is
euccessful in securing the 500 Of
fered by the Shellpot Park manage
ment, 1t Will be awarded equally
to the two Wilmington hospitals.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08
llnnnf Illf1 Rkl0nuuG For Cholera
AIIlIJbV\ kMl1lIvwE Diarrhoea
IIlIlil Il kVllllInE Teething
"~ Infantum

The Fish narket.
Powell has on sale on his stall In tho
Third Street market trout, rockflsh, and
founders,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08

When Dr.. Simms Compound Peuny-
royal Pills will maxi you huppy. II box.
by mail, 6O6 King stI cot.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08
Work of THIEVES,
With The Fireman,

Thieves broke into the railroad station
at Greenwood yesterd ny morning.
Nothing was taken.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08

CHIEF Of the Fire Department,
George W. Sasse was last night
elected president of his Company.
This speaks well for the popularity
OF Mr.. Sasse with the company.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08

THE trolley roads were never so
well patronized in Wilmington as
this summer The extension of the
trolley to Chester has been the
means of bringing hundreds of dol
lars worth Of business to this city.
The opening up of the New Castle
road has shown what trolley all
the way down the State would do,
both for the owners and the city.
1t would bring persons to our city.
who do not now think of stopping
Oft the train, but go on to Philadel-
phia to do their shopping.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08

The New York Journal contains
a laughable cartoon Tabled: "Stu.
dying the curious tribe of military
apes found in the Mckinley jun
gle.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08

George W. Sasse has been chosen presi,i.
emit OF the Washington Fire Company to
succeed Frank j. Niedermair resigned.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08

"A WELL known Wilmingtonian
and one of the largest tax payers
said that he considered it waste
OF money for the Water Department
and the Park Commissioners to
spend the money contemplated in
erecting the tower in the Highlands.
He said the proposed tower would
cost some so, 900. He did not think
the Commissioners had the right to
thus throw the tax payers money
away,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08

ONE of the signs Of prosperity in
this city is the charging of the
plant of the Nulcanized Fibre Com.
pany, by the addition of a three
story building, 2lx11o feet at cost
of s., 200.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08

Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. lOc or CSC,
II e. G. G. fail 10 cure, druggists refund money.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08

QUITE change in the weather
has taken place during the past
twenty-tour hours and from being
warm and srltry it has been cool
enough to make living more COM
Portable and take away half the de-
sire to seek a change during the
month Of August at the sea shore.
The recent thunder storms. accom-
panied by hail, have no doubt been
the cause of cooling the atmosphere.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08

Any man who wishes to butt his brains
ut can find a stone wall.-Dallas News.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08

The famous Dreyfus trial has be-
gun tor the second time and this
time it is thought that Captain
Dreytus will be found innocent of
the charges made against him by
the French court martial He is
charged with delivering to the
agents OF foreign power, docu-
ments connected With the defence of
France. Some of the principles of
the first trial have committed sui
eide and others have left the coun-
try,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-08-08

THERE seems to be some differ
ence between the city department
that controls the gathering Of gar
bage and those who have to dispose
of the same, about Sunday. The
garbage men on Saturday end their
weeks work at noon, and thus the
garbage is allowed to accumulate
from Saturday noon until Monday
morning, which is too long this
warm weather. The attention OF
the Board of Health is called to this
matter for them to remedy.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22
FOR DRYING woMES's HAIR.

to dry it, and unless great are is exer.
cised the risk of catching severe cold
during this drying operation is very
great. y very simple arrangement to
dry the hair quickly has been patented
by John w. Iillcrman and Nicholas
Rossi, of Lyons, Kan. 1t comprises a
metal chamber on Il stand, which per-
mits of lis adjustment at the head of
the subject. The top is sloping to re-
ceive the hair. and is covered with as.
bestos To prevent amy damage by heat
being done to the tresses. Inside this
chamber is Il lamp and around the top
are apertures to permit the heat to
pass through the hair. BY this means
an operation heretofore requiring sew.
eral hours may be performed in fifteen
to twenty minutes.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22
TARTAR is RELEASED,
Transport Allowed to Clear by the
British Anthorities.


Clearance papers have been allowed the
Tartar at Hong Kong. 1t is supposed
clearance was allowed upon the sugges-
ton of the British foreign office to the
British governor at Hong Kong that it
would be unwise to interfere with Amer
lean transports.
The War Department was officially
notified Wednesday morning of the de-
tention at Hong Kong by the British au-
thorities of the transport Tartar, which
they claimed to. be ovcrcrowded with
men. Gen. Otis cabled the facts. The
captain of the vessel also cabled from
Hong Kong.
The Tartar is u British vessel and
shows the British ensign over her stern
to indicate her nationality, although the
United States army transport flag flies
at her masthead. Her regular service
was between Victoria and Hong Kong.
1t is declared that her charter by the
United States Government Invested her
of her mercantile character and made her.
for the time being, a regular American
war vessel, and as such, under the Ge-
neva convention, entitled to full extra
territoriality throughout the world.
Officials in Washington deny that
Great Britain has any jurisdiction over
the transport Tartar, and Ambassador
Choate was cabled to make strong repre-
scmtations to the British Government on
the subject. Overcrowding is also denied,
it being pointed out that r%emodeling the
ship increased her passenger accommoda.
tons by so per cent.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22

the description Of Miss Campbell had
bought cherries at one place and ar
senic at another, and had been noticed
by the postal clerks when mailing the
package. Gently it was intimated to
Miss Campbell that she might have
sent the box herself. She repealed the
charge Indignantly. Then the officers
asked her to explain some of the odd
things she had said when she thought
'she was dying. She tried to 10 so and
made a sorry mess of it. Little by lit
tie they tangled her in a web of contra
dictions. and at last she broke down
and told the story virtually as given in
this article.
Miss Campbell is an attractive wom-
an of good family. She is the daughter
of Hon. John a. Campbell, of Cumber-
land, w. Va, and Il graduate of Hiram
College, Ohio. She went to California
with letters of introduction to Senator
Perkins and other prominent people,
and has been we'll received in society
there.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22
Quite Content with the Sentence

Your worship" said the willy solicit.
Or, who was defending the stalwar,
prisoner in the dock, you cannot pos.
sibly convict my client of %lousebreak.
ing. l submit. sir, with all Difference,
that neither morally nor legally can
you convict him. l will tell you why.
MIR. Skies, here, us the evidence
clearly proves. did not break into any
house at all. He found the parlor win.
dow open. as the witnesses admit, and
nll he did was to put in his right arm
and remove some unimportant articles.
Now. sir, Mr.. Skies arm is not he him.
self, and 1 fail to see how you can
punish the whole individual for an of.
Tense committed by only one of his
limbs"
Very well. SIR" said the cautious
Solomon of the bench, 81 have heard of
q similar defense before to-day, so |
lind the prisoners arm guilty, and sen.
tence it to six months imprisonment.
The gentleman himself can
1t or not, as he chooses. MI. Clerk. re-
cord the sentence"
Then Mr.. Skies smiled n fourteen.
inch smile, and the plan of the defense
became apparent. as he quietly pro-
ceedcd to unscrew his guilty cork arm.
ana leave 1T in the custody of the court.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22

package. This done. she later called
up by telephone the residence of Mrs.
Scheib, where she boarded, and, imi-
tating the voice of Mrs. Rathom as
closely as possible. inquired whether
Miss Campbell had received n package
By mail. This was another move to
fasten guilt on Mrs. Ratllom, as Mrs.
Scheib. when questioned by the police,
said 1t was undoubtedly the latter who
had talked over the telephone.
In preparing the box of poisoned fruit
Miss Campbell had been careful to
leave the top layer of cherries undoc-
tored. She did this for the reason that
she would have to pass the box around
among the members of the Sclleib fam
lily when she received it. and, as she
did not wish to poison anybody, the top
layer could he eaten without danger.
Later she would make the discovery
that the rest of the contents were poi
soned, give the affair into the hands of
the police, and the running down of
Mrs. Rathom would be easy.
AS luck would have it, after sampling
the contents of the box the afternoon
it was received Mrs. Schcib complained
of not feeling well, and innoccntly said
she thought the cherries had made her
sick. Miss Campbell. her nervous sys-
TEN overwrought by excitement, at
once imagined a horrible condition of
affairs. 'What," she argued to herself,
"if l have made Il mistake and put
some of the poisoned fruit in the top
layer?" The more she thought Of it
the more nervous and apprehensive she
became, and finally she imagined she
also felt queer pains in her stomach.
Then she was sure both she and Mrs.
Scheib had eaten the poisoned fruit
and We're going to die. She rushed to
a drug store and got an antidote. con-
sisting of mustard and soap. swallowed
a lot herself, and FASTENED back home
to the relief of Mrs. Scheib.
In the meantime the druggist had in
formed the police of the poisoning case.
Detectives called at the Scheib home
and took possession of the box of fruit.
Chemists analysed the cherries and
said they contained arsenic enough to
kill n herd of cows. Experts examined
the address. and. prompted by the in
formation given by Miss Campbell,
found it was in the handwriting of Mrs.
Ratliom. Thus far the plot had work.
ed we'll, With one exception. Mrs.
Rathom was implicated, all right, but
Miss Campbell was afraid that both
herself and Mrs. Scheib were going to
die. She said things in terror that the
police remembered, and when they ran
+ against a snarl one day that they could
not unravel they came back to Miss
Campbell for explanations.
Neither Miss Campbell moi Mrs.
Scheib had really partaken of the poi
soned fruit. The illness of the latter
was caused by some slight trouble,
while the girl suffered solely from a
guilty conscience and high nervous
tension. They both recovered speed
lily. For nearly II month the police
worked on the mystery. 1t was soon
settled, despite the discriminating ad-
dress. that Mrs. Rathom could not have
sent the package. Detectives ascer-
! tanned that u young oma answering
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22
ETALK ON THE TRUSTS.
THE CONFERENCE ON COMBINES
OPENS IN CHICAGO.
Assembly Notable for the Diversity
of Ideas and Interests Represented
The Transport Tartar Is Permitted
to Clear from Hong Kong.

When Franklin II. Head, president of
the Civic Federation of Chicago, called to
order the national conference ON trusts
and combinations Wednesday morning
not all the seats in Central Music Hall
Were taken. Many delegates had not ar
xived in Chicago. Much time was taken
up in perfecting an organization after
the Introductory addresses by President
Head Of the Civic Federation, DIR. How
ard $. Taylor, representing Chicago, and
Attorney General Akin, representing Illi-
,nois.
I~hirty-five States were represented, the
calling of names occupying one hours
time. 1t was afternoon before any move
was made toward preparing q program or
permanent organization. AS soon as
President Head announced that the meet
Ing was now in the hands of the conven-
'tlon it became apparent there was to be
q clash in the selection of a committee on
program. First came a motion, which
was lost, that a delegate from each State
be appointed to form the committee on
program.
1t was unanimously decided that the
committee on program be comprised Of
one delegate from each State appointed
by the Governors and from zach organ
tzation represented, said committee to be
selected by delegates in private confer
ence at the midday adjournment of the
convention. This matter being settled,
President Head announced that the Civic
Federation had already prepared the
morning program in two papers. short
ones, to be read by Prof. Jeremiah w.
jerks and Prof. Henry Carter Adams on
PROBLEMS Before the Conference" and
requested the indulgence of the confer
'ence to hear them before the morning adj
%.journment.
Attendance at Thursdays session was
much larger than Wednesday. Many
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22
She Anew His Footstcps.

His enemies may have originated. but
his friends do not hesitate to repeat. q
story about Il rising young politician,
who. says the New York Tribune, has
large feet, as we'll rs Il capacious head.
The politicians mother, Il lovable old
woman. IS unfortunately very deaf.
She lives in $: fiat in the ncighborhood
of Grants tomb, and is always delight
ed by a visit from her son.
When the United States cruiser
Brooklyn. which was anchored in the
Hudson, off the tomb. on Memorial
day, fired n salute of twcnty-one guns,
the old lady was observed to start. fix
her cap, and smooth down her apron.
Then she said, with IL sweet smile,
George Is coming. l hear his footsteps
on the stairs"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22

AMERICAN SAYINGS.
"Though.s that Breathe and Words
that :urn."

"~Thoughts that Breathe and Words
tina Burn"
Give me liberty. or give me death!-
Patrick Henry.
We must all hang together. or as.
suredly we shall all hang separately
Benjamin Franklin.
These arc the times that try mems
souls.-Thomas Paine.
My only regret is that l have but one
life to give for my country.-Nathau
Hale.
Ills our true policy to steer clear of
permanent alliances with amy portion
of the foreign world.-George Wash.
ington.
Millions for defense. but not one cent
for tribute.-Charlcs c. Pinckney.
To the memory of the man, first in
war, first in peace and first in the
hearts of his countrymen.-Henry Lee.
Don't give up the ship!-James Law.
renee.
We have met the enemy, and they are
ours.-Oliver II. Perry.
Our country! In her Intercourse with
foreign nations, may she always be in
the right; but our country, right or
wrong.-Stephen Decatur.
l would rather be right than be Presi.
dent.-Henry Clay.
If any II attempts to haul down the
American flag, shoot him on the spot
John A. Dix.
Hold the fort! l am coming.-w. T.
Sherman.
With malice toward none. with char
ity for all.-Abralam Lincoln.
Let us have peace.-Ulysses s. Grant.
Don't observation-disclosures Wood.
Don't cheer! the poo devils are dy.
ing.-John w. Philip.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22
MEN AS CUSTOMERS.
Clerks Find Them Much Easier to Wait
Upon than Women.


a saleswoman sees phases of human
nature that are seldom revealed under
other conditions. and there is enough
of truth in this sketch--from the Phila-
delphia Times-to make it interesting
to both sexes.
The saleswoman whose duty it is to
wait upon men was not thus engaged.
She had zone to serve Il woman, who
proved to be IN extremely hard GUS
ONE to suit, calling for one style after
another. The clerk was becoming dis
couraged, and beginning to feel as If
she didn't care whether Il sale was
made.
At this point another saleswoman
said to her, Maud, there's IL man."
and came TO relieve her of the uncom
Portable customer.
'Thank goodness exclaimed Maud,
as she started toward the counter
where mems gloves were sold.
What would you like to see, sir?"
she asked of the man who was wait
ing.
II want Il medium shade of brown,
with wide stitch on the back. and fas-
tened with Il button instead of u
clasp"
The ~saleswoman placed Il varied as
sortment before him. Quickly select
ing IL pair, he exclaimed, Just what
l want.' and had one glove fitted. 1t
suited him exactly, and having paid
for his purchase, he left the store.
Now what sort of gloves does the
reader think this man purchased?
They We're Il dark shade of brown,
not medium; they had Il narrow stitch
on the back, not wide; they We're fas-
tened with Il clasp. not with buttons.
Perhaps some man can answer this
question: Why do ONE like to wait
on men better than ON their own seq
because men are so easily pleased, or
because they do not really know what
they want?
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22
QUEER POISON PLOT.
GIRLS SCHEME FOR GETTING
RID OF A RIVAL.
In Love with the Lattcr's Husband,
She Mailed Herself Poisoned Fruit
to Have the Guilt Fixed on the In
noccnt Wife.

Miss Florence NJ. Campbell. of San
Francisco, was infatuated with John
RathOm, a married man. She got the
idea into her head that il she could get
rid of Mrs. Rathom by bringing about
a divorce Ratllom. would marry her.
This was the sole purpose Of a plot that
would have done credit to Lucretia
Borgia. 1t is admitted by the girl, and
her confession has been sustained by
the Investigations of detectives. Miss
Campbell did not wish to kill the
woman who stood in her way. She
merely wished to blacken her character
with n false charge which would land
her in prison and give Rathom an ex-
cuse FOR obtaining Il divorce.
Mrs. Rathom and Miss Campbell
were Mt n time close friends and had
carried on n correspondence. The lat
ter had several of Mrs. Rathom's letters
in her possession. and II day Il devil
islh scheme came into her head. She
would mail Il box of poisoned fruit to
herself; the address on the cover would
be apparently written by Mrs. Rathom.
and this would afford the desired
means of prosecuting the oman into
prison.
Miss Campbell bought some candied
cherries and loaded them with arsenic.
Then, taking one of Mrs. Rathom's let
tiers addressed to herself, she trimmed
down the envelope so as to get rid of
the old postmarll and pasted it OH the
box. Her next move was to mail the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22
Boer and Triton.

If Dom Paul Kruger will only get q
clean shave all will be forgiven.--Louis,
vile Post.
The Boer is too shrcwd not to perceive
me necessity for ultimate compliance
Cape Times (Sonth .Africa).
The principals in the South African
troubles have almost reached that poin,
where talk ends.-Indianapolis News.
Dom Paul hasn't put the lawn mower
on his face yet, so We guess he doesn't
really mean to fights st. Paul Dispatch.
Dom Paul does not hesitate to init.
mate that Presidents have some divine
rights as well as Observation-Disclosures
Star.
We shall prefer to belize that Mr..
Chamberlain is playing to the galleries Of
politics for his own ambitious purpose
Brooklyn Eagle.
The gratifying thing about Dom Paul
is that all this advertising is not likely
to bring him to this country to lecture
Kansas City Journal.
Now Great Britain appears in the light
of a man who has been tricked into q bad
bargain, claiming the rights he has yield
ed and agreed to.-Indiarapolis Journal.
The only ground on which Great Brit
ain can now justify war ", lie Trans.
vaal is that her IMPERIAL policy makes
it necessary for her to control that State.
Boston Journal.
The Anglo-SaXon Alliance will certain.
ly lie in allegiance while Great Britain
proceeds to steal the possessions Of soma
thlck-witted but honest Dutchman near
the Cape of Good Hope.-Wisconsin
State Journal.
If our national pride should be satisfied
with anything less than complete conas-
cation of everything worth stealing and
President Krugcr's head on a charger to
boot, we shall feel that we have misin-
terpreted the "imparialistic spirit."-Lon-
don Leader.
MISUNDERSTANDING ultimatum, your
honor, bound in morocco, from Sir 10.
seph Cham ,rlain. Dom Paul--Throw Il
ON that pile Of unanswered ultimnta In
the corner and wire Sir Joseph our best
wishes for the nIeen's hca!tf-Minne-
apoAs JourD
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22
-Chicago Tribune.

prominent delegates arrived during the
night and were given seats at the OPEN
Ing of the morning session.
The great national conference on com
binations and trusts has met with the
most sanguine expectations of the pro.
moters, the officers of the Civic Fedora
ton of Chicago. Although many leading
lights, who were expected to attend, failed
to put in an appearance, the distinguished
gathering at Central Music Hall fully
Justified the great purpose for which it
was intended. This great meeting, at
tended by this conntry's most distinguish
ed statesmen, orators and deep thinkers,
will be handed down in history as n
Of the most notable gatherings in the
nineteenth century.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22

Paul Kruger. President Of the South
African Republic, is the man of the hour.
Dom Paul, us everybody calls him. is a
unique figure in history. Bismarck called
him the greatest natural diplomat he had
ever met. Although a dictator lie lives
in democratic simplicity in his own house
in Pretoria. He rises at break of day,
and after his cup of coffee and daily Bible
reading, steps out upon the porch to greet
his regular morning audience, which be-
gins to accumulate before sun up. He
goes to the Government buildings at 8,
attended by a bodyguard Of six armed po-
licemen. Returning at 4, he sits on the
veranda, smoking his old wooden pipe.
His only beverage is coffee, and of this
he drinks n great deal. when l nm
thirsty 1 drink coffee and smoke; when I
am thinking I smoke and drink Coffee"
he snys. His religious creed is austerc.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22
PRESIDENT SAVES SOLDIER.

Private in philippines Will Not lie
shot for striking Officer.
The President has saved n soldier from
an ignominious death. Private Thomas
McVeigh, Company G, First Wyoming
volunteer infantry, was found guilty Of
striking his superior officer by n general
court martial convened ut linus, Philip
pine Islands, and was sentenced to he
shot to death. BY direction of the Pres
1dent, b sentence is committed to dis
honorable discharge and confinement at
hard labor for the period of three years
at Alcatraaz Island, Cal.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-22
Qdda and Enas.

Mail carriers will meet in Detroit in
1900.
Tramps are said to have wrecked the
freight at Cory, Pa.
Mace johnson. colorcd, Monroe City.
Mo-, celebrated his 127th birthday.
Chicago Board of Education has decid.
ed to have Spanish taught in three of her
high schools.
John Conn, IS, Alliance, Ohio, was jilt-
ed by Blanche Tilson. He put q bullet
into his Uranium.