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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-27
NEIGHBoRs ACCUSE HIM.
Strange Case of n Farmer Charged
With Hypnotism and Witchery.

Strange Case of n Farmer Charged
With Hypnotism and Witchery.
A strange, weird story has been circu-
lated about the Okaw valley, Illinois. 10
concerns John Smit, a young and appar-
emily uneducated farmer. His neighbors
accuse him of having wonderful hypnotic
power and of using it in queer ways.
Anna Emile Babst, daughter Of q
neighboring farmer, claims that she has
been tsput under a spell' by Smit. She
says:
at was last winter when I met John
Smit one night at a dance over at Free
dom-Hecker, it is called now. He never
was my partner, and I never went with
him. But / knew him, and he wanted to
take me home. 1 told him I had a partner
to go home with and that ] would go
home with the partner / already had.
after that it seemed I felt kind Of
queer like, and I decided I would go away
to ST. Louis. So I went over to St. Louis
and got work. Every place / went there
was a voice following me, calling my
name, plain like, Emily just like that
Emily Everywhere I would go 1t was
'Em'ly-Em'ly.'
mo sooner than I'd get to bed or get
alone I'd hear some n calling me. /
asked a woman In st. Louis what was the
matter, and she said I must be bewitched.
$50 she sent me to a lady who lives on
Gravois road, and she told me maybe I'd.
been hypnotized and that the only way I
could be cured would be just not to be-
lieve it at all.
$50 I tried to do what she told me. but
I didn't succeed very well in shaking of
the queer sensation. And then 1t just
seemed I felt like I would be all right
if I could only see my father. So I wrote
to him to Hecker p~ostoffice to come and
get me, and I came home. I've been home
now since Monday, and it just seemed
thai the minute I saw my father and from
that time on it all passed away. ]
don't think I will be troubled with it am
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-27

In North America one of the largest of
the weasel family is the fisher" a very
large, long-furred polecat, living mainly
by the waterside, and, like many others
of the tribe, very partial to fish, It
weighs about sixteen pounds and its long,
richly colored fur is exported IN great
quantities to different parts of Europe,
though not often used in this country.
A trapped fisher, will attack, any one
chain, n when free will beat off any
dog Of twice it's size. But perhaps the
the smaller species yet recorded is that
shown by a small variety of jungle cat
known as the fishing cat, which, though
no relation to the Canadian '.Hsher,,' is
quite as courageous One of these, which
was kept in a m~enagerie, broke through
into the next cage and there attacked
and killed a leopard which was three
times its own size. The Indian mongroos
possesses all the courage of the pole-cat,
together with amiability and a .regulat-
ess to good ends, and we imagine 1t to
stand at the head of the list of the small
er animals if quality as well as quantity
IS demanded as a mark of ~intrepidity.
There is no doubt that the mongoos res
alizes the deadly nature of the cobra's
bite. It's intense excitement is strong
evidence of this. Sui a mongoos has
been known to fight just as bravely
against other foes. One was seen to at
tack and drive off a large greyhound,
which it fancied was hostile to it
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-27

a-L
OF his mother, who declared that
Willmore had ruined both her sons.
Abe acknowledged he had turned robbeN
III order to give presents to his sweetheart.
Archie Majors was apparently not cons
cerned In the burglaries, but he certainly
abetted his younger brother in his illegal
acts. He was of even q lower type than
Abe. He was absent in Texas working as
q cowboy for a year until seven months
previous to Abe's arrest. He returned n
rags and was clothed by his mother. Aft
erward he stole everything valuable in
the miserable home, stripping the blankets
from his mothers bed.
Abe Majors and Willmore were released
on parole from Folsom penitentiary over
q year ago through the leniency of Presl-
dent R. NJ. Fitzgerald of the board Of state
prison directors. Mrs. Ballington Booth
many ministers, lawyers and others Joined
in a petition for his release. Fitzgerald
was convinced Of his reformation.
Abe Majors then dropped from sight,
not to be heard of again until the fatal
battle in Utah.
A pathetic feature in the tragedy Of the
Majors family is the story of Lena Stone,
now the widow of the robber killed in the
lonely glen in Utah. The eldest Of three
orphan sisters, she joined the Salvation
Army four years ago in Alameda, when
she was employed as a domestic by ]. e.
Baker of Central avenue. In the barracks
she met Archie Majors, who lured her to
Sacramento, where they were married.
The couple went to Seattle, but Majors
was not to be reformed and wanted the
wife to earn his living. He deserted her
and drifted back to San Francisco.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-27
when Dolly IL HI.

An odd branch of doll service is tend
ing the pet in sickness. Dolls appear to
b. subject to all the complaints of their
young nurses. They are physicked, too,
by the familiar nursery methods.
The realistic impulse to detect some-
thing like the poorly look in the doll
is Illustrated by the diagnosis of leprosy
in the case of a doll from whom "the
paint was fecking off" If all the paint
comes off and the doll takes on a pitiful
pallor, there is a fine opportunity for
the child's healing art In n instance
the appearance of measles was induced
by the help of a red lead pencil. In an
other instance, when a dob was con-
valescent after fever, the "pretence" was
supported by deliberately pulling out the
hair. Fractures of limb or skull and
sligter injuries leading to loss of the
vital sustaining sawduct have Of course,
to be treated s~urgicaEy.
Doll surgery however, TO Judge by the
number of MANNED and deformed figures
which are to be found in doll land, would
seem to be by no means universal amonG
children,-"Contemporary Review"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-27

REV. MARY BAKER G. DDY
lodged In the hands of a council of
forty, which in turn is controlled by a
supreme council of seven. A new church
was built in Boston in 1895, and when
it was opened a new. commandment
was issued to the effect that the Bible
and Science and Health should be its
only pastors and hat there should be
no original ~discourses. 1t was explain
ed that instead of ~discourses there
would be readings by a man and wo-
man alternately from the Bible and
Science and Health"
There are today, it is estimated, near
iy 700, 600 persons who believe in the
doctrines of Christian Science as ex-
pounded by Mrs. Eddy. Most of these
are Americans, but q good majority OF
them are Europeans. 1t is also claimed
tina there are thousands of persons,
both in this country and in Europe,
who believe that her doctrines are true,
but who have not yet come forward
publicly as her disciples. Among these
persons are many of great wealth and
refinement, and it is to their financial
support and encouragement that the
present prominence of the movement is
largely said to be due.
Further proof of it's success is found
in the fact that over $50, 900 copies Of
Science and Health" have been sold
and that there are over 300 churches,
| most of them beautiful and artistic ed
| ifices, in which Christian Scientists reg
| ularly meet to worship.
According to Mrs. Eddy, the cardinal
doctrine of Christian Science is that
the soul, through the power Of good.
triumphs over sickness and death and
performs miracles of healing such as
are related in the Bible. In other words,
| she and her disciples claim that Chris
| tian Science is the up to date and true
| form of the old Christianity and is
wholly in accordance with the teach
ings of the Bible.
There are no ordained pastors in any
of the churches established by Chris
tan Scientists. Instead there are two
books-the Bible and Science and
Health" which is regarded by Chris
tan Scientists as the one inspired book
of the nineteenth century n of al
most II not of quite as much authori-
! ty as the Bible itself.
That his extraordinary movement
will continue to prosper in spite Of all
legal or other obstacles which may be
placed in its way Is the general opinion
of Christian Scientists, and the ground
for this belief is their conviction that
the movement is inspired and conse-
quently is beyond the power Of all hu-
man adversaries.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-27
IDENTIFIED BY PHOTO.
Salvation Army Girls Picture
Furnishes a Clew.
TWO DESPERATE UTAH BANDITS.


End of the Criminal Career of the
Notorious Majors Brothers-Archie
Shot Dead by the sheriR and Abe
Likely to Die by the Moose.
By means of a photograph the identity
has been established of two daring bandits
whose crimes in Utah, ending recently
with the murder of Captain Brown of the
Ogden police force and the killing OF one
of the robbers, startled the people Of that
and neighboring states. The dead desper-
ado was Archie Majors, and the living
one, now in Jail at Brigham, Utah, is none
other thor his brother, the notorious Abe
Majors, whose b~urglaries and other mis-
deeds terrorized that section.
The pair of youthful criminals were run
down by a sheriff and posse after they had
held up and robbed a travelling man in the
own of Brigham. Cornered in a gulch,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-27
Nother0f-
Christian
+ Science.

If the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy was
not the ~discoverer and founder of Chris
tan Science, she is certainly today the
head and front of that movement, which
is just now being brought into unusual
prominence by the legal attacks which
are being made on it in New York.
Some Christian Scientists claim that
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby was the
real founder of the sect. He lived in
New Hampshire and died there in 1866.
His friends allege that it was he who
taught Mrs. Eddy the principles she
now breaches and that he restored her
to health.
But the great majority of Christian
Scientists look upon Mrs. Eddy as the
mother of their faith. She first began
practicing the art of healing in Lynn,
Mass, soon after the date of Mr.. Quinn
by's death. In 1870 she published her
first pamphlet, entitled THE Science Of
Man. which was afterward incorporat-
the Scriptures
In her book "Retrospection n In
trospection" Mrs. Eddy says, During
20 years prior to my discovery I had
been trying to trace all physical effects
" ~ IiG1ltdi td0SC, dAi0 IA II kotSCA
part of 1866 / gained the scientific GER
tainty that all c%ausation was mind and
every effect a mental phenomenon"
Her first complete statement of
Christian Science was published in 1875
and has since been followed by many
other works
In 1881 Mrs, Eddy moved from Lynn
to Boston, n there she organized a
Christian Science church, a m~etaphys-
ical college n also began the publica-
ton of The Christian Science Journal.
Soon after the church was opened, it
is said, she was privately ordained to
the ministry by her disciples, and
whenever she preached, which was on
ly three or four times a year, larg
crowds came to hear her. In 1889 she
moved to Concord, N. H. and from
there she still communicates regularly
with her host Of followers.
The mother church of Boston is said
to have a roll of 1900 members from
all over the country, and it's affairs are
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-27


more; at least 1 hope not. because it was
awful while it lasted, and If 1t had gone
on much longer / might have gone sure
enough crazy"
AS for John Smit, he denies that he -
a hypnotist.
~ never bewitched any one," said he
as he whitfield. sim only a poor, igno-
rant farmer, and l can't talk very good
English. But I never did a bit of harm
to anybody, did 1, HenryP' he asked OF
his brother. who had come up and SQUAT
ted beside him.
ssWhy, who said you ever did harm,
Hannes?'' asked the brother. WAS Is
them Kunklemanns?"
"Oh, I've heard a whole lot about II
and about what people have said about
me, but 1 want to ask do I look like a
man that could do anything like that"
said John Smit.
In fairness to John SHIFTS PERSONAL
presence it should be stated that, judging
from appearances, he would be among the
last of men to be picked out as a sorcere'
or h%ypnotist.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-27
Cromwell Celebration At N.seby

Cromwel's greatest victory, the battle
of Naseby, was kept yesterday, says
the Westminster Gazette" (April 28) on
the battlefield. Several meetings were
held, and at one Of them the rector of
Holdenby., the Rev. DR.. Cox, protested
against Nonconformists being allowed to
claim an exclusive share In the appre-
citation of the Protector. Huntingdon was
also busy yesterday. A sermon was
preached in the morning by Dr. Monro
Gibson and 500 persons afterward sat
down to a public luncheon IA the Corn
Exchange.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04
THE BEST DOG.

Yes, went to see the bowwows and looked
at every one,
Proud dogs of every breed and strain that's
underneath the sun;
But not one could compare with--you may
hear it with surprise
A little yellow dog know that never took a
prize.
Not that they would have skipped him when
they gave the ribbon out,
Had there been a class to fit him-though his
lineage is in doubt
No judge of dogs could e'er resist the honest,
faithful eyes
OF that plain little yellow dog that never took
aprize.
Suppose he wasn't trained to hunt, and never
killed rat,
And isn't much on tricks or looks or birth
e well, what of thatP
That might be said of lots of folks whom men
call great and wise,
As well as of that yellow dog that never took
aprize.
1t isn't what dog can do, or who dog may
be.
That hits man. It's simply this-does he
believe in me2
And by that test know there's not the com.
peer meath the skies
OF that plain little yellow pup that never took
prize.
Oh, he's the finest little pup that ever wagged
tail
And followed man with equal joy to Congress
or to jail
Pm going to start special show-'twill beat
the world for size
For faithful little yellow dogs, and each shall
have prize,
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04
MRS. KATE sPRAGUE DEAD.
Daughter Of Salmon p. Chase Expired
In washington-Chi1dre at
Her Bedside.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Mrs. Kate
Chase Sprague, wife of former gov.
ernor of Rhode Island and the daughter
of the late Salmon p. Chase. governor
of Ohio, United States senator and chief
justice of the United States supreme
court, died at her homestead, Edge
wood, in WashIngton's suburbs. She
was 80 years old. For about three
months she had been suffering with
complication of liver and kidney trou-
bles, but had consented to medical
treatment only ten days ago. She grew
steadily worse until the end came.
At the bedside were her three daugh-
ters, Miss Kittie Sprague, who lived
with her mother, Miss Portia Sprague
of Narragansett Pier, and Mrs. DON
aldson of Brooklyn. The funeral ar.
rangements have not been completed,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04
A SWIFT RACE TO THE COAST
Tenth Pennsylvania Committee Trying to
Beat the Transport to Frisco.
Slow Raising of Money.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb., Aug. 1.-The
journey of the Tenth Pennsylvania
escort committee enroute to San Fran.
cisco has been made through to this
point under the most auspiclous cir.
cumstances and on schedule time.
The escort committees race to reach
the coast before the Senator grows
more exciting and the transcontlnental
trip is being made in almost record.
breaking time. A run Of 50 miles was
80 miles per hour is maintained con.
tinually.
Monday was the anniversary of the
battle of Malate, and the committee
celebrated the event. Chairman Muehl-
bronner presided. w. B. Cuthbertson
of New Brighton, whose brother, Major
Harry @. Cuthbertson, led the regi-
ment in the charge which drove back
the Spanish attack, made the principal
address. Other addresses were made
and patriotic toasts were drunk.
PITTSBURG, Aug. IA special meet
ing of select and common councils was
held, at which the resolution apprOpri-
ating $1,000 for the reception of the
Tenth Penn sylvania regiment was
passed unanimously.
Mayor w. j. Diehl was much disap
pointed over the manner in which the
citizens are responding to his appeal for
money for the reception of the Tenth
regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers
There is no question. that it will take
$4,000 to carry out the plans of the
committee, and at present there was
over $22 900 IN the fund.
By tomorrow the railroad company
will have to have certified check tor
$25, ,920, or it will be impossible to make
arrangements with the western roads.
A great many persons who have prom.
ised contributions to the fund have not
sent in their checks, and the treasurer
of the fund, d. r. Terrence, said that
he would like to have all the money at
| once.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04
OFFICIAL CALL
For the Democratic Primaries
Set Forth in ResOlu-
tiOns AdOpted.

Resolved, That the Democratic primary
election to nominate three representatives.,
probate judge, sheriff, treasurer, prosecuting
attorney, county commissioner, infirmary
director and 25 land appraisers, and to elect
10 delegates to the state convention, 10 alter.
mates and 81 central committeeman for Stark
County, Ohio, shall be held on Saturday,
August 10, 1899.
There shall be one delegate to the state con-
vention and one alternate elected from each of
the following districts in the county that cast
500 votes or fraction over $50 for Horace l..
Chapman for governor in 1897:
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04
Currency Bill Draft Not Completed.

NARRAGANsETT PIER, Aug. 1.-The
sub committee of the senate finance
committee left Narragansett for Man,
haitian Beach. Senator Platt of Con
necticut again has been called away
from the session by the illness of hi
son. Senator Aldrich has gone to
Warwick, r. l., but will speedily join
the other members. The draft of the
bill for currency reform, while prog.
ressing, Is still far from completion.
Senator Platt of New York will again
confer with the three active member
at Manhattan Beach.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04
status of 1nspeetor General.

WASHINGTON, Aug. l.-Secretary Al
ger and Assistant Secretary Mei1lejohn
were in conference Monday and finally
determined upon an order fixing the
status of the inspector general Of the
army and the officers of his corps. 1t
made it plain that the inspector general
and officers of his corps shall be subjecN
TO orders of the secretary Of war.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04
Reward offered rlCoughlin.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-The board of com.
missioners of Cook county offered a re.
ward of $500 for the capture and return
to this city of Daniel Coughlin, wanted
for alleged jury -bribing. Coughlin was
once sentenced for life for the murder
of DR.. Cronin and was acquitted ON the
SarOnd trial
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04

Washington, Aug. IA dispatch was
received from Admiral Dewey this
afternoon, saying. NAPLES" The dis
patch meant that the Olympia had sail
ed from Trieste for Naples, where it is
expected she will arrive Friday.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04
Sir Phillip Manifold Dead.

LONDON, Aug. Sir Phillip Man,
field, who was mayor of Northampton
In 1892 and who represented Northamp.
ton in parliament in the Liberal inter
est from 1891 to 1898. is dead, aged 81
years.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04

Irritating stings, bites, scratches.
wounds and cuts soothed and healed by
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve-a sure
and safe application for tortured flesh.
Beware OF counterfeits E. @. Miller,
East End pharmacy, F.. p. Shanafelt &
Co., Fishers drug store.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04

Rochester, N. Y, Aug. 1.-The Davis
automobile, which is running from
New York to San Francisco and which
has had so much bad luck, arrived last
evening and left for Buffalo this morn
ing at 8 o'clock.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04

to the coffee drinker. Coffee drinking
is habit that is universally INDUCED
in and almost as universally injurious.
like coffee, but the effects are just the
opposite. Coffee upsets the stomach,
ruins the digestion, effects the heart
GraiuO tones up the stomach, aids di-
gestion and strengthens the nerves.
There is nothing but nourishment in
Grain-O. 1t can't be otherwise, 10 and
25c per package,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04

Ortiz, Mexico, Aug. News has
reached here that several Americans
and Mexicans have been killed in
towns In the Yaqui river valley, east
and southeast OF this section, by Yaqui
Indians. Inhabitants in and near the
Yaoui valley are in state OF terror.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04

SARATOGA, Aug. 1.-The Uuiversalist
national summer meeting, in session
here, was addressed by the Rev. DR.. O.
H. Shinn of Kansas City on "Affirma.
tions Of Universalism.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04

Troops are being modified at all
central points. The number OF Indians
under arms may be placed at between
1900 and 1000.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04
To Ride 100 Miles a Day,

LONDON, Aug. Teddy Hale, the
Irish bicycle racer, started from Hol.
born vladuct here in an effort to ride
100 miles daily for year, Sundays ex-
cepted.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04

Belfast, August 1.-The steamer
Dromedary, in fog last night, collid-
ed with yacht which sunk with all
hands on board. Nothing was recov-
cred from the lost vessel.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04

Cleveland, August 1.-The boycott Is
about the only thing connected with
the street railway strike that seems to
have any life today. The boycott how
ever, is very much alive. Fewer peo-
pie are riding on the forbidden cars
than ever. The chamber of commerce
members are talking of organizing
some systematic opposition to the
dreaded weapon, but nothing as yet
has been done.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04

New York, Aug. IA tenement in
course OF construction ON Madison
street, collapsed today, burying three
workmen in the ruins. The men we're
extracted with difficulty, and were bad
ly hurt but none were killed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04

Hampton, Aug. There have
been four deaths from yellow
fever in the soldiers home this
morning. One new case is reported,
at Phoebus, just outside the home.
People are leaving here by scores.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04
JUST OFF THE WIRE.

Special to the News Democrat.
Montreal, Quebec, Aug.l.-Owing to
a continual run on sthe bank Jacques
Gartil, the directors decided to suspend
temporarily.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04

WASHINGTON. Aug. Frank M
Martin of Caldwell, o., was appointed
a census S-n.'''.'R0r
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04

Cowes, Aug. 1.-The race for the
Queens cup was sailed here today.
The Prince of Wales cutter, Britain
mia, and the Meteor, formerly the
Thistle, led the others at the start.
The Meteor finished first and at that
time the other contestants, including
the Britannia, were not in sight. The
Britannia lost the race by over II min
utes. Today's result shows that the
Shamrock, which beat the Britannia in
about the same time as today, is prac-
tically equal to the old Thistle.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04
Police Interfered with PrizeHght.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1.-The Dixon.San-
try boxing contest was indefinitely post
poned owing to police interference.