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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08

And even admitting that Mr.. Bryan's
scheme of a Filipino republic with an
American protectorate would work
which nobody belleves-what warrant
does he find for il in the constitution?
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08

: Mr.. Bryan proposes to elaborate his
views in his letter OF acceptance. In
view of the length of his indianapolis
speech this announcement ought to
create a boom in the typesett 'ng ma
chine business.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08

The Philippine are ours. Mr.. Bry-
ans attempt to impeach our title
which he himself helped to confer
will not succeed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08

Richard Henry Stoddard, the blind
banker and poet, has given up dictat.
ing much of his copy and writes most
of it. In spite of his blindness he
writes a remarkably clear hand.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION.
The Twenty-Tiird Annual Meetin;
Opens IN Saratoga.

Opens III Saratoga.
Saratoga, n. Y, Aug. 31.-The open
ing session of the twenty-third annual
meeting of the American Bar associa
ticn was held here today. The presi
dents address was delivered by ex
Senator Charles L. Henderson, com
municating the most noteworthy
changes in statute law on points OF
general interest made in the several
states and by congress during the
preceding years. The election oil
members of the general council and
officers reports followed.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08

a long speaking tour has been ar
ranged for Governor Roosevelt, and he
en- rest assured that his reception ev-
erywhere will amount to an ovation.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08

Let us repeat the question: Has no
Democratic organ the courage and
honesty to discuss the recent North
Carolina election and the declaration
of independence in the same article?
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08

space,
To see beyond the veil that may not
move
For nlortals; If my soul and sense could
prove
The beauty of her mist-enfolded face;
Perchance her loving penalty would be
To lay a darkness on my earthly sight,
And lead me forth to lands of other
light e
Far out beyond these marshes by the sea.
Katharine Coolidge, in the Atlantic
MONTHLY.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08

Colonel Bryan should indulge s7ar.
ingly in prophecies. He has n llrg
stock Of unmarketable ones left over
from the season OF 1896.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08

Will Mr.. Bryan or some other able
anti-Imperialist put a short lecture on
the consent of the governed in simple
sentences and easy words so that 1t
may be used on the ~janitor of the fiat?
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08

Why is the silver issue a suspended
issue? Because n few facts got
around 1t and hung II VI.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08
A General Term.

4 GenffaI Trrnl.
Cleveland P~laindealer: Where did
they go for their vacation?"
ITO the mountains"
"What mountains?"
"Well, / think they are just in the
rear of their Uncle Jim Stebbins'
farm house down in southern Illinoy."
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08

81 am a self-made man." said the
proud individual.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08

Manchester a bankrupt.
London, Aug. 29.-The luke of Manches-
ter was today adjudicated a bankrupt, en-.
failing his resignation from all clubs.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08

Naturally l watched this extra
ordinary sight with great interest,
and, in order to see the finale, l took
the insect into my study, where it
lived al entire day, spending the time
at the ungrateful task of making it's
own funeral toilet"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-08
From the Mystery OF the Mist.

From the Mystery OF the Mist.
The mystery of the mist is calling me
Across the marshes silvery s~olitudes,
BY phantom inlets and gray bordering
woods
To surging silence of a hidden sea.
Swathed In a twilight haze of amethyst,
Beyond the salty sedges lies the verge
OF immemorial oceans endless surge
Entranced by the still mystery OF the
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
WAR MAY Be OVER.
FORTS AROUND THE TRANsvAAL
Z, CAPITAL ABANDONED.
PRETORIA IS EVACUATED.
british Nearing Transvaal Capital-Ex-
pected TO March Into Town without
oppositlon--President Kruger Is said to
Have Fled From Transvaal Territory
TO Lydenburg.

London. Eng. (By Cabe). Pretoria Is to
fall into British hands without the firing OF
shot 1t is believed In London that
johannesburg will also yield.
dispatch from Lorenzo Marquee says
that Johannesburg has already surrendered,
but this Is not fully credited In London.
The news from the Transvaal capital
comes In n dispatch from that place. 1t
says that t"all the forces have been dismissed
from the forts around Pretoria. President
Kruger is now at watervalbovcn." British
officers, according to the same dispatch, "are
now at Johannesburg debating terms of sur
render"
Further light on the situation is shed by
the London Daily Mail which publishes n
dispatch from the Earl OF Rosslyn. one OF
It's correspondents who wns prisoner at
Pretoria, but who. as n civilian, appears to
have been released The dispatch was dated
at Pretoria, and said; Pretoria will be oc-
cupied in about two hours, without resist
ance. Everything is quiet but crowds are
waiting expec;antly In Church Square for
the arrival Of the British" Burgomaster lie
Souza, the Earl states, was authorized to
receive the British.
The London War Office has made public
no dispatch from Lord Roberts as to the
present situation at johannesburg or Pre-
toria. 1t is believed in the British capital,
however, that there will be no further oppo-
sition to the occupation OF either city, and
that, in the language Of one dispatch, "the
war is over"
1t is rumored in Berlin that johannesburg
has been blown up, but there is no confir-
mntion OF this.
Wateryalboven. to which place President
Kruger has retired. is 140 miles northeast Of
Pretoria on the Delagoa Bay railroad. 1t is
near the junction OF the Delagoa line with
the road to Lydenburg, from which it is 40
miles distant The latest move OF President
Kruger therefore seems TO indicate decis-
ion to transfer his capital to Lydenburg, as
1t has been reported he would do. Lyden-
burg is described as in an almost inaccessi-
bly, mountainous region and wonderfully
well adapted to defense. For some time 1t
has been rumored that the cannon and pro-
visions at Pretoria have been in process Of
transfer there.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
OUR NEW POSSESSIONS.

Collector OF Customs Bliss, OF Havana,
Cuba, states that since he took charge OF the
department more than two hundred Cuban
employees have been discharged for fraud.
The second instalment OF General Young
report OF his operations In Northern Luzon
was made public.
The wife OF Col. c. II. Greenleaf has
opened a library in Manila for American
soldiers and sailors.
The Filipinos sent out story to the effect
that Ave hundred Americans had been slain
by them at Catubig.
The natives OF Mindoro Island, one Of the
Philippines, beheaded the boatswain and
his accomplices OF the brigantine Navarro.
who had mutinied and killed the captain.
his wife and the mate.
General Wood has warned the Cuban civil
governor OF Santa Clara province, Cuba.
that II he attempts to corrupt the elections
he will be dismissed and punished.
government teamster in Manila died
from the bubonic plague.
General Wood has ordered that every de-
partment in the government service In Cuba
be overhauied. The soil li..tor's bureau at
Havana has been abolished.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.

Bliss Carman, the poet. is making study
Of old French Canadian folk songs and
stories for translation into English verse
Professor Brander Matthews has been
nsked TO deliver series OF lectures on the
modern novel before an association OF Lon
don clubs.
"Davy" stephens. Of Kingston, Ireland,
mas sold newspapers for "a consecutive years,
and more famous men and women have been
among his patrons than any Of his rivals can
boast.
Alfred Vanderbilt is more OF an athlete
than most Of his family. lie is II splendid
horseman, good polo player, is as skillful
at golf as he used to le at tennis, and Is u
Grst-rate hand at hockey.
Republicans OF the First Maryland district
at their convention had large banner in
scribed with the names OF the President and
their Congressional Representative. The
amer read; "For Mckinley and Mudd."
william Dean Howels, the novelist, is at
work upon another book OF poems
Great Brltain's new Minister TO Denmark,
william Edward Goschen, Is n brother the
First Lord OF the Admiralty, and was for
merly attached to the British legation at
Washington.
J. NJ. Barrie, as the author OF MY Lady
Nicotine" has appropriately purchased and
sent at his own expense large quantity OF
tobacco TO the Highland Brigade, now fight
ing in South Africa.
There are only three members OF the or
ieinal Mckinley Cabinet of three years ago
still In offlce-Lyman j. Gage, Secretary Of
the Treasury; John d. Long, Secretary Of
the Navy, and James Wilson, Secretary OF
Agriculture.
Lord Roberts is the only man living en-
titled TO wear two Victoria crosses.
NJ. Edouard Bocher, who died at the age
Of 30, In Paris, the other day, was for many
years the confidential adviser OF the Orleans
family and the centre Of most the Orleanist
plots during the past 40 years.
Archduke Otto, who is next In line for the
imperial and royal crowns OF Austria Hun
gary after Franz Ferdinand, Is the latter's
younger brother. This young man is true
Hapsburg. His reputation 10 anything but
enviable, but he is fortunately married to a
daughter OF Prince George, Of saxony, and
has one son. The best lawyers IN Europe
say that otto's claim to ting throne is invui-
osrshl@
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
TRAINS COLLIDE.
DISASTROUS FREIGHT WRECK AT
DOVER, DEL.

Dover. Del, Especial. AT $3.50 L. NJ. at
Dover, Del, on the Philadelphia. Whining
ton and Baltimore Railroad, division Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, occurred the
most disastrous railroad wreck that has ever
happened at this place. The north-bound
local freight was slowly pulling in at Dover,
preparing to take water. when the heavy
north-bound Norfolk strawberry freight train
came laundering at high rate OF speed in
the rear, telescoping eight heavily loaded
refrigerator cars.
Two cars were converted into splnters.
Steel rails were broken like pipestems. Eight
cars were piled upon one another, taking fire
from the buried locomotive, flames lesplng
high In the air. The fireman was saved, but
the engineer was fatally injured. Five
tramps were buried beneath the wreck, three
OF whom we're saved after prodigious efforts
OF townsmen and the local fire company,
though one OF them afterwards died. An
other had both legs and ribs broken; an
other was hurt in the shoulders, while the
bodies Of the other two have not yet been
found.
The local fire company fought the flames
for three hours with only one line OF hose,
and the nearest flreplug half mile away.
The wrocking train arrived from Clayton
about five o'clock and proceeded to clear the
tracks. Superintendent Holiday came upon
the scene and gave II his personal supervi-
sion. The two trains were composed OF more
than one hundred heavily loaded refrigera-
tor cars, and the collision was terrific. The
heavy cars were thrown about like rubber
balls. Thousands Of people visited the scene.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
FILIPINos RUSH TOWN.
Five Americans Killed, oficer and Two
Men Missing.

Five Americans Killed, Officer and Two
Men Missing.
Manila, (By Cable. Jon Tuesday night
the Filipinos rushed San Miguel, Province of
Bulacan, Luzon. garrisoned by three COM
panies OF the Thirty-hfth Volunteer Infan-
try.
They swept through the surprised town,
shooting right and left, killing five Ameri-
cans and woundlng seven. Capt. Charles d.
Roberts and two privates are missing. No
Filipino dead were discovered.
San Miguel is q few miles from Manila.
While band under the escort of troops OF
the Forty-sIxth Infantry was moving from
Hang to Slang, within 25 miles Of Manila, 1t
was attacked by Ladrones, three OF the party
being killed.
Lieut. Jens L. Stedje, of Company L,
Forty-seventh Volunteers. commanding IA
scouting party in the southern part OF Albay
natives, In which II Filipincs were killed
and 20, including captain, were captured.
Six explosive bombs and n number Of val
liable Filipino documents also fell into the
hands Of the Americans. The scouts burned
the town OF Yubi, the headquarters OF the
natives. Sergeant Brickley was killed dur
ing HSllBut engagement uedI i1iBuOi IIONiuce
OF Albay.
Scouts Of the Tbirty-sixth and Thirty
fourth Regiments captured 80 rifles and 800
rounds OF ammunition in the Pangaslnan
Province.
Major March's van Of the Thirty-third
Regiment has arrived at Aparri from Ben
guet, after the hardest of mountain travel
ing. The men were exhausted and ragged
having followed persistently on the supposed
Aguinaldo trail. They had several encounters
with the Filipinos, but found no signs Of
Aguinaldo.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
A COMMISSION cENsURED.

1t Acquitted Filipino Who Was
Accused of Numbering n Soldier.
Washington, Especial. THE Secretary OF
War has received the official record OF the
case OF Rosario Espiritu, "A Filipino who was
tried by military commission at Manila in
June last on the charge Of having murdered
Private George A. Wagner, Company II,
Fourteenth Infantry, by shooting him with
revolver and by stabbing him with bolo.
The commission, after being in session two
months, found the Filipino not guilty Of the
charge.
The commanding general OF the Depart
ment Of the Pacillc disapproved the findings
Of the acquittal, but ordered the release OF
The prisoner. In his review of the case he
says:
"In this case the evidence was abundantly
sufficient TO sustain a conviction, and the
failure Of the commission to SO find is al
tributed to complications arising during the
trial, resulting from wholly immaterial and
irreyelant objections by counsel"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

William Peel, Unionist, was elected TO the
English Parliament in place Of the Marquis
OF Lorne. The election OF two war candi.
dates by large majorties the past week will
probably determine the government to force
IL general election before the war fever
abAtes.
A schoolboy named Brener, nine years old,
committed suicide in Berlin.
The French Minister OF War announced In
the Senate that the officer who gave the poll.
ticians the letters OF Detective Tomps on the
Dreyfus affair had been cashlered.
Representatives at Pekin OF the foreign
powers have notified the Chinese foreign
Office that II the Chinese secret society
known as the Boxers" is not Immediately
suppressed the powers will land troops In
China.
Cecil Rhodes and other South African mil.
lionaires are about TO develop big mining
enterprise In German West Africa.
A loving cup was presented to Sir Thomas
Upton, owner OF the yacht Shamrock, by
his American admirers.
The proposed marriage OF tho Austrian
heir presumptiye Archduke Francis Ferdl-
nand, and the Countess Chotek, worries the
Emperor Francis Joseph, and he has tried to
prevent It because the children OF such
union could not succeed to the throne under
the Hapsburg house laws.
The maroon squatters we're eylcted from
the crown lands in Kingston, Jamaica.
The French Parliament reassembl bled. The
government was interpellated as to its policy
and the effect Of the recent Nationalist Vic
tory in the municipal elections. The ques-
tion OF Dreyfus agitation was also discussed
The Chamber OF Deputies, by three successive
votes, declared confidence in the govern
ment.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
ECLIPSE WAS SUPERB.
Ideal Weather In Many Places For sac
Ing sun uarkened. -Astrono-
mers Made Happy.

mers Made Happy.
Seldom has total eclipse OF the sun oc-
CURED under better conditions for observa-
tion than the one which was visible Monday
in parts OF North America. Europe and
Africa.
Clear and beautiful weather prevailed
throughout almost the entire belt OF totali-
ty. This not only afforded the astronomers
ideal conditions for making scientific OBJ
servations, but heightened the effect OF the
wonderful spectacle on the millions OF per-
sons who gazed at It merely as sublime
phenomena OF nature.
Astronomical parties were scattered thick
ly throughout the totality belt, which began
In the Pacific Ocean just west OF Mexico
and extended through Mexico, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Caro-
lima, North Carolina and Virginia. thence
crossing the ocean TO Portugal, Spain, Al
giers and traversing Northern Afrlca to the
Red Sea, where it ended. The belt was So
miles wide
The United States Government had three
stations for observing the eclipse in this
country. These we're at Pinehurst, n. O.,
where the station was in charge OF Prof.
Aaron N. Skinner; at GAINESVILLE Ca, In
charge OF Prof. Milton Updegraff, and at
Griiiin, Ga, in charge OF Prof. Stimson j.
Brown. Captain G. II. DavIs, superintend.
ent Of the Naval Observatory at Washing
ton, was In communication with these ofii-
cials by telegraph.
Remarkably successful results were
achieved. The conditions at Plnehurst we're
particularly favorable, though hoped-for OBJ
eervations OF the perlodicity ofshadow bands
could not be taken,
At GAINESVILLE the corona flashed out In
double fan-like form Of great beauty. Sew
eral solar prominences were distinctly OBJ
served.
The United States Government also had
station In Tripoll. Northern Africa, where
excellent results were obtained. At Algiers
weird effect was produced. The color OF
the sea was changed from deep blue to gray
and the trees became purple. The corona
and shadow bonds were observed under
rarely favorable conditions.
Crowds of sightseers went to Norfolk, Va.
for the great spectacle. Among them was
President Mckinley, who made the trip from
Washington on the dispatch boat Dolphin.
The temperature fell, and at the period Of
totality there was a drop of1J< degrees. The
corona, with the planets Mercury and Venus
shining near, was seen TO great advantage.
As the sun was darkened a weird effect
was produced at many places. This led to
some scenes of excitement, colored people
In the South being especially affected.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
ROBBERS COT DROP on SOLDIERS.
Robbery of Stages by Two Masked Men In
the Yosemite Kegion.

Robbery of Stages by Two Masked Men In
the Yosemite Region.
Raymond, CAL. (speciaD One of the
boldest robberies ever committed in Cali
fornia occurred when three OF the Yosemite
Stage and Turnpike Company's stages-a
private conveyance---and two soldiers we're
held up by two highwaymen. The holdup
occurred at a point two miles this side OF
Grub Gulch. Sergeant Buchanan and an
other trooper OF Troop +, Sixth Cavalry, en-
route from San Francisco TO the Yosemite
National Park, had gone ahead of the cavalry
to make arrangements for selecting q camp
ing place. The highwaymen suddenly ap-
peared, masked, and getting the drop on the
soldiers, took away their guns and held the
troopers until the stages arrived. The rob-
bers handed the drivers OF the stage a card,
reading:
"Black Kid-They fooled me on the Big
Oak Flat road, but you can't this time.
The robber then took hat belonging to
L. II. Grifflths. Of the Southern Pacific Com
pany, a passenger on the stage, and collected
$3.50 from the passengers, after which he or
dered the driver to go on. Each stage was
successfully held up, the robbers getting
about $780, The mail and express matter
were not molested
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
Wiped Out Valuable business Property In
ApaIachicola.

Apalachicoia.
Apalachicoln, Fla, Especial. "A disas-
trous fire broke out In the residence Of Mrs.
Broughton. 1t spread to the Methodist
Church and from there to the business por-
tion OF the town. In less than three hours
three blocks were entirely consumed. The
following Is partial report OF the losses:
The Methodist church, the residences OF
Mrs. Broughton and DR.. Willis Hicks, Offices
Of J. II. Lovett & Co.. the store OF Patton
and Hall and all intervening shops to r.
Collins store. on the corner Of Centre and
Market streets.
The fire crossed Market street to the build
ings occupied by Drs. Alexander Hoffman,
Moore and Willis Hicks, Messrs. Murat
Hendry and Rice, Warren, A. II. Hopp, L.
A. Flateur 4 Co., DR.. Rush Lichenfet, A
II. Gendberg, the residence OF ]. S. Hatch
cock, the Times office, John Cooks bar and
adjacent buildings. From here the fire
ieaped across Centre street and consumed
everything from the Central Hotel TO the
icehouse On the wharf. Everything on the
water front from the telegraph office to
Rugge x Sons, on Water street, was con-
sumed. The customhouse was consumed
and very few OF the records were saved.
The splendid armory, recently built at cost
OF 900, also was destroyed.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
wife Killed. Husband Drunk.

Shamokin, Pa, (SpeciaD Patrick Flan-
merry. sixty-four years old, was arrested on
suspicion OF having choked and kicked his
wife. aged sixty-six years, to death at their
home here. The couple had been drinking
heavily, and neighbors say they saw Flan-
merry assault her several times Mary Cav
anaugb, n daughter, called at the home late
in the day and discovered her father rock
ing himself near the corpse of his wife in
the kitchen. Ho was drunk, and the police
had no trouble in arresting him.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-06-07
"EXHIBIT AIN RUBBISH.
Paper that Means Thousands to South
Carolina Comes to Light.

Paper that Means Thousands to South
Carolina Comes to Light.
Washington, Especial. Tlllman
received from the Governor OF South Caro-.
lima an important paper recently discovered
In an old rubbish pile at the State Capitol at
Columbia, which may cost the United States
Government something like 100000. The
iong-lost document, which mysterlously die
appeared from the lles over thirty years
ago, is pronounced genuine by Mr.. Tillman,
and it is his intention to proceed at once to
secure an adjustment OF war claims pending
on the Federal Government and his State.
The important discovery is the long-lost
paper known as the Black Voucher exhibit
"A, setting forth In detail the claims oil
South Carolina for supplies and moneys ex-
pended In the Revolutionary War, the wars
OF 1912 and 1886 and the Mexican War.
The claims mentioned will be used TO off,
set the claim on the State OF South Carolina
by the United States Government for the
payment of SPAS, ,l7j for bonds and s340, ,00e
for ordnance stores seized in the arsenal al
Charleston at the outbreak OF the Civil War.