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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-24
TWELVE FAMILIES RESCTED.
THEY WE'RE TAKEN FROM THE FIRE ESCAPES
OF AN APARTMENT HOUSE.

The members of twelve families many Of them
in their night clothes. taken from fire escapes
at a fire early yesterday morning in an apartment
house at No III Fourteenth-st, Hoboken. Lizzie
Morris twelve years old fell one story one OF ner
Les was broken The damage Zone by the fire was
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-24
WILL OF AUGUST R0EssLER.

August Roessler who died at Great Neck recently.
has been offered for probate before Judge Seabury
in the Nassau County Surrogate's Court. The
estate IS valued a $4,000. The will divides
estate among the widow, children and grandchil-
dren
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-24
DIR. ABBOTT VISITS PLYMOUTH.
WARMLY GREETED BY his FORMER CoNGREGA-
TON.

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The Rev. DIT. Lyman Abbott. former pastor OF
Plymouth Church appeared last night at the
prayer meeting in the lecture room OF the church
He came in while the Rev. Alexander McGaftn,
the pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church on
the Heights. delivering an address. In his
quiet way DIT. Abbott took seat ar the side, and
but few knew that he there. As soon as a
benedicton had been said those present began 10
file out. Several caught sight Of DR.. Abbott and
fastened 10 shake hands with him, for DR. Abbott's
presence in Plymouth Church IS uncommon
curreuce as he now lives In Cornwall-on-the-Hud-
son.
In twenty minutes DR.. Abbott had shaken hands
with nearly every one OF the three hundred people
present To d Tribune reporter Dr. Abbott said:
l am feeling quite we'll expect to be in Brook
vn for two DAYS. I staying at the home of a
friend / will be at Plymouth Church, most prob
abIv on Sunday morning. In June l start on a
trip South Carolina.
Dr. Abbott and Or. Hills exchanged warm greet
iugs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-24

George Eckert OF No. % Meeker-ave. yesterday
received verdict $3.50 damages for personal
injuries against the Brooklyn City Railroad Com
pany. The plaintiff alleged that he was thrown
out Of his wagon January "a 1S9S. while driving
along OakIand-st.. MeseTOle-aVe. There
a large hole between the tracks into which the
wheels Of the wagon had slipped.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-24
BOY KILLED BY An ELEVATOR.
HE ATTEMPTED TO BOARD THE CAR WHILE IT
WAS MOVING

Camden March % tspeciaD.-Danie Breslin six
teen years old. in attempting to get on moving
elevator the rug works of the Fries Breslin Com
pauv this morning, instantly killed He was
caught between and the floor He a
nephew OF Of the members OF the firm, anu
mad been employed TO run the elevator a start
tnn business
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-24
SAFE or THE 4Ru0TR COMPANY ROBBED

Mount Holly March % (SpeciaD .-ProfessionaI
burglars last night blew open the safe the
Armour Packing Company building and stole $40
and number OF checks The front door bat
tered down with implements obtained from a rail-
road Toulouse. The burglars escaped.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-24
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-24
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-24

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The age-herald., 1900-02-11

 popularity. It is bill that has political as well as an economic side. Georgia is re- ceiving something over s1Oo.ooO year from the earnings of her convicts, and she nat urally does not like the pending bill. Many of her industries. too. would be crippled. This is to a great extent the situation in the other states of this section, and interest in the bill will become intense as soon as it is reported.
 There is a possibility, however, that the labor committee of the house will be able to find some middle ground or compromise that will be alike acceptable to the states that have no penitertaries. and to the labor unions. The latter will no doubt &C., cept a Dill that promises in the long run to put an end to convict labor in compet- ing industries, even if it does not at pres ent work important changes. A gradual revolution is always better. and more abid- ing than sudden one.
The age-herald., 1900-02-11
HICKMAN OF KENTUCKY
The Democratic Claimants Life and Family
 History

From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
 JoIhn C. w. Beckham. democrat, who claims the governorship of Kentucky, was born in Bardstown, the second oldest town in the state, August 5, 1869. He was edu- cated in Bardstown and fin the Central uni versity at Richmond, Ky. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Barstown when 19 years of age. Some time after he became the principal of the Bardstown high school.
 He was elected state representative be- fore he was 25 years old and served until his health failed, when he was compelled to go to New Mexico. He was succeeded in the state assembly by Hsaac Wilson, who held office at the time of the famous Hunter-B Blackburn fight in the legislature. Wilson died during office, and Beckham, returning from New Mexico, was elected to fih the unexpired term. He was again sent to the assembly, in 1898, and was elected to the speakership of the house. Last June he received the democratic nomination for lieutenant-governor He nas come in the last few years to be a power in the state in his quiet way, and the democrats have looked upon him as a most valuable aid to their plans for state supremacy.
 MT. Becl1ham is a man of peace ana mod est in his pu'blic demeanor, never having been mixed up in any of the ibrawis that have made the state famous in the history of the country For a time he was a school teacher, and twice he was a mem Der of the state legislat ture. Yet at no time before the present controversy has he been a participant in any bloody or particularly argumentative complications.
 He has sister and brother in Chicago MT Becfham's sister is Mrs. w. B. Knis- kern, wife of the general passenger agent of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad His brother is D. Yulee Beclham, who is employed in the offices of the White Star Steamship agency. This Brother is 9 years old and has been in Chicago since Decem- ber, coming from the old nome in Bards- town, Ky.
 There are two other sisters, one Mrs. George V. Trlplett of Owensboro, Ky, the wife of a lawyer, and Mrs. William Wyse of Maryland, whose husband Is a physi- clan. MT. Beckhams father was a lawyer of Bardstown and was a member of the state legislature during the term of 1S72 and again fin 1881. He died while holding that office, Mrs. Beckham stiM lives in the family home in Bardstown She is a daughter of Governor Charles A. Wick1iffe of Kentucky.
The age-herald., 1900-02-11
Cuba is Not WiJlInu.

Annexation sentiment is not increasing in Cuba. The dream of independence exists there, and is not growing less according to the best and latest accounts. Differences in language, in race, in traditions, and in dominating church influences, are pulling against annexation, and Governor-General Wood has a hard task on his hands For annexation is his real task, beyond req sonable doubt
 The protectionists are standing in the way of an object lesson that would be very in- fluential in Cuba, namely, free trade for Porto Rico. If Porto Rican products were admitted free, as they must be if the terms of the constitution as to duties stand unre- peaied, then Cubans might begin to think that trade is better than traditions. The rabid protectionists are driving Cuba away by saying to Cubans, You would be but mere property and you shall pay. if annex cd, whatever duties suit us not yourselves" Protectionism bids fair to rob us of Cuba, voluntarily an1exed while it systematically robs every consumer on the mainland. As a scheme of spoilation and national loss it is a howling success; as a means of securing campaign subscriptions it is all Mark Han- ma can desire; but as means of national growth and expansion it is a dismal and forbidding failure. The Mckinley system alas outlived its best days, but like other evil habits 1t clings the closer. demanding the defeat of reciprocity treaties, and se- were twists of the federal constitution. and what-not as opportunity arises.
The age-herald., 1900-02-11
Amos J. Cummings of New York.

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 In looking over New York state it is strange the democratic leaders and news papers have mot more frequently presented the name of Amos J. Cummings as a run ming mate of William J. Bryan. He has one advantage that many of the men who have been suggested lack, namely, he stands the Chicago platform, and he stands on it with both feet. He does not look back ward from it, nor both ways at one time.
 He has had too, ample experience in na- tional affairs His congressional service in- cludes the fiftieth eongress, covering a period of nearly twelve years. Combining newspaper work with congressional work, his active mind has been given alike to tion and to rehection-to public business and to comment upon it. This has made him a man of broad and comprehensive ideas, and he would bring to a new demo- cratic administration wise counsel based on ample experience.
 MT. Cummings should have supporters through this section of the country, for he has never hesitated to stand by southern democrats and southern measures He fought for the union in the civil war, and when that war was ended he advocated a real and just union of the states. The peo- pie of this section will not regret any nelp they may give to this brilliant New Yorker, who is well-equipped for service in the vice. presidential office.
The age-herald., 1900-02-11
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT POLITICS
 AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF NECESSITIES

than the supply. Prices range nearly double what they were a year ago, and every mine, from the smallest to the larg- est Is being profitably worked
 Speaking Of profits, the Tennessee Coal and Iron company's net earnings today are running at the rate of about S5,00O,0O0 an- nually, or 9 per cent. on the total capital stock of the company. The stock is yet low, but if earnings continue on the present basis for a few months longer Tennessee stock should be worth s200 a share. At the present price of iron and steel there is no reason why this company should not earn and declare dividends of 9 per cent. annually. All the other iron companies in the district are doing equally well. Indeed, it is said that the Woodward Iron conn pany is even more prosperous in proportion to the capital invested.
 And by the way, two new concerns, manufacturing finished products from open hearth steel, have quietly decided to locate in Birmingham and are now negotiating for proper sites. One of them will invest $3oO0 in plant. and the other something more than a half mA.qfon dollars Both will manufacture finished products which are sold largely in this immediate terri tory and which are now imported from Pennsylvania and Ohio points,
 Mrs. Langtry, the English actress, must have retained a full share of her beauty, though she nolw has a daughter full grown and in society in London.
 She swooped down on the New York stock exchange the other day with three hundred tickets to her concert for the benefit of the English and Boer refugees and wounded at Durban, and sold them for more than $1 1000. She sold several as high 500 and $50 each. Only a pretty and attractive woman can do this in the New York stock exchange.
 Count Boni de Castellane, who married Anna Gould, has evidently been flying very high in Paris. Frederic R. Coudert his alt- torney in New York; is making effort to borrow a million dollars. but as the Count has no collateral Russell Sage refuses to make the loan. The Count is in much ap- parent distress over it. The difficulty in the way is due to the fact that Jay Gould left his estate in condition where his daugh- ter could only use the income from her part. The property itself is entaied and in consequence cannot be used as collater- al. One of the New York papers says Boni owes something like forty million francs, or about eight million dollars
The age-herald., 1900-02-11

One question Is definitely and conclusive ly settled. Bryan is to be the democratic nominee for president sewell will, how ever, not be the vice-presidential nominee. Sewell was one of democracy's great mis- takes four years ago. He stood for nothing and was nothing. He was merely bar nacle upon the democratic party. He i'm peded it's progress. He is a millionaire, but the campaign committee only knew that by hearsay evidence. He played the party for fame, and business notoriety for himself
 This time another man of wealth would play the same game Oliver H. P Belmont, of minute brain and multiplicity of cash, has erected a pedestal of dollars and has perched himself thereupon with barred breast, surrounded by various and vigorous press agents, undoubtedly conductors of thought and positive poles, in electrical parlance; but the negative of Belmont is too great a non-eonductor. Belmont is a good. fellow. as fellows go, but that is not what the democratic party wants this time nor can it carry mere good fellow.
 New York is naturally democratic with fair opportunity. But the fastest race horse cannot win when overweigfhted.
 The democratic party can carry New York, and will, if 1t aots sensibly. Put a New York man on the ticket as vice-presi- dent who has strength in New York-whose strength may have weight in the campaign there and elsewhere. Amos J. Cummings is that man. First and foremost he is the brainiest and best democrat in New York state. He has been in Congress ten years. He has been elected from three separate and distinct New York districts. He has never met defeat in political campaign. He has never bolted a democratic nomina- tion. He is a newspaper man and a states man. He Is popular and deserving of it.
 Cummings for vice-president would carry New York and New Jersey. A ticket of Bryan and Cummings would win.
 The Augustus Van Wyck boom Is still in the air. but this is not Van Wyck's time. A good fellow and an able man, but he can wait. Bryan and Cummings can win
 Mayor Mel Drennen has finally done something. He has written message and has made it to the point. He speaks out for municipal ownership of water and flights. But a mere message is nothing unless backed up by an official of courage and determination. We shall soon see if the mayor of Birmingham possesses these qualities. If he meant what he said in his message he will fight the fight out He is he has the courage of his convictions re- mains to be seen. He was elected as a business man. He has tbeen slow to draw
The age-herald., 1900-02-11
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AlAsARa
What the GoebeI Law Is.

The Goebel law is not just law, and many of the democratic papers of the stase. including the Courier-Jomnal, opposed it's adoption, pronouneing it ill-judged. Even Mi. Goebel doubted its wisdom. It bears his name, but he did not originate it. It was thrust on him, and as leader in the legislature, he accepted it.
 It provides in the first place for state board of election commissioners, consisting of three members, and holding office four years. No provision was made for the rep resentation of the minority party, and three democrats were at once elected by the leg islature to serve four years. In case of vacancy, the legislature, if in session, is to fill it; if not, the vacant place is to be filled by the remaining members of the board.
 The state board appoints three election commissioners for each county. removable at the pleasure of the state board. No re- pnblicans were appointed. The county boards appoint two judges. one clerk, and 
 And the first appearance of fair play in the bill is found in the provision that where two political parties exist each of them shall have a judge and either the sherin or clerk of election. The state board was then made the judge of contest for any state office below that of lieutenant-gov- ernor, and the legislature the judge in contest for the office of governor or lieu tenant-governor.
 When 1t is remembered that the noun tain districts of the state are republican, that the republicans carried in the last election ffty-eight of the 119 counties in the state-that there is ever present large re- publican white vote-t becomes plain that such a one-sided law is unjust, and there fore unwise. A board of democratic election commissioners in republican counties is manffestly unwise and unjust, and really urdemooratic
 The law has proved inefficient for par tisan purposes, and it has also proved to be full of mischief. The Louisville Courier Journal supported MT. Goebel in the recent state canvass, and 1t unhesitatingly de- cares that the law which bears his name was the most potential issue against him. It Iessened his vote. and this in turn led up to the deplorable condition of the state to- day. The law is the chief bone of conten- tion, and it's further retention would be a mistake as deplorable as it's passage fn Kentucky should get together, and when they are together they do not need an election law that has a particle of unfair- ness in it.
The age-herald., 1900-02-11
wHIsKEKY-wHEE-KUM-wHEEzE

James Whitcomb Riley in the Century. Old man Whfskery Whee-K um- Wheeze Lives way up dn the leaves O trees An wunst slipped upstairs to play In auntys room while she Is away An I clumbed up in her cushion-chair An ist peeked out O the ,winder there; An there l saw-wite out fn the trees, Old Man Wlaiskery- Vince Kun Wheeze! Old Man Whfskery-Whee Kum- Wileeze Would bow am bow, with the leaves in the
 breeze, An wags.e his Wrliskers an raggledy hair, An bow to me in the winder there! An I'd peek out an he'd peek in An waggle Iris wtliskers an bow agin, list Nike the leaves 'u'd wave in the breeze Old Man W'hiskery Vince Kum- Wheeze! Old Man Whiskery Vince Kum- Wheeze Seem like, says to me: "See my bees A-ibrbngin' my 6tnaer? An see my cup O locus blossoms they've plum filled
 up?"
 An "Um1yum, Honeyr' kuz last ne said, An waggled his wriskers and bowed his
 head;
 An I yells "Gdmme some, won't you,
 please, Old Man whiskery- whee- -Kum-Wlheez
The age-herald., 1900-02-11
Convict Labor in Mines and Factories.

Congress has before it a bill pressed by the labor unions of the country, forbidding the sale of the products of convict labor beyond the bounds of the state in which they are produced. The bill is still in com mittee. and its exact terms have not been
 defined; but it is known that the labor unions are urging sweeping provisions against the sale of eonvict-made goods. They desire. for example, not only pro- hibition of convict mined coal, but also of all iron melted by such coal. and so on to the end of the chapter. This bill would fall as heavily upon the cotton farms of Mis- sssippi as upon the coal mines of Ala bama, or the turpentine farms of Georgia.
 The bill comes up as an issue between free labor and convict labor, and the pres sure behind it is very weighty. It Is not bill that Is to be despised. It is bill that will severely test every congressmans
The age-herald., 1900-02-11
COTTON MILL FOR ROANOKE
A Large Plant Will be Erected There
 at an Early Date

Roanoke, February 1O.-(Special3 3-Roan- oke has just perfected the arrangements to build magnificent cotton mill, the capital stock of which is 900. It is to be oper- ated and known as the w. A. Handley Manufacturing company. The charter will be applied for tomorrow and the place se- lected for the mill. The actual work for this enterprise will begin in a few days. Captain Handley will be president of the mill. Tine principal stockholders of this plant are Captain Handiey, Major Schuess- Ter, R. l.. Schuessler, z. J. Wright and Hill Jones. The subscription has been rais- ed and the mill Is certainty.
 Prescotte & Enioe, of Wedowee, Ala, had their stock of goods and building totally destroyed by fire on the 9th inst. Origin of the fire is unknown. Their loss will be something near $20iS, over and above the insurance.
The age-herald., 1900-02-11
CHICAGO's CRY FOR APPLE PIE

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 Of all the pies baked and eaten in this ple-consuming community of Chicago, none Is so popular in demand as apple pie "A glass of milk and a piece of apple pie." is the cry heard nine times out of ten in the helter-skelter 1undhrooms down town in the helter-skelter rush of business hours. Every pie-eater loves apple pie first, last, and all the time. Bakers buy barrels of apples in carload after carload, and still, like vora- ciouS little Oliver Twists, ten million strong or more. they cry Apple pie, apple pie," until their claim Is hushed in appetite ap- peased A single large pie factory of Chi cago consumed thirty barrels of apples day, a statistical fact which the coming months will doubtless see doubled
The age-herald., 1900-02-11
A STRONG ENDORSEMENT

From the Courtland Enterprise.
 It is with a feeling of pride that we say to our readers the Enterprise will support Colonel Tomlinson in his race for the guber- material nomination A devout member of the Methodist church, a gentleman of unim- peachable integrity and a democrat pure and simple. All of these attributes go to make up the man, whom we have selected as our champion in this race Colonel Tom linson comes before the people with an sob- solutely clean record. No jobs, trickery or chicanery has ever been laid at his door. In him the democrats of Lawrence county have man whom they can support without an excuse save that they support him be- cause he is clean democrat, an honest man and a man competent to discharge every duty of the office to which he aspires.
The age-herald., 1900-02-11
Value of Cotton Seed.

Colonel R. J. Bedding of the Georgia ag- ricultural department shows that for fer tiliing purposes, 800 pounds of cotton meal is equivalent to 1000 pounds of cotton seed. As the oil mills are ready to exchange 1,4OO pounds of meal for one ton of seed, the far mer can carry away GOO pounds of fertilizing material as clean gain. The oil that the mill would retain does not contain phos- phoric acid or potash, and only a trace of nitrogen. As feltihzing material 1t is practi- cally valueless.
 Colonel Bedding thus explains the value of seed in the mill, where a ton of it pro- duces:
 3S gallons of oil, worth. ....$l1 40 TOO pounds meal, worth.. O0 25 pounds linters. worth say.............. 70 900 pounds hulls ...........:.. V
 Total....... ......... ....... ......$zl sS
 The cost of manipulation in the mill is about $25o ton, thus leaving a profit of s5 a ton to the mill after giving the farmer 1, 400 pounds of meal. But. adds, Colonel Redding, "a farmer cannot afford to use e1tner seed or meal as "a much less the seed, so long as he can find cattle to eat them. A farmer should buy. cattle, if neIcessary, enough to consume all GMs cotton seed meal, and save the manure. Do you know that the manure from ton of meal fed to a fattendng OK or COW, If every bit of 1t be saved, is worth more as a fertilizer than the meal costs or would sell for in the market? Well, it is so. Not only that, but ton of seed is worth more as feed for cattle than the seed can be sold for. On the basis of 50 cents bushel for corn, one ton of cotton seed is worth about $2O as food for beef cattle. The trouble is we haven't enough cattle for beef purposes to consume the seed. We want more cattle to consume our seed and meal, to make butter and beef and to make more manure, in order to make more seed and meal to feed more cattle, to make more butter and beef and manure. The safe de- posit will be the soil--whlch will become rich, and that will make the farmer rich"