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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07

Polishing Them Is the Most Important
Process,

Among the many industries of Am
sterdam one of the most interesting
as well as the most important ia that
OF diamond cutting and polishing.
Though an unknown art until the ff-
teenth century, it has since that time
hourished greatly, until now at the
present day there are no less than six
ty-two firms registered as diamond
companies in this great city. When
the diamonds first arrive in Amster-
dam they are in the same rough uncu,
state as they were when found in the
South African mines. Before reaching
their highly polished state they have
to pass through three separate and dis
tlnct processes-the processes of dia-
mond splitting, diamond cutting and
diamond polishing, and when these are
accomplished the stones are ready for
the jeweler. Diamond splitting ana
diamond cutting look somewhat alike,
as the tools are very similar, but in
reality the process is not the same, the
great difference being that pressure is
used in the first instance always on the
same spot, with the idea of causing
the diamond to split into two stones;
while in the other case it is used
equally on every part of the diamond,
in order to give it simply a round
shape. To gain this %roundness is,
therefore, the one leading idea of dia-
mond cutting. AS the diamonds are
cut a fine dust falls from them into a
ooden box on the table, and this pow
der is most carefully preserved, as it
is used largely in diamond polishing
when mixed with oil. AS the object of
diamond cutting is simply to make the
stone a round one, SO the object of dia-
mond polishing is to give the diamond
the many sides" Ito use a technical
ezpression) considered necessary by
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07

Developments have just come to
light which explain how two of the
boldest and coolest criminals that ever
escaped from Sing Sing prison met
their death in a novel and unforeseen
manner just as they had accomplished
the most difficult part of their task.
1t will be remembered by many tles
o the middle of May, 1893, fisher
men found in the Hudson off Croton
Point the bodies of two convicts,
Frank w. Roehl and Thomas Pallistcr,
who had escaped from Sing Sing about
a month previous. Each man had a
bullet hole in his head, and this is
the point which lent to the Ease an
air Of profound mystery. Many the
cries were advanced at the time rela-
tive to how the men might have come
10 their death, but no one ever step
ped forward to disclose any positive
knowledge Of the affair until Capt
Mlchae Kelley of a brick schooner
which piled the Hudson at the time
or the tragedy O volunteers a posi-
tive solution of the mystery. The facts
of the escape, flight and subsequent
death of Roehl and Pallister. as
cleaned from Captain Kelley. Mate
James 5. k%earns, and Keeper John
Okeefe of Sing Sing prison, constl-
tute a tale of thrilling and extraordi-
nary interest. Both of the criminals
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07
TrIple TRACE dY OF Love.

Brussels correspondence New York
World: A love drama, equaling any
thing produced in sensational fiction,
occurred at Helmet, an outlying suburb
OF Brussels. A local hairdresser re-
Gently went to Paris, leaving his bust
ness in charge of his wife, an attractive
young woman of q, and an apprentice
IA years old. Guilty relations ensued
between the pair. The husband, Sc
cretly advised of the situation, re-
turned to take legal proceedings. The
youth, realizing the dilemma, went up.
stairs and shot himself. His parents
came later in the day to claim the
child's corpse, when the body of the
woman was also discovered hanging in
an obscure corner. The husband there
upon shot himself with a revolver
taken from the hand of the boy, whose
mother with difficulty was restrained
from following his example.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07
LASTED A WEEK,
Young Louisiana Swell Saw Gotham for
S21,


Malon Walton Russell scion Of a
prominent Southern family, has come
to grief in New York after a spasm of
sightseeing that carried everything be-
lore 1t. Russell is a son of Col. Flem-
Ing Russell of Louisiana, a salt-mine
operator, and d partner of ex-State
Senate Miles, the millionaire mining
operator of New Orleans. Young
russell was employed in the Cotton
exchange there and was contented
with life until one day he won So. 700
on a horse race. In two weeks he won
$2l 600. Then Russell packed his trunk
ana came to New York. He left New
orleans on February %, losing 81, 0cN
at poker en- route. Jumping into a cab
ne drove to the Waldorf and took
rooms at SS a day. He wanted to be
shown to a swell club house. He
ieIt the place $4,000 loser. In the even
ing Russell did the tenderloin, and
lhree nights in the Haymarket cost
russell $500 and a collection of lew
cry. The next night he ran afouI of
some soubrettes. Then his money took
wings. He tried another shy at the
lafo bank, which cost him 81, 500. Drop.
ping into the Delavan he opened wine
for the pugilists who congregate therA
lie was introduced to Sharkey, ana
later to Corbett and Kid Mccoy. Afts3
d week more of wine, faro bank, sou.
brettes and more wine, the young mag
from the south found himself WITH
Just 500 in his pocket, after paying "
MOTEL bill of $500 and a cab bill "a
$50, The next day he spent his laa.
nickel for coffee and sinkers."-New
York Correspondence st. Louis Post
Dispatch.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07
Rich Find Mt Grizzly Rear Mine.

On exhibition at the st. James
hotel at Denver, Colo, is a piece of
rose-colored quartz, known as rhodo-
chrosite, which was taken from Griz-
ely Bear mine, situated a few miles
from Ouray. The specimen weighs
about forty pounds. The main body OF
the piece is manganese carbonate. A
streak of silver runs through it and it
would assay about two ounces of gold
to the ton. But it is the red-rose crys-
tails that give it value. There are per-
haps fifty of them, some nearly an inch
long by a quarter inch for the other
dimensions. All are solid and con-
tanned by six rhomboids. To be more
a they are parallelopipeds. The
specimen, which is worth about So, coo,
VIII be taken to the Paris exposition by
Messrs. Armstrong and Hulburt.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07
GENERAL SPORTING.
CURRENT EVENTS IN VARIOUS
FIELDS.
hscing Track Revenues for the State
OF New York Foot Up a Big Sum to
BE Expended In the Improvement of
Roadways.


The report of the New York State
commissioners, August Belmont, Ed
win ID. Morgan and John Sanford,
which was presented to the legislature
on Friday, April 6, is a document Of
more than ordinary interest to the
racing n breeding world. In the in
creased revenues which have come to
the agricultural societies, which are
the beneficiaries of the state tax of 5
per cent, assessed upon the gross re-
ceipts Of racing associations, the com
mission believes, is shown the marvel
Gus strides which have been made in
the sport. The report says, in part:
In the five years over which the
term of the commission extends there
has been paid in to the state controller
for distribution among the agricultu-
raj societies the sum of $311, 1904. A
review of this tax by years will illus
trate the progress of racing in this
state. In 1895 the tax was $25, 220.74 4.
Six associations held licenses that
year. In 1886 the tax was $50, sos. IL,
and in that year only five associations
held meetings. A license had been is
sued to the Saratoga association, but
because of local reasons it did not take
advantage of it, although it has con-
Quoted meetings annually since. In
1897 the tax was $64, 034.71. This rep
resents an average annual total gross
receipts of 81 PA, 556. 16."
The commission appends a table
showing the state tax for agricultural
societies paid in by the Westchester
Racing Association was S57, 943. SO; by
the Coney Island Jockey Club, $751;
943.33; by the Brooklyn Jockey Club,
Z 5,931.S7; by the Brighton Beach Rae
ing Association, $52, O30.16; by the
Saratoga Association for the Improve
ment of the Breed of Horses, ST.
370.S6, and by the Queens County
Jockey Club, 500, 1902, This tax has
been paid in promptly, and goes in
gross into the hands of the controller.
The commissioners act without COM
pensation, the only expenses being the
salary of secretary and fees for coun-
sci.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07
Profit In Exhibitions.

Some of the big athletic clubs in the
metropolis have made immense profits
In holding boxing exhibitions under
the Horton law. The Broadway Ath-
letic Club Is credited with an i'm
mense income the past year. The re-
ce1pts at some of the big fights have
doubled and tripled the amounts talk
en- in at contests held outside of New
York. The ffries-FItzsimmons fight
drew a $4,000 house, and the receipts
of the Jeffries-Sharkey go We're $780,
GOO exclusive of the return from the
pictures, which have brought in some
where in the neighborhood of $500
a week ever since the fight DOL place.
The receipts from other fights have
compared very favorably with the
above. The battle between McGovern
and Dixon drew S35, 900 into the box
office, and the one between McGovern
and Gardiner $2S, 900. The recent go
between Cans and Erne drew one Of
the smallest crowds that a fight of its
class has drawn in New York recent
ly. and yet the receipts amounted to
l 5000. What the income from the
numerous smaller fights was is hard
to estimate, but it would amount to
quite a pile when added together.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07

Now that the Horton law is dead in
New York state and there will be no
more fighung after Sept. /, managers
OF pugilists are as busy as bees laying
plans to make hay while the sun
shines. 1t is expected that a number
OF big contests will be pulled off be-
tween now and the date on which the
repeal of the law goes into effect. A
well-known sporting man suggests
that if the following matches could be
arranged they would create deep in
%terest, besides enabling club managers
to reap a rich harvest: Corbett VS..
Fitzsimmons. Sharkey VS.. Jeffries. Me-
Coy VS.. Choynski, Maher VS.. Rubin.
Ryan VS.. Walcott and Erne VS.. O'Brien
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07
No Fighting in "OIe Virginia."

A dispatch from Richmond, Va, dat
ed recently, says: THE newly revived
and widely published statement that
the last Virginia legislature legalized
prize fighting is an error. The bill
passed by the legislature chartering a
fair association which, 1t is said by
some, legalizes prize fighting, in the
judgment of all lawyers who have been
interviewed on the subject, does not
do so. Capt. w. D. Cardwell of Han
over, who is n of the leading incor-
p%orators, says such a thing as having
prize fights was never mentioned or
contemplated. The purpose of the as
ISOLATION is to revive the old state
fairs. Among the provisions of the
act is one authorizing exhibitions of
strength and speed of men or beast and
all sports allowed by law Prize fight
ing is strictly prohibited under the
laws of the state"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07

We're. from the prison and are DIN
to TAKE command of the ship!" Those
were his last words. While he was
speaking Kearnes, unseen, drew a pis-
tol and shot at the speakers head. The
aim was true, for the convict dropped
to the floor, dead. This occupied three
or four seconds, but the time was suf-
hcient to allow Captain Kelley to draw
his pistol. The second murderer
pirate bounded into the cabin as soon
as his leader dropped. He too, had a
revolver, but he had no chance to use
1t. Captain Kelley put a bullet in him
as soon as he showed himself at the
loot of the stairs. The captain and
mate threw both the bodies overheard
and the angry waters of the Hudson
completed the work. Although the
TWO men had done nothing but defend
their lives and their property, they
felt more or less guilty, and they had
no desire to have the matter publicly
ventilated.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07

ity Of the late w. W. Corcoran, one of
the capitals noted philanthropists. Re-
garding the life at the White House,
known at that time as the presidents
house, in her day, Mrs. Semple says:
"The president lived exactly as he did
at our old home in Virginia. On the
plantation he always rose when the
horn blew to call the servants, and be-
fore breakfast saw his overseer and
gave directions for the day. 1t was
quite the same in Washington. Father
left his bed early, which was no hard
ship, being a lifelong habit, and,
kindling the fire hat had been care
fully arranged the night previous,
seated himself to work, t%ransacting
much important work before break
fast and the arrival of visitors. At 8
his servants would attend him to make
his bath, and at $50 he was invari-
ably in his seat at the breakfast table.
Those were charming days; no admin
istration since has equaled them in
republican simplicity"
Mrs. Eemple was married in her
early girlhood and was scarcely more
than a bride when her father entered
the White House in 1871. The death
of her mother, and the domestic re-
sponsibilities of her older sister made
Mrs. Semple virtually the lady of the
White House from 1912 to 1874. Her
husband had entered the United States
navy, and his death, together with
financial reverses, made it necessary
for Mrs. Semple to earn her living.
She was for some years principal of
a young ladies' school in Baltimore,
but failing sight compelled her to re-
linquish that occupation. She is now,
as stated, spending the autumn of her
years in the Louise Home in Wash
ingtOn.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07
STOPPED THE FUNERAL,
sizemore Was About to BE Buried When
the Police Intprfered.

~
While standing in the office of Mag
istrate Mauldin at Greenville, S. c.,
~Pinckney Sizemore, 35 years old, col
Iapsed, and before doctors could reach
MIN was pronounced dead. The body
was removed to his home and
tons made for the funeral. The grave
was dug, the mourners assembled, and
the body was about to be Inferred
when the police appeared and ordered
a postponement. The police had been
informed by DR.. w. J.. Bramlett that
he did not believe Sizemore was dead,
and this caused their summary action.
Inc man, while having the appearance
of death so far as the face was con-
cerned, had a warm body, and breath
ing could be detected by the use OF a
mirror at the mouth. The jaws were
SET n the pupils of the eye unre-
sponslVe to light. But the joints are
as supple as in life. Sizemore's fam
lily are in a most agitated state.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07
Grade Hogs,


Good grades are much more raIiab1e
breeders than are crosses and are to
be preferred. The native stock has the
V1gor of constitution, which is always
necessary, and has no inherited pre-
potency to develop in any certain
direction. When mated with a pure
blood, the result is usually an animal
with the Vigor Of the native ancestor
n the characteristics of the pure.
plood parent shown in it's better form
n fatten1ng qualities. Succeeding
crosses in the same direction strength
en- this tendency toward Improvement
Inc great objection to grading up
IN THIS way is the fact that, no matter
now fine specimens the animals NAV
De, they can never be sold as pure
Dloods, and an animal which is a grade
Will never sell for breeding at as high
d price as will one which is of pure
plood n entitled to registration. The
man who intends to follow hog raising
DIS a business, even ii ne Toes not keep
more than a dozen animals. will find
II both profitable and nom to
puy a pair of pure-bloods, and then
make his entire drove pure-bloods as
soon as he can raise enough desirable
animals. By buying a young boar and
a SOW already in pig by a boar not re-
iated to the one purchased, the boar
can be used on the offspring of the
pure-blood SOW as well as upon the
cranes mr. nntiJnC N tI1 l..I - l..
MS way the pure-bloods can be in
creased so rapidly that there will soon
Do no need to keep the grades. The
hog raiser should certainly use a pure
olood boar, and it will usually pay to
Guy a new one each year, so that in
breeding may be avoided. Pure-blood
hoss are not necessarily expensive.
lney pay best in the end. and so are
more profitable than either crosses or
grades. food animals, though not the
pest, OF any of the standard breeds can
De purchased for from So to $40 each
when weaned, while young sows in
pig can be bought for from $40 to 500.
VI course older animals which show
specially fine qualities will cost more,
ana their better qualities will often
make them the more profitable in the
END. Breeders who have established
regulations as producers Of exception
ally fine animals usually receive much
hlgher prices than those named above,
out orten a mar who raises hogs for
production of pork only. and who does
NOT care for a reputation as a breeder
VIII sell good breeding animals for lit
Tie more than their pork Values. M.
Tracy.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07
Hetty Arms Is Dead.

Hartford Comm Special Chicago
Tribune: Hetty Arms is dead, and so
passes away the sole link that existed
between the writer of Uncle Toms
Cabin" Harriet Beecher Stowe, and
the South. Mrs. Henrietta Mckay
Arms was southern to the core, but
she nursed Mrs. Stowe to her dying
day. She was her friend and compan-
ion for years. Mrs. Arms was a Vir-
gilman. Her father was Taverner Nc
Kay, and a hotter southerner never
drew breath. Her husband was equally
anxious for war. Mrs. Arms husband
died soon after the war closed, and in
the end she lost all her property. She
drifted to Hartford and took up nurs-
ing. Fate led her to Mrs. Stoves en-
ploy, and this hater of all things
northern became the friend and nurse
of the writer of Uncle Toms Cabin"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07
TO PRESIDENT TYLER
MEMORIAL TO A MUCH FOR
GOTTEN PATRIOT.
"A Long Neglected Grave to BE Taken
care of by Congressional ActIon-sim-
piicity of the Man VINO Succeeded
Gen. Harrison.

There Is pending before the United
states senate a joint resolution pro-
viding for the erection Of a suitable
shaft over the grave of John Tyler, in
hollywood cemetery, in Richmond,
va, which, since the interment in
1862, has been unmarked by stone or
cross. 1t seems hardly creditable that
the the grave of this illustrious citi-
zen should have been so long neglect
ed, and speedy action should be taken
says Leslie's Weekly, to honor the
man who from early manhood to ex-
IRENE old age, through a long and
career, served his country
with conspicuous ability, fidelity and
zeal as a member of the General AS
sembly, as governor of the
wealth, as a member of the state con-
ventions of 1880 and 1861, as a member
OF the House of Representatives, as
senator from Virginia, as president of
the peace conference at Washington,
as member of the Provisional Con-
gress of the Confederate states, as
chancellor of William and Mary col
lege, as vice president of the United
States, and as chief magistrate of the
republic. This tribute to her dis
tinguished father will add, too one
more bright chapter to the history of
his daughter, Mrs. Semple, for a while,
during her fathers incumbency, the
chatelaine of the executive mansion
and for many years an inmate of the
Louise Home, an asylum for gentle
women provided through the generos-
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07
The weIter-W Weight Champion.

For many years the name of 'Mys-
ferrous Billy" Smith has been familiar
to all lovers of the fstic art, but his
features are not as we'll known to
newspaper readers as those of some
fighters of lesser caliber. Smith was
to have met Joe Walcott, the ''black
Demon" in New York a week ago. but
illness prevented it and Andy Walsh
took the place of the mysterious one.
Walsh surprised the talent by his fine
showing against the wonderful little
negro. Walcott and Smith have been
matched again for a 25-round bout be-
fore the Broadway Athletic club on
Monday, May 4. Billy has met the
negro on three different occasions, win
ming from him once and drawing with
him twice. Smiths real name is Amos
Smith, and he halls from PASSPORT, Me.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07

At Constantinople, the mosque of
st. Sophia was built in the tenth GEN.
tury, and the mortar which was used
in its construction was mixed with
musk. Since then Kingdoms have ris-
en- and fallen, ~dynasties have flourish
ed and persisted, but throughout the
ages the scent OF musk has remained
in the mosque of st. Sophia, without
ever having been renewed.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07

And now a Chinaman has broken
into the prize ring! An Wing, a full
blooded Celestial, who lives at Auburn,
Cal, has developed considerable clev-
erness as a boxer. and has defeated
all the men near his weight who have
visited that town. He is % years old
and tips the scales at about 100
pounds. An enterprising western man
ager, it is said, will bring him east
this summer and give him a try-out.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07
BARON GEVERS.

triot rather than a foreigner, and can,
indeed, hardly be classed as a stranger
to this country, since he visited il in
boyhood and has kept in touch with
his American relatives, the family of
his maternal grandfather. the late SEN
ator Wright, of New Jersey. While the
baron is prevented by his position
from discussing the Boer cause it is
not doubted that, should opportunity
offer. he would be prompt in rendering
his services to the twin republics.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07

A little girl was permitted one
bright Sunday to go to hear her papa
preach. Now, it CHANGED that on this
special occasion papa's sermon was of
the warning" order. After a moment
of breathless surprise and horror the
little listeners soul was wrought up
on with a great pity for the pool NOR
tails upon whom so much wrath was
descending. She rose excitedly to her
feet, and, her wide, reproachful eyes
just peeping over the back of the seat.
called out, in sweet. Gliding tones:
What for you Scolding all the people
so, papa?"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07

There was considerable excitement
at a religious meeting at South Web
ster, O., the other night by the sud-
den death of Mrs. William Styles. She
had made repeated efforts to induce
her son. John, to go forward and pro-
fess conversion. AS she reached the
front of the church she paused. called
her sons name. staggered and fell full
length in front of the pulpit.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07

Harboring imaginary wrongs, john
w. McKimm, aged 20 years, of Kan
sas City, Mo, shot and instantly killed
DR.. b. T. Shaw, his brother-in-law, as
the latter sat reading the Sunday
school lesson to his 1~5-year-old
daughter. McKimm. who had been
an inmate of a sanitarium and is be-
lieved to be insane, threatened to kill
the other five members of the family,
and was only restrained after a
struggle.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07
Some Time Records

James j. Jeffries, the champion
heavyweight, has been lighting about
three years.; Tom Sharkey, about six
years; Bob Fitzsimmons has been
fighting over eleven years; Corbett has
been in the ring since 1886, which
means fourteen We hrs to his credit; Pc
ter Maher, the Iris III heavy weight
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-07-07

champion, has been In the ring twelve
years; Gus Rubin has been in the ring
seven years; kid" Mccoy began the
fighting business ten years ago; Joe
Choynski has been fighting wei six
teen years; Syracuse Tommy Ryan has
seen over twelve years of fighting life.