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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-01-18
GENERAL NEWS

600 bushels of wheat. Only ten Other
states produced more last year thar
Oklahoma.
Four hundred and eleven lives
were lost in storm off the coast OF
Japan last week
The senate committee on Indian
affairs has reported favorably on the
bill for free homes on lands coded
from the Indians. A favorable re-
port was also made on bill to ratify
the agreement with the Fort Hall
Indians for a cession of portion of
their lands.
!. i. !.
There will be three eclipses during
the year 1900, one of the moon and
two of the sun, total eclipse of the
sun May 2Sth, a partial eclipse of
the moon June 18th and an annual
eclipse of the sun; Nov 22nd The
first two are visible in North
America, but the last is not.
A cat that belonged to a mail steam
er that piled between Sydney and San
Francisco recent y died after having
travelled /, 600, 600 miles on water.
The Sumpter Granite mining re-
gion is experiencing great boom
these days. Some of the most val
liable mines in Oregon are located in
that part of the state.
The japanese government increas-
ed the rate of railroad mileage and
the result was falling off in railroad
receipts.
80 o
About 10000 acres of land
we're devoted to the cultivation of
potatoes last year. There we're 242,-
600, 600 bushels of potatoes grown
on that land.
The highest plant in the world,
says an exchange, grows to a height
Of 200 feet.
The political situation in Kentucky
has assumed serious aspect. 1t is
thought if the commission decides to
seat Goebel, fight will be precipitat-
ed. Gov. Taylor expects federal
aid in the event Of trouble.
\ X X
British censorship in South Africa
is very much on the plan of that
which obtained in Cuba while Weyler
sat upon the throne in the island
We really have no reliable news from
that war.
Plague prevails to an alarming ex-
tent in Honolulu.
A suit is to be brought against the
Standard Oil company to test the
constituionaily of the Indiana anti
trust law.
While Hawaii is now q part of the |
United States and the constitution Of |
this coutt try foroids slavery and in
voluntary sevitude, except for crime,
in any part of the domain under This
government, yet on that island there
are 100, 600 men held in involuntary
servitude, under the flag of this nation
that assumes to be so.much opposed to
slavery in any form. Is this govern
ment to permit such condition to
continue, is it to allow this stain up
on the honor of the nation without
protest? Let the disgrace be speed
lily wiped out.
. . .
An earthquake in Russia recently
killed 500 people
The secretary of war has sent to
congress a request for an urgent
deficiency appropriation of $3.50. GOO
to supplement the 81, 500, OO0 here
tofore appropriated for the repatria-
ton of the Spanish prisoners and
their families. Mr.. Roots economy
is rather tardy
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-01-18

Two carloads of fine, dry mountain
wood-order at once-Matthew &
Roberts.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-01-18
A Handy Man With An Auon,.

When YOU want a well bored, or
pump repaired, anything in the well
business, call on
u B Fuller.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-01-18
The.
Montana House
JAMES GoRMAN, Prop.
salubria, Ida.

Everything up-io-date.
ride taken in feeding guests with the
' Uest IN the market Large airy rooms
with spring beds. ioOils
r, 1 lrst-elass bar in charge Of lance
LA naw Ii, where only the best lionors
9 me travelling public will find tbisa
nrs'-class and comfortable stopping place
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-01-18

Mems waterproof mackintoshes at
Sommercamp's.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-01-18

want to let the people who suffer
from rheumatism aud sciatica know
that ChamberlaRs Pain Balm re-
ieved me after a number Of other
medicines and u doctor had failed.
i is the best liuiment | have ever
known Of. - DoDeEN, Alpbaretta,
Ga Thousands have been cured of
rheumatism BY this remedy. One
application relieves the pain. For
sale by r W, SMITH.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-01-18
Would Laugh.

A Kansas editor thus soliloquizes
elf man should wear his panta.
looms so long that whenever he ap-
peared on the street he would be
obliged to reach around behind and
crap hold of the basement and hold
them up, wouldn't the ladies laugh?"
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-01-18

January shoe sale at Sommer-
camps.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-01-18

One hundred tons of baled hay for
sale. Matthews & Roberts.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1900-01-18

The house committee has reported
favorably on the Nicaraguan canal
bill, and it is thought and hoped
that both branches will pass the bill.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
CRIMINAL.

Cornelius Shaw and James ]. Eag.
an were hanged Jan. 9 at Montrose,
Pa for the murder of Jackson Pep
per-
Il am going to kill you" exclaimed
Leon Ray, a seven-year-old boy, to
Ruth Barnes, his seven-year-old girl
playmate, at West Point, Ca, Monday,
and then he levelled a big pistol at
the girls head and pulled the trigger.
The bullet crashed through the child's
brain and she dropped dead, while her
companion looked upon his victim
with Indifference.
Alfred Morrison, who fatally shot
his wife on the night of December 2S
last at Mt. Vernon, N Y, has been
placed under police surveillance, a po-
liceman being at his side night and
day.
Adolphus W. Greedy, Chief Signal
Officer of the Army, was badly injured
Sunday in scuffle with drunken
man who tried to force an entrance
to the Greedy home, an old-fashioned
house in a most respectable but not
a modern part of the city, under the
impression that it was a questionable
resort. Gen. Greely was thrown down
flight of stone steps and received
severe scalp wound, from which he
lost great deal of blood He was
stunned by the fall and remained un-
conSious for nearly an hour. A physi-
clan dressed the wound and applied
restoratives. He found no fracture of
the skull and it is not believed that
the injury will prove dangerous. The
assailant Is in the hands of the police.
Joel G. Tyler, late teller of the Safe
ty National Bank of Ftchburg, Massa-
chusetts has been sentenced to serve
five years in Jail for embezzling funds
of the bank.
At Pineville, Oregon, as the result
Of quarrel In a Piute Indian camp,
Matthew Wewa killed his wife, fatal
ly wounded his brother, Charley and
two squaws and killed himself.
Charles Wilson and "Zack" Single
ton, negro murderers, were hanged
at Charleston, South Carolina, Jan. 5.
The trial of Julia Morrison James,
the actress, for the murder of Frank
Leidenheimer, stage manager of the
company in which she was playing,
has been begun in Chattanooga.
William Buchanan, aged S3 years,
father of State Librarian Henry c.
Buchanan, is dead at Trenton. N. J.
Ex-Adjutant General Marsh, of
Michigan was arraigned in court at
Lansing Jan. 4. He pleaded not guilty
b the charge Of fraud and embezzle-
ment and bail was fixed at $4,000.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
FIRE RECORD.

The barns of the South Chicago
Railroad were burned in Hammond,
Indiana, Jan. 8. Thirty-two cars were
destroyed. The loss, fully covered by
insurance, is put at 100000.
In a fire which destroyed the New
ark City Home, 207 children, expert.
enced in the fire drill, marched in
safety from the building.
Eleven business houses and one
dwelling at Prairie Depot, an Ohio oil
village, were burned on Sunday night.
Fire destroyed the four-story brick
building on the corner of Market and
Middle streets, Portland, Me-, occu-
pied by F. o. Bailey & Co. as a car
riage repository. Loss, 100000.
Fire Jan. Z did 100000 damage to
the Commercial Hotel block at Colum-
bus, Miss. The heaviest losers are
Donaghue wholesale grocery, Teas
dale music store, Cox grocery store
and the Commercial Printing Com
pany.
Fire in Mears village, Mich, de.
stroyed thre stores and the post
office, express and Township Clerks
Office.
The $4,000 stock of Morgan, Publ
& Morris, manufacturers of military
supplies in Detroit, was DESTROYED by
fire Jan. 3. The Partisan Laundry
Company and w. T. Fisk, shoe manu-
facturer, were burned out. The build.
ing was owned by the Palms estate.
and was damaged $4,000.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
Fruit and Vegetables.
Victim Failed to Appear.

Willis Rosser, a medical student,
who shot Frederick Slater, well
known wheelman of Railway, N. j.,
in Madison Square Garden, New York,
at the close of the latest siX-day BIZ
cycle contest on Dec. 8, has been dis
charged from prison. This is the Sec
ond time Rosser, who is a member of
a well-known family of Stevenson,
Ala, has escaped punishment after
engaging in a shooting affray. The
shooting of Slater was a sensational
one. Rosser had come to New York
to pursue his medical studies, and
was one of the spectators at the bi-
cycle contests. Rosser and Slater,
who had never met before, engaged in
a quarrel over wager on one of the
races. Rosser shot Slater and was
hustled to the station house to pre-
vent him from being attacked by the
crowd. The case was adjourned sew
eral times because of Slatsr's illness,
but he was not in court finally. No
word was received from him, and Ros-
sers lawyer asked that his client be
dismissed from custody. Magistrate
Poole then discharged Rosser, who
had been confined in the Tombs.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
Expenses Of preyfus Defence.

One feature of the Dreyfus case has
not been fully touched upon-the ex.
ceedingly large sum of money which
the Dreyfus family has been forced
to spend. The trial of 1894 cost a
very fair sum, limited, chiefly, how
ever, to lawyers fees. The large out.
lay was caused by the efforts of the
family to discover the real culprit af-
ter the departure of the unfortunate
prisoner for Devils Island. M.
Matthews Dreyfus employed two sets
Jf detectives. The French detectives
were watched by set of English de-
tectives, and the family, of course,
footed the bills in both instances. This
work went on for two or three years,
until the discovery of the famous petit
bleu designating Esterhazy as the
culprit. Then came the expenses
leading to the revision of the case, the
lawyers and the memoirs and other
documents which had to be published
But the deserved compensation given
NJ Mornard, M. Demange and M. La
bori was not the only outlay which
the Dreyfus family had to support at
Rennes. AS they lost their suit, they
had to pay all the witnesses a round
sum of nearly $4,000. Thus Dreyfus
was placed in the curious position of
paying the carfare and the board bills
of his deadliest enemies. 1t is esti-
mated that up to the present more
than 100000 has been employed in
this brave fight.-Paris Letter in the
Chicago Record.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
Duel In a Court Room.

Oak Ridge, a little hamlet 1S miles
northeast of Vicksburg, Miss, was the
scene last Tuesday Of pistol fight,
In which three of the best-known resi-
dents of the county were killed. The
dead men are A. D. ROLAND, r. s. Ste
phenson and DR.. Ohio Austin. Only
meagre details of the encounter are
obtainable, but it is learned that DR..
James Austin, his son, Otho Austin,
and his son-in-law, r. s. Stephenson,
had been arrested in an affidavit
sworn out by ROLAND, charging them
with whipping one of Rolland's negro
tenants. The trial was set to take
place in Justice Grinin's court at Oak
Ridge. The trial had hardly opened
when the shooting began. When the
smoke had cleared away ROLAND, Ste
phenson and OHIO Austin were
stretched on the anor dead, and DR..
James Austin and Young son of Rol
land were serlouet wounded.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12


The Pere Ma.qHojte Railroad has
purchased the Saginaw. Tuscola and
Huron Railroad running from Sag
NAV to Bad Axe, sixty-eight miles.
The road connects at Bad Axe WITH
the Pere Marquette system running to
Port Austin.
For the third time since the street
car mems strike in Springfield ILL.,,
dynamite has been resorted to, being
placd on the street car tracks and ex-
ploded beneath car containing
twelve passengers. No one was in
jured, but the car was badly wrecked.
The explosion created great excite
ment.
The Machinists' Union of Paterson,
N. j., has declared a general strike,
and all of the journeymen machinists
in the principal shops left work. 1t
is probable that the iron, steel, brass
and machinery building business will
be tied up for some time.
The trouble between the mine oper-
ators in Walker county, Alabama, and
the United Mine Workers has been
adjusted, and the miners, who have
been on strike for eleven weeks have
returned to work.
Three thousand miners have struck
for an advance of wages in the Ko-
dach coal district of Syria, Austria.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Events of the Week Told In a Few
Words.

The claim of Admiral Dewey and
his officers and men of the Asiatic
Squadron for bounty for the destruc-
tion of the Spanish fleet at Manila
was argued before the United States
Court of Claims Jan. 9.
L. H. Severance, of Cleveland, Ohio,
formerly Treasurer of the Standard
Oil Company, has given 100000 to
Oberlin College for a laboratory.
DR.. Thomas H. Franklin, an Allan
tic City, N. j., druggist, dropped dead
In his store Jan. 9.
In view of the existence of the
plague in the Orient and in South
America, Surgeon General Wyman
has requested $25,00O additional for
quarantine service to be appropriated
as an urgency deficiency item.
The Lawton home fund is likely to
amount to $4,000.
Miss Mary Howe, who sued for $24,-
$50, the alleged value of her services
as companion to Mrs. Francis A. Skin
ner, Of New York, has recovered a
verdict of $4,000. Both sides to the
case are dissatisfied with this verdict
Miss Howe that she gets so little,
and Mrs. Skinner that she has to pay
anything.
James w. Chase, builder and con-
tractor of Buffalo, New York, has
been adjudged as a bankrupt. His
liabilities are given as S223.309. with
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
Costly Wardrobes.

Elizabeth Petrovna, Empress Of
Russia, daughter of Peter the Great.
had $4,000 dresses at the time of hef
death. She was generally styled the
Humane Elizabeth because of a vow
she made never to infict capital pun
ishment during her reign. She was,
however extravagantly luxurious, az
shown by her having at her death 15..
600 unused dresses in her wardrobe
She died in 1761, in the twenty-first
year of her reign and the fifty-thirA
year of her age. Queen Elizabeth,
who reigned in England from 1858 tN
1903, was also given to extravaganza
In the matter of dress, and at her
death left upward of 5000 dresses.
all of them fit for use, and havinR
been occasionally worn by her.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
CASUALTIES.

At Ottawa, Ontario, Julien Schink
and Joseph Landria, while crossing
the Canada Atlantic Railroad in a
carriage, were struck by train and
killed.
Four workmen were killed Jan.
by an explosion of dynamite near
lockwood, Tennessee.
Alderman Thomas F. Ryan, super
intendent of the Evanston, Illinois,
Gas Works, died on Tuesday night of
asphyxiation, the result of an unex-
planned accident at the plant. His as
sistant, William Miller, is at the point
of death.
Three persons were killed and three
badly burned by an explosion of gun
powder at the home of G. M. Patter-
son, in Lowndes county, Alabama, on
Monday.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
SPORTING NEWS.

Tom" Sharkey is responsible for
the statement that in the future he
will act as his own manager. The
Sailor says that his contract with
0'Rourlke, his manager, expired on
January L, and that he will not re-
new it. He says he will gladly accept
Jeffries' offer to fight Immediately af-
ter the champions battle with Cor
bett.
/. 81 don't put much credence in the
report from Chicago that the Ameri-
can League intends to start a base
ball war, said Edward Hanlon, man.
ager of the Brooklyn team. 'It's all
right to talk of new leagues and base
ball wars, but when it comes to get
ting the money-there's the rub"
A special cable states that Mr.. Fox
hall Keene broke his collarbone while
hunting in England.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
MILITARY AND NAVAL.

The hospital ship Missouri has sail.
ed from Manila for San Francisco with
286 sick soldiers on board.
Work has so far advanced on the
United States battleshlp Wisconsin at
San Francisco that she will make her
trial trip within two weeks. Her main
battery Of four thirteen-inch guns will
be the heaviest ever mounted on an
American man-of-war
Captain F. A. Cook, who command
ed the cruiser Brooklyn in the battle
of Santiago, has told President Nc
Kinley that he was responsible for the
loop made by the Brooklyn, for which
Rear-Admiral Schley has been criti.
cised.
w. l.. White, former Quartermaster
General of Mischigan, disappeared af-
ter being indicted for conspiracy to
defraud the State in the sale and pur.
chase Of military supplies.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
Doubling a Stage Mob.

1t is generally admitted that one of
the most realistic stage effects of
modern days is that of the music hall
scene in Hearts Are Trumps." The
great (apparent) depth of the audi.
torium shown on the stage at Drury
Lane is the result Of a very ingenious
device. The sea of faces representing
the music hall audience is only half
human-that is to say, each of the
supers is doubled" by means of a
mask on the back Of his head. These
masks are visible to the audience only
when reflected on a mirror at the
back of the stage. Here we have a
decided improvement on the old-fash.
Toned method of multiplying a crowd
or an army by means of distressingly
unreal figures painted on backcloth.
London Chronicle.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
A MYSTERIOUS CRIME
BODY OF A MILLER FOUND BE.
MEATH A WATER WHEEL.
The Hands Were Tied and a Heavy
Piece of Iron Was Fastened to One
Leg-The Man Had Been Missing
for a Week.

One of the deepest mysteries which
ever stirred Battle Greek, Mich, as
sumed new phase by the finding of
the body of Sherman Church, prom
inent young miller, lying under the
water wheel of the Augusta Mills,
with both hands tied behind him and
heavy weight attached to his left
leg
Tuesday, Jan. 2, Henry Marvin, a
leading resident, came into the Angus
ia Mills to get sack of grain. Sher-
man Church waited on him and ac-
cepted the money. He then went
from the Office to the mill as Mr.. Mar
vim was departing.
Church's wife kept supper waiting
for him, but he did not return. She
went to the mill and found that he
had disappeared. The mill was
searched, but Church could not be
found, and the entire community was
startled. Parties of friends broke up
the ice in the river and searched the
country, but the man was gone, and
the mystery of it was that he had not
been seen to leave the MILL
At the end of week, as a last hope,
the water was let out of the flume,
which the residents had been certain
was froze over at the time of the dis
appearance of Church.
The body was found wedged firmly
between the big water wheel and the
bottom of the wheel. 1t was with
difficulty that the bloated and bruised
corpse was extricated and brought to
the bank of the river. Both hands of
the young man were tied behind his
back and to his left leg was firmly
attached the piece of heavy iron. The
body was badly bruised, as it naturally
would be beneath a water wheel.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
DISPENSING BEER.
Amount Allowed to Brewery En-.
ployes.

ployes.
The amount of beer consumed by
men who work in breweries is little
short of appalling, a hundred glasses
day not being considered unusual
In one of the breweries uptown there
is quite system in dispensing drinks
to the employees. Every man is grad
ed according to his capacity, and
tickets are issued to the men. when
they come to work in the morning.
Each ticket is good for glass of beer.
Some men get hundred, others so,
some 60, and so on down to the nov
ices, who are only allowed 25 until
their capacity Is accurately judged
through the system Of graduation.
the brewers claim that no drunken
ness results from this, as the men
perspire freely in the hot atmosphere,
and the liquid has little effect upon
them. II by some mischance a man
should become incapacitated for work
ne is denoted to the next lower class.
and this is looked upon as a keen dis
grace, and very rarely happens. "Of
course 1t ultimately leads to cirrhoris
OF the liver" said a prominent brewer
recently, but the men are bound to
drink beer, and it is better to have
system. It saps their vitality to
such an extent that they become easy
victims to any disease. We lost two
workmen last month from broken
legs. To an ordinary man no import.
ance would be attached to a Fractures
limb, but these fellows never rallied,
Phil. Record. ~ NA0u'
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-12
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
< Latest News From the Active Busi.
ness World.

The Order of Railroad Telegraphers
has declared boycott against the
Colorado and Southern Railway on
account of disagreement between
the company and operators regarding
wages and hours of labor.
Secretary Long has directed the
commandant of the Mare Island Navy
Yard, San Francisco, to restore to the
eligible list the shipwrights who
struck for higher wages about SIX
weeks ago, provided they complied
with certain conditions.
A notice of a general advance of
7h per cent. in wages, posted by the
four plants of the American Steel and
Wire Company, will affect 1000 en-
ployes at Joliet Illinois.
Dingley's Manufacturing Company's
mill at Philadelphia is closed, and 400
employees are out of work on account
of a strike of the weavers.
A Chicago despatch says that the
general offices of the American Tin
/, Plate Company and the National Steel
company are to be removed from that
cs;haavl Now York.
,tion pployes of the Sanford Lum-
Ino Thspany, at Careyville, Florida,
nSSqu4lck because the company re-
SO ofeir demand to be paid weekly
wad of monthly.
An agreement has been reached by
hich the Cincinnati and Hamilton
lectric Street Railway and the Gin
nnati and Miami Valley Traction
lad are to be consolidated, to form
through line from Cincinnati to Day
In.