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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16
coNrApINI EXCITED.
Girl Holds Converse with Apparition Of
Virgin

Girl Holds Converse with ApparitIon of
Virgin.
A trivial event in the little village
Of -Bellecole, near Acqui, in
southeastern Piedmont. has recently
been the cause of great excitement
among the contadini of the district.
The fourteen-year-old daughter OF a
poor widow was sent by her mother to
gather clover on a vineyard slope.
The girl soon returned with pale
face and the news that while she was
gathering the clover the Virgin APP
peared to her and kissed her lightly
on the mouth like a breath of wind.
The peasants at once believed the girl,
and from that moment the little vii
lage has been besieged by thousands
of blind, crippled and consumptive
people At an early hour every morn
ing the young girl goes TO the vine
yard and, apparently in state of I'M
conscious ecstasy, holds converse with
the Madonna, whose wishes and COM
mands she then announces in a quiet
voice to the kneeling throngs around
her. A small chapel is now being
built where the first appearance is said
to have occurred. Some OF the peas
ants, who dared to doubt the truth
| of the girls statement. have been NAL
1 treated, while their houses were de-
/ stroyed and then RACED to the ground
/ The excitement among the country
people grows more and more; only a
few nights ago nearly 1900 people
passed the night on the hills round
the village, and their singing could be
heard for miles The prosaic project
has ordered a battalion of infantry TO
proceed to the scene Of the reported
I appartion.-Ex.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16
A MURDER MYSTERY.
TWO ARRESTS MADE AFTER
THREE YEARS
In Connection with the Brutal Killing
of Money Lender Reed and His Sister
at North Adams, Mass.-History of
the Crime.

After a lapse of almost three years
strenuous effort is being made 10
solve the mystery Of the brutal killing
Of Henry F. Reed and his sister.
Blanche NJ. Reed, who were found
murdered in their home in North
Adams, Mass, on August Z. 1897. Two
arrests have been made and the cases
of the prisoners are Alexander Grant
and David King, both of Clarksburg,
viii soon come up for hearing.
The murder Of the Reeds was a
most cold-blooded affair and the mo-
tives for it. so far as the public is
concerned, are still unknown.
Reed came to that place nearly thir-
ty years ago, and engaged in the musi-
cal instrument business, in which he
made considerable money. Eight years
before his. tragic end he bought a
house on a lane leading of Holden
street, near the center Of the city. Here
he conducted a regular pawnbroker's
business. He would advance money
on any kind of an article brought TO
him, and after a time he began taking
up mortgages in the country districts.
He was close and exacting, and rat
urally his business made him enemies.
His sister, who kept house for him,
had his characteristics. With both
gold was their god. Their lives
were centered in their business, for the
sister could make as sharp deal as
her brother and was equally interested
in the conduct of affairs.
Their home was a regular curio shop
wherein was stored a vast variety OF
articles, and it was always open. Peo-
pie called their at all hours Of the dag
and night and Reed was ever willing
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16
COLD AIR HEALTH.
Water About the Best ssimulans Peoples
Can Have.

Many persons regard the winter sea-
son as an unfortunate visitation. IL IL
considered both uncomfortable to ina
body and harmful to health. This is
Al error. Cold IS a most potent AGENT
for the restoration and preservation OF
normal activity on the part Of the or
gans of the human body It is a wise
plan CT providence which gives rs a
change OF SEASONS. The winter cold
comes as a tonic TO repair the injuries
done by the enervating heat OF sum-
mer. Summer. it is true, has many
wise uses IN the matter Of health. II
induces outdoor life. rids the system
Of poisons through copious persplra-
ton ard through the scc-ching rays OF
sun destroys germ life Winter is the
great bracer of the system. 1t stim-
ulates activity in every organ WI
cold attacks the Surface Of the body
the blood is set into more free c enia-
tion as a means of bodily warmth It
is through the circulation Of the blood
that the human anatomy is kept in a
state Of repair. When the food has
been digested and converted into
liquid form ii is taken up by the
blood and carried the rounds OF the
system for the purpose Of repairing
The waste places. When the cpd
causes increased circulation, it also
brings about more perfect nutrition.
Mans face and hands illustrate how
weather-proof the body becomes when
exposed TO air. Continued activity in
circulation on the surface. caused by
the air coming in contact with the
skin, tends to nourish and thickcn the
skin. Thus mans skin grows thicker
in winter just as animals are supplied
with double coat of fur The saw
ages who dwell bareheaded in the open
air. are seldom. if ever, known to be
afflicted with bald heads. while with
the civilian who shields his scalp from
air. badness is prevalent The In
dians, who. if not now. in former days
roamed our western borders. practical
" without clothing to shelter their
bodies, became. through long ex-
posure, so Injured to the cold that it
gave them but little discomfort-St
Louis Globe-Demccrat.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16

T., eleven years ago and there met
King. who had been in this country SIX
years. Both became inseparaale crn-
pSnicns and four years ago they -
Gated in North Adams. Grant purcnsz-
ed farm at Clarksburg from Reed for
81 300 and Or this there waz a mort
gage for $3.50. Grant was to pay for
the property in small sums. At the
time of the murder Grant, who was a
baker by trade, was employed in a
shop and King, who made bis home
with Grant. was employed in the Ar
mold print works. They drove togeth-
er to the city every morning and
Grant stabbed his horse in Reeds
barn. At the time of the murder the
print works were running until 10 p.
m, so that Grant, who quit work at Z
T. m, and then drove to his farm,
usually returned at a late hour to con-
yey King home. On the evening pre-
ceding the discovery Of the murder
Grant says that he did not return 70
North Adams for King; that the latter
walked home and thai he Grant did
not leave his house after supper, SO
that he could not have committed the
murder. The stale. however, claims TO
have many witnesses who viii swear
that they saw s.--a King and Grant
in the city late that night TIE state
viii also show that the object Of the
crime was robbery, as Grant. the
prosecution viii claim. was aware that
Reed had money in his house There
is one thing that the friends Of Grant
adduce in his favor The mortgage on
the property he had purchased from
Reed was not recorded and nothing
was known of it until Grant. unasked,
stepped forward and gave information
about it
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16

The Chicago Public draws attention
to the fact UTTERLY ignored in the
press dispatches, as nearly all essential
facts usually are) that the great ice
trust of New York. in which prominent
politicians of both parties are deeply
interested, rested nor upon any power
of organization, but upon monopoly
of the docks. If these had been free to
all shippers, the trust would have been
rendered Impossible by competition.
So it is with all trusts; they are mads
possible only by laws that foster mon
opoly of trade, transportation, and
land. Abolish these, and no anti
trust legislation would be needed.
Editor Star. Reading the foregoing
we rambled off into fable-land. thus:
("Trusts"-A Fable.)
A certain householder once adver-
tised for a watchdog, and Eve Of the
/. fraternity responded. Now, one was a
good dog and the other bad dog. The
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16
Passed a Painful suhi.ex

Springfield, Mass. Repuklisa7; 1t
is our opinion that, with all its spx1-
dor, the Republican convention OF 5000
has a fatal lack, which appears no
where more clearly than in the bril-
liant speeches of its two chairmeI.
The conscience. the idealism, the s.or-
ious fidelity to human rights, which
are now embodied by Hoar. Boutwell,,
Edmunds and the rest, are not there.
The materialism of Hanna, the cynical
political ethics of Lodge. the swash-
buckler fervor of Roosevelt-all these
are there. and they dominate every
thing. 1t is not surprising that the
proceedings are described as lacking
in enthusiasm. Nor is it strange that
the great apostacy of the republic in
the far East is left almost to a foot
note in the platform, while the con.
vention orators hurriedly pass the
painful subject nv
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16

MY home town Of Grangeville, Ia
no. is an example Of the rapid growth
OF communities. says Mr.. J. F. Ainslie
"A few years ago the county-seat was
established at the town of Mount Ida
no. A court house was constructed
and the nucleus of town begun. 1t
was not long afterward that Grange
willie sprang into existence. Today
Mount Idaho, with its court house, has
about twelve families, and Grangeville.
only few miles distant, has a popu-
lation of 1900 people. Washington
Post.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16

to make dieker with anyone, black
or white, sober or drunk, provided he
could get the best of the deal
Owing to the frequency with which
people called at the Reed place at I'M
seemly hours. the neighbors paid but
little attention TO such visitors. And
thus when shortly after midnight on
August 6, 1897, Mrs David Fairfield. a
neighbor, saw man seated in bug
gy driving up the lane from the Reed
place she paid but little attention TO
it at the time. The buggy was follow
ed at a short distance by man on
foot. Soon afterward other people saw
a buggy. in which were seated two
men driving of in the direction of
Clarksburg
This incident has greater signifi-
canoe on the forenoon of August 4.
when it was discovered that Reed and
his sister had been murdered. At II
O'Clock on that day Hiram Tenney,
who had some business to transact
with Reed, called at the house. but
could get no response to his repeated
knocking. He notified David Fair
field. who lived nearby, and together
they entered the Reed house Lying
on bed in a room downstairs they
found the body of Reed. The head had
been pounded almost to a jelly and in
the mouth was gag of coarse cloth.
Nearby was a wooden mallet with
which the murder had been accom-
plished
After the police had been notified a
further search was made of the house
and on the landing upstairs was the
body of Miss Reed. She had been shot
four times. Three of the bullets hay-
ing taken effect in her head, and the
fourth in her shoulder. She had evil
IDENTIFY been aroused by the noise made
in killing her brother and was about
making her way down stairs when the
murderer was upon her. The bullets
were fired at such close range that her
face was burned with the powder. I'm
mediately after the commission of the
crime the state police were called in
to help unravel the case. Every man
who had the slightest dealings with
the murdered man was examined but
practically no light was thrown upon
the mysterious murder. An aggre-
gate reward of $500 was offered for
information in the matter, hut it bore
no fruit
The latest work on the case
has been done by Detective
Durham of the state police.
who came there at the instiga-
ton of the attorney general. Lawyer
Mark E. Couch has also given the
case much attention ever since the
commission of the crime, and some
time ago enlisted the support of At
torney General Knowlton Fer a
long time past the prisoners, Grant
and King, have been closely watched,
and their arrest was not much of a
surprise. The state claims to have a
strong case against them and between
twenty-five and thirty witnesses will
be called on behalf of the people when
the case comes up. Alexander King
and David Grant are natives of Scot
land. The latter came to Newport, r.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16

Paris Cable New York Journal: The
Maharaja of Kapurthala gave dinner
at the Elysee Palace Hotel in honor
of Daisy Letter and her sister. 1t was
one of the most sumptuous affairs
ever given in Paris. The table deco
rations were of the rarest flowers and
the menu contained the choicest
dishes the chef could devise. The
dinner was given in return for corr
tesies shown to the Maharaja in In
dia by Lord and Lady Cursor. Both
Kapurthala and his companion. an
other Indian Prince, wore innumer-
able decorations. and their blazing
Jewels made gorgeous appearance.
The Maharaja is reported to have five
wives with him visiting the. exhibi-
ton.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16
labor In the Cabinet.

The Republican piatIorm declared
for a new cabinet ofiicer-a minister OF
commerce. The Democrats also favor
an increase in the presidents official
family. But they call for a secretary
of labor.
This difference shows the difference
in attitude between the two parties.
The Republicans look at economic
questions from the side of the capital
lists, the Democrats from the side OF
the workers. They hold that prosper
ity means the accumulation of vast
wealth by the few. The Democrats
believe that the welfare of the workers,
the producers, is the foundation of
general prosperity. A country is pros
porous when the masses are contented.
receiving a fair share of the products
of their toll. Governments are for
the benefit of the many and not of the
few.-Evansville Courier.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16
BIasphemous Tomfoolery.


Much latitude must be gwen the
proud American enthusiast once in
every four years because he then ex-
ercises the proud privilege of free
man in electing a ruler; and all sorts
of extravaganza in language may be
excused, from the most solemn and
funereal to the most tropically exuber-
ant and hysterieal. Few people are
permitted to choose their own rulers
and these few should be allowed to ex-
ercise their vocal chords to the fullest
extent. But there is reason in all
things and some of his admirers are
going beyond all reason in their be-
SOLDERING eulogies of Roosevelt The
preachers have been so far the gravest
offenders. Two gentlemen of the cloth
have taken it upon themselves to liken
the hero of San Juan" to the hero
of Calvary" and one of these holy men
has compared Roosevelt's life to the
"businesslike" methods of Jesus.
If this is anything at all it is bias
phemous tomfoolery. Roosevelt has
been honored and possibly may merit
the honor but that does not entitle him
to canonization or dedication.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16

An odd story which may or may not
be true is that told of the Marquis of
Londonderry, Great Britain's new
postmaster general Before he sue
ceeded to his fathers peerage he stood
for parliament in the Irish County
Down. and was elected as Home Rul-
er. When he subsequently voted
against Home Rule and was charged
with bad faith, he said that he had
never pledged himself to support that
cause. 1t subsequently turned out
that a practical joker who resembled
the candidate, had visited County
Down previous to the parliamentary
elections and promised the Irish Ma
tionalists that he would support them
on all questions affecting the welfare
of Ireland. The hoax was discovered
too late to undeceive the Home Rulers,
who acknowledged that they nad been
sold.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16
CRY OF WOLF WON'T WORK

A recent cartoon in Puck pictures
the street car riots in st. Louis and as
serts that they are the realization Of
the anarchistic Chicago platform.
Now, the cry of wolf was effective in
1895, but it is frayed at the elbows and
run down at the heels this year. Peo-
pie have seen Bryan and have failed to
discover the cloven hoof hidden in his
ample boots, tail curled beneath his
sack coat, or horns sprouting from his
head scantily covered with hair. They
no longer believe that death and de-
struetiCn follow in the wake of an en-
actment of Democratic laws. Surely a
party that stands for every principle
dear to the FOUNDERS of the republic
is not going to tear the nation up by
the roots and cast it into the sea.
Some new fake" must be tried this
year. Puck, the New York Times and
other mugwump papers that are
screaming anarchy, are wasting their
powder. 1t won't work again.
But to take Pucl's cartoon seriously
for moment. The Democratic party
lost at the polls in 1896. If any ma
tional party is to be blamed for the la
Dor troubles that have been so numer-
GUS during the present administration
surely it cannot be blamed on the
Democrats. Mr.. Mckinley takes credit
for the large wheat crops He ought
by the same reasoning to bear the bur
den of the labor troubles That such a
cartoon is printed by reputable paper
shows the lengths to which partisan
ship will carry otherwise sane men,
Evansville Courier.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16
DINING OUT.
Hostess Sometimes Depends on Hair
Trigger Tntellects-

Trigger ihte4iec1s-
II the hostess can catch no comet,
she must be contented with meteoric
wits, who make up for real brilliancy
by saying what they do say quickly
and spontaneslsly-wit the punsters,
in short, and such hair-trigger intel
lects. Failing these. says the presum-
ably humorous Gelett Burgess in Har-
per's Bazaar, the last class above the
0ores positive are those wei meaning
diners out who load themselves with
stories for a dinner as a soldier goes
into an engagement with belt full Oh
cartridges. They may not get chance
for a shot very often. but. given an
opening, their fire is accurate and
deadly till the last round is gone. when
they are at the mercy of a more in
ventive wit Yet even these welter-
weights have their place at the table.
for we must have bread, as well as
wine 1t was one of Lewis CarrolIs
pet fancies to have a dinner table in
the shape of a ring, and half the
guests seated inside upon platform
which revolyed slowly around the cir
Gle till each one had passed opposite
every guest seated on the outside OK the
table. But this would break up many
of the little secret schemes for which
the modern dinner is planned, and
many young man would suddenly
find himself flirting wiz the wrong
lady across the board. And this last
hint carries me from tbs exoteric to
the esoteIic charms of the dinner. Here
however, yon must guess your own
way. l dare not tell you precisely
what it means when CeIestine shifts
her glass from left TO right of her plate.
nor what 1 answer when 1 raise my
serviette by one corner. for Celestine
may dine with you some day, and you
may remember. You would better not
invite me, anyway. for. though I am
not comet, yet / admit would be
mad enough to upset the claret pur-
posely rather than have nothing sx-
citing happen
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16

That condition which Mr.. Bryan
warned his party friends against, when
he pleasantly said, it is undesirable to
nominate ticket in which the candi-
date for first and second place may
find it necessary to enter into joint
debate with one another, appears to
have already developed an illustration
in the case Of the gentleman nomina-
ted for president and vice president by
Mark Hanna's convention.
Just before he left on his trip to Ok
lahoma, Candidate Roosevelt gave out
an interview in which he pitched into
all violations of the civil service law.
His opening declaration reads thus:
II know that no republic can perma-
nently endure, when its politics are
corrupt and base. and the spoils sys-
TEN, the application in political life
of the degrading doctrine that to the
victors belong the spoils. produces cor
ruption and degradation"
This is bringing Mr.. Mckinley, Mr.
Roosevelts running mate to book with
vengeance for going back on his oft
repeated declaration that he would
take no step backward" in civil serv-
ice reform, by removing the civil serv-
ice fence from around more than TO-
900 Offices, previously filled by the
merit system, and leaving open to the
occupancy of hungry spoilsmen, in
order to help Mark Hanna carry the
Ohio election last fall for the Repub-
lican ticket.
Again Candidate Roosevelt inserts
the knife into the head of the presi-
Dental ticket. and draws its blade
sweepingly across the abdomen of the
man who bosses the Republican party,
In the following fashion: Presidents
Arthur, Harrison and Cleveland have
all desired to see the service extended
and the law well administered" How
about President Mckinley? Candidate
Roosevelt is ominously silent as to the
record of his running mate in the civil
service reform business.
Once more he says: 1.-THE spoils-
mongers and the spoils-hunter invari-
ably breed the bribe-taker and the
bribe-giver, the embezzler of public
funds. and the corrupter of voters"
No one at all conversant with recent
political history can read the last para
graph without interpreting it as de-
piction of Hanna's election methods,
the tactics he employed In getting into
the senate, and his blackmailing post
masters last year out of corruption
funds for the Ohio election when he
employed Mr.. Dick as his stool pigeon.
Roosevelt's language likewise reads
like direct reference to the thievery
/ of Hanna's friends Nicely and Rath-
bone in Cuba.
What is Teddy the Terror up to?
Does he want to get even with Hanna
for trying to prevent his nomination
Does he wish to knife Mckinley this
year so as to mount upon the Ohioan's
political horse to the candidacy for
president in 1904?
Both these conclusions are strongly
inferable from Roosevelt's remarkable
Observation-Disclosures City Times.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16
river Gives Up peaa.

The bodies of eleven colored long
shoremen were the other day recovered
from the Elizabeth river, near Norfolk
Va. by dredging The bodies were OF
men who were thrown overheard and
drowned when the Merchants and
Miners passenger steamer Essex. bound
for Providence, crashed into an Old Do
minion Steamship company's barge
and sank it. Ninety-three men are
known to have been aboard the barge.
and it is now believed that Others were
aboard whose presence we're not then
known Of
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16
psnn.ylvan,a to Buy valley Forge

Historic Valley Forge is to become a
state park. 1t is the purpose to take
immediate steps toward the purchase
of this historic ground by the state of
Pennsylvania A committee has been
appointed to correspond with all pa
triotic societies throughout Pennsylva-
MIA. and all Americans who have the
good name of Washington at heart are
appealed to for the purpose of helping
along the crusade. The proprietary
rights of the Valley Forge association
are not to be infringed upon, for the
extensive territory contains many
landmarks that are now falling into
decay. 1t is these historic mementos
of the revolution which VIII be taken
care of when once the state of Penn
sylvania is the overseer of Valley
Forge.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-10-16

Fire the other day Quilted the build
ing occupied by the Detroit Mich
Journal and destroyed the mechanical.
business and editorial outfit of the pa
per, with the exception of the presses.
which sustained only water damage.
The total loss is placed at about $751;
600.