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Evening journal., 1900-06-27
THE COTTAGE COLoNY.

The cottage colony viii be as large as
ever this year, and will be made up Of
residents of nearly all of the Middle
Atlantic States. The cottage colony is
peculiar to Cape May. in that it has a
permanence of regular visitors who
come year after year, and who really
take the lead in all social matters It
is composed of that class of people only
who have large possessions, and yet
who do not attempt to make them
selves appear as the leaders Of social
life. Out of this colony have sprung
many organizations whose objects are
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PRUNES AND RAISINS.

San Jose, Dec. 1.-President Bond of the cured fruit association reports 30 per cent. increase in prune Shipments this week over last With this in-- crease in sales, however. the market IS still very dull. Few of the packing houses are operating. and prunes fill them to the rafters. The exceedingly small demand for prunes Is accounted for by the warm weather and the large supply of apples and fresh fruits in the East. No material change in the sit uation is looked for until after the holidays Cold weather and the pass ing of fresh fruits is expected to pro- duce demand for prunes. There has been a small export demand this past week.
 Vice President Nathan of the Fres- no Raisin Growers Association was in town today conferring with Pres ident Bond and reports the market for raisins equally as dull as for prunes. A few orders for cured peaches have been filled this past week. There is no demand for apricots. There is still held in this valley about S5 cars of peaches ard 25 cars of apricots.
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FURIOUS BATTLE WITH HOLD
 UP MEN.
Five Robbers Attack a Street Car at
 Chicago.

Chicago, Dec. IA daring attempt was made last night by five men to hold up an Ogden avenue electric car at Randolph and Canal streets. The robbers were beaten off after furious battle with the crew of the car and several passengers, but not until Ed ward J. Wright, presiden- of the com mission house on South Water street, was robbed of a satchal containing more than $3OG in currency and cheeks. There were twenty passengers on the car.
 When the police patrol wagon IT. rived on the scene in response to riot call, turned in by citizen, they found the conductor, John Steindeck, lying insensible in the street, bleeding from half a dozen wounds.
 The interior of the car was wrecked. The windows were broken and the floor and seats spattered with blood.
 During the fight in the car, several women tainted, and others leaped pan ic stricken from the car. Several pas sengers whose names the police were unable to learn, received cuts and bruises.
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To realize how ocean telegraphy has affected the conditions of modern life, we have only to try to imagine what the world would be like without 1t. If dealers in cotton or wheat at New York or Chicago knew nothing of the days prices in London or Bombay, how timid and contracted their transactions would be! If all our news from Europe were a week old, how slow would be those exchanges of opinion and sympathy which now make common interests among the nationsl How perpleXing and interminable would be the adjust ment of International questions, if such conferences among the governments as those necessitated by the crisis in China had to wait the slow course of core spondence by mail! Like most discover CTS and inventors, the first experiment. CTS with ocean telegraphy builded bet ter than they knew; and the world is vastly different from what it would have been, if they had not pushed their experiments, in the face of discourage ment and ridicule, to a successful con- clusion.
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MURDER AT FRESNO.
Trouble Over Alleged Short Accounts

Fresno, Nov. 30.-The most sensa- tional incident since the McWhirter tragedy happened at 6:30 o'clock this evening in the Grand Central Hotel, when Pole Kanawyer, postmaster of Millwood, this county, shot and killed J. c. Collyer, a well-known Democratic politician, former under sheriff of this county, and assistant under Adjt.- Gen. Peeler of this state during the Span American war.
 Collyer, who is of Herculean build, came down from Washington State to clear up the charges that he had em- bezzeled small sums during his term as postmaster of Millwood. When Coll yer left, he appointed Kanawyer a deputy, and recommended Mrs. Kan ayer as postmaster, Kanawyer being an old Grand Army man and Repub- lican.
 It was in Collyer's absence that shortages were discovered. Kanaw- yer talked pretty freely, with the re- suit that today Collyer arrived in town to seek an explanation. Collyer had paid some s or $4, which was all that he had failed to account for, and when he met Kanawyer tonight, he was strung up to the concert pitch with anger.
 Kanawyer is ten years older than Collyer, and much his inferior physi- eally, so it was scarcely moment be-
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SHOT HIM TO SAVE HERSELF
Says the Wounded Man Tried to Kill
 Her

San Francisco. Dec 2.-Mrs. Susie Conway shot Edward Conway, a tai lor's cutter, last night at their resi- dence, 717 Nineteenth street. Oakland The bullet from the pistol lodged in Conway's right side, inflicting dan gerous wound, but one which the sur geons say will not necessarily prove fatal. The woman, who claims to be Conway's wife, says he attacked her with knife. After shooting twice through the ceiling, she fired the third shot with the pistol aimed straight at Conway as he was upon her with up lifted knife.
 The trouble, according to the woman. was the result of drunken abuse and threats Conway made to kill her. Mil ton Fitch, IA years old, a son of Mrs. Conway, was present during the affray and in a statement to the police cor roborated his mothers story. Conway denied he had a knife and said the shooting was due to his declaration that he had intended to part company with the pistol wilder. He said she was not his wife, but that they had lived together for two years.
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GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
Covering Every County and Many De.
 partment Subjects
FOR INTERESTED READERS
Who Enjoy their Information in a Con. densed and Filthy Form and are too Busy to Read Long and Useless Re. ports of Space Writers.

Sacramento.-James D. Prather. recently convicted of perjury was to' day sentenced to eight years inn
 prisonment at Folsom
 Phoenix (Ariz.) ).-Belasario Leon
 employed at the Coronado mine near
 Clifton, fell fifty feet down a shaft
 at the mine, and was instantly killed. Redding.-The body of an infant was
 found in the Sacramento River near
 Kennel last night The child had
 apparently lived a few hours before
 death.
 Angeles Camp.-Mrs. Claude Thorn
 died last night from the effects of a dose of belladonna taken with suicidal
 intent in the afternoon. Despondency was the cause of the act. London, Dec. "A special dispatch from Naples says that the steamer St. Mare, trading between Nepies and Mar seilnles, has been wrecked, and that forty-five of her passengers and a part of her crew have been lost. Washington, Dec. 1.-The monthly r statement if the public debt issued to- Jay shows that at the close of business November 30. 1900, the debt, less cash
 in the treasury, amounts to $1,101, ,174,- S75, decrease for the month of S3.- 227 ,445.
 Manila, Nov. 3O-General Macarthur
 has confirmed the sentences of hanging | passed upon four natives recently con- victed of murder at Lingayen. The | condemned were members of the guardia de honore band of assassins, | whose victims were kidnapped and bo-
 loed. They will be hanged December 21
 Spokane (Wash.,) Nov. 30.-Four lives were lost here this evening by the capsiZing of a current ferry boat in the Spokane River. The ferry is about two miles down the river. It | was crossing the stream with eighteen workingmen who had ended their Jays work in construction camp near tEe
 Great Northern's new bridge:
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FRIGHTFUL COLLISION.
Trains Crash Together on Mexican
 Central Road.

San Antonio, Tex, Dec. 2.-EdWard Risen of this city has just arrived with details of a terrible wreck of two trains on the Mexican Central Rail road last Thursday, by which more than a score of persons were killed and sixty injured, many of them fa- tally. Both trains were running at 30 miles an hour, when they met in val ley between two great hills, 50 miles south of Jumilico, midway between the towns of Tamanacha and Symon. One train carried construction crew of 150 men and the other was freight made up of 55 empty cars. Three en- zines and 40 cars were piled up in a mass of debris 30 feet high, in which the dead and wounded were buried.
 Two of the train employees are Americans, and they saved their lives by immediate flight. as in Mexico em- ployes of train must suffer death if fatalities attach to a train wreck. The survivors attempted to lynch the Americans, but they escaped and are supposed to have reached the United States
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CALIFORNIA ELECTORS.
Official Returns on the Vote of Those Chosen to Pick
 President

Sacramento, Nov. 30.-Folowing are the complete returns for presidential electors as filed with Secretary of State c. F. Curry:
 epublican-Samuel M. Shortridge 164, ,755; William J. Barrett, 164, ,006; John Walter Ryan, 16S, ,603; Harold T. Power, 163, ,590; William R. Davis, 163.- 791; Christian B. Rode, 163, ,445; Frank McGowan, 163 ,527; Warren R. Porter 163, ,14S; Jas. McFadden, 161 ,917.
 Democrat-J. H. Seawell, 124,985; Willard H. Stimson. 124,756; J. H Haynes, 121, ,S5S; W. R. Jacobs, 124, TAP; w R. Prather, 124,723; w. T. Bagget PA, ,6S9; Jas. N. Block, 124, ITO; Thomas A. Rice, 124, ,666; John A. Cole, 123,634
 Prohibition-James H. Blanchard 5024; Volney Taylor, 497S; L. A. Go ble, 4941; Leroy s. Atwood, 1858; M. c. Winchester, 4956; M. Morcm, 4927; William Kelly, 5OS7; s. Bristol, 1926; J. w. Webb. 1853.
 First District-Frank L. Coombs (R.), 21,227; James F. Farraher D), 16,279; Chas. T. Clark (P.), BIO.
 Second District-Samuel D. Woods (R.), full term, 23,019; Samuel D. Woods (R), unexpired term, 22,799; J. D. Sproul (D0, full term, 21,S51 J. D. Sproul (D.), unexpired term. 21.- 917; w. H. Barron (P), 371; scatter ing, 29.
 Third District-Victor H. Metcalt (R.), 22,109; Frank Freeman (D), IA, 4O2; Alvin W. Holt (P), 431; scatter ing, 1.
 Fourth District-Julius Kauhn (R.) 17111: R. Porter Ashe Do, II, 1,742; Jos. Powell (P), S4; c. c. O'Donnell Q), 1116.
 Fifth District-Eugene F. Loud tR.) , 23,443; J. H. Henry (D.), 17,365; Fred E. Caton (P), 1922.
 Sixth District-James McLachlan (R.), 27,0S1 William Graves O), 19,- 793; James Campbell (P), 1893.
 Seventh District-Jas. Carson Need ham (R.), 23,450; w. D. Crichton (DO, , 18,9S1; A. H. Hensley (P.), 919.
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In the absence of any better topic of discussion, at recent meeting of the Rainy Day Club in New York Mi
 Dora Goldthwait made the assertio
 that women do not always tell the un- qualified truth. Strange as 1t may seem, since lying, like most other faults, is supposed to have no sex, the assertion aroused tremendous excite ment. To obtain a satisfactory answer to the question, Do women lie?" it should first be settled what a lie is. If by lie is meant the intentional pur- pose to deceive with malicious or dis honest ends in view, the woman is rare who utters lie. She is seldom guilty of the lie direct" which is the mascu- line lie, but as to the lie with circum- stances" that is another story. Byron defines a lie as ''the truth in masque- rade," which, perhaps, comes nearest to the gentle art of lying as practiced by women-an art not only gentle but difficult, for Tennyson says that "a lie that is half the truth is the hardest lie of all" The half truth is simply an
 
 ceded to be masters of tact. Nearly all the communications upon this subject are from women. Few men, indeed, would venture to express their opinion, though Julian Hawthorne has the cour- age to observe that when women in- tend to be truthful they come nearer success than we can," but on the other 1ol {o foI N,.t, fN 1io which shall bear a misleading resem7 blance to the truth more skillfully than their male brethren" The most eX- haustive discussion of the question Is that made by May Bushnell-Moody, who asserts that there are instances where plain, traightforward, honest lie is an absolute necessity and thor oughly pardonable and that ito tell a clever untruth at the critical moment is an admirable accomplishment" As rule, however, she believes that a really tactful woman cannot get along without "her reserve fund of tiny, harmless subterfuges," and that If one never deviates from the path of truth one is ceaselessly plunged into all sorts of troubles, besieged with enemies, and absolutely devoid of that delightful kindness toward people which is the basis of all happiness and unity" In other words, this lady would have us believe that lie is an offense, but q fib is just a cheerful evasion, and ''the woman who can discriminate between these two is justified in using them with impunity." It is noticeable the ques- ton is never asked, Do men lie?' It is cheerfully assumed they do and, not being creatures of the emotions, they do it directly and rObustly. They rare ly fib Women, on the other hand, being governed by their emotions and imag ations, while they have horror for the ''lie direct" do net regard the lie with circumstance" as sin but rather as q necessary accompaniment of tact.
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FAITH-HEALER JAILED.

Victoria, B. C.-Eugene Brooks, an elder of the Christian Catholic Church in Zion, and w. w. Maltby, one of his followers, were committed for trial on charge of having caused the death of Claude Oliver Maltby, the six-year- old son of the latter. The child, with other children in the neighborhood, had diphtheria, and the parents. who joined the Zionites church under the teachings of Brooks, refused to call a physician.
 The criminal code of Canada clear 1y defines that a father must provide necessaries for his family, and the courts have held time and again that medical treatment is necessity. Brooks is held on the ground that he was an accessory, as through his teachings the child was left to die. All doctors agree that the child's life could have been saved. The two men were admitted to cash bail. which was sup piled.
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THE GRAVE WAS OPENED AND
 THE CORPSE WAS GONE.
Widow Brought Suit for Divorce and Caused Her Husbands Arrest, Quickly Followed by His Death and Her Own
 WeddinU

Princeton, Ky, Nov. BOA mystery which may develop into a poisoning has excited this county.
 About ten days ago Mrs. Cora Mer- rick, wife of Frank Merrick. filed a petition for divorce. The petition set forth certain facts against her husband and filed with it were certain depos- sitions of certain witnesses to estab- fish the fact that Merrick was a for ger, and that he had signed the name of 1t. U. Kevil & Sons to checks for various amounts.
 Acting in this advice, warrants were sworn out for Merrick, and he was ar rested two days later. When found at his home in this county Merrick either was or pretended to be, very ill. He was not taken to jail, but was all lowed to remain at his home, under guard. On Monday he died in great agony, and he was buried in the ceme- tery of the little country church at Blue Springs, near his home.
 Mrs. Merrick married James Moore yesterday Merrick had known his wife but a short time when he was married to her, and their marital life was but a few months old. They had lived happily to all outward appear ances until Moore came upon the scene. Mrs. Merrick is a beautiful woman. Moore became infatuated with her, and she returned his affec- tion. Their marriage caused much talk, and an investigation into the cause of Merrick's death was ordered by the officials. For the purpose of obtaining the stomach for analysis, the body was ordered to be exhumed. When the grave was opened today the coffin box contained no body. This was great surprise, and the police are now at work on the case.
 Merrick has always been regarded as a bad man. He made a detailed con fession of his forgeries to the police soon after he was arrested. His fath- CT has made reimbursement for DOT tion of his sons stealings, and will, in all proba ability, settle the entire ac- count. Moore and his bride assert that the body has been stolen by med ical students.
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MINISTER WENT WRONG.
American Preacher Said to Have Swim dled English Capitalists Through
 Bogus Mining Ventures.

London-In the Sheriff's Court the London and Westminster Contract Corporation was awarded e64O0 against Joseph Hamilton Brotherton. formerly an American Methodist minister. It appears from the testl- mony that Brotherton and an alleged confederate, J. c. Lemp Vance, came to England in 1895, and promoted number of doubtful mining companies. They then formed a contract corpora tion, inducing Sir James Linton and other men of importance to act as di- rectors.
 Brotherton, it is added, next sold shares in these companies to the con- tract corporation for $55,000, and, it is claimed, he and Vance decamped for America, with the loot. Counsel said the papers in the case were served on Brotherton in Africa. where he was found living in luxury.
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WOMAN IN THE PEN.

Columbus, O., Dec. Mrs. Emma Van Liew, who yesterday at Van Vert pleaded guilty to manslaughter by throwing vitrol into the face of Miss Alice Hammel last September, causing her death, was delivered at the penitentiary this morning in a car riage, accompanied by Sheriff Webster and her husband, the latter being a special deputy by appointment of the court.
 usual course at the prison female de- partment. being shown no special fa- vors, nor was application made for any special consideration. She was taken to hotel for the night by req son of illness. The parting between husband and wife was very affecting.
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PORTO RICANS LAND ES AMER
 ICAN CITIZENS.
Over One Hundred Puny Paupers Bound
 For Hawaii.

New Orleans, Dec. 3.-The first lot of Porto Ricans, III in number, bound for the Hawaiian sugar plantations. as contract laborers, were admitted here today from the steamship Area dia, as United States citizens, thus set ting the veXed question as to the na- tional status of the Porto Ricans. They are puny and squaiid set. They filled two tourist cars on the Southern Pacific and left tonight for San Fran cisco. A prominent railroad man, who handled them, pronounced them the most miserable, conditioned people he ever saw.
 'I have handled people from almost every nation upon the face of the earth" he said, but never saw people who could compare with these Porto Ricans, who were taken through here to Hawaii. Their abject misery can not be imagined unless seen. There was not a sound body among them and all looked like consumptives. They wore scarcely any clothes, no shoes. and little two-by-four blankets apiece, which they used as scarfs around their neckS.
 They were a mongrel breed, and in- ter-marriage has so evidently depleted their vitality that I cannot see how they have stamina enough to live. They were listless, dull, indifferent. Not one of them raised his head to look about him to see what the new country was like. They sat or stood there without life or movement, the women smoking cigarettes, and the evidences of intermarriage showing ip every feature. Even if they do repre- sent the pauper class, there is no other pauper class in the whole world that I have seen which seems so thorough ly demoraliZed."
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MARCONPS PROMISE MAY KILL
 PACIFIC CABLE BILL.

Washington, Nov. SO.-Signor Mar conis proposition to flash messages without wires between Europe and America may prevent the passage of the bill for the Pacific cable. Chair man Hepburn of the House commit tee on interstate and foreign commerce who reported the Pacific cable bill in the last session of congress, said to- day:
 What is the use of putting S1o,- 900, ,OOO or s2O, ,OOO under the ocean in a cable plant if an invention has been perfected that will render all submerged cables useless?"
 Advocates of the cable bill will push it early in the session. It's chances will be further complicated, however, by the difference of opinion between those who favor a subsidized cable and those who favor it's construction by the government.
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They Seldom See Money.

It is hard to realize that in the noun tain districts of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina there are many places where money is almost unknown and skins of wild animals, butter and eggs and other commodities are still exchanged for coffee and sugar and calico. A recent visitor in this re zion tells about seeing coon, squirrel and rabbit skins passed over the coun- ter of country store in exchange for groceries. The owner of the store said that sometimes he never saw any mon ey for months at a time. Four times a year hide buyers come out from Lexing- ton and take the skins off his hands. Then he sends the money to Cincinnati for new stock of goods
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INVITED TO AMERICA.

Chicago, Dec. 1.-The American Transvaal League in Chicago has pre- pared a message which will be sent to Kruger, inviting him to visit the United States as soon as he has finished his European tour. The invitation says it would "give the people of the country generally an opportunity to testify in some adequate manner their respect for your person and people and their utter detestation of the unprovoked, mercenary and barbarous war which Great Britain is now waging against your people and the people of the Or ange Free State.''
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BOY PoIsONS HIS FAMILY.
Idaho Boys Method of Averaging the
 Slaughter of His Turkeys.

Boise, Idaho, Nov.-James Bashor aged 12 years, poisoned his entire fam fly on Thanksgiving Day. They I've on a farm and have large number of turkeys which the lad cared for and of which he was very fond. He ob- jected to any of them being killed. so he fed them something to make them sick. The hired man killed two that were served Thursday. The members of the family soon after were taken sick and a girl and boy may die. Investi- gation disclosed the fact that the boy had fed the turkeys a poisonous sub stance used for preparation of seed wheat the morning of Thanksgiving. their conditions did not attract at All the turkeys died before night, but tention until after dinner had been eaten.
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PECULIAR DEATH OF OSCAR WILDE

Dublin, Nov. BOA dispatch to the Evening Mail from Paris says that Os- car Wilde is dead. The dispatch adds that he expired in an obscure house in the Latin quarter from meningitis, and was received into the Catholic church on his death bed.
 Paris, Nov. 30.-Oscar Wilde has been living in hotel on the Rue des Arts, where he has been known for several months under the name of Mammoth
 For some time he has been indis- posed In October he was obliged to submit to a serious operation, from the eeffcts of which he never recov- cred. He died at two o'clock this morning at the Maison Du Pierre, an obscure hotel, in the presence of Lord Alfred Douglas.
 The Journal says it is rumOred that Wilde committed suicide.