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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
in SUBIERRANEAN RETREAT.
Tho Holding of Miss Stone for Ransom
Interests all Europe.

Interests oh haNOPo-
Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct. 1.-THE parents
of Mesdame Tsilka, the Bulgarian
teacher who was captured by brigands
with Miss Ellen NJ. Stone, the Ameri-
can missionary have received another
letter from their daughter, urging the
step already taken, namely, stopping
the military pursuit because the brig
ands threaten the prisoners with inn
mediate death in the event of danger
to themselves. The writer says that
she and Miss Stone are hidden in
subterranean retreat and are treated
courteously. She also says the only
means of securing their release is to
pay the ransom demanded.
Constantinople.-The Russian gov
eminent has repeated its expression of a
desire to assist the United States gov
eminent by all practical means in
rescuing Miss Stone. The other pow
ers are equally as solicitous, but Russia
is the best able to bring the necessary
pressure to bear.
London.-''The United States gov
eminent will insist that Turkey imme-
diately make good any deficit in the
ransom of Miss Stone" says the Con-
stantinople correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph, land also refund the full
amount subscribed
Turkey could easily stamp out
brigandage,' says the Daily News,
''but SO long as benevolent foreigners
will pay high ransoms why should the
Turks trouble?"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24

There was some further converse
ton with his wife in the way of leave
taking. but this should not be repeat
ed. About an hour later he said to his
wife:
Nearer. My God, to Thee, cen
though IL be cross, has been my con-
slant prayer
He tried to say something more,
but l could not catch it. 1 gave out at
the time the first sentence as being the
most appropriate to be remembered as
mss last words. wrote them down at
the time. so that there can be no ques-
ton about it.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
- HOW CZOLGOSZ WILL DIE. *

The method to be employed in the
legal execution of Assassin Czolgosz is
thoroughly in keeping with the prog
ress Of the centuries. He is to die by
the latest and most approved form of
capital punishment, electrocution.
While the manner of his taking off is
perhaps, a minor incident compared
with the major fact that he is to pay
the penalty of his life for his crime, it
Is a commentary on the advancement
OF the world that an assassin guilty of
the most heinous offense is to be exc
cuted, not as in the old days by
more barbarous and painful death than
that melted out to other murderers, but
In the most humane method approved
by the laws of the state in which he
vas convicted. Time was when the
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24

What an abiding faith in the sta
bility of our government has Senator
George Farquar of Massachusetts,! 1t
is sublime patriotism which found ex-
preston in these words at the Repub-
lican State Ccnvt ntion in Massa-
chusetts the other day:
you and I are Republicans. You
and are men of the North. Most of
us are Protestants in religion. We are
men of native birth. Yet if every Re
publican were today to fall in his place,
as William NJ Kinley has fallen, l be-
Iieye our c-u1trymen of the other
party, in spite of what we deem their
errors, would take the republic and
bear on the flag to liberty and CORY.
l believe if every Protestant were to be
stricken down by lightning stroke,
that our brethren of the Catholic faith
would still carry on the republic in the
spirit of a ne and LIBERAL freedom /
believe If every man of native birth
within our borders were to die, this
day. the men of f-reign birth, who
have come here to seek homes and lib
erty under the shadow of the republic
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
An Eight-Hour Law Suit

Topeka, Oct. PIE. ]. Brewster, a
contractor in Montgomery county, has
been arrested on the charge of violating
the eight-hour law. The complaint
was sworn to by State Labor Commits
sioner johnson. Brewster has been
working his men ten hours on the
erection of country school house. He
claims that the eight-hour law does not
apply to work on school house be-
cause school district is not a munich
pality.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24

under the new conditions and with re-
suits which more than verified all the
claims Of the physicians. Autopsies
were held on the bodies of the first
criminals executed in order that the
surgeons and officials might learn ex-
actly what effect the tremendous cur
rent had upon the tissues and organs
Of the body, and discover If possible in
that way whether death was instan-
taneous. 1t was found that the blood
was coagulated and other indications
went to prove that electrocution was
certain, instantaneous and practi-
cally painless form of death. This is
what awaits the assassin who murder
ed President Mckinley and plunged the
nation into grief. Under the law he
has an interval Of twenty-one days be-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
Another Strike Riot.

Scranton, Pa, Get. 15.-Another riot
occurred in connection with the street
car strike, but again, fortunately, there
were no very serious results. A big
crowd assembled at the lower end of
the South side line and began piling
Instructions on the track. As cars
.ame along and halted they were greet
ID with fusillade of stones. pas
senger, Mrs. Samuel Jones, and an
Italian tracl1man employed by the COM
pany were cut by flying glass from the
ear windows
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
Zinc Ore II Booming.

Joplin, Mo-, Oct. .21.-The spirited
bidding of the zinc ore purchasing
agents finally landed that ore at $3.50
per ton. This price is 81 over the top
price paid recently, and the lower
grades were advanced as much in pro-
portion. The Jerry Clark ore, on the
Connor tract, near Prosperity, and
several lots on the Kohinoo, Continen-
ported to have brought top money.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
Cheroke, Miner.l I..,., c...-

Vinita, l. T., Oct. 16.-T. NJ. Bufing-
ton, principal chief of the Cherokee
nation, wired guarantee of $500 to
Judge William NJ. Springer, attorney
for the Cherokee nation at Washing
ton, to pay court costs in seeking to
obtain for the Cherokee nation an or
der of court restraining the secretary
of the interior from renewing the
mineral case of the Cherokee Oil
and Gas Company and any other
company seeking a mineral lease in
the Cherokee nation
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
Charley Fo.tsr ,li..inr.

Tapeka, Kans-, Oct. 16.-Charles
Foster, an eccentric lawyer and recluse,
has absented himself from his usual
haunts-the state library and historical
society rooms-for several days and
the fact gives rise to some apprehen-
sion- Mr.. Foster, whose odd inclina-
tons as lawyer are known widely in
the city, could not be located and as
the search by friends revealed nothing
of his whereabouts later than Saturday
morning. October 5, they fear that
some i'll has befallen him.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
Canada to Challenge For Cup.

New York, Oct. ia dispatch to
the Herald from Halifax, N. S., says:
1t is positively stated that A. ]. Mox-
ham of Sidney, of the Dominion Iron
and Steel company; Jas. Ross of Mon
treal, president of the Dominion Coal
company, and other members of the
Cape Breton yacht club, have deter
mined to build yacht to challenge for
the American cup.
The yacht will be built in Canada
and will certainly challenge for the
cup this year or next.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24

Cape Town, Oct. 19.-The invaders
500 men having penetrated through the
rich Great Berg river valley to Hope
field and Saldanha Bay, northwest of
Cape Town.
The republicans have secured a num-
Der of recruits and considerable guam
titles of supplies. French is directing
the operations against them.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
$4,000 Railroad Men.

Topeka, Oct. 21.-According to the
are 24,252 railroad employees in Kansas,
If whom 1O.172 are on the Santa Fe,
6,O53 on the Missouri Pacific, 1894 on
the Rock Island and 6, O7O on the Union
Pacific. The wages paid in the state
last year aggregated s12. .943, max
ing this altogether the greatest interest
in the state, after agriculture. Those
wage earners in all industries reporting
to the Labor Bureau give their average
annual savings at S2I9.2s.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
orient Graders Cb.nrinr PI.o...

Anthony, Oct. 21.-The Orient rail-
road construction company has laid off
its entire engineering corps at this
point, excepting it's chief, Mr. Smith.
The grade northward from Anthony is
about completed for distance of four
miles, and it appears that grading has
discontinued in that direction for the
present. number of graders have
gone to the line in Texas and others
have enlisted in the service of the Choc-
taw, which is pushing its grade north.
ward in this county.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
Town Lot Sales,

South McAlester, 1. T., Oct. 1.-THE
townsite commissioners state that the
sale of lots in South McAlester, which
was completed last week, will net the
Choctaw nation about S175, 900. The
ippraisement of improved lots mere
footed up about $780, 900. Thus it will
be seen that the sales in the aggregate
will almost reach $4,000 says the
Capifal
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24

in the fact that their endeavors were
driving sleep from the brain of the
murderer mild form of the Chinese
torture which keeps criminals awake
until they die. But as soon as the
sheriff heard of this he put stop to it,
largely because he did not want Czol-
gosz to appear in court thin, drawn
and haggard as though he had been
prosecuted in the Jail. In the eyes of
the law he was still innocent until he
had been proven guilty. and orders
were issued to feed him well and let
him have plenty of sleep. The re-
suit was that when he came into court
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
Propose. Alcohol for Motor Power.

Washington, Oct. 1.-THE enormous
over production of alcohol in France
has led the minister of agriculture to
offer series of prizes for any kind of
apparatus that will open way for its
greater consumption. An exhibition of
inventions for the use of alcohol for IL
Illuminating or heating purposes or for
motor power will be held in Paris from
November 16 to "a. 1t is proposed to
apply motor power to agricultural inn
plements under the direction of the de-
partment of agriculture.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
Industrial Commission Divided.

New York, Oct. 1.-THE Industrial
commission is likely to make three
diverse recommendations:
First-Stricter antitrust legislation
by the several states and by Congress.
Second-The delegation by Congress
to the state of its interstate commerce
jurisdiction, to regulate manufacturing
or trading corporations.
Third-The control by the national
government of all such corporations,
and their regulation by act of Con
gress.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
Trouble at the Stock Yards.

Kansas City, Mo-, Oct. 19.-Kansas
City live stock commission men charge
that the stock yards company is not
keeping its promise to give them better
service, and they have appealed to
Charles Francis Adams, of Boston,
president and chief stakeholder of the
company, for redress of grievances.
Meantime, they are preparing to make
vigorous warfare upon the local
management. The trouble is of long
standing, the complaints also extend
ing to the railroads.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
InspectInr county J,,I,

Wellington, Oct. 19.-Geo. w. Kama
vel, of Sedgwick City, member of the
state board of charities, came here to
inspect the county Jail, county poo,
farm and city calaboose. He is opera
ting under law passed by the last
legislature putting all these institu-
tons under the supervision of his board
and requiring them to make an inspec-
ton of and report upon every such in
situations in the state once each year
Mr.. Kanavel went from here to Wichita
to inspect county institutions there.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24

DR.. Matthew D. Mann, the eminenr
Buffalo surgeon who attended Presi.
dent Mckinley, thus describes his last
moments and words:
LAS President Mckinley was dying
and heard him say his last words. His
wife came into the room and he said
to her:
Good by, all; good by. 1t is Gods
way. His will be done, not ours
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
Homo For Working Girls.

st. Joseph, Mo-, Oct. 21.-The Young
Women's Christian Association has
dedicated home for working girls,
which is run as an adjunct to the
association. The home was donated
by wealthy st. Joseph ladies and is
valued at $4,000. Fifty young women
live there, practically on the co-opera-
tive plan.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
A Valuable Picture.

Sedalia, Mo-, Oct. ia portrait OF
Andrew Jackson, painted from life by
J. G. Wilson at Nashville, Tenn, June
Is, 1922, was discovered among the
effects of the Sedalia public library in
removing them from the court house to
the new Carnegie library building.
The picture is believed to be of great
historical yalue
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24

Buffalo, N. Y, Oct. 10, 1901.-The
judges at the Pan-American exposi-
ton, Buffalo have awarded three gold
medals to Walter Baker & Co. Limit-
ed, Dorchester, Mass, for the supe-
riority of their breakfast cocoa and
all Of their cocoa and chocolate prep
arations and the excellence Of their
exhibit. This is the 37th highest
award received by them from the
great expositions in Europe and
America
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
Awarded the Highest Prize.

Buffalo, n. Y, Oct.-The New Do
nestle Sewing Machine Co. has today
been awarded. at the Pan-American
Exposition, the highest prize, the COW
eted gold medal, for the best family
sewing machine
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24

Marie Joanna Kersaho, whose death
on the Island of Croix in France has
been announced. had the distinction
Of being the only woman sea captain
IN the world. She went to sea with
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
AnarcbY's impossible Task.

would carry on the republic in Gods
aprointed way. / believe il every man
Of the North were to die the new and
ehastened south, with the virtues it
has cherished from the beginning, of
love of home, and love of state, and
love OF freedom, with its courage and
its constancy. would take the country
and bear it on to the achievement of its
lofty destiny. The anarchist must slay
75,0OO,O00 Americans before he can
slay the republic
Plans for the Babcock Memorial
Presbyterian Church in Baltimore
have been completed and accepted by
the committee. The building is a me-
mortal to the late Rev. Maltbie d. Bah
cock, D. D. for years one of the most
influential pastors in Baltimore. The
church will cost $50. 900.
DR.. John G. Davies has been installed
as professor OF Oriental and Old Tas-
lament literature in Princeton Thso-
logical Seminary. taking the place
made vacant by tie death of DR.. Hem
~ Green
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24
Scene of Horror Expected.

Scene of Horror Expected.
But the people of Auburn had heard
that he would arrive that morning. and
a mob of about 300 had assembled at
the station. When the train pulled in
there was an cutlery from the mob for
the murderer's blood. AS he was
hustled from the train to the prison
fists struck at him and hands reached
over the officers shoulders to seize
him. Immediately he collapsed and
became panic-stricken. Falling upon
the floor of his cell, he screamed with
fear and agony and begged the officers
not to give him up to the mob. That
seemed to be his greatest fear-that he
would be lynched. AS the days passed
he grew a bit quieter, but it is appar-
ent to his guards that he has lost his
nerve. and they fear he will make a
pitiable spectacle of himself when the
time comes for his last march on
earth-that from his cell to the death
chamber.
An arrant coward, the chances are
that he will be paralyzed with fear
when he views the apparatus prepared
for his death-the grisly chair, the
head piece and the straps. 1t is. in
deed, spectacle which might make
the most clustering braggart quail, and
in the case of pitiful coward like the
man who murdered the president the
effect will probably be distressing in
the extreme to the sheriff and other
officials charged with his legal execu-
ton. But they have little pity for
him. Indeed, at the start before his
trial the sheriff di-covered that the
guards stationed outside his cell were
practicing a mild form of torture by
keeping him awake at night. They
managed to make noises which startled
him every time he went to sleep; they
talked or sung or whistled and gloried
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24

her father when she was only II years
old. After her fathers death she COM
manded three vessels and received sew
eral medals and money rewards for
heroism on the water.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-10-24

when 1t is reduced to 1880 volts. After
several seconds, in order to make as
surance doubly sure, the current is
again increased to upward of 1000
volts and then cut or The execution
is over in less than a minute, the pen
atty demanded by the law has been
paid.
Death Is Painless.
This method of execution has met
with 30 much favor from criminolo-
g1sts, physicians and humanitarians
that 1t has been adopted by several
other states, notably Massachusetts
and Ohio. 1t is an Improvement in
hanging from several standpoints, be.
ing swift, sure and painless, and the
removal of the body within minute
AFTER the current is turned on is a
great advance from the old method,
where man was allowed to hang for
from ten to fifteen minutes slowly
dying. while jury of doctors counted
his falling pulse beats and finally pro-
nounced him dead. There are no
pulse beats in tie e,ectric-chair execu-
ton. Tie Increment of the handle on
the switch board is practically stimuli
taneous with the stoppage of the heart,
the obliteration of all sense and feel
ing and immediate death.
Since the imposition of sentence
Czolgosz has lost the nerve which
carried him through the ordeal of the
trial and has col apsed Almost COM
pletely. The chances are that by the
time the day of his execution arrives
he will have to be dragged or carried
to the chair. His collapse occurred on
his arrival at Aubuln penitentiary at 8
O'Clock on the morning after his SEN
tence was pronounced in Buffalo. Tn
to that time he had carried himself
marvelously well. He stood the trying
test in the courtroom and even the
imposition of scn-ence without a Wis
IDLE weakening and marched back to
his cell almost as jauntily as though
he had been acquitted.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-16

been neatly furnished, and well appointed
bath rooms and other conveniences nave
been proviled for the use 81 TIE memsSeGs.
oughly moral basis and bids tair 70 I've
long and useful life.
Miss Ruth Brown entertained her class.
mates and the members OF Hiss Browns
music class on Wednesday afternoon.
The new Methodist Sunday school room
has been completed and was dedicated on
The p and i club held Its regular meet,
Ing with Mrs, Randolph FRIDAY
oiJy and thoroughly understands the art OF
making her guests feel AZ home In H..
Miss Anna AL, Hunt q q Cssllddwch is visiting
Rule Conner was shaking hands with old
Huntsville friends this week.
Mrs, Sadie Turnbull Sloan is the gnest
Mrs. f. T. ]osey has gone to Colorado
City TO visit her daughter.
Houston, where she taught during the past
Miss Ada ,Hutchins Is visiting in Trinity
and LoYelGdy.
]. ". oiiphint has returned from sehoo,
at the Agricultural and Mechanical college
have arrived from the medical college at
Mr, Ben Powell has returned from
Austin, where he has hgured prominently
Miss Allie WecEley OF Milford Is visit
Ing her cousln4 Miss Mabel prentiss
Mrs S. T. Smith ~ Denver, Col Is the
guest Of Mrs, w. O d Gillaspie for the
summer
Mrs Dr, Beaumont aud children, who
have been visiting Mrs Seth G Gay, re-
turned TO their home In Coleman yester
day.
Mics salle Blake and mother, wso have
been guests Of Mrs, s, Gibbs. returned TO
the!T homo, in PlanteFsyille. Yesterday
Sir. Claude h. FarTlnef6n Of Fort Worth,
but formerly Huntsvillelte, has been
elected TO, position In the sam Houston
normal school
Mrs, H. q. Mitchell Of Richmond is the
guest OF her parents, Mr. and Mrs. j. NJ.
white.
Miss Daisy vinson Mrs Mollie Aston
and daughter are visiting Couroc.
Rev. Baynton and wife hnye returned
from a visit to various savns towns
Born, 70 Mr>~dnd Mrs. Wilbur smlthers,
son.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-16

thing under present conditions of the for.
elgp market aud are simply resting On
their oars and hiding their time until morc
favorable conditions become apparent on
the other side Of the ponu.
The local demand is increasing constant
~ ana has become quite an item in the az.
gregate amount OF business done by mills
here which look after tnat trade. The ne'-
ins 4 large amount Of lumber, and should
the building boom continue II will soon
BECOME necessary for the mills 10 estao-
lsh local department to look after tnht
the headwsters OF the Sabine wauld he
hailed with pleasure by the lumber FRA.
ternity Just now, al they would cause
rise in the river sufficient 10 float out the
TO come and that viii soon be needed TO
replenish the mill Blooms.
William Wins, purchasing agent Tor
o a6sGn s9Rd s a9 tu paz af7eo
was here yesterday interviewing the ium.
Der manufacturers and placing orders tor
material His schedule calls principally
Tor strlngers and some dressed stock for
shipment to the IstAmus Of Tehauntapec,
where big FIRE recently did much dam
age. This material is wanted FOR I'm
mediate delivery ana will be shipped from
Sabine Pass on a steamship which is DUO
TO arrive there on the 2Otn instant. MIR.
Wins is experiencing some trouble in
getting all the material required, as string
ers are in big demand and the mills are
shlppin. them out as fast as they can
make thcm.
The Russian ship Borrowdale, under char.
ter TO the Orange and Wingate Lumber
Buenos Ayres. sonth America. has finally
arrived at Sabine Pass after many almost
endless delays. Although she had been
twenty-one days In quarantine at Snip
island the vessel WAS compelled TO 20
into quarantine at Sabine Pass until she
could undergo fumigauon.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-16
ELEVATORS A AND R.
MOVEMENT OF OCEAN VESSELS,


Especial TO The Postl
Newport News.--Arrived; Etnelred, from
Galveston. and sailed for Hamburg
Pensacola Arrived. Pensacola. from
Galveston.
Key West Arrived: Lampasas. from
Galveston, and sailed for New York.
Port ads.--Arrived Tug c, w. Morse,
from Port Limon with barge Atlas in
tow Excelsior, from Havana sailed:
utstein for Bluehelds Bergenseren, for
Livingston via Belize Betty, for Trieste
and Venice via Pensacola.
Antwerp. Horribly Castle, for
Galveston.
ton.
Rotterdam.-Arrived Hendrika from
Galveston via Newport News.
New York.-Arrived: Comal, from Gal
weston. Sailed: Concho, for Key West
and Galveston.
New York--Arrived: Cutie, from Liver
pool.
York.
oueenstown-Arriyed Etruria, from New
York, for Liverpool.