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The sun., 1901-03-13
REAPPOINTED A NOTARY.
Howell S. England Has Received His
Commission From Governor HUM.

Howell $. England, attorney, 2O2 Equit-
able Building, whose term as notary
public expired on March 6, has been
re-appointed Il notary by Governor Hum.
Mr.. England has already received his
commission. 1t is for four years. The
appointment was i'll response to petit
ton of all the occupants of offices in the
Equitable Building.
The sun., 1901-03-13
Attorney General Ward Entertained

On Monday evening the Brotherhood
Of st. James of Grace NJ. e. Church
was royalty entertained by Attorney
General ii. II. Ward at his home, Fifth
and Rodney streets. There was an in
teresting musical and literary program,
which was participated in by a male
quartet from Epworth NJ. e. Church,
John s. Mulln, Robert Haddock, w. A.
Hukill, j. Frank Ayars, Townsend
Wickersham and others. Refreshments
were served by Caterer Hanna.
The sun., 1901-03-13
Workhouse improvements.

Boilers to be used in the powerhouse
Of the New Castle County Workhouse at
Grcenbank arrived at the building yes
terday and will be put in place in ii
few days. The trustees of the workhouse
met yesterday and will hold another
meeting on Tuesday next. With the
$4,000 additional appropriation which
was granted by the Legislature, the cell
work will be completed. A poultry
house and a barn will be built and other
exterior improvements will be made.
The sun., 1901-03-13
Runaway Boys Back.

Clarence Huff, of No. 613 West Third
street; George Pyle, No. 410 Madison
street, ranging in age from 10 to .16
years. who ran away from home, were
located in Philadelphia. having applied
at the Central station for lodging.
They were brought home late last night
The sun., 1901-03-13
Condemned the House.

Building Inspector Cassidy visited the
site of Sunday mornings fire and con
d6mncd the house. No. 4OS Searlcs street.
owned by Peter ]. Ford, and ordered ii
torn down within three days, as he con
sideredeit in a dangerous condition. He
is Of the opinion that the other three
houses can be repaired.
The sun., 1901-03-13
Died at Homeopathic Hospital.

James Porter, colored, aged SO years,
who was taken to the Homeopathic
Hospital last Tuesday. died at She hos
pital about o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Death was due to fractured skull, the
result of falling from ladder.
The sun., 1901-03-13
Contracts- an New Enctn,r.

Richard Patzowsky yesterday awarded
the contracts for the erection of hi4
large, new factory at Eleventh and Pop
lar streets. Charles Anderson will do
me brick work and William II. Jones.
the carpenter work. There will be no
aeiay in starting the wor.. ana pushing
it to completion.
The sun., 1901-03-13
Funeral Of Howard Nj. HAYES.

The funeral of Howard NJ. Hayes took
place at 3 o'clock yesterday morning
from the residence of his father-in-law,
Patrick Fahey, Clayton and Beach
streets. High mass was said in st.
Paul's Church. The funeral was largely
attended. 1nterment was made at New
Cathedral cemetery.
The sun., 1901-03-13
Repairs to Tprrctt Grown.

The repair work on the British steam
ship Turrett Crown. now in the drv.
dock at the shipyards of the Harlan g.
Hollingsworth Co., will be completed
during the latter part of next week. The
boat will then leave for Philadelphia
to load an outward bound cargo
The sun., 1901-03-13
Joint Committee APPOINTED.

The local posts Of the G. A. R. have ap-
pointed the following joint memorial
committee to arrange for proper obser-
vance of Memorial Day: Chairman, De-
partment Commander William A. Reilly.
vice chairman, William II. Blake; treas
urer, Benjamin u. Bogia.
The sun., 1901-03-13
Board of Barber EAamincrs.

Doyer March 1a.--The Governor 10.
day appointed tho Board of Examiners
provided for in the bill regulating the
trade of BARRIERS in the city OF Whining
ton. The examiners are Walter u. Cole.
for one year, Joseph Horner for two
Years, and Arthur G. Preston FOR three
Years.
The sun., 1901-03-13
MORE HEADS
IN PERIL
Chinese Commissioners Will Re-
ceive Another List Soon.
ENJOYS MEET AT PEKING
Besides Question of Punishment, That
of Indemnity is Taken Up, and
It Is Stated Unjust Claims
Will be Disallowed.

Peking, March ia general meet.
ing of the foreign ministers was held
at which the reports of the commit
tees were heard.
Regarding more punishment of tho
Chinese connected with the Boxers,
there is strenuous opposition against
demanding many more heads, but
list containing the names Of 96 minor
officials will shortly be presented to
Prince Ching and Ii Hung Chang. urg-
ing that they be tried for completely
in the outrages and punished, when
found guilty, in such manner as the
Chinese themselves see fit, except in
the case of six men, who, the ministers
think, should be executed.
The report Of the committee ON the
general principles on which indemnity
claims should be considered was adopt
ed. Those claims which are palpably
unjust will be disallowed.
ENJOYS Will Meet Daily.
Mr.. Rockhilrs proposition providing
for daily meetings of the ministers will
be followed so far as practical. When
any minister is unable to attend,
meeting will not take place; otherwise
the meetings will occur daily
The report of the committee on the
legation quarter defenses will probably
be considered very soon. Though the
committee has declined to notify the
Chinese owners of property confiscat-
ed, the register Of claims of the minis
tiers will probably, where just, see that
the amount involved is added to the to-
tai of the general indemnity.
The ministers will shortly meet
Prince Ching and Ii Hung Chang to
consider questions regarding public
buildings and grounds.
The sun., 1901-03-13
Granted Letters.

Register of Wills Crossan yesterday
granted to Horace NJ. Monaghan letters
of administration on the estate of Ma
tilda Monaghan. who conducted the shoe
store ut No. 200 West Fourth street.
The sun., 1901-03-13
Y. NJ. q. A. Indoor sports.

AT the Y. NJ. G. A. tomorrow evening
the fourth of the series of indoor sports
will be held The events will be pole
vault, shot put and sack race.
The sun., 1901-03-13
Low Tide After the FLOOD.

The tide in the Brandywine creek yes
terday was lower than for long while
before. The flood of Monday receded
early yesterday morning.
The sun., 1901-03-13
Police Com mission Meets.

Routine business was transacted at
the meeting Of the Police Commission
last night. Commissioner Hart was
absent.
The sun., 1901-03-13
First District oomm,ttee ,,es,,n, /,

:, me Union Republican First District
committee win meet at Union Renubli-
can headqnarters, Fifth and Shipley
streets on Monday evening next.
The sun., 1901-03-13
Protest In Manchuria Affair.

Shanghai. March 12.--Thc American
and British China associations have
cabled to their respective institutions
ut Washington and London urging that
protests be made against the Russian
Chinese Manchurian treaty, and it is
understood here that the Germans have
taken similar action.
1t is said that Chang-Chi-Tung, vice.
roy Of Hankow, will open treaty ports
on the Yang-tse Kiang below Woo
Chang.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-12

over the Iowa and Illinois prairies, ar
irving in Chicago too late however for
the % hour regular fast mail train for
the 1000 miles to New York. Howev-
er, Spreckels again proved himself
equal to the emergency and chartered
a special over the Lake Shore road to
chase the regular train and overtake
it at Toledo, 244 miles distant, Tor
which service he paid s725, the dis
lance being covered in 265 minutes.
The New York train was caught at
Toledo a minute before it left; the
mail car was connected on and reached
New York Saturday morning just in
time to be hurried on the steamship
Campania sailing at noon for England.
1t is now determined that this will
beat the time formerly made the 9th
er way around the world via the Suez
canal. 1t was certainly a stern chase
and long one over the $3.50 miles of
our railroads, and is typical. of the en-
terprise and keenness in competition
of our captains of industry, who thus
gradually bit by bit, forge in the strug-
gle of nations. The regular routing of
this Australian mail via the Burling-
ton, while it would not directly be of
profit to our citizens, would indirectly
affect them favorably.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-12

that make it one of the enduring polit.
ical organization of the country Ii
is based on principles that are just
and true, and that will carry it as long
as justice and truth stand, no matter
what the defeats of the day may
threaten
All the greater the pity, in view of
the solidity of it's foundation that the
democratic party has been so fae
wrecked as it has been by tampering
with things that are not and never
have been democratic. Where there
was no reason for the party's demon
alization that state has been brought
to pass. If it could happen that the
same folly that cropped out at Des
Moines, in echo of Kansas City ami
Chicago, could be perpetuated indeti-
nitely, 1T might be possible, in the end,
to demolish the party, but only for 4
time. 1t would no more stay dead
than Truth itself, which, crushed to
earth, will rise again. The present
deplorable condition of the party may
include decentralization and dismem-
berment, but this state of affairs can.
not last, and does not constitute de-
struction,' The democrats of Iowa
have few companions, in the rest of
the Union, in their determined effort
to stay in the garbage heap of political
failure. Democratic principles will
take possession of the democrats ev
en- of Iowa, by the time another state
election comes to pass, and there will
be again a democratic party as of old ;
a strong, aggressive and trenchant
party, animated by none but demo
cratic ideas, and destined to bring
back the old days of democratic gov.
eminent under the undying principles
of the democracy. Any other party
on earth would have been demolished
by what the democratic party has
gone through in the past few years,
but it is not dead nor near it. AS
soon as it gets done with populisnl
there are an unparalleled future and
field before it.-Davenport Democrat
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-12
PUNISHMENT FOR ASSAULTS ON
THE PRESIDENT.

The shooting of President Mckinley
by the Anarchist Czolgosz at the Buff
falo exposition on Friday calls public
attention to the popularity of our
dual system of government. While
the president was attending the expo
sition in his official capacity as the
representative of the nation, and was
shot while in the discharge of such
duty, the concensus of opinion of
those learned in our laws is that his
cowardly assailant is amenable to the
laws Of the state of New York wherein
the crime was committed, and is not
answerable to the laws of the United
States. Ordinarily the laws of the in
dividual states are found sufficient to
work adequate punishment for the
preparation of crime, but in this in
stance the mass of citizens of our
country feels that the ten years i'm
prisonment to which Czolgosz will be
subjected in New York penitentiaries
in case of President McKinley's recoy-
cry will be a punishment entirely too
mild for such deadly enemy to So
ciety as body; that be the outcome
what it may he ought to be deprived
of his life and thus placed where he
can do no further harm of this kind,
and where the example made of him
would deter brutes of his kidney from
assailing the chief executive of the ma
ton.
There is no law of congress provid.
ing for offenses of this kind committed
in the states, and so to be punished
at all Czolgosz will have TO be tried
and sentenced by New York Judge
Were there such federal law. how
ever the case OF Cunningham VS. Nea
gle, reported III the 135th United
states supreme court reports indi
Gates that the federal judiciary would
not hesitate 70 deal with the william
even though the offense We're commit
ted in a state. The facts in this case
briefly stated, We're as follows: Gun
ningham was sheriff of San Joaquin
county, California. He arrested Nea
gle, deputy United States Marshall
for shooting and instantly killing one
David S. Terry, at J.athrop. Califor.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-12
UNITED STATES VS.. GREAT BRIT
IAN IN 10000 MILE RACE,

Few Of our citizens realized Friday
morning when special train of one
mail car drawn by East engine pass
ed rapidly through our city that it
keen struggle between
vast interests; that it was really a
contest between two of the leading
nations of the earth.
The car carried 267 sacks of mail
from Sydney, Australia, destined to
England. Some of this mail was i'm
portant, coming from the government
officials of the British colonies in Aus
tralia and consigned to the officials of
the home government in London. Pre-
viously Australian mail had gone west
half way around the world via the Pa
cific an Indian oceans, through the Suez
canal, and Mediterranean Sea, over a
portion of the Atlantic ocean to En-
gland.
When the Oceanic Steamship line
was opened between Australia and
San Francisco the enterprising Ameri-
can president Of the company went to
Australia and on his representations
of faster time than could be made via
the Suez canal, or even by way of Van
couver over the Canadian railways,
the authorities gave Spreckels a trial.
The steamer from Sidney to San
Francisco arrived however behind the
record breaking time. Then the South
ern Pacific railway fell down a little in
the attempt to keep up the pace or
even catch lost time. The Union Pa
cific could do no better from Ogden to
Council Bluffs. so it was up against
our own Burlington route to make up
sufficient time to get the mail to Chi
cago in time for the last train over
the Lake Shore railway and the New
York Central line catching the mail
steamer from New York harbor. The
burlington knew what was up, being
in communication with Spreckels by
wire, and they offered the special
without charge 4 is reported)), and
lat mils a minute tnd better il chased
"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-12
RE.pIsTRIcTING.

The next legislature will have the
problem on its hands Of re-districting
the state. This process is sometimes
known, especially in the party out of
power as "gerrymandering," and fire.
quently harsh things are said of the
political organization and its represen-
tatives in the halls of state who do
the work.
From the gerrymandering" stand
point, which term hardly fits the case
in Iowa, bit of history as seen by the
New York World, democratic news
paper, will make interesting reading:
1t was in 1914. when Elbridge Gerry
was governor of Massachusetts, that
the senatorial districts of that state
We're laid out SO peculiarly. in order to
elect as many democratic senators as
possible, that one of them, having out
lines particularly irregular, was shown
by itself in colored map, with a few
artistic touches that gave it the sem
blance of a monstrous animal. To
this mythical creature the name ger
rymander. was given, compounded of
the governors name and the last two
syllables of salamander From that
time to this the practice has been uni
yersal with all parties, both for state
and national purposes. And although
approximately balance is struck-the
wrong done to one party in one state
being offset by the wrong done to the
other party in some other state
"gerrymandering" is nevertheless in
its essence unjust, and amounts to a
denial of equal political rights. Massa-
chusetts, the birthplace of the wrong,
continues to this day signally to illus
trate it. With democratic vote in
normal years like 1892 of about 1885,
900, against republican vote of ABOUT
100000, the congressional districts
have been so carved as to give the
democrats a fighting chance in not
more than two districts. And SO it is
all over the Union. The apportion-
ment act passed by the last congress
does explicitly require districts COM
posed of contiguous and compact ter
ritory and containing as nearly as
practicable an equal number of inhab-
itants."
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-12

culiarity eliminated at twenty-five
minutes after 10 o'clock, midnight, in
a species of moisture falling to the
earth in profusion seemingly from this
same mist or smoke cloud. The mois-
ture came down in tiny drops at first;
then the drops became larger until the
size Of a pea, and they fell more rapid
ly and more rapidly until all objects on
which they fell became thoroughly
wet. The drops had the appearance
and taste of water, somewhat clearer
Than the kind We get out of the Des
Moines river or of the low cisterns, be-
ing more like we'll water in it's pur-
ity and yet not quite SO harsh in it's
mineral constituents. Speaking with
some of the old time residents in our
city We are Informed that this phe-
nomenon is termed rain; that it is
OF very frequent occurrence in some
parts of the country, and more apt to
occur at certain seasons than in 9TH
ers; that these old citizens can recall
similar rains of even heavier volume,
but that was sometime ago. They al
SO add that this rain" is not harmful
Will not iniure a person on whom it
might fall even though it did make
him wet; that it is really beneficial
for vegetation, grass and plants seem
ing to thrive on it. Some OF the
shrewder and more practical ones even
go so far as to say that this rain
which fell for six hours or more this
morning will tend to make our pas.
lures green and thus Indirectly may
help the condition of our cattle and
make less demand for feed. But such
results would seem to us very far
fetched and getting into the realms of
conjecture. The chronicling of rain"
is surprise enough for one issue.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-12

If any more evidence were needed
of the fact that the democratic party
in Iowa this year is in the hands of
the Philistines, the action of the dem
ocratic state central committee in Des
Moines Friday in choosing for chair,
man man who is not sound money
man and a secretary who is an extrem.
list on the silver question, would cinch
it. But then it had to be consistent.
The party is committed to the policy
of the Kansas City platform on the
money question and this year those
who conduct the campaign will see
that the fight is waged on that issue.
There will be and is some wriggling
on the part of those who want to train
with the party but cannot swallow the
dose the party managers have prepar.
ed for them with the intention of stuff.
ing it down their threats. Political
suicides are not uncommon but the
spectacle of one-fourth of the party
committing selfdestruction in order to
murder another one-fourth, while the
one-half, the sound money men, look
on, is extremely interesting no matter
which way one views it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-12
WHY TOLERATE ANARCHY?

The military army which permitted
emissaries from the enemy to have the
freedom of it's camp, with the fullest
opportunities to kill it's highest gene.
rails, would be looked upon as reckless
and foolhardy in the extreme. Yet
that is precisely what the American
people do in their treatment OF
anarchists. The anarchist is the
enemy of society-the avowed
foe of organized government.
He has no love for the country which
shelters him and gives him subsistence
He is hostile to it's institutions, its
laws and its life, why tolerate it?
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-12
WANTED: JUSTICE.

| With singular unanimity newspapers
all over the country have reached a
verdict finding that theanarcllistic mon
| strosities printed in a certain syndi-
cate of newspapers in which President
Mckinley has been grossly insulted
times without number, are directly re.
sponslble for the sentiment which in.
spired the murderous feeling and sub.
sequent action of Czolgosz. 1t may
be conceded fairly that editors of met.
ropolitan publications as well as some
of their brethren in the rural field
watch the trend of the times and can
with more or less accuracy figure
cause from result.
What of the future? At the next
session of congress steps should be
taken-in all legality and soberness-
making an attempt upon the life of the
President or Vice-President of the
United States punishable with death,
and this whether the attempt be sue
cessful or not. When the awe arising
from crime like that of Friday is
over, Americans are apt to strain the
quality of justice. There were apollo
gists for Guiteau. Mercy might be
shown for an attack upon the person
it has no place in the consideration of
an outrage upon the state.
Annn0 tho ,,iobtc of T.
that OF free press 1t should be, and
is likely to remain, an alieneable right
as a general possession. When, how
ever, newspaper persistently, con-
sistently and maliciously :, misrepre-
sents, holds up to scorn, viciously and
untruthfully attacks, the person and
character Of the Nations Chief Magis-
trate-when these printed attacks are
supplemented by pictures calculated
to cast contempt upon the highest Of
flee on earth, then freedom has given
place to license and the offending
newspaper should be punished in such
measure and manner as would insure
change of course and a due regard
for decency.
SANDER is not of the essence of the
Declaration of Independence nor is
libel licensed in the constitution. Why
should any newspaper enjoy immunity
for obscene and cruel attacks upon the
man whom millions have chosen as
their chief, for fixed term, when,
were the same man in private life a
1.-THE of the abuse would subject the
publisher of the paper to Imprisonment
and his pocket to heavy drafts?
Have we done away with pillory and
stocks of wood to replace them with
ink and paper?
| There are contain newspapers in
this country that Mr. McKinleys as.
sailant read. Who can measure the
force or extent of the influence pub
lished ribaldry had upon this vulpine
| mind?