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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1902-09-19
SClTUATE.
Town Council and Probate
Court.

At the monthly meeting held Saturday,
Septembsr I3 members all present. The
following business was transacted;
Town CoUNcIL.
Larnsd Williams was granted second
class liquor license for DAnielson Park to
December /.
Edward F. Page presented a claim for
ESQ for damage caused TO his wagon on
the railroad opposite Richmond store,
whereupon It was voted that Edward +.
Page look to the Providence and Daniel.
.on railway Co. for his damage.
Il was voted that the Town Clerks
office be painted outside, and that Coun-
Gilman Edwin l.. Hawkes. be appointed
to DO the Job. The following bills were
allowed and orders received
Elijah c. Greene. board of Mary Tour.
teloue, s9S 90; !. c. Potter, highway,
IS3 SO; John a. Battey, team for asses
80, 800; Providence Telephone Co,
ga so; George z. Howard, tax collector,
slS4 90; Olneyville Timef, advertising
license. O. sol E. L. Hawkes., labor in
Council room, $40 90; Edward Austin,
labor in town clerks office, sI7 90 T.. l..
Hawkes., labor and supplies, 3.79i Henry
II. Potter, town clerk and expenses, Ioi.2S
Byron Rathbun, highway, 1903 90; +. ID.
Arndt, st9o; +. l.. Hawkes., paints and
oIs, s,664; Nathan Colvin' notify Jurors.
It.4o; +. =. Owen, assessor. 40 90; J..
II. Comstock, 1000; Ives Salisbury,
7o.ooi George Z. Riley, 1000 Nathan
Mitchell, 1000; Robert II Walker,
assessor, 20 oo Elisha A. Waterman,
1000; Henry H.Po,ter, clerk Of assessors,
90 90.
PROBATE COURT.
Estate OF Joanna Howard, deceased.
Israel B.ayton, executor, bond, $2oo.
bondsmen, Ebenezcr b. Fiske and Fred
z. Brayton. Appraisers, Ebenzer B.
Fiske, John a, BatteY and Fred +. Bray.
ton.
Estate OF Samuel =. Boss deceased.
will read, proved and ordered recorded.
Lucinda Boss. executrix. Bond sIoo 10
pay debts and legscies. Bondsmen,
Willis J. Bo" and Benjamin f Boss.
Estate OF Raymond a. Ra,hbun, de.
ceased. VIII proven and ordered re.
corded. Ella J. Rithbun, Executrix.
Bond $500.
Estate OF Adeiine Bonten, deceased.
First and final accounts received, allowed
and ordered recorded.
Estate OF Elmer +. Parker. First and
final account received, allowed and
ordered recorded.
Estate OF Thomas A Sesmsns, deceased
First and final account was read, allowed
and ordered recorded.
Estate Of Albert B Cahoone, deceased.
Account was received and referred TO
October H.
Estate Of Phebe Potter deceased
Fred H. Jacques was appointed admins.
traitor. Bond $1,000. BJndsmen,E Earl a.
Potter and Henry Martin.
Estate Of jams, TrAlnor, deceased.
Susan Trainori was appointed .admini'.
,ra,riY. Bond tlloo Bondsmen, John
KeenAn.snd John C. Conley. Appraisers
Byron c. Briggs, Daniel Howlsnd and
Hugh keenan,.
Estate Of Sarah Hopkins, deceased.
Inventory vas read, received and ordered
recorded.
/ Esist. Of Mary Alice Trainof. minor.
Susan Trainer was appointed guardian.
Bond. $500. Bondsmen, John keenan,
and John {. Conley.
Estate Of Richmond NJ. knight, de-
+ ceased. AdmInit,rstor's final account
va, read, allowed and ordered RECORDED.
. Adjourned to meet a. the town clerks
Office on the second Saturday IN October
The National tribune., 1902-04-24
CAPTURING A SMUGGLER.
An Incident the Gunboa Service the Mississippi River
1868.
By JAMES c. SULLIVAN.

smoke pouring out of her stacks. II
| looked like a chase, and the little steamer
seemed to be gaining; as some of the fel
lows in a joking way, told our fireman
The boat is gaining on u.s."
River firemen are generally ready for a
squirt of speed, and ours were no excep.
ton. In few minutes black smoke was
rolling out of our stacks. The iremen in
formed us that their coal was of an in
ferior quality. However, the other boat,
which looked like a small gunboat of the
''tinclad" type, gained very slowly. We
reached the mouth of the Yazoo River,
and stopped alongside the gunboat station
there. Our Captain went on board the
gunboat to show his credentials.
Our pursuer gained rapidly, and to our
great surprise, sent u solid shot over our
heads; then another, and a third. before
they realized that we had stopped. In a
few minutes the boat crowded with sol
diers, came alongside. They were shout
ing, 1--WE have you; you're caught" etc.
Their commander, Capt. Mccarthy, was
directed on board the gunboat and proper
explanations were made. 1t seemed that
our passing Vicksburg without stopping
caused suspicion, which the appearance of
the blue jackets on the deck of the trans
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WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY a.

groove again quite naturally. The follow
ing Sunday all haIitf3were mustered ON the
quarterback as Hsuhk and after inspection
l was surprised 10. hear the Captain call
my name. My frstfhought was that there
was something wrong with my uniform,
and that | wasg going to catch it." as
our Captain was awfully strict.
But no. indeed ! 1t was grand surprise
to me. Our Captain stated that Lieut..
Beeman had paid me the highest compli-
ment for good conduct on our trip up to
Cairo: that without orders l had stopped
Il boat containing 100000 gun caps,
which were, no doubt, intended for the
enemy. 90 as
The Captain was lavish in his praise:
he said it was an honor to the ship. and
that it gave him great pleasure to promote
me Oh the spot TO the next grade-able
seaman.
Some of the boys said: Jimmie, if you
are sent to Cairo again you will come back
a Captain"
In the following Spring the Usage did
her full share of hard work in the opera
ticns up the Trinity River and Black
River, under the command of Capt. Ram
say; also in the Inflated Red River EXpe-
dition. under the command of Capt. o. s.
Selfridge She was sunk by n torpedo in
the Spring of 90 in Mobile Bay. She
had new crew. Our old crew had
served ont its time and had been sent
home. The Usage, like several other
vessels. was raised after the war by Capt.
Eads. and was broken up.
My comrades We're splendid fellows, and
l regret exceedingly that / do not remem-
her their names. They were not what you
would term odd sea-dogs," but represent
alive of the majority of the men on the
Mississippi Squadron. They did not enlist
for bounty; they enlisted, like the majority
of our volunteers, for love of country. love
of adventure, and from sense of duty.
The National tribune., 1902-04-24

seconds hesitation on my part. l simply
knew that they had no business there and
should give an account of themselves.
My ready long navy Remington, which
shot like rife, was out in flash. sent
a ball skipping over the water just ahea1
of them. This only made the rowers pun
the faster. Seeing this. fired at the boat
This had the desired effect, and they I'M
mediately stopped rowing and waved some
thing white Keeping them covered Win
the gun, I motiOned them alongside. LII
the meantime our pilot had slowed down
and Mr. Beeman, from the top Oh the
stairs, hailed me and asked me the trouble;
After learning the facts. he went hack ana
dressed. Ny comrades heard the shots
and were quickly on deck. The slowing
of our boat and the action of the current
soon brought the SEiff up to us. l never
left my post, but gun in hand, kept them
covered until safe on board. l noticed that
in passing things out of the skill, the gem
tleman who sat in the stern passed up
large carpetsacE which seemed to be ex-
ceedingly heavy, and it struck me that he
was quite nervous.
In about half an hour one of my com
rades came forward and said: sullivan,
you have made a haul.
What is it, | asked.
He informed me that the passengers on
the skiif had 100000 gun caps III that
carpetsack, which were worth, at the time,
$S1 per pound i'll gold i'll the Confederacy.
He also had copy Of the oath of al!esi-
ance to the L. S Government and pass
to Fort Pillow. His name was Thompson,
and he undoubtedly belonged to band
of smugglers with headquarters at Mem
Dhis. They reSOrted to every possible
scheme to get contraband goods through
our lines. as such goods commanded great
prices i'll the South mt that time. His pass
The National tribune., 1902-04-24
Gen. Wade Hampton owned 4. 900 Slaves.
birmingham Age Herald)

Every child of the South born before
1870 has heard the phrase, Rich as Wade
Hampton because it survived many
years after the fortunes of war had made
Gen. Hampton n poor man. II survived
by force of habit. And perhaps there is
not in the South a son or daughter Of
former slave-owner past five-and-thirty
who does not recall the story of Wade
Hampton and his slave.
This story ran that Wade Hampton
was riding along a highway that led
through one of his numerous plantations
when he met likely" negro fellow
likely" is an old Southernism meaning
fine, and, with fellow" was applied alone
to frst-class slaves. He drew rein and
accOSted the slave thus:
You are a likely fellow-who do you
belong to-"
Wade Hampton. sir"
"AhI And who is Wade Hampton"
please, sir, master, you mus be from
de NOrf, case Mas Wade Hampton is de
berry fust gemmun in de Souf."
The story used to be told to illustrate
the greatness in numbers of Wade Hamp
toms slaves: his own slaves did not know
him by sight-that is, hundreds and thou
sands of them did not. The slaves he
owned numbered 1000, and he was, there
fore, the largest slave-owner of the South,
or of modern times.
The National tribune., 1902-04-24
PERSONAL.

Rev. Charles l.. Shergur, of Chemung
n. Y, is candidate for the Chaplaincy
of the New York State Soldiers Home,
Bath, n. Y. Comrade Shergur was born
in Lansing, n. Y, Aug. IA, 1912 He en-
listed in the Fall of 1862 in Co. f, 13Sth
n. Y. He was promoted to Corporal
July, 1863; to Sergeant in December,
1864; to Orderly Sergeant in March, 1865;
brevetted Second Lieutenant for gallant
meritorious service. He was wounded at
Sailors Creek. Comrade Shergur has the
indOrsementrof many prominent G.. A. r.
men; among others. that of Corporal
James Tanner, who while Commander of
the Department of n. Y. canvassed the
State, raising money for the establishment
of this Home, and laid the cornerstone.
Jasper Reese. Adjutant- General Of Hi
nois, died ut Springfield, H., April g. aged
The National tribune., 1902-04-24

The Civil Service advocates now claim
that 49, positions in the Government
service at Washington are competitive
and but 2S6 excepted.
The National tribune., 1902-04-24

80 years. During the civil war he served
in Missouri and Illinois regiments. He
was appointed Brigadier General of the
Second Illinois Brigade in 1877, and was
Adjutant-G General from 1891 to 1893, I'M
der Gov. Fifer, and from 1897 to the time
Of death. under Gov. Tanner and Gov.
Yates. He leaves widow, two daughters
and one son.
The National tribune., 1902-04-24
CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.

Capt. Eugene f. Ware, of Kansas,
who has been appointed to succeed Mr..
Evans as Pension Commissioner, was an
officer in the famous Powder River Indian
f. Palmer, of Omaha, Neb., who is at the
New Willard. Capt. Ware and l were
two of the officers who engaged in that
campaign. We fought over the same
ground that Gen. Custer covered II years
| later and had number of fierce fights
with the Sioux, the ArapahOes, and the
other Indians who were warning at that
time. They all Joined against our forces
and made life very interesting for us.
I'VE were engaged a number of times in
the vicinity of where Gen. Custer and
his men met their terrible death. Our
forces were much more limited than those
OF Gen. Custer, and it is almost miracu-
lous that we escaped death. Only five of
the officers who were in the Powder River
campaign are now living, and Capt. Ware
is one of the most gallant of that num-
Der. He has a war record of which he
may well be proud. | am sure that the
g. A. X. men of the United States are
pleased with his appointment, and they
have reason to be. A man who rounded
out his civil war record by going on the
frontier and facing such dangerous old
chiefs as Red Cloud and Black Bear de-
serves recognition at the hands of the
President"
The Civil Service advocates now claim
that 16,423 positions in the Government
service at Washington are competitive,
and but 2S6 excepted,
Although this Government will not en-
ter upon negotiations for concessions upon
which to establish naval and coaling sta
tons in Cuba until after that Government
is formally launched, it is stated at the
Navy Department that Guantanamo al
ready has been selected for the site of the
single naval station which will be estab
lished in the island.
Notwithstanding the firmly-expressed
opinion of Admiral Bradford that Havana
Harbor offers the only really suitable and
desirable facilities for naval station in
the West Indies, it would appear that this
Government is to yield to Cuban national
pride in this matter, and have neither a
cOaling nor a naval station at Havana.
There probably will be only two coaling
stations, one at Nipe Bay and the other
at CienfuegoS.
A committee from Mclean Post, 16,
of Reading, Pa, Henry Miller, Chairman;
B. f. Magic, 12Sth Pa; Elwood Dickin-
son, 10th Pa, and Francis Yocum, Dur
ellis Battery, have secured headquarters
for that organization at La Fetra's Hotel.
The Post will attend the National En-
campment 800 strong. accompanied by
Ringgold's Band, q famous organization
of Reading.
Frank Stockton, the well-known literary
man, died last Sunday in this city as the
result of cerebral hemorrhage. He was
taken i'll Wednesday evening at the recep-
tiontion of the National Academy of
Sciences. at the Arlington. He was re-
moved to his rooms In the Arlington,
where he had been staying. and subse
quently was conveyed to the house of
Mr.. Robert f. Brown, 2l29 P street. He
was born in Philadelphia. in 1884, and be-
longed to a literary family.
The National tribune., 1902-04-24

We have at last made the discovery which has baE
fed chemists aud all others for entures that of ALSO
luteiy destroying superluous hair and branch,
entirely and permanently, whether it be mustachs
growth on the neck, cheeks arms, and that too
without impairlng In any way the finest most Senst
tive skin.
The Misses Bell have thoroughly tested its efficacy
and desrou. that full merits of their treatment
to which they have given the descriptive name OF
KILI-ALL-HAIR" shall be known to all afflicted.
To this end trial will be free Of charges any
lady who will write for IL and say she the offer In
this paper Without cent of cost you see for
yourselves what the discovery Isl the evidence of your
own will then convince you that the treatment,
"KILL-ALL-HAIR,' Will rid you of of the great
drawbacks to perfect lOveliness, the growth OF
superfiuous hair on the face neck of women.
Please understand that personal demonstration OF
treatment costs you nothing trial will be sent
you free. which you yourself and prove our
claims by sending two 2-cent stamps for mailing.
THE MISSES BELL, Dept 9,
IS and so Fifth Avenue, New York.
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nR. O. W. COLLINS,
- Veterinarian.
Office at Riley's Barn.
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Graphie's IS
LAYING FOR f5I.lkkSS 5

n Copyright, 1901, fy e. e. I.e~'.s.i
4 When Binks had finished LIS @pg}g21-
#ticeship II the machine shop. he Was
d finished workman and his boss pat
j ted him Oh the shoulder and said
boy. you have been Industrious, re-
Rspectful and ambitious, and l am free
2to say that we never had one like you
in the shop before. You can take that
bench over <lere and 60 to work at the
highest wages paid in the Shop
But Rinks bad other plans. He had
saved a few hundred dollars, and he
opened little shop Of his own.
Binks had not been i'll his new shop
week when policeman made an ar
rest in trent Of his door and displayed
unnecessary brutality Binks protest
4 ed. He even gestured as he protested.
He loudly declared it shame to bang
a man about in that fashion. In re-
sponse he was warned to mind his own
business and threatened with arrest,
and later On in the day the officer call
ed at the shop to say:
"Now, young un. yoN take a pointer.
If you want to keep out of trouble,
keep your mouth shut If we hear any
more of your talk, Well lay for YOU
Binks took the pointer. but he didn't
keep to it. \ week later and block
bp al
about and flung into the patrol wagon
in such way that both sympathy and
anger We're aroused. and he protested.
a crowd backed him up, and several
newspapers backed the crowd, and the
police commissioners reluctantly repri-
manded the ratrolman. 1t was vic
tory fot Binlls, but he did not dream of
what it WAS to cost him. In Il day or
two word went out that the captain of
the precinct Was down Oh Binks. lie
would be. Of course. When the brutal
lty of 4 patrolnan is hootod by a
crowd, denounced by the press and rep
rlmanded from headquarters the cap
tain feels that some OF the mud sticks
A. W ulIl 4eS. Ep NaS Q0Nu Oh i'lllhS,
anu Binks soon had cause to know it.
lie had some junk in front Of his shop
and was ordered to remove it instanter.
policeman loitered about his door
and whispered "Suspicion!" when ask
ed the reason of his presence. The
landlord was "got at and the rent
raised. Repairs that had been pTomis-
ed were not made. In one way and an
other business was driven away, and
Binks had to move. The police had
plainly told him they were laying
-or'' him, and he was not idiot enough
TO think he could win a victory. He
moved half mile away in an effort to
placate tue enemy and be forgotten.
Perhaps Binks might have been let
alone had he not put his foot in it
again. He found the patrolman on
that beat drunk and asleep one night
and was foolish enough to appeal to a
pedestrian to help him save the help
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-15
FIND THE GOBLIN GUIDE.
T8)HlEY :; s:a5v :, ::

less man from fr4stDite. This pedes,
trian happened to be a reporter, and
he held the case UP to public view and
Wrnng in Riess. The dereiict officer
WAS tine3 4 H=ontA's pay, the captain
sent ont word anew, and Binks was
soon in h0t water again. Nothing was
200 petty and mean for the police to
resort to, and they bOasted to his face
that within three months they would
drive him out OF the state. They had
harassed and bounded him till he was
ready to give UP when they put on the
climax They sent man to him to
have burglar tools made. Binks made
them without knowing the use they
We're to be put to and was arrested as
he was carrying them home. His good
character ought to have counted at his
trial. but the police found a way to
! smirch it. The open way in which he
had made the tools ought to have
counted but the police called it a blind.
They piled it on Binks until he won.
derad if he was not somebody else. and
he got three years in Sing Sing and
lecture frem the judge. Binks had de-
fed the police. and Binks was laid
away.
When the young machinist came out
of prison, he had changed. He had lost
all sympathy for mankind. If the po-
lice slung q woman about like bale
of hay, battered drunken man, crack
cd the skull Of hoodlum or insulted
respectable girl who had to be out
till late hour, it would be nothing to
him any more. He might even laugh
over the spectacle. as others did. Such
sentiments os pity, mercy and sympa.
thy had been weeded out of his COM
! position. and he was prepared to bow
to Indifference and brutality. But
BinkS didn't have the chance. The
smirched police captain and the drunk
en- patrolman had not forgotten him
They would have taken him back at
the old shop but for the police They
would have taken him into other sh0ps
bGt fer the same power. When he
could net End work at his trade. he
sought it outside. Now and then he
Got a JOB. hut when the word "coi;
Wet vas whispered in the ears of the
DOSS }.tEkc lttG " ~ lIc w DIS lOliON'
ed rs bio2dhounds keep a trail. III
was even barred out Of cheap eating
houses and ten cent lodgings. There
came Il day when the ragged, hungry
and disconsolate Binks stole a ride oE
the bumpers of Il freight car and re-
ppeared at the doors of Sing Sing to
ay:
'Take me in. l have no work. no
home, no friends. no food. l am worse
than beggar-an eX-convict pursued
by the police"
.'This place is only for criminals, :"
said the warden &c he closed the door
on the man.
Binks walked down the rough road
to the river. 1t was winter, and the
,, ice was drifting down, and the cold
winds cut him like knife.
"But o man can't ever get up when
the police are laying for him." wbis-
pered Binks to himself, "and why not
now and herew
And he bothered the police TO more.
NJ. QUAD.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-15

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Ihese books are free for the asking,
and The Denver Road" will be glad
70 give aooea assistance by core
spondenoe IN Jour choice OF . place
. spend yow vacation.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-04-15
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Iazy foIm tske the most pains.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-09-10

Hon. J. II. Sauer, State Senator from
Douglas Co., 70 the Nebraska Legis
laturc, writes from Franks Hotel
Omaha, Ncb., as follows:
"HaYing tried Pcrnna 7 can com
mend II 90 an as great tonic and par
fc1lariy good as a remedy for cafarrE. >
---J n. SAUER.
Honorable Patrick Kennedy, Member
OF the Massachusetts, Legislature, writes
the following letter from the House Of
Representatives, Boston.
Doctor $. b. Hartmann
Dear Sir.--'I have no hesitation N
saying that after having tried dozens
Of other remedies without relief owe
my perfect health and clear voice OF
today 10 PerBHa. know it 10 be sure
cure for indigestion and its attendant
afiliction, nervous debility. For the six
weeks that was on the platform
through the recent campaign ! used Pc.
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two and three times each day nv voice
never failed me. ] know that Peruna Il
a reliable cure for bronchial troubles.n-
p Kennedy.
II you do not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use Of Peruna
write at once 10 DIR. Hartman, giving o
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Address Or. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, o