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The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
q. y. Omcials Optimistic

There is a distinctly hopeful feeling
in official circles at Washington that
a settlement of the coal strike will
come from efforts being made by the
president. There is something doing
and ] believe the miners will soon be
back to work." was the con~fdentially
expressed opinion of one of the highest
officers of the treasury department.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Mad womnu In Church

Maggie Lynch. a seamstrcas. who dis
appeared fifteen days ago, was found
in the tower of Sacred Heart church In
West Atchison. where she had been
without food or drink for two weeks.
She was in a semi-unConsciouS condi-
tion and too weak to raise her hand.
Miss Lynch had shown signs OF insan-
ity and says she hid to elude persons
who wanted to kill her. Her groans
during mass resulted in her discovery.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Appeal to Supreme COurt

Judge Jones of the United States
court at Montgomery. Ala, refused
the application of Jackson w. Giles,
a negro, for an injunction restraining
the registrars from sending up their
lists without the James of himself and
other qualified voters. The judges
action is based on want of jurisdic-
ton, following decisions which con-
fine the equity side Of the court to
matters involving property rights. An
appeal was taken and certified direct
to the supreme court of the United
States.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Corn Palace Successful

The corn palace, which has been
held In Mitchell, S. d., came to a close.
1t has been a highly successful one,
and the attendance was very satisfac-
tory. Fifty cowboys came in off the
range with their horses and gave an
exciting parade, The weather has been
excellent and the attendance has been
such rs to pay all the expenses and
leave a large surplus in the treasury.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
COnsuls Transferred

General Il. S. Bragg. consul general
for the United States at Havana. has
been transferred to the post of consul
general at Hong Kong, China. taking
the place OF William Rublee, trans
fcrrcd to Havana. The change Is due
to a protest made by the Cuban gov
eminent on account of a letter Bragg
wrote his wife.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
OIL q Work

Oil al not compete with coal for
naval use. at least that is the con-
clusion reached by the board of naval
engineers. which has been making ex-
periments with a series of burners un-
der a 1000 horse power boiler In Wash
ingtOn. They have drawn up a pre-
liminary report to the secretary of the
navy. which will show that out OF
fourteen different devices presented
by American inventors for tests not
one would produce steam in competi-
ton with coal.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
TRAGEDY AT MERCER, NEs
Two italian Railroad Laborers, Killed.
During Drunken Brawi

T. G.. Rich, a laborer working with
a construction gang on the Union Pa
cific near Mercer, Neb.. shot two men
about 8 o'clock Thursday evening and
escaped on a w%estbound freight train.
One Of the men Is dead and the other
is in a critical condition. Both Of them
are Italians. working in the same gang,
Rich had been in Valley and had been
drinking considerable. The shooting
was the outgrowth of a drunken quar-
rel. Rich caught onto the side of a
car of a w%estbound freight which
slowed up as it passed through Mercer.
The interpreter for the Italians and
one OF the men went to Valley on a
handcar rs soon as possible and noti-
fed the authorities.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
New Customs House

The cornerstone of the New York
customs house was laid Wednesday.
The ceremonies were made impressive
by the presence of "a number of COM
mlttees of prominent men from the
leading mercantile and industrial or
CARNATIONS. Speeches were made by
Secretary OF the Treasury Shaw and
former Secretary Gage.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
WOULD HANG THEM
Mayor Of salem, Mass. In Favor OF
Treating Coal Operators Roughly

A Lynn, Mass, dispatch says: At
a mass meeting called for the purpose
Of aiding the striking coal miners.
Mayor John +. Hurley, Of Salem.
created a sensation when he said that
IL he had his way he would hang
President Baer and the other opera
tors on the nearest tree. He said he
did not mean to kill them, but he
would use them as he would use a dog.
by putting a collar around their necks
and raising them on a limb of a tree
two or three times, or until they
would be willing to arbitrate. Mayor
Hurley said he believed in extreme
measures and that they should be
adopted now
Resolutions Of sympathy with the
miners were adopted and a large sum
Of money collected
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Striker Shot by Soldier

John Durham. a striker. was killed
by Private Wadsworth of the Eigh-
teenth regiment, at the collieries near
Shenandoah, Pa. The guard was on
outpost duty and challenged the striker
twice while the latter was within the
lines. Durham did not respond and
was shot through the chest. officials
believe an attempt vas being made to
dynamite the camp. Wadsworth re-
ported to headquarters and ur-
rendered.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Two Blown to Atoms

BY an explosion in the Producers
Explosive company's factory, south of
Lima. o., Earl Bush, a nitroglycerine
maker, and John Anspaugh. a helper,
were blown to atoms. The factory was
wrecked. Big buildings in the city
swayed and plate glass was broken by
the concussion. Bush had but recently
accepted the position, and his wife
was en- route there when the accident
occurred,
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Second Crop OF Berries

Chris Bell, a farmer near Platts-
mouth. Neb.. has a curiosity at his
place in the form of a patch of black
berries which is producing the second
crop this year. He also has some
cherry trees which are budding and
the prospects are that they will bloom
again before cold weather sets in.
Cass county has broken all former
records for fruit growing this year.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Convict Makes Daring Escape

Convict Byron Murphy, n fireman on
the prison locomotive. made a sensa-
tional and successful break for liberty,
says a Folsom. Cal, special. A mo-
ment after the engineer had stepped
from the cab Murphy pulled the throt-
tie wide open and headed for Sacra-
mento. Volleys were fired at the con-
Wet by the prison guards, but Murphy
was unhurt. He left the engine at
Alder Creek and took to the woods.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Editor ShoOtA a Doctor

J. w. Kelly, editor Of the Inter-
Mountain, Butte. Mont, shot DR.. A. III.
Cayley, a prominent resident Of Butte.
Cayley. it Is believed, will die. The
shooting Is said to have resulted from
trouble over a m Officers are
searching for Kelly. At a late hour
the doctors express no hope for Cay.
ley's recovery.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
A Woman Pastor

Miss Mary Andrews, daughter OF ex-
Sheriff Robert N. Andrews, Hamilton.
o.. has been elected pastor of the
Universalist church at Kansas City.
Mo-. an influential organization. She
succeeds Rev. Luther Mckinney and
will be the first woman pastor Kan
sas City has had.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Must Stand ns DemocratA

The Kansas fusion state ticket will
appear on the official ballot under the
name of democratic. The fusion
forces have not yet succeeded in OBJ
tanning a service on the secretary OF
state with the temporary order grant
ed by a district court for the populist
and democratic ticket both to appear.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Walter WelIman,s Father Dead

Alonzo Wellman, father of Walter
Wellman, Arctic explorer and the
Washington correspondent of the Chi
cage Record-Herald. and A. w. Well
man of Madison, Wis, died at his resi-
dence In Bradshaw, Neb., at an early
hour Thursday morning after a sever
weeks illness.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Seek to Abolish Strikes

BY a unanimous vote OF leading
representative clubs and other organi-
cations. including civic societies and
the Chicago bar, 1t was concluded that
an executive committee 80 to Spring
field this winter and endeavor to OBJ
tain amendments to the child labor
laws and a compulsory arbitration law.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Pilgrimage to Parnell Grave

The tenth annual pilgrimage to the
grave of Parnell occurred Sunday.
says a Dublin. Ireland, dispatch. For
the first time the lord a and cor
poration OF Dublin did mo- participate
In the ceremony. The attendance was
smaller than in previous years.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
o

A W~ilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. 8, dispatch
says: Unless President Michell's hur-
rled visit to New York bears fruit the
end of the mine workers strike seems
q long way of and the prospect of suf-
iclent coal being mined to satisfy the
public demand is extremely poor.
Every local union OF the miners Or
~ganizatiOn through the hard coal belt
held special meetings. either last night
or today and resolved to remain on
strike until the mine owners grant
them some concession. And while the
reports OF these meetings came pouring
into W~ilkesbarrc, President Mitchell
dictated a letter to the president of
the United States In which he gave his
answer TO the proposition that the
strikers return to work and trust to
have their condition improved through
an investigation commission. What
the answer OF the miners chief is he
refused to divulge.
Mr.. Mitchell sent his letter to Wash
ington before he had heard from all
the locals. This afternoon, accom-
panied by the three district presidents.
he left for New York. His mission
there is also n secret. As New York
is the headquarters of the coal opera
tors, a m Immediately spread that
q settlement, was in prospect, but Mr..
Mitchell ant his colleagues would not
say whom I'd y expected to meet.
Nearly al't he resolutions passed by
various4 iners' meetings contained
y sentence the effect that the men
~n. rema' Iout, though all the troops
III the UNIFIED States were sent here"
, ss., are granted some '0H''s-
Additional troops for this region
have not yet arrived. and the general
strike situation remains unchanged.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Cocoanut Shells for Fuel

East Side confectionery manufacture
ers are supplying shells to
tenement jewellers for fuel, says a New
York dispatch. The shells are sold in
bags of fifty to sixty pounds for ten or
fifteen cents a bag. The material fur
nishes more heat than coal, and while
1t does not burn as long as coal. it's
lasting qualities are much better than
wood,
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Liner Runs Down Stea mer

During a dense fog Thursday morn
ing the British steamer Robert lngham
was run into and sunk off Beachhard,
Eng, by the liner Kron Prinz Wilhelm.
he Ingham went down five minutes at
ter being struck. Kron Prinz picked
up thirteen of the crew Of the wrecked
steamer. The mate and one passenger
were drowned.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Kills Himself

Edward Yeamans, a nineteen-year-
old boy living near Hopkins. in Noda-
way county, Missouri. shot himself in
the head with a target rifle with sui
cidal intent. He lived only a short
time. Yeamans had been teaching
school and was dependent over his
lack of success. The shooting was in
the yard of his mothers home and in
the presence of an elder brother.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
JESSE FREED
A Bond Accepted for Alleged Slayer Of
Mrs, Castle

Mrs. Castle
Jessie Morrison. the alleged slayer of
Mrs. Olin Castle. left the Kansas peni-
tertiary shortly before noon Wednes-
day for her home in E%ldorado, Kan.
Warden Jewett informed her that she
could depart at that time. The SUI
preme court order stated that she was
to be released on the approval of her
$4,000 bond. Word came in from Ell
dorado that the bond was satisfactory.
Miss Morrison thanked Warden Jewett
and the prison officials and said that
while they had treated her kindly she
hoped never to return. She left on a
Kansas City electric car. She was al
lowed to take some fancy work with
her.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17

Information has been received of the
di~scontinuance on October II Of the
Rock Bluffs p~ostoffice OF account of
rural free delivery being established
out of Plattsmouth upon routes Nos. /
and 2, October Is.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
New Dean of Westminster

Rev. Charles Henry Robinson, hon
orary canon Of Ripon, has been ap-
pointed dean of Westminster, in sue
cession to the Very Rev. George Gran
vile Bradley, who has resigned.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Murder and Suicide

Miss Alice Fisher, a young woman
employed in the government printing
Office at Washington. was shot and in
stantly killed by William Dougherty,
an employee of the same Office. Dough.
erty then shot and killed himself.
Jealousy was the motive.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Goblin Doesn't Expect Trouble

General Goblin and staff arrived In
W~ilkesbarre, Pa. Thursday morning,
and will make their headquarters there
until the strike ends. With the gen.
eral came the remainder Of the Third
brigade, which is being detailed in
various parts of the third anthracite
district. General Goblin was of the
opinion that no trouble would be EN-
cOuntered.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Accused Of Stabblng NeiChbor

William Hymas and Emmett Wat
son., who live near Utica, Neb., quar-
relied over some trespassIng stock and
got into a fight. Hymas, it is charged,
stabbed Watson on the left side Of
the head. He was arrested and taken
before Justice S%nodgrass and bound
over to the district court.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Wage Question Adjusted

The question regarding wages be-
tween employees Of the National rail-
road OF Mexico and that corporation
has been satisfactorily adjusted. The
wages OF engineers and conductors has
been raised an average of Is per cent
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17

Under the auspices of Editor Ewing
Herbert the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon
will lecture at Wiawatha on "How to
Make a Better World" People general
ly were under the impression that Mr..
Herbert was making a fairly good pa
Der. .
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
reel mt GnlyH

Burlington fast mail No. 8 ran into a
coal gate near Galya, ILL.,, the train be-
ing ditched. Fireman Sands of Gales
burg was killed and Engineer Johnson
was probably fatally injured. No pas
sengerS were injured.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Peary in SnrReon,s Care

Commander Robert Il. Peary, the
Arctic explorer, has gone to Phila-
delphia to undergo treatment for his
feet, which were injured in the far
north. 1t may be necessary to have
an operation performed.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Will STAY OUT
Miners Refuse to Act on Presi.
dents Proposition
THEIR VOTE is UNANIMOUS
Emphaticauy Decide to Fight to the
Lsst-President Mitchell Makes
Hurried Trip to New York
Other News Of Interest

Miners voted practically unani-
mously to continue the strike.
President Michel went to New York,
where he held a long conference with
Senators Quay and Penrose. None of
the gentlemen would discuss the meet
ing.
Entire national guard Of Pennsylva-
MIA now encamped In mining regions.
Little disorder follows arrival.
Presidents of coal roads refuse to
confer with manufacturers association.
Suit against coal roads to begin at
philadelphia.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
TROUBLESOME
General reports Two Attacks on Town
-Disposition Had

Disposition bad
General Jesse Lee telegrapbs from
Tacloban. Island of Leyte. =. l., that
ladrones have twice attacked the town
of C~arigara. province Of Leyet. where
they killed n number Of native con
stabulary and levied contributions. The
population OF Carigara withdrew to the
mountains. Ladrones have been active
recently in several parts Of the island.
Governor Taft is going to Cayite short
ly for the purpose of meeting the mu-
nicipal residents Of that province, to
discuss with them methods for the sup
preston OF the ladrones.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Canada Claims Preference

The mayor of Toronto, Canada, has
cabled an appeal to the mayor Of Car
diff to induce the coal mine operators
to give Canada the preference in meet
the emergency arising from the Amer
lean coal strike.
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
Dreamless sleep a MYTH.

In a recent number Of the Scottish
Medical and Surgical Journal. Sir Ar.
thur Mitchell holds that dreamless
sleep Is q myth
The Red Cloud chief., 1902-10-17
True Scotch Thrift,

A Scottish farmer when going to
market, II was observed. always took
a hen with him in his trap. Every
place the farmer stopped he put the
nosebag on his horse. and then tho
hen was so trained that what dropped
from tho horses bag the hen would
pick up, so there was nothing wasted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-04
FAKE SCHEMES EVERYWHERE.

The developments of the sensational
I,alliet trial in .Des Moines illustrate
well the shocking extent to which fraud
has prospered during the last few years
There has never been a period of pros
pcrity in which Iowa has been so over
run with every conceivable, form of fake
investment scheme. For some
twelve months past hardly a week has
gone by in which the editor Of the T.-R.
has not been approached with some
beautiful proposition to advertise some
fake oil stock and accept stock as pay
ment. The editors working at the tele-
graph and correspondence desks expect
to have a good STORY" every day from
some part of Iowa about new swind-
ling scheme being worked with success.
Fictitious stock issued on worthless
mines, stock Of oil companies existing
only in the promoters fancy, fabulous
foreign inheritances waiting for lost
heirs, fortunes offered by fictitious for
eign prisoners for the safe keeping of a
okild, home investment companies that
offer to build homes for less than the
current rate Of interest charge, tontine
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-04
aD Tzes14A,/
TO BUILD GREAT HOTEL.
New York to Have Most Magnificent
Hotel in the World

| Hotel in the World.
| New York, June 3.-Another hote
and the greatest of all, the most mag
nificent IN the world, is to be erected
in New York. The Plaza Hotel, built
less than eighteen years ago, long
one of the show places of the city
is to be destroyed to make way for
the structure now planned. Capital
to the amount OF si0,0o0,O00 is to he
invested in the enterprise. The greater
share of this. sum will be furnished, it
is understood, by men whose fortunes
have been created out of the steel in
dustry. Among them are Charles M.
Schwab, president of the steel trust;
John j. Mitchell, president of the Illi
nois Trust and Savings Bank; John
w. Gates and C. A. Fleming.
AS it is now planned, the new hotel
will have a frontage of 200 feet in the.
plaza, while in Fifty ninth street, over
looking Central Park, the frontage will
be $50 feet. The structure will be oi
twenty stories, and in design will be
in keeping with It's proportions.
From the New York Life Insurance
Company the Plaza Hotel has been
purchased. and with it three lots in
Fifty ninth street. The purchase price
was $S,000,000, and the deal was car
ried thru by the George A. Fuller Com
pany, the Central Realty Bond and
Trust Company and Hallgarten & Co.
One of the interesting features of the
purchases is that the property was
paid for with cash, making it the larg
est transaction of the kind that has
ever taken place in this city The
men interested in the deal recently
purchased a large block of the pre-
ferred stock of the George A. Fuller
Company, preliminary of the trans
action just completed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-04
AN EMPIRE AT AN empERoR's PRICE.

A paper recently issued by order OF
the English parliament on the cost OF
the Boer war shows in cold figures the
vast expense at which Great Britain
has acquired its control of South Afri-
ca. The total, excluding the months OF
May and April Of the current year and
the peace subsidies reaches little
more than s1,114, 900. Her revenues
have been entirely inadequate to meet
the enormous drain and a debt has
been piled up more or less closely ap-
proxima ting billion dollars.
1t is estimated that with a total ex-
penditure of almost 6 229,0OO,oo0, Eng
land will have spent in her two CAM
paigns (South Africa and China) about
$S000000 more than Germany received
from France in the shape of war in
dennity. Strictly speaking. Germany
received as indemnity only five millards
of francs, or $4,000, 100000, but it got
a special contribution from the city of
Paris, special taxes and interest on the
chief indemnity. Out of this total sum
Germany paid the entire expenses of
the war, established a pension fund of
sf4o,ooo,0o0 for its old soldiers, spent
$S0,000,000, on army reorganization,
ssoooo,ooo on fortresses. s42,5Oo,ooo on.
strategic railways and set aside So
100000 in gold as an imperial war chest
in case of emergencies, which sum is
still lying in the vaults of the Julius
tower in the fortress of Spandau. The
English people have accomplished the
fondest desire of the British statesmen
and acquired new empire, but they
have paid an emperor's price.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-04
CONSUMPTION HELD DURABLE
Scientist Says 1t Is NontransmissibIe
and Noninfectious

Detroit, Mich. June 3.-Before the
National Conference of Charities and
Corrections yesterday DR.. S. A. Knopf
OF New York. read a paper on What
Shall We Do With the Consumptive
Poor?" DR.. Knopf took more opti-
mistic view of tuberculosis and it's cure
than is generally held. He declared that
only in rare instances was tuberculosis
transmitted from generation to genera
ton, and said it was not infectious. 1t
can be cured. DIR. Knopf asserted, and
that without travelling to other eli
mates.
He made a strong plea to millionaires
and philanthropists to stop endowing
colleges and buying libraries and in
stead to devote some of their wealth to
the erection of these sanitariums. The
discussion of tuberculosis. he declared.
should be treated as much as socio-
logical question as q medical one. DR..
Knopf said that good homes, model ten
ements and good food would be the best
rreventatives of the disease.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-04

!, diamond investments and Thousand
other brilliant schemes of the fakir's
mind are offered to the public and
strange to say, they all prosper.
People with money to invest should
remember that the real good opportu-
mites do not go begging. II mining
stock must come to Iowa to find a sale
the presumption is that it is seeking
suckers. There are. men in the mining
business who can command all tie cap
ital necessary to buy all the first-class
investments that are purchaseable. Oil
stock in nine cases out of ten is wild
speculation if not a deliberate scheme
for fraud. Every other glorious plan
tc give fortune for a few hundred dol
lars may be put down as a trap to get
the few hundred.
Citizens of Iowa should remember
that their wealth has been advertised
world wide and that they are being
made the prey of swindlers from q
dozen other states who flock to this field
like flies around sweet morsel. Iowa
people seeking investments had better
buy Iowa real estate or improve Iowa
property and be content with a fair
but absolutely sure income. This state
Ia certain to continue increasing in
population. Every acre of it's farm land
and practically every town lot Will be-
come more valuable. Store buildings
are all growing. Widows, old people,
and guardians should invest in farm or
inside city property in Iowa, bank
stock or business securities in enter
prises managed at home by men we'll
known for integrity and success. The
SPECTATOR will have enough to do to
realize profit on his northern land in
vestments. The T-R. confidently be-
lieves that hundreds of these fellows
who have loaded up to the limit with
cheap lands are going to get "pinched"
III a few years when the boom subsidies
On the other hand we all know that
Iowa crops never fail, hence Iowa towns
must grow and Iowa property will in
crease in value. The wild schemes of
stock issues and fortunes awaiting the
ublic in some far-off and unknown
place are practically all frauds. yet the
sorry fact remains that people all over
Iowa have, by the thousands poured
their savings into them