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Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-08
Five Drowned.

Tampa, Fla, April Five persons,
all members of pleasure party from
the Florida Methodist college at South
erland, on the west coast of the gulf,
30 miles west of Tampa, We're drowned
near Anclote lighthouse.
The dead: Mrs. Walker, wife of the
presidentsof the college; Miss O'Connor
of Atlanta, Ga; Miss Slaughter of
Sutherland; Miss McCray of Suther-
land; Mr.. Boulnad of Sutherland.
President Walker and Miss Newton
reached the beach alive. The bodies
of Mrs. Walker and Miss O'Connor
have not been recovered The bodies
of the other three who lost their lives
We're washed ashore and recovered.
President Walker had taken the
party out Tor cruise to the lighthouse,
but met with rough water and the boat
was overturned i'll the gulf.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-08

Among the passengers who arrived
in New York on board the steamer
Coamo, from Porto Rico, were Treas
urer w. +. Willoughby, Auditor Post
and Manuel S. Domenech, member of
the house of delegates, who come to
consult the secretary of the treasury
about placing loan for general i'm.
provements in Porto Rico.
ID. S. Lindsay, commissioner of edu.
cation, who was also a passenger will
Try to raise fund to send COO Porto
Rico school teachers to take summer
courses at various universities.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-08

of the Seventh district of Indiana by
reclamation. The delegates to the ma
tional convention were instructed for
Roosevelt.
1t is announced that ]. p. Morgan
will sail for Europe Wednesday for his
annual vacation. No special signifi-
canoe attaches to his trip, and it is de-
MED that he will make his future home
in England.
Sidney, N. S. W., the work of har-
vesting this years crop is nearly COM
pleted and the government estimates
place the yield at / / ,000, 900 above the
best previous record. Seventeen million
bushels are now available for export
The decision has the effect of remov-
ing the legal obstacles in the way of
the transfer of the canal concession
from the company to the United
States.
Seven conductors and motormen
working for the Public Service Corro-
ration of New Jersey, were arrested
recently on the charge IF conspiracy
and robbery. 1t is alleged that the
company has lost $4,000 by a system
of transfer frauds practiced by com
bination of employees.
The senate has passed the joint reso-
luton providing for the printing of IL,
900 copies of the record of the Northern
Securities case, in the supreme court
for the free distribution.
]. g. Colgate, a member of the New
York stock exchange, has taken out
life insurance policy for 81 800, 200.
This is said to be the largest policy
ever. taken out on human life.
The state department has received the
resignation of Andrew d. Barlow, con-
sui general at Mexico, and has except
ed it.
War in the orient will not in any
way affect either the native attendance
or the exhibit of the Japanese. They
are preparing to eclipse all previous
records at st. Louis and the exhibit
from that country will be far in adj
vance of that country at Chicago in
1898.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-08
BRITISH ROUTED TIBETANS.
Their Machine Guns Moved Them
Down.

Tuna, British India, News has
been received here of severe fighting,
the Tibetans having attacked the Brit
ish mission under Colonel Young
husband. There were two engagements
and the Tibetans were repulsed with
heavy loss. The British captured the
Tibetan camp at Guru. Heaps of dead
were left by the Tibetans and the trail
of retreat was lined with dead and
wounded natives. The action was fierce
and the Tibetans displayed great
bravery against machine gurs and
mode I'll rifles.
The combat at times was hand to
band, erolAers and bayonets being
hruoght into play.
Although no official expression re-
garding the victory Of the British ex-
petition to Tibet is obtainable at st.
Petersburg it is certain that the matter
will not attract the attention which it
would have done before the outbreak
Of the war with Japan, when Russian
interests in the results Of the expedition
were very keen. The real purposes of
the expedition were then viewed with
the hardest suspicion, it being feared
that definite establishment of British
influence over the Grand Lama of
l HASA, which was regarded as Great
Britain's object. would be regarded as
a severe blow to Russian prestige, both
in Tibet and China.
The situation is now changed, be-
cause Russia's hands are at present too
full to leave her free to act, even if so
disposed, and secondly, perhaps of even
more Importance. because there are
now increasing indications that better
relatinos between Great Britain and
Russia are in sight, or at least there is
an in increasing desire for such rela-
tons by both countries.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-08

The news of Colonel Winston's
death will come as shock to hun
dreds Of people, not only in the state
and south. He enjoyed the acquaint-
ance of many of the leading men of
the nation. and probably no man had
so wide an acquaintance in the state
Of Washington. His eloquence, his
humor, his power as an orator and his
bined to give him wide acquaintance.
while in Spokane, where he had lived
since 1883, he was known either per-
sonally or by sight to almost every
resident Of the city.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-08
WORK JUST AFTER EATING.
Tension of Mental Effort Sometimes
Disastrous.


1t has long been known that a man
Is not at his best for hard mental work
directly after hearty meal, but the
real dangers of work under such con
ditions are perhaps not only in the
arteries of the body, but also, in all
probability, in those of the brain and
this makes 1t easy for weakened
point to give way.
We recently have had striking in.
stance of death from apopleXy occur
ring in prominent physician while
making an after-dinner speech and the
notable death of William Window, n
few years ago, under similar circum-
stances will be remembered; and still
other cases might be mentioned. The
danger from this cause has not been
recognized, but when we remember
that these public banquets involve a
pretty hard ingestion of food and a
consequent rise of blood presence, l.!
need not be wondered at that sudden
deaths from "apopleXy" during after
dinner speeches are often recorded.
hpopitNs ~ IL we'll hlluN II IlDNNlllliIly
Of mental strain; the weak point may
be unknown to the subject himself and
not revealed by any objective symp-
toms. The individual may have passed
life insurance examination success
fully only a short time before, as is
reported to have been the case with
the physician referred to, but the spe.
cial stress becomes too strong for some
point Of weakness, and the result Is
fatal 1t Is not work, whether men.
tai or physical, that kills. Intellectual
workers. as rule, are among the l,n.
ger lived. but special stress under
certain clrcumsta such as post.
convivial occasions. when the normal
tendency to rise of blood pressure in
the pcrphoral circulation is most mark
ed, may be dSaStrouS.-.IOurnal of
American Medical Assuciat on.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-08
WAS DONE BY POWERFUL MEN.
That County Fair Candy that Was
Pulled Over Hook.


People who resided in Western towns
in the days following the civil war
doubtless remember the candy pullers
who followed the fair circuits, making
delicious taffy (rcd, yellow, white,
strawberry, molasses, or vanilla) at
every country fair. They sold this
candy, not by the yard, but by the
half foot or quarter of foot, and very
good candy it was at that The prepa-
ration and making of it was open to
the inspection of all corners, in an
open-air kitchen, which stood not far
from the hook where the candy was
pulled. When the sugar, Using glass,
water, and other ingredients had boil
ed down to the proper consistency, the
sticky mass was turned out on Il grcas-
ed marble slab, kncadcd, and worked
until, at a word from the head candy
maker, it went TO the hook and was
there pulled" and Favored. When
pulled until 1t had reached proper
whitencss it was removed laid on an
other slab, having foot measure grad
uated to inches in the marble. There
it was cut to the proper lengths with
an immense pair Of shears. wrapped in
paper, and sold to the candy-hungry
crowd, who stood open-mouthed with
nstonshment.
Those who remember such scenes
would have been forcibly reminded of
the old fair days in Kentucky or Mis-
souri, had they dropped into a certain
store last week, where they sold candy
by the yard. The candy is made and
favored in the usual way, but instead
of being pulled by hand is brought to
the proper consistency by means of a
very peculiar machine, in which the
pulling is actually done by two iron
arms which when the machine is set
in motion, yank and twist the candy
in a manner so striliingly human that
one wonders at the genius of the per-
son who invented it. From the auto
matte puller 1t is removed to a grcas-
ed marble slab, heated by electricity
from beneath, where the candy is run
out into yard lengths by means of
yardstick, and severed at the proper
graduation with Il pair of scissors.
This candy is then sold at cents per
yard, and excellent stuff it is, at that.
1t Is favored and colored in such fash
ion that when spun out into yard
lengths it looks for all the world like
silk ribbon, and the cook who does the
cutting up has been several times mis-
taken for the clerk of the silk ribbon
counter.
The pulling of candy by means of
machine, which in all truth is equip
ped not only with pair of arms, but
a pair of hands, with which to grasp
the ends Of the candy, into the bar
gain, is great improvement over the
old hand process. In the old days it
was noticeable that the candy pulers
of the Western fairs We're usually
large, and the work was so fatlguing
that when they had completed their
task they were bathed in perspiration,
the effort of keeping stiff, resistant
mass in constant circulation and mo-
ton being harder work even than log
rolling or coal MISUNDERSTANDING
Post.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-08

Mining Recorder Jack Simpson, of
Nelson, b. c., who has just arrived
from Popular creek, reports that on
Friday Il strike made on the Swede
group exceeds in richness the marvel
Gus find of last fall.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-08

1t it's necessary to lie in mans
favor do it while he is alive instead
Of hiring a marblc-cutter to do it after
he is dead.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-08

In China mile is anything from
a quarter Of mile to a mile and
three quarters. according to the prov
ince in which it may happen to be.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-08

sistencc In the wrong.
Thank God the cut of ones fashion
will cut no figure at the Gate.
1t is no use asking a man to play a
piccolo solo on locomotive whistle.
The practice of honesty is more con.
vincing than the profession of holiness.
There is nothing Illuminating in the
mind that makes light of holy things.
The wise man picks up his sorrows
and uses them to feed his sympathies.
1t is Il good deal easier to be patient
with an elephant than with mos
quito.
1t is no use talking OF your love to
Christ while you reject the law of
Christ.
Blaming your faults on your nature
will not change the nature of your
faults.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-08
RAMS HORN BLASTS.
Warning Notes Calling the Wicked IN
Repentnnce.

obs C h a n ges
c o IN e OF by
chance.
Piety Is not a
pain in the stom-
ach.
There is wealth
in weeping if God
sends it.
The spiritual is
not the unnatural
to the Christian.
Procrast situation
Of the right is per.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-04-08

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-20
INDIANA NOTES.

COLUMBUS-For several weeks all work
on the new German Lutheran Church has
been at a standStill on account of the fall
ure of the glass for the windows and tran
SONS to arrive. The glass arrived Monday
and was set up Tuesday. Nearly every
window in the church is taken for a me-
ton and one large window in the front was
put in by the Ladies Aid Society in
memory of the late Rev. c. A. Trautman,
a former pastor of the church.
CONNERSVILLE-Fi Republican can
didates have appeared and are hustling for
the nomination of sheriff Of Fayette coun-
~, and four others are being sought after
by the office to fill the coroner's chair.
From all indications the City Council will
be entirely new, and a scramble Is prom
Used for mayor and several prominent citi-
zens having been mentioned as good tim
Der. The Good Citizens League will make
it's influence felt, and may possibly nomi-
nate a ticket.
LAWRENCEBURG.-T annual meet
ing of the Sixteenth district Knights of
Pythias was held in this city Tuesday The
afternoon session was held In the I. o. o.
F. opera house. The welcoming address was
delivered by John II. Russo, p. S. r., and
responded to by Fl. c. Williams, D. @. c.
Other addresses were delivered by Thomas
b. Mathews, S. r., of Kentucky; Merrill
Z. Wilson, G.. c., and r. e. Slater. The at
tendance was very large
JEFFERSONVILLE.- day Tuesday
SUPERINTENDENT Whitaker of the Reforma-
tory, waited for instructions as to whether
or not to release Charles Terry, the convict
whose sentence was changed from one to
fourteen years to one to three years by the
Allen Circuit Court last Saturday. Super
intendent Whitaker will not, however, give
up the prisoner until he consults with the
attorney general.
SPENCER.-Clerk John n. Sloan has
made a certificate of the disability of Judge
Milton II. Parks, who was stricken with
paralysis in August, 1902 and who has not
been able TO serve in Owen county since
that time. The matter of the appointment
Governor Durbin, the certificate of the
clerk Of Morgan county having been filed
some time ago.
MADISON.-L. p Newly, of knights
town. inspector general, on Tuesday night
inspected Madison Commandery No %,
Knights Templar. Charles +. Neal,
president of the central board of endow-
ment rank Adjutant General George w.
Powell and Brig Gen. G. X. Jones will ad-
dress the district meeting Of Pythians here
on Wednesday.
LAFAYETTE.-The Tippecanoe County
Farmers Institute and Homemakers' AS
ISOLATION brought its annual meeting al
Purdue University to a close on Tuesday,
after the most interesting and largely at
tended sessions in the history of the So
ciety
the children's home societies has been
organized at Falkland with the following
officers: J. y. Plymate. president; DIR. Tull
vice president; Mrs. Rachael Tomlinson
secretary; Mrs. John Totten, treasurer.
WABASH.-The township convention OF
Noble township will be held here on Feb
o. at the time the delegates to the county
townships of the county the conventions
viii be held the same day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-20
ADMIRAL ALEXIEFF TALKS
HOPEFULLY OF PEACE

LONDON, Jan. 20.-The Port Arthur cor
respondent of the Daily Mail cables that
he has had an interview with Admiral Al
exieff the Russian viceroy I'm the far East,
who spoke hopefully of the possibility OF
arranging a modus vivendi with Japan. The
viceroy then referred the correspondent to
his diplomatic agent. NJ. Plancon. who en-
phasized the impossibility of Russia's
evacuation of Manchuria, and said: Or
ders were given some months ago to evac-
uate New Chwang and Manchuria provided
the Chinese would agree to simple terms,
but owing to the intrigues Of the Japanese
minister with the Wal We Pu Chinese for
eign board) these orders were counter
manded"
NJ PIancon declared that the action of
the United States in making commercial
treaty with China without Russias con-
sent under the existing circumstances, was
unfriendly and undiplOmatic. Russia ne
said, would not open or allow consuls at
Mukden and Antung under the present
regime. If Japan wanted Korea, Russia,
vided other powers allowed 1t, and he add
ed: Russia did not ask Japan's consent
to occupy Manchuria, neither was Ii neces-
sary for Japan to seek Russia's permits
sion TO establish protectorate in Korea. ."
NJ. Plancon concluded by saying that the
United States and other nations were more
interested in the situation than was Rus
STA.
The correspondent adds that the action of
the United States government had quite
upset Viceroy Alexieff's calculations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-20
BLOOD EXPERTS At THE
BECHTEL MURDER TRIAL
Effort to Prove Mother of the
Dead Girl Was an Accessory
After the Fact.
TESTIMONY OF DOCTORS

ALLENTOWN, Pa, Jan. 19.-After hav-
ing examined forty witnesses in its en-
deavor to prove that Mrs. Catharine Bech-
tel was guilty of being an accessory after
the fact in the murder CT her daughter
Mabel last October the Commonwealth
closed its case at Z O'Clock this evening. Dr.
John Lear, professor of biology at Mullen
burg College. who testified yesterday that
the stains on articles taken from the Bech-
tel home were made by human blood, was
again on the witness stand to-day. Coun-
sci for the defendant tried to discredit the
biological or Bordet test of determining
human blood which DR.. Lear had en-
ployed but the cross-examination failed 10
shake the direct testimony OF the wit
ness.
DR.. John Eckert. of this city. who assist
ed DR.. Lear In hts tests, was called TO the
stand. The defense objected TO DR.. Eckert
testifying as an expert on the ground of
youth and inexperience, but the court over
ruled the objection, stating that. inasmuch
as the test was new. there could be no ex-
perience of long standing. DR.. Eckert cor
robCIated DR.. Lear's statements and con-
illusions regarding blood tests, and declared
all the stains in question to have been
DR.. w. d. Pepniman of Johns Hopkins
University, expert on blood. who was in
the city on private business, was subpoen-
moned to the witness stand he said he did
not care to testify, and especially not as
an expert, unless compensated as such.
The court ruled that as he had been SUBJ
poenaed he must testify, leaving the
question of compensation open for later de-
termination. DR.. Penniman declared the
biological or Bordet test to show the differ
ence between human and animal blood to
be very reliable. The Bordet test, he
said is absolute in it's conclusions.
DR.. w. w. Eshbach, of this city, who
was present when the blood tests were
made by Dr. Lear, confirmed the latter s
conclusions that the stains on the articles
exhibited were made by human blood and
DR.. c. ID. Shaeffer, surgeon in chief at the
Allentown Hospital, the last witness to
testify, regarded DIR. Lear's tests as re-
liable.
The cases against three of Mrs. Bechtels
children, John, Charles and Myrtha, who
are also charged with being accessories
after the fact, were continued to-day until
the April term Of court. Their bail was
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-20
INDIANA OBITUARY.

GREENWOOD, Ind, Jan. 19-The body
Of Mrs. Flora Belle Silver, of Hoopeston,
Ill. who died at the Deaconess Hospital,
in Indianapolis, was brought here to-day to
the home OF her son, Mr.. Earl Wheeling
Mrs. Silver was born here forty-eight years
ago and on June is, 1878, married DR.. S. w.
Wheeling, who died in a short time Most
OF her life was spent here until in Septem-
Der, 1902, she married William NJ. Silver
and since then she lived I'm Hoopeston. She
was a member Of the Methodist Church.
Church here on Wednesday afternoon.
MONTICELLO. Ind, Jan. 19.-Mrs. Eliza
c. Rothrock died at her home in this city
this morning, aged lightweight years.
county in 1888 and was at the time of her
death the oldest resident here. Her sur
viving children are Mrs. ]. S. Wigmore,
Mr.; ]. B: Rothrock and Mr.. s.. A. Roth
rock, Of this place, and Mrs. Isabelle Han
mum, OF Denver, Col
LAFAYETTE, Ind, Jan. 19.-George Da-
Wis, a veteran at the Soldiers Home died
yesterday of paralysis at st. Elizabeth Hos
Home week ago. Davis was born in Car
roll county, Ohio, seventy-two years ago,
and served in Company f, Twenty-third
Missouri Infantry. He left two children in
Cyclone, Ind.
SHELBYvILLE. Ind, Jan. 19.-After a
sickness of three years Jacob Moulder, one
Of the pioneers of this city, died at his
home here last night. He was born in Ger
Shelby county. At the time OF his death he
was over eighty-two years old. The widow,
five daughters and four sons survive.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Jan l9-Charles
Habbe died to-day of Brights disease. For
the past year he had been I'm business in
Brooklyn. His home is in this city, where
he passed away. He was formerly active
in local Democratic politics, and for many
years was in the clothing business here
COLUMBUS, Ind, Jan. 19.-Isaac Hen
Erickson died at his home in Taylorville
this morning at the age of eighty. He was
born in Kentucky, and came TO this county
over sixty years ago. Until lately Mr. Hen
Erickson was q farmer, but poor health
compelled him to give up active work.
WABASH, Ind, Jan. 19.-Jonathan Click.
aged ninety-fve, died near Paw Paw. on
the Miami county line. early this morning.
He had been a resident OF this part of the
State for over fifty years. Death was due
to old age.
MARION, Ind, Jan. 19-Miss Geronica
Snavelly, aged seventy-one, died suddenly
tonight at o'clock of heart failure She
had been in excellent health up to the time
of her death.
BEDFORD, Ind, JAN 19.-Miss Betsy Nc
Coy, probably the oldest woman I'm south
ern Indiana, If not in the State Is dead AT
her home near this city, at the age OF
ninety-Six.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-20
Other Deaths.

ANNAPOLIS, Nd. Jan. 19.-Adjt. Gen.
John S. Saunders, of the Maryland National
Guard, died this morning at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Billiard, wife of Lieutenant
Commander w. II. j. Billiard, at the Naval
Academy. He was sixty-eight years old.
General Saunders had been sick for several
months with a serious stomach trouble.
General Saunders graduated from West
Point in 1858, standing fifth In his class.
At the outbreak OF the civil war he entered
the Confederate army and became assistant
inspector general Later he was appointed
assistant ordnance officer of the Army of
Northern Virginia.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 19.-Capt. Daniel
G.. Parr, one Of the oldest and wealthiest
citizens of Louisville. was found dead in
bed to-day. He at one time operated line
of boats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
He gave large sums to many Baptist insti-
buttons.
LAWRENCE, Kan, Jan. 19.-Judge Shell
ton G. Spender is dead at his home here,
after a long illness, aged Seventy-four. He
took an active part in the earlier border
troubles, and in the civil war was commits
stoned major in the Thirteenth Kansas Vol
unteers.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Jan. 19-H. E.
Ladd, a well-known real-estate dealer, died
at his home here to-day. 1t is estimated
that Mr.. Ladd had property valued at ST.
100000.
COLUMBUS, o., Jan. 19-Chief of Police
John A Russell died to-day as the result
of a stroke of apoplexy suffered yesterday
afternoon.