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STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING-OCTOBER 26;3L8a5.
SPIISHJPSHED.
Tlrey Fall Into a Trap Sot by
- I General JMaceo.
Marched Straight Into a Hollow
Square of Cubans.
THEY LEFT 800 DEAD.
Were 3,000 Cubans and 2,800
Spaniards Engaged.
Cubans Secured All the Arms
and Ammunition.
Key West, Flo., Oct. 26. News re
ceived here states that General jUaceo
has, by forced marches, reached the
Prdvince of Matanzas, and that last
Monday, with 3,000 Cubans, he en
gaged a cavalry force of 2,800 Span
iards in the San Juan valley. . .
Early in the morning1 the insurgent
outpost brought news of the approach
of the Spanish cavalry. General
Maeeo at once placed his army in a po
sition to receive the enemy. A hollow
square was formed and a force of 1.000
men placed in ambush. The Spanish
forces, unaware of the presence of the
enemy, marched into the trap of death
and were only apprised of their peril
ous position when the insurgents
opened fire upon them.
The Spaniards made a brave fijrht,
but owing" to the thickness of the for
est and the bog-g-y condition of the
valley, the cavalry were greatly handi
capped. After a strug-g-le of four
hours the Spanish troops were forced
to retreat, leaving1 800 men dead on
the field. The insurgents secured all
the arms and ammunition of the dead
Spaniards. This battle is the most im
portant fight since the breaking out of
the revolution. The Cuban colony
here is wild with joy.
l'rivate advices confirm the report of
the landing of an expedition in Cuba
under the leadership of Colonel Car
rillo. The expedition was landed at
Boco Del Toro, October 2i, and con
sisted of forty-eight men, seventeen
pieces of artillery and two Gatling
guns. This is a part of the expedition
which was recently seized at Wilming
ton. WEEKLY TKADE ItEVIE W.
Adjustment of Prior to Conditions Ooln-B-p
,IjOu.
New Yohk, Oct. 26. E. G. Dun .
Co. 's review of trade says: Ten days
ago gold exports seemed very near,
but the break in cotton, which then
began, ripened on Monday into a col
lapse sufficient to justify hope of a
free movement. Hides have also de
creased sharply, leather is weaker and
the adjustment of prices to real in
stead of imaginary conditions pro
gresses rapidly. Already lower prices
in iron have brought out some impor
tant contracts. Money marke ts cause
remarkably little trouble. Cooler
weather has generally helped retail
traue. With increased consumption
by the millions the way will be clearer
for better business. Already pay
ments through clearing houses closely
approach for October those of the bust
year in history, though rejecting in
part past transactions, and new orders
are still much needed by the great
industries,
V heat has risen S cents for the week
although Western receipts ?,9TT.O0
bushels for the week, against 5,0i(J,7d9
last year continue unusually large
and Atlantic ports (including flour)
1,170,117 bushels for the week against
1,S5).934 last year, and four weeks
6,734,572, against B, 150,040 bushels last
year, showing plainly a slack demand
from abroad. Nobody can give a
reason for higher corn, and pork de
clines 25 cents, lard a sixteenth and
hogs 10 cents per hundred weight.
Textile manufacturers have for the
moment disturbed rather than helpud
the decline in cotton, because it checks
buying of some fabrics with lower
prices for print cloths and prospects
of lower prices for other goods. The
demand for worsteds and dress goods
is encouraging, while in woolen goods
the situation does not improve. Re
newed orders are moderate, and men's
goods are easy to buy at previous quo
tations. Failures this week are 231 in
the United States against 231 last
year, and 33 in Canada against 52 last
year.
Bank Clearings.
New Yobk, Oct. 26. The following
table, compiled by Bradstreet's, shows
the clearances at the cities named and
the percentages of increase or decrease
as compared with the corresponding
week last year:
Jlearin5
Inc.
SVw York
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Denver
St. Joseph
Lincoln ,
Topoka
Wichita
U4ti,U7,.V5 JM.8
9-3.12;.x(l2
21,701. 0-j0:
ll,K4".i;
9 5:
1(1.7
13.7;
4,2f!7.0Ut....
2,6,15 .01. V....
12.9
11.7
4Si,Slll
415, mi
S 7
93
Hay Fight at El Paso.
El Paso, Texas, Oct. 26. J. J. Tay
lor, chairman of the El Paso commit
tee, wired Dan Stuart that El Paso
would put up a cash guarantee that
Corbett and Fitzsimmons could fight
here without interference. Stuart re
plied that he was at work trying to
6ign the men for a Sght at El Paso.
Corbett telegraphed that he had no ob
jection to El Paso as a battle ground.
Canovas Make a Bold Threat.
Tampa, Fla., Oct. 26. Spanish pa
pers received here from Havana say
Minister De Lome reports that the
United States will soon recognize the
Cuban insurgents. Canovas says
should the American government ap-
- point a committee to study the Cuban
question he will not allow them to land
: cn. Cuban soil.
The Marquis Committed Suicide.
London, Oct. 26. A verdict has been
rendered that the Marquis of Water
ford committed suicide while in a fit
of temporary insanity.
The "Aurora," pure Havana, beat 10c
cijjar in taecity. .
v
DISCIPLINE IN THE. ARMY.
Report of tne Inspector General Shows
. Gratifying Improvement.
Washington, Oct. 26. The annual
report of inspector .'deneral Breckin
ridge, of the army,- shows th.army
has attained a high standard oj: disci
pline, and that the officers generally
are competent. There has been a very
marked improvement m the character
of men seeking admission to the ranks
and the great care with which recruits
are selected, it is said, is evidenced by
the fact that only about one in eight
is found to possess the requisite quali
fications. During the past year there was an
unusual pressure for admission to the
national home for volunteer soldiers,
and the several branches of the home
were crowded to their utmost capacity.
The average increase of the population
of the home in all its branches for the
past five years has been 775 per an
num. At the close of the year there were
104 schools and colleges at which mil
itary instruction was given by officers
of the army to 19,546 pupils, an in
crease of nearly 3,000 over the number
of pupils at the close of the previous
year.
SCOFF AT CHAMBERLAIN.
British Guiana Rejects Bis War-Like
Recommendations.
Washington, Oct. 25. The State de
partment is in possession of the full
text of the dispatches sent by Joseph
Chamberlain, secretary of state for
the colonies in the British' cabinet, to
Sir Charles Lees, governor general of
British Guiana concerning ' the
strengthening of the frontier, the in
crease of police and the purchase of
Maxim guns in the British Guiana
territory. The department has been
furnished aUo with the detailed action
of the high council of British Guiana
upon the recommendations of Minis
ter Chamberlain. These proceedings
give the full resolution offered by
the governor general for the purchase
of a Maxim gun and ammunition, uni
forms, arms and accoutrements. They
also make the surprising disclosures
that the High Council of British
Guiana, after its members had se
verely arraigned Mr. Chamberlain for
his precipitate aetion in recommend
ing Maxim guns, defeated the resolu
tion for their purchase by a vote of
10 to 8, thus rejecting the policy laid
down by the British cabinet.
Plunged Through a Bridge.
Newton, Kan., Oct. 2(5. A Missouri
Pacific train went through a bridge
across State creek on the edge of
town yesterday afternoon and wrecked
several cars. The engine had crossed
the bridge when a coal ear jumped the
track and crashed through. Another
car followed and took with it the bag
gage car. No one was seriously in
jured, although several were badly
bruised and scratched. The wreck
will delay traffic for several days.
!Tore3t Fires Spreading:.
Gp.f.en Bay, Wis., Oct. 26. The
marshes and forest fires in the vicinity
of Seymour and New London continue
to spread with alarming rapidity.
They are burning furiously on both
sides of the Green Bay, Winona & St.
I'aul track from Onaida for a distance
of thirty miles west. Many stacks of
hay and barns in the neighborhood of
Seymour have been burned.
Stock Suffering for Water.
Mahshaix, Mo., Oct. 26. Never be
fore at this season of the year was
drouth fo great as ii is now in this
section. Cisterns are dry, stock suf
fering for water and farmers in con
stant dread of fire. The Chicago and
Alton has to haul water from Glasgow
to Slater for use in their shops, round
house, etc. Business is generally de
pressed. Protest Against Cattle Importation.
Paris, Oct. 26. The Minister of
Husbandry, M. Gadaun, received a
deputation from the department of the
North yesterday, which presented a
petition to the government protesting
against the importation of cattle into
France from the Argentine Kepublic
and Canada.
Satolli to Be Made a Cardinal.
London, Oct. 26. A Kome dispatch
! to the Chronicle savs that at the con
sistory to be held in November the
pope will create the following cardi
nals: The papal nueios at Paris, Vi
enna, Lisbon and Madrid, the arch
bishop of Ancona and Mgr.- Satolli.
Protest Against Spanish Oppression.
Denver, Colo., Oct. 26. Mapor Mc
Murray and the Chamber of Commerce
issued a joint call for a mass meeting
in Denver, October 31, to protest
against Spanish oppression in Cuoa
and take steps to extend aid to the in
surgents.
Honor General Pike's Memory.
Washington, Oct. 26. The Supreme
Council of the Ancient and Acceptvd
Scottish Rite Masons made a pilgrim
age to Oak Hill cemetery yesterday.
and at the grave of General Albert
j Pike inaugurated services which are
io De oDservea a.i eacn triennial ses
sion of the order hereafter.
Three Children Roasted to Death
Livingstone, Ala., Oct. 26. Three
small children of Granville Lancaster,
a farmer living near here, were
roasted to death yesterday. They
were locked in the house by their
mother while she called on a neighbor,
and tne house burned down.
Receiver for a Wellington Bank.
Washington. Oct. 26. The Comp
troller of the Currency has appointed
J. Sam Brown of Sedalia Mo., receiver
of the First National bankof Well
ington, Kan.,- which suspended pay
ment on the 2lst inst.
Ex-Cashier Farrar Put in Jail,
Perry, Okla.,Oct. 30. F.'W. Farrar,
cashier of the defunct First State
Bank, was put in jail last night for
the first time since his arrest, having
been guarded by a constable for ten
days. He was held under another
charge this morning.
Smoke "Little Gem," beat 5c cigar made.
HILL TO STUDEflTS.
The New York Senator Speaks
: at Ann Arbor.
Spoke for Nearly Two Hours on
"Old Landmarks."
FAV0IIS NEW THINGS.
Wants a Presidential Term of
Six Years.
Also
the Election of Senators
by Direct Vote.
Ann Arbor, Mich., Oct. 26. mts.j-
five hundred students of the University
of Michigan gave close and appre
ciative attention last night to an able
addrebs by Senator David B. Hill of
New York. Senator Hill spoke for an
hour and three-quarters on "Old Land
marks," and in the cour;eof his speech
enunciated some radical criticisms of
the present system of issuance of
treasury notes as legal tender money.
The Senator reviewed the history sur
rounding the forming of the United
btates constitution and incidentally
commended Thomas Jefferson as one
of the greatest, if not the great
est, of the early American lead
ers, lie cited the decision by the
supreme court in the income tax
cases as an instance in which the old
landmarks of the constitution in rela
tion to taxation had been adhered to
by the country's highest tribunal.
The reforms in our national policies
which the speaker declared to be most
urgent at present are as follows:
Presidential terms of eix years; tne
election of Senators by direct vote of
the people; the empowering of the
President to veto separate items of ap
propriation bills; the abolishment of
the present system of . issuing legal
tender notes by the government.
Senator Hill ably upheld his claim
that "congress has intrinsically no
power to declare its promissory notes
to be money, nor to isue notes con
tinuously without having the specie
with which to redeem them, lie was
not inclined to doubt the patriotic
motive of those who inaugurated the
system during the time oi war. criti
cism, he said, should be reserved for
those who perpetuated the system and
made it an unending chain of note
issue. The return to "one old land
mark," namely, the hard money "dol
lar of our daddies," was strongly
urged.
As to the silver issue Senator Hill
spoke hopefully of its ultimate solu
tion, remarking that on account of the
recent discoveries of gold in Africa,
etc., the question may, perhaps, be
settled without the aid of either states
men or politicians.
Farmers Institute.
KIKKSVH.I.E, Mo., Oct. 2C. A large
number of the most wtll-to-do and
progressive farmers of Adair county
were in attendance at the farmers' in
stitute, held here yesterday, under the
auspices of the state board of agricul
ture. Judge D. A. Ely, member from
this district, presided.
Ihe speakers from abroad were
Hon. N. F. Murray, chairman of the
committee on agriculture in the
Thirty-eighth assembly, who told how
to grow orchards for profit; T. B.
Terry of Ohio, on the value of clover
in maintaining soil fertility, and H.
J. Waters of Columbia, on the practi
cal work of the agricultural college
and experiment station.
Missouri Press Association.
Warrensburg, Mo., Oct. 20. The
Missouri Press Association elected of
ficers as follows: H E. Robinson,
Maryville Republican, president; H.
Burckhart, Windsor Review, first vice
president; E. E. Bean, lirookfield Ar
gus, second vice president; II. F' Cliil
ders, Troy Free Press, third vice pres
ident; recording secretary, Leon Lu
ther, Lamont Record; corresponding
secretary, R. M. White, Mexico Ledger;
treasurer, W. L. Thomas, School and
IJo.ne, St. Louis.
The United States on the Lookout.
W.ishi;jton, Oct. 26. The navy
department is giving- careful attention
to the situation in Corea. The United
States has no speciul interest in the
complication beyond the protection of
American interests there, and proba
bly under no circumstances would do
more than take precautions to this end
by sending some of the ships now in
Asiatic waters to the scene, in case
official advices should confirm the re
ports of prospective trouble.
Won by the Company.
Richmond, Mo., Oct. '26, The suit
of IAzzie C. Jacobs, widow of R. L.
Jacobs of this city, against the Omaha
Life Insurance Association to recover
a policy of $o,000, resulted in a verdict
for the defendant. Judge Broaddus
instruuted the jury that misrepresent
ations as to the plaintitf's physical
condition, which were admitted by
the plaintiff, were enough to inval
idate the policy.
St. Joseph Newspaper Changes.
St. Joskpii, JIo., Oct. 26. H. W.
Kastor has disposed of his interest in
the St. Joseph Volksblatt to Dr. W. F.
Weymann, after twenty-seven years in
the editorial harness. Mr. Kastor
will probably remove to St. L.ouis,
where he will engage in some other
business. Dr. Weymann will continue
his practice, and will devote very lib
tie time to journalistic work.
Corbett Still Training.
Hot Springs, Ark., Oct. 26. Corbett
is still at Spring Lake, and announces
that he wiil remain there until No
vember 1, to preclude any possibility
of Fitzsimmons claiming a iluke in
case he comes here October 30, which
is not thought probable. Telegrams
to Julian and Fitzsimmons were not
answered.
Topeka musicians will be glad to
learn that Musin still has the celebrated
nianist, Eduird Scnarf, with him. Li
brary hall, Oct. 23.
HIS DRUG STORE RECORD.
A CowIy County ''Temperance" Man Who
Bad Vvrjr Weak Laofii.
There is a Demo-Populist candidate
down In Cowley county who has. a record
in the probate court in that county and
that record has been pulled out bv the
Winfield Courier. He has been put down
as a temperance man and they say that
he has always enjoyed good health. The
record, however, shows the poor fellow
to be in bad luck during the past 18
months from bowels, luugs, colds aud
rheumatic troubles. Uere is the record
taken from the returns of a Win field
drug Btore to the probate judge.
January 20, '94, one pint brandy for cold.
January 27, 'y-i, cue pint brandy. for lungs.
January 18, 'D4, oue pint whisky for luns.
l-'euruary 5, 'im, one piut brandy for lungs.
February 8, 'tn, one pim brandv for cuiu.
February id. 'y-i, one piut brandy for cold,
March 11, 'tn. one pine brandy for cold.
March 17, '04, one pint brandy for lungs.
Alarch -J3. 'SH. one ptut branny lor iuuus.
April 6. 'y4, one pine brandy for lungs.
April lfi, 'yi, one pint brandy for lungs.
April 1:6, 'D4, ono pint brandy for lungs.
April 28. '94. one pint bran-.ly for luugs. rf
May 9. '94, one pint braudv for weakness.
May L'3. 94. one piut brandy lor Hints.
May 27. '94, one piut brandy lorluns.
'i lie statements for Juy are not to be found
In the probate Judgcj's ortica. nor does any one
seem to know wuat has become of tnem.
August 10, '94. one pint whisky for lungs.
August iw. '94. one p.nt brandy for bowels.
September 24, '94, one pint brandy for lungs.
October la, '94, one p nt brandy lor rheuma
tism. October 31, '94. one pint brandy for cold.
November -24, '94, one pint brandy for lungs.
Liecomber 8. '94i one pmi brandy for bowels.
December 15. '91, one pint brandy for cold.
January il, '95, one p nt brandy lor bowels.
January 25, '95, one pint brandy for bowels.
January 29, '95, one pint brandy for lun-s.
February :. '95. on plot brandy lor bowels.
Fe nutry 10. '95, one pint braudy for lungs.
February 19, '95, one pint brandy lor cold.
February 'us, one pint brandy for bowels.
March 7, '95. one pint brandy for lungs.
March 11. "95. one pint whisky for cold.
March J3, '?", one pint brandy for lungs.
March '-, "95, one p:nt brandy for cold.
April 4. '95, one pint branny lor coid.
April lii, '95, dug pint brandy for cold.
April 21, '90, oue piut brandy lor imijrs.
May 11. '9.'. had pint brandy for neuralgia.
June 17, '94, ha.f pine brandy for general de
bidiy. June 29, '93, half pint brandy for la grippe.
Ju.y 10. '95, half p in nil. sky for home ue.
August 8, '95. haif pint brandy for malaria.
September 28, '95, lia.f puit of alcohol to burn
in stove.
SHERMAN FOR M'KINLEY.
He Will Doubtless Present Bis Name at
the Next Republican Convention.
Washing tost, Oct. 26. Senator Sher
man, despite his years, will in all
probability, be an active participant
in the Republican national convention
of 1SU6. The role will be a new one
for the senator. In the conventions
of 18S0, 1384 and ISSs of his party
he was a candidate for president,
either active or passive, and of neces
sity did not attend the convention.
He was a silent figure in the proceed
ings of 1892. His announcement now I
V,... l,a e- ns nniliilata rn a tnrn n f-. I
of his years; that he has at last given
up the ambition of his life and is now
outspoken for McKinley, is made seri
ously. The Senator has been asked
by friends of McKinley to be one of
the delegates-at-larg-e at next year's
convention, and will, in all probabili
ty, be requested to present the name
of Ohio's favorite son. The informa
tion comes from a friend of Mciiin
ley's. Free Thinkers National Council.
New York, Oct. 26. The National
Congress of tree Thinkers, with rep
resentatives from every State in. the
Union and from Canada, was opened
in Hardvaan hall yesterday. The spe
cial object of the congress, which
will last for three days, is stated to
further the total separation of church
and state, and to secure the impartial
taxation of all property, secular and
public schools, abolition of Sabbatar
ian and blasphemy laws, free pfiech,
free press, free mails and the rights of
man, woman and children.
Eloped With the Coachman.
Chicago. Oct. 26. Edna Sclimidt.the
younpest child of K. G. Schmidt, the
millionaire brewer, knelt by her
mother's grave in Graceland cemetery
last Tuesday morning-, celebrated her
eighteenth birthday that afternoon,
and the next day eloped with the
coachman her father had discharged
three weeks before.
Two Hundred People Homeless.
Augusta, Ga Oct. 20. Fire last
night destroyed the extensive lumber
plunt of Bess Thompson & Co., ,on the
outskirts of this city, together with
about forty small frame dwellings in
the immediate neighborhood. The
loss w;ll reach $100,000, with insurance
of about one-third. Nearly 200 peo
ple are homeless.
Gothenbnrgr, Neb., Bank Failure.
Gothenburg, Neb., Oct. 26. The
State bank has closed its doors. The
failure is due to the slowness of col
lections. From the best information
obtainable, the deposits amount to
about S3. 0( 0, while the assets are about
820.000, but part is uncollectable.
St. Louis Wants a Convention.
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 26. The busi
ness men's league of St. Louis ap
pointed a committee to canvas for a
guarantee fund of $30,000 to secure
the Republican national convention
for St. Louis in 1896.
Dr. Bradford Found Guilty.
Nkw York, Oct. 26. Dr. Orlando G.
Bradford, the doctor who was arrested
with the Tirockway gang of counier
feiters, was found guilty of having in
his possession plates for printing bills.
He is liable to a fine of S5,00O, 'fifteen
years' imprisonment, or both.
Ignored the Combine. . .
St. Louis, Mo., Oct 26. After a
three days' investigation of the St.
Louis bridge combine, the Federal
grand jury ignored the matter and
failed to bring in an indictment in
connection with it.
Xoihlos Lpf; Ont.
The new 3:10 train through to' New
York daily over the Chic2o & Grand
Trunk and Lehigh Valley It R is a
most complain aud magnificent equip
ment. The train is vesiibuied through
out, heated with steam and lighted with
eas. It is equal to any train leaving
Chicago, and tor accommodations in the
way of Pullman Sleepers, Dining Car
:-nd other conveniences and luxuries, U
the beat and cheapest routs to the east.
Ticket office at 103 So. Clark St., E. H.
Hnghes, Gen. W. Pass. ArU
Peerless Steam . .Laundry Peerless
Eteam Laundry.
CLIQUE T0C0NTRDL
Republican Leaders Who Expect
to Run the Convention.
Piatt, Quay and Clarkson Are
Working; a Bis Scheme. .
TO NAME THE TICKET.
Expect to Dominate the Choice
of the Convention.
They Count Upon All the Big
States' Delegations.
Washington, Oct 26. Th political
news which cornea from New York
has created no little comment and much
dissatisfaction in certain quarters here.
Chairman Carter's call for a meeting of
the national commutes- is accompanied
by a gathering of a coterie of members
of that organization, whose presence in
New York or in secret conclave any
where was not at all necessary to the is
suance of that formal document
It is well understood in Washington
that Piatt. Quay, Ciarkson, Filler, Alger
and other members of what is known as
the national committee clique have met
in New York for the purpose of mapping
out a programme for next year. This
programme contemplates nothing less
than domination of the national conven
tion of the great Republican party. The
clique proposes to control the nomination
for president and vice presideut and to
make sure the nominees are men who
may be relied upon as grateful friends of
their creator.
This coterie of national committeemen
and tbeir intimate friends have always
exercised great influence in the selection
of candidates, but hitherto they have
never concentrated their forces fully and
early enough to make sure of carrying
out their plans.
At Chicago, in 1888, they were divided
in their allegiance, and when at last some
of them "lauded with the winner" they
had uncomfortable suspicions they had
made a mistake in the almost accidental 1
selection of a mat. subsequent evdnts
very quickly convinced them their sus
picious were well founded.
What the coterie of national commit
teemen and state bosses now propose to
avert is the risk in making another such
mistake as was made at Chicago eight
years ago. Their great desire is to so or
ganize themselves as to be able abso
lutely to control the convention, and to
nominate a candidate, who, if elected,
will stand by his friends and respect all
direct or indirect pledges made in his be
half. It is not believed possible for
this , coterie now to agree upon
the man who shall receive
their support. Some favor one
candidate and some another. Reed and
Aitison being the ones uppermost in
their minds. At the pre"-it moment
Jir. Reed is said to be lire n 'ivur, with
Senator Allison as seeo- i ..-jico. 'lhis
is known to be Mr. P.itff mind in the
matter, as well as that ot many of his
confrere. Mr. Quay, so far as ci ba
learned, has not as yet shown his hand,
but the writer some weeks ago bad posi
tive information to the effect that what
ever else might happen Piatt and Quay
would go together.
The leading m-mb:-r3 of this great
presidential paironage huckstering com
bination count upon control of nearly all
the delegates from the s atse of New
York and Pennsylvania, New England,
Michigan, Iowa, possibly Illii.o 3 and
many of the states of the south, south
west and extreme west They believe
they are strong enough to gather within
their ban U a working majority of ail
the deie at s.
That such an organization is under
way and that many of the strongest and
most experienced professional politicians
of the Hepublican party are alieadv tak
ing part in it is believed here to be the
most interesting and significant political
movement of lue day.
Ami'ric.in Flat Railroading.
Tho New York Central and Hudson
River railroad management is justified
ia thd satisfaction it is manifesting in
the record breaking long distance run
mde by its special on September 11,
already remarked upon in these col
umn?. Aide from that actual beating of all
other long distance train runs for speed
(the average speed for the entire run of
436 miles being 64 26 10J miles an
hour, including twenty-eight slow downs,
but excluding two stops of two minutes
each for change of eng.nas), the dis
tinguishing feature of this trip ws
that it was made Ly a train
about twice as iong aud heavy
as the English racing trains, lhis
train was of four cars, weighing
506,000 pound-, having a length of 337
feet, with a capacity for 218 passengers,
it represented this road's regular fast
long distance service, known as the Em
pire State Express, which has been main
tained daily with great regularity for
four years, and on .May 10, 1S93, made
between Batavia and Buffalo, when filled
with passengers, a mils in thirty-two sec
onds, or the spe;d of llijfj miles an
hour, the fastest railroad time ever
mad".
All New Yorkers are proud of such
achievements in the science of practical
railroading. New York Evening Tele
gram. WILL ROLL liZEIl KEGS.
Two Wisconsin Men to
Ovarlan.l to Sr.
Trumlto
X.MUIS.
Green Bat, Wis., Ocr. 26. On Ko-
! veinber 1, F. A. Howard and li. F. Ma
i loiey will start from in front of the
Tremont Hotel, in this city, and roll two
kega of beer ahead of them to St. Louis.
Howard and Maloney are well known in
Green Bay, and it is to be a rce to see
who gets to St. Louis first.
The race is the result of an argument
that arose over the stilt walker who is
walking from Green Bay to New Or
leans. The weather is very cold in Wis
consin in November, and it is doubtful if
the men get very far from here.
F r Over firry Veart
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for children teething. ltgfothes
the child, softens the gums, all ivs all
pain, cures wind colic, and is the best
remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents
a bottle.
HE DENIED IT,
A Truthful Citizen Who Disputed a Doubt.
- " f ul Snake Story.
- A man with a bristliDg wad of Loudoun
county whiskers wagging in front of " him
as he" walked entered the office of The
Star the other morning and asked to see
the snake editor. That useful and at all
times ornamental adjunct of every well
regulated newspaper office was pointed out
to the visitor, and he came over and sat
en the corner ot the desk. The snake edi
tor smiled and bowed.
"Are you the man that writes them
snake articles about Loudoun county?"
Inquired the stranger. -
"Well," hedged the editor, "I put into
readable form the truthful narrations of
well known citizens of that rich, refined,
religious, redundant and robust county, if
that's what' you mean."
"Do you mean to tell me," exclaimed
the visitor, getting down off of the desk in
his excitement, "that Loudoun county has
got liars into it like that?"
"Aren't those stories truthful?" asked
the editor innocently.
"Course they ain't. They're a passle of
lies from start to finish. Of course we've
got snakes in Loudoun county, but no
such dern fool snakes as them you've been
printin about. I've lived there for goin ou j
40 years, and I've never seen anything re-
markable abcut our snakes. That's what
I come in here for. I want to refute the
statements I have teen readin."
"Why do you want to do that?"
"Because it is injurin the good name of
the county. People won't come to no such
county as that is if they read them stories. "
"Well, if you will give me your name,
I'll print a card from you in refutation of
all thoso tales. "
"That's what I'm after. My name it
William Henry Harrises Higgins and"
"Excuse mo, Mr. Higgins," interrupted
the man at the desk, "but weren't you in
town four days ago?"
"Yes," and the visitor showed that he
was surprised by the inquiry. "I come in
three or four times a week at this season""
"And weren't you talking to a police
man down at the B. and P. station that
day?" . ,
"You mean the depot?"
"Yes."
"Yes, I was talkin to him. I'veknowed
him since he was a boy."
"Well, he told me that you had told him
that you had killed a snake on your farm
that was 18 feet lOBg, and it had 12 chick
ens and a-hatful of hen eggs Inside of it."
The visitor banged the desk with his
horny handed fist.
"Well, I'll be doggoned," he exclaimed.
"Did ho tell you that?"
"He did, and told me that you would
verify it."
"Well, I won't do nothin of the sort. He's
a bigger liar than the rest of 'em."
"Didn't you tell him that story?"
"No, sir, I didn't. " And t he visitor was
very indignant. "I told him the snake
was 19 feet long and I never mentioned
chickens. They was turkeys, full grown
turkeys, sir, and there was a pluuib bushel
of eggs. I don't see what a man wants to
lie like that about a thing that comes as
straight as what I told him. You just wait
till I go out and settle with him, and I'll
come back and write that card. Dern a
liar anyhow." And the man from Loudoun
hurried away to see the policeman. Wash
ington Star.
Condensed Guide to Politeness.
Don't visit slight acquaintances for a
longer period than a month. If you do,
however, do not complain about the food
When you visit relatives, bo generous.
Do not insist on their returning the visit.
If a servant purloin your watch or other
valuables, do not complain to your host
ess. Take one of hers. You stand a good
chanca of getting the better of the bargain.
It is considered do trop in the haut
monde to use your hostess' carriage more
than eight hours a day.
Don't gossip about your hostess until
you have concluded your visit. Do cot
got so interested in her private correspond
ence as to becomo preoccupied, unless you
are quite sure she will not return unexpect
edly. Do not spank her children for her, or of
fer to lighten her sorrows by poisoning
any of her canines and felines.
While a guest, do not borrow anything
but money. You would have to return
anything else.
Be blithesome and cheerful. In a word,
act as though you were entirely nt home,
which is equivalent to saying do not act as
you do when you ure at home. Truth.
His Opinion
A German sportsman onco said to a
vroll known Scottish baronet:
"Talking about does with keen scent, 1
have one in Germany that will compare
favorably with any you have in England."
"Very remarkable dog, I suppose?"
yawned the listener.
"I should say so. The day after I loft
home, he broke his chain, arid, although I
had been away for hours, he tricked me
and found me merely by scent. What do
I you think of that!"
j "I think you ought to take a bath," re
j plied the Caledonian, turnirg calmly
j away. Argonaut.
Ko Identification Needed Perhaps.
Reporter Well, Mr. Pendeunis, was the
report of my interviow witli you all right?
Literary Man Everything except the
introduction.
Reporter The introduction? Why, what
was the matter with that?
Literary Man Oh, nothing, except that
you spoke of me as "Mr. Pendeunis, the
well known author." Did you ever hear
anybody speak of "Dickens, the well
known author," or "William Shakespeare,
the well kuown dramatist?" Soiuerville
Journal.
On a Yacht.
Miss Ingenue Is there really a cable to
the ocean?
Sailor Yes, mum.
Miss Ingouue (with conviction, after
studying the man at the wheel) Then
that must be the gripman. Brooklyn Life.
In Foil Possession.
Maid The Few cook's come, uia'am.
and she's made herself comfortable in the
, na-rlor.
j Histress-5-Goodness ! Has the woman
; her' faculties?
JIaid I think so, ma'am. She's brought
something tied up in a big red handkur
j liaief Truth, - -
WATCH SALE No. 5.
I have ths following second hand watches,
most of them as good as new; the - movements
have baerr put in perfect or-.ler am' the caes
have been to ihe factory anil repolished and
made fi. as t ght as when nevr -cannot be told
from new watcues, iNote the following price:
Gsats' SizSi Hinting Casas.
Elgin niovemnnt, H. H. laylor 15 jewels
adjusted la a 50 pwt. 14 Iv solid cold
box h.nse; cost $K"t $T0.0O
1K solM gold case, n jeweled Hamden. .. ao.no
10K solid gold case, 7 jewe.ed - Ig.n 17.00
7jeweie;i Waltlirtin, in a luK solid goid
caso. box hiugo 15.00
10K solid g ild case. 11 jewe.ed Elgin,
nickel movement 22.50
11 Jeweled Waaham in a luK solid go:d
case 16.03
UK --'J-year filled case, 15 jeweled Ham-
den 1G 00
14K i0-vear filled case, 7 jeweled Hanulcn 14.00
11 jewe.ed Hamdeu in a 14K im-yeiir fil.ed
case, box hiue : 16.00
7 jeweled siandard in a 10K 10-yeir filled
case 8O0
14K 2'1-vear rilled gold case. 11 Jewel Wai-
tham 12. 50
7 jewe.ed Sprlnglield, in a ia-ye:ur tilled
case. 10K 10.03
H jeweled Kockford. in a 14K i.-0-year
liked case 12.53
15 jeweled Spriimfleid. a fine mevement in
a 14K JO-year ililed case 16. 00
15.year i-.igin. nicke. movement, iu a 14K
2 i-year rilled caso IS. 00
A 14K 2J-year rilled case, 15 jewel Wal-
ih.iin. nicxel movement 18.00
12K l.i-year filled case, l X hingeA Jew
els, fclgin : 12.50
11K 23-year n -ed case, key wind, H jew
eled Waitham. ..; 8.00
14K 20-year filled case, key wind. 7 jewe:eil
Waitham 5.00
16 size UK 20-year filled. -case, 15 jeweled
Wallhiiio movement 13.00
16 size 14K 20-year filled case, 15 jewels ad
Justed Waitlnm.... 20.09
16 s.ze tOK 15-year fil.ed case, 11 Jeweled
ilg.n 14.08,
Gent's Siz;s, Cp;n Faca.
7 jewel Springfield, 10K 15-year filled case 10.00
7 jeweled i'lgin. 10K15-year filled case 10. jO
11 jeweled Waitham, 14K iu-year filled
case 12 5'J
7 jeweied Kkrtn, UK 15-year fil ed case.... io.O
10K 0-year filiad case. 7 jewe ed Hamden 10.00
7 jewe.od Kockford, in 12K 15-year fi.ied
case 10.00
7 jeweled Waitham, 10K 15 year filled case 8 uo
14K 2a-year 11. lea case. 15 jeweled Colum
bus, nicriie movement 12.50
16 size 7 jeweied Elgin, 12K 15-year filled
ease 6 09
16 size 7 jaweled iilgin, 14K 20-year filled
caso 15.00
16 size 7 jeweled Elgin, 12K 15-year tilled
cass 12.50
Cpan Faos Solid Silver Cases.
Pollar.t's non-magnetic. 15 jeweled ad
justed 4-oi:nco si.ver case . .
15 jeweled Ham lea. 3-ounoo silver case. ..
15 jeweled Hmdeu, niCKoi niofemeuc, 3
ounee siiver cA..e
11 jewd.ed jiockt'rd, 5-ouuce siiver cass..
15 jewe.ed adjusted i-lgui, 3-ounce silver
case
7 Jewe ed Ham-len, 3-onnee silver case....
7 jeweied Hamrlen. .1-0. nice stiver case. ...
7 jaweied Keyscone, 3-on.ice silver ense...
7 jeweled key wiud, Kocklord. 4-ouuce sil
ver case
7 jeweled Springfield, 3-ouuce silver case..
20.00
12.00
12.50
11.00
IS. 01
18.00
8.0J
3.&J
5 00
4.00
Ladies' Ei3!3.
13 jeweled ri?in in a 14K solid gold case,
verv fine w;i.ch 20.03
10K solid i;old ca3e, 15 jewe.ed American
Watch comu.my 1013
7 jeweled Wa.iham in 14K solid go d case. 15. uo
11 jewe.ed llamtlen. n.ck.e movement. In
141C - J-;. ear 11. ed ease 15.00
7 jewe.ed. i-in, 14K -.;o-ye:ir fihed cisp 14. OJ
11 jewe.ed Elgin. HK 20-) ear filled case... 12.50
7 iewe.ed Elgin m a iuK 15-year fi..ed case 11. o
11 jeweled Eigm in a luiv l.'i-yi- fii.:?d case. lu.OJ
7 jetve.ed KlijiQ in 1.HC lo-ye ir fi.ied cjse.. u.vo
one-.liird of these watches h ,ve not been
earned six momhs. Cad in. "o trouble to
show them.
JSW2LSE Am OPTICIAN.
505 Kansas Avemis.
A. P. "WESSHIT
Bell, 550.
Ear., IS:.
913
E. till Si.
-EZ3-
rk ingnien
Of Topeka,. where do you
Buy Your Coal?
"Why not buy it of
your fellow men instead of
a syndicate? Remember I
handle the best grades of
coal, and give full weight.
If so desired, coal may be
weighed on the city scales.
rggf Son I will not deliver Coal
on the Sabbath. a. P. w.
(From U. 8. Journal of Medicine.)
Prof W.lI.Peeke,who makes a specialty of Epilepsy,
has v It&out donbt treated and cured more cases than
any living Physieian; his circese is astonishing. W
have heard of cascaof 20 years' et&ndln cured by him.
lie pabliehesav&iDableworkon this disease which ha
ends w ith a larsrc bottle of !iia absolute cnre,-free to
V e ad Le anyo?ia wUhmg a cure to address,
f t . t W. H. Plvftftft, i D.t 4 Cedar St., Ke Yorifc
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