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HUSTLING.
TheUnlon Pacific a Bigger Baby Hun
Gould Can Nurse—He is
Hustling.
The New Union Depot at Omaha In
Trouble For Want of Funds Which
Were Diverted.
Other Railroad Matters—The Keystone
Muddle. A Narrow Attempt to
Wreck a Train.
A telegram comes from Omaha dat
ed the 25th inst., which carries con
sternation into the ranks of certain
railway officials. It says that the
financial straits of Gould's Union Pa
cific interests have been made farther
manifest, and a big sensation in rail
road circles is the result. A con
ference was held in the private
office of
T. L. Kimball, third vice president of
the Union Pacific and president of the
Union depot company, and a commit
tee of the city council, appointed for
the purpose of finding out what could
be done toward getting work started
on the new depot. A surprise was in
store for the committee, when Mr.
Kimball informed the gentlemen that
the Union depot company had no
funds with which to complete the
work, even were there no other obsta
cle in the way. This was explained
by a statement that bonds of the
Union depot company, issued last fail,
had been diverted to meet the running
expenses ot the
An IowaRoad Wants to Come Into the
Freight Association.
The Indiana, Illinois & Iowa road
has made application for membership
in the Western freight association.
Ordinarily this would not be regarded
as a circumstance worthy of special
mention, since the institution is sim
ply a short line, but considering the
etir that was recently occasioned by
the alleged manipulation of through
rates via this connecting line, a pecu
liar significance is given to this event.
A few months ago some of the Chica
go lines began to protest that rates
were not being maintained by certain
of their competitors. The roads
chiefly affected by the order issued,
are the Burlington and the Achison,
Topeka & Sante Fe. Both re
fused to obey it. An appeal was
taken to the board of commission
ers of the Western traffic association
of Which these companies are
members, and the question consider
ed at the meeting ot iug. 11. It is to
come up for final action at the next
meeting of the commissioners, Sept. 4,
and there has been no question up to
this time as to what the decision
would be. The question to be con
sidered is what divisionsshallbemade
with roads not members of the West
ern freight association, in case such
divisions are not within the jurisdic
tion of the joint ratecommittee. For
this agitation, the Indiana, Illinois &
Iowa have taken steps to become a
member of the association, and so
avoid the threatened punishment.
There is little doubt it has been ad vis
ed to do this by the Burlington and
the Atchison, and perhaps by the Chi
cago & Alton, those being the three
roads interested. The question of ad
mitting the application 11 be put by
Chairman Midgeley to a vote of the
members.
The Keystone Muddle.
Counsel for H. H. Yard, has filed an
affidavit of defense in the United
States circuit court at Philadelphia,
Pa., to the suit brought byJRobert M.
Yardly, receiver of the Keystone na
tional bank, to recover on unpaid
notes. For Yard, it was stated that
the bank is indebted to him in the sum
$31,800, which should be considered
as an offset to the claim. It was ex
plained that during 1890 Yard loaned
the bank 480 shares of the Sea Girt
land improvement company of the
par value of $48,000, under and
agreement that the certificates should
be returned to him on demand for
the return of the certificates
of stock was made, but they were not
forthcoming, and have not been deliv
SJo+LS Jv £*8 connection it was
stated that the bank has transferred
toe stock to other parties and con
verted the proceeds to its own use,
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VOLUME VIII.
Union Pacific aud Bur­
lington roads, and were gone beyond
recall. There was no way to get it
back, and the only thing to do would
be for the two companies to go to
work and put, up the amount used.
This would require time and might not
be successfully accomplished at all.
Mr. Kimball spoke for himself and Mr.
Holdridge, of the Burlington. He said
they were both anxious to have the
depot completed, and would do every
thing in their power to have the work
done. One ot the conditions, the
prime one, which Mr. Kimball said
would be necessary to meet before fur
ther work, would be the dismissal
ot the injunction suit now impend
ing in court prohibiting the delivery
of the depot company. The
councilmen present refused to
agree to any such condition until work
had been actually and earnestly com
menced on the depot structure, and
until assurances were given that there
will be no further delay in the com
pletion of the depot. Meantime Mr.
Kimball will endeavor to get the mat
ter before the railroad officials. Jay
Gould will leave his summer retreat
in Idaho in a few days, and will be
met by Mr. Kimball, and they will
come to Omaha for a conference with
the officials of the Union depot and
tjie Burlington road Mr. Kimball
."'hopes to have a dicieion reached at
Sthis meeting that will result in a re
newal of the work on the long prom
ised and long delayed union depot.
ha?' therelol'«
w.aa
lost the
•W"' The value put on the shares
180,000, whion sum is now claim
ed with Interest. As another ground
lor reducing the olaim, it was set out
for Yard that on a note for *5,800,
uponwblohsuit
it
brought, he only
nwslved $500, the bank promising to
otiJSF
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WiBOO, but not
T,h*!u,t»*•brought
against thedefendant, WHS said to
have arisen In this wayi Before the
doors of tbs oank closed, Yard paid
5La wo*irdr*i'tf» iu*"untfng to 988,
fcw?
notee, one
lot
9000,000 and tne other for 988,888,•
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72. The bank turned the $50,000 over
to the clearing house, but kept the
smaller one on hand. It also held
other notes of which Yard was either
maker or endorser, amounting to
$25.3b3. As the clearing house holds
the $50,000 note, suit could only be
brought by the bank's receiver for
$57 801.72, which is the amount of
the $32,436.72 note and the sundry
other notes amounting to $25,363
added. By taking together the sum
tor which Yard is sued, $57,801.72
and the $50,000 note in the clearing
house it was to be seen that Yard's
indebtedness to the bank is put at
$107,801.72.
A Daring Attempt to Wreck a Train.
A daring attempt was made to
wreck a train on the Illinois Central
main line a few days ago. About sev
en miles north of Holy Springs, Miss.,
carpenters are repairing a bridge. As
the northbound train came in sight
of the bridge the engineer noticed that
one rail seemed to be undulv elevated.
He quickly applied the air brakes and
reversed his engine. Luckily only the
front trucks of the engine left the rails.
Word was at once sent along the road
and soon after a posse of men. with
M. L. Brewer, Holly Springs, at their
head, went in pursuit of the perpetra
tors of the deed. The engineer notic
ed two negroes sneaking away through
the buBhes. The posse heard of the
negroes being seen in the vicinity, and
an accurate description was secured
of both. After a chase of several
hours Mr. Brewer cauaht the two ne
groes. They gave their names as Will
Frost and Will McDowell. They were
separated by the posse, and each said
enough to implicate the other. They
were then confronted and their captor
told each what the other had said.
They confessed to having done the
deed.
Tlio Science of Rain* Slaking.
The experimenting of the agricultur
al department as a cloud-com
peller has lent itself excellently to the
business of the jester. It has afforded
a capital opportunity for the hot
weather writer to poke tun at "Uncle
Jerry" and bis balloons, says thePio
neer-Pross, and the whole thing has
been troated in a spirit so jocular that
no one seems to have found time
to in
quire whether the proceeding is purely
empirical, or whether there may be a
real foundation of scientific reasona
bleness and prooabillity beneath it.
It is high time to take the matter
seriously and if success shall follow,
the subject will be considered gravely,
we have no doubt, in the upper arcana
of the scientific world.
Meantime, the public, which has
quite accustomed itselt to nrracles in
these days of electrical and other won
ders, has been fed on no stronger food
of explanation than the asserted fact
that rains of more or less copiousness
have generally followed great battles,
and that the precipitation has been
explained as an effect of the cannon
ading. Therefore it is that the agents
of the government have gone gunning
in the clouds, and that they do seem
to have brought down a tew barrels
of water at their first fire. Probably
ninety-nine out of every hundred who
have heard of it are satisfied to say
that the concussion produces rainfall.
But why this should be, any more
than that the wnistle of a steamboat
should produce a snowstorm, we are
left to bnd out for ourselves.
In the absence of any authoritative
or even accepted theory, it does seem
that theremay be ascientific fact below
the work ot producing rain artificially,
and that the concussion theory has
nothing whatever to do with it. For
there is certainly no scientific princi
ple which we know of tnat would ex
plain knocking water out of a dry at
mosphere with a report, any more
than we could knock pulp out of dry
orange peel with a club. This explan
ation is of the vulgar sort that pre
dicts a wet season when the horns of
the moon are sufficiently depressed to
let its contents run out. Like that
moon, it will not hold water. There
is, however, a possibility which we do
not remember as a subject of inquiry
anywhere. May it not happen that
rain follows detonation not as a
consequence of the shock, or of
any disturbance of physical
substance, but as a result
ot the setting free and recombination
of gases? The combustion of powder
by the use of fire arms on a large scale
doe's, as we know, liberate an enormous
amount of gas, whose expansion is the
propelling power behind the projectile,
Among the gases thus set free are
oxygen and hydrogen, in uncertain
qualities. Now if these gasescombine
with each other in proper proportions,
the results, as any school boy knows,
is water vapor. And it is at least
within the range of possibility that
here is a scientific fact which will
explain the relation between battles
and rain storms, which will make it
possible to bring abundant moisture
out of a desert atmosphere in which
it existed before only in infinitesimal
quantities, and which will work a far
greater revolution than that already
accomplished by meteorological ob
servations and the establishment of
the weather service. This is only a
hypothesis, which scientific observa
tion may tear to shreds. But queer
things are happening down in Texas
and the known facts connected with
the use of explosives certainly suggest
a better support lor the future science
of rain makmgthanarutic'sprognost
ication or an old woman's saw.
To Stop Canadian Depredations.
It will be remembered that some
time ago there was considerable stir
over alleged stealing of American tim
ber along the tributaries of the Rainy
river south of the international
boundary. The government sent up
two investigating expeditions along
the Big and Little Fork rivers to Rainy
lake and river. As result of these ex
peditions it has now been decided by
the interior department to establish
a permanent government post on
Rainy river, and two offloers of the
department are now there to seleot a
loeation, and put up the needed build
Ing*: Th« post will be located near
Fort Francis about 160 mites north
west of Duluth, and will be (or tbe
purpose of watching timber stealers
from tbe Canadian side. Fully 20,
000,000 (est of timber aw said to
bavo been etolen here in the u««t
three years.
GEN. JOHN STARK.
Vermont Fitly Commemorates His Vic
tory In the Centennial Celebra
tion at Bennington,
Magnificent Rattle Monnment, he Tall*
est of tlio Kind in t.he^World
Dedicated.
National Interest in the Event Shown
By the Pres nee of Thon
sands of Visitors.
The ceremony of dedicating the
monument erected to comemo
rate the battle of Bennington crowd
ed that little town to overflowing on
the 10th inst. Tho presence of the
president of the United States and
members of his cabinet, as well as the
governors of three or tour states,
gave
the event a more than local interest.
It brought people from all parts of
the United States, but particularly
from New England, to witness and
take part in the ceremony. Probably
in the whole history of Bennington no
such distinguished gathering will be
held there again. At the encamp
ment grounds around the soldiers
home, where the interest of the event
centered during the early part
of the day, the soldier boys
were aroused by the roll call at 6
o'clock. The crowd was up with the
soldiers, for with the first break of
dawn, the streets began to assume a
lively appearance and the roads lead
ing into town commenced to empty
their stream of carriages and wagons
in the camp grounds. Every private,
as well as every public .house Ben
nington, was crowded and many
slept on the lawns, while hundreds
were glad to find sleeping quarters
in tents which afforded little protec
tion from the chill night air. The
first of the special trains was due lio
fore 8 o'clock, but the wagon roads
brought a very large uccession to the
multitude in the town before that
hour, and when the first train arrived
the gaily decorated streets were well
filled.
The principal interest was in the
ARRIVAL 01? THU PRESIDENT
and hia party, who had spent the
night at the home of Gen. J. C. McCul
lough, at North Bennington, five miles
away.
Gov. Page did not go to meet the
president. He drove over to North
Bennington the night, before, accom
panied by Adjt. Gen. Peck, and spent
the night with the president at Gen. Mc
Cullough's, and with him had gone a
dozen members of John. A. Logan
post, G. A. of Orwell, Vt., (mount
ed), under command of H. G. Hib
bard. These Grand Army men were
in undress cavalry uniform and car
ried sabres. The carriage which had
been provided for the presi
dent was drawn by four white horses
with illumes of red, white and blue
their head stalls. On the box sat two
coachmen livery. As the proces
sion approached Bennington, tbe
mounted escort rode ahead of thecar
riage in which sat the governor and
Gen. McCullough with the president.
Behind this carriage were others in
which sat the members of the presi
dent's party. It was the duty of the
mounted escort to keep the road clear,
and it was not without difficulty that
they succeeded in making a passage
for the president's carriage through
the crowd ot vehicles which filled the
country road. All the way from
North Bennington to Bennington the
president was
GREETED WITH CHEEKING,
to which he responded by taking off
his hat and bowing. The start from
North Bennington was made shortly
after 8 o'clock, but it was slow and it
was reached after 0 when the little
procession reached the Soldiers Home
where the carriages drew in and the
president, with the assistance of Gov.
Page, left the carriage and entered the
governor's parlor. Before he entered
the house he turned and bowed repeat
edly to the cheering multitude, which
had surrounded the building. In the
parlor the president held a brief recep
tion at which the members of the gov
ernor's staff and other distinguished
persons were introduced to
him. In the
meantime, the militia forces had been
assembling on the
parade ground with
out. The corps of cadets from West
Point accompanied by the Post band
had arrived on a special train and
had marched to the place of assembly,
and a number of Grand Armv posts
were drawn up on the parade ground.
Brig.-Gen. Greenleaf, the marshal and
his staff, monuted in front of Gen.
Greenleaf's tent at the end of the
parade ground, and the marshal's
orderlies road backward and forward
across the parade carrying orders to
the marshals of the different divisions.
The hour fixed for starting
THE PARADE
was 10 o'clock, but it was nearly 10:
30 when the last report show
ed that the divisions were
all in readiness for the
start and word came to the chief
marshal that the president and re
viewing party were ready. A minute
later the president and his party left
and resumed their seats in the car
riages which awaited them. The ar
rangement of the carriages were
changed slightly for the parade. In
the first carriage sat the president,
Gov. Page and Adjt. Gen. Peck. In
the second were ex-Gov. Prescott, of
New Hampshire, president of the Ben
nington association, and Hon. Ed
ward J. Phelps' tbe orator of theday.
In the third were the secretary of war
and Rev. Charles Parkhurut, of Bos
ton, the chaplain of the day. In the
other carriages were Attorney General
Miller, Private Secretary Halford,
Gen. W. 0. Veaiy, Uen. G. 0. McCul
lough, Qen. O. O. Howard, U. S. A.
Uen. Russell A. Alger, Senator Justin
S. Morrill, Gen. Alex. S. Webb, Sena
tor Gallinger, of New Hampshire,
Representatives, J. W. Stewart, Hon.
Alaace F. Walker ot Chicago, Col
UnadOD. U. S. A.j Major Alns
worth, U. 8, A. the governor of
New Hampshire and his staff, theyoy
srnor or Musaubusetts and ills staff,
the llsutsnant-govfrnor otMaisaobu-
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setts and committees of the two houses
of Massachusetts' lfgislat.ure Col. W.
Seward Webb, John King, of New
York Hon. S. E_ Chittenden, of New
York Hon. Daniel Roberts, of Burling
ton ex-Gov. Green, of New lefsey
Hon. S. S Tarbell, of Boston Hon.
Henry C. Hall, historian of the Sons
of American Revolution Gen J. B.
Carr, of Albany Hon. G. G. Benedict,
of Burlington Hon. George F. Ed
munds, Col. McDona.ld and Col.
Batchelder, United States army, ot
Washington L. P. Deming, of Connec
ticut Howard Cole, Russell Harrison,
Gen. Warner, of Albany.
Only the president and [his immedi
ate parto with their escort to the
number of about forty rode in the
first carriages. These fell in behind
the battallion of Amoskeag veterans,
wnich bad been appointed a
SPECIAL ESCORT TO THIS PRESIDENT.
They were followed by the first divi
sion, which was under the command
Col. Julius J. Estey, of the First
regiment, V. N. G. On each side of
the president's carriage walked three
Graiid Army veterans under com
mand of Maj. John S. JJrennan. Fol
lowing tbe carriaeeB in the
line was tbe
First regiment, V. N. G., three com
panies ot the New Hampshire Nation
al Guard, a militia company from
Troy and oni from Hoosack Falls,
N. Y., the Light Guard batallion of
North Adams, Mass., Battery B,
Fourth Artillery, U. S. A., under com
mand of Brevet Maj. Harry.C. Cashing,
and the First Light battery, V. N. G.
Tnose constituted the first division.
As the chief marshal gave the com
mand foi the column to start a pla
toon of mounted deputies under sher
iff Robinson, led the way, followed
by a platoon of police. Then came
the* grand marshal and his aids, under
the escort of John A. Logan post G.
A. R., (mounted) of Orwell. Then fol
lowed the different divisions in their
order. At the head of
THE SECOND DIVISION
marched the United States Military
academy band, followed by the corps
of cadets, 250 strong then the de
partment of Vermont, G. A. Wil
lard post, G. A. R., of Troy, N.
the Vermont Veteran association of
Boston Knights Templars, mounted
and on foot Putnam Phalanx, of
Hartford, Conn., as a guard of honor
a detachment of Fuller's battery, in
continental uniform, in charge of two
pieces of artillery captured by Gen.
Stark at the battle of Bennington
state societies of the Sons of Ameri
can Revolution, and the Illinois asso
ciation, Sons of Vermont, and kin
dred societies, under the escort of the
Sons of Veterans of Bennington.
These made up the second division,
under command of Assistant Marshal
Col. Albert W. Metcalf, Second regi
ment, N. H. N. G. Following the sec
ond division came the members of the
Vermont state legislature on foot.
THE THIRD DIVISION,
which was under the command of Col.
William M. Strachan, Ninth regiment
M. V. M., included in the Underwood
Hussars, ot Boston, and Cantons
from Albany, New York, Troy, New
York, and Amsterdam, New York,
and the Department of Vermont
Patriarchs militant. Behind them
came the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and then the invited gue-ts
in carriages. There were nearly 300
of these carriages in all. The head of
the column moved a little after 10:30
o'clock, passing under an evergreen
arch, which stood at the head of
North street. Across tne face of the
arch in white immortelles, was the in
scription: "Mollie Stark Was Not
Widowed," and th« dates, "1791,"
and "1777."
AN ENORMOUS CltOWl)
filled the street from curb to curb, and
the advanced guard cleared the way
slowly. The houses on both sides of
the street had been decorated profuse
ly with flags and bunting, and stands
had been erected on all the graceful
green lawns, from which the good peo
ple of Bennington and their friends
waved a welcome to the chief magis
trate and his escort. The president
was greeted with orolonged cheering
all
along the line, and he was kept busy con
tinually bowing to the right-and-left.
He rode with hia hat in his hands
along most of the entire route, al
though the sun shone bright and the
day was quite warm. Gov. Page also
had a warm welcome, and the other
distinguished guests were given impar
tial and enthusiastic greetings.
The procession moved down North
street and then turned east to Gage
street for two squares and turned in
to Main street. Here the most elabor
ate decoration had been distributed
and the tronts of the buildings were
COVERED WITH NATIONAL EMBLEMS.
At the junction of North and Main
streets was the crowning decoration
of the occasion. A huge arch in imi
tation of masonry had been thrown
across Main street. Across the top
of this arch stood a line of little girls,
whose sweet, childish voices brokeout
into the "Star Spangled Banner" as
the head of the procession came in
sight. Above them, over the keystone
of the arch stood the
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OAKES. DICKEY COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28,1891.
Goddess of Liber­
ty. Below were ranged thirteen of
Bennington's prettiest girls holding
the shield of the original state. As
the president passed uuder the arch
A SHOWER OF ROSES FELL
from the bands of the young girls,
sprinkled his carriage and fell all about
it. At the same time the chorus of
childish voices struck up "America."
The reviewing stand was on Main
street, about a quarter of a mile be
yond the arch. It was desiened for
only forty people, and only the mem
bers of the president's party were invit
ed to enter it. When the heads of
the column had passed just beyond
the stand,
lthalted and tbe president's
carriage was driven to the side of the
road. The president left his seat, and
on Gov. Page's arm, entered thestand
where he bowed a response to the con
tinued cheering of tne great crowd
that swarmed around it. The other
members of the reviewing party took
placeB in the stand and the order was
given to resume tbe maroh. Thepres
aent stood
WITH 1MB HUAD UNOOVHUHD
for a bait hour, while tbe procession
was passing in review. When tbe Odd
Fellows bad pused and tbe head of
tbe columu of carriage* oamtt in algbt
tbe president left thestand and resum
•d bis post in}hl*
carnage. Tbe bead of
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the column had reached the monument
by this time and the militia forces
were massed on the west of the grand
stand which had been erected in front
of it. The second and third divisions
werei massed as they came up on the
east'and
the carriages then drove up
in front of the stand, and the
guestB
were escorted to their seats.
Seats for 1,000 had been provided
on the stand, which was rooted in
with canvas. The seats were arrang
ed in three tiers and the orator of the
day, the president and other speak
ers who were to address the multi
tude were seated on the second tier,
near the center of the stand.
It took some time to arrange all of
the guests, and it was after the noon
hour when Hon. Wheelock G. Veazey,
the president of the day, arose and
made the introductory address.
IS IT ON THE LIST.
Ammonia and Alum In Baking: Pow
ders. How to Detect Them.
In view of what the Minnesota Sen
ate has done, it is hoped that legisla
tive bodies in other states will soon
take up the subject of food adultera
tion. Tho subjoined list of baking
powders containing ammonia and
alum, compiled from official reports
and published in a receut number of the
Scientific American, is given below.
"It deals in a direct manner with an
evil which must be cut down" said tho
Chicago Tribune in commenting on tlio
Scientific American report. Follow
ing is the list of
AMMONIA AND ALUM BAKING POWDERS.
COMPILED KltOM OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Powders marked with a star seom
to have a general sale, as they are
mentioned in at least two of tho re
ports.
•ATLANTIC & PACIFIC. •ROYAL.
COOK'S FAVORITE. BCIOTO.
SILVER SPOON.
SILVER STAR.
•SNOWDRIFT.
CROWN.
CRYSTAL.
DAISY.
•DAVIS' 0. K.
DRY YEAST.
GEM.
GLOBE.
•KENTON.
PEARSON'S,
PERFECTION.
PEERLESS.
PURITY.
SOVEREIGN.
STAR.
STATE.
STANDARD.
SUNFLOWER.
WASHINGTON.
WINDSOR.
ZIPP'S GRAPE.
CRYSTAL.
There are, in addition to the fore
going list from the Scientific American,
a number of such powders sold in the
western that were not fouud in the
eastern stores.
Following is the list to date:
CALUMET, ... Contains Alum.
(Calumet Baking Powder Co., Chicago.)
FOltEST CITY, ContainsAmmonia Alum.
(Vouwie Bros., Cleveland.)
CHICAGO YEAST. Contains Ammonia
Alum.
(Chapman & Smith Co., Chicago.)
BON BON Contains Ammonia Alum.
HOTEL, ... Contains Alum.
(J. C. Grant Baking Powder Co./Chicairo.)
UNRIVALED, ... Contains Alum.
(Spragues, Warner & Grlsvold, Chicago.)
ONE SPOON, TAYLOR'S, Ammonia Alum
(Taylor Mlg. Co., St. Louis.)
YARNALL'S Contains Alum.
(Yarnall Mfe. Co., St. Louis.)
SHAW'S SNOW PUFF Contains Alum.
(Merchant's Mfg. Association, St. Louis.)
D0DS0N&HILLS, Contains Alum.
(Dodson & Hills, St. Louis.)
SHEPARD'S. Contains Ammonia Alum.
(Wm. Shepard, St, Louis.)
BAIN'S, Contains Alum.
(Xleycr-Bain Mfg. Co., St, Louis.)
MONARCH, Contains Ammonia Alum.
(Reid. Murdoch &Co., Chicago.)
SNOW BALL, Contains Alum.
(Bengal Coll'ee & Spice Mills, Chicago.)
GIANT, Contains Alum.
MILK, ... Contains Alum.
(W. F. McLaughlin & Co,, Chicago)
ECHO, Contains Alum.
(Spencer Bluing Paddle Co., Chicago.)
KALBFELL'S PURITY, Contains Alum.
(Kalblell Mlg. Co., Chicago.)
RISING SUN. Contains Ammonia.
(Phoenix Chcmical Works, Chicago.)
WHITE ROSE. Contains Ammonia Alum.
(Globe Cofi'ec & Spice Mills, Minneapolis.)
WOOD'S ACME Contains Ammonia.
ITlios. Wood & Co., Philadelphia.)
ANDREW'S PEARL, -Contains Ammonia
(C. E. Andrews & Co., Milwaukee.)
HARRIES' FAVORITE, Contains Alum.
(H. H. Harries, Minneapolis.)
FIDELITY, Contains Alum.
SOLAR ... Contains Alum.
(Sherman Bros., Chicago.)
PUTNAM'S BEST Contains Alum.
(Wells, Putnam & Co., Chicago.)
CHINA "T" HOUSE, Contains Alum.
(Noah McDowell, St. Paul, Minn.)
TWIN CITY Contains Alum.
(J. K. Ferguson, Minneapolis. Minn.)
HERCULES, Contains Ammonia.
(Hercules Baking P'w'd Co.,San Francisco)
CLIMAX, Contains Ammonia.
(Climax Baking Powder Co., Indianapolis)
Ammonia and alum are the most
common adulterants used in the
manucfacture of baking powders. The
Government report shows thatalarge
percentage of the baking powderB on
the market contain either one or the
other, or both these pernicious drugs.
What woman would use an ammo
nia or alum baking powder, if she
knew it? Such powders not only under
mine the health, but ammonia gives
to the comploxion a sallow or blotch
ed appearance. The presence of am
monia or alum in a baking powder,
however, can easily be detected.
To DETECT AMMONIA.—Mix one
heaping teaspoonful of baking powder
with one teaspoonful of water in a tin
cup boil thoroughly for a few mo
ments, stir to prevent burning, and if
ammonia is present you can smell it
in the rising steam. Or, place a can
of the suspected powder top down on
a hot stove for a minute or two, then
take off the cover and smell.
To DETECT ALUM.—Alum powder can
be tested by putting a couple of teas
poonfulls of the powder in a glass of
cold water. If no effervescence, that
is bubbling or simmering, takes place,
condemn the powder and return it at
once.
Some alum powders, however, like
the "Calumet," "Bon Bon," "Chicago
Yeast," etc., contain phosphates in
combination with alum, and with
these brands the following test is sim
ple and sure:
Take one half teaspoonful of baking
powder in lid of say half pound can
char thoroughly overa strong alcohol
flame, a good gas jet, or red hot coals.
After charing, that is, burning until
the whole mass is black, add a teas
poonful of water aud place a bright
piece of silver coin in the eolution.
Stir for one minute, then take out the
silver. If the powder prove a cream
of tartar powder tbe coin will be
blight if an alum powder it will have
sulphur stains.
Now pour a little vinegat into tho
lid and smell the fumes. Alum pow
ders give ofl sulphuretted hydrogen,
which may be detected by its foul
odor.
Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder is
reported by all authorities as free
(rom Ammonia, Alum, Lime or any
other adulterant. In fact, the purity
ol this ideal powder 1MM never been
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SIXTY DEAD.
Horrible Explosion Disaster Occurral
in New York !ty oil tile
22d ln,t.
Twe Buildings Demolished. Occupants
in tin- Ituliis. 1 he De
bris Set Fire
The Crash sn Sudden That Not a
soil Escnpcil Uninjured.
Work of Best ue.
At tho time of writing this telegram
it seemed possible that one of the
worst disasters which ever happened
in New York city occurred just after
noon of the 22d inst. Prom all that
can be learned, fully if not more than
fifty people lost their lives. The acci
dent came so sudden that not a single
person in the two big buildings at No.
70 and 72 Park Place escaped. There
was but one eye witness left to the be
ginning of the accident. This man, A.
A. Johnson, is a janitor in the build
ing at 81 Park Place, directly across
the street from where the acci
dent occured. He said that he was
standing on tho steps of SI at noon,
when he heard the sound of an explo
sion. It came trom across the street,
it was not loud. Almost immediate
ly the front walls of the two buildings
collapsed and the entire building cav
ed in.
A DRKADFUL CRASH
was the result. It came so suddenly
that it was impossible for a living be
ing to escape from the buildings. On
the ground floor of one of the numbers
was a restaurant that was crowded
with people. The other floors were
occupied by the Southern Publishing
company, S. Loutelle & Co., art de
signers Ellis & McDonald, bookbind
ers.
The owner of the restaurant was of
the came of Rosenfjld. It was saiu
also that a portion of the building
was occupied oy a drug firm, in which
the explosion occurred. Ol course,
nothing definite was known, as the
RUINS WER1S BURNING FIERCELY
and all of the efforts being directed to
ward getting the flames under control
in order that the work of rescue and
of recovering the bodies of the dead
might be begun. The juuitor of 81
said
that the accident occurred so quickly
that he did no see a person escape, and
felt certain that everybody in the two
buildings were killed. As near as
could
oe learned the explosion took place in
the Metal Leaf factory of Rosenfeld &
Co., on the second floor of No. 72
Park Place. This is just over a drug
store on the ground floor of the build
ing. That was about 12:35 o'clock.
Michael Carroll, who was employed in
the Metal Leat factory had been out
to his lunch and had just reached tlie
door of 72 when ho heard a terrific ex
plosion, which dazed him tor a
moment. Ho jumped up and ran for
his life. As he got away he saw the
front walls of number 70, 72 and 74
topple over with a loud crash. As
the walls fell, Carroll saw that there
were many pedostrains who were pass
ing the place who were covered under
the bricks and stone.
In the Metal Leaf factory it is not
known how many girls were at work,
but there were a large number. In the
restaurant on the ground floor of No.
74, which was kept by J. Peterson,
there wero a
CROWD OF PERSONS AT LUNCH.'
The number is estimated attlietime
of the explosion between twenty-five
and thirty-five.
There were a number of girls in the
wash room in the basement. It is
thought that there were ten or twelve
in the wash room. Trippe & Co.,
druggists, at 70 and 72 Park Place,
also had a large number of employes.
The three children of Frank Haggerty,
the janitor of No. 67 Park Place, were
front of No. 72 Park Place when the
explosion occurred. They werekilled.
Their father stood across the street at
the time.
The latest report of the cause of the
explosion was that the New York
Steamlieating comnany furnishes
steam to the building. It is
supposed
that the explosion took place from
defect in the receiving boiler in the
basement.
At the time the explosion occurred
many of those who worked in the
building were at launch. It was esti
mated that there were
MORE THAN 140 IN THE BUILDING
at the time. Those who saw the
catastrophe say that the earth trem
bled when the explosion occurred and
that the fire was in the street in a
couple of seconds. The dust from the
wreck rose in such clouds that for at
least three minutes nothing could be
seen of what was left standing, but
from the pall which hovered over the
wrecked building camecloudsof smoke
and sheets of flame and yells and
Bhrieks of agony. Out of the clouds
of fire and smoke half a dozen persons
emerged, w'nilo from the six-story
building on the northeaBt corner of
Greenwich and Park Place poured at
least 100 working people of both sexes
and all ages, uttering cries of alarm.
When the the fireman arrived the
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lor building, 66 to 70 Park Place, was
ablaze, and the Greenwich Btreet ex
tension of the building was on fire.
A GENERAL ALARM WAS SOUNDED,
and the firemen looked around te see
if life could be saved. Close to +he en
trance of 70 Park Place, and pinned
under a lot of masonry was a man
whose head and shoulders were visible.
Whilb the firemen were endeavoring
to unloose him, a crash was heard
above, and down came the wreck of
part of the Taylor buifding cornice.
Tbe firemen jumped for their lives
and none were hurt. When they dash
ed back again the man had been en
tirely buried, and tbe bricks from tbe
Greenwich street building began to (all
so thickly that the attempt to rescue
him bad to be abandoned. Shortly
after tbis a man who said be was an
engineer, orawled out of tbe cellar and
fell exhausted. He was sent to tbe
Unambersstreetbospltal. He was un
able to give any account of bow he es
caped At 1 o'clock tbe fire was uu
der control. Half o( tbe Greenwich
•trett building bad been burned, while
tb* Taylor WM complstt wreck,
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Tho losses were computed at $150,
000 for the Taylor block and contents
and $40,000 for the Greenwich street
building As to the loss of life, the
more conservative estimate, that of
Fire Chief Cushman, was that
SIXTY PEOPLE PERISHED.
Pcreons who knew bow many work
ed in the building daily ran up the list
to 130. Nobody had been taken out
at 1:30, and it appeared impossible to
overhaul the ruins for se\eral hours.
Eight persons, injured by the explo
sion, were taken to the Chambers
street hospital. Among the concerns
destroyed were Hudson's restaurant,
Lin.lsay's tvpe foundry, E F. Hea
ghy's plumbing shop, Lichler's glass
ware, Ellis & MacDonald's blank book
and binding concern, a cigar factory
and a printing office.
It is said that many factory airls
are among the dead. The Ninth av
enue elevated road stopped running,
and the firemen worked upon hestruc
ture in pouring streams on the fire.
The work of removing the debris in
the
SEARCH FOR BODIES
waB immediately commenced, but
proceeded slowly, owing to the heat
of the bricks, etc. Ambulances from
Chambers Street and St. Vincent's
hospital were in attendance. Twenty
four injured were taken to the Cham
bers Street hospital.
STORY OF ONE OF THE VICTIMS.
Dominick Berker, a cook in the res
taurant of Peterson, was at work in
the basement of No. 74 Park Plare
He escaped as if by a miracle. He
said:
'I was busy at my range when I
heard a dull, deep sound, followed by
a j.uff of air. The next moment the
whole building seemed to fall about me,
and I was knocked to the floor. I was
dazed for a moment, but finding that
1 was Iree of the ruin. I groped my
way through a hole in the wall, and
finally found my way into the base
ment of the building on Greenwich
street, through which I gained the
street. Two others who were in the
basement, were rescued by the police
and firemen." The fourth and fifth
floors of 74 and 70 were occupied bv
A. W. Lindsay, type founders, where
he employed about twenty girls, who
were preparing to go home. All escap
ed by means of the fire escape on the
Greenwich street end otthe building.
Mr. Lindsay said: "The girls and
myself were preparing to go home when
the explosion occurred. The moment
I heard the noise I Bhouted tothegirls
and we all rushed to the corner build
ing, and as we ran the building col
lapsed behind us. We made our way
to the street by means of the fire es
cape."
THE FIRST DICAD BODY
was recovered from the ruins at 2:25
o'clock. It was that of a man about
50 years old. He was lying face down
ward in the street, about ten feet from
trom the curb, covered with bricks
three feet deep. His head was terribly
lacerated, and, when taken from the
ruins, bis face was an unrecognizable
mass of flesh, from which the blood
was still dripping.
Heading, Pa., Deluged By Bain.
As the result of the recent storm at
Reading, Pa., no trains were run on
the Reading railroad, Lebanon Valley
branch, between Reading and Leban
on for forty-eight hours.
Near Wernerville, on this branch,
just after the engine of a freight train
passed over a culvert in salety, the
culvert was washed away and the en
tire train of ten cars plunged into the
culvert and were washed away. A
passenger train was obliged to remain
near the scene of the wreck all night.
Another culvert at Friztown, on the
Reading & Columbia railroad between
Reading and Lancaster, was washed
away and no trains were running be
tween those points for twenty-four
hours. The wires on the Reading &
Columbia division were down and
communication west and south of
Sinking Spring was cut off. A tempo
rary telegraph office was opened at
the scene of the wreck and a large force
of employes were
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to work clearing
away the wreckage and repairing the
damage. Passengers for Harrisburg
and the Western mills were sent
through via Auburn. There were sev
eral slight washouts between Reading
and Allentown, but the damage was
soon repaired. At Molinsville, eignt
dams, each half an acre in extent,
were washed away, and the hat fac
tories and mills will be unable to re
sume until the dam breasts have been
rebuilt. This will take at least
three weeks. The bridge and three
piers of the .Reading & South
western Railway company at pendle
ton, were carried away and a mile of
its track was swept away. Near
Hamburg, three barns belonging to
Daniel Reigt, John Mogle and M. F.
Koller were distroved by lightning.
Loss $10,000.
The breast of the big dam at the
Robesonia furnace, which furnishes
Robesonia with water, broke, and gar
den fences, vegetable gardens and roada
were all washed out and trees uproot
ed. Over 300 feet of the Reading Rail
road company's track near Robesonia
Station was carried away.
Washouts in all direct one are re
ported. Eight dams at Mohnsville
were washed out and the hat factories
bad to shut down. A mile of track
with a bridge on the Reading and
Southwestern road at Pendleton were
carried away. Three barns were
struck by lightning and burned at
Hamburg. Thedam of the Robesonia
furnace broke, causing much damage
and washing out 300 feet of the Read
ing railroad track.
A Costly Rescue-
Robert 8ims, indicted for illicit dis
tilling, was arrested a fewdaysago by
United States Marshal W. C. Stnbling
and a posse, twenty miles from Bla
don (Springs, Choctaw country, Ala.
After having defied 8tribling, when
that official came along, Sims refused
to move, so be had to be carried to
the wagon. He was taken to Bladon
8prii]gn. There bis friends oame to
bis rescue and a fight took plaoe,
in
tbe midst of which Sims escaped.
tbe melee, Dr. A. B.Pugh,
brother of
Sims
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Charles S. Brown, Editor.
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the posse,
and a son of Sims were Killed
and a
was fatally
wounded.
Suit WM filed In tbe United Btates court
assttwsrwttss's
M4, •Iwftui that certain of the eonlmed
NUMBER 35.
BOTH DEAD SHOTS
Deputy Marshal and Prisoner Exter*
inmate Each Other On an Okie
homa Train.
Warlike Activity In Germany.»Emla
Again Has rr of th« Equatorial
Froviiices.
Reading, Pa ,Delnged Ry Rain—Bas*
sian Display at the Chicago
World's Pair.
A dispatch from Caldwell, Kan., re
garding the killing of Deputy United
States Marshal Ed 3hort and Charles
Bryant, one of the noted Daltou gang,
of train robbers, says 8hort captured
Bryant in the Cnerokee strip. On the
23d inst. he took his prisoner aboard
the Rook Island train 3.t Hennessy,
Okla, to take him to Wichita.
placed the handcuffed prisoner in the
baggage car, going outside to guard
any attempt at rescue. He left a re
volver witn the baggageman for pro
tection, and the baggageman's care
lessness is responsible for the
subsequent tragedy. He laid the re
volver down on the safe in the car,
and Bryant soon secured it. As the
train was slowing up tor Waykomis
he opened the door of tbe car. Shorts
was standing on tbe platform of the
smoker, with a Winchester rifle in his
hands. Bryant quickly raised the
revolver and fired, the ball soing
through Short's body. Short return
ed the fire with his rifle. Both men re
ceived tbe Jeath and only wounde in
the first two shots, but both kept on
firing. Bryant emptied the six cham
bers of his 44, and Short fired eight
shots from his Winchester. The ends
of both cars were riddled with bullets.
John Dobson, a prominent driuggist
from El Reno, was sitting in uhe front
end of the smoker, when one of the
bullets crashed throueh the window,
striking him in the arm, passing com
pletely through it, but luckily just
missing the bones and arteries.
Bryant was tbe first man to drop,
and he fell head foremost down the
steps. Short caught him by the leg
and held him with his head almost
touching the eround.
He called to the conductor, and when
he got to him he said:
"I have got him, Jim, andhebasgot
me."
The prisoner was dead when picked
up from the platform and carried in
to the car. Short died ten min
utes.
Warlike Actlflty.
A dispatch trom Berlin says that
the arrival of the kaiser has been fol
lowed by unusual activity in the war
office and by instructions to strength
en the garrison in Alsace Lorraine
and all along the frontier. The kaiser
is said, on semi official authority, to
be of opinion that France is in a frame
of mind that may lead at any time to
war that the people of France haye
been so stirred up by the evidence of
Russian sympathy and friendship
that they are likely at any moment
to insult Germany in a way that
would ot necessity be followed by war.
The French sentinels on the Alsace
frontier have of late become very ar
rogant in their treatment of Germans
who cross the line and refuee some
times even to look at passports, driv
ing the Germans back at the point of
the bayonet. A similar disposition
has been displayed recently among
French costoms officers, and all the
conduct of the French points to
a will
ingness to provoke a crisis by the mal
treatment of Germaos.
THE AUSTRIAN MILITARY MANEUVERS
at Chili have begun and last until Sept.*^
£. The German kaiser will be present
and the Austrian kaiser will entertain
Kaiser William and the kings of Sax-'
ony and Roumania at the chateau of
Baron Widman. The Hungarian in
fantry and artillery will maneuver
from Sect. 14 to 16, and later there
will be cavalry maneuvers The Aus
trians keep a keen observation of the
military movements of Ru«sia, which
now has a vast force of infantry and
five divisions of rifles in addition to
numerous frontier guards, designed for
the invasion of eastern Galicia, and
to interfere with Austrian mobiliza
tion in the event of war. Austria is
not in a financial condition to rival
the military preparations ot Russia,
oat the army is to be increased as far
as the revenues will permit.
Emin Again Master.
A communication in cipher has been.
received at Brussels from Stanley
Falls, which indicates that Emin:
Pasha has been wonderfully success
ful in his operations in Africa. Ac
cording to this dispatch Emin Pasha
was, at the time the messaze was sent,
resting at Wadelai, alter having in
flicted a most serious and thorough
defeat upon the Dervishes. As a re
suit of this battle Emm Pasha cap
tured 6,000 tusks of ivory and a\
quantity of ammunition, arms and
Mtores of many descriptions. In ad
dition, Emin Pasha Has re-occupied ^-2
all tbe old stations in tbe equatorial
provinces, ard seems to have com
pletely cowed the Dervishes.
Will Sheet en Sight
A dispatch from Caldwell, Kan.,
says: William Grimes/TJnited states
marshal for the Indian territory, bas
taken charge of the remains of Deputy
Short, who was killed by Charlie Bry
ant, of tbe Dalton gang. Mr. Grimes
says that from this time on itia awar ',
of
extermination that the black flag'
haa been raised and his deputies will
shoot on sight. Several arreeta of
Dalton sympathisers have already
been found, and every deputy marahal
in tbe territory ia on it. Marshal
Grimes is in receipt of
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capture of tbe Dalton gang of dasper
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wanted tor fltKjr orlmnh the
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