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THE WORLD AT LARGE.
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Summary of the m’ News.
WASHINGTON NOTHES.
FirE broke out in the central power
station of the Capital Traction Co. at
Washington the other night and in 30
minutes the magnificent sixestory
structure was doomed. To#s, nearly
$500,000. v
PreSIDEXT MCKINLEY and party got
back to Washington on the 30th. The
president had hardly reached the white
house before Secretary Sherman ap
peared and held a brief consultation
with him, presnmably in reference to
the fall of the Spanish cabinet.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by the
post office department inviting persons
who heve new designs for canceling
postage stamps to snbmit them to the
committee recently appointed for the
purpose.
THE monthly statement of .the gov
ernment receipts and expenditures
during September, 1897, shows the re
ceipts to have been $31,933,098 and the
expenditures $25,368,815, an excess of
expenditures over receipts of $3,435,817.
TaERk is a larger demand for male
stenographers and typewriters in the |
departments at Washington than the
civil service commission has Been able
to meet. The salaries range from S6OO
to 81,000 per annum.
Tue first meeting of the cabinet
since the return of President MecKin
ley to Washington from his Massachu
setts trip was held on the Ist. Foreign
affairs were principally discussed. The
Spanish crisis was thought to be a
change for the better. i
GENERAL NEWS.
WGPV EDSEOIRES AN VY. !
Four of & crevr of seven men were |
vecently drowned at North Long ’
Hran b, N. .I, by the capsizing of their |
fishing Yoat. A huge wave struck t. ‘
SAMUEL J. &k McMILLAN, ex-United |
States senator, di¢d at St. Paul, Minn,, |
from an®emia, age: 1.
SixTy villages near Tung Chou,
China, containing ove: 89,000 inhabit
sad the people drown or.‘gmed to
flee. Chinese authorities estimaw:d
that 15,000 to 20,000 were drowned. |
SEVEX houses in North Des Moines,
la., recently caught fire from a blaze |
in a barn in the vicinity. Loss, about
$30,000,
EpwaArp McELROY, & gamblerat Kan
sas City, Mo., shot his wife and then
himself early on the morning of the
sth. Both may perhaps live. | Domes
tic trouble was the canse.
Tax Mondamin ‘carnival opened st
Sioux City, la., on the 4th to continue
one week. ;
A FIRE supposed to have been started
by tramps destroyed the Burgess stock'
barn at Winona, lIL, the other night
and 30 fine horses were burned todeath.
THE mint in San Francisco has re
ceived instructions from Washington®
to resume the coinage of silver dollars
_ at once.
- THE sanarchista'in Chicago ssked the
Federation of Labor to take part in
the demonstration in memory of the
men executed for the Haymarket mis
sacre. After a hulf hour's violent de- |
bate the federation filatly refused. to
take any part in the exercises.
Two factions of the congregation of i
St. John Baptiste at Chicago quarreled
in church og, the 84 aud continpned nl
in the street afterwards, where it cul-,
minated in a pitched battle betw jcn |
200 Armenians, Assyrians and A:iihs,
men and women both taking part !
Black eyes and bloody noses weml
abundant and two of the combatants |
were seriously cut. A wagon load of |
police finally succeeded in mwrlng’
quiet.
THE plethora of the gold in the New
York banks and in the treasury and
the scarcity of greenbacks is causing
banks dificulty in making payments
at the clearing house in bills.
FRANK STARBUCK, at Philadelphis.
defeated ‘‘Jimmy” Michael, the “Welsh
wonder,” in & 35-mile paced race at
Willow Grove by six yards.-Starbuck’s
time was 47 minutes 2 1-5 seconds, and
Michael's ¢-7 minutes 3 2.5 seconds. «
Tnx New York Herald on the 4th
printed s number of interviews with
leading Cubans in the city on the situ
ation on the island. They all declared
that autonomy was out of the ques
tion, but wére in favor of paying Spain
an indemnity if she would evacuate
Cuba at once.
NzaL Dow, the great temperance ad
vocate, died at Portland, Me.; on the‘|
2d, aged 93,
DExDs are recorded in the land books
of McNowell county, W. Va., for over
1,000,000 acres of land when in fact the |
county only contains 600,000 acres.. It
was believed that a gigaatic scheme of
fraud was being. perpetrated in large
eastern and -western cities by s gang
of swindlers, b
Ir wae reported from-Sam
that the Chinese had found a means to
snccessfully evade the Chinese réstric
tion act by landing'in pHe UnitbdStatds
on certificates issued in Madao. » Por
tuguese possession. The certificates
entitle them to land, accordi: an
opinion of the uuu&sum%,
!lug»mwgnh tory. ‘The seun-
Sor statemen rSeplember fol
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S e eR A N Al R
THE HOLLY CHIEFTAIN.
Fwol:zond typhoons wrought great
destruction in Japan recently, the
official report showing that $7,000
houses were submerged or wrecked.
Many deaths by drowning. also oc
curred.
Owixa to the long continued drought,
8 dispatch on the 4th said, the people
of Osceols, Ark., were forced to buy
drinking water, paying five cents a
quart for it. All the wells and springs
in the vicinity had gone dry.
A cow lying on the Choctaw railroad
track near South McAlester, L. T., de
railed an engine and 12 cars the other
night. The engineer and fireman were
killed and the brakeman was badly
hurt.
A DESTRUCTIVE prairie fire broke out
in the Indian territory near Siloam
Springs on the 4th and the flames were
:;:or'.ed as eating everything before
em: There wes great apprehension
felt for border towns g":ae flames
were destroying hundreds of toms of
prairie-hay. aud it was' feared that
many lives had been lost.
Firk broke out in Austin, Pa., on the
4th and in five hours every building in
the town was burned to the' ground
and sbout 500 people mmade homeless.
The place was practically without a
water supply.
Sowry Smith; of Los Augeles, Cal.,
was given .the.decision over George
Dixon, of Boston, in a 20-round fight
the other night at San Francisco. The
match was virtuslly for the champion
shipof the, feather-weight class, snd
Smith is now at the top.
CaPT. FREDERICK CHATARD, the old
est surviving officer of the confederate
| navy, died at St. Louis on the 4th,
aged 90 years.
FIRE destroyed the Northern Pacific
railroad depot at Little Falls, Minn.,
the other morning, besides a dozen
loaded freight cars and a number of
small buildings. Tramps were sus
pected as being the cause.
NxaAßr Schuyler, Neb., on the 3d a
physician was hastily summoned to the
| home of Frank Divis, where he found
| four of the seven children in the family
and their mother dead, s fifth child in
a dying condition and a sixth child
very sick. It was thought the mother
put strychnine in the coffee.
IN a freight collision on the Nickel
Plate at Willoughby, 0., Engineer
Brown was killed and seven cars load
ed with'grain® and stock were demol
ished.
THE steamer Rowena Lee struck a
snag near Moon’s Landing, Tenn., and
'nnk. The crew and passengers were
| saved, but the boat’s cargo, consisting
!o( bales of cotton, floated down the
river.
| Tne Indianapolis and Columbus play
jers decided not to play out the cup
| series in the Western league and the
cup was given to the Hoosiers, as they
had won three out of the five games
played. ; S A
mm§ at wm‘ , Tex., forced W. C.
Brann_enitor of Brann's Iconoclast, to
lgo to the college campus, where he
was made to sign » paper embodying
! retractiou of ‘the severe criticisms he
had prints.d ou the morsils of the insti
tution. " Brann signed the paper under
duress and was given 24 hours to leave
the r.zce. After Brann got to his of
fice and 'was surrounded by his friends
ha rexudh.ed his'act and declared he
wonld mot .:ve Waco. More trodble
was feared.
. AT the recent convention of the Ne
braska Wouan s Christian Temperance
union at Lineoln: Mra. Caroline Wood
{ ward; thg.‘ru!dent. arged women cf
the Methodist @rrowmination to with
draw ‘from aeti;: church work until
the general confmeénce should recog
| nize thew'as delegites. The 7.5 was |
applauded. . ; .
THE Rock Island road has offered &
reward of §:00 each for ithicgagtareof
the five men wvho -t us and robbed
its passengr:- train at Chickasha, I. T,
recently. i ;
i THE organization of the American
Maltir> Co. has been accomplished, s
New ¥ > dispatch said, and the trans
| fer to it of over 20 of the largest malt’
honses has been pnctic&llr gompleted.
4 Two ,{mlgrl trains callided on the
v Chicagao, Burlfigton & Quincy railroad
near Colmar, liL, and several cars were |
{ badly damaged and one of the locomo
! tives rolled down an embankment. A
tic> then broke out and 15 cars, loaded
with merchandise, were totally de
| stroyed.
’ Formst ires around Huntington,
Ind., were doing great damuge on the
Ist.© The timber and meadows were so
dry that the fires buru<d with great
rapidity. A
Tax failures in the United States for i
the ‘week ended the Ist were 194, ac
cording to Dun's report, sgainst 299 for
the corresponding week lust year.
AT Abilene, Tex., Patrick H. Grady.
8" prominent blacksmith and fron
merchant, attempted to murder Rev.
Father Dolje, formerly priest in charge
of the diocese. Grady alleged that the
reverend father had alienated the af
fections of his wife and destroyed his
home. e
Two masked highwaymen held up
three ' stages traveling from Angels
Camp to Milton, Cal, one after the
other, and robbed the passengers and
decamped with the express box,
" ‘Tux fdllowingstory Wwas published in
the Sheffield (Eng.) Telegraph: *‘We be
lieve that the French,lndian and United
States mints will be reopened to the
coinage of silver at 153¢ to 1, and that
“it will bé so sunounced in October. It
will probably also be announced that
Great Britain has agreed to the ur:;
suggested by the Washington govern
ment.” 3
dertaki liahment |
. establishment in St.
q'nu-ul:: _with Charles Noye, snother
Sioire bl Slike
{ y at w! a
45-caliber 'revolver nm bullet
pormr |gy gl eye
esusing him to. He got up, how
ever, spatout the bullet, with th:
| general of the marine hespital setvio
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A PAST freight train on the Bt. Louls
& San Francisco railroad got beyond:
control while coming down the Boaton
mountain in Arkansas and the entire
train was hurled from the track. 'Fire
man Mike Gorman, of Kausas City,
jumped aud was instantly killed.: Sev
eral others were badly injured. The
freight was nearly all & total loss. |
TRE state of Kausas won every im
portant point in the Kansas City stock
yards case, which was decided by
United Statea Judge Foster at Topeka,
Kan., on’ the 4th. His decision boiled
down was: . The law governing stoock.
{nrds charges was regularly passed by
he Kaunsas legislature; the stock yards
company is only an iscident of eom
merce and in the absence of action by
congress is subject to the state laws;
the charges fixed by the legistature |
would give reasonable return on the |
capital invested. . :
Two persons” were killed and many
others were more or less’ inifursd’in »
wreck on' the Denver & Rio Grande
rallroad at Cotopaxi, Col., on the 84,
caused by the breaking of & journalion
one of the coaches. 4 )
PRAINIE fires devastated the.sountry
around Winnipeg, Man. At Beause
jour two women and five childrenvere
burned 10 death ' and carcasges o{
horses, cattle and sheep were lying all’
around. Many farmerslost everything’
and several small villages were practi
cally wiped ont.
‘A WOMAK and her four children were
found dead by asphyxiation in the
West SBhore hotel, New York, on the
morning of the Ist. She had regis
tered the previous night as ‘‘Mrs. Caro
line Razinius, West Point.” The wom
an, it was thought, had voluntarily
caused the tragedy. i 7
A pisraTcH to London from Rome on
the Ist said that the pope’s weakness
was increasing and church dignitaries
were afraid that he would not rally
from the extreme feebleness he be
trayed.
FinE broke out early on the Istat
Willow Springs, 16 miles from Chicago,
and destroyed nearly half the town
and made about 80 families homeless.
+A RIOH gold strike has been made oft
Potosi mountain, in Colorado. The
vein was said to be wide and continu
ous and to run thousands of dollars to
the ton.
THE 14th annual convention of the
Missouri Valley Homeopathic Medical
association took place at-lows City, la.
Dr. L. C. McElwee, of Bt. Lonis, was
elected president for the ensuing year.
A souTHBOUND Rock Island passens:
ger train was held up at 11:30 a. m. on
the Ist near Chickashs, I. T., by five
masked men. They tried to blow open
the safe in the express car, but failed.
The car, however, was blown to atoms.
The mail bags were rified and all reg
istered packages taken. The robbers
then lined np the passengers outside
|and took M their ‘valnsbies. Possss
A TRAIX oM (he' Boetoh & Matine ratl- |
road met with n?fldm ar Mo
ford, Mass., and ‘Sbout so.passetigers
were more or less injured. )
Bomi:invqn,a. lesgue pennant
for 1807 {n the Nat| Baseball league.
CuarrLEs ‘H./Pi Jr., s wealthy
farmer near Newton, la., committed
suicide by plunging'head first into a
deep well. His only danghter. was_to
have been married tha next day. -
AT the Crystel palace, London, A. E. |
Walters best all the bicycle-recordd,
over fiuneufmu to 64 miles..” He |
covered the 34 mile yourse in 1:05:10 1-5,
and the 64 mile courss in 9:07:4 4-58.0 i,
Tix Orange Judd -Warmer, of Chiesa |
gO, in its fiual estimate of . the year's,
wheat crop,aaid that fignres based o
actual ‘thtaphing returns i od ‘n
| total yield' t“%{“{ by 'dl, ot}
which /373,590,089 pls_wad winter
' and ‘Jl!.flO.fi shéis'spring wheat..
-. I% & fane that was witnessed hyuat .
‘OOO | people. a$ ‘the Jilinois state- falr
groun? at {!p’hgol_d «Star_Polatee
notiouly beat Joe Patohes, but he slsot
lowered the world’s p: Téoord pre-|
vioasly, w«hhy_lfimi‘al haif a’seo |
‘ond, mßking h mile ju:9:00. 7
; Jonn,vom-kf;m been placed
under a gewe bond 1n a Chicago police |
court, when he raised a phial above
his head'and'stied; *Here ends my dis
grace!” and before he could be pre
| vented he drained the contents, fully
an ounee of carbolic acid. The suffer
er was hurried to the county ,llg,qpl'..l).
but he expired before he reached the
institution. AR
THE members of the National Irriga
tion congress at LlnoolT. Neb., got
through with ‘their businéss op the
30th and adjonrned. Cbeyenne, Wyo.,
was chosen for the next meeting vlace.
Mapy resolutions’ besring on subjecta
| pertinent to the meeting were passed.
J. BiChorohill; of Kansas, and Thomas
Knight, of Missouri, were smong those
pinced on ' the nsiional executive com
mittee. ¢ S
Worp has been received at Rome
that the English-Cavendish sporuns
expedition in East Africs was attacks:
by Ahhml._“ s h:bo nu‘:lundmullld:ho
members of the' on, u
2 Amh ris. e ‘ "
FrED D; WARNKCKE, president of the
People's bank, of 'Kingfisher, Ok., was
found hnm’ by the neck dead on the
evening of the 30th. l‘q occupled the
ro‘on dntwnlc? thi: sulcide was %m\-
mit or slee I ar
;:leca‘wu wénugy ” vfltb&ne afam-|
PARI; mlountein. eeven: miles from|
Greenvillé) 8. C., was ahaken by an
eartliguake the other morning. . The
guestd of the hotel at the summit were
a by @}e roeking of the building.
A PRaInE fire raged in, Twelve Mile
| hakeitownship, Emmett eounaty, ila.,
and gwer 13,000 tons of hay were burned.
Sevesl dwellings'were ulso destroyed:
1T ¢ New w":ng:bwnm
mill §¢ Newman & ! on;
‘O., Was dissovered ‘on fire and before
m e department reached tlnl:g
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TR EE R e e e
HOLLY, COLORAD®, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1897.
COURT DOCKET.
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Thers 'Are ‘486 Casés Ready for the
Federal Supreme Qeurt to Hear.
THE IRRIGATIO;V CONGRESS,
Assistant Commissioner:Bost Tolla of the
Werk of the m“@m Says It
WasHixgroy, Oct &--The October
term of the United Btates supreme
court will begin next Monday. There
are now 466 cases Off ‘the docket as
against ‘616 st the Beginning of the !
October term inilßoo,-oof which 388
came over from: iihe¢ ';“:rn'.nd 83
wve been;add. g the. qourt va
tion. Awfiyz 44 o t:"uah
t duty of the terstwill be an offi
cial call upon the" ent if he is in
the city on Monday sl no other pub
lic | business ‘will {’ transacted
on that dsy. & Ay' ‘the ' argu
ment of ' cases ‘on regular docket
will begin, and the followed un
til the second Mond the term, the
18th inst., when the ofurt will take up
the hearing of cases §dvanced on the
docket and assigned for that date, of
whigh there IM'!"“ the cases com
ing over from the term, 25 have
been ‘argued or sub! to the eounrt
and any of them'may be tinally dis
posed of on any. Mo after the first
week of the term. | of these cases
are of considerable infportance, amang
them being the Nl maximaom
freight rate case, invplving the right
{of a state legislaturgfo fix a freight
rate beyond which r ads cannot go
in their charges. ' 11:
The IrrigatisnCongresa
WasHINGTON, Oct. B&+Assistant Com
missioner Best, of the general land
office, who represented the jnterior de
partment at the' naSional irrigation
congress, at Lincoliy" Neb., has re
torned. 'He says the Work of the con
vention will bea? fruitin coming leg
islation and/that congemss, at its next
session, will be asked 89 pasaan amend
ment to the Carey Jaw; giving states
larger control over thalr arid lands by
enabling them to m these lands
as security for if feclamation. A
substantial and mn smendment
was offered in the last Gonigress by Mr.
Herman, eommissieneref -the goneral
land office. The peincipal work ac
complished by the frrigation congress
was the passage of & resolution recom
mending to congres /the, adaption of
this amendmenti. § recommendation
for the creation of @§public land com
mission $0" usoce! shanges neces
sary in public land Jaws to meet exist
ing conditions in thajarid weut, aud a
recommendstion '3‘ roeldani. ye
erve all i orselr SN IS S 650 1
> a M IDWE To V¥ mote valn
‘able for timber sMan for agricultural
| snd mineral purposes in ‘the: interest
of irrigation, " = g
3 FE Vs P MRS T
MISSOURI LAW MEING TRESTED.
Fight Over the lm-u ‘of One School
- in Twe Different -dld:;-.
Moxtaousny Ciry, Mo., Oct. 6.—Can
the corporate sehoal district of- Mont
gomery City maintsin one school in
two different buildings snd at the
same time be within the pale of the
{ law? --Phis “is -the guestion ‘that has
‘made the citizens of Montgomery City
warm since the filing ot an‘alternative
writ of mandamus sguinst the Loard
of education by John Best and J. A,
Bently to compel tlull:otrd to main
tain a grammar n:each of ‘ the |
two bl?ldlnci imflfldh the corpor
‘Ate district into two grammar school
wards. A hot Aght on; the tech
nical points ol‘%&ufl'm schgol law
qnl?es this case of unusua) inter-
Ast,'not only to the citizens here, but
10 the citizens of over 75 or 100 towns
‘ln Nissouri where' the pnblic .schools
are carried on as they erp here. . ...
GRAIN INSPECTIOM.WAR
A G SR |N T S A T
James Russall, .af Runsns.Clby, ,-“’ Ar- |
EPASEI ARR
nl:ffinp ancd 10i8ie KNHIE of J somes |
Russell,.B.q ite grain .lnspector of
Knnlpicity, £ g'llr‘(ljg him with
inspeecting son Ksusas territory
contrary J'o,".-i,fii'- Kansax " itate grain
inspection’ law. The srrest ‘is- the
firt legal - wotn talken in _the
| fight that is being made ‘on. the Kan
sas ntite’ inspection. ~Seyeral “of ‘the |
graincommission firms in lfiE:'«hlm
building have .8 fifl ;. sccept she
Kuu.n{n‘fila. m-:f.a ciuq ége
inspeptors” were ‘jucompetent ‘and the
gmin not properly. graded. It ia
averred by grain men that many of the
h’lnecur- hold their m by reason of
political influence while they are not
fit to examine grain'and pass upon it: |
quality. ‘ .
Killed as Her Husband Was.
Sr..Josern,. Mo., Oct.’B.--Mrs. E.
Johnston, of Bolckow,‘met death in
the same. zinner and at almost the
same Spot as did her :;.b;nd two
years ago. Sheiws- out drivi hen
the horse ran away. Mra ?g‘n‘:ston
was thrown out, strikiugs berhead and
fracturing her skull, from ‘tha effects
‘of which she soon disd.: ~*
Langtry's Husband Goos Inssne.
Loxpox, Oct. 6.—Edward Langtry,
formef huitand bf!Lily Lengtry, the
aetress, who moantlqubund & di
varce from him in California, has been
found wandering ‘in ‘® dewented con
dition on the rallway line mear Ches
te2 and been' sent 10 & lnnsitls haylum.
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George Dixon Defeated.
' Bax FRAXCINCO, Oét. 'Q.W', Sinith,
of Los Angelos, was glyen e declaion |
oi’rGeorge g.i‘:o‘n. of Boston, in a 20-
-l 7 eyl oo
feather-weight oh-.utfl-lt: is:
atthesap | (G E TR
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XKanias Criv, Mo., 0% §+-Clearin
the. Kanesa City b ‘m:fl
‘w:u n"fe vax';
s of the corrvapdiving peried ol
Mo 1T T
WANY A RENEARING.
The Blesk Yards Cobd io Ba Taken Before
. Toennas Kam, Doh & dudge A B
A, Kan., Oet. ©. ge A. H,
Horton has maqn':tho on Attorney-
General Boyle that he will, on Thurs
day, apply to Judge Walter H.'Sanborn,
‘of the United States court of appesals
of St Pavul for a rehearing of the
stogk yards case. He will adk Judge
Sanborn not to hear the case on su ap
peal, but to hear ail matters in fssve
fu the stock yards case, and’ to'
go ' into the facts and the lsw
as thoroughly as '.hon,h it had been
originally brought bsfore him. Such
hearings are rarely asked, and still
more rarely granted. Judge Sanford
ranks directly above ‘Judge Foster in
| the federal judiclary. The owners of
the| stock ‘yards have a right to ask
Judge Foater Tor'a rehearing.’ They
have no hope that he would grant it,
and atill lesy that it would: dd them
ln{‘ good if he shounld tit Their
only ‘hope now is !fl:fl the higher
courts will overrule him, and instead
of asking him to reopen the case for a
new hearing, they will ask Judge San
born to consider the evidence as At ap
pears {n the record made by George W.
Clark, the special master, make his
own findings of facts, or have them
_made, as best suits himsel?, and decide
the case as though it has never beey
decided.
SHE DANCED TOO OFTEN.
DT Ril T F Til SV Y N AEESe {
A Chicago Woman Criticised and She Com- |
mits Suicide—Others Go the same Road.
Cnicago, Oct. 6.—Another suicide
waye struck Chicago yesterday. Mrs
‘Corpelia Ambrose .swallowed paris
green because her husband said she
danced too often with an old admirer.
She is dead. Thomas Pipe, & horseman,
took his life with earbolic scid. He
‘waa despondent over the loss of S3OO of
which he was robbed by highwaymen.
Olave Swanson,s widower, 87 yearsold,
Jumped from a third story window. He
was despondent because of old |
His left thigh was' dislocated unm
was injured ' internally. George N.'
Nolte rowed some distance out in the
lake and jumped. into the water and
was drowned. He had. been ill for
some time. Mrs. Mary Seitz attempt
ed to end her life by jumping into the
Lincoln park lagoon. ' She was rescued
but refused to give any reason for her
desire to end her life.
FEVER NOT SO SERIOUS.
Only One Deathat New Orieans and En
couragieg Keperts from AN Poiuts.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 6.—Twenty-two
new yellow fever cases were reported
yesterday and 16 up to noon to-day,
with ' one death since yesterday morn
ing. The danger of an epidemic is
even farther away than heretofore.
At Mobile, Als., the fever situstion
is I_sn,qghoqthc’lunduh_ New Or..
: . JNYOTas '.s Mfi"l .I“‘fll?"“d.
| At Vicksburg, Miss, fever excite
ment is over, and there are no suspi
cious cases. There was only one new.
case at McHenry yesterday. At Biloxi
there were eleven new cases, but no
deaths. ' A 'wpek has passed since
Ocean Springs had & new case and it is
probable that as the resort was the
first . point &t which the plagne ap
peared, 5o it will be the first to be free
from it. .
HE HAS THREE WIVES
{u-m. Mo., Scandalised by s Strasger's
Record as & Polygamist.
SLATER, Mo., Oct. 6.—About a fort
night ago s harse trainer who called
himself R. F. Riggs arrived here. 'Last
night J. 'K.. Twyman, ecounstable of
_Armatrong, came after him, but Riggs
had| just left town. His real name
is said to be Smith, and he is believed
to have three wives and two children
by 'the “second, to whom he ‘was
married in Leonard; Shelby connty,
and who is now with -her parents
in Armstrong.. The first wife came
from Jllinois, and the third was Miss
Lola Kruse, of Armstrong. The third’s
“murriage to Siith was her second, her
first having been annulled because the
mwan to whom she bad been married, a
‘commercial traveler named Greene,
had been a bigamist. ‘
A Very Ugly Case.
{¢ { MExico, Mo., Oct. 6, —Thomas Cooley
‘Erst, a respected young man of this
county, to-morrow will be put on trial
here for his life, being accused of rap
‘ing his 13-year-old niece, little mother:
less May Winn. The case is a very
ugly one.. This because of the age and
relation of the mlleged victim to the
"socused.
Postponed by Yellow Faver.
_ ToPEkA, Kan., Oct. 6.—Gov. I_ned,vl
has received information that the
prison congress at Austin, Tex., for
“which all of the western states have
appointed delegates, has been: post
poned from October to December 8 and
6 Inclusive, on account of yellow fever.
Temporasy Mestraining Urder Granted.
OnMANA, Neb,;: Oct. 6.—A: speeial to
the Bee from Liucoln says: Judge
Munger, of the United States district
court, granted the temporary resirain
ing order to prevent the enforcement
of the law to regulate stock yards
passed by the last legislature. ¢
Soldiers Prevented Trouble
WasHI¥aTON, Oct. 6.—The Indian
agent at Tuskahoma, I. T., telegraphed
to: thé Indian bureau to-day thut the
presence of troops had averted trouble
at the meeting of the Choctaw econneil
yesterduy and that he thought all the
danger was now uver.
Money Found in an Old Shoe.
HIAWATHA. Kan., Oet: 6.—ln clean
dng up the Hdover house, an old shoe ;
wan fonnd containing $l5O, undoubted
1y the savingh of Capt- and Mrs. Hoover,
who willed théif property to the ' Hin
vwatha academy: A TATRYY .
For Miss Mattingloy's Murder.
Mamsuar, Mo, Ock 6.~Guy’'Webs
o Miasi s Lodiged bn Il chargos
; n Jnil
with the murder. of . Miss: Carrle Mat
“::kl:’ in thas town . about three
‘weeks sgo. M
1 1A Sesder Mysery Beee :
| Tormme Rax Cet (e dsed
' aB unkaowp man )
ot ix ohit of
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THE FARMING WORLD,
LT et " i Ead
.. FTHE VINE HOPPER. - *
Hew This Destrustive Pest Is Fought
im Califorala. .
| Bulletin No, 116 of the Californis sta-~
. tion (Berkeluy) describes the “Califor
‘aia Vine Hopper,” which is counted as
‘:ome of the four things doing the great-.
- ‘est injury‘te the vineyards of Califor
.:ois. The. bulletin gives an interesting
account of the life history of this in
jurious insect and goes on to suggest
" remedies, some of which may be of in
'terest to our readers. It is stated'that
| some growers believe that the hopper
. may be kept in subjection by “sheep
' ing” the vineyard. Bheep are turned
. into the vineyards after the fruit is
picked and permitted to eat down the
|
N AT TS
| DEVICE' FOR JARRING INSECTS. |
AT Tt i rrr BT s€TP O bAy v&iyg sPy
leaves. This method is considered in
effective, as are also the methods of
burying the leaves and spraying in win
ter. :
Suommer spraying is said to be an
effectual process, but is costly and diffi
cult. The insect is very active, and in
. order to kill it a very strong and pen
. etrating wash like' kerosene emulsion
must be used. Jarring is considered
one of the best remedies when tried in
the spring and under certain condi
‘tions.” Fig. 1 shows certain contriv
{ances that are used in jarring. The
! scoop or shovel is held up against the
vine to hold the hoppers which are
i driven down by striking with a stick.
Another way to fight the pest consists
| in using a plain palm leaf fan dipped in
v
l A NET FOR INBECTS.
» sticky mixture like thick molasses
and water. The fan is held under the
| vine with oné-hand while with the oth
‘| er the operasar strikes the.leayes so as
‘| to knock the hoppers down upon the
fan. An insect net shown at Fig. 3is
;| also used, With this the vine is jarred
and as the insects fly a few skillful
strokes with the net will catch most
of them, and they may be crushed or
emptied into kerosene.
Prof. Woodworth says that the net
‘tand the fan methods are the only ones
which are at all practical for summer
use. He observed that' nearly 90 per
cent. of the hoppers were killed by the
oet method while working with a gang
large enough to cover about five acres
a'day. About half of the gang of men
were.green hands, part white and part
Chinese, and at the rate of wages the
cost per acre would be between 15 and
20 cents. This is an illustration of the
salue of scientific agricultural work.
Such pests are sure to come. The av
srage farmer cannot afford .time and
study needed to understand how to
fight, such insects. or, diseases. There
must fipo scientific men somewhere with
vothing to'do but to study these mat
tors and give their results freely to
the "u‘o!fld.——_nunl New Yorker.
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DIET OF THE TOAD.
Wasps, Beetics and Yellow Jackets
{57 Cempose Its' Menu.'’
" Bulietin 46'of Hatch (Mass!) station
says the toad lives ten to forty years,
4does not begin to produce young till the
fourth year, but then lays over 1,000
eggs 4 year. It has lived two years
without food, but cannot live long un
der water, It never takes dead or mo
tionless food. It takes its food by
means of its tongue alone, and it oper
ates this so rapidly that the eye cannot
follow its motions. It captures and de
vours bees, waspas, yellow jackets, ants,
beetles, worms, spiders, snails, bugs,
grasshoppers, crickets, weevils, cater
|'piliars, moths, etc.
The station examined with a micro
acope the contents of ‘the stomachs of
seven toads in April, 80 in May, 66 in
June, 26 in July, ten in August and
seven in September—l 49 in all. On an
average it was found that 80 per cent.
of the toad’s food consists of harmfu!
insects, and 11 per cent. was of such
beneficial insects as bees, ‘spiders, lady
bugs, etc. ¢ ¢
The stomach that doesn’t. flinch at
yellow jackets, wasps, blister beegles
and click beetles or pinch-bugs would
seem to be prepared foranything in the
Insect line, and it doubtless is.
The quantity of food that a toad's
stomach can accommodate is remark
able." In one were found 77 myriapods,
in another 53 army worms, in another
%% gypsy moth caterpillars, in another
S rine ants, six cut.worms, five myria
i pois, six sow bugs, oie weevil and one
1 %:ve worm beetle. . :
In 24 hour= the toad consumes enough
!no&_tg fill its, stomach four. times.|
v Fa!ngln‘ at the rate, ~hove mentioned,
a shgle toad will {n thre¢ months de
! yoz‘!qlnl“!o.“jfl insects. If every te)
|9f thiese would bave done one cent dnm: |
L age thé tond has skved ten dofidre; '
[, Eritently the toad *in‘t & vivablet
1 b grower, -enn. e mbe: e
? - useful in greenhopse, guieniand
b oy ST e )e ad
1 ' -o T I"?fi:f‘:“‘;’ pat the |
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s > el it
NUMBER 36
THE SAVING DAIRYMAM
> o kS R L ey KRN
The w PR
extravagumt fl‘zfl B "‘a%-:fe&fa:‘f
Firat, a dairymas should be daving et
his cows, as a cow well cared for willlse.
a useful udoflgmib}d snimal'for sev- i
|eral years longee than oue 11l fed, 13 '
housed and {il treated. ] *3;”’%
.Even in suminér ¢ "“’""”‘%
left exposed to viclent raiustorms, but
-houw,b,ef; m&flemh b i
danger of their being st by Hght
nln:.e:l when' 'bm,toptm under:
trees, or being chilled by a nged .
drenching. The Ilatter, elm%;..fi
damaging to the milk yield, for I haws s
noticed that cows always shrink’ iy -
milk after exposure to a‘storm. “Wise'
economy oslls for measures that ‘fl*
obviate this, namely, s dry, warm shel-'
; savin T your feed, !5,!' G
stance, in :l:tl::‘s;fleh c'meuk‘ls corn fod
der, when they trample it under their
hoofs and waste as much as they eat, i§-
is the dairyman who is wasteful, not
the animais! ~ T 'find that the most
economical way of feeding corn fodder
is to spread it before the cattle whenin
stanchions, and only give them what
tizey will'eat up clean, 5 2
To be saving of the feed in the pass:
tures don’t put more stock into the .
field than it will support. On a farm not
long ago I heard them talking about *
the cow pasture, horse pasture, sheep '
pasture and calf lot. I knew the owner
wason the right track, as it implied
that he kept his stock separated. Milch
cows never do as well when compelled
to pasture in common with other cat~
tle. §
Then, again, do not waste the milk.
Even & drop of milk, which may repre
sent the growth of one grass root, can<
not afford to be wasted. In the first
place secure all of the milk from the
| cow’s udder by patient stripping. The
richest comes last, and you cannot af
ford to lose even a drop.
It isnot a stingy course to see that the
milk pails, pans, cans, etc., are well
cleaned; and that your hired hands are
80 kind to the cows that the animals do
not frequently kick over the milk pails
and spill the fluid. Perhaps the most
effcient way to save milk is to preserve
its quality o 0 ‘well that none is wasted
by souring or tainting.
Be uvln‘ of the butter you make,
In figuring ‘on’ 4 good yield of butter
from the c:?n. do not make the mis
take of mixing some of the casein of &
milk in with the butter fat. This is
done by skimming loppered milk, under
the supposition ‘that it is economy, .
when it really’ is the grossest extrava
{gance, for you can never make first
| class butter that way.. f ol
| Remembe?¥ that milk, cream and but
ter saved is money earned, »0 exerciss
wise economy in all branches of dairy
ing—George E. Newell, in American
Cultivator. g
FOR TOBACCO GROWERS.
Description of a' Horse That Is Easily
Made at Home! 3
For the construction of a home-madp
tobacco horee, as illustrated herewith,
for the sides'(a) take two pieces one by
tLree inches. and three feet ten inches"
long. The two cross pieces (b) are one
by three inches and four feet ten inches
long, nailed sécurely to sides (a) with *
eight penny nails. For cross piece (¢)
take ome piece one by two inches and
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I TOBACCO HORSE. ¥
four feet four inches long and nail te
sides (u). The feet (ee) are one by thres
inches and 12 inches long and nailed to
sides(a)asa foot rest. Stick (d) istohang
tobacco on. Each hand takes tsvo rows.
After one strip is filled, one removes
it and the other man moves the house
and drops sticks, béfore beginning to"
cut, at every three hills in'each 354
row if 12 ‘plants aré to be put on the '
stick. Put two rows together and itim .
darnger of sunburn, put elg’i& to twelve
sticks in a heap and only the top stick
will be"th danger of sunburn.” In haal-""
ing, have three hands, one on the wa;
and one oW each sidé to pass mb& i
from the heap to the wagon.: Regulate *
the tobacco’ on:the stick ‘whem cus and | .
after it wilts there will be no more to
do.~T. A. Harpending, in American
Agriculturist. 45 5
HELPFUL DAIRY NOTES.
Burning sulphur in the curing-room,
it is said, will kill mold flies and skip~
pers on cheese. _’,;}n; s
The Mississippi experimént statfom
bas demoustrated that serious loss ro- '
sults from not salting cows. b A 2hi
A cow that will make, unds of”:
butter, relnemlt'!!l'”.-fl‘\wmn’;d“w&:@
more than ene that will n\a‘ke.onl’fl'z(pv 2
pouhds:y AT RS
'l2».e government inspectors at the .
Chi¢ago stock yards condemn 5’71
of l,“ cows that have calves de'w ’fi\v‘fi;«tfl
the (hair on. i e T T il W B s
“Cows ut the dh{e:l&t:‘l{d*
in 4 month of purturitie 5 ind £ 4_‘__,;_
Aayh after.ure contiémmed By b ot
{ernmeat ix i}!&m.‘i Vi R
TTAI lid b 1 ok -SR M
plasks dairy cow!feed or das A,?m e\
o e ROk wimengrandy 1,
iwale her M’—"T“m%., Ao)
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