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HIGHLAND
RECORDER
VOL. XXIV.
MONTEREY, HIGHLAND COUNTY, VA.. APRIL 4, 1902.
NO. 13.
ROOFS FALLON
CONG REG AXIONS
Many Persons Injured in Accident Caused
jBy Wind and Lightning.
A PREACHER BURIED IN THE DEBRIS.
The Storm In and About Pittsburg Was So
Terrific That the Tall Spires and Chim?
neys Were Unable to Withstand the Great
Force?In One Church For'v People Were
Injured.
Pittsburg, Pa.. (Special).?One of the
fiercest windstorms ever known in this
section struck the city just before noon,
and did almost incalculable damage to
property and injured many persons, some
of whom may die from the effects of
their wounds. Scores of houses were
unroofed, many trees were blown down,
mill stacks toppled over and telegraph
and telephone wires generally disabled.
The most serious accident reported up
to 9 o'clock was the unroofing of the
Knoxville Presbyterian Church, in
Knoxville. The church at the time was
filled with an Easter congregation num?
bering about ooo persons. While the
minister was in the midst of his ser?
mon a particularly strong gust of wind
blew over a large chimney and lifted a
portion of the roof of the building. The
bricks from the chimney crashed through
and carried a huge piece of the hard?
wood ceiling measuring about 40x20 feet
down upon the worshipers in the pews.
An indescribable panic ensued, and a
frantic rush was made for thc doors and
windows. The excitement was soon
quieted and the work of rescue begun.
At least 40 persons were caught by thc
wreckage and more or less hurt. Of this
number five may not recover.
In none of the other accident reports
throughout the city were there any se?
rious injury to persons, though many
narrow escapes are recorded. Thc tow?
boat Belle McGowan was blown over
in the Ohio River, opposite Sawmill
run, and completely wrecked. Her crew
narrowly escaped drowning, but all were
finally rescued by harbor boats.
The corrugated iron roof of the Union
brdge at the point was lifted from its
fastenings by thc wind and parts of it
carried a distance of a mile. The Whit?
tier schoolhouse, on Mount Washington,
was unroofed and its walls badly twist?
ed. Jones & Laughlin had 14 of their
furnace stacks blown down, necessitating
the shutdown of a portion of their plant
for weeks.
A WOMAN FOR CONGRESS.
lier Platform ls thc Golden Rule and Pro*
hibition.
Louisville, Ky., (Special).?Mary
Burkhart, of Lane, Wolf county, has
announced herself as a candidate for
Congress on the Prohibition ticket in
the Tenth District.
She says she will make a house-to
house canvass and will win over her
Democratic and Republican opponents
by a big vote. Miss Burkhart is 26, and
is an attractive brunette. She possesses
about $40,000 in her own name and says
she will soend some of her money in
her campaign.
"There is no law." she says, "to pre?
vent me from taking a seat in Congress
if I receive a majority of the votes,
which I am certain I will. I defy Con?
gress to unseat me. The Golden Rule
is my platform, with Prohibition thrown
in."
Tried to Wreck Trair.
Trenton, Mo. (Special.) ? George
Busch, aged 16 years, and George Young,
aged 20, sons of respectable parents of
this city, made an unsuccessful attempt
to wreck an eastbound Chicago, Rock Is?
land and Pacific passenger train about
five miles east of here. The track at this
point is on a high embankment, and a
derailment could scarcely have occurred
without the loss of many lives. Both
boys were arrested and have confessed.
Their motive appears to have been re?
venge for having been put off a freight
train. Dime novels are believed to have
played a part.
A Tunnel Five Miles Long.
Auburn, Cal. (Special.)?A corps of
Southern Pacific surveyors and engineers
has just completed a survey for a new
tunnel through the Sierras, which will
be one of the longest in the world. Ac?
cording to the records of thc survey, it
will be five miles end 800 feet in length.
It will eliminate nearly 1,000 feet of
grade and will reduce the length of
snowsheds 28 miles. Thc proposed work
will cost millions of doHars and will
consume years in construction.
British Hammered Again.
London (By Cable).?A casualty list
just published records a hitherto nure
ported fight in the Rhenoster Valley,
near Sutherland, Cape Colony, March 24,
when the British were evidently severely
handled. They lost 8 men killed, had io
men wounded and 29 were captured. Thc
latter have since been released.
Youthful Brothers Drowned.
Middle'ooro, Ky. (Special.)?Thomas
and William Warren, aged 12 and 15
years, respectively, were drowned in the
flood which swept down the Powell Val?
ley. Their father's house was wrecked,
but he escaped with their mother by
swimming. The loss in that section is
estimated at over $5,000.
James R. Garfield Accepts Position.
Washington. D. C., (Special).?James
R. Garfield, a son of the late President
Garfield, has accented the position of
civil service commissioner tendered him
about ten days ago by President Roose?
velt. He take; the place vacated by Mr.
William A. Rodenberg.
A $51,000 Bank Transfer.
Chicago, (Special).?Stockholders of
the Corn Exchange and Merchants' Na?
tional Banixs have ratified the proposi?
tion to consolidate thc two institutions
under tl.e name of the former. The
transfer of a large part of the Mer?
chants' cash has been effective already.
Thc enlarged Corn Exchange will have
a capital of $2,000,000 and a surplus of
$2,000,000. The institutions recently re?
ported deposits aggregating about $51,
000,000.
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.
The Union Trust Company, as re?
ceiver of the wrecked City Savings
Bank of Detroit, asked thc court to per?
mit suit of the stockholders, the assets
of the bank being less than $2,000,000
and the liabilities over $3,000,000.
The threatened big strike of the
weavers in Southern New England has
been averted. Many mills have agreed to
grant the demanded io per cent, increase,
and the others are expected to follow.
It is reported in Butte. Mont., that
John C. Paulsen, a defaulter, reported
to have committed suicide, really fled to
Germany, where he is now living with
his family.
The training stable of Frank H. Colby,
at Highland Park, near Detroit, was de?
stroyed by fire and 17 valuable horses
were burned.
There was a rough-and-tumble, fight
between opposing factions of Seventh
Day Adventists in a cnurch in Chicago.
Charles Woodward, who was sen?
tenced to be hanged at Casper, Wvo.,
for the murder of Sheriff Ricker, but in
whose behalf a stay of execution was
issued by the Supreme Court last Tues?
day, was lynched at Casper.
The floods in Mississippi, Alabama
and other parts of the South have
caused the railroad companies heavy
losses. At Meridian and Jackson, Miss.,
many people were driven from their
homes.
Dr. Edmund J. James, president-elect
of Northern University, in Chicago, in
his communication to the hoard of trus?
tees expressed the view that public sen?
timent was turning against coeducation.
Mrs. Julia K. Birdsall was held in
$5,000 bail in Philadelphia to answer
charges of embezzlement and forgery
made by her former employers, Bern?
stein, Kauffman & Co., of that city.
A warrant was issuer for the arrest
of H. C. Bell, the missing teller of the
Riverside Bank of New York, whose ac?
counts were found to be $12,500 short.
Two were killed and a number se?
riously injured in a head-on collision on
the Joliet and Chicago Electric Rail?
road, near Sag Bridge.
The weavers in the Fitchburg and
Beoli mills of the American Woolen
Company of Fitchburg, Mass., went on a
strike.
Dr. Orin S. Sargent, once a promising
physician of Philadelphia, died from the
effects of morphine in a hospital.
Mrs. Mary Hively fell into a pot of
boiling sugar in Warsaw, Ind., and was
scalded to death.
Major J. R. Clagett, of the Second
United States Infantry, died in New Or?
leans.
Governor Montague, of Virginia,
commuted the death sentence of William
O. Boyle, convicted of the murder of
Alma Hamilton, his mistress, to life im?
prisonment.
The discharge of 15 union miners at
the Fairmount Company's mine at Mt.
Clare, W. Va., is causing serious trouble
and a number of men are under arrest.
During the trial by court-martial of
Major Waller, a native scout testified to
a plot among the native leaders of the
Waller expedition to murder the Major.
A jury in the United States Court in
Tallahassee, Ela., convicted S. M. O.
Clyatt, a wealthy turpentine operator,
I on the charge of peonage.
Emil A. Meyrenburg, ;i member of
the Wisconsin Legislature, was con?
victed of bribery and his punishment
fixed at three years in prison.
Foreign.
A renewal of the Triple Alliance, with
certain modifications, was effected at a
conference at Venice between the Ger?
man Chancellor and the Italian Minister
of Foreign Affairs.
The Jamaicans are generally disap?
pointed over a note from Mr. Chamber?
lain, the British colonial secretary, with?
holding his consent to the new constitu?
tion.
Sir Thomas Lipton, it appears, sug?
gested the idea of King Edward's coro?
nation dinner to the poor of London.
There were 1,500 Boers within the
latest cordon drawn by Lord Kitchener,
but all escaped through the gaps in the
British lines excepting 179 men, includ?
ing Commandant "H. Kruger. There
were exciting races between the British
and the Boers, the former recovering
two guns captured by the Boers in Feb?
ruary. Prayers for peace were offered
in the churches of England and Pre?
toria.
Dr. Leyds, the European agent of thc
Boers, denied that he was to have an
interview with Lord Rosebery and other
British Liberal leaders in Paris.
Colonel Grimm, a Russian officer,
charged with revealing military secrets
to Germany, has been imprisoned. ?
The Turkish government has ordered
thc mobilizing of 90,000 troops, it is be?
lieved for use in Macedonia.
Turkish troops attacked a Bulgarian
post and one Bulgarian was killed and
several wounded.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
took their final .departure from Marl?
borough House. They will cruise during
the Easter holidays on thc royal yacht,
and on their return to London will take
up their residence at Buckingham Pal?
ace.
Kimberly, the "Diamond City," is in
mourning, the stores are closed, flags
half-masted and work suspended in thc
mines. The state funeral of Cecil Rhodes
will take place April 2 at Cape Town.
The members of thc Transvaal gov?
ernment, including Acting President
Schalhurger, were at Kroonslad, Cape
Colony, the early part of the week in
communication with Steyn.
From Berlin comes the statement that
the United States government has been
sounding Germany as to how far it
would go in maintaining the "open door"
in China.
The North German Lloyd steamship
Company has declared a dividend of 6
per cent., as against a dividend of 8</2
per cent, last year.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria,
in accordance with his Maundv Thurs?
day custom, washed the feet of 12 aged
men in Vienna.
Financial.
Thc Lackawanna has declared the reg?
ular quarterly dividend of iy$ per cent.
Payable April 21.
The principal movements of curren?
cy this week indicate that the New York
banks have lost $1,314,500.
The American Sugar Refining Com?
pany has advanced the price of soft su?
gars, Nos. 13 and 14, 5 points.
It is estimated that the world's sup?
ply of gold has been reduced by $20,
000,000 during the last two and a half
years owing to the closing of the South
Africa mines.
SLAUGHTER IN
OIINESE RIOTS
Hundred of People Killed in the Chi
Li Province.
MISSIONARY WARNED TO KEEP OUT.
The Attempts of Local Officials (o Collect
Indemnities for tbe Catholic Missionary
Claims, as Arranged Between the Officials
and tbe Priests, Cause the Trouble ?
Mowed Down by Troops,
Pekin (By Cable).?Chinese officials
say that 1,000 people have been killed in
riots at Ta Ming Fu, the southernmost
prefecture of the Province of Chi Li.
This, perhaps, is an exaggeration, but the
loss of life was undoubtedly great.
The riots were due to attempts of local
officials to collect indemnities for thc
Catholics, as arranged between thc offi?
cials and the priests.
Soldiers have been dispatched to quel!
the disturbances, and a taotai has been
sent to adjust the differences.
The officials warn the missionaries to
keep out of the disturbed district.
Such resistance to the payment of mis?
sionary claims is to be expected in locali?
ties \vherc the population is poor and
large sums aed levied.
Thc latest reports from Ta Ming Fu
say thc greatest loss of life occurred dur?
ing the fight between Yuan Shi Kai's
soldiers and the populace. The inhabi?
tants of several villages, who were en?
listed in the so-called United Villagers'
Society, resisted the soldiers, but. as most
of the villagers were only armed with
spears and swords, they suffered great
slaughter.
VERDICT FOR TICKET SCALPERS.
Chicago Judge Decides That Tickets Passing
Through Their Hands Are Good.
Chicago, (Special).?"However repre?
hensible and odious to a railroad com?
pany a ticket scalper may bc, there is no
law that invalidates a ticket which other?
wise is valid because it passes through
his hands."
Judge Lhytratts, of the Superior
Court, has given this opinion in a suit
for damages brought by Moritz Horo?
witz against thc Chicago and Northern
Pacific Railroad Company. Damages of
$250 were agreed upon.
While traveling with his wife to Min?
nesota on a ticket purchased from a
scalper in Chicago, which had originally
been issued to a Michigan newspaper,
Horowitz was confronted by J. C. Pond,
general passenger agent of thc road, who
happened to be on the train. Horowitz
and his wife were ejected from the train
at Lake Villa, 51 miles from Chicago.
The attorney for the road argued that
Horowitz had been guilty of a construc?
tive fraud.
GOVERNMENT SOUNDS GERMANY.
Wishes to Know Latter's Attitude on Chinese
Question.
London (By Cable).?A dispatch
from Berlin says that the United States
has been sounding the German govern?
ment to see how far the latter was will?
ing to go to maintain thc open door in
China. A definite statement was re?
quested. Germany's reply was that while
it stood for the open door, it would not
oppose anything that Russia really de?
sired.
Washington (Special).?This Govern?
ment recently had its attention called to
I reports that Germany intended to main?
tain exclusive trade relations with the
! Shantung peninsula, which is nominally
within its sphere of interest.
The Government has become satisfied
that Germany has manifested no such
intention, and stands by her previous
assurance that she will recognize thc
open door.
Under the agreement of the Fowers,
as thc outcome of thc Pekin negotia?
tions, all of them arc bound to the open
door principle.
Plot to Kill Waller.
Manila, (By Cable).?At the continu?
ation of the trial by court-martial of
Major L. W. T. Waller, of the Marine
Corps, for the execution without trial
of natives on Samar Island, a native
scout by the name of Smoke was on the
stand. Smoke testified to thc existence
of a nlot arnon? the native leaders of the
Waller expedition to murder Major
Waller and Lieutenant Williams. He
said that when the marines had rations
they shared them with the natives. The
scout also said that he personally had
suffered severely from hunger.
Boys Skinned a Horse.
Mayfield, Ky.. (Special).?Two boys
I aged about 14 years were indicted by
j thc recent grand jury for killing a horse,
I skinning it and selling the hide for $1.50.
At this term of the Circuit Court they
were tried and sentenced to the School
of Reform. There being no room there
for them, the court ordered the boys
whipped until they shed tears. Sheriff
Harris was ordered to do the whipping
with a new cowhide. The boys' parents
paid for the horse.
whale Sinks a Vessel.
New Bedford, Mass. (Special.) ?
Word has been received here by the
agents of thc whaling bark Kathleen
that she had been sunk at sea by a
whale. Capt. Thomas H. Jenkins ca?
bles from Pernambuco, Brazil, that three
of the four boats had arrived at that
place. The missing boat contained nine
men. Thc captain's wife and all the offi?
cers were among those who reached
land. The Kathleen was valued at $12,
000. She was built in 1844. Her gross
tonnage was 205.
Refuses Carnegie's Offer.
Richmond, Va., (Special).?Thc City
Council has virtually declined to receive
thc $100,000 which Andrew Carnegie
agreed to give for the establishment of
a public library. It would be necessary
to set aside $10,000 yearly for the main?
tenance of the library. The offer was
accepted at first. A board of trustees
was elected, but those chosen were not
satisfactory, and the finance committee
has declined to provide the sum needed
to buv a site.
LIVE NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.
Sundry Appropriations.
The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill,
the most important of the Government
supply measures, was completed by the
House Committee on Appropriations.
It appropriates $49,316,395, being $12,
463,042 less than the regular and sup?
plemental estimates and $12,579,512 less
than the appropriation for the current
fiscal year.
Among the contract items provided in
excess of the present appropriations are
for public buildings, $3,839,646; Yellow?
stone Park, $500,000; Louisiana Pur?
chase Exposition, for Government build?
ing and exhibits, $1,048,000; permanent
census office and twelfth census, $1,400,
000; seacoast battery sites, etc., $1,537,
050; rivers and harbors, continuing con?
tracts, $5,882,757.
Some of the other main items are as
follows: Atlanfa (Ga.) penitentiary,
$100,000; Chicamauga and Chattanooga
Park, $50,000; Chinese Exclusion act,
$200,000; defending suits, Spanish
Treaty Claims Commission, $60,000;
Leavenworth (Kan.) Penitentiary, $250,
000; enlargement of military posts, $1,
537.?5?; preventing deposits in New
York harbor, $50,000; portrait of Wil?
liam McKinley, $2,500; Shiloh Military
Park, $40,000; Vicksburg Military Park,
$100,000.
The public building items of $50,000
or over include: Baltimore, $100,000;
Brunswick, Ga., $50,000; Chicago, $1,
000,000; Newport News, Va., $50,000.
The river and harbor contract items
over $50,000 include: Charleston, S. C.,
$50,000; Allegheny river, Pennsylvania,
$118,000; Monongahela river, West Vir?
ginia, $350,000; Congaree" river, South
Carolina, $50,000; Ocmulgee river, Ga.,
$56,000; Savannah river, Georgia, $86,
000; Tampa bay, Florida, $86,000.
The bill contains a general provision
directing the Secretary of War to re?
port at the next session of Congress a
proposition for the consolidation of the
existing commissions having charge of
the several national military parks or
substituting therefor a commission con?
sisting of one or more members to have
charge under the War Dcpartmcna of all
military parks.
Department Will Not Act.
Thc State Department will take no
steps to bring to the attention of the
Danish Government the charges against
the integrity of American statesmen
preferred by Capt. Walter Christmas
and brought to the attention of the
House of Representatives by Mr. Rich?
ardson.
The department regards the charges
as, unworthy its attention by reason of
insufficient evidence and obvious error in
statements of alleged facts. The de?
partment, it is said, is aware also that
the Danish Government does not intend
to pay one cent of the $500,000 claimed
by Christmas as his commission, so that
none of that money could be used to cor?
rupt American Statesmen and news?
papers.
Evans Sends In Resignation.
Commissioner of Pensions Evans has
placed his resignation in thc hands of
the President. It will not take effect
until some important position in the dip?
lomatic service is found for him.
The pension committee appointed at
the last annual encampment of the G.
A. R. to investigate the affairs of the
Pension Bureau, has made us report to
the President. It has not yet been de?
cided as to when thc report will be made
public, if at all. It is stated that thc
policy of Commissioner Evans will be
continued by his successor.
To Prevent Fights in Senate.
The Senate Committee on Rules has
modified an amendment to the rules pro?
posed by Senator Hoar, which is intend?
ed to prevent the use of language likely
to provoke violence on the floor ,as in
the Tillman-McLaurin episode. The rule
says:
"No Senator in debate shall, directly
or indirectly, by any form of words, im?
pute to another Senator or to other
Senators any conduct or motive unwor?
thy or unbecoming a Senator. No Sen?
ator in debate shall refer offensively to
any State of the Union."
Secretary Taylor in Trouble.
The attention of the President having
been called to alleged interviews with
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Taylor in a number of newspapers, in
which he had put himself in the position
of opposing certain provisions of the Chi?
nese exclusion bills now pending in Con?
gress, Secretary Shaw has been request?
ed by the President to examine into thc
matter and to report to him as to the
truth of the allegations. As Secretary
Shaw is in New York, no action will be
taken by him in the direction of carrying
out the President's instructions until his
return.
New Design for the Flag.
Representative Shafroth, of Colorado
introduced a bill prescribing the size ol
the field of the United States flag and
the arrangement of the stars.
The field shall bc square and one-third
the total length of the flag. The star*
j of the 13 original States arc to be in 1
circle, surrounding the stars of the 3c
1 admitted States in the form of a star
j with the stars of the last two admittec
States (Wyoming and Utah) temporar?
ily one to each side of the interior star.
Roosevelt to Give Diplomas'.
It was announced that President
Roosevelt will deliver the diplomas at
thc graduating exercises of the Nava
Academy at Annapolis on May 2. This
advance date for the graduating exer
eises was set in order to relieve a deart!
in commissioned officers.
Capital News in General.
President Roosevelt sent to Congress
the correspondence relating to the re
quest of General Miles to bc sent to tin
Philippines and the refusal to complj
with his request.
The engagement was announced o
Miss Alice Hay to James W. Wads
worth, Jr., of Genesee, New York.
The President approved the sentence
of dismissal imposed on First Lieuten
ant James H. Aldrich, of the Philippi?
scouts, convicted of conduct unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman.
Thc House committee to investigat<
the Christmas charges has decided tc
hold tuc hearings in public.
Joseph K. Wood, United States attor
ney in Alaska, resigned in order to avon
being dismissed.
The House Committee on Judicial*]
decided against the resolution directing
thc Attorney-General to proceed agains
thc Commercial Cable Company for al
leged violation of the anti-trust law.
TENNESSEE TOWNS
WRECKED BY WATER
Many Lives Lost and Property Ruined
By tbe Floods.
PEOPLE TAKE REFUGE ON THE ROOFS
The River at Nashville Rises Twenty-two
Feet In Twenty-four Hours?The Towns of
(larriman and Oakdn'e Nearly Demolished
?Many Houses Washed Away and Manu?
facturing Plants Destroyed.
Nashville, Tenn., (Special).?The
floods in Tennessee, the greatest known
in many years, have resulted in the loss
of a number of lives and property ag?
gregating in vallie more than $1,000,000.
On the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis and Louisville and Nashville
Railroads several bridges have been dam?
aged. Cumberland, Elk and Duck Riv?
ers and their tributaries rose rapidly dur?
ing the night, the rise at Nashville being
22 feet.
The towns of Hardman and Oakdale,
on the Emory River, were nearly swept
away, manufacturing plants wrecked and
numbers of houses destroyed.
The streams between Murfrecsborc
and Bell Buckle, Tenn., rose so fast thal
occupants of many houses were obliged
to seek safety in the second stories ol
their houses until the flood had receded
Traffic on the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis and Louisville and Nash?
ville Railroads at some points has beer
stopped, owing to the tracks being sub?
merged.
Much property at Mount Pleasant.
Shelbyville and Murfreesboro was dam
aged. Several hundred people at Mounl
Pleasant were driven from their home;
and took refuge in the courthouse.
Three lives were lost in Giles county
John Cole and his family, who resided
on Richmond Creek, near Pulaski, wen
driven to the roof of their home to es?
cape the rising water. The foundation?
of the structure gave way and thc fam?
ily were thrown into the flood. Mrs
Cole and her two younger children wen
drowned. The damage at Murfrecsborc
and other portions in Rutherford count}
is estimated to bc $500,000.
A special from Kingston, Tenn., withir
six miles of Harriman, says: "J. C
Cooper, mail carrier between Harrimar
and Kingston, arrived here from Harri
man. He states that thc heavy rain;
caused an unprecedented risc in thc Em
ory river, the result of which was th(
almost total, destruction of the manufac?
turing plants along the river in Harri
man. Between 300 and 400 people whe
reside in the river section of Harrimar
are without homes; 30 to 40 houses ai
Oakdale and Harriman were destroyed
being swept down stream.
HATFIELDS IN A BATTLE.
Two of Them and Two Officers Killed?
Revival of Feud.
Williamson, W. Va., (Special).?Sen
sational reports were received herc about
another fight with thc Hatfields, in which
four men were killed, among them being
Harry Watts, proprietor of the Palace
Hotel here. John Rutherford, a detect?
ive, had a warrant for the arrest of Eph?
raim Hatfield, who is wanted in South
Carolina. He finally located Hatfield
in Pike county, Ky. Watts went with
Rutherford, and they found Ephraim at
the home of his father, Thompson Hat?
field, on Blackberry Creek.
Rutherford and Watts broke in the
door and secured Ephraim, when the
father opened fire on them. Both offi?
cers and both Hatfields were killed. The
wife and little children witnessed the
tragedy. The Rutherfords were rela?
tives of "Cap" Hatfield, of feud fame.
Rutherford.,was a brother of thc two
Rutherfords killed at the election in 1896
by "Cap" Hatfield.
Watts was well known throughout thc
southern part of the State. It is said he
could have saved himself had he not
stopped firing for a moment when one
of the Hatfield children was within his
range. The excitement among the feud
ists is as great as at the time of the
burning of thc McCoys at the stake by
the Hatfields years ago, and more trouble
is expected.
Boers Escape Through Lines.
Pretoria, Transvaal Colony, (By Ca?
ble).?About 1,500 Boers, under Dclarey,
Liebonborg, Kemp and^Wolmarans. were
within the area of Lord Kitchener's
latest movement, but though surprised
by the rapidity displayed by the British
troops, gaps in the latter's lines enabled
most of the burghers to escape. The
Boer prisoners totaled 179 men, includ?
ing Commandant H. Kruger and Ex
Landrost Neethling of Klerksdorp.
Young Woman's Body In Mill Pond.
Charlotte, N. C., (Special).?Newt
has reached herc from Wilkes county,
N. C., of the finding of the body of a
young woman in a mill pond. The un?
fortunate girl was Sarah Benge, the
daughter of a farmer, and she had been
missing for three weeks. Evidences ol
blows on the head were discovered and
there was a large bruise on thc breast
There was no water in the lungs.
tf rs. Roosevelt Going to Charleston.
Charleston, S. C. (Special.)---Thc fol?
lowing will constitute thc party which
will visit the exposition here, ir. com?
pany with President Roosevelt, April 9:
Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Carow, Secretary
Root, Attorney General Knox, Mis<
Knox, Secretary Wilson, Secretary Cor
telyoti, Assistant Secretary Loeb, Mrs
Loeb, J. K. Gracie, Dr. John F. Wise.
Commander W. S. Cowies, and Col. L.
S. Brown, general agent of the Southern
Ra'way.
Four Drowned by Capsizing Skiff.
New Orleans, (Special).?Four men
were drowned in the Mississippi River
while going to their work on the British
steamer Atlantean, anchored in mid?
stream. A skiff containing 19 coal hand?
lers left the shore for the Atlantean. The
craft in trying to land against side of
the steamer was capsized. J. Allen. J
Cunningham, J. Garrity and a negro.
Ed. Thornton, were drowned. Some
of the survivors were picked up after
rtriftinor R#?v*ral miles down the river.
Mexican flustang Liniment
don't stay on or near the surface, but goes in through the muscles and
tissues to the bene and drives out all soreness and inflammation.
For a Lame Back,
Sore Muscles,
or, in fact, all Lameness and Sore?
ness of your body there is nothing
that will drive out the pain and in?
flammation so quickly as
Mexican!
Mmstamig Liniment
If you cannot reach the spot your?
self get some one to assist you, for
it is essential that the liniment be
rubbed in most thoroughly.
Mexican Hustang Liniment
overcomes the ailments of horses and all domestic animals. In fart,
it is a flesh healer and pain killer no matter who or what the patient is.
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Coins Have
Vanished
Numismatists Puzzled "
Over Remarkable Dla- ?
appearance of Sliver *
Dollars ^ V V 9
"There ls something curious about
the American silver dollar and half
dollar of the coinage of 1804," said a
well-known numismatist of New York.
"In that year something like 20.000 of
the dollars were coined, but lt is a
singular fact, as is now known, that
not one of them was known to be in
circulation. Yet the most precious of
all American coins are two 1804 dol?
lars, which arc in well-known collec?
tions. They are valued at $2,000 each.
"It has been determined to the satis?
faction of every numismatist that these
two dollars were not coined until 1828,
although they were struck from the
original 1804 die. They were secretly
made?although such a procedure is a
penal offense?for some one high in in?
fluence and authority, who desired
them for certain coin collections. It
has never been positively ascertained
how the surreptitious work was accom?
plished, but there is no doubt that it
was done.
"Why the dollar of 1804 was never
\e.een in circulation after leaving the
mint Ia one of the unsolved government
mysteries.
"A still greater mystery surrounds
the half-dollar of 1804. Of that coin
nearly 160,000 were struck. Not one
was ever discovered in circulation. Tho
quarter-dollar of 1804 are numerous
enough?so plentiful, in fact, that a
fair specimen can be bought for |2,
and their coinage amounted to 7,000
pieces.
"A curious thing has been discovered
regarding the half-dollar of 1805, which
is lot a rare coin, except in the case
of those possessing the rare curiosity
I speak of, which increases the value
tenfold. This is that the figure '5' in
1805 has been struck over a '4,' showing
that the coin was really one of the un?
discovered minting of 1804.
"What became of the large Issue of
1804 half-dollars? No one knows or
ever will know; but it is evident that
all of them were not issued from the
mint, and this belief that there was
some reason for not desiring the coin
to circulate is strengthened by the mint
obliterating the date on what was left
by making 1805 half-dollars of them.
"There was no silver dollar issued
from the mint in 1805, yet 321 were
coined, and are in the hands of col?
lectors to-day, just as they came from
the die. No dollars were coined by
the government after that until 1836."
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1 His Weeping # nov* w** * which * I
I r 9 Politician Did Up His g
W&s Effective B <>??*?*??
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"There are all sorts of tricks in a
political campaign," said the ex-mem?
ber of the legislature, "and one was
played upon me when I was doing my
first stumping that was intended to lay
me out Hatter than a pancake. I was
billed to speak at a certain Village, and
I prepared a first rate talk for the oc?
casion. Half an hour before 1 was to
take the platform I was Invited to have
a nip to brace me up, and ten minutes
after imbibing I didn't know whether
I was on foot or riding a camel. As
a matter of fact, I had been doped to
prevent me from speaking. When I
began to rall fence around and talk
nonsense they tried to take me away,
Lat I became as stubborn as a mule
and insisted upon speaking. It would
be a nail in my coffin to show me off
In a drunken condition, and 1 was
finally pushed forward. I was simply
conscious of the fact that I was mak?
ing a fool of myself, and after utter
MT1MMMMTHI
ing a dozen words I began to weep
There was a good deal of laughter at
first, but pretty soon a man called out:
" 'Look here, fellers, this man ain't
crying for nothing.'
"'You bet ho ain't!' shouted an?
other.
" 'He must be weeping over our hlgb
taxes,' suggested a third.
" 'That's it, and it shows Ml tru?
feeling;' added a fourth. 'Here's one
who pledges himself to work and voU
for him.'
" 'And here's another,' called out
twenty men in chorus, as I was led
away with tears streaming down my
cheeks. That was my speech. Th?
people laid lt all to emotion, and that
town gave me a majority to make my
hair stand up. I couldn't reduce theil
taxes, but I got a bill through against
any one owning a bull without keep?
ing an iron ring in his nose, and did
not lose any of my admirers."