Nebraska Newspapers

    THE FRONTIER.
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Taa raoHTica Piuxtixx Co.
O’NEILL. .> NEBRASKA.
OVER THE STATE.
' The potato crop in Lincoln county ii
; turning out poorly.
Fullerton has votod in favor of a
' System of orator works.
Thk postmaster at Davenport has
Mot in his resignation.
|r ■, A good roads organisation has been
affected in Hurt county.
A movement tot; good sidewalks has
been inaugurated in Nebraska City.
Richardson county will have a line
collection of produce at the state fair. |
' if: In Boyd county last week a young
* lady named bias* was killed by light
ning.
Fullerton this year has made great
progress in the way of erection of fine
dwellings.
Thebe is something of .a contest in
Lawrence over the question of saloon
or no saloon.
Ladies of Beatrice have started a
crusade against the circulation of ob
i(. scene literature.
An effort will be made im Lincoln to
* “® away witli the Sunday dance, as in
the case of base ball.
Tuk summer Normal school at Ver
don commenced the third week with
an increased attendance.
Alt. of the Chautauqua assemblies in
Nebraska were .a success educationally
and In the matter of attendance.
A FAJt.Mr.il passed .through Cor.ad the
other day with a colt having five feet
and the animal was active on its legs.
It is proposed to spend about 375,000
toward protecting the river front at
Omaha. Uncle bam will do .the work.
William Downs, motion boss at Pal
myra, waa thrown from a wagon .and
sustained a serious fractured the left
arm.
>r A busking wad from jt gfun caused
the destruction >o( the granary and
■tables of George Rhclnhar.t.at Nomuliu
CUy.
'A man sent tip for drunkenness for
fire days at Grand Island refused to eat
the jail fare and fasted until his term
expired.
The Fremont Chautauquanssociatlon
has filed amended ..articles of incorpor
ation and increased .the capital stock to
Wo,ooa
Whims walking In his sleep, Edward
Kearney, a Jackson banker, fell Irani .a
second story window .and received seri
ous injuries.
The Salvation army of Nebraska City
nave got into tlielr new .barracks and
are making considerable noise and
some converts.
A meeting lias been called at South
Omaha to take the initiatory steps to
ward organizing a Young Men's Chris
tian association.
It is estimated that the assessed val
uation of Nebraska will be a little over
$183,000,000, or about $11,000,000 less
than it was lastyear.
The old national hotel at Kearney,
which waa recently damaged by fire,
has been condemned and will be moved
. away from ita present location,
t CxKRLEsa school children at Pierce
started a fire that destroyed the barn of
County Treasurer Steinkrou. Two
,, horses were consumed in the flames.
JOLT 4 the Hank of WUcox at Wilcox,
Neb., was entered and 81,000 stolen.
The thieves have been discovered, and
as they returned the money there will
be no prosecution.
Mrs. John Westerobken, the wifeof
a farmer living about four miles north
cast of Iloldrege, has become insane,
she was taken before the insane com
; . mlssioners for examination.
The house of representatives took up
Ok. •b® passed the biH providing fer an ad
dltional federal judge in the Eighth
Judicial circuit This is the circuit in
Which Nebraska is situated.
George Rueiniiart, a farmer living
Bear Nemaha, lost his barn, a lot of
hay, grain, farm implements and other
fixtures by fire. The cause is unknown,
i. and there was no insurance.
" Ed Hanford, wanted in Kansas City
, }Mtr robbing a farmer of 8700, was ar
^5, rested in Omaha last week and taken
back to the scene of his operations to
. answer before a judicial tribunal.
A second unsuccessful attempt was
.made by cracksmen to blow the safe in
-.the Union Pacific depot at Elkhorn. An
■express package containing 1,000 cigars
was taken. There is no clue to theper
, petrators.
S h At Bloomington Frank E. Crandall,
• young Burlington freight brakeman
M McCook, fell between the cars and
waai fatally injured, both legs and an
•M> being cut off, besides receiving in
juries ..about the head, lie died soon
•Iter the accident.
Twenty-five years ago a few of the
' old settlers met at the home of Olof
Kelson, three miles west of the present
Bite of Oakland, and then and there the
. first Swedish Baptist church pf Oakland
(then,called l.ogun Creek) was organ
ised with eighteen members.
Tub committee on public landsof the
5 senate .has reported the house bill for
the resurvey, of Grant and Hooker coun
ties in the state of Nebraska with an
amendment.providiug that nothiug in
the act shon.d be so construed as to im
pair the present bona fide claim of any
.actual occupant of any of said lands to
<the lands so occupied.
Encourage your friends to buy Ne
•braska goods. The interchange of home
.manufacturers will be a vast benefit to
Kebraska. Our goods stand at the top
.of the list as regards quality. Farrell
A Co's brand of syrups, jellies, pre
nerves and mince meat; Morse-Coe
.boots and shoes for men, women and
.Children; American Biscuit & Manufac
turing Co., Omaha, crackers.
Charles Erickson, .who .cut himself
fa .the knee with no axe, went .to
j Orond Island to hiure tJhe leg ampu
tated, when the doctors discovered that
pus had formed and eaten its way clear
to the hip. They opened the wound
»nd drew out two pints of the matter
and they hope to save the leg.
Henry Davis, lessee of the Beaver
City creamery, is believed to have ab
sconded. He is owing (1,300 to route
men and others. He went to Beaver
City three months ago and hees
Considered perfectly reliable.
A Hitchcock county farmer has sold
• remarkable double-jointed bull calf
to an rasters menagerie owner.
I
Depitv La non Coom missioned Gniox
Is sending out blanks to employer* in
the state, with the object in view of
compiling some interesting statistics
relative to wages paid to, employes for
the year 1803.
Teh Intoi state Chautauqua of Salem
offers gold medals for debate and ora
tory, the contests to take place August
13. The contests are open to young
men and nonsen who are members of
any of the colleges or universities of
Nebraska. Iowa, Missouri or Kansas.
A gold medal will ba given for the best
platform appearance and work.
Agcoiuukg tn the figures at hana the
a hi to board of equalization estimates
tkut the total valuation <>( the property
■of the state for taxation will tie 8183,
'#00,000, or 813,000.000 less than lust
.tear. This is an estirante that will not
lie apt to vary materially, although the
counties of lioone, Custer, Hoyd, Hurt,
'■ttihcbl, Hayes, I’crkins and Thurston
have not ytM,•reported.
P. C. Mattox, who .onue upon a timo
claimed to have discovered perpetual
motion, hns«lartedout of Chaitron with
u wild west combination and will travel
east and south. liis show will consist
of sixteen cowbijys, ten Indians, six
girls and ail the paraphernalia of a
Dendwood coach, hand wugon, carria
ges and wagons, which go to make up
what will ho called ‘'Diamond Dick’s
•Wild West Show. "
The (irund Island reunion committee
has ibaou unusually late in gutting to
gether, but ut its mueting lust week it
•started off ut a .most ;promising gait,
•doing more than has usually been done
in the first two meetings, and there is
no>doubt but that.it will cross the wire
and close the homo stretch in ample
•time to havo every necessary prepara
tion complete. A program -will be put
.forth at an early.day.
tiov. Jackson of Iowa has sent to
Uov. Crounse a copy of his proclama
tion designating August 10, 1801, as
liatlle Flag day. On that day, ns pro
widod by an act of the last legislat ure,
tlie battle flags which were borne by
the Iowa 'regiments in the war are to
be removed from tho state arsenal and
deposited in the state house. This an
nouncement is made that many Iowa
•soldiers.now living' in Nebraska may
.attend if.they so desire.
■W. J. Ttkgem,.agent of the Ameri
can express company at Jackson, and
also agent of .the Northwestern rail
road, transmitted a message for the
Jackson bank to the Sioux National at
Sioux City for gl.O.K) and forgetTa sec
ond message culling for &!,t;00 more.
When the money came he appropriated
iit and 8700 of the railroad company's
.money, put a man in his place und Ued,
It is presumed, for Mexico.
The secretaries of the board of trans
portation went to O'Neill for the pur
pose of applying for a writ of manda
mus to compel the Elkliorn and the Pa
cific Short Line railroads to comply
with .the board s order and put in a
transfer switch. The same will be
.done in Colfax county at Schuyler, both
cases being brought under the transfer
aw it oh law, .which the railroads refuse
>to recognize as constitutional.
TiiK.Buic.ide of John V. Forrer of West
Point.appears .to have been premedi
tated. The deceased performed his du
ties in .the saloon In the morning as
usual, and on leaving for breakfast
bade his bartender good-bye, a very un
usual thing. The deceased was form
erly proprietor of a milk route in
Omaha, and was well known to early
settlers, lie leaves .a .wife and grown
up family in fair circumstances.
At Oxford Frank llrei.thaupt was shot
twice an unknown man and hiB re
covery is doubtful, lie returned about
10 o'clock from a fishing trip and was
feeding his team, when a shotgun from
over his shoulder put out his left eye,
and immediately another shot tore a
slight furrow across his back. Breith
aupt is 18 years old and recently had an
altercation with William Ulauvet about
a love affair, and the latter has been
arrested on suspicion.
N. M. Pilbury of Fremont received
last week a very welcome letter from a
long lost brother. The brother in
question is now located in New Zealand
and writes to make inquiries as to his
relatives, of whom there live in Fre
mont his two brothers, N. M. and
Charlie, and a sister, Mrs. C. U. Veazie.
This brother, William, left the old
home at llucksport, Me., twenty years
ago, since which time no tidings of him
have been had by any member of the
family.
Sheriff Ksudsojj returned to Hold
rege last week with three men suspect
ed of the murder of Elmer E. Drum
mond on the night of June 30 last.
Two of them were arrested at Topeka
with the Sells Bros, circus The other
one was found at Junction City, Kas.
They gave their names as Andrew Fox,
YViliiam Sullivan and Thomas Neyland,
alias "Slim.” They bear out the des
cription of tho parlies wanted, but
have a good story arranged as to their
whereabouts June 3U.
Gkorok Midriff of Union met with
a painful mishap last week. Ue pur
chased a bottle of carbolic acid; plac
ing it in his hip pocket he jumped into
his buggy and started for home. \Vhen
within a mile of the house he broke the
bottle in some way and the contents
ran down the side of his hip. Not
knowing tho dangerous nature of the
fluid, he drove home before cleaning it
off. lie soon discovered his mistake
and was writhing in fearful agony. A
physician was called to relieve the burn.
Thk following advertisement appears
in the North Platte Telegraph: “Lost,
Strayed or Stolen—From the premises
of John LeMasters, one dark brown
boy, 13 years old, about twelve hands
high; weight ninety-nine pounds. Has
no brands or other marks, but can be
{ easily identified by his muster. Hoy is
I kind and gentle when under control of
| his master, but is apt to resent any up
i proaches at familiarity from strangers.
| Any information leading to the where
I abouts of the above described lad will
1 be gratefully received at 207 Spruce
street, North Platte, Neh.
Thk last Nebraska crop bulletin says:
The first half of the week was hot and
dry and injurious to all growing vege
tation; tile last half cool, with light
showers, but not giving sufficient inois
| lure for the best growth of crops. The
I average moisture for the week ranged
| from about normal iu the northern
I part of the state to three degrees below
j the normal in the southern. Thresh
I ing of wheat is general in the south
i easiern section, and a yield of from six
to eighteen bushels is commonly re
ported, Oat harvest is progressing
rapidly fn the southeastern section and
has begun in the northeastern, and the
crop will be light.
CLEVELAND'S LETTER
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CRITICISED BY f A SENATOR
FROM HEW JERSEY.
II© Reicnti the President'a Stetementa-—
Senator 11111 fraliH the Presldent'a
Free IUw Material Poaltlou and Some
what Sharply Scores the Senate—Sen*
•ter Vent Detrounrea the President and
Mr. 11111—Tive Lion and the Lamb Lie
Down Together.
Senators on the Letter.
’Washington, July 23.—Crowds xucTi
®s had not thronged the senate in
'months packed the galleries to-day in
amticipationof a sharp conflict over
the tariff, the houseund the president
having thrown down the gauntlet to
the senate. When the president pro
tem (Mr. Harris ol Tennessee) rapped
the senate to order there was a pro
found hush.
• Senator lilnokbttrn of Keutucky, in
>a pink neglige shirt, stood wateli in
hand like a judge at a Kentucky
derby while the chaplain delivered
his invocation. The “cons.'rvativo"
Democrats, Mr. Brice in an immacu
late suit of white flannels, Mr. Gor
man in a sedate suit of blue iind Mr.
Smjth in a long black frock coat
sat grouped together on the Demo
cratic side. Mr. Hill, sitting fur back,
chatted with General Dun Sickles,
the one-legged veteran of Gettysburg.
Messrs. Sherman, Aldrich, Allison,
Hale and Chandler, leaders on the
Republican side, appeared amused at
the stonn which threatened across
the political aisle.
After the morning routine had been
disposed of Mr. Voorhees, chairman
of the fi nance committee, arose and
called up the conference total disa
greement report of the tnriff bill,
which had been laid before the senate
yesterday. Then without a word of
explanation ho yielded th * floor to
Mr. Smith of New Jersey who read a
carefully prepared speech.
SMITH nr HK.V JICHSEV OPENS.
Mr. Smith said that he had hoped
when the bill passed the senate two
weeks ago that it had been perfected.
Hut the events of the Inst twenty-four
hours had confronted the Democratic
party with the possibility of the fail
ure of all the tariff legislation at this
session. If so the responsibility
must be placed where it be
longed. He criticised the president for
“violating" the principles of his party
in attempting to interfere with the
prerogative of the legislative branch
of the government, but declared that
he never should be intimidated by
threats from the president or by the
utterances of his party associates at
the other end of the capitol.
He reviewed the. events in the
house which had culminated
in the passage of a bill with
the loss of 17 Democraticvotes in that
body. In the senate he said every
Democratic vote was needed to pass
the bill if it was to be passed as a
party measure, and the members of
the tinanceicommil.tee had heroically
harmonized the differences existing
in the Democratic side—to .their ever
lasting credit be it said. He had been
one of those who stood out
for concessions in the interest
of ihis constituents. He had made
no concealment of his position
then and made none now. The senate
bill, he declared,.contained no menace
to the industries of the country and
had not been framed by men from
sparsely settled districts who knew
nothing .of the great commercial in
terests of the United States. He
asserted that the framers of the house
bill and a large proportion of the
Democratic party were not tariff re
formers, but free traders.
HI1X-ON FREE RAW METERIALS.
Mr. Hill, the nest speaker said:
“A theory as well as a condition
now .confronts us. The theory of the
Democratic party is that in the enact
meat of tariff legislation free raw
materials should always be an essen
tial and eonspieuous element It is
our creed that the materials which
enter into our manufactures should
be free from the burden of tariff taxa
tion. The best interests of the manu
facturers as well as the consumers of
the land demand tiie recognition
of this wise discrimination. We
are committed to this side of
the question anl wj cannot
retreat and we cannot retract. We
are honorably bound to redeem our
professions and our promises. Justice,
good faith and a decent regard for
public sentiment all require this
course. Until recently I had supposed
that there was no dispute upon this
question of principle, hut every
Democrat worthy the name was will
ing to concede that if there is one
thing more than another to which the
Democratic party was comm.tted it
was in favor of absolute free raw ma
terials. The true and honest con
struction of every Democratic na
tional platform for twelve years past
irrevocably commits us to this just
and reasonable principle.”
Mr. Hill read the Democratic na
tional platform of 1892 arid continued:
‘ To repeal thj McKinley law in
I form simply, to re-i»uact it in effect
| is keeping this promise to the letter,
! but breaking it in spirit. The plat
form pointed with pr.de to and de
liberately approved the measures for
free iron ore, free lead ore, free coal
and free wool, which were pending in
cougress at the time of the conven
tion. Tiie Democratic position was
so plain and so clear that he
who runs may read. If any Demo
cratic orator in any part of the coun
try, forgetting the interests of the
whole land and subserving the sup
posed interests of a locality, promised
the people of any state or section that
there would bo any exception made to
the enforcement of the general prin
ciple of free raw materials when the
Democrats should obtain power, he
exceeded his authority and misinter
preted our position.
THE PRESIDENT’8 LETTER PRAISED.
“It Is Said by some in justification
of or excuse for their present action
that the president's letter of accept
ance in 1892 modified the extreme de
mands of our platform. It is true
that some portions of his letter may
tend to bear that construction. It
waa not that bold, ringing and explicit
declaration In favor of the platform
jrbieb his party ha<| a right to expect*
T
ont waa regarded by many as tfmld,
cautions ( and conservative. But
whether' this eriticiatn is or la not
well foandedf the fact remains that
be had no power or authority to
change or alter one line or seutenoe
or provision of the national platform
which had been deliberately adopted
in the national convention duly as
sembled. No president can ' be above
his party; no president can dictate to
hia party; no president can change
his party platform.
“Hut no matter what idea it may be
claimed was intended to be conveyed
in his letter of acceptance in mitiga
tion or modification of the platform,
there can be no donbt as to the presi
dent's position at this time upon the
essential principle of free raw mate
rials. Let me read from that remark
able letter of the president's which
was yesterday submitted to the
house of representatives. It expresses
better than I can hopo to do the trne,
sound aud logical position of the Dem
ocratic party on this question.”
After reading extracts from the let
ter Mr. Hill continued:
“Sir. President, I approve every
word that I have quot'd. It is an
honest and manly statement of the
true attitude which the party should
assume in this crisis. 1 am not re
quired to defend, the propriety or wis
dom of the promulgation of this letter
at this peculiar time. It may have
been indiscreet; it may operate as a
firebrand to spread the flames of dis
cord already kindled • among party
friends, honestly differing as I am
disposed to concede upon questions of
public and party policy. It was a
time for diplomacy, statesmanship
and conciliation rather than recrimi
nation, denunciation and arraign
ment Hut aside from this question
of its mere expediency, I am here to
defend the president's letter in so far
that it demands that the party shall
not be led astray into the violation of
Democratic ple’dges and principles.
THE SENATE’S POSITION ATTACKED.
“Upon the question of free raw
materials the president is right, and
you know it. You cannot answer his
arguments. Y’ou cannot successfully
dispute his propositions. You cannot
doubt his sincerity and patriotism.
You must yield in the end to his
views. Y'ou cannot stand up against
the sentiment of the great Democrat
ic masses of the country which will
rally around the president in his con
test with you upon this particular
branch of the subject. The time to
yield is npw, before there is further
humiliation, embarrassment and dis
cord.
"Air. President, having .demon'
strated the fact that the true Demo
cratic theory of revenue reform re
quires that free raw materials should
be the distinguishing feature, let ue
next inquire what is the condition
that confronts us. The senate bill
which lias been passed violates this
Democratic theory and, while it re
duces the duty on iron, coal, lead and
some of the other raw materials from
those imposed under the McKinley
law, and in that respect is commend
able, it nevertheless imposes some
duties thereon and thereby fails to
redeem our pledges. It is not a ques
tion of the amount of duties which
may be imposed, a question of princi
ple is involved, and a single penny’s
duty violates our promises and
places us in a false position. As the
president well says there can be
no compromise on a matter of this
character, where a vital principle is
at stake. The house of representa
tives, fresh from the people which
represents more distinctly and pecu
liarly than we do the taxing power of
the people, repudiates our bill, and,as
the president has emphasized that re
pudiation, the condition which con
fronts us is one of extreme embar
rassment. Shall we retreat or (ad
vance? Shall we surrender to the
house while we can do so honorably,
or shall we wait until we are driven
to it?
VETO DECLARED UNQUESTIONABLE.
“In the light of the letter of the
president the house cannot honorably
retreat. It has no other alternative
except to insist upon its bill wherein
it provides for free raw materials.
The president cannot approve the
senate bill after what he has said in
this remarkable letter. He arraigns
the senate and intimates that the en
actment of the senate bill means
"party perfidy and party dis
honor.” These are strong words
which the president of the
United States would not use
towards a measure which he ever ex
pected afterwards to approve. This
letter, unusual and unprecedented in
its character and method of promul
gation, though it may be, neverthe
less clearly foreshadows a veto of the
senate bill even if the house should
finally concur in our amendments.
What person would expect the presi
dent to approve the senate bill after
its vigorous and scathing denunciation
contained in his letter. I would think
less of him for his glaring inconsis
tency.
“No, this letter is significant, it is a
bold, vigorous, even if imprudent, let
ter. It means war to the knife
against the senate bill; it justifies
much that has been said against the
senate bill during all the last three
months; it means that the senate bill
can never receive the executive
approval;it means that the senate
cannot be permitted to abandon
or surrender the great under
lying principles for which we
struggled and lost in 1883 and
fought and won in 1892. The
president is right; there is ,no middle
ground which we can occupy. No bill
which does not provide for raw mate
rials can be permitted to become a
law.”
Mr. Hill took issue mildly with the
president on the necessitv for a sugar
and an income tax and declared that
the house should stand by its free su
gar provisions.
VEST SCORES TIIE PRESIDENT.
Mr. Vest of Missouri followed Mr.
Hill. He said that after the speech
of the senator from New York, it wa«
a subject of congratulation that he
and the president had at last found ■
platform on which both could stand.
The lion and the lamb had at .last
lain down together and were letj'as a
little child by the ways and miaul
committee. Ho left to others to de
cide which was the lion and which
JJ** J}1* lamb. The senator ffrom
New York had said that free rmxv mi
teriala ww a cardinal printfole 01
pemoermey. The pmidtntt wen
further and declared that f«
f«irt1
pf»«« nt materials on the free list
was Democratic perfidy and dis
honor. Why did not the senator from
New York rote for free wool, he
asked.
"I did not rote on sereral motions .
while the bill was in committee,” re
plied Mr. Hill, "but I distinctly voted
for free wool in the senate.”
••If my very soul was thrilling and
pulsating for free raw materials,” re
torted Mr. Vest, sarcastically, “at the
peril of my life I should have been on
hand to vote on every roll call for the
cardinal principle of Democracy.”
Mr. Vest then read the letter of
acceptance of President Cleveland in
1892 pronouncing in favor of “freer
raw materials.” Tet now he de
nounced “freer raw materials” as
perfidly and dishonor. He then ar
raigned the president. He had been
his friend. He had defended him on
the floor of the senate when his
friends could have been counted on
the fingers of one hand. Where did
the president get the right to dictate
to congress? To denounce one branch
of congress to the other. Did he em
body in his single being all the
Democracy, all the tatilf reform
sentiment of the country? Mr. Cleve
land was a big man, but the Demo
cratic i party was greater than any
| one man.
l lie uemocra-cy, iur. vest sum, uau
survived Jeffersoa, Madison, Jackson;
it would survive Grover Cleveland.
I Under what clause of the constitu
tion did Mr. Cleveland get the right
after a bill had been sent to “full and
free” conference between two houses
to make an appeal to his party friends
to stand by his individual views. Mrs.
j Madison said in her memoirs that the
' capital had been placed at one end of
the avenue and the White house at the
other to prevent the president from
exercising an undue influence on
the legislative branch of the govern
ment. If the president could send
here to his friends to stand firm, he
I had a right to send his cabinet
ministers here to coerce members in
! congress; he had a right to do as he
i had done during the fight over the re*
| peal of the Sherman law—punish re*
’ calcitrant members of his own party.
I It was a mockery to talk of a full and
j free conference when one of the con
ferrccs came to the committee room
with the orders of the president in
his pocket.
Mr. Vest spoke with bitterness of
the president's denunciation of the
senate bill, which had been passed
after four months of such toil and re
sponsibility as he should never as
sume again. Yet, he said, those who
were instrumental in harmonizing its
differences and bringing about its
passage — tariff reformers be
j fore Mr. Cleveland began his
j phenomenal career—had been ar
| raigned as traitors who sought to dis
; honor their party. Personally the
| bill did not snit him. He was a radi*
I cal tariff reformer, but if he could not
| get all ho would take what he could
get.
| After Mr. Vest had closed his tirade
Mr. Vilas moved that the senate re
cede from the one-eighth sugar dif
; ferential.
| Nr. Gray followed, urging that the
senate insist upon its amendments.
| He intimated that in his advocacy of
i free raw material the senator from
New York (Hill) was insincere. He
had never in long conferences of
the Democratic senators that pre
ceeded the adoption of this bill, raised
his voice in behalf of free coal and
free iron ore.
An angry colloquy between the two
I senators followed.
[ The motion of Senator Vilas caused
a great deal of uneasiness on the
Democratic side. This one-eighth
was retained in the bill by a bare ma
jority of one vote, and Mr. Mills de
clared his intention of supporting the
motion of Mr. Vilas. The Republican
members are reticent, most of them
saying that as they voted to strike
out the one-eighth they could not
change their position.
COCHRAN FOR CONGRESS.
The St. Joseph Editor Likely to Be the
Choice of the Democrats.
St. Joseph, Mo., July 81. — The
Democracy of the Fourth congressional
district, which has for the past two
months been trying to unite on a
nominee to succeed the present con
gressman, D. D. Burnes, has finally
coucluded to nominate State Senator
Cochran, editor of the Gazette. Ex
Congressman Wilson, Judge Ellison of
Maryville and M. Moran of this citv
had been working hard to capture the
delegates to the convention, which
will meet at Maryville, August 0, but
the bringing of Mr. Cochran into the
field ends the fight so far as they aro
concerned.
REVENUE PROM INCOME TAX.
Senator till! Estimates the Amount From
the Bnrean of Statistics.
Washington, July 21.—Senator Hill
has received a long letter from
Worthington G. Ford chief of the
bureau of statistics, in which he
states that the possibilities of the
revenue that can be raised from the
income tax ranges all the way from
812,000,000 to $39,000,poo. He thinks
that the latter figure is the highest
which can possibly be hoped for, and
the last few years the collections
would fall below 815,000,000. He also
expresses the opinion that the rev
enue which will be collected on pri
vate incomes will not be more than
sufficient to pay for collections.
TWENTY YEARS FOR A RED.
The Would- Be Assassin of Premier
Crlspl Boasti or Hi< Grime.
Rome, July 21.—The trial of Paolo
known to his associates as
“Marat,** the anarchist who at
tempted to shoot Premier Crispi .Tune
16, was held yesterday. He said that
he had not, acted from motives of
personal hatred, but as a solemn pro
test against the system of govern
ment.
Lega was sentenced to twenty
years* solitary confinement When
sentence was pronounced he called
for cheers for anarchy.
Gold Exports Increasing.
Washington, July 21. -The cash
balance in the treasury at the close of
business yesterday was 8121,947,771
of which 864,483.797 was gold reserve!
Contrary to general expectations, the I
exportation of gold seems to have
again set in; I
A MIRACLE IN MISSOURI
The Achlerements of Medical Science
, For More Wonderful Than the
Manic of the East.
The Remarkable Experience of Poet Mai<
ter Wood.on, of Panama, Mo,—For
Ten Yean ■ Cripple—To-dajr ,
r * a Well and Hearty Uaa
From the Kansas City Times.
The people of Rich Hill, Ma, and vi
cinity, have recently been startled by a
seeming miracle of healing. For years
one of the best known men in Bates
and Vernon counties has been Mark M»
Woodson, now postmaster at Panama,
and brother of ex-State Inspector of
Mines, G G Woodson of this city. The
people of Rich Hill, where he formerly
resided, and of his present home, re
member well the bent form, misshapen
almost from the semblance of man,
which has painfully bowed its head
half to the earth and labored snail-like
across the walks season after season,
and when one day last month it straight
enened to its full height, threw away
the heavy ^butt of cane which for years
had been its only support from total
helplessness, and walked' erect, firmly,
unhesitatingly about the two cities,
people looked and wondered. The
btory of the remarkable case has be
come the marvel of the two counties
Exactly as Mr. Woodson told it to a
Times reporter, it is here published:
“For ten years I have suffered the
torments of the damned ahd have been
a useless invalid; to-day I am a well
and hearty man, free from almost every
touch of pain. I don’t think man ever
suffered more acute and constant agony
than I have since 1884. The rheuma
tism started then in my right knee, and
after weeks of suffering in bed Iwasat
last relieved sufficiently to arise, but it
was only to get about ou crutches for
five years, the ailment having settled
in the joint. Despite constant treat
ment of the most eminent physicians
the rheumatism grew worse, and for
the last four years I have been com
pelled to go about bent half toward the
ground. In the winter of 1890-61,
after the rheumatism had settled into
its most chronic form, I went to Kan
sas City upon advice of my brother, and
for six weeks I was treated in one of
the largest and best known dispensaries
of that city, but without the slightest
improvement. Before I came home I
secured a string galvanic battery, this
I used for months with the same result
In August, 1898, I went to St bonis,
and there conferred with the widely
known Dr. Mudd of hospital practice
fame, and Dr. Kale of the city hospital.
None of them would take my case with
any hope of affording me more than
temporary relief, and so I came home,
weak, doubled with pain, helpless and
despondent
“About this time my attention was
called to the account of a remarkable
cure by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for
Pale People of locomotor ataxia, rheu
matism and paralysis. I ordered some
of the pills as an experiment. When I
began to take them, the rheumatism
had developed into a phase of paralysis;
my leg from the thigh down was cold
all the time and could not be kept
warm. In a short time the pills were
gone, and so was the cane. I was able
to attend to the duties of my office, to
get about as a well and strong man. I
was free from pain and I could enjoy a
sound and restful night’s sleep, some
thing I had not known for ten years
To-day am practically, and, I firmly
believe, permanently cured of my ter
rible and agonizing ailment. No' ma
gician of the Far East ever wrought
the miracle with his wand that hr.
William’s Pink Pills did for me.”
_ To verify the story beyond all ques
tion of doubt Mr. Woodson made the
following affidavit;
State of Missouri, )
County of Bates, j
I, M. M. Woodson, being duly sworn
on my oath state that the following
statements are true and correct as I
verily believe.
M. M. Woodson.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 3d day of March, 18D4.
John D. Moore, Notary Public.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo
ple are manufactured by the Dr. Wil
liams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady,
N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bear
ing the firm's trade mark and wrapper,
at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $8.50.
Bear in mind that Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills are never sold in bulk or by the
dozen or hundred, and any dealer who
offers substitutes in this form is trying
to defraud you and should be avoided.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills may be had of
all druggists or direct by mail from Dr.
Williams’ Medicine Co.
Sheet Iron.
The thinnest iron sheet in the work
has within the past few weeks been
rolled at Swansea, Wales. It is twenty
five centimetres long and fourteen
wide. Its thickness is exactly .00") mil
imetre. One may get an idea of this
“thickness” by comparing it to that of
silk paper, which is ordinarily .02 mili
metre thick. Some iron manufacturers
Hhve advertised that they make visit
ing cards of thin iron plates. The
longest steel chip is seventy-nine and
one-half meters long and was turned in
New York.
Tim# of Harvesting Corn.
At the Iowa station last Beason foui
lots of corn were cut—September 20
and 27 and October 6 and 12. The
greatest weight of ears was from the
cutting of October 6, the greatest
weight'of fodder from the cutting of
September 27. From the first to the
third date the dry matter of the kernels
materially increased, chiefly at the ex
pense of the leaves and to a less degree
at the expense of the husks, cobs and
stalka
Darn thin places in blankets as you would
stockings.
An Keho from lb# World's ISIS
The Lake Shore Route has recently
gotten out a very handsome lltho
water color of the “Exposition Fly'er,''
the famous twenty hour train in ser
vice between New York and Chicago
during the fair. Among the many
wonderful achievements of the Colum
bian year this train—which was the
fastest long distance train ever run—
holds a prominent place, and to any
one interested in the subject the pict
ure is well worth framing. Ten cents
in stamps or silver sent to C. K. Wil
ber. West. Pass Agt, Chicago, will
secure one.