Tb Sioux County Journal
L 1. BMMIOSa, Froprtrtur.
HARRISON.
NEBKASKA.
OTATE NEWS ITEMS.
tel is a building boon on at Ger-
Frank J. Crawford ia editor of a now
(par at Bennington.
1m post office at Harrison waa robbed.
Tbo loss ia About 3U0.
Rainmakers in all pa. ia of tbe slate
are playing in bard lack.
The hot winds are not seriously
dasasging Ute Russian thistle.
Blaine county will bate a big crop of
bay, and corn is looking floe. '
in Thayer county wheat ia yielding
as .dgn as twenty-two bushels per acre
Wild plum, usually so plentiful in
Daemon county are a failure this year.
Pawnee City has a factory that
aaakea base bail bats from Nebraska
Umber.
Toe Oadar county teachers' institute
wul be open for business at Hartington
Augast 20.
A. D. Holbrook of Creighton waa
tbiMwn from his buggy and suffered a
broken arm.
Tbe explosion of a lamp caused tbe
dtvthot Mrs. John bones leel, Lying
Wallace.
. .n association has been organized at
Palmer tor the purpose of fighting tbe
Ruaeian.thisUe.
Tramps entered tbe store of M. A.
Lam sun, at Elm Creek and carried off
(SO worth of cutlery.
The Grand Island factory has just
Oompleted a run of syrup that yielded
1(12,000 pounds of sugar.
Tbe Seventh Day Adventista hare
organized a church at Beatrice with
kvout twenty-lire members.
Russian this Lies have acquired title
to a whole township in derrick and
bid fair to yield abundantly.
Rev. lhomas McLean for some years
pastor of tbe Congregational church at
Blair, haa answered a call from Pres
oit, Arizona. ,
Broken Bow haa a somnambulist
Who lately walked out into the night
and was Drought to his senses by fall
ing into a mud hole.
Tbe Methodists of Ellis have
dedicated their new church edifice after
Wiping out the debt caused by con
structing the building.
C. McPherson of Geneva took a
wall dose of carbolic acid through
mistake and haa a very sorernou band
throat in consequence.
W. IL Cutteriield of Norfolk shipped
a train load of cattle to Chicago, but
struck so poor a market that be imme
diately resuipped to Liverpool
While Ld Patchin of Table Rock was
running a foot race he stubbed his toe
and tell, striking on his head on a stone,
lie may lose the sight of one eye.
N. H. Parks has sold the Greeley
Herald to II. C. Waldrip of York.
Parks will now devote his whole time
to editing tbe Columbus Telegram.
Colonel Leonard, living near Pawnee
City, tried to get a well ou his place
and after going down 450 feet without
sigus of springs gave it up as a bad
Job.
Henderson Hollingsworth of Wallace
had his hand caught in the gearing of a
windmill, and all his fingers were badly
mutilated before the machine could be
stopped.
The watch fakirs have been heard
from iu Hamilton, York and other
counties, where they roped in the iu
habitants of the rural district in great
shape. It beets tbe world how suckers
do bite.
Another paper is added to the' Knox
county list and is printed at hantee
Agency in the interest of tbe prohibi
tion party. Its name is tbe Kuox
Advocate and it is edited by C. R.
Lawson.
The firs: annual reunion of the com
bined two southeastern districts of Ne
braska, comprising the counties of Rich
ardson, Pawnee, V Nemaha, Johnson,
Gage, Jefferson, Saline, Otoe, Cass and
Lancaster, will be held at Tecumseh
August 13 to 17, inclusive.
Ten years ago H, Graves purchased
400 seres of land pear Wisner for 17
oer acre. Since that time he haa
ormed the land and made a nice
living and big interest on bia invest
taem. Recently be sold the property
(or 118,000, which Is quite a com for table
Increase.
B. J. Frymire of Bloomfleld washed
. bia bands in gasoline to take off the
fan that stuck to tbem af tar he had
been soldering some tinware. The
, gasoline caught fire from tbe I urn see,
and not only the gum csum off, but
be akia with it. He was badly barned
Wore tbe flames ware extinguished.
,'tbo mo and daughter of Mr. R.
I jMUka, who Ufa , about four miles
, font ; of AablaML while crowing a
'trrfg bstvst UMar boaw and town,
Tm tfcrowa fw Mm brtdgsy ami bath
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Kansas Citt, Mo., July 27. Henry
C. Ward, of this city, was appointed re
ceiver of all the property of John J.
Mastin St Co., In Missouri, Kansas, and
Colorado, worth $3,500,000. The debt
of the firm aggregate 500,0u6. The
petition for the appointment was filed
by Julia Mastin, of Galena, Kas,
widow of John J. Mastin. She make
charges of gross mismanagement
againat Thomas H. Mastin, brother of
the deceased. Tbe appointment was
made by United -tates District Judge
Foster at Topeka. At tbe time of hie
death in 1890 John J. Mastin waa asso
ciated in the real estate business with
Thomas II. Mastin. John J. 'a interest
in the Srm, which was valued at $3,
000,000, was willed to his widow, Tho
mas .1. continuing to manage the busi
ness. Tbe widow sets forth that the
mortgagee on the real estate amount to
1,000,000, or twice as much as when
her husband died. She says that
Thomas H. Mastin has mismanaged
and is mismanaging the business of
the firm.
HUM bia StaaTatbar.
Danville, IU., July 27. Jeff Stark,
aged 33 years, killed his stepfather
Henry Skinner, aged 70, near 3eesie,
I nd., east of this city, by beating his
brains out with a spade. Stark was
drunk aud asked Skinner to give him
some money. This Skinner refused to
do. Stark then want to hia home, re
turned with his shotgun and Bred twice
at Skinner, missing him each time.
Then be picked up a spade and chased
Skinner out into a cornfield, where he
killad him. Stark waa harried off to
the Newport, Ind., jail to prevent
lynching. Stark has a wife and two
children. He is a desperate man, and
the people who live near him have al
ways said that he would hang or go to
prison some time.
Hrmrr Lata by Fir.
SpoK an , Wash., Julv 27. A a eci 1
to the Spokesman from Nelson, B. '
says: The forest fires which have been
rao-in in Slocanminff countv for the
past two weeks vera fanned into a
conflagration by the heavy gales and
swent eastward from New Denver.
The towns of Three Forks and Watson
were completely destroyed, not a build
ing being left. Tlie losses cannot yet
be estimated, but will run into large
figures. The Galena Trading company
and Lemon's store at Thrae Forks
saved nothing even tbe books being
destroyed. George Hughes, the wed
known mine owner, loses about 20,
000, all his horses, wagons, stables, etc.,
being burned. So far as known no
lives were lost, although there were
many narrow escapes. The people of
Watson were saved by taking refuge
in a tunnel - '
Will ba gent Hack to tireat Britain
New Yokk, July 27. As soon as
tbe fact is established that Charles
Miiford Mowbray, the i-.nglisti proselyt
ing anarchist, who recently arrived here
under an assumed name, gained en
trance to this country illegally, he will
be apprehended and sent back to Great
Britain. The fact that he has made a
preliminary declaration of his intention
to became a citizen ot the United States
will be nothing to his advantage in
such a case. The law under which the
immigration authorities will act is very
explicit, and a previous conviction of
felony and a conviction under a charge
involving moral turpitude constitutes
a legal bar to the admission of any
emigrant. Dr. Zenuer said that when
sufficient testimony has been adduced
to show that Mowbray has landed iu
violation of the immigration laws lie
will at once proceed to have him de
ported. lluaed by tbe Sheriff.
Elgin, 111., Claims aggregating
about $1S,000 have beeu entered by
confession against the St. Charles Eva
porated Cream Company, of St. Charles.
The president, treasurer, and chiet
owner is Asa T. Beverly ot tigin; r.
P. Havllland of tbe Chicago otflce is
a stockholder. The first year and a
half the company spent a large amount
of money in advertising, and but for
tbe strike aud general businees de
Dreasion would tave come out aiiead.
Tbe debts are mostly due the St.
Charles Bank and Elgin First National
Bank, all secured. Farmers are owed
5,000 for milk and have no security,
E. M. Martin, grocer, was closed by Uie
sheriff Wednesday on executions
amounting to about tl.OOO.
TUa M la I tar ftmrrmfi.
Newpobt, R. I, July 27. Society is
discussing with lively interest the re
port of tbe early marriage of James J.
Van Alen, Newport a mlUioua re, who
waa made f unons by his appointment
aa Minister to Italy and his final de
clination of that office, and ot Mrs.
Henry Allen, of Bristol, K. 1. irs.
Allen was formerly Miss Mayuente de
Wolfe. She is young, stately, a ue
cided blonde, and ia said to be one of
the cleverest horsewomen in the
country, tier family, though not rich,
ia one of the oldest in Rhode Island.
ratal fight Clraaa Man.
Clikto. Iowa, July 27. -In a fight
at Dewltt John Bush shot and fai-iiy
wosumob Ueorge vanoa.
were of Howe At OuuiugJs Circus.
Tba trma Lllt'a Wars,
Pakis, July 7.- i here was a wild
sees ia the ehamber of drpuiws
dewing tbo shssa on tba autiru-rcb-
Jf. Jaarea, auc.auatt
Ate sawmill)1. s
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J wrmmm, taw, .mm son
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aint lktJ awmW mMtM'UtCk
ttat ttmmmmm mm km hottf to
faiac Harm Ran lit;.
Pittsbcko, Pa., July 26. Ten y
ago Margaret McGovern, of Mount
Oliver borough, was a mourner at a
funeral in which tbe corpae waa thrown
from the bearse by the horses running
away. She had a premonition the
tame thing would h.tppsa at ur fnaeral
and Wednesday last requested that par
ticular care be taken at her funeral.
She died two days later and was buried
Sunday afternoon. While the funeral
procession was moving along Pennsyl
vania avenue near Twenty-Fourth
itreet, the hearse horses ran away.
Tbev collided with a telegraph pole,
throwing the casket agaiust V side of
the bearse and breaking the glass. Tbe
telegraph pole prevented the dead body
from falling to tbe ground. One of tba
horses had to be i-hot. Great excite
ment was caused among the supersti
tious friends of tbe dead woman .when
the coincidence became renercly
known. Another hearse and bor es
were secured and the funeral proceeded
w tbe cemetery without further
accident.
SMtakiaa WUI ba Cbaafk
San Fkaxcisco, ll, July 25. -Do-
spite tbe Urgo catch of seals in tbe
Japan Sea the owners of seal'og
cnooners will not make as much raoey
as they expected, because of the low
price of sealskins. The catch reported
last Saturday was narly 43,000 ski na,
and this has since been increased to
B0.000 skins. Lampoon & Co., of Lon
don, rule the sealskin market, and they
cabled to 'Frisco that they would ad
vance only 15 on skins. This is the
lowest advance ever known, and la a
sure sign that the prices later in the j
season will be tbe poorest since tbe
Hskln became fashionable. Lampson
sends his choiest skins to LeipciC,
where they are prepared and then
shipped in Russia, which nation takes
tbe finest sealskins.
Cropa and BnUaUug-a Bsla Boraal
Duluth, Minn., July 25. Forest
fires are becoming worse and now
threaten to destroy the crops and
buildings of hundreds of farmers scat
tered through the woods near this city.
Tbe lire department was called out to
protect farm urooertv. and is still at
work. Tbe fires run iu the stubble and
timber with terrific rapidity. It is
stated that not for twenty years has
there been sucb a dry season as now.
Heavy and continuous rains are the
ouly thing that will save b .udreds ot
thousands of dollars' worth of property
of fanners in this vicinity. The
farmers, many of whom are in their
first year, having taken to the farms
b cause of hard times, are losing their
all arid will have no provision for
winter.
VmoisiA, Minn., July 25. A forest
fire has been raging in this viciuity for
tbe past twenty-four hours. Virginia
was entirely surrounded by fire aud
bareiy escaped destruction. 'The engine
house of the Lone Jack mine with a
large amount of cord wood was de
stroyed. The forest is still on tire and
the fire companies are using every
effort to keep the fire out of the town
tires are reported down the li ties of , aparks from a southbound Chicago &
the Mesaba and Northern railway. All ' Alum train falling into the hay at
the Mesaba Uauge towns are located in j Baliiuger's stable. Hie town had ab
the forests aud unless it rains soon i oiuielv no fire protec' ion whatever.
serious dtmage will result. While
Learch Bros, were out fighting tiie fire
their place was kroketi open and HjO
and a lot of clothing stoleu. There is
no clew to the thief.
Eau Claike, Wis., July 25. The
bridge on the Umatia railroad, above
Spooner, was burned by tlu forest
fires, delaying the Duluth train several
hours. The forest fires are reported as
raging furiously in the northern part of
' r
the State once more, the rains of last
week having been iusulllcient to put !
them out entirely. Around Westj
Superior great damage is feared, se-
veral small town beicg threatened. j
Will Itailuce tlin Krwrti.
New Y'ork, July 25. a half million
of gold was ordered from the sub.
treasury for export by Baring, Magoun
& Co. This oruer, with that of a mil.
lion and a half for shipment next Fri
day, will reduce the reserve to nearly
ttiO,U00,iKjO. Bankers generally expect
to see the reserve reduced still more.
There is more or less talk among them
of a bond issue after the tariff matter
ia settled.
WlllHaut Gj) Hia lubcriaaca.
New Yokk, July 25. Captain Jack
Crawford, otherwise known as the
Poet Scout," will sail for England
Wednesday on tbe Teutonic to claim
an inheritance to whijh, it ia believed,
be is tba principal heir. Tba estate
was primarily that of William Wallace,
a Scotchman, aud an ancestor of tbe
Indian fighter. Wallace came hero
many years ago and bought laud which
is no of immense value. He wrote
to a sister in 3aotIand asking bar to
coma here, but before ho could send
tba passage money ha died. Craw
ford's uncle tried to settle tbe aetata,
but woa unable to do so. It Is now in
the baada of the Stata of New York,
and the ' Poet Scoit" hopes to get
evidence abroad that will prora bis
eialm.
Hsrwale frith Creak.
Clenklawd, Ohio, Jnly M. A
crank called at tba City Hall and de
manded to aeo tba -Lard Mayor,"
amyraf tbat bo bad bean lnaoltad by
tboPnteb aod dssaaded tbat every
e of (bat aaUonalHy ea driven oat of
9 awamuy. A pwtroj wage aaU bad
saoanUaao been aant in and wbaa tba
oflaari arrived there waa a frarfal
atsaonwawaamtbamaod tba amnk
v. Co was toattf plaiid taw
mi tt&aa to tbt e&Saav
t aeil Mf Ar.-I li-Bl.
Washinuton, July 26. Yesterday's
debate in the senate on the question of
agreeing to the request of the bouse of
representatives fur a further conference
on the tariff bill was not of so exciting
or interesting a character as was the
debate ou the first three days, and there
was not an allusion uiade, except a
very remote one, to the president's
famous letter to Mr. Wilson. I here
were three 8eeches made, the longest
by Senator CanYry and two short ones
by :-nators Daniel aud lluntoii. Mr,
Cattery's spercli Mas in advocacy of bis
motion to have a mouitied sugar bounty
paid for l&M, and iu luvor of a lair
revenue dutyin sugar. Failing in get
ting such protection lor the sugar in
terrsts of Lousiaiia, Mr. Caffery de
clared, more iu soi row than in anger,
that himself aud hl colleague would
be forced to antagonize the bill anu to
part the ties wh.cu uow bJimd them to
Uie democratic party.
The speeches of Senator Daniel anu
Huulou were called out by a desire to
correct an error iu a report of Gorman s
speoch, which represented theiu, with
senators from four or five other stales,
as being so mimical to the house bill
that they would have voted, agaiust it.
Mr. Daniel declared that be hau named
no conditions to command his vote,
and that whether tbe bill as it would
be finaiiy fixed in conference suited
him or not, it would have bis support.
Uunton expressed himself iu favor of
tne proposed duty of 40 cents a tou on
coal and irou and of 40 per cent ad
valorem on sugar aa revenue duties
! aud hoped that there was patriotism
enough among the democrats of both
hoth bouses "to give and take."
A motion was made by Quay so to
amend the motions of Senators Vilas
and Gray as to put sugar on the free
list. The whole matter then weut over
without action.
A Big CtHiflagrAlJou
Cuenoa, III, July 2ti, Chenoa was
visited by another conflagration
similar In character and extent to that
which destroyed most of its business
bouses four years ago. The entire
business portion of the place east of
tbe Alton tracks auds mtli of the To
ledo, Peoria & Western is wiped out,
with a logs' of about goOO.uOO. This in-
i dudes a number of elegant brie busi-
Less c dices, nearly new, and a number
of valuable stocks of goods.
The fire broke oulearley iu the after
noon in Baliiuger's livery stable and
spread with tearful rapidity, every
thing being dry as; tinder alter the
summer's drouth. The fire much re
sembled that which last week wiped
out all of El Paso's business houses,
fcix imported stallions, worm 1 5 1 1
and two blocks on each side of the
street were burned, including the post
ollice, with a large quantity of mail. A
merchant tailor, J. I. McKeuzie,
leaped from a second-story window
and was impaled upon an iron picket
aud fatally wounded.
Fifty-four busidiugs were entirely
destroyed, with scarcely adoliar's worth
of the utocks of the stores saved. It is
4 quite certain the U'e was s' arced l y
Tb. entenetl to llluw it U
Ahhland, Wis., July 26. William
Harper, calling himself a Chicago so
cialist, threatened to blow up the A so.
land National bank. He was followed
into the bank and a struggle with tne
cashier and a bystander on one side
and Harper on the other lollowed. lie
was -overpowered Willi police assist-
Bi.flu ;.nil tiusi hurllv iwiiiiwied rin tii-i
, ,, ,,,, v . ...
tt-uv to tut- las! ritteuii bottles or k
green liquid and a package of unknown
Duwuir were found ou hi in. He claims
to be a populist, free silverile aud mi
Altgelu man and says ad capitalists
aud banks should be blow n to atoms.
Arbtlruiurt Choiieil.
Washinuton, July, 20. I he pre?i
dauthas a .noimeed the cotniniss oueis
to investigate ilie controversies be
tween curtain railroads aud their era
ployes connected with the recent strike
as follows Can oil D. Wright, who is
designated by statute as one of ths
commissioners; John D. Kernan of
New York and Nicholas K. Wortbiu
ton of Peoria, III, selected by the
president. Under the law he was
obliged to appoint a citizen of Illinois
aa one of the commissioners.
Urewaad In Iba I.ak,
RiroN, Wis., July 26. Miss Mamie
Coyne, manager of tbe Western Union
telegraph ollice at Fond Du Lac, and
Henry Hern, a member of the firm of
Hern Bros., Fond Du Lac, clothiers,
were drowned at Green lane just before
dinner. They were Iu bathing with
some friends near Cutcueou's sani
tarium. Their bodies have been re
covered. Tbe two victims were both
widely known and popular.
Haa-rutl'a Souaawa Saad.
Chicago. July 26. Tie troubles v.
tbe fwilchraeu's Mutual Aid associa
tion found tbeir way into court when
a suit for $20,000 was Died by the or
ganization against Uie bondsmen ot
ex-Secretary -Ireaaurer William A,
bimarott.
as Kagleg.
MARsriELD, Mo July 28 Nt-wa
reached bora tbat smallpoi la raging
at Moautalo Grore, a town in Wright
county. Eight deaths are reported
and a lam portion of tba mbsbttaau
are sick with tba dieeaee. N ambers of
people bare Wft for other towns, and
anuaa arseanuanary
takaa tawdbwaaw totttatf to awraed to
flnng
saourea are
reguia
DEB 5 DENIES U GL'ILT.
Defendants ia the Contempt Cases
File Their Answer-They Were
not Instigator! o Violence.
THE LEADERS GAVE NO ORDERS.
Tbar.onlr NoUArd iba M.m Artar la
Kalallor lb. Vet. ... Aa.rt.laad.
Chicaoo, Juiv 24. -Debs and other
officials ot the A. ii. t . through their
attorneys yesterday msde answer in
the contempt proceedings in the United
States court cr iwing out their action
in violation of the Jederal injunction
in the laie railroad troubles. I he
document is volu u.tious and full of
egal formality, reiterating a denial of
tbe acts alleged in the information
under which the proceedings are taken.
The essential features follow. They
declare that by tiie terms of the organ
ization of the American rat1 way union
they had no power and did not order
the strike on any of the railroads tied
up; that the strike c .uld only be de
clared or discontinued by a vote of tbe
majority of the members of the Ameri
can railway union on each road and
that tbe only power of the general
officer in the matter was to uotify tba
members of the union iri the service
concerned in such sti ike of the action
taken by such majority. They deny
that at any time orders were issued to
the employes of the railroad! men'
tioned in the complaints, "to strike'
but that they merely informed tbe
employes of the result of the votes on
these railways where a majority had
voluntarily determined to strike, Tbey
deny that saiu employes leaving the
service of said companies did so for the
purpose of preventing such companies
in the operation of their trains engaged
in the carrying the United Mates mails
when iu the transaction of inter-state
commerce. The defendants admit that
prior to and during the strike many
local unions of the American railway
union organized and were admitted.
covering substantially all the roads
from Chicago to the Pacific coast, but
tbey deny that after the service of the
injunction they carried on the work of
organization other than by generally
a 1 vising railroad employes to become
members aud receiving applicstious for
membership. Defendants further
state that no telegrams set forth in the
information agaiust them were sent
or authorized by any of them except
the one date July 6, saying that they
had the assurance that within forty
eight hours every labor organization in
the country would come to tne rescue,
and advising all to
tfUIT AND KKMA1N OUT
till tbe fight was won, and declaring
tbe cause lo be gaining grounds daily
and that succeas was ouly a question of
a few days. This it is admitted was
sent by Delis but the defendant have
no knowledge whatever of sending the
other telegram mentioned. They ad
mit that violence occurred on some of
the railway lilies tied up, but denv that
any members of the American Hail
way union participated in such acts;
tl.ey de y they knew that violence ne
cessarily followed from the strikes but
allege on the contrary that as far as
the American Railway union in con
cerned tbe said strike and all similar
strikes contemplated nothing more
tban a peaceable lawful cessation of
work. '1 hey deny that they at any
time directed, advised or approved the
acts of violence or
UNLAWFUL ACTS
of any kind, but ou the contrary at all
times counseled abstention from viol
ence, threats and intimidation and
urged respect for the law aud tin pin
cers thereof. They declare that in
sending out communications to the
railway managers ou July 12, ottering
to call oil the strtKe, they exceeded
their authority; tbat all they had power
to do was to advise the members to
adopt the proposal tnerein staled and
further that since the service of the in
junction order on them thay have beeu
governed in all acts by the advice cf
eminent counsel as to what tbey might
legally do thereunder; that they in
tended in no way to violate the in
junction or act in defiance or contempt
of its authority. The answer is sworn
to by Debs, Toward, Keliher and
Rogers.
d Ma (loud man.
Andkilson, lnd., July 24 Dick
Goodman, leader of the notorious
Goodman gang, wag Sunday night sur
rendered by bis bondsman, John Griffo.
Since the band to-hand encounter be
tween tbe gang and a posse of deputy
sheriffs at Summitville last October
Dick has been hovering between life
and death. Two pistol wounds be re
ceived formed auicestes. Since bis
father was sentenced to five years.
Thorn p May to nine, and Frank
Loomis to four, it bas been feared tbat
be would be spirited away by friends.
Griffo became alarmed and canceled
bis bond. Goodman will never appear
for trial. Ha ia worth, It la est i muted,
100,000.
The Ualiona Did II.
Perkt, (). T July 24.-A band of
outlaws swooped (inwu on thistny and
sot tbe wooden house' ou Ore. W hile
tbe poonio wato trying to stop tuo
eariona 'conOagfkfion, the band III
orated tbe piteoners In the O uniy Jail.
Amoug the prisoners who eecspirf-fcrw
Mr" "WWlwiiia Ci.
". nrapier,! and CI
Clav llatlai
toWfbi ballon gang, wbo if
coom tae nwt noted horse
and ottUawe of Oklahoma.
tbtoraa
A W aaaaa Wlih Fed.
Asbcrt Paw, X. J. July .-In a
lecture on drees reform delivered bore
Thursday Mrs. Jenniaa-MUler ma o
cutting remarks about some prudhn
persons who showed their aiasyprovu
of a suit she wore. During tbe leetu e
Mrs. Miller changed her rainv it
several times. In disrobing the atl a
she advocated for a rainy day aha
peared in a dress which displayed loo
top of her shoes and about three inehea
of heavy cloth leggings. Several
women sitting close to the platfo. m
frowned and murmured their dissent.
Mrs. Miller, looking straight at them,
siid that a woman's legs were no more
sacred tbau a man s and she hoped the
day was near when every woman in
the land would throw aside her acquired
m desty and enjov comfort and go.d
health by discarding corsets and we .r
ing their gowns short. She continued:
"You go to the beach to btthe in your
bathing suits, a-id yu have no hesi
tancy in exposiug your legs to tuo
multitude on the board walk, yet ) a
are shocked whn a lady eipoaea n
inch or two of her lees when ahe ;
pears on the street dresed in a go u
that is better than what you are we
ing." Mr. Miller was loudly applan- d
for this, but, taking no further no ca
of the matter, went ou with her v
ture.
Ilia Dcaillr Whlahara.
New Yok)v, July 23. Bernard
Aschelrodt. ' painter, was probacy
faulty 'burned. He had been at wo
on th new Hats at the northeast con er
of Ninty avenue and Twenty-nil th
streets for two weeks. U hen Char es
McKean told him Unit his whiskers
would make a good lire he told Mc
Kean to mind his own bnsinem. But
McOau had no business to mind. He
has been doini a tittle work around
the place, sweeping put shaving aud
such.
McKean would not let Aschelrdt
alone. He kept making fun of his
whixkers and going out and getting
drinks, Aschelnxit says, till lie waa
pretty drunk and Aschelrodt was v -y
mad. Then the two had a quarrel, u
which Koberl Winters, a plumber, -e-came
involved. Aschelrodt cat'ed
Winters an ugly uanie. 1 hen W inteis,
so Aschelrodt since charges, picked up
Aschelrodt's paint bucket and threw
the paint in bis tar.,
"Now they'll burn," cried McKean,
and, lighting a match, he toucued it to
Aschelrodt's whiskers. The blaze flew
up in his lace aud he ran yelling into
tbe street. Then McKean got very
sober, ran after Aschelrodt, and
smothered the Haines with his bare
bauds. Aschelro.t was In a bad way.
He was taken lo the New York
HojpiUl, where he was In a dying con
dition. ,
Nut ap to the Standard Walalit.
New Yohk, Juiv 23. -It Is said at tba
ubtreasurv that verv probably
gold com withdrawn for export du. ug
the past week was not of the full stand
ard weight of ounces for each
o,0W bag. Under the law the sub
treasury is required lo accept in pav
meut to the government all gold cuin
which is not abraded or light more than
one-half of 1 percent; where the loss
by abrasion does net exceed that per
centage, the same com is also a lawful
payment to the public. The probabi
lity, therefore, Is that the recent ex
poilt to Europe have not averaged
more than 208.70 and perhaps as low aa
20U5ii ounces per to,CMJ, This loaa
would, therefor, bo sulllcielit to
dimmute the margin of profit from the
exportation, as the business Is based
upou the assumption that the coin
would be of full weight, and the banker
draws bis bill ou London at 4j and
negotiates exchange iu Pans ou Lon
don 25 francs 10 cents to complete the
transaction.
Two oiiiltullial AuarDilmenta.
Albany, July 23. -The socialist
labor party came to the trout in the
conUitutioual convention turough the
medium ol Gleeou J. tucker, lit their
behall lelegate Tucker introduced two
propose constitutional amendments.
Die tirst provides that the state shall
assume ownership of all railway,
telegraph and teloptioue, gas, water aud
other corporation belonging to the class
of natural uiouoplles. W here those
are essentially ot tne city or county
is to assume ownership. Compensation
is to be paid, though iu no case is the
consideration to be greater than would
would b- tbe cost of duplicating the
pia .1 of the mouoply seized,
The second proposition deala with
education. It provides that every
child shall have a free school training
and that in no state school shall any
dogma be taught. Children of desti
tute parents must attend these schools
and the stale must give them good
dinners.
Tbe socialist-labor parly, it la under
stood, will vole agaiust whatever tba
convention may aubmlt aa a whole to
the people, unless Ibeir schemes are
included.
A Talaa Nacktla Party.
Woodvillk, Texas, July 23. A mob
of thirty armed men overpowered the
Jailer here and broke down tbe doors.
Tbey want to tba cell where William
Unfiilh was confined and look him out.
Proceeding to tba South Pacflc water
Unk they hanged and shot bim. One
of tbe shots tired iulo bis body nearly
cut his arm off. About a week ago
Griffith assaulted a little girl.
Wal ad tor tbe Ceb.
New Yomk, Jolj to. The cruiser
Columbia was lata In starting for Blue
fields. Tito data was doo to tba late
arrival bfcash'f roa tnotrananty for
bar voluinliiuiia na rail. A II the other
ft1l nt irrapitridg for bor voyage bad
baen computed for bar v or ace had
bbaa ooivptwud. 'At li- r mo aht
wav Imiv short on bar eaaiba bad
Inula liter iba
aaabot Was
ta no ana
sMdoida.
en Win mi
bar way to
Pilot at jt or. of tbo
Kzzz a. itrnnm a oo
took bar to tba bar.
