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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1897)
SIOUX COUNTY JOURNAL GEO. D. CANON, Editor. Harrison. - - Nebraska tiimU STATE NEWS. U. R. Cannon fell and riassfd unria the tender of an engine at Alliance, sus- waini iiuu injuries. Frank Chatman of W vre and Jnh Gorman, keeper of a iunch counter at Chatman had the upper portion of hla ear omen on. No arrests. The Burlington railroad has luat com pleted a nice new depot In Sterling. The new building was badly needed, and is a decided improvement. The Ponca Indians near Niobrara were paid Friday by their agent, Being a pan aue mem on the Sioux treaty, jacn member of a family av eragea zti. The two packet steamers that have plied between Niobrara and up-river points this side of Chamberlain are now full of business and report a ood season. Next year will probably see tnree boat operating between these points. a young man. Charles Daheke, while siretcning a woven wire fence at Shel ton Saturday, was seriously hurt, a team was pulling the corner post in po sition, and a log chain which was used in tne operation broke and flew back, auiuug mm in tne lace and chest. Da- acne is injured Internally, and has mall chances of recovery. The American Chicory company is drying some sugar beets at its works uere. The roots, when dried, are to be hipped to Chicago, where they will be treated by a new process for extracting the sugar. Two lota of beets, sufficient to cover the drying floor, have been dried this week. Very few sugar beets ware raisea around here this season. Irled beets are also palmed off as chic ory sometimes. Mrs. E. W. Thomas of Falls City has begun suit in the district court against the B. AM. railroad to recover i,C00 uamages tor tne death of the late Judge Thomas. Mr. Thomas was returning from Tecumseh one night last February un a ireigm train. Alter alighting lie w-ieu across to me depot, and was crossing the main track when he was truck by a westbound freight and m- tantiy killed. Burglars have been at work In Falls City. The residence of Mayor Miles in the north part of the city was entered and three watches and 111 in money laaen. ine Durglars overlooked Airs. Miles' pocketbook, containing $35 and a diamond ring, which were on the dress er. The house of Frank Blairs was aldo entered on the same night and a gold watch taken. Both places were entered through a window. A furniture car on a special freight caught Are a mile east of North Bend Thursday evening. The crew detached the car, which was next the engine, and made the run to the water tank. A full stream was turned on the burning car. but the flames had gained such bead way that water had no effect The car Beatrice, got into an altercation and was "kicked" onto the switch, where It was entirely destroyed. James Hannafln, a porter employed at Hayden Bros', store. Omaha, fell down the freight elevator shaft from the third story of the new addition Friday afternoon and received injuries from which be died at St Joseph's hospital two hours later. Coroner H. K. Burket held an Inquest over the remains and the Jury returned a verdict of acci dental death. The funeral was conduct ed by the Modern Woodmen. Hann! fin's wife died six months ago. Hugh Sproles stole $27 from Milt Firquln, a farmer living north of Falls City, a few days ago. Sproles was work ing for Firquln at the time. The money consisted of a $20 gold piece and $7 in silver. The gold coin was one Firquln bad owned for years. Sproles went to Kulo and bought a suit of clothes, pay ing for it with the gold piece, and went from there to Forest City, Mo., where be was arrested. He was brought back there Friday and locked up. On behalf of Samuel J. Rothwell, re ceiver of the Mutual Loan and Trust company, which was declared insolvent by the Douglas county district court some time ago, Attorney John C Cow in has filed a petition against the Home Investment company of Omaha in erhlch, while asking judgment against the latter company for $15,135.41, and in terest on that amount from June. 1831. charge of fraud are made against some of the parties Interested in the suit, in cluding ex-Congressman G. W. E. Dor- sejr. :he big exposition closes THE NASHVILLE AFFAI3 WAS A GRAND SUCCESS Promoters of the Big; Show Declare It was a Success in Points of At tendance, Exhibits, Financially and Every Other Way. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 3. Saturday, the last day and night of the Tennessee Centennial exposition, which opened Its gates May 1. was well attended, about 30,000 people, many of them vis itors, being present. There were no special features during the day, but that night at V o'clock, after a mag nificent display of fireworks and a con cert, there was held the closing meet ing In the auditorium, which was packed, main floor and galleries. It was a love feast held in commemoration of the closing hours of the exposition In which all the people of Tennesuee evinced the greatest and moBt loyal pride, Hon. Tully Brown, United States district attorney; G. H. Baskette. Mrs. Van Leer Kirkman, president of the Woman's Board; Major W. C. Lewis, director general, and Major John W. Thomas, president of the exposition company, t livered addresses to cheer ing thousands. Sixteen guns were then fired, commemorating the fact that Tennessee was the sixteenth state of the union, and then, with the doxology, In which the audience joined In sinz- ing, the exposition was declared closed. Total receipts and expenditures wi l not be known until the executive com mittee meets, but the exposition pays out, and President Thomas announced In his speech that every dollar of In debtedness would be promptly paid. I he week s attendance has been in- mense. The largest attendance was last Thursday and the official figures given out today state that 84,493 attended on that day. The week's attendancewlll approximate 170.000. and the total dur ing the exposition will exceed 1,650.000. It will be to weeks before the build ings are dismantled and the exhibits removed. SHOOTS DOWN A DEFAULTER, TRIED TO SHIELD Hlg SISTER. The New Born Babe was Carried I a Satchel. Council Bluffs, la . Nov. F!ar' Saturday morning a young man all-ji at the Christian Home and asked to the manager. When that gentleman ap peared the young man confidingly told aim ne nan brought him a buoy. Noth ing was in sight but an ordinary look ing grip which the young man had de- posited on the porch. Manager Lernen opened the grip and was somewhat as tonished to discover a nude babe only a few hours' old. wrapped in a blanket ana a pillow. The young man was very reluctant about giving any explana. tion or how the baby came Into his dos session, but said it had been born the night before and that its mother was hired girl employed at the home of hi mother. He was waiting impatiently for the baby to be taken out and the grip returned to him. but when Man ager Lemen informed him that babies were nut taken in at the home after that fashion and that some preliminary cor respondence and recommendations from responsible people were necessary he was willing to go away without h's satchel. When the manager told him he must remain until the matter could be investigated by the police he became very much alarmed and it was neces sary to use strong language to induce him to remain. Officers Murphy and Anderson responded to the call and to them he told the truth. He said his name was Levi Whitaker and that h, home was in Avoca, and that the moth er of the child was his own sister. Geor gia M. Whitaker. She had been em ployed as a domestic In other tjwns and had returned to her home, where her baby was born after midnight yes terday morning. In the hope that the family might be spared the disgrace of publicity the mother and brother had decided to bring the babe to the Chris tian home, and the grip was chosen as the means of conveyance that would ex cite the least attention. Whitaker hki permitted to return to his home oend Ing further inquiries into the case, and unless the child should happen to die and Its death be shown to be the resu't of the extraordinary cradle In which took Its first journey, he will not bo further interfered with. RESEMBLES CEO. WASHINGTON An Ex-Banker Killed by a Man He Owed. Columbus, O., Nov. 3. William S. Ide was shot and killed Saturday by John Smith. Ide is a banker and brother c ' Commander Ide, U. S. N. Smith was arrested. He followed and shot Ide as he ran. Smith Is an English coachman, f.5 years of age, and says Ide owed hlrn $1,700. Ide's extensive property Is in the hands of a receiver. Smith says he asked Ide for the money and Ide said he would pay when he got ready and attempted to pass into the court hou?. Smith shot him In the side and then in the head. Ide falling dead in the aud itor's office. Smith says he was sane and sober, but exasperated. Mr. Ide is of an old family here, his mother being a Sullivan, daughter of one of the pioneers. Death came so ulckly he did not utter a word. Trm affair occurred so quickly that the score or more of persons near the scene scarcely realized what had happened ntll it was all over. Witnesses tat that the first they saw was, the enter ing form of Mr. Ide at the north en trance of the court house. He was bein followed by an excited individual, who was rapidly emptying the contents of revolver toward the retreating bank er. Mr. Ide continued retreating until he reached the door of the auditor's office, where he fell dead. As soon as he saw that his victim had fallen to the floor the assailant turned disappeared through the outside en. trance. The same instant Countr AuA. i nor naiuaay anu others In the off'ce umea to ne scene. Mr. HaIIMhv passed the prostrate form of Mr i.ij ana nastent a after the murderer a policeman r iptured Smith, but not un til after Smith had made a desperate ef- tori to put 8 ban throueh his own in-nin The man gave little resistance when hs found that his attempt to add suicide to the tragedy had failed and was hur riedly taKen to the do ce t.itim. rTODaoly no coachman In h ,-itu- better known. For some time wn n tne employ of Dr. n. N inn.nl later acted In a similar capacity for the late M. M. Green of the Hocklnjr Val ley roaa, ana in more recent years had LuarKe oi tne stable or William A. Neil oi.i.ii, n.iB ne una lae ir i rf fi nnt pay him he (Smith) would have to go to me uouse. ne naa ben dis charged bv his last employer on ac- luuiii oi oia age. Thomas Sullivan and Steve R. Ar Bold were arrested In Omaha as bus Vicious characters Saturday night, and are believed by tbe police to be "good men." In their possession were two skeleton keys, two handsome diamond Flags valued at 1200, two diamond ear rings and a diamond stud valued at much more. They also owned $80 in cash. The men were secured in a room ear Fourteenth and Dodge streets by uetecuves Hunivan and Hudson, and are known to be new arrivals in the dty. They are connected by tho au thorities with an eastern diamond rob bery. Lincoln has been infested with hlirh waymen for a couple of weeks past and tnere nave been hold-ups every night In on case a merchant in East Lincoln was compelled to hold up his hands whits the robbers went through the money drawer. Saturday night J. w. nenlth. a merchant, was driving home With his son, when they were waylaid at Twentieth and J streets. Smith was track over the head with a sandbag, bat was not disabled. He showed flzht and the robbers fired at him two r three times. Mr. Smith returned the re, and, whipping up the horses, es caped. It Is not known If either of the rcbsars was hit The horse was wound sd fey a stray bullet. The new state law requiring the oper- eoea or vesvouiea motor cars became CsetHrs Monday mors ing. but not all eg tne motors of the Omaha Street Rail way company wars vestibuled on that aat, Several months ago the local f mot railway company increased the i tm hi its car hops and commenced t-e work of placing vestibules upon the r "-sears. The holding of thii state fair VN as worn to some extent for, si snow ns; tan tramc, n was necessary ft lavs some eigaty extra motors in te nfvtos, and work npoa these could rt M commenced antil after the doss re f-r. lines that time about fifty f r I " .. -Jm havs been constantly em- 71 1 ri tJM ear shops, and before the t s-4k it is expected that all t ! L-'-v wU bs as tripped with ves l 1 "-star morning about thlr- r . 1 triors wsrs sent eat ( s,t I wTJs tiMM already la M f t-1 be stfdent to Mil J, L Vahrat Kill, the ..I cxJ Ram Twentieth THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION President McKinley Issues Hla Fir. t i nanKsgiving Day Proclamation. Washington, D. C Nov. 2 t l t 1 - , ... nvKHiiey nas IHHUed hl first Thont,. giving day proclamation, as follows- "In remembrance of God's good;ieis lo us uunng me past year, which has been so abundant, let us offer u nln Ulm our thanksgiving and pay our vows uiuo ine most nign. "Under his watchful rirnvirin i iustry has prospered, the conditions of wuwen nave oeen improved, the re. wards of the husbandmen hive . Increased and the comfort of our homes iiuiupiica. ins mignty hand has pre. served peace and protected the nation. Respect for law and order has be .i strengthened, love of free Institutions zherished. rid all sections of our be- iovea country brought into closer bonds oi iraiernai regard and generous co-op (ration. "For these great benefits It Is our dutv to praise the Lord In a spirit of humility and to offer up to Him our most earnest luppllcatlons. "That we may acknowledge our obll ratlon as a people to Him who has so graciously granted us the blessings cf free government and material pros perity. I, William McKinley, president i tne united states, do hereby desig nate and set apart Thursday, the 26t lay of November, for national thank, riving and prayer, which all of the peo. pie are Invited to observe with appro, prlate religious services in their re ipectrve places of worship. "On this dsy of rejoicing and domestic reunion let our prayers ascend to the fiver of every good and perfect gift for the continuance of his love and favor t Is, that our hearts may be filled with lharlty and good will, and that we may ks ever worthy of his beniflcent con tern. "Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-ninth dsy of October, In th year of our Lord, one thousand eight bund red and ninety-seven, and of the Independence of the United States ths Mie hundred and twenty-second. (Seal) "WILLIAM M KINLET. "By the president. "JOHN SHERMAN. "Secretary of State." After having keen shot twice without sing hurt m the very act of stealing chickens, a Maltese cat of Plkeaviiu. BalUmore county, Md., was Anally dis patched by a cltlsen who had lain la wait all night for It In the hen house, accord! as? to ths neighbors' mmHi the est had carried oft IN chickens la lew weeks. Several Vain Attempts to Murder an Old Man who Inheritsa Fortune Eldora, la., Nov. 3. Henry Dershorn, the old farmer who lives north of ner near Owassa. and who has fallen heir to $32,000 in Pennsylvania, has lived In terror during the last year, bariy ,n the spring his family came home from church one Sunday night and found him lying In a pool of blood, nearly dead. He was Insensible, and had "eon struck on the head with a billy. When aroused he said that masked men ha 1 entered the house to murder him and had left him in that condition, suppos ing him dead. The sheriff and county attorney made a very careful Investiga tion at the time, but found no clew and made no arrests. In July, one dark night Mr. Ders horn was driving home from OwaKa. when a man sprang up from the road side out of the grass and shot at him. Fortunately the aim was misdirected and beyond a slight wound In the ear Mr. Dershorn escaped uninjured. For a second time the officers went over the case thoroughly, but again they found no clew. Now, in the light of this windfall to Mr. Dershorn of $32,000. it Is believed that a motive existed for wishing the old man out of the way. and these at tempts at murder were prompted, by mercenary motives on the part of Inter ested parties between whom and tha fortune Mr. Dershorn Btood. He Is an elderly man, quite deat.ion-J It is an easy matter to approach him. In both attempts upon his life trace were left to show that robbery was in tended of his person or premises, but It Is thought that these schemes were lata to deceive the officers. A JOKE CAUSES INSANITY. Young Man Is Frightened Into In sanity Suit For Damages. Fort Dodge, Ia, Nov. 3. Attention of the district court was taken up all last week with the case of Lazarus Reynolds against Thomas Reedy. The plaintiff sues for J25.000 for damages to the health and mind of his son, Ralph M. Reynolds. He alleges that In the win ter of 1895 Reedy, for a joke. Induced Ralph Reynolds, a young man of 22, to go to the railroad tracks to see the body of a man supposed to have been killed. It was at a late hour In the night and the supposed corpse, which was really the hired man. Allen John son. jumped up In his winding sheet and chased him until he was frantic with fear. He became insane the nett day, and after being three times at the hospital for the insane he is pronounced insurable. Reedy denies that the Incident took place and says it Is a creation of Ralph Reynolds' Insanity, and claims the suit is an attempt to bleed htm. Reedy Is a wealthy farmer near Gowrle and Rey nolds family are neighbors. THE OUTRAGEOUS DECISION EX-CHIEF JUSTICE MAXWELL CRITICISES POWELL. The Venerable Jurist Explains the Errors of Judge Powell Unlawfu Means and Flimsy Technicalities Resorted To to Defraud the State THE ANDREE BALLOON. Report That It was Seen Floating Near Prince Charles Promontory Christiana, isov. z. utspatcnes re ceived here from the island of Vardl In the Arctic ocean off Flnmark, which, with Vardoehuus, is the most northern fort, say the public there Is fully con vinced or the truth of the report that a whaling ship sighted Prof. Andree's balloon floating September 28, neir Prince Charles promontory, Spltzen bergen. The news has caused consider able depression among the friends cf Prof. Andree. Brakmo, the Arctic explorer, proposed to sail for Prince Charles promontor In order to investigate the truth of the story told by the crew of the whaler. Captain Sverdrup of Dr. Frldjof Nan sen's exploring ship Fram does not be lieve the report Edison's New Triumph, New York, Nov. 2. The Electrical Engineer published the first authorita tive account of Thomas A. Edison's success In recovery by electricity of the iron contained in low grade ore. The Inventor's experiments have been car ried on during the past six years at the old Ogden Iron mills, a few miles fro.n Dover, N. J. His process. In brief, con lets of pulverising the ore. The pow der Is then stlowed to fall In close prox imity to electric magnets, which defl ;t the iron to one side and non-metall'c matter falls to the other side by grav ity. Yu Shi Yfs Term Ends. Washington. D. C. Nov I I u stated at the Chinese legation thst the retirement of Tu Hhl Yi as consul gen eral at Sen FYanclsro Is In the usual course of business, his term of three years having expired. He is mmiiw east to visit friends and confer with te minister. Mr. Yo How, secretary of the legation, has left for San Francisco te occupy a consular position. Fredrico Mora and RIoMa Raaua. en. found guilty of making false notes cf the Bank of Costa Rica, have teen sentenced to two years' Imprleoweat t Sing Stag and to pay a fine of Ua Fremont Neb., Oct 25, 1897. Hon. W, L. Greene: Dear Sir The ruling of Judge Powell la erroneous In the case of State vs. Bartley et al just tried be fore him, that a bond delivered to the governor within the time fixed by stat ute was void because not approved within such time. Tbe law does not require an impossibility. The governor Is to exercise care In the approval of the bond and It is his duty to ascertain whether or not the sureties are suffl clent The bond was for a large amount and with many sureties, and thus might require several days to examine It It is for the interest of the state that tbe governor take sufficient time to make a thorough investigation. The approval dates from the time of delivery to the governor. The act of approving la con tinuing from that time until complet ed, but It is but one act "the aproval. ' The provision In regard to filing and and recording is directory merely, and bond approved by the governor is good and will bind the obligors If nei ther filed nor recorded. If the filing and recording were necessary to enti tle a party to exercise the duties of the office to which he had been elected it would be In the power of the secretary of state to defeat his election by failing to file and record the bond, and man damus would not lie if this decision is right, because the time had expired. No one will contend that the secretary has such power. The governor may re quire additional sureties as a condition of approval and when given they merely strengthen the original bond which the governor is considering. Judge Sutherland in his valuable work on Statutory Construction No. 322 says: In the consideration of the pro visions of any statute they ought to re ceive such a reasonable construction If the words and subject matter will admit of It as that the existing rights of the public or of Individuals be not in fringed. Consideration of what is rea sonable, convenient or causes hardship and injustice have a potent influence I many cases." He also says. No. 44i A provision that an officer shall take his official oath within a certain period or give his official bond even where the Iwsue of a commission to him Is prohib ited until such bond is given," Is direc tory. In regard to bonds he states truj rule that a bond differing in form and mode or execution from what is re quired by statute but containing sub manually the required provisions valid. No. 453. Hartley held the offltve of state treasurer for two years with the knowledge of his sureties under the bond approved by Governor Holcomb He was a member of many state boards received public money as treasurer and paid It out In the same capacity, and was treasurer In fact. He handled millions of dollars of the money of the state, drew his salary regularly as treas urer and is charged with the wrongful ppropriatlon of more than half a mil lion dollars, mostly of. the permanent school fund, and yet we are gravely told that he was not treasurer and therefore there is no liability on his bond. The reposition looks like a mere pretext to saddle the loss on the state. So far as the settlement of the account before the approval of the bond is concerned the proof shows that Governor Hot- comb made a rigid examination of the accounts of the treasurer. He checked p all the assets and evidences of cred Its In the forms of certificates of deposit produced by the treasurer and found hat all the funds were accounted for The mode of procedure Is that of every clearing house. No public charges of ishonesty had been made against Hartley at that time and the republican party had vouched for his honesty and reliability by re-electing him. If he was a defaulter at that time no one seems to have been aware of it The presumption of law Is that these certlfl cates of deposit are genuine and there is nothing to ehow that they were not The treasury of this state has no vaults proof against burglars, hence, until suitable vaults and guards are provided it has been and will be necessary to tie posit cash in various banks for safe keeping. And the certificates sub mitted to the governor were the evl dence of such deposits. Had he re quired the cash to be produced It would have occupied several weeks In count- ing it and needed the services of several watchmen and guards for which there was no provision, or for their payment The trial lasted several weeks. The court at tbe commencement of the trial and later refused to receive evidence of tho approval of the bond, but at the close held that as the bond had not been approved within tbe statutory time It was void. The judge said: "I cannot see that either party has been prejudiced by my not having decided the point at that time. And in light of the request of the attorney general will now an nounce my decision on that question In view of the decision in the Lansing case and the very mandatory character of the language of the statute of this state, the failure to approve the bond on or before January , 189S, was s very material matter, and by reason of that failure the office of state treasurer became vacant and remained vacant until the 7th day of January, 187 know of no ststute In any other state, and no statute was called to my atten tion In any of the arguments where the language is nearly as strong as it Is ex pressed In our own statutes. Is that clear enough. Mr. Attorney General 7" , Attorney General Smythe responded. "It Is clear enough, but what effect does It have on the bond?" Judge Powell answered: "It has an effect Without expressing an opinion as to whether or not the bondsmen would be liable under the waiver. I cer tainly think that-the state cannot re cover upon that instrument." Governor Holcomb had taken the precaution at the time he approved the bond to take from the sureties a waiver of any objections to the bond. This the attorney general offered In evidence but the court refused to receive It be cause a variance, The reported caaer of the early years of this century show that the common law judges dissolved attachments and dismissed cases be cause of the misspelling of a word or Improper addition of a letter Jn the pleadings or the ground of a variance. That rule has never prevailed In this country. Onr code, section 144, pro vides for amendments and no case la to be dismissed where an amendment can be made. The court may either before or after Judgment, in furtherance of Justice, and on such terms as may be proper, amend any pleading, praeses or proceeding, by adding or striking out the name of a party, or by correcting a mistake to the name of a party, or a mistake la any ether respect, or by In serting other stlegstlons material In the case, or when the amendment does not change substantially the claim or de fense by confirming the pleading or proceeding to the fact proved," etc. An amendment of the petition setting up the written waiver of the sureties was clearly within the provisions of the stat ute. It raised no new Issue. The amendment was clearly In luitherance of justice. Why, then, was it not per mitted and the cause proceed? The court seems to have ruled that there could be do recovery on the bond. If not then there could be no recovery on the waiver alone. This decision, how. ever, is In line with several decisions in regard to the permanent school fund made by our courts In the last three years; and acts of the misuse and mis appropriation of that fund are glossed over as If they were meritorious, if the people of the state assent to such decisions, and taxes are heaped upon the taxpayers to supply the deflclen cies, the burdens of taxation will not only be greatly Increased, but the bale- fjl Influence will be felt In every part of the state. The decisions referred to are such as to fully justify the strong language of Governor Crounse in his last message to the legislature. Gov ernor Crounse was not inaugurated In January. 1893, for several days after the time fixed by statute. In conse quence of the failure of the senate to organize so that the votes could be can vassed. So of the treasurer and other state officers. The governor elect and other officers were present ready to be gin the performance of their respctive duties, but without their fault were unable to do so. If this decision is correct It Is probable that Hartley's flirt bond Is In the same condition as the second one. I cannot believe such de cisions state the law correctly. Yours very respectfully, SAMUEL MAXWELL. CEATH OF HENRY GEORGE. SAD ENDING OF HIS BRILLIANT CAMPAIGN. Son of the Dead Leader Named as the Candidate of the Jefferson Ian Democracy For Mayor of Greater New York. THE SUGAR-ROLLING SEASON. 1L S. Canfleld In the Chicago Times-Heraid. In a little while black smoke will be pouring against the blue sky of Louisi ana from the cavernous throats of 'bag asse" chimneys. "Bagasse" is refuse cane after the juice Is expressed. Ton of It are accumulated In sugar-making and In many mills the custom is still to burn it More advanced planters use it as a fertiliser. The "grinding sea son, or "rolling season. Is near at hand. The broad fields, which all sum mer waved darkly green In solid mass, He brown under the autumn sun. Where the cane still stands1 an army of dusky soldiers who wield the two-foot knife as a Cuban wields his machete Is mov ing to the attack. The serried stalks struck close to the ground, will fall In swaths, making what are known as "windrows." Then they will be hauled In enormous wagons to a great mill. which stands pear the bayou. If the mill be of the modern pattern the work in celerity and system will re semble the work of an eastern factory. If it be of the old pattern the work will lose in efficiency, but will gain In pie turesquenes. In old days the can was crushed between huge Iron rollers. The juice flowed into a tank, where It was treated with sulphur. Thence It WPnt Into the open kettles, where It -a boiled until It reached the granulation point. Thence It was emptied Into open "coolers," where It slowly formed Its crystals. The uncrystalilzed residue was known as "suar-house molasses." or "cooler molasses." The syrup which drains from the still wet sugar after It Is placed In hogsheads is known as "black," or "cistern molasses," and it of the lowest grade. The modern mill Is a "diffusion" mill. The cane is not ground, but Is chopped Into little bits by macerators. The bit are placed In huge Iron bottles, with closed tops, whtre they steep. The pro cess is almost an exact reproduction of making tea. Nearly every particle of saccharine matter Is extracted at a less cost. Closed vats, centrifugal machines, chemical rooms and so forth do the rest of it It Is all very exact and scien tific, but it Is not pretty. Planters are putting In diffusion machinery as fast as they can afford It, because its use means much more money In the agri cultural pockets. Romance has gone out of the sea. No more do towering three-deckers with bellying sail on sail shear through the waters of the main. One gets no poesy from what Mr. Kipling calls a "ram. you-damn-you liner, with a brace of bucking screws." Most of It has gone from sugar making, slain, as the ro mance of the sea was slain, by machin ery. In the old time a Louisiana sugar mill, under full pressure, made a sight worth remembrance. It was tall and ot "cane shed," througn which ran the carrier that transported cane to the roll ers. Enormous chimneys reared their heads about the building. Wagon trains bearing cane came and went con stantly. The cane lay heaped twenty feet high under the shed, hundreds ot tons of it. Wood fires roared In two furnaces built under the sugar kettles, which were set In masonry on the see. ond floor. The vast Interior swarmed with heln Everywhere were faces black as jet. Light glanced from a dozen smokv lamps fastened to the walls. The in terior of the old-fashioned mill was all in one room and an uninterrupted view was naa from end to end. At night the scene was particularly picturesque, Then the lights glared, the furnace flames roared more loudly, black shad. ows danced upon the walls, song was constant, ine "sugar boiler" moved about, an embodiment of authority. Through wreaths of steam that floatel to the roof dark figures flitted, looking like evil spirits. The men who handled the long shafts with buckets at the ends used to spill the seething Juice from one kettle to another, frequently were stripped to the waist. Th ma.. slve muscles showed like ropes undr the black skins. Outside a winter wind might howl, but In the mill was a tor. rid temperature. The folks from th big house the planter's famllv down every night all through the "roll- ing season." 'l here was a fascination New York, Nov. 1. Henry George died at I'nlon Square hotel at S o'clock Friday morning of apoplexy. He made four speeches tiie preceding night. After speaking at several different campaign meetings Thursday evening. Mr. George returned to the hotel about II o'clock. He ate a light supper an! Immediately retired. About 3:30 o'clock this morning he awoke and complained of suffering severe pains. He became unconscious, from which condition be did not again recover. After his nomination for mayor by the Jeffersonlan democrats a month ago Mr. George made an extremely ac tive canvass, speaking several times every evening and working from early to late ashls headquarters. He gave to the campaign Its most sensational In cidents, Its attacks on Kichard Croker and Senator Piatt, nhom he threatened to prosecute for various crimes such as levying blackmail upon city con. tractors and aspirants for olnce should he be elected mayor. His candidacy gave to Greater New York's election Its greattst element of uncertainty, for, according to expert politicians, it was practically Impos sible to estimate how much of Hryan's vote of last year would go to George Instead of Van Wyck. The night before his death Mr. George poke In the borough of Manhattan at the Central opera house. He was greet ed by large and enthusiastic crowds everywhere. In one of these speeches Mr. George sald: 'I have labored for years to make myself known, and now at last these things are all written down. I believe that all the needed reforms are summed up in the philosophy. The right of every man to eat. to drlrk, to speak as he sees fit so long as he does not trench on the rights of other men.' " Later, in the same speech, he repeat ed his threats against Mr. Croker In a ringing voice that greatly affected his hearers, saying: "lt him go to the penitentiary; he shall go there." Mrs. George accompanied her husband on most of his spi ei limaklng trips. Mr. George was about five feet five Inches high and of sl-nder build. His bead was bald and his brows fast be coming gray. The committee In charge of the funeral of Henry George have arranged that the body He In state at the Grand Central palace Sunday. At 3 p. m. the funeral services and orations will take place. At 7 p. m. the funeral procession will cross the Brooklyn bridge to the Brook lyn city hall. SON SUCCEEDS HIS FATHER. The Name of Henry George, Jr., Substituted For His Father. New York, Nov. 1 The Thomas Jef ferson democracy Friday afternoon substituted the name of Henry George. Jr., for the name of his father, Henry George, as candidate for mayor of Greater New York. Henry George, jr., was born In Sac ramento, Cal., ki lisfi2. He was educated In the public schools of San Francisco. He was taken from school and put to work In a printing office and helped to set type for "I'rogress and Poverty." He came east with his father in 188), In 1S&X he went to England as his fath er's private secretary. After his return he was ! yed for some time on the editorial staff of Truth, a dally paper then publlhhed In this city. Afterward he was assistant to the late James Ked- path, when the latter was editor of the North American Hevlew. When the Standard was founded by his father as the recognized exponent of the single tax movement, he became managing editor of the paper, holding that position until W.n. Then he went to Washington as sieclal correspondent for a number of western paH'rs. In 1S92 he spent six months In Eng land as eorresimmlent for several prom. lnc-nt American dallies, writing letter on social and political topics. In 1.S93 he went to Jacksonville, Fla. to assume the news management of lh Jacksonville Citizen. He held that po sition for two years and then returned. to act as his father's secretary and as sist In the revision of the new book ort political economy, which was nearly completed. PROPOSE TO CUT WAGES. A Reduction of Wages Is Proposed by Print Cloth Manufacturers. Fall Klver, Mass., Nov. 3. The print cloth report for last week does not show very satisfactory results and the situa tion Is railing forth considerable com ment from stockholders, who have selz1 upon the opportunity offered by the annual meetings to criticise some, w hat the methods In vogue here. The production has b-en normal, 130. 000 pieces, and the sales have been comparatively light. The stocks on hand have been Increased 90,000 places. The market Is dull at cents. Manufacturers have come to the con clusion that the cost of production must be lowered If they are to compete with southern mills and they have agreed upon a novel plan. It Is noth ing more or less than an appeal to the operatives to accept a cut of 10 per cent In wages. The plan Is not generally approved by manufacturers. BLOOD 18 ON THEIR HEAD8. Deputies who Shot Down the Hozel ton Miners Indited for Murder. Wllkesbarre, Pa., Nov. 2. The grand lurv him rr-f nrn..l . im. l.i n .. i . about It that was not to be resisted. The Sheriff Martin and his deputies for the men who fired the furnaces ran races ', Lattlmer shooting. The true bills In. with each other. He who caused the eluded nineteen for murder one for most strikes 'that Is, the greater each man kin .nM ,.. quaniuy or juice to be boiled was king of his fellows and favored of the dusky maids. There are still places wrere the am season may be seen In all Its glorv considered collectively. Thirty-six true bills were found In the same way for felonious wounding against the same defendants. The fact that true bills have been found occa sions very little surprise, as this action where "slrop" half boiled cane lulce Ti Mpected. If the Jury had Ignored Is still made; where "sugar-house beer" in bl"" lho "'lunts would have la hrotvoH- whr . . . ' . i been at once re-arrested. pecans sre burled In the fast rranui.i. I Tne likelihood is that Sheriff Martin le work of fifty; but they are not , " " l,,n or preliminary hesr- many. Before the march of modernitv '' ""''"i" tnat me prosecution will most of the old things are n..Yn I U u,ne1 wln among them that spirit of patriarchy which was once the dominant not In Thirty-five striking miners were ar- the symphony of life on the old plant- relel 'sr the Oak Hill. Ps mines of tion. The southern grower Is becoming Nw York and Cleveland Oas Coal more and more an employer at hi company, charrmi wiik n.i..fui mer slaves, and less of a fsther. He bl- thinks more of what he ran get out of m i'!!. ot. wh" i!omm,,loner ormah of the Internal tne effect on them will be in th revenua hinn m for it hut"? u -Jh-.mor ro!Pro" f.n, tor distilled spirits bottled (Or It DUt It IS not any mora nlaa..- i In hnnit w S . .... or beautiful. That Is certain. ernment r