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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1897)
L -A OFFICIAL DIRECTORY STATE ftantrttor Silas A Holcomb Lfeutebaat Governor James E Harris Ijicreiafref State WF Porter iTemurer JNMeserve Auditor John F Cornell Cora Lands and Bulldlngii Jacob V Wolfe Attorney General Constantino J 8mvth bupt Public instruction w KJaclcson Regents University i Hi A Hadley Scojln JC W KalevmHcd Cloud JShos KawlinsWakefld I Cnas Weston Hay Spgs I H L Goold Ogaialla LOH Morrill Lincoln CONGRESSIONAL Senators Wm V Allen Madison John M Thurston Omaha representatives First District Jesse B Strode Lincoln Second D H Mercer Omaha Third Geo I Mcikleiohn Fnllerton Fourth G J Hai ner Aurora Fifth Wm K Andrews Hustings Sixth O M Item Broken Bow JUDICIAL Supreme Court T L Isorval Chief Justice Harrison and Folk associates Fifteenth Judicial District M F Kinkaid ONeill V II Westovcr Itushvillo LEGISLATIVE Representative Fifty second District OP Ulllinps Norden Senator Fourteenth District Otto Mutz BpriiiKView LAND OFFICE BoRlstr O R Glover Longpine Receiver J A Fikc Newport COUNTY Treasurer G 1 Crabb Jlerk Geo Elliott Sheriff Amos Strong Judge W R Towne County Attorney V M Walcott County Superintendent Lillian Stmier Surveyor Chas Talt Corouer A Lewis Max viertei Commissioners W AF uker l P Sullivan PRECINCT Overseeis of Highways R Hansen and J Raj Constable R Towne C Justices of the Peace John Dunn and J M Jiur Camm Assessor- John Dunn VILLAGE Town Board E Sparks president C H Cor nell treasurer T C Hornby clerk D S Ludwlg End P F Simons Marshal and Water Commissioner Henry Razev chool District No l - F M Walcott president M V Nicholson treasurer J C Pettijohn secre tary W S Jackson G P Crabb and J T Keoley SOCIETIES Imp 0 BM Sitting Bull Tribe No 22 rmproved Order of Red Men meets every second and fourth Friday evening of each month at DavenportsJ Half Visiting brethren are fraternally Invited to be present at the councils of the tribe J H SEAita F M March Chief of Records Sachem A P A M Minnekadusa Lodge No 192 A F A M meets in regular communication Saturday even ing on or before the full moon In each month members of the order in good and regular stand ing cordially and fraternally invited to attend J T Keklky W M W W THonrsox Secr 0 E S Northern Star Chapter No 59 Order of the Eastern Star meets on second and fourth Tues- day evenings of each month In Hornbys hall W W Thompson Maggie Waloott Secretary Worthy Matron a oTu W Valentine Lodge Uo 70 A O U W meets on l stand 3rd Mondays of each month J C Pettijohn Rec 0 W Hahx M W D OF H Valentine Lodge No Degree of Honor holds regular meetings first and third Wednes day evenings of each month M Christknsen Mrs J C Pkttijobn Recorder Chief of Honor I 0 O F - Valentine Lodge No 20ri O O Fs meets fvery Thursday evening Visiting brothers cord lallv nvlted to attend our meetings D H Thurston Frank Brayton Secretary Noble Grand G A K Col Wood PstNo 208 Department of Ne braska regular meeting 2d and 4th Saturdays of each monlL at 2 d m sharp Comrads from other Posts are cordially Invited to attend J W Tcokkr John Dunn Adjutant Commander MwT A Valentino Camp No 1751 Modern Woodmen of America meets second and fourth Wednesday evenings of each month at Davenports HalL Visiting neighbors cordially Invited to aitend W S Jackson W E Ha6y Clerk Venerable Counsel K of P Cherry Lodge No 169 Knights of Pythias meeti every Tuesday evening at Davenports Hall W s Jackson E r Egberts K of R and S Chancellor Commander Arrival and Departure of Malls Mall east and west closes at 8 p m Rosebud leaves at 800 a m dallt except Sun day and arrives at 500 p m Simeon Kennedy and Oasis leaves at 700 a m Mondays Wednesdays and Frl days and arrives at 700 p m Tuesdays Thurs davs and Saturdays Ft Niobrara leaves daily at700 a m and 500 p m arrives at 930a mand 730 pm Kewanee and Sparks arrives Monday1 Wednesdays and Fridays at 609 p iaand leavss Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at 7e am General delivery open from 739 a m to 700 p m General delivery open on Sundays from 6 to 10 a m Lock boxes opendally form 0 a m to 800 p in W EHALEY Postmaster PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS JD CLARKE Attorney-at-Law Allklnds of legal business promptly attended to Valentine Nebraska m T C DWYER Physician and Surgeon Office at C R Watsons Drug Store Prompt attention given to all professional calls Valentine - Nebraska Teachers Examination The regular monthly Teachers Examination -will be held the third Saturday of each month at my office in the Court House LILLIAN STONER Supt of Schools PFSIMONS PROPR1TOR OF DRAY LINE NO I Satisfaction guaranteed Seasonable charges DEATHS AWFUL FOEM COMES TO IMPRISONED PASSEN GERS AT SEA Sixteen Die in Flames on the Mallory Liner Leona Ill Fated Boat Beaches New York Harbor witli Her Ghastly Cargo Cremated on the Sen The Mallory line steamer Leona which left her pier at New York on Saturday bound for Galveston took fire nt sen put back and arrived in port Sunday night with sixteen corpses on board The dead were thirteen steerage passengers and three members of the crew who suc cumbed to a terrible fire which occurred off the Delaware capes at an early hour Sunday morning The horror of the story can hardily be told Those who are dead were penned up below decks and although frantic efforts were made by the officers of the vessel to save them the lire had gained such terrible headway before the danger was discovered that all escape was cut off The steamer carried in her cargo many bales of cotton When the fire was discovered it burst forth with such fury that it was impossible to reach the steer age The saloon passengers were first aroused and in such a manner as to oc casion little alarm When it became ap parent hat the fire had cut off the steer age the captain and his men poured great quantities of water down the ventilator and the most frantic efforts were made for the escape of those penned up In this way nine of the steerage passengers made their escape S V Winslow of Rutherford N J a survivor told the following graphic story of the fire First Mate Wallace was pacing the bridge about 2 a m when he thought that he smelled smoke He went down the forward to the companion way and opened the door There was a burst of flame which burned his face Wallace cried the alarm of fire to the forward watch telling ihim to wake the steward and have all the passengers aroused as quickly as possible without creating any excitement Warns the Passengers The steward said in calm tones that there was a slight fire in the forward part of the ship and it might be advisable for the passengers to get their things to gether It might be possible he added that the ship would eventually have to be abandoned There was no excitement among the saloon passengers The steward made frequent trips forward and came back with reports of the progress of the flames He said that the fire was confined below decks and as the flames did not rise very high the passengers did not fully realize the extent of the peril Oapr Wilder at once ordered the crew to rescue the steerage passengers On the same deck with the steerage on the port side of the ship a large quantity of cotton bagging was stored separated from the steerage passengers by a board parti tion The main deck was almost completely filled with freight cutting off all exit from the steerage to the afterpart of the ship The only way out from the steer age was up the forward companionway Try to Save Those in the Steerajre The crew attempted to descend They were driven back by dense volumes of smoke and flames The smoke and flames also came up through the ventilators and it was apparent to all who were on deck that below decks was a roaring furnace When the steward aroused me I jumped up hastily and dressed I ran forward to see how extensive the fire was The captain was just coming out of the companioaway after his fruitless effort to go below When I looked down into that horrible hole the thought came over me like it had over the captain and the crew that there were ihelpless people down below who were probably burning to death Stokers Desert Their Posts When the news of the fire reached the lower depths of the ship where the stok ers were feeding the boilers they desert ed their posts and rushed to the deck eighteen of them in all They clamber ed into the second boat on the port side and began cutting it away First Officer Wallace and Chief Engineer Taylor were after them in a moment Get out of that boat thundered Wal lace The stokers refused to obey and went on cutting away the lashings of the boat Come out of that boat re echoed Taylor Then he reached for his revol ver I will shoot the man who cuts away the boat The Spaniards looked at the chief en gineer and then sullenly obeyed Nine Make Their Escape During the excitement of the first hour we did not know that anyone had gotten out of the steerage alive but later we found in the cabin that nine of them had managed to get out Their bunks had been nearest to the companionway and they had been awakened by the part of the crew rushing out of the forecastle The fire crept up through cracks about the pilot house and then into the house itself The quartermaster stuck to the wheel until the flames almost enveloped him Captain Wilder ordered signal lights of distress burned and in a very few minutes there flashed up in the darkness far to the north an answering signal It came from the City of Augusta of the Savannah line which came alongside about daybreak The passengers were all transferred to the City of Augusta in safety and the work of fighting the fire was continued About 9 oclock in the morning the flames were under control and the steamer out of danger The passengers were sent back to the Leona and the City of Augusta con tinued on her way to Savannah Tho Leona put about and returned to port im der her own steam Sparks from the Wires The miners eight hour bill was defeated fn the BritisTi commons The Federation of Labor will aid the striking tanners of Chicago Gen Nelson A Miles has sailed for Europe to observe the war operatiops Stanford Newell of Minnesota was nom inated by the President as minister to the Netherlands The budget committee of the German reichstag has authorized the expenditure of 40OUO000 marks to create a reserve fit field artillery and material WISCONSIN TRAGEDY SHOCKING CRIME COMMITTED NEAR WAUKESHA William Pouch Enjoys the Hospital ity of a Farmer and Then Kills Him Three Others Fatally Wounded Escaped Upon a Bicycle A Tale of Horror William Pouch a farm hand who was given lodging and food at the residence of Alexander Harris a wealthy farmer five miles from Waukesha Wis Thurs day night repaid the kindness Friday morning by killing his host and fatally wounding Mrs Harris and two servants The murderer worked for Mr Harris two years ago and when he rode up to the house on a wheel and asked for a nights lodging on the plea that he did not like to ride in the night he was pleasantly received He slept with McHolt the hired man and arose with him between 4 and 5 oclock Mr Harris and McHolt went to the barn to milk They were ac companied by Pouch who talked and chatted with them The milking was in progress when Pouch shot Harris as he sat milking He fell dead Before McHolt had a chance to turn the murderer shot him three times the balls taking effect in the head and neck He fell unconscious and Pouch supposing him dead dragged the bodies to a pile of refuse and covered them He walked to the house where Mrs Harris and the servant were preparing breakfast Mrs Harris told him to sit right down to the table which he did and ate a hearty breakfast talking with the women Women Also Fall Victims Having finished Pouch rose and with out a word fired at Miss Vesbach the ball taking effect in her head She fell to the floor and Pouch then shot Mrs Harris before she realized what had happened He fired again as she fell both shots hit- r w r it V I r r e ME AND MRS HARRIS ting her in the head The murderer started for another room when the girl stirred and turning he shot her again in the head Apparently convinced that both were dead Pouch turned his atten tion to raiding the house in the hope of finding a large sum of money In this he was not successful as all he found was a sum that was in a pocketbook in another room This he took and threw away the pocketbook He was seen by Nelson McHolt the hired man who had revived sufficiently to drag himself out of the manger where he had been thrown with the body of Farmer Harris Desperately wounded and satisfied that he had not long to live McHolt crawled out to the road and dragged himself in the dust to the farm house of Jacob Wagner 100 yards away CHARGES OF BRIBERY Legislators at Springfield 111 Have a Genuine Sensation There was a sensation at the Illinois capitol Friday morning the cause of which was the allegation that a man sup posed to be a member of the House was offered 2000 to vote for the Humphrey bills The person charged with making the of fer on behalf of the street railway com pany people is W C Garrard secretary of the State Board of Agriculture The accusation is made by A L Hamilton of West Chicago publisher of the Journal a weekly paper Mr Hamiltons business A L HAMILTON Who preferred pharges of attempted bribery at Springfield is that of clerk for the committee of which Charles Page Bryan is chairman Acpprding to Mr Hamil tons statements Mr Garrard asked him to vote for the Humphrey bills under the impression that he was Representative Flannigan Mr Hamilton who looks like Flanni gan chanced to be sitting in the seat of Representative Flannigan when Senator Landrigan approached him and said ie wanted to see him outside Mr Hamilton did not know Senator Landrigan but got up and followed nina In the corridor Senator Landrigan introduced Mr Ham ilton to Mr Garrard as Representative Flannigan and turped away M Bjamil tqn says he was qfferej 2010 for his vote and promised to think the matter over Bis story was soon all oyey the House Mr Garrard denies the whole story and brands the statement that he offered money fqr a vote fpr ino Hum phrey bills as a falsehood I never spoke to Hamilton in my life said he and it is a lie that I ever tried to solicit a vote for the Humphrey bills Of the UQ Chinese actors just released from quarantine at Seattle Wash sixty six will be deported and fifty allowed to proceed under charge of the suryeyqr of customs to the Nashville exposition The Chinese are coolies and came to this country w steerage passengers By the burning of the building of the Itasca Warehouse Co at Minneapolis a loss of 250000 was entailed Rinderpest has broken out among cattle in Cape Colony and it is feared it will sweep over the entire country to the coast BLOW TO MONEOEEM BRITAINS RECOGNITION OF THE DOCTRINE MAY END Now Has an Easy Way Out Senators Spurn Overtures of Arbitra tion Opposition Accuse England of Havinc Sinister Designs on America Dont Want Peace Englands supposed recognition of tne Monroe doctrine falls with the failure of the arbitration treaty Having lost this chance to fix Monroeism as an interna tional principle the United States may some day be compelled to fight for it or abandon it The compact eays a Wash ington correspondent was the outgrowth of the stand taken by the United States is to Venezuela and as the bargain wat not fulfilled England is not committed to he theory of American rule in America After changing disfiguring and invali dating the arbitration treaty until out of all semblance to the pact as it came from the hands of Olney and Pauncefote the Senate kicked its own hybrid out of doors By a vote of 43 to 20 the treaty was lost The rules of the Senate require a majority of two thirds for the ratification of trea ties Hence four more affirmative votes would have been required to secure a favorable result The vote in detail was Yeas Allison Bacon BurroWs Caf frey Clay Cullom Davis Deboe Fair banks Faulkner Foraker Frye Gallin ger Gear Gray Hale Hanna Hawley Hoar Lindsay Lodge McBride McEn ery McMillan Mitchell Morrill Nelson Pascoe Perkins Piatt of Connecticut Piatt of New York Pritchard Proctor Smith Spooner Thurston Turpie Vest Walthall Warren Wellington Wetmore Wilson 3 Nays Baker Bate Butler Car ter Cockrell Daniel Hansbrough Har ris of Kansas Harris of Tennessee Heit feld Jones of Arkansas Jones of Ne vada Kyle Martin Mason Mills Mor gan Penrose Pettigrew Pettus Quay Rawlins Roach Shoup Stewart White -26 The total vote cast was sixty nine leav ing nineteen Senators who did not re spond The pairs were as follows two affirma tive Senators being paired with one nega tive Senator in most instances Chandler and Clark for with Teller against Tillman and Turner for with Chilton against Sewell and Earle for with Mantle against Senator George was paired for the treaty and Senator Berry against it Pairs not announced for were the fol lowing Aldrich Cannon Elkins Gor man Murphy Wolcott Kenney and Al len The vote was preceded by a short spir ited debate introduced by Mills who made a strong appeal to the Senate against ratifying the agreement He as serted that as amended the document was most objectionable not to say contradic tory in its terms He pointed out espe cially the provisions for the settlement of the controversies in regard to territo rial claims and asserted that whereas the amendments adopted by the Senate to the first article of the treaty declared against their inclusion those to the sixth and eighth articles made a provision for them He held that as long as these articles re mained unchanged England justly would claim that its questions of territorial rights were still included within the scope of the treaty Under such circumstances he asked what was to prevent England from purchasing the island of Cuba or any other American territory and in case of objection on the part of the United States insisting upon reference of the dispute to arbitration He spoke of the condnet of England in connection with the Greco Turkish war and implored the Senate to protect the United States against the pro posed alliance PHARSALOS IS FALLEN Greeks Euu Away Ajrain and Leave the Town to Moslems Pharsalos has been taken by the Turks The Greeks have run away in spite of the fact that they apparently had won the biggest battle of the war Athens is in a turmoil again and clamoring for Ralli to ask the powers to interfere The desertion of Pharsalos by the Greeks is considered remarkable The Turkish array was mowed down by the destructive fire of the Hellenic troops Thousands of Moslems were slaughtered and every dispatch indicated that the Sultans soldiers were in a trap Now comes the startling information that in the face of triumph the Greeks have abandoned the tova and fled to Do komos thirteen mjles south of Pharsalos In an interview Qrumbkoff Pasha the German officer who reorganized the Turk ish artillery and wQ entered Larissa at the head Qf the Turkish troops dwells upon the splendid conduct of the Turks an4 says the capture- of Larissa did not cost them a single man Continuing Grambkoff Pnsha saya the works constructed by Greek engineers of Larlsaa are deserving of all pjaise and that he fails to understand why they were abandoned The Turkish -army in the field he further rpaiarks is one of the finest Turkey yer postffssed and -at no praise is too great for both soldiers and offers Grumbkoff Pasha gjvea many instances of the self sacrifice and enthusiasm ani mating the Turkish troops In regard to the Groses the general asserts that both Officers and men were seized with Tnin and that great numbers- of Greeks in the face of the ewmy stripped themselves of their uniforms donned civilian clothing and beseeched the Turks to spare their lives The Tur fcs treated all their prison ers and wounded with the greatest care Jf iieut Eloff grandson of President Kruger of the Transvaal who has been susponded and tried for insulting lan guage against Queen Victoria has been reinstated and appointed The 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