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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1897)
Iff v If M i i I it I i 1 -- i WELCOME TO TORONTO EPWORTH J V LEAGUE IN SESSION ANNUAL Twenty Thousand Delegates from the United States and Canada Attend the Convention Uaptist loiin People Meet in Chattanooga Greeted by Canadians Thoro is scarcely i city of importance In tli United States or Canada that was ziot at the bifj Epworth League convention in Toronto By the time ihe onvention was opened shortly after noun Thursday there were fully 20000 delegates in Toronto and they were still arriving It was the largest convention in the history of the league and it is almost safe to say it was larger than any previous gathering ever held in connection witli the Methodist Church The contingents from New York State mid Illinois were the biggest Brooklyn went a huge delegation Cleveland sent delegalts While the delegations from thse States nearer to Canada were the largest many came from San Fran cisco and a strong delegation came from Boston The far Western States sent Jarge comingc iis and the Southern Suites v re well represented while Mex ico sent a number Reception of the Visitors The welcome in behalf of the city and Canada generally was most spontaneous and enthusiastic Baptists and other de nominations turned out to receive the vis itors Ihere was a big meeting in the Massy ball to welcome the dcleirato An address was del ered by A S Hardy ihe premier and attorney general of On tario lie welcomed them for the cause they represented and which they had come to stimulate and because already 100000 Canadians belonged to their so ciety and had taken the same vows and subscribed to the same pledges as the 3 70000 ot Epworth Leaguers in their own countiy Xo one he said could look pon the work accomplished during the last seven or eight years by the league otherwise than with amazement It read like a fairy tale It was understood that some of the prin cipal aims and objects of the society were in short helpfulness to themselves and to others or in detail greater culture more per onal piety greater service to others and a more thorough knowledge of the Bible among the members chielly composed of the younger members of the Methodist Church He welcomed them also berau o they were neighbors and rel atives and because they came as friends They represented the pick and llower of the youth of that active and powerful church which is scarcely less influential relatively in Canada than in the United States and which through its activity zeal and spiritual life is adding constantly to its millions of members and adherents Some lime a warlike feeling would Hash up between England and America but would subside on sober second thought al most as rpiiiy as it had been aroused There could be no war between these two foremost Christian nations of the earth The moral forces of the two countries would in the last resort prove too strong for war Other Words of Welcome Jf The Tiev Dr Carman the general sup erintendent of the Methodist Church of Toronto in an eloquent address of wel come said Methodism was providentially prepar ed for America as this American conti nent was kept for popular enfranchise ment and personal freedom You south of the great lakes and we north equally possess cherish and guard them both but under different forms You have chosen monarchical methodisni in the great re public we are working out republican methodism under the imperial standard of Great Britain Our doctrines are the same We greatly admire and love the nation of Washington and Lincoln of Ulysses S Jranr and Stonewall Jackson heroes both of Motley and Parkham of Longfellow and Whittier We delight in its freedom we triumph in its moral victories and we count it an unspeakable favor and honor to greet its noble sons and daughters in this grand Epworth League convention Eloquent l espouses full of the spirit of brotherly love and good fellowship espe cially between the people of Anglo Saxon blood and of the Christian faith were iinade tv Bishop C C MeCahe for the Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev lames Thomas of Little Rock Ark for the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Rev H A Crane of Bombay on behalf of India The most important feature of this con vention was the fact that arrangements were made for the evolution from an in ternational to an intercontinental conven tion This year the Rev Simpson John son representing the Wesley guild of Manchester England came expressly for the pu pose of transforming the three fold convention to a four fold one and the next convention will consist of delegates from the Methodist Episcopal Church the Methodist Episcopal South the Methodist Church of Canada and the Wosloyan Church oi England A message from President McKinley was received by the Epworth League offi cers It was read by Dr Berryman of Chicago Then at the call of the chair man ihre hearty cheers Avere given for Queen Victoria and three for President McKinley These were followed by a combined cheer for the two great rulers God Sve the Queen and America were then sung in alternate verses the effect being most impressive Forty families of Polish Jews number ing over IdO who were lauded at Xew York by the steamships Sicilia ami Veru dam will be deported because they are in a destitute condition and are therefore subject to exclusion as persons liable to become public charges The members of the old Western Freight Via flic Association disrupted last spring by the United States Supreme Court derision have made a new agree ment which provides heavy penalties for iMiy road -which shall violate the schedule 7T rates It is said that Richard Mansfield has a new piay by Oscar Wilde which was written while the latter was undergoing is term of imprisonment in England Chancellor ITohenlohe of Germany de nies that he has any intention of resign ing Ills oflicc BAPTISTS AT CHATTANOOGA The National Convention Elects in the Southern City The seventh international convention of the Baptist Young Peoples Union of America began in Chattanooga Tenn Thursday morning with about 4000 del egates and some of the most prominent Baptist leaders in the country present The handsomely and elaborately decorat ed City Auditorium was completely tilled at 10 oclock the hour of opening Each State delegation occupied quarters reserv ed for it On the rostrum were seated the ollicers and speakers and in the gal lery above was the excellently trained choir of 300 voices The convention was opened with a short suig service led by Dr L L Ilen son of Fort Wayne Ind formerly secre tary of the board of managers The im mense audience joined enthusiastically with the choir in the singing and a great wave of inspiring harmony floated through the building At the close of the song service Dr Henson read the 40th psalm and delivered a fervent invocation after which President Chapman arose to deliver the opening address Following the president addresses of welcome all eloquent and interesting were ilrn delivered as follows On be half of the churches of Chattanooga by Dr R R Jarretr pastor of the First Baptist Church on behalf of the Baptist Young Peoples Society of the city and State by the Rev M D Jeffries of Knoxville Tenn on behalf of the citi zens of Chattanooga by Mayor George W O hs Dr J W Conley of St Paul Minn responded to these welcoming ad dresses The report of Treasurer Frank Moody of Milwaukee showed evidences of great er economy and better tinancial condition than before For the year ended June 150 1MI a omparison of assets and liabilities showed a deficit of S4KU02o For the year ended June Hi 1M7 after a con servative estimate of assets the delicit is reduced to 517SS17 showing a gain for the year of sUS2 An examina tion of the report of the business man agei a gain during the year in ac counts receivable of So877i plus a reduction of indebtedness to the amount of SolTrO The board of managers recommended some changes in the constitution which were accepted and approved by the con vention These changes led to a most complete Miion of the forces of the Baptist Young Peoples Union of America with the Southern union by which the forces of both are consolidated and in making this new relation with the Southern ie partnient separate departments were pro vided for the North the South the East and the West to be known hereafter as the Baptist Young Peoples Union North Baptist Young Peoples Union South etc instead of as heretofore by depart ment colors SPANISH JAPANESE ALLIANCE Meant to Carry Both Coasts of the Union in Case of Hostilities A dispatch from Paris to a London news aj ency says that inquiry at an American embassy there has elicited a continuation of the rumor that the Gov ernments of Spain and Japan have ar ranged an offensive alliance against the United States The terms of the under standing ihich is for the mutual protec tion of Cuba and Hawaii provide that in the event of an active aggressive move ment on the part of the United States tending toward interference in Cuban af fairs or persistence in the annexation of the Hawaiian islands both Spain and Japan shall declare war simultaneously against the United States and shall make hostile demonstrations along both the At lantic and Pacific coast lines of that country At Washington little credence is plac ed in the statement that the Spanish and Japanese Governments have entered into an offensive alliance against the United States for the mutual protection of Cuba and Hawaii Mr Day the first assist ant secretary discredited the report and regarded it as too improbable to discuss The State Department has no informa tion concerning the reported alliance he said and 1 dont believe there is any foundation for the statement that one has hivn entered into Both the Span ish and Japanese ministers are away from the city KICKED TO DEATH AND BURNED Fate of the Negro Murderer of Missj Williams at West Point Tenn Xear West Point Tenn Tuesday af ternoon Miss Rene Williams was found brutally murdered in the woods -near her home Thursday afternoon Anthony AYilliams her murderer was captured near Pruitton and at night he expatiated his crime in the streets of West Point in the presence of ot people Williams was riddled with bullets and burned in the streets of West Point his body heing burned to ashes Before a shot was fired the negro was knocked down and stamp ed to death Then the crowd fell back and those who had pistols fired volley after volley at him The crowd then gathered wood and building a lire over him watched the pyre Czk 5P rkm ILJUl m m MeW 5 r How much does a hundred pounds of ice weigh Pay in the coal industries is really a matter miner importance Now arent these nice days for any one to be called upon to worry over the price of coal The Dallas News says that wild oats are now sown by machinery5 This is harrowing Actor Ratcliffe is strongly suspected oJ a desii e to change the sex of the mother-in-law joke The Buffalo Courier says There is one more punch in John L Sullivan About every ten minutes Aiioihor hot wave is coming Will the brethren please rise and join in singing Jfrom Greenlands ley Mountains June was the coolest month of roses ths country has seen n many years but thats no reason why July should get hot about ir A Dallas hack driver says he has had a glimpse of hell and knows that there is such a place Where in Texas has that follow been PE1CE NOW IN SIGHT STRIKE OF COAL MINERS SOON END MAY Agreement Between Men and Opera tors 2b Near Basis of Settlement Is Famous Uniformity Acreement Report on the Competitor Prisoners Strike May Be Settled The end of the great strike of coal min ers seems in sight W P De Annit president of the Xew York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company which concern has been freely blamed by rival operators as responsible for all the mining troubles of the last three years has come to terms with the arbitration commission Conces sions have been made both by him and unofficially by other operators His fam ous uniformity agreement has been in dorsed by representatives of the strikers and in turn he has receded from his posi tion demanding the signatures of 05 per cent of the operators in order to make it effective This agreement was approved at the conference in Pittsburg by President Pat rick Dolan and Secretary William War ner of the United Mine Workers of the Pittsburg district They promised to so licit the interest of the miners in the plan and to rse every influence to secure the required number of signatures A clause will be imerted in the agreement binding the contracting parties to enforce it in case it is found to be impossible to se cure the indorsement of 93 per cent of the operators President M D Ratchford of the Unit ed Mine Workers was called to Pittsburg from Columbus to confer with the local officers and it is freely predicted that the result v ill be a general return to work in the near future Under the terms of the agreement Mr De Armit consents to sign a contract which wiil bring about a condition of true uniformity in the Pittsburg district ac cording to the plan formulated but which failed eighteen months ago The con tract proides that there shall be no com pany stores honest weight fair screens and the icmoval of other evils long com plained of by the miners The agi cement moreover provides for an assessment of one tenth of a cent on every ton of coal produced by the oper ators This money will create a fund to be used for the purpose of protecting the operators inside the deal against those on the acts of reparation which ought to be demanded should be the release of these captives Secretary Evarts is quoted to sustain this position GREAT PEACE POW WOW Sioux and Chippewa Indians Bury the Bloody Hatched Sioux Indians marched from their Da kota reservations to White Birch Wis where a two weeks peace powwow was held with their old enemies the Chippe was For hundreds of years the Sioux and Chippewas have been implacable foes making Avar upon one another at every opportunity and conducting reprisals with a brutal savagery that would shame even an Apache Death by torture of the most horrible kind was the certain fate of cap tives and knowledge of this caused their long warfare to be marked with demoni acal fury The original home of the Chip pewas was in the lake country now divid ed into the States of Wisconsin and Mich igan Here the western branch of the famous Algonquin family ruled in force noted for bravery and military skill of a high order On the west where now is Minnesota and the Dakotas was the home of the powerful Sioux nation Bloody raids were of frequent occurrence until finally after long and disastrous warfare the Chippewas gathered in force and drove their enemies into the Minne sota country from Avhich they were re moved to the Dakota reservations by Federal troops in 1SU3 Time and chang ed conditions have mellowed the redmeiid passions The Chippewas have settled down to peaceful pursuits in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota where many of them have farms bile the Sioux are held in control on reservations far beyond the Mississip pi Being unable to come together in con flict as of old owing to the supremacy of the whites these Indians now want peace It is years since they met in actual war fare and the head men have come to the conclusion that as further fighting is im possible a formal treaty of amity might as well be ratified This is the excuse for the peace powwow held at White Birch Two hundred Sioux have made their way across Minnesota and Dakota to the rendezvous at White Birch traveling on ponies and encamping out in aboriginal style These met in little bands at Bis marck N D and there consolidated in one body under the leadership of Chief Red Face In this party are a number of notable characters including Sitting Bulls daughter and Chief Black Bear of Custer massacte fame First in the ceremonial part of the pow- WSSy ROAST DOG FESTIVAL AT THE BIG TEACE TOW WOW the outside The miners in turn will adopt suitable measures to protect them selves and their employers from the same source of danger No Fear of a fcliortajrc A rutsburg dispatch says The fear of a coal shortage which caused a scram ble for the black diamonds and a heavy advance in prices is over and unless the miners strike continues for many months si famine is not now expected There is at present an abundance of coal in the market and thousands of bushels seem to be available Operators are in daily re ceipt of letters from the mines east and north of Pittsburg offering them large quantities of coal at from To cents to 125 at the mines on freight rates vary ing from 33 to 50 cents While the visi ble supply on the Monongahela between here and Brownsville does not exceed 7000000 bushels the operators say calls can be made on the Clearfield district where coal can be obtained without diffi culty and at rates as reasonable as could be expected The present quotationsfor coal run from the mine are from 125 to 150 BLOW IS DEALT SPAIN Trenchant Report on the Competitor Prisoners Case Another blow was struck at Spain Wed nesday It is in the form of a report from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and it virtually asks the President to in terfere in the case of the Competitor pris oners Senator Davis chairman of the com mittee reported the following joint resolu tion That the President be empowered to take such measures as in his judgment may be necessary to obtain the release from the Spanish Government of Ona Melton Alfred O Laborde and William Gildea and the restoration of the schoon er Competitor to her owner and to secure this he is authorized and requested to em ploy such means or exercise such power as may be necessary The report recites all the facts that have been brought out in the Competitor case her ownership capture and the citi zenship of the three men named in the resolution together with the proceedings thus far had by the Spanish authorities the trial sentence etc The leport characterizes it a mockery of a trial The affidavits of the parties are cited to show that they were coerced into Spanish waters in which case they were not amenable to Spanish jurisdic tion They were not subject to piracy and intended no act of depredation on the seas nor were they subject to the Span ish authorities on account of alleged re bellion The report then says Irrespective of any of the foregoing considerations the conduct of Spain as hereinbefore detail ed constitutes such delay and denial of justice and such an actual infliction of injustice upon these men as to make it the duty of this Government to demand rep aration therefor irrespective of any act which these prisoners may have up to the date of their capture Annng wow came the formal burial of the toma hawk in token of the end of the war and strife All the Indians were seated in a circle aiound an open grave and while the musicians made discordant noise with their tom toms the singeis chanted a peace song This over two young bucks march ed about the circle bearing with them a large hatchet made of wood Behind them the braves of the two nations foil in line and indulged in howls and gestures sup posed to indicate their great pleasure at assisting in the ceremony Then the med icine man signaled for quiet and the tom ahawk was solemnly lowered into the grave and covered with earth The mo ment the last spadeful of earth was put in place bucks and squaws jumped up and began the peace dance which was kept going for three days and nights without intermission Day and night the dance was kept up big fires being built as soon as darkness fell and the weird effect of the half naked painted Indians circling about in the flickering lights was one never to be forgotten IN A TEMPORARY DEADLOCK Tariff Bill Conferees Are a Long Way from an Agreement The conferees on the tariff bill found themselves Wednesday apparently fur ther apart than they were at the begin ning of the conference There was no immediate prospect of agreement and more than one member stated that the entanglement was such that the settle ment might be indefinitely prolonged A Washington correspondent says that from all that can be learned there has been a general recession from the partial agreements made on the more important articles until sugar wool hides etc can be definitely fixed Sugar is still the prin cipal contention The best reports repre sent the House conferees with Speaker Reed behind them as holding out for the House sugar schedule without any change whatever and the Senators quite as ele termined not to yield to this extent The House conferees insist that this schedule must be definitely fixed before other j tions shall be taken up One of the other questions of secondary importance upon which sharp differences have arisen is the Senate amendment for a stamp tax on stocks and bonds The House opposed the amendment but the Senators while not wedded to it insist I upon it as necessary for revenue The House is also resisting strenuously the 20 per cent duty placed upon hides and is at the same time persistently holding out for a restoration of gunny bags cotton ties etc to the dutiable 1st A Seuator who talked vth some of the conferees said They a e ij a temporary deadlock and are tied up all along the line It looks as if the situation might remain unchanged for a week While this appears to be a correct out line of the situation the prevailing im pression is that a settlement of one or two important schedules would be speedily followed by a complete adjustment of all other differences jrr3SS3gmV ZS PLAIN OR FANCY CPECIALTIES rm t r NTINQ Q W E HALEY 1000000 Bond Filed K X X nt QUICKLY fHfoftl BILL HEADS LETTER HEADS NOTE HEADS STATEMENTS ENVBLOPES INVITATIONS PROGRAMMES MENUS LARGE POSTERS BUSINESS CARDS SMALL POSTERS CALUNQ CARDS SALE BILLS ETC CHROMO CARDSi Notary Public Real Estate TER Valentine Nebraska Office in P O Building The DONOHER Has recently been refurnished and thoroughly renovated making it 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