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Canadian Free Press.
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CANADIAN,
TEXAS
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Gladstone is a firm believer in the
good of athletics, and his son, Her-
bert Gladstone, is the president of a
National Physical Recreation society.
. It was a carious coincidence that the
American Antiquarian society, after
electing William £. Gladstone a mem-
ber, should have made - a man named
Salisbury president
Elihu Stevens, of Smithfield, Me.,
-last week celebrated his one hundredth
birthday anniversary, being assisted
in the task by four generations of his
decendants, who number in all 319 per-
sons.
President Barnard, of Columbia
college, has prepared for The Forum
for November a sharp article on the
Knights of Labor, in which he charges
them with "blockading industry1' and
attempting to coerce society.'*
It
Lew Wallace's "Ben Hur" was
originally dedicated 4 Ho the wife of
my youth." He lias been so bored by
letters of condolence from people who
imagined that his wife was dead that he
has added the line, "Who still abides
with me."
Senator Riddleberger is a poor
vnan from a senatorial standpoint Ge
lives in a large, square, wooden house
at Woodstock, Va., and his domestic
life is a happy one. His wife and sev-
en children make his home lively and
interesting. ^
Prof. Rodolfo Lañcia'ñi. director
of the Roman museum, has been busy
for many months past putting in order
for the printers the records of "Roman
Excavations since 1871." This work
will bring into comparison many inter-
esting historical and archajological
facts.
Sir Charles and Lady Dilke have
liad a jolly time in Constantinople. The
sultan was extremely cordial to them,
and they were received by the patriarch
of the Greek church and by the seveu
archbishops in synod. A Turkish trans-
lation of Lady Dilke's "The Shrine of
Death" is being made.
Jay Gould will be accompanied on
his trip to Europe by the captain of his
3*acht, Capt Sluickford, without whom
the millionaire never travels bv water.
Capt Shackford's brother will take the
Atalauta over and meet Mr. Gould and
his family off the shores of the Mediter-
ranean, in which vicinity the winter
will be spent.
Mrs. Natiian Guilford, well known
to a large circle at Cincinnati, is at the
Grand hotel on a visit from New York,
where she resides most of her time.
Mrs. Guilford is now in her 87th vear,
but still retains the charm of manner
and graceful bearing that made her one
of the famous belles when Cincinnati
was only an incipient city.
Mayor Courtenay. of Charleston,
S. C., who is spending a few days in
New York, seems more like a typical
Yankee than the ideal southerner. He
is quick, active, and cn3rgetic. Mr.
Courtenay believes that as soon as
Charleston improves its railrqad facil-
ities it will become the great city of the
south, and thinks that the time isn't
far away.
When the fugitive slave law was in
force, says The Richmond State, Wil-
liam Maxwell Evarts was a violent ad-
vocate of its extreme execution. He
was attorney for nearly every southern-
er who went north to claim his proper-
ty. - He was then ultra southern. For
several years past protit has accrued to
him by going to the opposite extreme
of the political slate.
A German steamship recently took
to Colon from Africa seven hundred
LIberians, men of gigautic statue and
powerful physique. Tljoy were half-
naked, carried queer-looking bundles
upon their shouldiers, and spoke a lan-
guage which no one else on the isthmus
understood. It is said that fifteen hun-
dred more will follow, and that these
meo. will work on the Panama canal.
There is a New England legend that
missionaries used to resort to Mount
Uolyoke seminary to pick out wives
on the eve of a voyage to the land of the
lieathen. The legend may be a slanders
but there is hardly a seminary town in
the country where theologues of any de-
nomination abound in which ministers
wives has not become a recognized pro-
fession among the feminine population.
A story about William D. Kelley, of
Pensylvania, has been recalled in
Washington. Ata dinner given by a
certain senator, President Garfield turn-
ed to Kelley and said: "Judge how do
you account for tho success you have at-
tained in public life?" With great
solemnity and impress i veness Kelley
answered: "Gentlemen, I owe me
present position in the eyes of me coun-
try to the favor of providence and me
magnificent voice.
n
Jerome Bonaparte is one of the
most reserved and exclusive of men.
He has the aristocratic manner, but is
not haughty, and, though he spends a
few weeks every year in Paris, yet he
expects to make Washington his home
and to end his days there. His home
is a fine one, but he does not entertain
very much except' very blue-blooded
persons. He is a thorough horseman
and a good reinsman, and when he ha*
charge of a spirited team many person-
fancy the expression on his face is ver;-
suggestive of that which some of th-
pictures of his-great uncle Napoleon
jiave. When in New York Mr. Bona-
is fond of strolling tip Fith
THE AiiAESOfiiSTs* CASE.
The Supreme Court Refuses te
Grant a Writ of Erre*.
Not a Single Oa*o o? All the Arguments Well
Found-d^-All the Justices Concur in the
Conclusions Reached—This Places the Con-
demned Men at the Mercy of the Governor
The Writ oí Err©* ben led.
Washington IX t., Nov. 2.—The decision
of tfie Co i ted States supreme court unani-
mously refusing to grant a writ of error in the
case of the Chicago anarchists iras announced
this afternoon by Chief Justice Walte In a ionie
and carefully prepared opinion which occttofed
thirty-five minutes in the reading. ThS cotir*
holds that the first ten amendments to the
constitution were limitations upon federal and
not upon state action; that the jury law of
Illinois wag upon its face valid and constitu-
tional and that it was simiiar in its provisions
to the statute of Utah which was sustained in
the case of Hopt vs. the territory of Utah;
that it did not appear in the record that upon
the evidence the trial court should haVe de-
clared juror Sanford Incompetent; that the ob-
jection to the admission Of the Johann Most let-
ter and the cross-examination of Spies, which
counsel for the prisoners maintained virtually
compelled them to testify against themselves,
were not objected to in the trail court and
that therefore no foundation was laid for the
exercise of the court's jurisdiction; and that
the questions raised by General Butler in the
case of Spies and Fielden upon the basts of
their foreign nationality were neither raised
nor decided in the state courts and therefore
could not be considered here.
ueai) bt the CHIEV justicb.
The chief justice ue un reading the Opinion
in the anarchist cases at 12c«5 and finished it
with the announcement of the denial of the
writ at 12:4a The following is the text of the
opinion:
"Supreme court of the Unitqd States, Octo^
ber term, 1887, ex parte,, in the matter.of
August Spies Michiei Schwab, Q&nt Ncebe,
Samuel fieldec, Albert & Parlona, George
nrv.rtli vww*. v i _ t :i _ b
Engel, Adoiph artlSS?L¡W^-
tioners, Applfcatfott for the allowance of a
W> snpreme court of the state
Of lliimMSt When, as in this case, application
is made to us on the suggestion of one of our
number to whom a similar application had
been previously* addrewed for the tlloWance
of a writ of error to the falfcheit court of a
•tate under section ft# oí the revised stat-
utes, it is our duty to ascertain not only
whether any uuestion reviewable here was
made and decided in the proper court below,
but whether It is of a character to justify us
in bringing the judgement here for re-e*amitt-
ation. In our opinion the writ ought hot to
be allowed by the court if it aqfceftis from the
race of the record that the decision of the
federal question which Is complained of was
so plainly right as not to require argu-
a d especially if it is in accordance
with our own well considered judgments in
similar cases. That is in effect what was
done in Twitchell vs. The Commonwealth^
• W all, 323, when the writ was refused be-
cause the questions presented by the record
Were 'no longer subjects of discussion,' al-
though if they had tveta in the opinion of the
court 'opeu,' It would have been allowed.
RULES Or THE COURT.
hen, under section 5 of our rule tí, a mo-
tion to aflirm is united with a motion to dis-
miss for want of jurisdiction the practice has
been to grant the motion to affirm when the
question on which our Jurisdiction depends
was so manifestly decided fight that the case
ought not to be held tor "further argument
(Arrowsmith Vs. Harmouing, 118 United
States, 1W, 195; Church vs. Kelsey, 12!. Uni-
ted States, 28:3). The propriety of adopting a
similar rule upon motions ttt open court for
the allowance of a writ is apparent, for cer-
tainly we would Uot be justified as a court in
sending out a writ to bring up for review a
iudqracnt of the highest court of a state when
it Is apparent on the face of the record that it
would be our duty to erant a motion to
as soon as it was made in propcf form. In
the present case we have had the benefit of
argument in support oí the application and,
while council have not deemed it their duty to
go fully into the merits of the qnestions in-
tolvwl, they have shown us distinctly what
tt* deci.su ns were of which they complain
and bow the questions arose. In this way we
are able to determine as a court In Session
whether the alleged errors are such as to
Justify us in bringing the case here for review.
t\ e proceed then to Consider what the quest-
ions are in which, it it exists at all, our
jurisdiction depend .
the constitution quotei .
"The particular nrovlsions of the conBtitU^
i on of tin* l_ nltsd States on which counsel
r««iy are found in Articles 4, 0 and 14 of the
amendments as follows? Article 4—The right
of the people to be fiocurc iu their persons,
nouses, papers iiiu effects against unreason-
able searches ami seizures shall not be yiolat-
e l. Article 2—No person * # *
•hall be compelled in anv criminal case to be
rr vkSS n-£a'nst himself, nor be deprived of
i -crt? or property without due process of
Article ft—In all criminal prosecutions
•he accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy
and public trial by an impartial jury of the
state and district wherein the crime shall have
been committed, which district shall have
been previously ascertained by law. Article
14, section 1—No state shall make or enforce
any law which shall abridge the privileges or
Immunities of eitiKens of the United States;
nor shall any state deprive any person of life,
liberty or property without due process of law.
That the first ten articles of amendment were
not intended to limit the powers of the state
governments iu respect to their own citizens,
but to operate on the national government
alone, was decided more than half a century
ago, and that decision has been steadily ad-
hered to since: Barron vs. Baltimore, 7
Peters. 243, 247; Livingston vs. Moore, idem,
460, 552; Fox vs. Ohio, 5 How., 410, 434;
Smith vs. Maryland, 18 How., 71, 76; Withers
vs. Buckley, 20 How., 84. 91; Puryear vs. the
commonwealth, 5 Wall, 475, 479; Twitchell vs.
the commonwealth, 7 How-.. 321, 325; Justices
vs. Mary, 9 Wall, 274. 278; Edward vs. Elliott,
21 Wall, 532, 557; Walker vs. Sanvinet, 92 U.
S., 90; I. nited States vs. Cruikshank, 92 U. S.,
542, 552; Pearson vs. Yewdall, 95 U. S., 294,
296; Davison vs. New Orleans, 96 U. S., 97,
101; Kellev vs. Pittsburg, 104 U. 8., TB;
Pressor vs. Illinois, 116 U. S.. 252, 265.
what the defense he1 d.
"It is contended, however, in arguing that
though origiually the first ten amendments
were adopted as limitations on federal power,
yet in so far as they secure and recognize fun-
damental rights, common law rights of the
man, they make them privileges and immuni-
ties of the man as a citizen of the ¡United
States and cannot be abridged by a state un-
der the fourteenth amendment; in other words
while the ten amendments as limitations on
power only apply to the federal government
and not the state, yet so far as they declare or
recognize rights of persons, these rights are
theirs as citizens of the United States and the
fourteenth amendment as to such rights lim-
its state power as the ten amendments had
limited the federal power. It is also contend-
ed that the provision of the fourteenth amend-
ment which declares that no state shall de-
prive any person of life, liberty or property,
without due process of law, implies that every
person charged with crime in a state shall be
entitled to a trial bv an impartial jury and
shall not be compelled to testify against him-
self. The objections are in brief: First, that
a statute of the state, as construed by the
court, deprived the petitioners of an impartial
jury; and second, that Spies was compelled to
give evidence against himself. Before con-
sidering whether the constitution of the
United States has the effect which is claimed,
it Ms proper to inquire whether the federal
questions relied on are facts of this record.
One statute to wbich objection is made was
approved March 12. 1874, and has been in
force since July 1 of that year. The complaint
is that the trial court acting under this statute
and in accordance with its requirements com-
pelled the petitioners, against their will, to
submit to a trial by a jury that was not im-
partial and thus deprived them of one of the
fundamental rights which they had as citizens
of the United States under the national con-
stitution and if the sentence of the court, is
carried into execution they will be deprived
of their lives 'without due process of law.'
the jurors' challenge issue.
"In Hopt. vs. Utah, 12J U. 8., 439, it was de-
cided by this court that when a challenge by
a defendant in a criminal action to a juror tor
bias, actual or implied, is disallowed and the
juror is thereupon peremptorily challenged
by the defendant and excused "and a compe-
tent juror is obtained in bis place, no injury
is done the defendant if, until the jury is com-
pleted, he has other peremptory challenges
which he can use: and so in Hayes vs. Mis-
souri, U. S., 71, it was said: 'The right to
challenge is the right to reject, not to select
a juror." If from those who remain an impartial
jury is obtained, the constitutional right of
the accused is maintained.' Of the correct-
ness of these rulings we entertain no doubt.
We are therefore confined in this case to the
rulings on the challenges to the*
at the
1 v< * '
tat lost
who was sworn, and H. T. (Sanford
who was called agd.swe*& after all the per-
emptory ^hellenfgfea of the defendants had
been existed. At the tri** court con-
strued the statute Ornean that although a
juror called ag A juryman may have formed an
opinion based upon rumor or upon newspaper
sta* ü * ' * -B*- 1
i temen ts but has expressed BO opinion as to
the truth of the newspaper Stábertíejii be -is
á ¿Uhofr.jf hfe afeites that he
f®6art&liy
still Qualified as
can fairly Aftw fea^arlialiy render a verdict
thcfe^jl ra accordance with the law and the
fevfdence and the court shall be satisfied of the
truth of such statement. It is not a test ques-
tion whether a juror wili have the opinion
which he has formed from newspapers changed
by the avidence, but whether his fetdWt will
be based only upon the sfccbUni whifch miy be
hereby given by Witnesses Undelr Oath;
MJLIXGS IN pREvidus.bÁsfcá'.. ,
Mature !# hot
ltíntcjrpret<yl itt this Way the stature
téteriaüy 'different from that Of the territory
Í UuhWhrch * '
fobt Vs. Utal
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We had under consideration in
tah supra and to which we then
gave effect. As that was a territorial statute
passed by a territorial legislature for the gov-
ernment of a territory over which the United
States had exclusive jurisdiction, it came
directly within the operation of Article 6 of
the Amendments, which guaranteed to Hopt
a trial by an impartial jurv. (Webster Vs¡
Reíd, 11 Howard 43?,459.) "No one St. that
time suggested doúbt of the constitution-
ality til the statute and it was regarded both
it thé territorial courts and here as finishing
the proper rule to be observed by a territorial
court in Impaneling an impartial jury in a
criminal case. A similar statute was enacted
in New York May 3, 1872, Acts of 1872, C 45, 9
New York State at large, second edition, 373;
in Michigan April 18, 1873, Acts of 1873, 162,
Act 117, Howell, state of, 9564, and also in
Nebraska, comp. stat, Nebraska 1885, p. 388,
criminal code* 408. tThe constitutionality .of
the statute of New. Yotk Was sustainéd by thé
court fepoeals Of that state in Stokes vi;
the pertple, 53 New York, Nov. 164 to 147, de-
cided June 10, 1873, and it has béeil acted lip-
on without objection ever siiicé. So far as we
have been able td discover eo doubt has ever
been enter*álded in Michigan or Nebraska of
t*?c t'ónstitutionality of the statutes of those
states respectively, but they have always been
treated by their supreme courts as valid both
under the constitution of the United States
and nnderthat of the state.. Stephens fs: the
people, 38 Michigan, *3" td fio; Ulrieh vs. the
people. Michigan, 245; Murphy vs. the
ft ta té, 15 Nebraska, 383.
"Indeed, the rule of the statute of Illinois
as it was construed by the trial court is not
materially different from that which has been
adopted "by the courts in many of the states
without legislative action: Ccmmpmvelltli
vs. Webster, 5 Cusbitig, 295; liolt vs. the
people^ 19. Mitlii¿an, 224; state vs. Fox, 1
OHtfcher, 566; Oslander, vs. the common-
wealth, 3 Leigh, 7SK); state vs. Illington, 7
Weddell, 61; Smith vs. Earnes, 3 Soam, 81.
See also an elaborate note to this last case iu
36 A. M., Dec. 521, where a large number of
authorities on this subject are eited<
THE STAffi fotUT tPHkLD.
"Without pürsüing this subject further it is
süfficiéht to say that we agiee entirely with
the supreme court of Illinois in the opinion
that the statute on its face as construed by
the trial court is not repugnant to section 9
of article 2 of the constitution of that state,
which guarantees to the accused party in
every criminal prosecution a speedv trial by
an impartial jury of the feoUrity or district iü
which the otttenSé is alleged to nave been com-
ittfed. As this is substantially the provisions
the constitution of the United States, on
whicb the petitioners now rely, it follows that
even if their position as to the operation and
effect of that constitution is correct, the stat-
ute is not open to the objection which is made
against it.
"We proceed then to a consideration of the
grounds of challenge to the jurors Denker
and Satidford to see if the actual administra-
tion of the rule of the statute by the Court of
the rights of the defendants under the Consti-
tution of the United States Were In any way
impaired."
The woiirk then gives extracts from the ex-
amination of Denker by the defense, and says
that he "was chellenged for cause" by the de-
fendants, but before any decision was made
thereon he was questioned by the court, and
the court's examination is appendedi
"The court," the opinion continues, ^there-
upon overruled the Challenge, but before the
W᧠accepted an,d sworn he was further
Examined by counsel for the defendants."
This examination is also reprinted from the
record.
The court then says that the examination of
the juror by counsel for the defendants closed
and he was examined by the state and cita-
tions are given from the question and answers
In this examination, after which the opinion
COntlmles: "At the close of the examination
neither party challenged the juror peremptori-
ly and he was accepted and sworn. When
this occurred it is not deuied the defendants
were still entitled to 143 peremptory chal-
lenges, or about that number. When the
juror (Sanford) was called he was first exam-
ined by counsel for the defendants. At the
Close of this examination on the part of their
behalf for cause and the attorney for the state,
after it was ascertained that all the per-
emptory challenges of the defendants had
been exhausted, took up the examination of
the juror."
THE CASE OP JUROR SA.NF0RT).
The result of this examination is given as is
the ruling of the court denying the challenge
to overrule for cause, and stating that as the
peremptory challenges of the defense were ex-
hausted, Sanford was a junor to try the case,
so far as the defendants were concerned.
"This was accepted by both parties," the
court says, "as a true statement of the then
condition of the case, and after some further
examination of the juror which elicited noth-
ing of importance in connection with the pres-
ent inquiry, no peremptory challenge having
been interposed by the state, Sanford was
sworn as a juror and the panel, was thus
complete. This, so far as we have been ad-
vised, presents all there is in the record which
this court can consider touching the challenge
of these two jurors by the defendants for
cause. In Reynolds vs. the United States, 98
United States, 45 to 156, it was decided by
this court that in order to justify the re-
versal of the judgment of the supreme court
of the territory of Utah for refusing to allow
a challenge to a juror in criminal cases on the
ground that he had formed and expressed an
opinion as to the issues to be tried it must be
made clearly to appear that upon the evidence
the court ought to have fouud the juror had
formed such an opinion that he could not in
law be deemed impartial. The case must be
one in which it is manifest the law left noth-
ing to the conscience or discretion of the court.
If such is the degree of strictness which is re-
quired in the ordinary cases of writs from one
court to another in the same general jurisdic-
tion we ought to be careful that it is not all
relaxed in a case like this when the ground
relied on for the reversal by this court of a
Judgment of the highest court of the state is
that the error complained of is so great as to
amount In law to a denial by the state of a
trial by an impartial jury to one who is accus-
ed of "crime. We are unhesitatingly of tho
opinion that no such case is disclosed by this
record.
the spies' cross-examination.
<4We come now to consider the objection
that the defendant Spies was compelled by
the court to be a witness against himself. He
voluntarily offered himself as a witness in his
own behalf, and by so doing he became bound
to submit himself to a proper cross-examiua-
tion. The complaint is that he was required
on cross-examination to state whether he had
received a certain letter which was shown
purporting to have l>een written by Johann
Most and addressed to him, and, upon his say-
ing that he had, the court allowed the letter
to be read in evidence against him. This, it
is claimed, was not proper cross-examination.
It is not contended that the subject to which
the cross-examination related was not perti-
nent to the issue to be tried, and whether a
cross-examination must be confined to matters
pertinent to the testimony in chief or may be
extended to the matter in frsue is certainly a
question of state law in the courts of the
state and not of federal law.
"Something has been said in argument
about an alleged unreasonable search and
seizure of the papers and property of the de-
fendants and their use in evidence on the
trial of the case. Special reference Is made
in this connection to the letter of Most about
which Spies «as cross-examined, but we have
not been referred to any part of the record in
which it appears that objection was made to
the use of the evidence on that account, and
upon this the supreme court of the state in
that part of its opinion which has been
printed with the motion remarks as follows:
•'The objection that the letter was obtained
from the defendaut by an unlawful seizure is
made for the first time in this court It was
not made on the trial in the court below.
Such an objection as this, which is not sug-
gested by tbe nature of the offered evidence,
but depends upon the proof of an outaide
fact, should have been made on the trial.
The defense should have proved that the Most
letter was ¡one of the letters illegally seized by
tbe police and should then have moved to ex
dude or oppose its admission on the ground
that It was obtained by such illegal seizure.
This was not done, and, therefore we can not
consider tbe constitutional questions sup>
posed to be involved.'
objection made too late.
''Even though tbe court was wrong in say*
ing that it did not appear that the Most letter
of the papers illegally seized, it still
itradicted that no objection was
that account. To give us jurisdiction undet
section 709 of the revised statutes because of
the denial by a state court of any title, right,
privilege or immunity claimed under tbe con-
stitution or any treaty or statute of tbe United
States, It tntrft appear that such title* right
privilej m
cilitne
£'¿y.
against the right so set up or claimed. As
the supreme court of tbe state was reviewing
tbe decision of the trial court, to make the
question reviewable here it must appear that
the claim was made in that court because tbe
supreme court was only fttlthorifed to fetlfeíf
thg ¡itidfi*fi!£nt that, fcptlft fojr fettohi
mittea thfere; and ,
U uifeíej ¿nd ,tve Üan dd ijdiHoffe. t,
Is hot, to seems so be supposed, by oñé pf the
qoti^cp for t^hp petf tiqqers, the.que'stion of the
Ájralvír¡oLa Tight under the -QoustItuUon, lawa
Of treaty df the United States, but a.cjuesr
tion of claim. If not set up or c'liined in the
proper court below the judgment of tbe state
court in the action is conclusive so far as the
right of review is here concerned. The ques-
tion whether tbe letter, if obtained as claim-
ed, would have been competent evidence is
not before us and therefore no foundation is
laid under this objection for the exercise of
our jurisdiction.
, "As to.suggestion by eoupeel ior.the ..pctU
tlohers Spies and i ielden that Spies having
been born in «Germany, and Fielden iu Great
Britain, they have been denied by the decis-
ion of the court below rights guaranteed to
them by treatises between the United States
and their respective countries, it is sufficient
to say that no such questions were made and
decided in either of the courts below and they
cannot be raised in this court for the first
time. We have not been referred to auy
treaty, neither are we aware of any, under
which such a question could be raised.
"Being of opinion, therefore, that the
ffederal bdestidnft preCetitcd by the ijo'lniel for
thé petitioners, Hud.whitn they sáv tlie^ des Lie
to arjgiie, are not in fact Involved iu the de-
termination of the case as it appears on the
face of the record, we deny the writ
"The decision of the court is unanimous."
Tbe Debt Statement.
Washington, Nov. 1.—The following lsa re-
capitulation of the debt statement issued tó-
daj*—cents omitted:
Interest bearing debt:
Bonds at 4}^ per cent {
Bonds at 4 per cent
Refunding certificates at 4 per
Navy pension fund at 3 per
téfit ...... ......a... ..........
Pacific railroad bonds at 6 per
cent...........................
Principal
Interest
230,544,600
732,447,550
155,080
Í4,000,000
•••■•••••i
6*,f<23,512
1,041,770,742
7,762,243
Total $1,049,5ft2,9S3
Debt on which interest has ceased since cuts
tUtity:
Principal $ 3,460,105
Interest.......................... 1^1,465
'1' ot al.......................... $ 3jfJi l,o ^ 0
Debt bearing no interest:
Old demand and legal tender
notes $ 346.738,121
Certificates and deposit, j s... i >Tj2!ü,Qí)0
Gold certificates .i;;.;::-:;...:;; .i#,654. ÍTá
Silver certificates : ; Í60,71<>,95T
Fractional currency, less $8,375,-
934, estimated 1,942.911
Principal 621,767
Total debt:
Principal $1,666,526,614
Interest 8,550,100
Total $1,675,076,715
Less cash items available for re-
duction of debt..279,625,308
Less reserve held for redemption
Of Ünitbd States notes.100^000,000
Total $ 379,625,308
Total debt, less available cash
items SI,295.451,468
Net cash in the treasury 56,758,704
Debt, less cash in treasury No-
vember 1, 1887 1,238,962,701
Debt, less cash in the treasury
October 1, lfcSt.. i;; ¿. 1,255,526,390
Decrease Of debt during the
mouth 16,833,695
Decrease of debt since June 30,
1887 40,736,035
Cash in the treasury available for reduction
of the debt:
Gold held for gold certificates
actually outstanding $ 99,684,773
Silver held for silver certificates
actually outstanding 160,713,957
United States notes held for
certificates of deposit actually
outstanding 7,215,000
Cash held for matured debts aud
interest unpaid 11,403,813
Interest prepaid not accrued per
department circular No. 90.... 606,393
Fractional currency 1,372
Total available for reduction of
debt...aaa..............*.«...a$ 219,62o,303
Reserve fund:
Held for redemption of United
States uotes, acts January 14,
1S75, and July 12, 1882...^....$ 103,000,000
Unavailable for reduction of
debt.
Fractional silver coin $ 24,465,135 j
Minor coin............ 51,400
A BOMB-THROWER'S END.
DOTS AND 8Afh4*é¿
Washington advices say Mrs. Cleveland hat
received from Fred Sullivan, postmaster at
One of the Haymarket Murder- ' Jamaica, through Superintendent fell of the
ens Dies in Concealment
Fierce Threats Made Against the Chicago
Law Officers—That Infernal Machine Epi-
sode—Tidings From Various Sections of the
Country.
A QÜeér
,, £ittSbur&; Pi, Ñoy.t 4.—Yesterday Thomas
Owens, a ¿arpeóte* ¿t Worlt ón á .house at c¡,
Homestead, fell from the root a#<5 Ürokk, hJs crop.
nqck.M Squire Óeffner was deputized to hola j
an inquest, and to-day reported that deceased
came to this citj" SCme two or three days after '
foreign mail service, an elaborate and ex-
tremely handsome fan made at the woman's
ffelf-fcetp institution of Jamaica of native
woods, fefnS and flotterfs,- artistically arranged.
In the letter accompanying the' fto Sullivan
says that "it ia not intended as a present but
as'a first offering of what Jamaica has to gite
in return for tbe great boon of a parcel post
exchange between the United states and
¿tífalca recently approved."
The fruit pfeseffefffs of the west have de-
cided to advance priccs becaflss (ft the short
the haymarket riot at Chicago s somewhat
dilapidated condition, representing himset/ iti
be a carpenter. He at once secured work at
Homestead with J. R. Millet, and for the past
year had been working steadily beside a man
named Piper or Peifer, also a carpenter. When
Ow-tgip begyi work he said he had just come
from Chicago^ fttíéf-*: íitíd ¿ brother Hiring, and
he seemed nervous aud startled Hi ét#ft.th.Í££1
One day while Peifer and Owens were at wori;
an ¡officer came to Homestead in search of a
man on a charge of desertior. Seeing Owens,
and not knowing what his man looked like,
the officer asked Mr. Millet who Owens was,
and when told went away. The men at work
heard that the officer had asked who Owens
was and out of raiscüief told him that an of-
ficer had asked after him. He became very
much excited and went to Mul.ctt at once
wantiug what pay was due him and expressed
i ufesire.tg. ect aWav from Homestead as soon
¿s possible, lidt whefri iSSnfetl that he Was not
the man the officer wanted cc t(t
work again seemingly contented. This con-
duct Interested Peifer, who was rooming as
well as working In his company and at the
first opportunity he began a systematic In-
quiry of Owens as to his cause of alarm In
his conversation. Yesterday Peifer swore be-
fore Squire Oeffner in, the course of the inquest,
that Thomas Owens had said t<3 llltf!1 "f em
very sorry for those anarchists in Chicago
who are now in jail charged with throwing
bombs at the haymarket riot. There are others
outside who aré more to blame than they. I
was at the haymarket riot and am an anarch-
ist, and say that I threw a bomb in that riot."
Pelfir W3-} cautioned jto keep the statement a
secret and that was the feason lit- did not }.<5ll
the story until after the death of Owens. Ilie
way the storv happened to come out was that
all the men employed on the building were
standing around the squire's office, having
been summoued there as witnesses in the
Owens inquest, and while there Peifer and
Mullet began talking qf this story.
"I heard their remarks,'' &aid tbe squire this
morning, "and immediately called Peifer to
the stand and swore him, and, although it had
nothing to do with the cause of Owens' death,
yet under oath he told the story I have just
related."
Peifer said this afternoon that his testimony
before the coroner's inquest was substantially
as reported. O Weils was a man about 28
véafs of age, and liad said to him that he had
belonged to the sairie gHjup of anarchists as ! tlP,i nn,¡s¡llir
Spies and Parsons; that he was present at tbn 1
haymarket meeting, handled tlie bOnib
committee of Plymouth
church, Brookíy#, Unanimously decided
to recommend the calling of ífré' Rev. Charles
L. Berry of Wolverhamton, Euglanu,* a* Mr.
Beecher's successor.
Durifl* Aetolier 5,247 tons of silver ore
valued at f265,&? passed through El Paso,
Tex., from Mexico.
a fire in the Chicago club-house, on ?fo oe
street, caused a loss of $69,000.
Fourteen persons at Pittsburgh were made
eéfío'tfflf. jífck by drinking poisoned milk, but
it is thought ¿h'fft tb«r will all recover. .
The entire business poftífcYí cf? tbe village of
Castalia, Ohio, was destroyed by ftf'i.
Public interest in thecondcmucd auarcliists,
■ajs The Chicigj Time*, grows more and more
intense as tbe day set for their execution
approaches, and extraordinary precautions
have been taken to property the place
of their confinement.
According to the Wi-consin law, decrees of
dlfafff! must be recorded before they go into
effect, ft ti8S jtfst be®n discovered that many
persons have tboiíglít a mero announcement
of judgment all that waS tfer^sftary, and a
pretty state of thiugs is likely to oé'C'ííf in con-
sequence.
Elaborate preparations arc being made at
Philadelphia for the reception of the pcace
commíssió'ntf'3 iron* Great Britain.
Hog cholera is causing' íafgc losses to farm-
ers iu the northern partot West "Virgin's.
John C. Eno, one of the many American
refugees in Cauada, has parchascd a home
there for $10,000.
fhftc tff the seven Chicago anarchists,
August Spies, Sáfíiílcl Fielden and Nicholas
8chwab, have Figned a pctitú/il humbly beg-
ging the governor to commute tlici.* Sen-
tences. These three of the seven condemned
men are tbe onlv ones who have not nritten
letters to the governor that they would not ac-
6'fcftt Commutations, and that all efforts iu that
direction were without their sanction.
Extensive gold fields have been discovered
in Namaqualatid, Cape Colony, South Africa.
The Sioux chiefs with one exeption express
themselves as friendly toward the whites, and
i they arc all willing to take up arms against the
' Crows rathef than tojoi* them iu their threat-
"A THREE-TIMB WIN
was present at the
" and
Was close to the man who threw it.
The squire made an examination of the ef-
fects of the dec-ased aud in his trunk found a
number of letters, one of which was from his
sister in Chicago, warning him to keep away
from all socialists as they had been the cause
of all his trouble. Another letter was from a
brother, cautioning him not to write home for
feaf his letters tiiight be intercepted and his
whereabouts thiii.revealed; that his did bottle
was watched and advising him to aCt üifli
caution, and put as great a distance between
himself and Chicago as possible.
A thorough Investigation by tbe morning
press leaves very little room for doubt that
Owens was an anarchist and that, he was in
Chicago at the time of the haymarket mas-
sacre. Charles Dudgln, a contractor aud
The Hawaiian government has ceded the
f!ne t harbor in the islands to the United
States, ta be nsed as a coaling station, upen
condition that it is ttt be relinquished in case
the reciprocity treaty now If) Jo*'? ! between
the two countries be abrogated.
The Irish editor O'Brien has been safeiy
lodged in the jail at Tullamore, fifty miles
from Dublin. His removal from Cork took
SlaC'e at an early hour in the morning, aud
'a® affected without any difficulty.
Typhoid tefvf is extraordinarily prevalent
at Montpeller, Indiana, aud lu tbe surround-
ing couutr)*.
Tbe monthly cotton report for the Memphis
district shows that there has been a marked
improvement, owing to favorable weather to-
said to-night that he was well acquainted With j Ward the close of tbe season, and the yield
tbe young man in Chicago. He Was with tioW is estimated at 14>¿ per cent, less thau
Owens a few days before the riot, and met , that of last year,
him once on the street after that fearful
night. Owens was an enthusiastic anarchist
and attended all their meetings. Captain
Mullett, the owner of considerable projwrty at
Homestead, and regarded as a man of
veracity, stated to-night t hat Owens had con-
fessed to him that he had thrown the bomb.
Duriug the visit of Mrs. Parsons at Pittsburg
about a year ago, Owens quit work and re-
mained with her until she left the citv.
Owens' trunk and contents will be turned
over to the coroner.
Tot al24,.) 19, • i3.i
Certificates held as cash $ 36,47^,652
Net cash balance on baud 56,758,704
Total cash in the treasury as
shown by the treasurer's gen-
eral account $ 497,383,201
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Chicago Labor Knights Revolt.
Chicago, III., Nov. 1.—At a meeting of
local Assembly 1307, Knights of Labor, this
evening, it was decided by a majority vote to
withdraw in a body from the Knights of La-
bor, and a committee was appointed to confer
with the provisional committee of the dissi-
dents with the object of forming tbe nucleus
of the proposed new organization. The as-
sembly is the one which formerly had A. R.
Parsons, tlie eondeinmed anarchist, on its
membership roll. This is the first body of
knights, so far as kuown, to withdraw from
the order in response to tie appeal of the
"provisional committee."
Fiendish Work.
Delhi, La., Nov. 1.—Last Friday evening
George C. King, who lives four or five miles
southwest of Lamar, Franklin parish, gave a
dance and supper at bis place.
After supper was nearly over all tbe guests
were taken violently sick. A doctor wiis sent
for, who said that the sickness was caused b
I
poison, and was unable to render much relie
Louis King, jr., Ben King, Walter Bell, Lee
Ford, Johu O'Brien, jr., and Miss Minnie
Brown, ail white, and Seek Hill, colored, have
since died.
Tbe wife of Hill and his six children, Asa
Ford and six children, white, Mrs. Louis King
and children. Fronie Walker and a child, one
of the Dunham boys, Bruce Spries and Hill-
yard Butler, wife and children are danger-
ously sick, but were alive at last accounts.
Abe Washburue was quite sick, but is now
out of danger.
No motive can be assigned for this dastardly
deed. The cook is not supposed to be guilty,
as she is dangerously sick and ber husband
and two of her children are dead
The doctor and others are investigating the
matter to ascertain the nature of the poison.
Poisoned by an Old Woman.
Cincinnati, O., Nov. L—Mrs. Parker, aged
69 years, living with her daughter at 1019
Eastern avenue, was arrested this morning;
charged with having administered poison to
her daughter's family, consisting of Mrs. Ced-
ilote, her brother Joseph Parker aud her son,
Fred, aged 14. Yesterday they all ate cran-
berry pie, except Mrs. Parker, who refused,
and in a few moments were all, except Mrs.
Parker violently I1L A physician was called
and said it was arsenical poisoning. Mrs.
Parker disappeared. As Mrs. Cedilote's hus-
band died of poisoning last Christmas, the
horrible suspicion arose that her mother was
the agent. The old lady had been talking
much of poison lately and had been regarded
as slightly demented. The family will re-
cover.
Deadly FJsht In a Church.
Nrw Orleans, La., Nov. 2.—Following a
custom in vogue among plantation negroes in
portions of tbe south, two members of a con-
gregation in West Feliciana parish exchanged
wives two years ago. The bargain aid not
prove satisfactory, and quarrels arose among
members of the much mixed famlies, which
gradually involved nearly tbe entire congre-
gation. It was decided a" few days ago bv tbe
parties involved to me^ at tbe church and set-
tle all difficulties by a general fist fight. A
large number were present at the appointed
time, but as soon as the parties came together
knives and pistols were drawn and a bloody
row followed, the rcanlt of which was that
Edmund Turner and Gibson Clark, the princi.
pals, were killed outright and James Stow bur j
was severely if not fatally wounded.
The decrease of tbe pufelic (Jebt for Qctofcet
W|i 4,A ^ - *
Fierce Thrents Made.
New Yokk, Nov. 4.—At a crowded meeting
of the progressive labor partv, in German la
assembly rooms to-night, S. E. Shevitch, edi-
tor of the Leader, made a speech in which he
said: "I am expected to make a campaign
speech, but I can't bring myself to speak
calmly. This is Friday, November 4, and ou
Friday, November, 11, the greatest crime and
most atrocious mnrder ever perpetrated is
fixed to take place iu Chicago. But I tell you
if this crime or base murder is
committed the end will soon follow.
If these heroes are banged the days
of all those concerned In tbe outrageous mur-
der will be numbered, and tbe day will not be
far off when tlie.v will have to answer for the
blood they have shed bv every spark of life In
their worthless bodies, [Loud cheers and cries
of "Kill them!" "Dynamite!"] But let them
bang. Seven men's Jives will not harm our
class. Let them kill 70—7,000—and out of
their graves 7,00',000 others will arise. I tell
you If these men are hanged next Friday some-
thing thousnnds of times worse than our late I
civil war will fo":>w. We will not see it done !
without acting.1
Not an Inferna) Machine at All.
• Washington, D. C., Nov. 4.—The package
which last evening was delivered to Chief
Justice Waite, and which upon investigation
was found to contain a contrivance supposed
to be an infernal machine,was sent this morn-
ing to the district chemist R'chardson for in-
vestigation by expert analysis. The person
through whom the police Indirectly learned
that the package bad been sent to the chief
justice was again questioned this morning by
the police and nothing new was elicited, but
about 1 o'clock the fellow made a confession
that he invented the whole scheme and for
the purpose of selling tbe story to newspapers.
His name is Shelburne G. Hopkins. He said
that tbe whole «cheme was invented by him-
The aged emperor of Germany is still con-
fined to his bed by sickness aud is suffering
severe pain.
Returns from tbe municipal elections in En-
gland show a slight gain for the liberals, but
they give no indication that the present gov-
ernment is iu dauger of being overthrown in
the near future.
An Austrian paper declares that Russia is
preparlug for war because of the agricultural
and commercial crisis.
The home rule union of London has adopt-
ed resolutions of avmpatby with Wilfred
Blunt and William O'Brien aud in favor of
continuing the agitation iu Ireland with
English speakers.
A Loudon cablegram announces the death
of Jennie Lind (Mine. Goldschinidt), the
once celebrated Swedish songstress.
The fat slock show at Kansas City closed
Thursday. While the attendance has not
been as good as the display merited, it has
proved satisfactory to the management. A
convincing proof of the merit of tbe show has
been the steady increase in attcudauce from
day to day.
The people of Delaware Tuesday voted—
14,431 to 398— in favor of a constitutional con-
vention.
General Master Workman Powderly and the
executive board of tbe Knights of Lat or have
issued urgent appeals for assistance for the
striking Pennsylvania miners.
Mexican bandits are reported to have com-
Ílctely cleaned out a store ou a ranch in
lidalgo county, Texas.
The Commercial cable company has Increas-
ed its capital stock from $4,000,OJO to $6,-
000,OUO.
The coal miners' strike about Evansville,
Ind., has ended in the return of the men at
the old wages.
Robertson, democrat, has been elected to
congress from the Sixth Louisiana district by
a large majority.
The mayor of Cork has informed tbe
Municipal authorities that Mr. O'Brien, hav-
ing promised to resist to the death his subjec-
tion to the treatmeut of an ordinary criminal,
the governor of the prison in which he is In-
carcerated at the mayor's request has tele-
graphed to the prison board asking advice an
to the course he shall pursue. The mayor will
self and Arthur II. Sperry, a reporter on a O'Brien dailv and rcnort to the müulcinal
local paper here, for the purpose of selling " f y C} muuicipai
tlm Cfnrr fn fltn nmvenanara T Wa cmall rvhlal UIDCClO.
tbe story to the newspapers. Ibe small phial
which was found in the package contained
only ink and a very small quantity of pewder,
just sufficient to burst the phial and alarm
the person who might open the package.
Sperry is tbe party who called at the chief
justice's residence last evening and Inquired
whether a mvstcious looking package had
been received. Both Hopkins and Sperry
were immediately arrested charged with con-
spiracy to defraud the newspaper corre-
spondents.
Riotous strikers.
New Orleans, La., Nov. 2—A dispatch to
merchants here from La Cassagnc of Tiber-
vllle. La., says: "The strikers shot four of
my laborers this morning from an ambush. I
have telegraphed the governor for troops.
Please see that they get off at once." The
Washington artillery were notified of tbe
tenor of the dispatch and the officers are
awaiting the action of tbe governor.
The sugar plantation of La Cassagne
(Greenwood) is in the parish of Terre Bonne,
on Bayou Black, eight miles from Tigerville
and between that point and Nouma. Prior to
Friday last there were employed upon tbe
Greenwood plantation about sixty laborers,
twenty-five of whom wre white and the re-
mainder colored. On Friday the latter all
struck for higher wages but all the white
hands remained and continued at work as
usual. La Cassagne at once engaged white
men in this city and yesterday forty-five were
sent there. Whether the four men ambnshed
and shot this morning were among this num-
ber or of those remaining upon the plantation
is not known here.
Attorney General Langtry, of Nova Scotia,
is very much in favor of commercial union
between Canada aud this country. He be-
lieves the question will come before the fisher-
ies commission at Washington, where It will
receive the support of Secretary Bavard, but
be antagonized by the British aud Canadian
representatives.
In a report to the secretary of the interior
Commissioner Sparks holds that certain Indian
lauds in Kansas that were first offered for sale
by President Buchanan were reservad by
treaty stipulation and that, whatever rights
purchasers and settlers may have acquired,
tbe grants that have been made to raiiroada
have been unlawfully patented, and he recom-
mends that suit be instituted to set aside the
patents.
The Knights of Labor have struck a snag in
Louisiana, where they are attempting to
dictate to tbe sugar-planters. The local
assembly of one parish has protested against
the action of the district executive board in
ordering a strike, and the planters will resist
to the uttermost the demands of the organiza-
tion.
The second day's session of the cattle grow-
ers' association at Kansas City *a«, says tbe
Times, a decidedly interesting one. Betide
tbe able and interesting papers on subjects of
vital importance not only to cattlemen, but
also to business men generally, a resolutlob
declaring that it was the sense of
the convention that the importation of
foreign cattle should be stop; ed, and re-
questing tbe secretary of the treasury to sec
. .. ... .. , ... _ .. that it is done, was adopted. There was a
The strikers hid themselves in thecane field I Bharp debate &t wben itv ea[Qe to a TOte ,t
tsi tha man Aoma fA vasi/ fthah ' . j _ . . _
was shown that about all the delegates who
were opposed to the resolution were the ones
who had spoken against it. The debate on
this important resolution was interesting, as
showing the views of representative cattlemen
on the question, and the probable result of the
| enforcement of a non-importation law. Tbe
i resolution, of course, ia important only In so
t far as it may be the means of leading to for-
eign cattle being kept out of the United
States, but when such a body of men as meet
at the Coatee bouse express themselves so
forcibly, the chances are that the result they
j wish to accomplish will be attained if a very
- strong effort is made.
I The flagship of the Russian Pacific squadron
• If labor* on tbe rooks of giber!*.
and wben the men came to work fired on them
from ambush. It ia impossible to get particu-
lars of tbe affair. A company of militia has
been sent to tbe scene of the trouble.
The strike extended to-day and now in-
cludes most every plantation in southwest
Louisiana. Serious disturbances have occur-
red at Patterson vi lie and troops will probably
have to be sent there.
It was reported this morning that serious
trouble had occurred in Tore Bonne pariah,
and that Captain Avery's company from New
Iberia had been ordered to Houma in conse-
quence.
Advices from Raceland report that tbe
strikers In that section are turbulent and
threatening, and #e citizens b*T0 Mkod for
protection.
! m
tt#9 Han lan Lost His Grlpf—PWlo*
sopfcieal Training Demanded.
The defeat of "Ned" Iianl&n by
Teemer at Toronto In August indicate*
the "end of the glory" of the doughty
champion.
He has sustained his record with ad-
mirable pluck and success, but the. tre-
mendous strain of years of training
most eertainly some day lind its limit.
Apropos of this we find the following
interesting reminiscene of aquatic an-
nals:
On a fine, bright day in August. 1871.
un excited multitude of 15,000 to 20,000
petscrftt lined the shores of tbe beauti-
ful Kenebecaw s, near St. John, N. B.,
attracted by a fotff-oared race between
the famous Paris crew of that city and
ii £teked English crew for $5,000 and
the cfiiffttyionship of the world. Wal-
lace Ross, the pvesent renowned oars-
man, pulled stroke for the Blue Nose
«rew, and ••Jim" Renfwth, champion
s&fltor and swimmer of Ümrland and
of the Work!, was stroke iu tn* English
■hell.
Excitement was iff fever heat.
But three hundred yards of the
course had been covered when the
Bngjishmen noticed that their rivals
were CTesping away.
"Give us a dozen, Jim," said the
veteran Harry KeWey, ex-champion of
England, who was pul)h g No. 8 oar.
can't boys. I'm donc,"T said Ren-
fofthf and with these words He fell for-
ward, an inanimate heap in tho boat,
♦•He has bcefl poisoned by book-mat-
ers," was the cry, and belief.
Everything that science and skill
«otild suggest for his restoration was
tried| but after terrible struggles of
agony, the strong mail, the flower ot
the athletes aud pride of his country-
men, passed away. >
The stomach was analvzcd but no
sign or trace of poison could be found
therein/- though general examination
showed a rery strange condition of tha
blood and the life-giving and health-
preserving organs caused by years of
unwise training. While the muscular
development was perfect the heart and
kidneys were badly congested.
The whole system was, therefore, in
just that state when the most si in pl«
departure from ordinary living and ex-
ertion was of momentous consequence.
His wonderful strength only made his
dying paroxysms more dreadful and
the fatality more certain.
Hanlnn is now in Australia. Beach,
champion of that country, is a power-
ful fellow, who probably understands
tbe liability of athletes to death from
oVer-training. the effect thereof beinj*
very serious on the heart, blood and
kidneys, as shown by poor llcuforth'*
sudden death.
Within the past three years he has
taken particular care of himself, and
when training, always reinforces the
kidneys and prevenís blood congestion
in them and the consequent ill-effect
ou the heart by Uflog Warner's safe
cure, the sportman's universal favorite,
and says ho "is astou;shcd at the great
benellt."
Harfy Wyatt, the celebrated English
trainer of athletes, who continues hinv
self to be one of tlie finest of speci-
mens of manhood and one of the most
successful of trainers writes over hi®
own signature to the Euglish Spirting
Life, September 5th, saying: "í o in-
sider Warner's safe cure invaluable fenr
all training purposes and outdoor exer-
cise. 1 have been in the habit of using
it for a long time. 1 am satisfied that
it pulled me through when nothing
else would, aud it is always a three-
time winner!"
Beach's aud Wyatt's method of train-
ing is sound aud should be followed by
all.
A Nation of Philosophers.
A correspondent writing from Mexico^
censures the people of thai couutry for
a singular cause. "To the average
Mexican," he says, "tlie idea of death
has no terrors, and he dies as indiffer-
ently as lie l.ved. In many villages the
custom is still extant of decorating dead
children with wings of geese and tur-
keys, paper crowns, ribbons, and flow-
ers; then marching them about the
streets seated iu a chair, and burying
them amid the noise of lirecrackers and
minstrels playing polkas and fandan-
goes." Looking at the matter philo*
soph cally, ought not the average Mex-
ican be priased instead of blamed for
having no terror of death. We do not
admire the introduct on of opera boufle
music at a burial of course; but apart
from that exhibition of peeular taste, arc
the Mexicans not wiser and moro con-
sistent than we who weep and wail be-
cause our friends have gone to heaven?
A Lucky Mail.
Mr. Albert Evans and his brother,
J. E. Evans, of llockvale, were regis-
tered at the Victoria hotel Saturday.
The former purchased a few days ago
one-tenth of tickeL No. 61,503 in the
September drawing of The Louisiana
Slate Lottery for one dollar. When
the telegraphic returns of the drawing
were received the ticket sold to Mr.
Evans was found to have drawn one-
tenth of the fifty thousand dollar prize,
giving him the handsome sum of live
thousand dollars for a dollar invested.
Mr. Evans has been in the habit of in-
vesting two or three dollars every
month for tickets for the past year, but
this is the first large pr ze he has
caught. He is a young man who has
followed coal mining for -a living but
he intends to invest this money in a
farm and establish himself for life.
Colorado has been unusually favored
this month, as a tenth of the $10,000
pr ze and a tenth of a $1,000 were also
sold here. Within the last }car it pro-
prietor of a cigar store in Denver drew
$15,000, and Mr. Rxketts, of Crested
Butte, drew $30.000, so that it is evi-
dent that the lottery company is not
ahead of this state, whatever they may
be elsewhere, and the Centennial State
sustains its reputation for being a lucky
field for speculation with Pueblo as the
banner city.—Pueblo {Col.) Chieftain,
Sept. 22.
Mot a Bad Substitution.
The four-year-old daughter of a Bos-
ton druggist has already picked up some
of the words belonging to her father'*
business, *s the following shows:
This little miss had prepared to recite ^
in the Sabath school tbe !ine:
"Search the Scriptures."
When the teacher asked for the verse,
however, she hesitated, then bravely
uttered the words:
"Hunt for the prescription!"—Boston
Times.
Invest at Lamar, Mo.,
Tbe young Kansas City of tbe west
ticulars W. Small, Jr., Kansas City, Ma
If you have barbed wire fasces, keep
butrjr Carbollsalve in your
cures without a scar and renews
' color. 50 cents and $r
oj^bf mall Cole 4
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Harm & Ludwick. Canadian Free Press. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 9, 1887, newspaper, November 9, 1887; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183624/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.