Benton County Times (Newspaper) - October 27, 1898, Vinton, Iowa Benton County Times The heaviest baa a stt rer Mobs frequently furnish noose items for the The poet pipes the lay and the plumber the It Is difficult to convince a that he bores a busy Its never too hot in summer or too cold in winter for the ice Men look forward to the while women dwell upon the Some men take less advantage of opportunities than those who offer The end of one mans failure Is oft times the beginning of another mans Some people are willing to live tip their light as longae their are never heard of husbands ana wives quarreling about which loved the other Some actors are like some they go upon the stage when they are no good for anything Great wit Is said to be akin to mad yet we seldom hear of a man going around bragging of his superior Some one has said that truth Is eter Perhaps It but time changes It until Its own mother is to recognize The man who gashes over women Is sheered at as and the one who doesnt Is called a what can the poor man do The Soudan army as describ ed in a private letter from a Is appetizing and quite unlike some ot the food recently offered our What with fresh and an occasional the campaigner In a common seems to offer a striking contrast to his con temporary on this side of the Hap pily for the army ration question may now be discussed at and not under Some of the persons who are urging and even insisting that certain regi ments of the volunteer army be mus tered out of the forget that the men enlisted for two They not enroll themselves either for a military picnic or exclusively to fight but to be good going where they were ordered to and doing what they were ordered to without or or thought of They should be loyal to their promise of twentyfour months of faithful military and patriotic in their willingness to fulfil if this is demanded by the necessities of the government Theodore Roosevelt gave some good advice to the rough riders who fought under him at before they were mustered out Dont pose as he or He on your because they Be care ful of your conduct The world will be kind for ten and in those cold words that the world is capable of it will declare youre spoiled by going to the Here is a goodhumored recognition that military glory is espe In this War ie a rare episode In our national The duties chiefly exacted of Americans are those of In pri vate integrity in good The of California will probably gather next winter the larg est crop ever grown in the For the first time the production of this fruit will be in excess of the demands for consumption California An enormous planting of olive groves has been made in California in the last few It has been reckoned that olive trees were set out In this state last spring Rough estimates put the area of bearing olive groves in Califor nia at about while the total orchard area is about This state has practically a monopoly in growing olives in Some attempts have been made to grow the bianco olive in Florida and but the soil is not adapted to the fruit in either of these Some twelve years ago a olive orchard was started near Guad but the trees never came to bear and the scheme was abandoned when it was found the air was too France will not disarm until she gets back There is a precedent for England will perhaps not disarm until she gets back the United States of and Spain will postpone her disarma ment until she gets back Porto Rico and the The editor of the Humboldt Herald says The joy in a sweet wife is too great to be sacred to be spoken of and the curious part of it is that he is speaking of his own Hatred of a race made a forger of a French soldier and soldierly honor made him confess the Just how valuable that kind of honor is let the world It reminds one of the Spanish honor that sacrifices hun dreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians rather than confess an ac Are justice and life such contemptible things in com parison with honor A financial note that money la it toes that Irat It teem to come any THE NEWS IN IOWA A DECISION WORTH Credits Commutation Company ot Sioux Loses Its Sioux important decision has just been handed down by the supreme court of the United which affects the ownership of two railways with headquarters nt Sioux These roads are the Sioux City Northern and the Sioux ONeil The decision is against the Credits Commutation of Sioux the corporation which owns all the assets of the organizations and persons who in Sioux City in Use financial crash of The supreme court affirms the decision of of the federal court of the northern district of in awarding title to Kennedy Tod of New to of the stock ot the Sioux City Northern and of the first mortgage bonds of the Sioux ONeil These bonds were hypothecated by now democratic candi date for from the vaults of the Union Loan Trust Company in Sioux They went to Kennedy Tod to secure a loan of to a bridge The Credits Commutation Company contended they were really a part of the assets of the Union Loan Trust Company and not the property of the As it now stands the Credits Commutation Com pany may redeem by paying Tod Co and interest amounting in all to about FIELDS Famous Falls Bank Collapse of 1893 DES supreme court has reversed the conviction of William alleged fraudulent banker of Black Hawk on the indictment him with receiv deposit from lien as Clerk for Ed after Fields knew his First National Bank of Cedar Falls was The alleged crime was committed on May and the cases of the failure have become noted in j The trial was in county on I change of The indictment was returned in A for I mer indictment for the same offense was returned in The case was taken to Buchanan county and a demurrer to it was On appeal the lower court was reversed in sustaining the On this appeal the defendant claimed the first as a final adjudication of the case against the supreme court A MYSTERIOUS at Cedar found Dead at the Foot of a body of Charles was discovered at the Milwaukee railway bridge by people were going to their work at 6 Death had evidently ensued only a short time previous to the discovery of the was found on the extreme south edge of the the head and shoulders hanging over the end of the ties and downward toward the There was not a spot or discoloration of any kind on the body to indicate that death had been caused either by accident or foul The blood had escaped from the ears and and had run toward the top of the as the body had laid over the edge of the The fact that he had been drinking heavily the night before leads the authorities to believe that he tried to cross th bridge and fell in the position in which the body was CHARGED WITH Bank 2 oclock bank was broken into by two and after they had tried to dynamite the bank by ing a fuse at the they made good their A man sleeping in the next building was aroused by the and upon going shot at the robbers but with what effect is not The robbers secured or which they found in a drawer outside of the The safe is A Soldiers Wife and He Is In Jail Under Heavy m the county on the charge of He failed to furnish He will be tried in police court October according to present Stitler is charged with the murder of his Jennie who died on the while being con to a hospital from her boarding place in a suburb of Des She told several persons that Stitler bought the morphine and com her to take some of it while they were at the North western That her death was caused by the morphine there has been no doubt thus but the coroners jury has ordered a and the doe tors will probably report within a PUGILIST Oes Moines Man Dies as the Result of i DES ihe knocked out at Omaha by Andy died after conscious for fiftysix Walker a resident of South Des Se moved to Des Moines from Omaha about four years For ie was employed by the gas Be was about thirty years of and lad been a fighter for some He leaves a wife and one His wife was with in when he died In a fight at High about a year Walker was knocked out and nearly THEY WOULD NOT GIVE UP Two in an Attempt to Secure Their report comes from Dubuque that Hartley and Thomas Murphy were terribly tortured by in an iffort to make them reveal the hiding Dlace of their The story is the flesh was almost burned from j their they were stabbed with j sharpened sticKS and about the The robbers were j there is no clue to their j The did not give up the j A Genuine j DES storm of i and Tuesday was a j genuine blizzard in western j Nebraska and Kansas City reports the worst early storm in twentyfive Heavy j falls iire reported from the j adjoining and Eagle i Webster City and Atlantic report falls ranging from two to five i j Wins Over a Riff i of Des won the Mcade j In addition to winning first he carried off the hand some silver loving offered as an additional prize by the Southern j Of thirtytwo starters at 35 six j Two events were nee ssary to decide the Budd killed j 35 straight Ills j j was found dead on the railroad track j four miles south of He was brought to Algona and placed in an undertakers lie is a roan 40 years about five feet nine high and weighs about 100 His head is entirely gone and scattered along the 3rom a aper found in his pocket it is thought was a All he had in his pockets was a two a a towel and n A f i eight train on the Iowa Cen tral was held up by five footpads on the grade at the north edge of New It is supposed that the robbers boarded the train while in slow motion on the Some of the train meu were relieved of their cash which they had received that it being pay The police were notified at but the culprits The quarterly statement of the condition of Iowa issued few days ago by the state shows that the increase in deposits which began more than a year ago has been maintained until the savings and state banks of the state now carry of other peoples The total assets of both state and savings banks are the total The net in crease in assets is net in crease of Grant one day last week re signed his position as secretary of the state board of and Wilkinson was appointed in his Jordan is clerk of Polk county and since his election as secretary to the state board he has been holding both action has created great consternation in a political way and he was appealed to by his friends for resignation of one place Or the He therefore concluded to re sign his position in the employ of the Paul aged was fatally shot a few days ago by his 10yeaiold and died within a few The accident occurred at the home of the a prominent farmer living near Iowa The two lads took possession of their fathers 32caliber and while playing with the weapon it The bullet entered Pauls passen downward and came out of his shoul the accident the father was on his way to Iowa City to see the boys who is in the dangerously The news has been kept from as the attend ing physicians say that the shock of the news would kill pastor of the Congregational at Marshall was arrested by detectives from charged with the forgery of a check for three years ago under the nami of Mark and on the Illinois Home Missionary He is also charged with issuing a cheek for on the Watertown and purporting to be drawn by the American Board of he failed to get these Parrish was positively identified as Thompson and was taken to Parrish came to Marshalltown three weeks ago from where he was pastor of the Congregational He is a married man and a brilliant Des Moines dispatch Charles Say special agent of the of expects to be ordered to Porto Rico within a few He will be delegated to make an investi gation of the sugar industry in the island and report to the Say since his has been investigating the beet in dustry in the He has been work from the Mississippi as far west as the coast for a statis distributing seeds and conducting experiments in the sugar beets to ascertain to what extent the industry can be He has be come familiar with the sugar industry and the department has selected him most available to conduct in Porto IVs dispatch The state board of control has instructed its employes to pay attention to the assessments made upon them by the chairman of the state central commit tee of any political The board has gone further and announced to its employes the payment of such assessments will be regarded as suf ficient grounds for The position of the board is that it is a nonpartisan that all of the institutions under its control are non partisan and that its employes in their official capacity must be The law creating the board makes it a misdemeanor to ask a political con from ac employe of a state institution or for such an employe to voluntarily make a political contribu but it is silent as to employes of the board Far chairman of the board of con said We will not permit one employe to pay a single On this point is a The board of control is a nonpartisan body rind must so be SHE SHOWS HER Made by tiie French Upon a 1HK Oct spite of Echo de Paris asserts embarkation of war material and supplies continue at Toulon ordinary at the arsenal Four ironclads and three cruis ers are embarking All French naval on leave of absence have been PA dispatch to the Petit from Toulon confirms I nor guarantee any part of the the reports of the Echo de Paris and The Spaniards replied that this placed says the greatest activity prevails in the navy where work is proceed ing with feverish speed day and alleged war preparations of France are the absorb of discussion at the French papers DEMAND ALL OF Judge Day Something to Talk dispatch to a London news agency from Paris Yesterday Monday the conference reached a crisis for the first Judge Day presented the demands of the American commission in threaten lie that delay was the only possible object attainable by the persistent efforts of the Spanish commissioners to saddle the United States with the Cuban and it would be tolerated no as the United States would neither assume Spain in a position of repudiating or reducing the face value of the Cuban bonds from to 00 per half the stipulated inter on their reduced Before either they would surrender to the United States tant naval experiments have taken j the entire Judge Day re place at Vice Admiral Bar rera presided at secret council of war at in which the chiefs of the maritime forces took Confiden tial orders were subsequently issued to the The Aurore asserts that five classes of the naval reserves around Brest have been ordered to hold them selves in readiness for active Marchands telegraphed from re does not men tion the arrival at Fashoda of General but only gives an account of incidents of the with an elaborate description of the route fol that the surrender of the Philippines would probably be de irrespective of the Cuban or any other to the Span the first intimation of the inten tions of the United States as to the resulted in a whispered followed by a request for sin in order to communi cate with Judge Day said that President McKinley had instruct ad him to demand the entire surrender of Porto today Tuesday and the delivery of every town to the United States officers before to gether with the evacuation of Havana on or before November when the places manner of raising of the force j United States would be at the gates of left at each point and treaties of the ready to take mission concluded with in adI There was no alternative offered in dition to an encounter with the It is believed in certain quarters that Captain Baratier is bearer of a verbal report which French authorities are not trust upon British telegraph The report telegraphed only goes as far as the beginning of and says that on August 20 supplies of the party were The reason for the omission of any mention of the arrival of General Kitchener at Fashoda is said to be the fact that the report of Marchand was not ready when Captain Baratier left OLD GLORY NOW the case of either of these and tbe session consequently was very The American commissioners have received dispatches from Wash ington indicating that the administra tion is irritated and indignant over the delay of the Spanish DEWEY HAS A He Engages With the Kebels Boats and Captures n Few of Madrid cor respondent of the Times says Captain the minister of has received a dispatch from Manila announcing a naval engage ment between the Americans and the Stars and Stripes Formally Hoisted Over in consequence of Admiral San j Dewey forbidding the latter to fly the United rebel their ships Tbe States is now formally in possession of j patch addg that wore losses on Porto The war department has j but the Americans captured the following from General the scene of the under date of San Juan The flag j is not but it is as een rase on te puc uj to have bcen ings and forts of this city and saluted with national occupation of the island is now Englands Michael Hicks chancellor oi the speaking at North referring to the Fashoda said he wished cordially to acknowledge the desire evidenced in the speeches of Lord Roseberry and Herbert Asquith to help the government in the a matter which might develop to the utmost It is 1 advices from Major General com manding the American forces at Ma have been received at the war de Adjutant General Corbin declined to make public the nature of their but he did say they mads no reference to the battle said to have occurred between the ships of Admiral Deweys squadron and those of the Chicagos Peace Jubilee crowning he for France to maintain spectacular feature of the weeks peace has political rights at I jubilee celebration occurred She has naturally and properly asked great military and civic pa for time to revive Major rade Pissed through the streets of the until the contrary is I business and was reviewed I decline to believe that France j from a stand m front of the Union will refuse to If she League club by President the matter would assume an i Shatter and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and the Chinese and ministers aspect as grave as is possible between two great The government is animated by the friendliest spirit j other It is estimated that towards and does not wish to j inflict What we desire is fair I hope and trust and believe the question is capable of a friendly but this country has put her foot another view should be taken by the queens ministers know what their duty There are greater evils than and we shall not shrink from anything that is com knowing that we are supported by a united Says Dreyfus is in An evening news paper announces that Captain Dreyfus is already in and is now con fined in the fortress at Mont to which he was secretly Seven Mussulmans Seven Mus who were tried and convicted of the murder of British soldiers dur ing the recent outbreak have been English in j dispatch to the j London news agency frota Shanghai The British ship from New says Reports from Japanese sources burned off are in circulation here to the effect Eleven of the crew besides the captain s that Sir Claude McDonald British wife and children minister at Pekin had informed the j Captain General has sailed Chinese government that sovereignty Porto for Spain with most appertains solely to the who of his The New lias been forcibly abducted and has arrived in San thus posed and that he must be restored to honor of the first his while Wei and American organization to enter the other reformers must be Failing compliance Great Britain will j The dispatches say Captain General Blanco has formally acceded to the request of the American commission to permit the free entry of Red Cross supplies at the ports of Car La enforce these Troops En Koute for SAX steam er Senator sailed for Manila with SOO soldiers oh All of the steam whistles on the water front saluted the vessel as she passed down the bay to ward the ocean and thousands of peo ple waved the The Thira of the Bahia Honda and others of less London dispatch Out of the 101 persons on board the lost steamer were From the Oregon recruits and Bati the best evidence obtainable it appears tery the California heavy that the Mohegan foundered five miu were the troops the suggestion of the British a physician of the French embassy made a minute exam of the emperor in the presence of the dowager The specific disease from which the emperor is suf fering is not but he is anemic and requires constant He is in no immediate I i Chans In I papers received here by the steamer i Empress of from Hong Kong and publish the amazing j statement that Li and the Dowager Empress of China have been j secretly j England Issues j dispatch from j Portsmouth says The admiralty has j issued orders that no dock yard repairs be commenced upon the ships of the i reserve squadrons unless they can ho i completed fortyeight University of j Chicago hns con for cd the degree of i doctor of laws upon President j utcs after she struck tho stooped and rapidly into the As the captain and the executive officers of the steamer went down with it has been impossible thus far to ascertain how she out of her as Falmouth lights and the coast were One of the George of said Wo left London and all went well until 7 oclock the when most of the passengers were at The steamer was full ail suddenly we heard a loud which to denote that we had collided with some deck we found that the was on the rocks between the Manacles and the low in the vicinity of the Orders were given at once to lower the and crew of the steamer behaved like Her captain stood on the and the greatest order prevailed am the officers and The began settle by tlic Two boats were The women were sent away 111 the first STATUS OF INDIAN a council be tween the hostile Indians and General Bacon the Indians stated that they wanted no more United States soldiers and agreed to come in and surrender of the Pillager wanted by the United States appeared at the agency yesterday afternoon and gave themselves up to tho It was reported four would be in some time Two of tho men wanted have been at agency for some time and two more are in jail at having hecu captured tlo day of the This two more to be accounted indict ments having been found against nine These two the other In dians an from but the officials think that Krag Jorgenson bullets have do with their Tney are either dead or seriously son of old Chief and another Indian arrived at the agency and announced that they were ready to It is believed the old chief will also come His son and tho the tribe have turned against him and threaten to bring him in if lie does not BLOW AT ORGANIZED NonUnion He Taking Ham of the federal the application of the American Steel and Wire Company for an injunction against the striking wire restraining them from interfering with the em ployes of the The court held that those seeking work in place of the strikers have rights which the labor unions and strikers are bound to these is unobstruct ed access to the place where the work is to be done and over the high ways and usual approaches to such place that this freedom of access is not inconsistent with the rights of the strikers to use the streets and high ways for the lawful conduct and main tenance of en treaty or Kurly Severe NEW Heralds special says Captain William a brother of the captain of the ves has returned from that seem to show that the explorer will not be able to get out of the fronen seas before lie says that the indications the Labrador coast foreshadow an early and severe He never saw the ice form more rapidly than about his vessel on the night of the Commissioners joint session of the peace commissioners lasted two and onehalf this time the commissioners discussed the second scries of written arguments brought forward by the Spaniards for the purpose of the American commissioners to assume the Cuban No definite conclusion was and the commissioners when the Cuban question will again be Grand Ball at thousand people attended the ball given at the Auditorium for the benefit of suffering soldiers and sailors who fought in the war with President McKinley and Generals and were given iu The ball realized LITERARY The October issue of tiie Art Inter change brings two excellent color a view of Early showing a frozen brook lined with beech the other a cluster of Summer The pictorial inter est is maintained by A Mediterranean by which serves as frontispiece to the showing a picturesque type of seaman in his boat in the harbor gathering liar vest of THE LIBRARY OK this work Kid aided by a corps of given us the benefit of ripe experience in and has laid before us in convenient and form twentyfive vol the story of the real and unreal world as seen with the of those who have pictured it to us Biog It is the crowning work ot this emi nent Family contin ues to be one of the monthly publications coming to our It contains a high class of lit and the illustrations arc un surpassed by any of the many maga zines with which we are Applications for Dies following cases prepared and prosecuted by us have been allowed An apparatus for demonstrating the philosophy of thunder and lightning and the utility of lightning Dodd of Their application for i patent for a machine for making flexible lightning rods of copper wiros is A patent has bcen allowed to of DCS for his gas generator in which all the parts arc connected and adapts the apparatus ro moved about located in tho cellar or tin parlor for illuminating It is automatic in its economic and Among ten recent decisions relating to the registration of trademarks is the following Whether or the word is an ordinary surname or has become fanciful it should not be registered as a no one has the without the consent of to appropriate his name as a trademark on the ground a living celebrity is entitled to protec tion from tho ordinary Printed Copies of the drawings and specifications of any United States pa tout sent for 10 We have official records of all issued since to Consultation and advice in person or by IOWA Thomas Orwig WAR DEPARTMENT war investigating commission spent yesterday afternoon in making a thor ough inspection of the camps in tho immediate vicinity of But one complaint was that of of South who objected to the chief surgeon of the Seventh testified before the ing that when the orde to establish division hospitals there had been some delay in getting Afterwards promptly lie hud nevei seen such utter disregard of expense in for side The vol soldiers uvre not so they should have Poor meat had been issued in n few He thought Miami and Tain pa for large chiel commissary at Camp Cuba saic there had never bcen any lack of sup At first there had been bad bacon bad but it had never been Captain chief said that at first nil kinds of due to the necessity of equipping so large an army in so brief a The first camp selected was but the men were moved when tiie rainy season inspector said that at the beginning there was a luck of supplies at the hos but the department had been supplied by the Red wit nesses were examined of these witnesses had any fault to find except major and ex officer of the Third division Frye spoke in a very uncomplimentary term of the men engaged in the hospital saying they had been picked up at random over the country and were generally a scabby looking not fit to adorn any walk of He spoke ingly of the contract saying he would not be willing to trust his family or his friends to 50 per cent of There he no proper opportunity for consultation with superior as the latter as a so occupied with their administrative duties as to prevent their giving closer attention to pro unless specially called of the Forty ninth said there had bcen no deficiency in the commissary eral Wilson and Captain constituting the subcommittee ap pointed to visit and report upon the conditions of the camp at made their report to the full committee The subcommittee reports that in its opinion the camp was well selected arid that probably the site was equal in all respects to any other that could have been found on the Florida Miss chief of the Third division said that when the nurses first came to camp there was only one nurse to each forty or sixty but this condition lias Major surgeon of the Seventh army said the medical staff was but without administrative Bryan was excused from of the Red said that before the female nurses were secured the who were men of the hospital were They did not seem to gard it of if flies in anil out of a stek mans and In bad seen as many as six vases of this kind at one trained nurses arrived the men were better cared for than at Physicians failed to requisition i government for supplies for fear that their demands would not be The con of his society were gen and not by Vifquain said the clothing was although better than that in the civil but the rations were not as good as A dozen others were all expressing themselves as except that occasionally the fresh meat was The com mission left last night for Tay surgeon iu charge of the military testified in the begin ning of the camps history he had con in tions but he had bad no culty said patients were well taken care but there was too little care taken of their property when The which had been was one of the saddest features of the A Story Denied war de gives out the following secretary of on being asked about the report thai Colonel Third had been re fused leave of absence and kept with his authorised the statement that Bryan has asked no ite whatever of the war that none has been refused Any reports to the contrary arc with out foundation in Spanish American effective ol the has been increased useful ves els which recently the Spanish of are attached to Deweys two are credited to the Atlantic station is the cruiser Infanta Ma ria now own steam preparing to start for Will Assume Municipal Debits Worlds Washington special says The United States will the indebtedness of the Cuban but will not agree to pay or guarantee any portion the general Cuban This state was made to a World by the highest authority in Wash ington at this There can be no to Starving NKW In addition to weekly cargo Of array stores ami sent to the United sol diers in Santiago and there were on the transport which sailed for Santiago rations for starving Cubans J
