Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - December 1, 1896, Titusville, Pennsylvania VOL XXXI NO 145 TITUSVILLE PA TUESDAY 1 1896 JUDICIOUS ADVERTISING IS THE BACKBONE OF BUSINESS SUCCESS in the prices of Dry Goods We have still a fow left of tho Beautiful Novelty Dress Goods that we are selling at 4212c yd They went fast during the last few days Dont fail to get a pattern now Cloaks The cold snap has made them a necessity rather than a luxury Our de is still com plete Dont buy a gar ment till you have seen ours We will save you money AT THE New York J B GOLDSTEIN LATE NEWS Details of the Movements of th Spanish Forces WEYLER IS SATISFIED Ron Father ifi Not O II for Much of tli Attributed to Him by Hi n ol Seventeen Tho Now Ba Within of tli Under if Reports Ar True HAVANA Nov Details of th movements of General here toddy At H oclock tli afternoon of Thursday ho left Artemisa following the of bi which warn by squad rona from tho regiment Me wus hy iiw wh rt by his chief of staff and th The Spanish forces followed the hich way and little else but ruins ashes dynamited culverts and desolation wer seen in places of tho landscape Twice tho columns were computed to halt on account of the ed roadway and it was not until oclock the same thut tho troop arrived at River throe wile rom By that time had already eet in and FO the column camped there for the nn and attractive spectacle camp fires burning all hide tht while the soldier not thus employed for hiel marked out tho line helped put up the tents washed brushed oiled or pol ished away tho of travel left by the days mach Tho captain general win very gracious to General an I to tho corres Madrid who as a very favor was allowed to company the troops operating Antonio Maceo Tho captain genera and his invited for that had chicken and rice and ome lettes At 5 oclock the next morning the re veille was hurriedly prepared and at i oclock the columns resumed the march to still following the highway Some time later the arrived in sight of a spot upon which an engagement evidently had been fought with the insurgents and it soon became known that it was where the Spanish force under General Segurn met the enemy under Maceo on Feh 7 and the former afterwards occupied San Cristobal The troops on last found the bridge near that spot destroyed by fire and the highway being thus impassable the columns made a detour camped for the night at a convenient place near the Boston Tubing and Casing National Tube Works Go Off Ripe Drive Pipe Gas Steam Water Pipe Boiler Tubes Etc Etc Fourth Avenue A GREAT DRIVE We will offer for this week Mens Extra Fine Balbriggan Fleeced Lined Underwear rer 58c each that are excellent value for 98c This is a rare chance for those who want to clothe themselves with good warm durable underwear for a mere trifle The Model n West Spring Street river and entered San Cristobal at 9 oclock tbe next morning They found all the houses decorated and were welcomed with enthusiasm by a crowd of people The columns were afterwards drawn up in the main street where they were inspected by the captain general The Spanish commander after a brief chat with General who is in command at Ban that town going westward Before doing so how over General Weyler expressed great satisfaction at the behavior of the on tbe march saying he was much pleased to notice that there had not been a break in the columns from tho time o 1 aving Artemisa until thoy arrived a San Cristobal Daring the past week a column c troops led by General Obregon has bee in tho direction of Sa bana Another column commanded by Gene rnl hns been operating in th direction of Gordos and a thiri column under the command of Genera has been feeling for th enemy in the vicinity of bu five daya of th commanders of the three columns re ported that the insurgents were not t although they have destroyed a number of an country dwellings Reconnoitering ox tended from the railroad to the coast Quite a quantity of cattle was found but of the insurgents nothing was found Quintin Hernandez classed as rebel incendiary was shot this morn ing outside of fortress La commenting upon the lette from Lee fr son of the United States consul general asserting that bis father not responsible fo much of tbe talk attributed to him ii newspapers in the United States says The general taks what and when h likes and not when others wish we already know hero but an many persons in Cuba and in tbe who do not know it As the of several the insurgents have had two captains anc seventeen privates killed The troops had three killed and nine wounded If it is tne that Macao is i the vicinity of Consolation del ai timn General Weyler should bv this time be within striking distance o the insurgents WRITES OF ELECTION Mr Bryan Has an Article In This Months North American Review THE SILVER QUESTION of tho i CHICAGO who com mitted suicide at the Kimball hotel Sat night and who registered as E L Bryan has been identified as Edgar Ly tlp and is supposed to be from Pills Pfl He had removed the narks from his linen hut last evening an express receipt was found showing that E L Bryan had shipped a valise rom Pittsburg to Chicago The valise was secured and opened and clothing and visiting cards bearing the name Edgar were found The note book describing his feel ngs for twenty minutes after taking tbe bore the firm name of A W McCloy Co Pittsburg NOT KNOWN IN 1ITTSKURO Nov L Bryan or Edgar Lytle who committed suicide at the Kimball bouse Chicago night is not known in Pittsburg His mime ie not in the directory and no trace of hin could be found Inquiry NKW YOUK Nov 30 legislative in into the workings of tbe Raines excise law was begun here today The committee on investigation consists of 3ve members of tbe state senate with Hr Raines the father of the law chairman It is expected that the hear ng will continue throughout the week ind that one of the star witnesses will be 5olice Commissioner Theodore Roose last week gave out a newspaper which in effect pronounced the judgment upon tbe law that it could lot have been more inefficacious had hose who framed it had the purpose of making it a statute that could not be en Scaly eruptions on the head and lips cuts bruises scalds burns are quickly cured by DeWitts W itch Hazel Salve It is at present the article most used or piles and it always cures them T W touting D A V A P Try tbe D A V P you o to Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago or St Louis 855 1896 Another invoice of low and medium priced Dress Goods Beautiful designs at from ISc to GOc per yard Trimmings of all kinds at low prices UNDERWEAR TNO HOSIERY The moat extensive assortment to be found in the city in low medium and high grade quality ioo Pairs Lace Curtains at extremely low prices Indigo Prints 3J cents GINGHAMS 10 yds Ginghams for Tlo to 1eoplo in Time of he Of HAM Ke of lo ilia Puny and fart laic Sliot nt NEW YORK Nov In the December number of the North American Review published today Mr Bryan bus an ar ticle in which he discusses tho remit of the election as the status of the silver question The issue on which the turned he describes as the greatest issue ever submitted to the people in time of peace The declaration of the Chicago convention in of the free coinage of silver forced upon the people of this country a study of the money question in general and within the last four months more people have bean simultaneously engaged in its consideration than in the his tory of the world The result of this study Mr Bryan declares to he temporary de feat hut permanent gain for tho cause bimetallism Mr Bryan regards it as a significant fact that tho silver sentiment was strong est where the question had been longest considered that is to say in the west south In Mr Bryans opinion the cause of bimetallism made more rapid progress than my cause ever made in a short titno He expresses his assurances thut the election cin he by no means regarded as a conclusive settle ment of the question at issue The ad of fieo coinage are convinced lie eays that they are laboring in behalf of n majority of the people not only hero but throughout thu world and nc cording to tin writer thoy to contest confident that four more af will con mary who have thus fur argument This confidence Mr Bryan says ia confirmed by the history of ro cent elections Mr was defeated in 1S72 and yet Mr was elected in 187G Mr was detailed in 1881 but Mr Harrison was elected in 1SSS The Republican victory of 1SSS was followed by the Democratic victory of 1SOO aud the election of President Cleve land two years later Mr Bryan counsels the successful party to remember that thousands of Re publicans bave held to their party this year by the pledge that it will try to scare international bimetallism In ref to the gold standard Democrats Mr Bryan assured that they cannot do as much in 1900 as they have done hia year They have declared their af for Democratic principles while they spared no effort to secure the sue cesa of the opposing ticket They not he says disguise themselves again Fin Will SAX FRANCISCO Nov FiU Simmons and Sharkey have ceased their and will rest until Wednesday night Their respective have 3eon trying to select a referee but Lynch acting for does not wish a choice to be made until the last moment If no one is selected by Wed noon the National Athletic club will name official Each pugilist seems confident of the decision The betting s generally from 3 to 1 to 1 to 1 in favor of Martin Julian the manager says he is batting four to one that Sharkey will be knocked out n four rounds to Denb WASHINGTON Nov dispatch re at the war department today states hat tbe residence of Chaplain M C Blaine nt Fort Texas was this morning and both Elaine arid hie daughter were burned to death Mrs Blaine escaped uninjured The chaplain went upstairs to save his daugh er and was overcome in tbe flames be bre he could make hia way out Chaplain Blaine was n native of Ken but was appointed to the army rom Pennsylvania Receiver Appointed PHILADELPHIA Nov Dal as in the United States circuit court to lay appointed William B Given of Pa receiver of ania Traction company which oper itea fiftynine miles of trolley railway in Lancaster is understood that he proceedings were instituted by those to the present management and hat steps will be taken at once looking o a reorganization of the property The The road cost over SUnt Down Indefinitely Pa Nov Col iery No 5 at Park Place Pa owned by he Lehigh Coal company closed down oday for an indefinite period bly for repairs Eight hundred men nd boys are thrown out of employment Excuse me observed tbe man in spec acles but I am a surgeon and that ia not the liver is you mind where is liver is other 4Jf it was 3 his bis toe or car De Witts Little would it and it for im On that you can bet your heo W Pouting Dead NEW YORK Nov ray the piano manufacturer died today t his residence in this city Death was ue to typhoid fever Note from tne Kill tor The editor of a leading state If you bad seen ray wife last June ud were to sei her you woald not be was tse same woman Then sbe ras broken down by debility and from constipation and Bacons olery King for the erves made her a well woman In one month B K Thompson will give you R ree sample package of tins great herbal emedy Large sizes 2Sc and fiOc j Solo Ambition and Commercial SAN FRANCISCO Nov 11 T Irwin who has been in Japan for thirty years and represented the Hawaiian govern ment there first us consul and afterward aR minister during the greater part of that time arrived from the Orient on the Doric yesterday He said Tho statement that Russia has estab a suzerainty over Corea is in correct although the fact that the king has housed in the Russian legation might lend credence to that supposition Japans ambition does not extend to American influence is upper most in the kingdom and I am credibly informed that is acting entirely under the advice of three Americans Minister Sill tho secretary of tho Ameri can legation and an American missionary by the name of Underwood Irwin eays that Japans sole ambition now is commercial aud industrial advancement The government is encouraging the con struction operation and maintenance of railway and steamship lines and manu industries He declares how ever a false impression has been gained of the extent and importance of the steamship subsidies recently offered The subsidies offered are entirely in adequate for the purpose of maintaining a powerful line of steamers he declared Nippon Yuzen which has undertaken to run a line of ships between Japan and Seattle will think better of the project before two or three years are the company which is by S Asano will in my honest opinion never materialise It will be many years before San Diego is the terminus of any Japanese fic lino that or any other Japanese capitalists or corporation may establish undertaking is largely a myth Just now the railway is attracting considerable attention in the orient I believe that in throe years the railway will be completed o Vladivostok ami to a port on the river probably Hankow It stands to reason that the road will tap 3hina if it wants to get business Its not be an open port to Corea It bo a port on the Yangtse tho tea market of the world Rus sia will from he Mongolian fron ier ro Peking with French capital and China will build from Peking to Hankow or some near by on the river with British That is the fixed program nnd Li Hung Chanc wil see it carried out if he lives a few years He said in England Chinas part of the can only be consummated by doubling her customs duties Sho is now taking steps toward the accomplishment of that MAN CULLERS DH MIRLEY 1 Number of or Go to CANTON Q Nov ley had many visitors today In the of callers tbe names of nent oien are In fact there have only on rare occasions been in Canton as many distinguished parly leaders as are here today A number of them are members of congress about to start for Washington Some have merely stopped over between trains en route and others have come direct to Canton to confer with the presi dent elect Hon M H DeYoung of tho Chron icle San Francisco accompanied by Mrs DeYoung arrived during the early morn ing and were at the McKinley house for time Mrs DeYoung nearly the whole with Mra Mc Kinley while the gentlemen talked Lunch was delayed until after the ar rival of General Horace Porter of New York General Porter and Senator were guests at the meal The stream of visitors which began early in the morn ing continued during the afternoon and this was one ofthe busiest days Major McKinley has experienced There was an unusually large number of made purely social calls to pay their re spects and many entire strangers who merely called to shake hands During the afternoon Dr T N Jamie son national committeeman of Illinois called To the Associated Press he said the call was a social oue and also for the talking iver questions of pol DEATH IN THE STORM The Western Blizzard Far More Serious Than First Reported ENORMOUS SNOW DRIFTS SPECIAL Snow Plow Collide Ip on the Grout nnd of O T Reported Wiped Ont by H bo la Various of tbe Western icy with Major McKinley did not even send a line of to Presidentelect McKinley after ths election and it seemed proper for me to make a personal call I did so before the election and think it right to do so again There is no significance other than that in my coming here Congressman C D Sheldon of the Mich district stepped over this afternoon on his way to Washington for a conference with Maior McKinley Congressman T B Burton of Cleve land accompanied by Dr Henry W Kitchen called during the afternoon Henry T of California presi dent of the National Beet Sugar Makers association is in the city to confer with Major McKinley and was given an aud at the house during the afternoon Among other callers were Rev K P James of and Wm T Lewis of labor of Ohio Senator Lodge when seen the station declined to discuss the object of nis call or the probability of action in co gresK Resumed Me Nov 30 big plant of tbe Sanford Manufacturing company resumed operations this a long shut down About 800 people or of work Maes Nov Pern berton started this after a down of four months employ 800 bands jut over 300 were turned work To Cure Cold in One Duy Tablets All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure 25c FARGO N D Nov reports of tho late storm show it to have been far more serious than was at first report ed Two wrecking engines have been working out of Fargo on the Northern since Saturday morning Valley Forge was just reached at this morning Only i half mile was cleared Drifts in the cuts are six to fourteen feet deep and frozen like ice mixed with sand Dynamite is used to loosen up the southwestern branch to Lisbon and Edgely is still frozen people in towns along the line are out of wood aud coal and there seems no pros of opening up the road for three or lour days Small towns along the main line are also out of fuel A serious accident is reported beyond today Two snowplow crows got their orders mixed and there was a ter rible collision in which one man a snow shoveler named Hana Hanson of Mapleton was instantly killed A fire man and two section men were seriously if not fatally injured ST PAUL Minn Nov Great road has opened up its line to the coast and while trains are not by any means running aa usual they are getting through The Northern Pacific expected to have its road opened today and a train from the coast will arrive in St Paul tomorrow Northern Pacific officials say that the road is having a hard fight with the ele ments For several days it was to do anything toward clearing the track because of the continued fall of snow and the strong wind that kept up the drifting The wind has not en tirely abated but the have been steadily at work for three Jays lt has been necessary to use axes and picks to remove the ice and sand accumulated in the cuts This made the work progress slowly The track is now clear of the worst tions and the snow plow can be used with good effect It is claimed that to morrow will eeo trains running through to the coast although they may not fol low schedule for a day or two All transcontinental lines are now accept ing passengers and freight for through business LOSS OK II KB NOT News from the great blizzard ini bean very today So far as learned only five lives have been lost Of course nothing baa yet betu heard from tho re mote districts beyond the reach of the telegraph and it may be another week before it can be positively stated that there has not been more serious loss of life The streets of the snowbound Dakota towns are cleared as rapidly as possible The extremely cold weather has frozen the snow until the drifts have reached the proportions of gigantic icebergs and dynamite is being used to blast these out of the way ordinary picks and shov els to make any impression on them Stock on the ranges has un doubtedly suffered heavily and a fuel threatened in many of the smaller towns in the Dakotas Thiw is by no means a trivial matter where the mercury is ranging from to below zero FOR THIS W will a for ita y on Friday evenin The ia like goods trade All other industries seem to trade to be depressed more for many years Manufacturers and importer They cannot go to the banks for loans giving their goods Banks will not accept such collateral Thus it seems there is for them but to sacrifice their goods A manufacturer from Boston writes to us We twenty dozen Skirts flannels satin Eagl two and three ruffles Please them for Se price and fend us the money quick We will comply with his request and today we Skirts Skirts for SI Skirts ff the whole lot See them in the show window A prominent New York Cloak manufacturer sent us Jackets newest styles He saye I must have such au amount as you think proper Wo did send him some money and today we will Jackets for his Jackets for An importer of Ostrich Feather Boas sent us five dozen JH the same clamor for n oney The result you can Feather Boa at former price our Boas for During week we will receive two cases Tennis remnants from live to ten in a piece The a jard Our regular stock of Drees Goods Silks Velvet Und be sold as cheap as any reputable merchant can feell we dont deceive thi public We sell wool for wpol cotton and silk for silk We are always ready to take goods back if nwl factory and return the money We have hoard said of uptodate merchants understand the meaning of it If it means that an merchant sells c Mon for linen jute for silk and attempts to pie believe the moon is made of cheese then we are But if it means thit au uptodate merchant deals thirtysix inches for a yard and sixteen ounces for a pound newest upto date fashionable goods then we are in the avim to r o one rfel hill We A 0 T Nov reached here of a destructive cyclone at a small town on Arkansas river fifty miles northeast of Parry There is hardly a houee left in the town Mrs Dorman and two smull children were killed and many were The large store of J H Comer was blown down and in Foleys livery barn fifteen horses were killed In Payne county fifty miles east of here many farm houses were laid low and several persons wounded After doing its work at Ralston the storm crossed the Arkansas river aud strucki the Osage Indian nation and for twenty miles northeast took everything in its path It seems to have gone to pieces there The path of the storm was about a quarter of a mile wide Later news from the cyclone at Rals ton a small burg 50 miles north of here on the Arkansas river indicate that the storm was much worse than first re ported A letter from W F McCague who practically owns the town to F H Kellogg here states that the town is wrecked The 6torm occurred Thurs day night wooden building was blown bottom upward ana fifteen people imprisoned in the upper story The building caught fire and the people were liberated by the use of an ixe Two minutes after many pounds of powder and dynamite aud other ex plosives exploded In all twenty per sons were injured Ralston is a small town toal mines and re mote from telegraph Jacob U As Usual Commencing December first and until January first at E T HALLS receive a valuable This is in accordance custom for the past twenty years he gives away hundred of dollars worth of practical useful articles chasing goods at his storo during that month The list of articles that to his customers this mouth is as follows 10 Fine Pictures worth 10 10 10 10 30 10 Lamps Water Sets 20 Fancy Pitchers 15 20 10 Hassocks 50 Cups and Saucers 50 Hat Racks worth 250 200 150 150 100 250 100 50 25 75 25 25 each Bryan One Elector SACRAMENTO Cal Nov re ams frohr Santa Clara county ng the state return show that Martin Bryan elector has defeated Flint Mc Kinley elector This gives Kinley eight electors from California and Bryan one Absolutely pure perfectly harmless and invariably the qualities of One Minute It never fails in colds cronp and Children like it it is pleasant to take and it helps hem W Routing Highest of all in Leavening U S Govt Report 10 Pillow Sham worth 10 50 10 Large Cane Rockers 300 100 Other Useful Articles 365 A Gift for a Life Time A dainty neat watch in pure gold with a full jew piece SI 7501 Others at and Lorgnette Witch 10 K solid 1500 f 1675 FRANK L JB