Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - June 11, 1895, Waterloo, Iowa Weekly Established Daily Established 1890 Single Copies Five Cents FIFTH YEAK WATERLOO IOWA TUESDAY JUSTE 11 1895 WHOLE 1407 WHITNEY SAYS NO The of the Navy Not a Candidate for President A PLEA FOR SOUND MONEY if Silver Men Carry vention It Will the Party the Con Split THE FOWLER COMPANY Wholesale Grocers Wait a Minute But the wouldnt wait for the slowgoing kept right on going and about noon the clock struck MAUF PAST SIX Ever have one of this sort of the kind that is forever doing some out rageous sort of dishonest ir responsible clock May be we can fix up the old some conscience into it If we cant well say so and then show you a clock that can be de pended upon We have some honest clocks and they cost so little that you would be suspicious if we didnt guar antee them Times cheap time too BOSTON June of the Navy Whitney was interviewed at the home of his mother in Brookline Sunday He said I am not and will not be a candidate If the silver men should carry the next Democratic con vention it would split the party right in two The Democrats mnst stand for sound money There are a good many sound money men in the West and South and the Memphis OLNEY IS SECRETARY WELD OPPOSITE HOUSE 206 East 4th Street Waterloo Iowa J C F JACKSON New Premier the Oath of Office WASHING rox June Olney is now secretary of state having the oath of office during the morning Chief Justice Fuller who had come to Washington from Richmond admin the oath of office to the new secretary in the diplomatic room at the State department Mr Olney came ilone to the state department at and after a few moments with Mr Landis private the late Secretary Gresham he was joined by Assistant Secretaries Me Adoo and Rockhill and received their congratulations After waiting half an hour Chief Justice Fuller appeared accompanied by his daughter Aubrey Secretary Lament also came over from the war department and the party which had been chatting in the office repaired to the diplo matic room adjoining and the oath was administered to Mr Olney The secretary then received the bureau chiefs of the state department and set tled down at once to the routine of his office NAMED RECEIVERS MAY NOT BE TRUE Reported Wholesale Massacre of Missionaries in China Unconfirmed THE NATIVES ARE AGITATED Scene of the Rumored Outrage but Recently Opened to Foreigners No 215 East Fourth St IOWA Waterloo Dental Parlors WEST FOURTH STREET OVER WATERLOO STATE J G D D S WILLIAM C WHITNEY I think has helped the cause along Carlisles speech at the conven tion was an excellent one and deserves to be widely read It has undoubtedly had an influence in the South I think the people will eventually treat this question the same as they did the greenback question They want sound money now just as much as they did then DONT WANT A THIRD TERM Egan and Bancroft Control the SALT LAKE June Merritt of the Third district court handed down his decision in the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern railway case He appoints John M Egan of St Paul and W H Bancroft of Salt Lake as re of the entire property within the jurisdiction of the court This is upon the condition that the interest now due on the mortgages shall be patched up by July 1 and that all in terest falling due thereafter shall be paid within 30 days from maturity otherwise the property shall be surren dered to the receivers of the Union Pacific road Mr Bancroft is one of the general superintendents of the Union Pacific system A SINGULAR CASE Cleveland C K STEWART M D Homoeopathic Physician Special attention paid to Operative Surgery Obstetrics and Diseases of Children Office In building corner East Fourth and Wa ter streets Residence 321 Irving street DANIEL W FOOTE NOTARY PUBLIC FIRE INSURANCE I have a firstclass line of Fire Insurance com panies Am also prepared to do all kinds of con Office at Cor 4th and Sts over Frank Bros Clothing Store DR E B EDGERS Satisfaction guaranteed Office Wangler Block E 4th St DR G J SPECIALTY DISEASES OP THE Lye Ear Nose and Throat SPECTACLES FITTED Office in Courier Street WATERLOO IOWA Favors Whitney as the Candidate CHICAGO June ald Washington correspondent sends the following William C Whitney will be the administration candidate for president It is with Mr Whitney that the conservative force of the Democratic party hope to defeat the threatened nomination of Adlai Stev enson and avert the danger of a party split Grover Cleveland and William C Whitney have not met in more than two years and though they have never quarrelled there has been an interrup tion of the oldtime friendship relations These two great Democrats will meet in a few weeks and talk over the past and future President Cleveland will invite Mr Whitney to visit him at Gray Gables and Mr Whitney will ac cept Already there is a tacit under standing between them and when they meet at Buzzards Bay the task of Completing the Reconciliation will be a very simple one All that will be necessary is a warm shake of the hands and a how are you It is scarcely necessary to add that all the preliminaries have been carefully at tended to by the skillful hands of Sec Lament President Cleveland has no ambition He is tired of public service He wants rest domestic peace the pleasures of travel the joy of angling undisturbed by cares of state Mr Whitney will be not only the candidate of the administration but of those conservative Democrats who want to avert free silver declarations and the disruption of the party in con sequence as well ROBERT T LINCOLN A Colored Preacher Fell Dead Delivering a Sermon on Death BIRMINGHAM Ala June sin gular death occurred in the colored Baptist church near Double Springs Sunday morning The pastor the Rev Greenleaf Lee a young man strong and healthy was preaching on the death He worked himself into great fervor describing the tortures of hell quoting from the scriptures As the words There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth issued from his lips he fell to the floor and iii a few minutes was dead Doctors pronounce the cause of death the rupture of a blood vessel caused by excitement WILL APPEAL TO THE QUEEN GEO B MILLER ATTORNEY AT LAW 605 ST J E A EXAMINE OF fx TITLES set ot Bridge Street or A Office No 527 Commercial R K ODELL COLLECTION ATTORNEY AND NOTARY PUBLIC ST J W BABB TAILOR 303 Fourth Street His Chances of Receiving the Republican Nomination Discussed YORK June Thomas Li James general said discussing the political situation I look upon Robert Lincoln as the likeliest dark horse in the race for the Republican nomination He is espe strong in the South but that statement does not by any means sum up all his possibilities before a conven tion Illinois Republicans would unite on him Georgia Arizona Kentucky and Tennessee will be with him but in all the Southern states there live warm and influential friends of the Illinois the Carolinas in Virginia in Arkansas and Mississippi I believe he will get half of the entire Southern delegation and when the break comes on the favorites Lincoln and Allison will get the benefit of it Succeeds HONOLULU June R Castle has been appointed Hawaiian minister at Washington in place of L A Thurston He will leave for Wash ington Aug 10 Mr Castle was one of the commissioners sent to Washington to arrange for annexation as soon as the monarchy was overthrown Enormous Beet Crop OMAHA June crop of sugar beets this year will be enormous Beet fields are in splendid condition The number of individual planters is double that of former years and an un precedented crop is assured Manitoba Catholics Determined to Press for Their School Rights WINNIPEG June min and members of the legislature are already gathering for the meeting of the legislature on Thursday when the school question will again come up for consideration Archbishop Lange vin has returned from the east He says the Catholics are determined to press for their school rights and thab if the legislature refused them he would personally appeal the case to her majesty Queen Victoria Still Lives NEW YORK June 11 special from Key West Fla says Woodward the American newspaper correspondent reported as killed by the Spanish pa pers finding it impossible to get back from the insurgents lines has joined the insurgents it is now said and been given command of a company under Maceo The man killed is now reported to be one Boynton who was trying to sell a dynamite machine to the insur gents which he offered for Riding in Full Fatigue Uniform NEW YORK June A Mattey First Artillery U S A set out on a bicycle ride from Fort Hamilton LI to Fort Sheridan His at reveille 6 a m bearing a dis patch from Major General Miles to Major General commander of the Department of the Missouri Mat tey rides in full fatigue uniform with blankets canteen etc the total weight of man equipments etc being 200 pounds For San Franciscos Protection WASHINGTON June next fall if all goes well the new battery of pneumatic guns located at Fort Win field on the Presidio reservation intended for the protection of San Francisco will be turned over to the war department The battery is even now practically complete but owing to difficulties in procuring an adequate water supply upon the application of contractors the war department grant ed an extension of the time for the de from April to Nov 27 next President on a Fishing Trip WASHINGTON June dent left the city very quietly Saturday evening or Sunday morning on a fish ing trip At the White House is maintained concerning his move ments Eight Hundred Houses Darned BUDAPEST June fire which broke out at Merina was not under con trol until 820 houses were destroyed Several persons lost their lives during the conflagration Harmon for Washington CINCINNATI June Harmon left for Washington at noor to qualify as attorney general of the United States WASHINGTON June Chi nese legation has received no informa tion as to the reported massacre of all missionaries in Cheng Tu and strong hopes are entertained that tho affair may be less serious than the meagre reports indicate It is stated at the legation that Cheng Tu is a large city in the interior of China The people OTQ far removed from the centers of foreign commerce such as Canton and Shanghai Recently however by the treaty of peace with Japan this interior city was one of several places to be opened to foreigners and foreign com merce This fact it is explained has agitated the people who lived by them selves from time immemorial The missionaries Are the Only Foreigners who have heretofore settled at Cheng Tu Their number is not known It is said however that the number of missionaries including their families in the entire province of Se Chung of which Cheng Tu is the capital must be less than 100 including all ties The missionary headquarters is at Cheng Tu where it is believed there are not exceeding 10 missionaries the rest being scattered through the province But this estimate is based ordy on the general information of Chinese officials as there are no exact details of the extent of missionary serv ice through China The Tsung Li Yamen sought to secure from each for eign government a complete List of tho Missionaries places of service but this was not given It is said that the em of China and the Tsung Li Ya men have given every possible protec tion to the missionaries although it has been found impossible to guard against mob violence particularly at remote interior points The Chinese government has asked foreign governments to appreciate these difficulties and has advised that the missions should be kept within safe limits But the zeal of the missionaries has led them to push inland without fear where the Chinese government officials have found difficulty in afford ing protection The state department has received no dispatches from Minister Denby or other officials in China regarding the reported missionary massacre at Cheng are no records at the state department showing the number of missionaries at Cheng Tu Are Not Expensive K to the Kitchen Will Lessen Work Wonderfully And Save Knives and The Stove Pipe Try one Prices and notice the change are lower than formerly Alaska Refrigerators White Mountain Freez ers and Insurance Gasoline Stoves are the very best to be had and are now selling freely Select before assortment is broken CUTLER HARDWARE CO L S PARSONS TORRENTS OF RAIN Almost a Cloudburst at iall General Minn June worst rain for years started at mid night and continued until 2 The thunder and lightning was terrific There is about two feet of water iii the street around tho Lutheran church Little Mission creek one mile south rose three feet washing out 40 feet of the St Paul and Duluth tracks Lim trains had to transfer WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Heaviest in Two Yours DES KOINES la June heaviest rain in two years fell here dur ing the day It is estimated that the fall in six hours was two inches and it is still raining The streets of Des Moines were flooded The rain is suffi cient to mature the oats crop and corn is supplied with moisture enough for weeks to come Rained Hours HAYWARD Wis June steady downpour of rain for 12 hours has swollen the streams and carried out some The light ning struck the McCormick high school demolishing the steeple heater and plastering and shocking Professors Adams aud Wood who were in the building LOSE THEIR LAND MUSIC Nineteenth Year THE W W KIMBALL CO the Largest Magic in tto JEWELRY STOCK COMPLETE All work guaranteed Every thing sold on easy payments Capital and Surplus 00 No Infinite NOTTS Received SHANGHAI June definite news has yet been received here in re gard to the latest report concerning the fate of the missionaries at Cheng Tu capital of the of Western China who are said to have been massacred It is known however that serious occurred recently at Cheng Tu but there have since reported quiet although the rioting was in the country southward THOSE FIENDISH TURKS They Plot to Starve Into Russia Turk ish government it is claimed has just taken the preliminary steps in what may result in a massacre of Christians iu the mountains of Kurdis tan It is asserted that the govern ment has given orders to starve the in dependent tribes of in the mountain region immediately west of Gawar which may be described as lying about midway between Mosul and Lake Van about 50 miles west of the Persian frontier The orders it is stated are that no food supplies of any kind shall be allowed to enter the terri tory of the independent tribes and that measures are said to have been taken to enforce these orders to the letter This action is apparently taken as a of compelling the inde pendent tribes to submit to Turkish authority and to pay the taxes de manded by the Turkish government and is regarded as the first serious at tempt that the Turks have made to ex taxes from the independent tribes Alleged Scott Murderers on Trial June special to The Bee from Butte Neb says The al Barrett Scott murderers were in court and arrangements for ing a jury commenced Several days will be consumed in the selection before the case reaches its merits The victim Barrett Scott was treasurer of Holt county He defaulted in and the old vigilantes committee is said to have killed him for the offense in Gregory County S IX DIspos sensed of Their Claims BUTTE Neb June 50 to GO settlers on the government land in Gregory county S D have been dis possessed of their claims by the recent survey between the Indian reservation and Gregory county Many of the farmers have been living on their claims for more than three years and in some cases have improvements val ued at Young ERIE Pa June Cora Woods assistant postmaster at Con Lake was brought here by the United States marshal on a charge of embezzling money Miss Woods is a prepossessing young woman of 25 and was a leader in society in her town She was quite active in church circles and was regarded as a very proper young woman Miss Wood is greatly distressed and refuses to talk Hi Commercial National Bank W W Miller W IK A t XL O JiMt WM WAGNER IM Will Retire ATLANTA Ga June John B Gordon is out in a card an his permanent retirement from at the end of his present term ut office CHOICE WINES Celebrated Schoenhofen Chicago Beer for Family Use Strictly pure goods only PRICES REASONABLE GOODS DELIVERED 629 Sycamore Street Waterloo Iowa Takes the Oath WASHINGTON June Olney formally installed into the office of of state during the morning The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Fuller Crops Are Poor NEW YORK June man Frank Jones of Portsmouth N H has just returned from his 17th an tour of England I drove in a carriage through the English farming districts he said and I found that a late frost had killed the crops there The result will be to make a market in England for American wheat and grain which will bring good times to the Western farmers Curfew at Red Wing WING Minn June city council has decided to adopt a curfew ordinance similar to the one at Still water and at the next meeting the ordinance will be passed making it un lawful for any child under years to be on the street after 9 oclock p m Miners Accept Reduction COLUMBUS O June vote of the Ohio miners as to whether they would accept or reject the proposition of the operators to pay 51 cents for screened coal per ton for mining re For acceptance 5091 against 4351 Majority 740 Pastors Oppose DALLAS Tex 11 Pastors association met and voted to prevent if possible the prize fight coming off in Dallas The business men of the town however say almost to a man that the fight shall come off here as per arrangements Actor Attempts Murder SAN FRANCISCO June K Em mett Jr the German dialect comedian attempted to murder his wife and was only prevented from executing his de sign by the forcible interference of neighbors for Cuba MADRID June war office announces that the reinforcement of 10 battalions of infantry and other troops intended for the island of Cuba will leave Spain on Monday next June 17 ONE BETTER THAN THE Highest Award AT Worlds Fair GIVEN TO Ale BOTTLED ONLY BY Excelsior Springs Bottling EXCELSIOR SPRINGS MO Sold by a B IOWA
