Gazette News-Current from Xenia, Ohio • Page 5

SIXTEENTH YEAR. XENIA, OHIO, EVENING OCTOBER 1, 1897. PRICE 3 CENTS. We have prepared for this kind of weather, and have just the right goods at the right prices. "We now have Dark shades nice for dresses.

Light and delicate shades so suitable for Underwear. Medium shades so imich used the past season for men's shirts and ladies skirts. All who bought these the past season speak well of them. NDE MEN'S FLEECE LINED, ALWAYS SOLD FROM 5O CT3 TO $1, THIS YEAR WE BOUGHT TO SELL AT 5O CTS. Drawers, Shirts And Gomiiinaton Suits! For misses 50 cents per suit; ladies, 50 cents to $2 a suit.

Ladies' Bibbed Vest and Pants 25 cents, fine quality. Come in and take a look at these goods. DETROIT ST. A Southern farmer, whose.home is somewhat in the backwoods, in an interview with a newspaper correspondent said: "I am 61 years old, and until I was nigh unto 50 years old I was always well and peart, then for a long while I suffered with indigestion and could not eat anything hardly at all. My daughter, who lives in the city, sent me some of told me how to take them, and they have completely cured me.

I want you to tell everybody how I got cured, for it is a blessing to humanity." Neither will proclamations on dead walls revive languishing trade. Is the great JNK-UBATOR FOR HATCHING OUT BUSINESS. SLOWLY SPREADING THE DEE AD YELLOW FEVER Despite the Efforts of the Board of Health, Playing Sad Havoointhe South, OKLMANS, Sept. was neither improvement nor aggravation of the yellow fever situation here to-day. Twenty cases were reported as early as 6 o'clock and the reports threatened to equal, if not exceed, tho number of last night, but at that hour the death record was small.

The fever seems to be slowly spreading around town, but at the present time no nest of cases haa been found and the authorities have thus been able to carry on their work of quarantine with some euc- cass. Many of the cases within the past few days have been found in houses where sickness already existed, but the instances are extremely rare where cases have been transmitted from one house to another adjoining. Yesterday's record of four deaths created no alarm, but when to-day, up to nightime, there was no evidence that the pace set yesterday was being kept up, the city breathed much easier. To-day's record was noteworthy from the fact that the fever crossed the river, one case being reported from Algiers. Algiers has 1000 population, in the landing place of the Southern Pacific steamers, the site of the Southern Pacific shops and has maintained a partial quarantine against New Orleans from the beginning of the fever here.

Chief Sanitary Inspector Woods said to-night that the situation generally was not very bad, because only in a few cases were fatal results apprehended. Most of the patients in the city are doing well. Half a dozau were discharged today. FUKIOUS FLAMES That Threaten Destruction to Many Ohio Homes, CHICAGO JUNCTION, OHIO, Sept. 30.

the prairie known as Muckland, south of here, the ground is of a combustible nature, and covered with dry shrubbery and vegetation. Fire has been raging for three days. This evening over 1,000 acres is a smoking, smoldering mass, everything in its path being entirely destroyed, including many farm houses. All the inhabitants have their household goods packed and are sleeping on the floors of their homes, which will, no doubt, be swept by the flames before morning. The town is enveloped with smoke, and the citizens from here are rendering all assistance possible.

The prairie comprises over 5,000 acres, and if rain does not fall soon the result will be appalling. AN INFANT WITH $2,000 IN ITS DRESS Given in Charge of an Officer and Both Disappear and Oan- not Be Found, BLOODY DEED, Fresh DUBIOUS ENOUGH, and Salt Water In Same Lake, the WAR ON OATS, Epidemic of Diphtheria at Ohilli- cothe Due to the Felines, CHILLICOTHE, OHIO, Sept. The cause of the spread of diphtheria here has been discovered by the Board of Health, and the result of that discovery ia that a war is to be waged against cats, and a bulletin has been issued prohibiting children playing with their feline pets. It has been noticed that the mortality among the cats here has been unusually great recently, and within the past few days the Health Officer haa made an examination of a number of the dead cats. The startling discovery was made that all of these catfl had died of diphtheria.

There is an article going the rounds of the newspapers which tells of a lake in a far away land, in which both fresh and salt water, with fish and vegetation of corresponding character, are to be found at different depths. The matter is interesting but not unique. The St. Johns river, In Florida, is a fresh water stream with a large volume of water generally flowing at the rate of aboufc two miles an hour. At a point in a widening of this stream known as Little Lake George and perhaps 140 or 150 miles from the mouth of the river, the water is salt and inhabited by Ash which are never found in fresh water.

As the current is always tending to freshen the water it is supposed that the supply of salt is continually renewed by a saline possibly by an underground communication with the ocean. In contrast to this there is a fresh water spring in the bed of the ocean about three miles from land and nearly east from Matanzas Inlet. The body of fresh water thrown up here ia so strong that it ia plainly seen on the surface when the sea ia not rough, and it is only with great exertion that a row boat can be kept approximately over it. This convenient supply of fresh water is well known to sailors in the coasting trade who often resort to it to fill their casks in case of need. ST.

Louis, Sept. 30. A strange case of the disappearance of an infant has come to light through inquiries being made by a St. Louis physician. Dr.

Simon Pollok, one of the chief surgeons at the St. Louis Mullanphy Hospital, has been endeavoring to locate the child. Carolina Kohen, of 910 Gratiot street, was on her way to Ste. Genevieve, and boarded the steamer General Kichey. Just before the boat started a woman got on board and set a basket down and asked her to watch it, and she would return in a short time.

After the woman had gone the contents of the basket were investigated and a baby, neatly dressed, withra bundle of clothing and a roll of money amounting to nearly $2,000, was found. The boat Ulcers called a policeman and turned the baby and money over to him. What became of them from that time to the present ia a mystery which Dr. Pollok is trying to solve. The Sisters at the St.

Louis Mul- lanphy Hospital and Sb. Anne Asylum have been called upon, but no trace of the foundling can be discovered or of the officer who is supposed to have taken charge of it. Unknown Person Kills Prominent Man at Village of Eillbuck, MikLERSBunoj, Sept. foulest crime that; ever darkened the history of Holmes county was committed this evening about 7 o'clock at Killbuck, six miles south of here. The victim was Frederick Penhorwood, the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus ticket agent at the village.

He was shot through the heart, between the depot and his residence, by a supposed tramp, who had been loafing about during the day. Ho was heard to make threats against the agent, but as he was under the influence of liquor, no one gave it any attention. The weapon was a shotgun, judging by the wounds on the body. The murderer escaped, but is being closely pursued and if caught Judge Lynch will preside in his first case in the county. Penhorwood was about 80 years old and leaves a wife and one child.

He was a good citizen and was respected by all who knew him. The tramp is missing and is undoubtedly the murderer. His weight is about 160 or 170 pounds; he has sandy hair and stubby whiskers of a week's growth. PRISONER SUICIDES, HE TAKES POISON IN OOUBT. Lying Before the Bench, He Begs to Be Shot to End the Agony He Is Enduring, ORIGIN OFTROTTINO MATCHES Oiie Time A LITTLE BOY Loses a Leg While Playing About the Oars, PLACED IN JAIL, West Jefferson Couple Bound Over For Stealing LONDON, an early hour this inorniug Constable Brown, of Fairfield tovrnship, arrived here, having in custody Joseph Millholland and Mrs.

Jennie Gregg, a West Jefferson couple, who were yesterday bound over to court on tho charge of stealing chickens from a Fairfield township farmer. They were nn- able to furnish the required bond and were placed in jail. Millhol- laud was at one time proprietor of a hotel at West Jefferson and his conduct with the Gregg woman has become notorious. Try Grain-0 Try Grain-0 Ask your Grocer today to show you package of GRAIN-O. the now food drink that takes tho place of coffee.

The children may drink It without injury as well as the adult. All who try It, like It. RA1N- has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains and the most delicate stomach receivea it without dlstreae. Onj-fourth the price of coffee, 15c. and 25c, per package.

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CoSS. Propi. Hnw to Cure Suit Rheum," ftco. mi I IMC UHID Pimply Fncen.EnbyniomtshM, FALLINu HAln Cured by COTIOOBA b04.i-. Our present system of public instruction is not so modern a.a some would have us believe.

Sparta had her state superintendent, who, if distant report is to be trusted, was an educational despot. But while he wielded his walking stick freely during official visits and encouraged his subordinates to ply the rod on all occasions, ho was aa diligent a promoter of music as is any humane and progressive educator of our era. As a result the little Lacedemo- nians sang blithely, no mutter what torment was going on under their tunics. And all over Greece, in those dim days, were schools ranging from infant grades instructed under Arcadian hedges to university extension schemes harbored in buildings uniquely termed "places of leisure." Tho infants were drilled in their alpha beta gammas, the older boys were taught poetry and gymnastics, with something of arithmetic, geometry and drawing, and adults spent their leisure with rhetoricians and sophists, paying handsomely for the privilege. But music was a sine qua non of Grecian life, in school and in sport, in battle and in burial.

The epic and elegiac chantiugs at festivals, the calm speculations of Pythagoras as to the music of the spheres, the choral -outburst of "the great fifth century," the martial odes of Tyrtreus and Pindar, all show the national love for melody of voice as well as for high and harmonious thought. An old time Greek set down auiid the strident, metallic voices of our occidental world would feel that the furies had seized either upon him or the cout.ineut he was B. Wall in Lippincott's. A Household Necessity, Cnscareta Candy Cathartic, the moat wonderful medical discovery of the age, pleasant and refreshing to tho tuste, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing tho entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C.

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Sept-. 30 evening near 5 o'clock the eight-year-old son of Henry Miller, proprietor of the Midland Hotel, on Main street, this city, was at the Ohio Southern railroad depot playing with other boys about a switching freight train. They were ordered away, bat gave no heed. The Miller boy attempted to catch on to the moving train and was hnrled beneath the wheels, crushing his right leg below the knee in a horrible manner, necessitating amputation. The boy was otherwise bruised and is in a serious condition.

TO STRIKE AGAIN, Six Thousand Kiver May Spread Quickly, FITTSHURG, Sept. 30. At a delegate convention of miners representing 6,000 Monongahela River diggers at Monongahela city to-day, it was decided to suspend work at every mine along the river until the operators pay a differential of 25 cents per ton between the first, second, third and fourth pools. The suspension may spread to the railroad pits, aa the drivers there want higher wages. It is possible there will be another general strike throughout the Pittsbnrg District.

HAWAII AND ITS BANKS If the United States annexes the Hawaiian islands it will add to its possessions a country that in one respect at least, is more civilized than itself. Hawaii has in successful operation a postal savings bank system. There is on deposit with tho postal bank about $1,000,000, which is a pretty good showing for a country of 100,000 population, mostly illiterate natives and foreign laborers. If annexation of the islands were to carry with it the extension to this country of the postal savings bank system in operation there, that would be a strong argument for Chicago Record. When the Dutch.

Really Excited. There is one distinctly Dutch sport, the Hardriverij. This delightful word (pronounced "hard is Dutch for a trotting match. It was from Holland, through the old Dutch settlers of the coloney, before -New Araerster- clam was taken ty tho fleets of Charles II. and renamed New York, that our American cousins got their taste for trotting horses, says the Contemporary Review.

All clases, from the noble- mau to the farmer, grow excited over the survivals of the chariot race, and their level roads naturally lead to the breeding of horses exactly suited for gig driving at high speed. The breed ie indigenous to Frlesland, though many are bred in Guelderland. Most of the horses are shaped like a small edition of the English shire horse, short and compact, with very strong quarters and well-sloped shoulders. They do not show the quality of the Norfolk or Orloff trotter, as the neck and head are coarser, and they have generally a good deal of hair at the heels, but for pace over a short course it is doubtful if either could equal them. The trotting matches are run in heats like course matches, except that in each a horse must win the out of three courses.

At the Hague these races in a fine avenue running from the great wood the "maalibaan" or parade ground. The course is on pounded cockle shells and wide enough for two gigs to race abreast. A score of entries is not uncommon. The horses are owned by of- all degrees, count, baron or farmer, and the gigs picked out with gold and the animals decorated with ribbons make a fine show. The pairs go off with a flying start at the sound of a bugle, and if the two vehicles arc not level when they pass the line the bugle sounds again and they start afresh.

The horses are steadied, and as they once more pass the line the driver shakes the no whip is the pair fly down the avenue at top speed, their hind legs tucked under them and their forefeet coming out like pistons. When the final heats are run the excitement grows Unlike our flat racing, the Hardriverij victory often falls to some comparatively poor owner of ft trotter. The count and the farmer shout encouragement as their rush by, and friends of each are equally demonstrative in their different If the farmer wins, the success Is celebrated that evening with an en thusiasm which could not be exceeded in Yorkshire. The Dutch are generally considered a phlegmatic race, but they keep an immense reserve of excitement strictly suppressed, and when this finds vent not even Italians can be wilder. That evening half a dozen well-to-do farmers and their wives may be met dancing arm In arm down the Spui straat, singing at the top of their voices, the owner of the ing time as he dances in front of them.

CHICAGO, Sept. Young Joseph Cook took his life in a most dramatic manner this morning in the presence of the Justice and dozens of: spectators in the Desplaines street police court. Young had just been placed under a peace bond, when he raised a phial above his head, struck a dramatic attitude and cried: "Here ends my disgrace." Before he could be prevented he drained the contents, fully an ounce of carbolic acid. For a moment he clutched at hit throat, his eyes bulging from their. sockets.

Then with a cry of agony he fell to the floor, writhing in torture. "Shoot me, shoot me, for God's sake, and put me out of my agony," he moaned. Messenger! were sent for physicians, bat none could be found, and the patrol was hastily summoned. Young was hurried to tha County Hospital, bat he expired before he reached the institution. Young was cook in George Summerfield's saloon at 113 South Clinton street.

A disagreement arose and he was discharged. A week ago he went to the saloon and demanded $2.80 which he claimed was due him. A quarrel ensued, and Sam- merfleld ejected the man. The oat- come was two arrests, Young swearing out a warrant for assault Tuesday, Snmmerfield procuring Yonng'i arrest on the same charge yesterday. This morning Justice Doyle concluded it was a case where both were at fault, and ordered each to furnish a peace bond.

Young, ignorant of the forms of police court practise, imagined he had been convicted and imprisonment wat. his fate. Then it was that he suddenly drew the phial of carbolic acid from his pocket and ended hli earthly troubles. FARMERS FIGHT FIBE, Nearly 4,000 Acres Burning in Indiana, LAGRANGE, Sept. southeastern part of Lagrange county is suffering from the effects of a fire which threatens the homes of hundreds of farmers.

The acreage now on fire is estimated to be nearly 4,000, and if rain doesn't soon come the fire will spread rapidly. The fire started in a large tamarack swamp, and the muck is on fire for a depth of ten feet. Hundreds of cords of wood, flocks of hheep, a number of cornfields and a large quantity of potatoes have all been destroyed, entailing great loss. All the farmers in the afflicted district are plowing the ground which surrounds their houses, and are taking every precaution obtainable to prevent the destruction of their houses. Several small woods in different sections of the country are on fire, and every day losses are reported.

The farmers are praying for rain. winner beat- backward in Half Fare to Urbana, On account of the Union Veteran and Woman's Relief Union agents of the C. H. D. in Ohio, will sell tickets to Urbana and return ab one fare for the ronnd trip, on Oct.

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We will not be without it hereafter, as our experience proves that, it cures where all other medicines fail." Signed P. W. Stevens, State not give this great medicine a trial, as.it is guaranteed and trial bottles are free at E. C. Fleming's Drug Store.

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