The Choctaw News. (Choctaw City, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 4, 1897 Page: 2 of 8
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E OHOOTAW NEW&
CHOCTAW.
OKLAHOMA.
Hmf ThMlrlMl Ml Ml AIIMI
Tnii AImuiI MltlaA.
Hr. Lot'll*, Ma, Aug. Si.—Tha |»mv
•mr*rt iml tmln crow of th* midnight
ipielal on tha C’hlonga A Alton rail*
road, which arrived In thla city at 7:t3
a. m. from Chicago, narrowly eacnped
death In a wrack near Alton yoalonluy
morning.
Near the ouUklrU of that city the
•nglnr wan derailed, while proceeding
at a high rate of speed, l»y spreading
rails and going do vn a forty-live foot
embankment The tender, three bag-
gage cars containing the scenery and
wardrobes of the Dlgby Hell company
and llopklns’ Theatrical company and
a postal car. followed and rolled on
top of the engine, under which Peter
Rafferty, of Bloomington, the engin-
eer, was pinned. He was taken out
fatally Injured. Fireman Charles
Johnson of Bloomington, III.; Muil
Clerks Robert Maltimora of Jersey-
vllle. 111., and W. F. Simper and Sam-
uel Grobbe of Chicago crawled out of
the wrack severely hurt
Several Pullmans, in which were
the theatrical people, re mained on the
track, but the shock threw the passen-
gers from their berths, and Manager
Duncan B. Harrison of the Dtgby Bell
company was seriously hurt about the
chest. Other* ivere injured more or
less seriously. All the scenery, prop-
erties and wardrobes, as well as the
personal effects of the Digby Bell
company, were completely destroyed.
1 SI. MS CdERElCE
NO SYMPATHY STRIKE IS
LIKELY.
WOMEN AS PACK ANIMALS
Will Go to Alaska sad Compete With
Indians In Carrying Supplies.
Chicago, Aug. 31 —Anton Dolino
haa secured the names of 100 Italian
women who are willing to go to Alas-
ka and act os packers in getting the
goods of prospective miners over the
mountains at Skaguay. His intention
is to enter into competition with tha
Indiana He chooaes Italian women
because they are used to hardships
and can carry heavy loads on their
heads with ease. Dolino proposes to
dress his female carriers in bloomer
costumes. Dolino left Chicago early
last week for Dyea to study the
ground.
1 BRITONS IN CONTROL.
Engllsh Capitalists to Complete the
Panama Canal.
New York, Aug. 31.—English cap-
ital will undertake the completion of
the Panama canal in order to insure
British control of the waterway to
the Pacific. From a source that is
wholly creditable, it is learned that
British capitalists have secured all the
rights and property of the new Pana-
ma Canal company, organized with a
capital of 65,000,000 francs, on the
ruins of the old De Leaseps corpora-
tion.
DEATH IN A TIDAL WAVE.
lundreds of People Drowned by Floods
In Japan and China.
Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 31.—The Ja-
ian steamer just in brings news of
evere earthquakes in Japan on Au-
ust 5, followed by a tidal wave and
■reat floods. A thousand houses were
nundated and 200 persons were killed
,nd injured. Sixty-five Chinese vil-
a.gr>s v-ere inundated and many more
eople drowned.
Weyler Takes the Field.
Havana, Aug. 31.—Captain General
Weyler left Havana this morning with
a small force for the purpose of carry-
ing on military operations in the
province of Havana. It is stated that
Evangelina Cossie Cisneros is still con-
fined in the Casa Recojidas, occupying
a we 11-ventilated apartment in the
eompan3r of other women. It is denied
that Senorita Cisneros is ilL She is
allowed to receive visitors on three
days of the week.
GATHERING OF LEADERS.
Kag«ii« V. Iirb* Talk* About tha Situ-
ation of Affair*—A Grunt Mobilisa-
tion of I Hu In employed at
I'lttsburg Hogguslotl— I'rral-
dunt Matehforrt’a As-
susamrut helium*.
8t. Lons, Ma. Aug. 31. — E. V. Ik?bn
of Terre Haute, Iml., M. I). Rutchford
of Columbus and W. I). Mahon of De-
troit were among the delegate* to the
labor confercnoo who arrived this
morning.
Debs, who is not a representative of
any organization, comes on the gen-
eral invitation, lie said: “Of course,
you know I'm 'out of it’ to a certain
extent I am no longer affiliated with
any labor body, but have come simply
aaa guest of the conference under the
general call."
“Is there any probability of a sym-
pathetic strike?” was asked.
“I hardly think so. In fact, these
delegates are not empowered to order
a strike. The can do no more than re-
port back to their respective bodies
the sense of the convention. ‘Govern-
ment by injunction’ as exemplified in
the great struggle of the miners has
been carried to the extreme and the
people are revolting. I expect the
convention will take some very de-
cided action in this matter. Mr. Ratch-
ford has a plan which he will proba-
bly present to the conference calling
upon every workingman and woman
in the country 7o contribute one cent
per day of their wages to a fund for
the relief of the striking miners. This
money, he thinks, will amount to be-
tween Si,000 and #2,000 per day. Part
of this fund will be used to keep men
at work among the strikers in the
Pittsburg district where the operators
propose to start their mines with non-
union men. In other words, the
‘camps’ there will be maintained with
the hope of eventually influencing
those now at work to quit”
Am ong the other arrivals of the
morning were James O’Connell, repre-
senting the city branch of the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor, Chicago; S.
J. Meserall of the Industrial Council,
Kansas City; Victor L. Berger, with
credentials from the Social Democracy
of Milwaukee, and Frederick F.
Heath, representing the street railway
men, also of Milwaukee; W. D. Ryan,
vice president of the United Mine
Workers of Illinois; Jacob Tazelaar,
who comes from the Brotherhood of
Painters, Chicago, and R. P. O'Neill of
Rich Hill, Mo.; John Mitchell of
Spring Valley, 111., George Wallace of
Scammon, Kan., and Joseph Pollard
of Belleville, 111., all members of
miners’ organizations.
Much disappointment was expressed
at headquarters this morning over the
non-arrival of Samuel Gompers, pres-
ident of the American Federation of
Labor, but it is believed he will yet
put in an appearance.
THE CONFERENCE OPENED.
Wh sn Chairman Steinbiss of the lo-
cal ccmmittee of arrangements called
the general labor conference to order
at 10 o'clock this morning only about
100 people were scattered about the
hall, not all of them delegates. He
suggested that as the call for the con-
vention had been issued hurriedly,
and as many of the delegates were yet
unadvised as to the meeting place
and hour, there he an adjournment
until 11 o’clock. This was agreed ta
Shortly after 11 o’clock the conven-
tion was again called to order and W.
B. Prescott, president of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union, was
choaen temporary chairman and W.
C. Pf arce of Columbus, Ohio, tempo-
rary secretary. frascoft appointed
tha following as the commit Ire on
eredentlals: M. IX Uaichfortl. Jarnea
O’Connor of Chicago, of the machln*
lata; Grant Lure of the St Ikiui* cen-
tral labor organisation; J. IL Hover*
elgn and W. IX Mahon.
Considerable controversy aroac over
the naming of a committee on re%<»*
lullon*. which, although the conven-
tion waa not permanently organized,
wna moved by one of the delegate*.
Thera were amendment* that the con-
vention adjourn until 1 o’clock and
that ihr hour In- made 3 o’clock. In
, the midst of thi» parliamentary tangle
l)rlg(at« Sovereign shouted: “1 am
I sick and tired of resolution*; this i* tha
| time for action. 1 move. Mr. ( linlr-
man, that the motion to appoint a
1 committee tin resolutions he itniriidcd
| to reud ‘on resolution* (iml plan of
| action.' ”
This brought u flood of amendments
and motions, hut the whole matter
i was finally tabled and the meeting ad*
Ijourncd until 2 o’clock to await the
report of the committee on creden-
tial*.
Pitt*lit’no, Pa., Aug. 31.—M. P. Car-
rick, president of the Brotherhood of
Painters uud Decorators of America,
«ays thut a proposition is to he pre-
sented ut the St. Louis convention to
mobilize the unemployed of the coun-
try in the vicinity of Pittsburg, in the
event of a determined effort on the
part of the operators to start the
mines with imported labor. It is un-
derstood. he declares, that an appeal
will first he made to the railroad men
of the country, not as organizations,
hut us individuals, to not bundle coal
tlug at non-union mines. If this fails
then the mobilising ut Pittsburg will
be considered. These men. he says,
will not come nere to destroy prop-
erty, or tube part in riot or insurrec-
tion.but will he here to show that this
is a peaceful battle and that the work-
ing classes are as a unit in crying for
relief.
Before he left for St Louis, Patrick
Dolan, district president, said that at
the recent conference with the mine
operators he had told them that the
miners had done what some of them
had asked—closed the New York and
Cleveland Gas Coal company’s mines
and they should keep their promise to
raise wages. They paid no attention,
and he begged for an interstate con-
ference to settle the trouble. They
were still silent and the miners’ lead-
ers withdrew.
NONSENSE ABOUT SNAKES.
The Absurd Spell Claimed to Be Held
by a Witch Over Young Girls.
As an illustration of the belief in the
transformation of human beings into
serpents, I will relate a circumstance
said to have occurred during the first
half of the present century. Near
Trexlertown, Lehigh county, dwelt a
farmer named Weiler. His wife and
three daughters had, by some means
or other, incurred the enmity of a
witch who lived but a short distance
away, when the latter, it is supposed,
took revenge in the following manner:
Whenever visitors came to the Weiler
residence the girls, without any j)re-
monition whatever, would suddenly
be changed into snakes, and after
crawling back and forth along the top
ridge of the wainscoting for several
minutes, they were restored to their
natural form. This curious transfor-
mation occurred quite frequently and
the circumstance soon attained wide-
spread notoriety. About the end of
the third month the spell was broken
and everything went on as before. An-
other popular fallacy is the existence
of the hoop snake. This creature is
usually reported as capable of grasp-
ing the tip of its tail with its mouth,
and like a hoop running swiftly along
in pursuit of an unwelcome intruder.
This snake is believed, furthermore, to
have upon its tail a short, poisonous
horn, like a cock’s spur, and if it
should strike any living creature death
would result. The stories concerning
this marvelous snake usually end with
the statement that the person pursued
barely escapes and that the snake
strikes a tree instead, causing it to
wither and die.
Nervousness and Insomnia.
A PROMINENT PARMER OP KAN-
SAS PINOS A CURE.
From lb* rapiul. Ml. Jobs. Kan***
Hearing that J. H. DsMrllar. a proapsroes
tanner wbu rc-idf* about tbrr# tulle* **»l
of Ht John. Knii«*», bad b**n u*iug Dr.
Utlbam- Flub IMIU with marvolou* booo-
th-la! mult*, a reporter of the KanwmCIty
Htar called u|miii bint for «u Interview re-
garding llie matter. We found Mr. l*at-
wller a tall, end apparently well preserved
uinn of »evruty year*. Upon our interro-
gating blur concerning lit* u*e of 1‘iuk 1'iU*
be gave u» tbe following and witb bia en-
tire IDllHHlt to it* pllbllcutiott.
•*1 bad been troubled for .evrrnl year*
witb extreme nervooaae**. At flr—t it did
nut preveut me from alieiiding to my lartn
dutie*. About three year. ago, however. I
began to grow rapidly worn*, then my
Bight* became aleeple**, nmi I could nut
(drop two hour* ill nu entire niglit. 1 Ik*
came terribly affected too w ith imllgention.
1 been me alarmed at to V comlitiou. ami COO-
eulted a pby.ician. One doctor told me
the trouble \vu* insomnia. eud took bia
medicine fur that, but without relief. An-
other told me it wa* nervou. prostration,
but hi* medicine bad no more a(T*-ct that,
tbe .ame amount of water. Finally, sew-
ing Dr. William*’ I’iuk Pill* advertised,
and noticing particularly the te*>timoiiy of
a person who hud been cured by them of a
very similar disease to mine. 1 determined
to try them. I culled upou our local drug-
gist, Mr. J. Stiver* and procured a supply.
I began takiug them, uud in u very short
tiniii inv uervousnes* w as less severe. After
1 bad giveu them a thorough trial. 1 found
niynelf entirely cured. 1 cun now lie down
nt niglit aud go to sleep without tbe slight-
est trouble. Furthermore the cure has
been permanent, aud 1 ran recommend
Pink Pills to all who are afflicted as 1 was,
for tbeir equal canuot be found.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People
are now given to the public as an unfailing
blood builder ami nerve restorer, curing all
forms of weakness arising from a watery
condition of tbe blood or shattered nerves.
The pills are sold by nil dealers, or will be
sent post paid ou receipt of price, 50 cents
a box, or six boxes for ♦2.50 (they are never
sold in bulk or by the 100), by addressing
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady,
N. Y. _'
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Beeman, Frank E. The Choctaw News. (Choctaw City, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 37, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 4, 1897, newspaper, September 4, 1897; Choctaw, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc405642/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.