NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AN1) POLITICAL.
On the 16th Louis Gallott, a United
States prisoner in the Ohio penitenti
ary. was released by pardon from
President McKinley. Gallott was sent
from New Orleans for embezzlement.
On the 16th, after a day of terrible
anxiety,during which it was said Mrs.
McKinley had entered the Valley of the
Shadow of Death, and that almost all
hope of recovery had been abandoned,
the night bulletins brought the wel
come news of a slight but distinct im
provement in her condition.
The con.mission which the British
government appointed early in the
year, under the chairmanship of Mr.
Clinton Dawkins, to consider war of
fice reforms, is said to have reported
in favor oi a scheme of reorganiza
tion that is almost revolutionary.
The London morning papers of the
17th referred editorially in terms of
deepest sympathy to the illness of
Mrs. McKinley, recalling the sympa
thy displayed by both the president
and his wife when Queen Victoria
lied.
Thomas Ashton, a wealthy stock
man living south of St. Joseph, Mo.,
received several letters threatening
himself, his home and family with de
struction unless he deposited $12,000
in gold at a designated spot. Detec
tives watched a decoy placed at the
spot, and, on the 16th, captured the
letter-writer, who proved to be Wm.
Pflaum, aged 23, a farmer, who con
fessed and said that he got the idea
from the Cudahy case in Omaha.
Orin Ilickok, Ihe well-known driver
of trotting horses, who arrived in
Cleveland, O., from California, on the
17th, states that' just before leaving
California he timed Dolly Dillon a
mile in 2:10(4, the fastest mile ever
trotted in May. The trial was over
the Plea-santown (Cal.) track.
On the evening of the 17th Mrs.
Gage, wife of Secretary Lyman J.
Gage of the treasury department,died
at her residence in Washington city.
On the night of the 17th Sidney S.
Lowenthal, of Cornell university, won
the Central League oratorical contest
at Bloomington, Ind. His subject was
“Judaism; Its Mission in the Twen
tieth Century.” II. II. Horner, of Ohio
Wesleyan university, was second,
and Alvah Johnson Kucker.of Indiana
university, third.
• On the 17th the board of directors
of the Benj. Harrison Monument as
sieiation met in Indianapolis, Ind.
Senator Fairbanks presided. Evans
Woollen was chosen secretary to fill
the place made vacant by the resigna
tion of E. F. Tibbott.
President Nick \oung, of the Na
tional Baseball league, has ruled that
the time within which the clubs of
that organization shall reduce the
number of their players to 16 may be
extended to June 15.
MISCELLANEOUS.
>
Tlie Cleve & Cliffs Mining Co., of
Ashland, Wis., has purchased the Ash
land mine from the Haynes Bros., the
consideration being $2,500,000.
France, it is understood, is negotia
ting with Ecuador, says the Sydney
correspondent of the London Daily
Mail, for the purchase of one of the
Galapagos islands.
ltiots have occurred among the cot
ton mills strikers on the Viboy side
of the Neva in Bussia. It is reported
that many have been killed.
The strike of the Traction com
pany’s employes at Albany, N. Y., re
sulted, on the Kith, in the fatal
wounding of three persons while many
others received minor injuries from
contact with the national guard in
the efforts of the latter to disperse
mobs.
Inquiry in official and diplomatic
circles indicates the practical certain
ty that France will grant a subsidy to
the proposed direct steamship line be
tween France and Canada. This sub
sidy will be similar to the one voted
by the Canadian parliament. The
idea is warmly welcomed in Paris.
The recent riots which occurred
among the cotton mills operatives on
the Mibog, or Finnish side, of 1he
Biver Neva, during which it was re
ported that many had been killed,
were a result of a strike of workmen
from four of the. textile factories for
an increase of wages. The strikers
held several noisy meetings and
threw stones at the windows of the
factories.
The statement of the treasury bal
ances in the general fund, exclusive of
the $150,000,000 gold reserve in the di
vision of redemption, issued on the
17th, showed: Available cash balance,
$158,747,Till; gold, $06,587,507.
A dispatch from Bemidji, Minn.,
says the Norwegian national festivi
ties, on the 17th. ended with a terrible
catastrophe. A lot of fireworks in the
steamer Sjadow exploded, and out, of
about thirty people on board, five
small boys and several men received
perhaps fatal burns, while of those
who jumped into the lake to escape
the fire, four small boys were
drowned.
The post office at Holdenville, In
dian territory, will be raised to the
presidential grade on July 1.
Business failures for the week end
ed on the 17th numbered 177 in the
United States, against 177 last year,
and 19 in Canada, against 30 last year.
The aggregate of contribution* re
ceived by the Jacksonville (Fla.) re
lief association, up to the 17th, wan
$113,900. Chairman Parrott of the
commissary department, stated that
the number of people being fed daily
by the relief association was abovo
3,000.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS
AhemdTewfikPasha, Ottoman minis
ter of foreign affairs, has called upon
the ambassadors and notified them of
Turkey’s desire to re-establish the
status quo ante in the postal question
and her intention to send a high
functionary, probably the foreign
minister himself, to apologize for the
violations of the foreign mail bags.
The British steamer Para, Capt.
Stranger, which arrived at Kingston,
Jamaica, on the 19th, from Colon, re
ported the suspension of hostilities on
the part of the Colombian rebels, and
that the Colombian government was
believed to be negotiating to end the
revolution.
The Oregon Christian Endeavor
union closed its state convention at
Salem on the 19th. Francis E. Clark,
of Boston, president of the National
Union of Christian Endeavor societies,
was present at the convention, and
delivered several addresses.
All rumors regarding the abdication
of King Alexander of Servia, the *es
ignation of the cabinet, and the ban
ishment of Queen Braga, growing out
of recent sensational experiences of
the Servian royal family, are declared
to be without foundation.
The revolutionary groups of Paris
celebrated, as usual, on the 19th, the
anniversary of the Commune, march
ing in batches to the cemetery of Fere
LaChaise and depositing wreaths at
the foot of the wall where the com
munists were shot.
The elections to the new chamber
of deputies were held in Spain on the
19th. At Bilbao there was a quarrel
between a ministerialist and a social
ist, and the latter was killed. Anoth
er person was killed at Cuence, a
suburb of Bilbao.
A cabinet crisis in Peru is reported
to be imminent. It is said that the
minister of finance, Domingo Almen
ara, has threatened to resign as he
disagrees with his colleagues on the
details of the salt monopoly.
According to advices from Seoul,
the Corear. government has leased to
Japan 430 acres of land to form a set
tlement at Ma San Pho. The laud
in question was formerly anxiously
sought by Russia.
Gen. Chaffee, at midnight of the
18th, issued his farewell order ending
the American relief expedition in
China.
At. Pichon, the French minister, text
Pekin, on the 19th, for home.
Funeral services over the remains
of Mrs. Lyman J. (inure were held, on
the 20th, at the secretary’s residence
on Massachusetts avenue in Washing
ton. Kev Dr. N. D. Hillis, of Ply
mouth church, Hiooklyn, conducted
the services, which were exceedingly
simple. At ten o'clock the body was
placed on the Pennsylvania limited
train for transportation to Chicago
for interment in Pose Hill cemetery.
Among the features of the dedica
tion of the Pan-American exposition,
at Huffalo, N. Y., on the 20th, was
the simultaneous release of several
thousand carrier pigeons. Confused
at first by their own numbers, they
circled low in wild flight, and then
gradually soared upward on graceful
wing. High up, where they got their
bearings, they parted and took flight
to every quarter of the compass.
Mrs. Klmer Quimby, wife of a farm
er living near St. Louis, Mich., on the
night of the 19th, gave morphine to
her two children, a boy aged seven
and a giri of nine, llotli children died
next day. Mrs. Quimby then took the
drug herself, but she will recover.
Family trouble is said to have induced
the woman to commit the crime. She
is under arrest on the charge of mur
der.
In the presence of a vast concursc
of people, with ceremonials both con
ventional and novel, the Pan-Ameri
can exposition at buffalo, X. Y., was
formally dedicated on the 20th. The
day was fair, and the industrious,
energetic men who planned the great
enterprise rejoiced in flattering suc
cess.
Approximately tifty thousand ma
chinists throughout the country
struck, on the 20th, for a nine-hour
day, a scale of wages equal to the
present ten-hour per day scale and
other demands. A large number of
employes conceded the demands, and
thus averted threatened trouble.
The sovereign camp Woodmen of
the World at Columbus, O., on the
20th, decided that in the future if a
member engage in the liquor business
he shall be expelled, and camps refus
ing to take this action shall have
their charters revoked.
Ksther Cleveland, the nine-year-old
daughter of the former president, is
suffering trom diphtheria at her home
in Princeton, N. J. The physician in
attendance anticipates uo serious de
velopment in the case. .
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS,
M,mt Attend Institute.
Supt. jUovne of the state education
111 department, in reply to a letMr,
decided that all teachers must attend
institutes or have their licenses re
voked. After quoting the statutes, he
says: “You will note from this that
the county examiner is required to
hold at least one institute annually,
and that teachers are required to atr
tend the same. A law w-ithout a pen
alty would be a dead letter. I am,
therefore, of the opinion that the
county eyaminer would be authorized
to revoke a license of any teacher
who failed to attend an institute of
which he had due notice, unless the
teacher is able to present satisfac
tory reasons for failure to attend.
However, no license should be re
voked till the teacher against whom
such action is contemplated has been
given due notice and a chance given
him to appear before the examiner
and show cause for failure to meet
the requirements of the law.”
Ofllce Seeks the Man.
The greatest massmeeting in the
history of Fort Smith was held at the
circuit court for the purpose of mak
ing nominations tc fill vacancies in
the school board caused by the expira
tion of the term of Federal Judge
John IT. Kodgers and the resignation
of H. C. head. In spite of the fact
that the former desired to be re
leased from the position, he was re
nominated by acclamation. T. W. M.
Roone was nominated to take the
place of Mr. Read. The board was
instructed to continue the night
school recently established, and it
was vetoed to levy the usual five-mil)
tax.
BnrKlar Overlooked If210.
A burglar entered the residence ot
Hen. B. \Y. Green, at Fifth and Scott
streets. Little Rock, through the
kitchen window. Dr. Neandor Woods,
of Memphis, moderator of the Pres
byterian general assembly, found
when he awoke that he had been
robbed of $5 in money and his shoes.
His clothes were found in the hall.
The burglar overlooked $200. With
Dr. Woods' clothes were those of
Judge Joseph W. Martin, the retiring
moderator, who lost a pocketknife
the burglar leaving behind $10 in
money. Dr. S. D. Dodge, who had
apartment on the same floor, lost $50.
The .Vntl-GniuliIiiiK lain-.
The Wilson anti-gambling law is to
be tested in 1he courts. It. is effective
in Little Rock, Hot Springs, Fort
Smith and elsewhere in putting a
quietus on gambling, and the frater
nity have tnken the matter in hand
to see if they can not have the act
declared unconstitutional. Ed Smith,
a sporting man of Hot Springs, was
arrested an the charge of violating
the law, and was fined $500 in each
of two cases, lie appealed the case to
the circuit court. The defendant is
represented by ex-Gov. James P.
Clarke, of Little Rock, and Hon. E.
W. Rector, of Hot Springs.
Honor Memory of Dead Comrade*.
An interesting meeting was held at
Fort Smith by lien '1'. Duvall camp, U.
C. V. During the meeting memorials
to lately-deceased comrades were pre
sented by committee appointed for
that purpose. Capt. Early paid an
elequent tribute to the memory ol
the late Dr. 11. D. Seals; Levi Zinn
spoke feelingly of the life and serv
ices of the late ,1. C. Head, and Col
Duval honored thememory of the late
J. H. Minehart. The resolutions pre
sented by the committees were adopt
ed unanimously.
Mrs. llrUIr Williams.
Mrs. Bettie Williams, wife of I’rof
Rowland D. Williams, of Memphis
Tenn., died at the residence of hot
brother-in-law. Col. John M. Moore, in
Little Kook. Mrs. Williams was th«
daughter of the late Col. B. D. Turner,
for many years reporter of the Ar
kansas supreme court, and head ol
one of the most prominent families
in the stete.
Polk County Slate.
That l’olk county has an inexhausti
ble supply of slate of the finest quali
ty there can be no doubt, and tht
work of developing the quarries easi
of Mena is progressing nicely, ar-t it
will be only a matter of a short t-'nif
now until this slate will be shipped
to eastern markets in carload lots.
W. II. Bancroft Died.
W. H. Bancroft, a prominent eitieeu
of Hot Springs, died after a long ill
ness. lie came to Arkansas from
Michigan 12 years ago. The remain!
were sent to St. Louis for cremation
which was Mr. Bancroft’s request.
Will Hold a Fair.
The state fair committee of the Lit
tle Book board of trade held a meet/
ing at Little Rook, recently, and de
cided to hold a state fair in Littll
Rock next October.
Only a ltallroail Waa Needed.
The opening of the new railroad
through northwest Arkansas to Har
rison will be the medium of develop
ing a large body of mineral land ia
that section.
LAUNCHING OF THE OHIO
thi Great Battleship Gallantly Took to tha
Water In the Presence of Pres
ident McKinley.
San Francisco, >lay 19.—Fortunate
ly Mrs. McKinley’s condition yester
iay permitted the president to at
tend the launching of the battleship
Dhio from the yards of the Union iron
works. To witness the launching of
this ship, named in honor of his na
tive state, was the real objective of
the president’s long trip across tho
continent, and wns the event which
had attracted to the Pacific coast the
governors of three states, the Ohio
congressional delegation, several
United States senators and many oth
:r notable and distinguished people.
When the president left the sick
room of his wife in the morning,every
arrangement had been made to noti
fy him on the instant of any change
for the worse in her condition. Tha
physicians assured him there was no
indication of a setback, but at his
request telegraphic connections were
made at the wharf and at the ship
yard, and save for time he was on the
water he was not for a minute away
from direct connection with the Scott
•esidence.
The representative of the 4,500 em
ployes of the Union iron works, in a
neat, speech, in which he asked a
heartfelt blessing upon the head of
the president and expressed tender
sympathy for his suffering wife, pre
sented the president, as a token of
the esteem of the workmen, with a
gold plate engraved with a suitable
Inscription. The president's response
iroused much enthusiasm. He told
his audience of his friendship for the
workingmen during his entire public
;arcer and touched the hearts of the
surging crowd before him as he spoke
jloquently of the patriotic response
California had made during the Span
ish war. Many eyes were wet and
more than one of the workmen made
1 suspicious movement with his coat
sleeve as if to brush away an unbid
Jen tear.
Then came the launching. A plat
!orm had been built around the prow
jf the. big iron monster which lay in
the very slip in which the famous Ore
gon was built and from which Presi
*'rlent Harrison launched the monitor
Monterey ten years ago. Gathered on
the platform were the president and
members of the cabinet, Gov. Nash of
Ohio, Miss Deshler, his niece, who was
to christen the ship; Miss Barger, who
was to act for Mrs. McKinley, and
many uniformed officers of the army
and navy. Immediately at the right
was a red-coated band. Below work
men were knocking away the last
keel blocks until the great steel hull
rested upon her cradle, and only a
single beam, set like a trigger and
ready to fall aside at a blow-, held her
in place. Miss Barber and the presi
dent stood before the electric appli
ance which controlled the guillotine
that was to sever the rope which
would loose the weight that was to
knock out this last beam. Miss Bar
ber, with her linger on the button,
was looking intently at the indicator,
At 12:22%, two and and a half min
utes before the tide was at its highest,
the time set for the launching, there
suddenly shot into the face of the in
dicator the word “ready.” Miss Bar
ber pressed the button. The last
block fell away.
At tne same Time -miss uesnier, b
young' lady of 17, in a light gown with
her dark hair braided down her bae*
in sehoolgirl fashion, let go of the
bottle of champagne suspended at the
side of the bow by a red, white and
blue ribbon, and as it crashed against
the side she uttered the words, “I
christen thee ‘Ohio.' ”
Released from its bonds the heavy
hull of 14,000 tons of steel went
ploughing through the thick grease oi
its cradle. Slowly at first, then faster
and faster she slid down the ways,
taking the flood majestically and pil
ing up the water in great waves be
fore her.
The band crashed, whistles blew
and the multitudes shouted. No ship
ever given to the American navy has
taken her initial plunge into the -ea
under more favorable auspices or in
the presence of a more distinguished
company.
The trip back to the city was al
most a repetition of the journey to
the yard. There was the same wild
demonstration from sea and shore.
But on the way back the Slocum
passed in formal review before the
war ships. The president, with Secre
tary of the Navy Long at his side,
stood at the wheelhouse during this
parade. As each war ship was passed
the jackies made a blue hedge about
the ship as they stood at the rails,
shoulder to shoulder. The marine
guard aft presented arms and the
president got the four trumpet flour
ishes and drum ruffles to which he ia
entitled as commander-in-chief of the
navy.
As the Slocum sailed by the Wiscon
sin, which was flying the two-starrec
blue pennant of a rear-admiral at the
peak, Admiral Casey and his staff, like
rigid statues stood on the bridge,
their hands touching their caps at sa
lute. It was-a glorious spectacle, and
it wras a poor marine whose pulse did
! not beat higher at the eight of it.
AYRES MURDER CONFESSED.
Mr*. J. J. Bonlne, > Missouri Woman, Con"
fesses That Slie Killed Jospeh
Ayres.
Washington, May 21.—Mrs. J. I.
Bonine was arrested late yesterday
afternoon for the murder of Joseph
Ayres. She has confessed.
Mrs. Bonine was a resident of the
Kenmore hotel, where the murder
was committed, and is the wife of a
drummer for a Chicago house. She
is about thirty-five years old. Mrs.
Bonine, in her confession, admits that
she was alone with Ayres in his room
when the murder was committed.
Mrs. Bonine's confession was entire
ly voluntary. At a few minutes past
three o’clock yesterday afternoon the
telephone for Maj. Sylvester, chief of
police, saying that she was coming to
his office, and she appeared there a
few minutes afterwards. When she
reached the office she said she had a
statement which she wished to make
and she was immediately turned over
to Detective Horne, who took her con
fession. She said that she was alone
in Ayres’ room with him when the
killing took place, and that the shoot
ing wras the result of his own miscon
duct. She stated that Ayres had
drawn the pistol upon her for the
purpose of making her respond to an
improper proposal which he had made
to her.
At the commencement of the affair,
she said that, he had come to her
room in the Kenmore hotel about two
o'clock Wednesday morning and upon
the pretense of being ill gained ad
mission to her room. He complained
of feeling as if he was going to have
a chill, and asked her to give him
some preventive. She had given him,
she said, a medicine which she had
in her room, and he had then referred
to some differences which they had
had in the past and had asked her to
come to his room, where they might
quietly talk the matter over, and
come to an amicable understanding.
She had agreed to go to the room as
he had requested, and he left her
room, preceding her to his room.
When Ayres called at her room he
was entirely dressed, but when she
entered his room as per agreement,
she found him standing behind the
door undressed, except as to his un
dershirt, and with a" revolver in his
hand. He then told her that he had
enticed her to the room for his own
purposes and that if she did not sub
mit to his wishes he would kill her.
Mrs. Bonine says that she immediate
ly grapsed the revolver, and in the
struggle which ensued it was dis
charged three different times, strik
ing him at each discharge, the last,
shot proving fatal. She says that the
cries for help which Miss Minas heard
were all from her as were also the
sobbing which Miss Minas described.
Mrs. Bonine says that after the
shooting she passed through the win
dow of Ayres’ room onto and down
the fire escape ladder, and entering
the parlor window of the second floor,
passed through the parlor and baek
up the stairway of the hotel to her
own room on the fourth floor. She
then washed her hands, undressed and
retired.
Mrs. Bonine was entirely self-pos
sessed when she made her confession
and did not exhibit any evidence of
either present or past unusual excite
ment. She is apparently about thir
ty-two years old, and says she was
born in Macon, Mo. She then moved
to Hamilton, in the same state, and
afterwards to Richmond, Kas., where
her husband was engaged in the drug
business. Subsequently she went, to
Brunswick, Ga„ and then to Florida,
where her husband was engaged in
orange, growing. She says that it was
at her husband’s solicitiation that she
learned to practice with a revolver
and that he had made the suggestion
that she should learn this art for self
defense against possible assaults. She
said she had twice in her life fired a
revolver to frighten burglars and that
she had brought a bulldog revolver
with her to Washington, but had given
it away to a negro man.
After she had concluded her state
ment the woman was placed under ar
rest and sent to the house of deten
tion.
HELD FOR MURDER;.
Wife Held nw Accessory Before the
Fact of the Black Man Charged
With the Poisoning.
Springfield, 111., May 21.—The cor
oner’s jury empanelled to inquire into
the death of Dr. Joseph L. Barnes, of
Montieello, 111., who died suddenly at
the Central Hospital for the Insane at
Jacksonville, last night brought in a
verdict that Barnes came to death by
strychnine poison administered by
William Webb Ferguson, alias William
Winn, and that MrsS-Marie Barnes,
widow of the deceased, was an acces
sory before the fact.
The jury recommends that both be
held in custody.
Prominent men in Springfield and
in Quincy have been mentioned in con
nection with the case.
Ferguson is positively identified as
the negro who called on Barnes at
the Central Hospital for the Insane
on the afternoon of Barnes’auspicious
| death.
PHENOMENAL RECORD.
How > Bright Northern Boy, with
Southern Sympathies, Bntlt
I'p a niK Business.
The eleventh annual United Confed
erate Veterans’ reunion, which will oc
cur at Memphis, Tenn., May 28, 29 and
30, promises to be one of the most
unique gathering in the history of the
association. Scores of men of national
reputation will participate in the ex
ercises planned by the various com
mittees, but among all of them none
will be entitled to more consideration
than Mr. P. P. Van Vleet, president of
the Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co., of
Memphis, whose endeavors to bring
the reunion to Memphis were backed
by a cash subscription of $750, and
whose career illustrates most forcibly
what a resolute, ambitious boy can
accomplish in this country of ours.
Mr. Van Vleet was born in Kalama
zoo, Mich., in 1849, the lineal descend
ant of one of four brothers who emi
grated from Amsterdam, Holland, in
1662, and took part in affairs on Man
hattan island long before the English
invaded New Amsterdam. After grad
uating from Kalamazoo college, young
Van Vleet, with only a few hundred
dollars in his pocket, cast his lot in
the south, with whose political aspira
tions he and his father had always
been in sympathy, landing at Memphis
for the first time in May, 1871. Shortly
afterward he secured a position with
P. P. VAN VLEET.
the once prominent drug’ house of Oh
W. Jones & Co., and has since been
identified closely with the social and
business life of Memphis. In 1S79 he
became half owner of the Jones drug
house, and in 1884 established the firm
of Van Vleet & Co. In 189-f he pur
chased the Mansfield Drug Co., which
he consolidated with his own business,
forming the Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug
Co., the largest busines of its kind in
the south and the largest jobbers of
quinine in the United States. The
ollices of the company will be confed
erate headquarters during the coming
reunion, and Mr. Van Vleet is chair
man of the committee on entertain
ment of general officers.
Mr. Van Vleet is one of the busiest
men imaginable, and yet he is always
accessible to those who call, whether
on errands of business, politics, reli
gion or benevolence. His courtesy is
unfailing, and is a marked characteris
tic of an unusual man.
The home life of Mr. Van Vleet is
ideal. He lives in a stately home,
“< hetolah,” on the hill on l’oplar
boulevard, built in colonial style, and
ornamented with all the modern ac
cessories that travel, art and good
taste can supply. His wife is a daugh
ter of Maj. A. N. McKay, known to
southerners as one of JecRson's gal
lant Indian fighters. Two daughters
and a son complete a family circle
which, in genuine happiness and con
tentment has few equals even in the
south, the land of happy homes.
Cnn^lit n White Muskrat.
George Archer Brown, whose
house is close to the Canoga marshes,
in the town of Fayette, Seneca coun
ty, N. Y., has in his possession a
white muskrat. Bike the white deer,
the white robin anil the white black
bird, this is a very rare animal, tra
dition having it that but once be
fore has one been seen in central
New York waters. Mr. Brown cap
tured the rat, a full-grown one, dur
ing the high-water period upon the
submerged Montezuma marshes,
where it had been drowned out of
its usual haunts by the flood. lie
succeeded in capturing it alive, and
values it highly. It differs from the
common muskrat only in color, hav
ing instead of a ruddy or dark brown
fur almost a pure white.
Baby’s Costly Luncheon.
The little granddaughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Brown, of Emporia, Kan., swal
lowed a $50 bill a few days ago. Mrs.
Brown had received two $50 bills in a
letter, and had laid them on a table ,
by her while she read the letter. The
little girl came in, picked up one of
the bills, and began to chew it, and
swallowed all of it except the corner
on which the figure 50 was stamped.
This was taken to a banker to see what
could be done to get a new one for it,
but he said nothing could be done,
as the government required the num
ber of the bill.