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The radical element in the Knight? of Labor has succeeded .at last in oust ing Powderly, and have put in hi= place Iowa's well-known and intensely partisan labor commissioner, J, H. Sovereign. It occurs to us that Gov. Sheldon missed a fine opportunity to impress a strong lesson on genteel thieves when he paraoDed L. L. Stevens, the Woon socket bank wrecker: although we are satisfied the Governor acted wholly from the generous impulses of his heart. Democratic State Chairman Ward la putting in some time down at Wash ington trying to make a satisfactory ar rangement with Senator Ky':e about South Dakota patronage. When he gets things all fixed up with the sena tor, he will doubtless have no trouble with Mr. Cleveland. Sousa's new march, "The Manhattan Beach March" has been purchased by The Ladies' Home Journal, and its full piano score will be printed in the Christmas issue. The composer claims for it a superiority over eitherjhis pop ular '"Washington Post" or "High School Cadets" march. The Argus-Leader jumps right up and cordiaJy approves of the new tariff bill while every other newspaper in the country i3 taking time to carefully study the measure. The A.-L. says. The new tariff is published and it fully meets the expectations of the Democratic party. Well, we shall see about that later. Under the caption "Why We Smile" Loucks says in the Kuralist: In 1892 we helped to whip the then dominant Republican party, in fact ut terly routed them. In 1893 we started the Democrats on the run and in 1S1J4 we will utterly rout them. In 1895 we will serve the two together as we aid the Democrats this year and in 1896 we will whip the com bined opposition. That is the pro gram. Work to it. Why, that's enough to make us all smile. After admitting that he carried on an indecent personal warfare against Judge Kellam in the late campaign, the editor of the Brookings Individual gets down in the dust and ashes of repent ance as follows: Mud-slinging has never lo=t a candi date or a vote but has often spurred tiie friends of the attacted party on to great er efforts. Let every editor who wants to see decent politics start out with th^ resolution that he personally will bc decent. Elk Point Courier: Hogs pay big. corn pays big, butter pays big." cattle pay big, flax is a profitable crop—but Wheat is low, therefore, the monetary condition of the world is ail wrong, at least so ararue the fiat theorists. But doesn't Jones's silver chart, which has been pretty thoroughly dis tributed over this state, prove that the price of wheat is governed by the price of silver, in spite of the fact that since the repeal of the silver purchase law wheat has gone down and the white metal has gone up? Facts count for nothing with this later crop of political economists. Theory illustrated by dia gram is what goes. One of the most successful and excit ing football games in the history of that delightful sport occurred between Yale and Harvard last Saturday. The fol lowing extracts from the detailed re port of the game show that it was a most edifying spectacle: Bulletin—Game stopped and Mackie, who was smashed in the face, comes to the line and is sponged. Bulletin—Harvard man lying as though insensible and game stopped. Bulletin—Acton disabled and lying on the field. Bulletin—Thorne of Yale disabled and lying prone on Yale's line. Bulletin—Waters of Harvard is hurt. The score was 6 to 0 in favor of Yale, but that is of small consequence just so the manly character of the game is ful ly vindicated. It looks as if the only way for Corbett and Mitchell to get at each other without the interierence of the authorities would be to join rival college football teams—if they are not afraid of getting dangerously hurt. The town of Huron is going through a Bevere sobering up experience-after her famous capital spree, $(50,000 worth y^Wri Editor. Butsness Manaar. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. of school bonds beingr involved in a suit brought by eastern holders oi the same, The bonds on the face are regular and proper. They are signed by F. F. Smith as president of the board and countersisned by J. C. Klemme as I treasurer. The bonds were at once sold, and according to the testimony. $5,000 of the amount realized was kept by the board and the other $-55,000 was loaned to the city of Huron, the board taking as security a certain city vvar I rant which has never been cashed. The I orieinal purchaser of the bonds was the New England Loan and Trust com pany. which company sold them to the plaintiff company and to the Dartmouth Savin0s bank. Most of the questions which arise in the case are questions for the court, and it is expected that whichever way the big case goes it will be under a direction of the verdict. "What British Free Traders Fear. Sioux City Journal: At a trade meet ing held in Bradford, Eng., a speaker said he did not wish the reduction of the American tariff to be too extensive all at once. If. as had been reported there, the Democratic ways and means committee contemplated an ad valorem duty of 30 or 40 per cent, only on woolen goods, with wool free, he hoped that it would fix on the latter figure. With a 30 per cent, ad valorem duty "the Eng lish manufacturers would be put in such a position that perhaps half the mills in America would be closed for a time, and the people of the state? would, in thsir disappointment, begin to look at the matter in a false light, and there would be a great reaction in the hope of finding employment for the people.'- It seems that the English manufact urers with their knowledge of the im mediate and often disastrous effects of tariff revolutions, are in their own minds much more conservative than the ways and means committee. They stand almost aghast at its temerity, and marvel at some of its proposals. The rumors from the committee room, many of which are pretty well authen ticated. are that the proposed tariff on woolen goods will be 30 or 40 per cent, ad valorem. The note of warning sounded by the English speaker will apply as well to a tariff of 40 per cent, as to 30 per cent. Both will have the same effect. Such a radical reduction would not only have the effect of stopping "half the American mills for a time." but it would be likely to close many of them permanently. When the others started up the wages of their operatives would be reduced to the extent that the protective tariff has been reduced. There may have been mistakes in the McKinley tariff bill, as passed, but the more that is seen of of it, in comparison with any bill which can be formulated from the Democratic standpoint, the more satisfactory are its provisions likely to appear. Politically the issue was a square one between the Demo cratic and Republican parties. The Democrats proposed to remodel the tar iff for purposes of revenue only, elimin ating the protective features. And any thing approaching an effort to carry out the pledge of the Democratic tariff platform will involve duties on woolens not above the figures cited by the Eng lish speaker at Bradford. In short, the vital point in English judgment, the point involving the sel fish interest of English manufacturers, the point to which English attention is anxiously directed, is the carrying out of the Democratic platform pledge, by which the party in congress is in con sistency bound today. It will be a good thing for the English manufacturers and the trusts and combines of English manufacturers and merchants. It will make a great boom for them. It is BO good a thing that their intelligence prompts them, in sight of it, to anxiety to forego "too much of a eood thing." Such a boom for them, t'ney know means simply that work, which has been heretofore done by American mills and by American labor, on a wage scale twice and even thrice as high as the wage scale in Great Britain, will be taken away from the United States to Great Britain. The English manufacturers are so cunningly selfish that they don't want the thing made so good that it will not last long. In other words, they do not want it made so suddenly bad for American industries and interests that hey will not stand it. They would pre tfer longer continuance of a thing not quite so good for English manufactur ers as the ways and means committee, with the Democratic platform as a guide, seems likely to favor. The English manufacturers are be coming singularly conservative in their desire to curb their friends who are now in control of the government of the United States. Orpheus Club iteorguulxed. The Orpheus club met Thursday ev ening with Mrs. S. H. Scallin and after a short program, the following officers were elected: President—Mrs. S. H. Scallin. •Secretary—Miss Silsby. Treasurer—Mrs. Geo. Bomgardner. The president then appointed Mrs. Hitchcock and Mrs. Nichols committee on membership and Miss Wedehase and Mrs. Moore committee on pro gram. The club adjourned to meet in three weeks with Miss Wedehase when the subject for study will be "Chopin.*' THREE CLOSE CALLS. NARROW ESCAPES HAD BY WORKMEN IN A PULP MILL. One of Tfaexn Crushed to a Shapele»« "Hint Between Iron Hollers—Another Whirled Around on a Belt—Thrilling Experience With a Log Jam. "I never hear of persons narrowly es caping death or surviving extraordinary injuries," said the Xew York represen tative of a big pnlp mill company, "that I do not think of some remarkable in stances of the kind that have occurred at one of our mills in the northern part of this state. On one occasion a workman named Wolf was engaged in cleaning a machine used at a certain stage the process of pulp manufacture. The prin cipal feature of this machine was two very heavy iron rollers—one above the other. When in operation, the upper roller was pressed closely down on the lower one, and they revolved in opposite directions. To clean these rollers the up per one was raised seven or eight inches, the machine of course being at rest. "In the course of his work Wolf, who was a young German, thrust his head and shoulders between the rollers to see better to clean the lower roller. While he was in that position some careless person turned on the water power. The rollers started at once, and before the alarm could be given and the water turned off Wolf was drawn clear through between the rollers and dropped on the other side, as much like pulp, so far as appearances went, as anything could be. I happened to be in that part of the mill at the time and saw the frightful mishap. "I ran to where the limp form of the workman lay and dispatched a messen ger at once for a doctor, merely as a matter of form, however, for that any thing could be done for the shapeless mass of humanity never entered my mind. It was impossible to lift the body. We shuffled it on to a blanket and car ried it to the unfortunate man's home. I noticed that, although there was not the slightest evidence of consciousness, Wolf was still breathing and that his heart was beating. When the doctor came, he declared that from the shoul ders down there was positively not a single whole bone left in Wolfs body. He said there was not one chance in ten thousand of the man living. 4 'It would take 10 doctors a week to set his bones,' he said. "He incased the body in plaster from the neck down, and when he came next day was amazed to find that Wolf was still alive and had regained conscious ness. Wolf lay incased in plaster for several weeks. His bones knit and grew together again, but in such away that when he was able to get around he was covered with knobs and ridges and queer corners and angles from head to feet. But he was alive. He was our night watchman for 10 years after that and is alive today. 'Another time a workman in a dif ferent part of the mill named Sanneman was caught in a big belt by a felt apron he wore, and before the works could be stopped he was whirled seven times around the pulleys, striking the ceiling with tremendous force each time. He was taken up for dead. I examined him before the doctor came, and there wasn't even the sien of an abrasion or mark on his body. Ten minutes later, when the doctor came, he was as black as coal all over. There wasn't a spot on him that was not discolored. The doctor exam ined the man carefully, and to his amazement found that there was not a bone broken anywhere about him. Hia injuries were so slight that he was at work again within two days. Yet he had passed seven times through a space between the pulley and the beam not over seven inches wide. 'Once the dam of one of our mills be came so clogged with logs that they in terfered with the water power. It was necessary to release the jam or shut down the mill. The work would necessarily endanger the lives and limbs of all who engaged in it, and volunteers were asked for, handsome extra pay being offered. Plenty of men were ready to take the risks, among them Pat O'Brien, an Irish man, 61 years old. He insisted on being one of the gang and joined it against the protest of the superintendent. "The work of releasing the log jam went all right until the key log that held the main jam was to be removed. There lay the danger. The key was removed, and the men made a wild dash to escape the rush. They all got out of the way but four, among them the old Irishman, Pat O'Brien. These four were caught among the logs and went over the falls, a sheer descent of 85 feet. Men and logs went over together, and everybody supposed that the men would be ground to atoms. But a most astonishing thing happened. In falling a number of lo^s fell on end in a group, their upper ends toppling to gether, forming an almost perfect tent, or peaked hut,*.vitli the down stream side open. The men had escaped injury, not only from the logs in the fall, but from the tremendous plunge itself, and it was as they landed in the water below that the tent of logs formed with them beneath its shelter. This saved them from being drowned by the water that plunged down from the great height. "There was constant danger of the shelter of logs being forced from its lodgment by the pressure of water. In view of the latter danger, when it came to rescuing them, the three young men of the party urged old Pat O'Brien to be hauled up first. He obstinately refused to be hauled up until hia companions had been rescued, when he took his chance and was landed safely above. He had scarcely been lifted above the shelter of the logs when it gave way, and the logs went crashing and thundering on down the stream. I have heard of wonderful escapes of death, but never anything so wonderful as that."—New York Sun. The football cry of the Augusta (Ga.) college is amusing: "Hobble, gobble, razzle, dazzle, siss, boom, ah, Augusta, Augusta. Rah! rahl rah!" fe/ 1 -i/ *-V P.T. A WONDERFUL HAND. An Artificial Substitute Nearly as Perf-rt a* tli© Natural Member. Willard A. Lrjoas. the son of jrect •woolen manufacturer at Poquetanunck. Conn., wears an artificial hand made of aluminium which is really one of the automatical wondeis of the century. Young Lucas lost his hand in his- fa ther's mills, and Lucas. Sr.. whogrieved ej»'. dingly over the results of the ac cident. wrote or went in person to every known manufacturer of artificial limbs in this country and Europe, vainly seeking a false hand for his son. Arti ficial hands could have been procured from any of them, but what was want ed was not to be found—viz. a hand that would perform all the functions of a real flesh and blood member. Finally the elder Lucas, who is known as a rare mechanical genius. I took it upon himself to make his son a hand—not a mere "dummy, but one that would lie useful for the manifold purposes to which such members are put. The result is a surprise to every maker of artificial limbs in the world The automaton is of aluminium and much resembles the steel gauntlets worn by the knights of the middle ages. The fingers are all perfect and lifelike, the joints in each bending as readily as those in a natural hand, making it pos sible for the young man to perform ev ery kind of labor. An expert report on this wonderful piece of mechanism reads as follows: "With it he can grasp and handily use all kinds of tools, pick up things from the ground, drive, handle a gun— in fact, use it quickly and skillfully at any kind of work. Like a natural hand, the artificial one consists of a palm that is provided with a fastening by which it is attached to a cork stump.' the joints working by a ratchet, so that the fingers may be bent forward at v.v.y angle and held there. The hand mav be only partly closed or tightly shut, and only one finger or all, as the wear er desires, may be closed at once and instantly by striking them against the body or other object. To release the grasp it is only necessary to touch a spring at the back of the hand. The invention is as nearly a perfect substi tute for a natural hand as could be de vised and is the only thing of the kind known in the world. "—St. Louis Re public. The Head Waiter's Cocktail. In a 6well hotel on Broadway the head waiter is not allowed to indulge in bibulous refreshments during the hours he is on duty. The other evening he was filled with an irrepressible long ing for a cocktail. He managed to get it with such ease that it was evidently a well tried and efficacious trick. His method can be best understood by quoting the waiter: "Sure, we're not charging yes for a cocktail," whispered a waiter to a young gentleman to whom he had just brought a check, "but the head waiter wanted a cocktail and thought yes would be the wan who would moind laste having it put it on to yes bill. You see," whispered the waiter, confi dentially, "he couldn't put it onto the bill of the gists in the house, they might remark it, so he had to put it onto the bill of somebody who came in from the strate. I'll bring yes the twinty cents back and thank yes fur the accommo dation." "The head waiter has either discerned that you are a man with a liberal and sympathetic disposition or one who knows how good a cocktail tastes and how bad a man wants it when he can not get it," remarked the young lady WE WILL SELL YOU ANY CLOAK IN OUR HOUSE AT COST Until All Are Sold. *3 is-: 23 }&%!> \4 -Jp who was dining with the gentleman whom the head waiter rightly singled out as a possible friend to a fellow man in need of spirituous consolation.—New York Herald. When He Stopped Payment. The bullying manner sometimes as sumed by certain barristers in cross examination, in order to confuse a wit ness and make his replies to important questions hesitating and contradictory, is notorious, and many are the tales told of "cute" witnesses who have turned the tables on their persecutors. The fol lowing relates to a case of this kind: In a civil action on money matters the plaintiff had stated that his finan cial position was always satisfactory. In cross examination he was asked if he had ever been bankrupt. "o," was the answer. .Next question was, "Now, be care ful did you ever stop payment?" "Yes." was the reply. "Ah," exclaimed the counsel, "I thought we should get at it at last. When did that happen?" "After I paid all I owed," was the answer.—London Tit-Bits. Where They Eat Tobacco. Perhaps there is nothing more pecul iar about the Eskimoes of Point Bar row than their methods of using tobac co, which, of course, they procure from the whites. They know good from bad tobacco. When they get hold of a few plugs of commissary tobacco from a vessel of the United States navy, they show a marked appreciation of it. The habit of chewing the weed seems to be universal. Men, women and even un weaned children keep a quid, often of enormous size, constantly in the mouth. The juice is not spit out. but swallow ed with the saliva, without producing any symptoms of nausea.—Washington Star. Colonel Burr's Career. Colonel Frank Burr, the well known newspaper correspondent, has had a re markable career. When but a child, he was stolen by a tribe of Indians and re mained with them for several vears. When the war broke out, he was a loco motive engineer. He enlisted as a pri vate and came out of the service wearing shoulder straps. He then studied civil engineering and laid out Deer Park, the famous summer resort on the Alle ghanies. Becoming a newspaper corre spondent, he soon became one of the most famous of the guild. Milwaukee Assignment. MILWAUKEE, NOV. 25.—The Charles Berghoefer & Suipinsky Manufacturing company, makers of milling and ice ma chinery, made a voluntary assignment today. The^ bond of the assignee was fixed at $57,500. No statement of assets or liabilities. Attached Colorado's Building. CHICAGO, NOV. 25.—J. A. Donoliue & Co. sued out attachment proceedings against the Colorado world's fair com missioners for a claim of an unpaid bill for -trvic and material. A levy was made on the state building. Fast Express Wrecked. CXIU"D RAPIDS, Nich., Nov. 25.—The fast express on the Chicago and West Michigan road was derailed about 20 miles south of this city. It is said six or seven passengers were badly hurt, but so far as known now none were killed. Toothpick Business Picks Up. BANGOR, Me., Nov. 25.—Nearly all of the toothpick mills in this sta. which have been shut down for several months will resume operations this week, and a biff Wintar's business is expected. aft- j# -r ., -111 -'r-m-v NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS. Emsley. Mr. Edgerton's well drill pasad through here Monday to drill a well on Mr. Platner's place. Thursday a tramp passed through Emsley and slept in the school house. He was on his way to Indiana. The dance at Mr. Barnard's was quite a lively affair. Some of the boys had to take a back seat for want of a lady. Hml Enough of ••Reform." Wessington Times: The election ot three Republican commissioners in Bea dle county at the late election, demon strates fully that the people have get tired of "socalled reformers" who have been running county affairs with a high and expensive liand for the past three years. The county board, after Jan. 1st next, will be composed of three Re publicans and two Independents, and there are some things in connection with the administration of the paat three years that will be brought to light by the newly organized board, anil published as the law requires, or a good and sufficient reason why the same can not be done. We refer to the seed wheat business that has been the big gest piece of robbery perpetrated upon the tax payers since the building of the court house in 1883. The County Ollicerg Win. The mandamus proceedings brought by the register of deeds against the board of county commissioners to com pel them to employ clerical help were heard before Judge Haney, Preston & Hannett representing the former, and States Attorney Mohr appering for the county. The showing was made OD the record of the commissioners to the ef fect that clerical help was necessary, and the court held that the board must furnish it at a compensation of not le=s than $40 a month. This decision ap plies to the office of auditor and treas urer as well, there having beeu an agreement to that effect. Mr. Molir threatens to appeal to the supreme court. Stop Thief! Any one whose Watch has a bow (ring),will never have oc casion to use thistime-honored crv. It is the only bow that cannot be twisted off tiie case, and is found only on Jas. Boss Filled and other watch cases stamped with this trade mark. *0 Ask your jeweler for a pamphlet, or send to the manufacturers. Keystone Watch Case Co., PHILADELPHIA.