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Turner County Herald.
W. 0. BROWN, Publisher.
HURLEY. SOUTII DAKOTA.
T1IE GIRL AND IIKU LOVER.
Asking a Foslilon Writer's AdvIco-r-Tho
"ttoniowhat Startling Kcsnlt.
Slie was a fashion writer. She also
had a column in the magazine which
she devoted to answering all the let
ters that damsels, whose complexions
were not just what tlicy desired,
whose sweethearts did not behave as
they wished, who had doubts as to
their religious belief, and wanted
cures, not only for freckles, but for
souls, sought knowledge, says the
New York Sun. She was used to
being asked the exact length of Cleo
patra's nose, the color of Eve's hair
and the family name of Queen Vic
toria# She gave licr opinion as to the
propriety of kissing games, gave
advice as to dressing a bride or agrad
uatc, but she did get desperately
tired when a girl would write sixteen
pages about the "gentleman who was
keeping company with her." To her
most intimate friend the miserable
fashion writer told this story:
Said she: "A letter came for me,
written in the usual fashion, and in
which a girl said that she had been
keeping company with a young man
for two years that lie didn't have
much money, and did I advise her to
marry him and go to boarding, or to
wait a few months and collect enough
furniture to make a little home for
themselves? I got immensely inter
ested. I wrote to that girl and
advised her to wait the three months
and have a home to start with and I
gave lier a lot of advice and a few
suggestions that I thought might
help, her along. I never heard any
more of her, but last week when I
was shopping a young woman tapped
me on the shoulder and asked, very
modestly, 'Are you Mrs. Dash?' She
wore a hat trimmed with roses and
very, very long and very wide pale
blue streamers down her back her
coat was alight one with enormous
pearl buttons upon it, and her gloves
were white. Upon her face was the
most delighted expression possible.
She looked so happy that it absolutely
rested the shop girls. Then she
explained herself: "I s'pose 1 ought
to be ashamed of myself—one iady
speaking to another in this way-s-but
I'm Mrs. Frilkins. Of course, you
don't know me by my name now, but
I always read your magazines, and
last year I wrote you a letter askin'
you whether I- had better marry a
young man who was running after me
then, or whether we had better wait
until we had enough to set up house
keeping. You wrote me a beautiful
letter—you told me how to be noble
and honorable with my husband, and
to be affectionate, and always glad to
see him, and then you told ine to wait
for a home. It was a mighty lucky
thing you said that, 'cause I had
made up my mind to do exactly what
you told me. I've got the flat, and
you see how I am kressed, and I am
buying some sewing silk to use to
make a little wrapper with. You've
done more for me than any woman in
the world.'
"I can't tell you just how this
fefTected me I felt the tears come into
my eyes, and I thought, 'Well, after
all the letters do some good.'
"I caught Mrs. Frilkins by the
hands, and I said: 'I can't tell you
how glad I am! And how happy that
young man must be."
'Goodness gracious!' she said,
'why, I didn't marry him during the
waitin' I done a heap better I mar
ried his boss!"
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY CAItS.
South Dakota's Generous Contribution to
tlio Russian Keller Fund.
L. Q. Jeffries, state commissioner
for the Russian relief fund says lie
cannot speak confidently of the
South Dakota contribution. Several
counties have but just organized and
others have not yet reported. The
Eighth district has made its gift
complete. Lead, Terravillc, Spcar
flsli and Whitcwood gave 31,041
pounds of flour, while- Deadwood
gave 37,580 pounds and Sturgis 0,020
pounds. This makes three and one
half cars and at $2 per hundred is
worth $1,304.80. Before this move
ment began t.lie Germans living in
Lead and Deadwood sent direct to
the Russians on the Volga $125.50 in
cash.
Commissioner Hopkins of the third
district writes that his eight counties
will give at least twelve cars and
others districts arc responding
liberally. Altogether the commis
sioner cxpccts to have fifty cars of
flour. This lie originally intended to
send t* the seaboard in special trains
appropriately labelled, but recently
the eastern roads have declined to
give any more free transportation.
Consequently it has been decided to
convert the flour into cash and send
the money to Russia. Estimating
flour at $325 a car, the contribution
of South Dakota would reach at least
$115,230 and this again would be
equivalent to 130 acres of corn.
Iowa's contribution was 300 cars of
corn.
Millions In IIUIIIOH.
A wave of fire, reaching at no tune
the proportions of a really great
conflagration, but in other respects
of unparalleled ilerceness, intensity
and destructiveness, swept over the
United States in 1801. The value of
property destroyed, as closely as
careful investigation can determine
it, was no less tluui $143,704,007—an
amount greater by $35,000,000 than
the national loss by lire in the
preceding year. In no other of the
seventeen year's during which the
record of flics and losses has been
kept has the devastation by fire been
so severe. The highest point luther
to attained (excepting only the great
conflagration years when Chicago and
Itoston were burned) was in the year
1SS0, when property valued at $123,
000,000 was swept out of existence.
Here is an item which may be of
interest to* whom it may concern: Bar
soap when first bought should be cut
in square pieces and putin a dry
place. It lasts better after shrinking.
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W^MSS
Washington, Political, Foreign
and General Domestic
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Happenings of Note.
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COatlNG EVENTS ,*
July 4—National
Independent con­
vention at Omaha..
July 12—National Mining congrcss
at Helena, Mont.
July 12-1&—Annual convention of
National Educational Association at
Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
July 7-10—Annual Session of Young
People's Society of Christian Endeavor
at New York City.
Aug. 3-7—Triennial Conclave of
Knights Templar at Denver.
Aug. 8-10—National Encampment,
Sons of Veterans at Helena, Mont.
Aug. 23—Supreme Lodge, K. P. at
Kansas City.
Sep. 1—National G. A. R. encamp
ment at Washington, D. C.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
July
1-21—Chautauqua
Assembly
at Madison.
July 20—Republican State Conven
tion at Madison.
July 20-27—Annual meeting South
Dakota Press Association at Aber
deen.-,.
NORTH DAKOTA
Aug. 2—Republican State Conven
tion at Fargo.
GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS.
R. G. Dun & Co. say business is
fairly good despite hot weather and
hot politics.
The Kansas wheat crop is ifeing
harvested. The yield is a fine one of
good quality.
Judge Edwards of Mount Vernon,
111., has decided that Illinois women
are not legal voters.
Governor Fifer's appeal for aid
from the citizens of Illinois for Hood
sufferers has resulted in raising
$11,000.
Amclie Rives-Chanler lias been
making studies of Washington
society for a story she is to soon
produce.
General Eppa Itunton, Virginia's
new Senator, rose in four years from
the Confederate ranks to a Major
Generalship.
The most deplorable state of affairs
exists in the San Antonio section of
Texas, as scarcely any rain has fallen
there for three years.
The pneumatic sulky for trotting
horses has been successfully tried. It
is the invention of Sterling Elliott,
the maker of the Hickory bicycles.
Dallas, Texas police made a des
perate flglit with citizens and saved a
man who had murdered an oflicer.
The town was in a ferment all night-
Thomas Ilart is the nearest living
relative of Shakespeare. lie is a res
ident of Australia and is eighth in
descent from Shakespeare's sister,
Joan.
Marc Pendleton, once an actor and
a son-in-law of a Cleveland million
aire, killed himself in a park at Cleve
land through fear of approaching
insanity.
Young Ralph Tngalls, son of
ex-Senator Ingalls, is. said to be his
father over again in Attenuation of
of figure, as well as for eloquence and
in readiness of retort.
The Standard Oil Company has
agreed to a further reduction of the
output of paraflinc, the former scale
having been nullified through candle
makers working with old stocks.
M. Dowling, a Minneapolis man,
manages to transact business, though
all broken up. lie has an artificial
left arm and both legs, and has noth
ing but the stump of a thumb to his
right hand. His artificial rig cost
him $000.
The funeral services over the
remains of the late Emmons Blaine
took place last Tuesday at the
McConnick residence in Chicago con
ducted by Rev. Dr. McPhcrson of the
Second Presbyterian church. A large
number of friends of the McCormick
and Blaine families were present.
The services were exceedingly simple,
and at their conclusion the secretary
and Mrs. Blaine and other members
of the two families, accompanied by a
large concourse of friends of the
deceased, followed the remains to
Graceland cemetery, where they were
deposited in the McCormick family
vault preparatory to interment in an
adjoining lot, which has been pur
chased for the purpose.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
In Buenos Ay res gold is quoted at
a premium of 204 per cent.
Archbishop Ireland lectured Sun
day before the Geographical Society
in Paris on the progress of Roman
Catholicism in America.
M. Protich, one of the three regents
ruling during the niinoity of King
Alexander of Scrvia, died one day
last week from heart disease.
The Spanish steamer Emilia-no is
ashore at Santander Ilarbor on a
sandy bottom, apparently in no
danger. Her cargo is not damaged.
It is olheially stated that the total
number of persons impaisoncd under
the Coercion act was 1,803, only four
of whom were custody on June 1.
The house of Commons in commit
tee has authorized the government to
purchase the telephone trunk lines
throughout the country at a cost of
$5,000,000.
At Magdeburg soldiers were unload
ing a wagon of ammunition when a
shell exploded, killing four of the
men. Their heads, arms and legs
were blown off.
Ravachol, anarchist and murderer,
will set up the plea of insanity on his
trial, and his disinclination to work
and inclination to steal will be cited
as evidence of the insanity.
The Spanish Cabinet has decided to
offer minimum tariff rates to most
nations, finding it impossible to
obtain approval of new treaties
during the present parliamentary
session.
At St. Polten, Lower Austria, a
woman accused of levying blackmail
upon sixteen residents on the charge
of relations with her daughter, aged
13, was sentenced to seven years'
imprisonment. All the male prison
ers were acquitted. The wives of two
have committed suicide.
Further advices from the interior
of Africa confirm the report of the
disaster to the German force under
Baron Bulow. The whole district of
Fort Marong has been deserted by
foreigners. The English missionaries
are safe and are devoting themselves
to the care of the wounded Germans.
The relatives of Jaeger, the cashier
who embezzled nearly 2,000,000 marks
from the Rothschilds and then fled to
Egypt, have confessed that they
aided and abetted him in his crime,
several hundred thousand marks in
bank notes having been found hidden
in their houses. Most of Jaeger's
relatives are already under arrest.
Advices from Afghanistan show
that the rebellion among the Urgag
nan natives against the ameer is
assuming formidable proportions.
Of 5,000 regular troops and 5,000
irregulars set against the rebels, 250
regulars and 1,200 irregulrrs have
been killed in various engagements.
The ameer's soldiers are dispirited
and many are deserting.
The largest band sawing machine
in the world has recently been com
pleted in England and sent to
Tasmania. The machine can saw
through a maxlmun depth of 75
inches, and the carriage will accom
modate logs fifty feet long and
weighing about llfty tons. It is
asserted that this saw cuts even
faster then a circular saw, while
wasting 75 per cent, less wood.
The French newspapers are just
now testing a novel sort of type, some
made of malleable glass by a new
process. The new types preserve
their cleanliness almost indefinitely.
They are said to wear better then
those made of metal, and can be cast
with a sharpness of line that will
print more distinctly than is possible
with the old style type. LaPatric is
now printed entirely on glass type.
POLITICAL.
Quay lias offered to bet $10,000 on
Harrison's election.
Nebraska independents have nom
inated W. A. Poynter of Albion for
congrcss.
Maine republicans nominated nenry
B. Cleaves for governor and enthusi
astically endorsed Harrison's admin
istration.
Minnesota independents have nom
inated IT. E. Boen of Fergus Falls
and P. II. Hartli of Fillmore county
for congrcss.
At the republican convention of
the Tenth congressional district of
Illinois Congressman Post was unan
imously renominated.
At the third congressional district
republican convention, held in
Waterloo, Iowa, D. B. Henderson was
renominated for congrcss.
Llie People's party of the Second
district, of Kansas, nominated S. S.
King, of Kansas City, Kan., for con
gress, over N. L. Moore, the demo
tratic candidate, thus defeating
fusion with the latter party.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
The chief of the bureau of statistics
reports that the total value of the
exports of merchandise from the
United States during the 12 months
ended May 31, 1802, was $828,707,858
same in 1891, $840,888,913.
The house appropriations com
mittee Saturday completed the last
of the appropriation bill—the general
deficiency—and reported it to the
house. The whole amount appro
priated by the bill is $4,870,535.
Ex-Secretary Blaine has been
quoted as saying that he would not
accept a scat in the senate, and that
lie has retired from public life finally.
He is exceedingly fond of literary
pursuits. He is said to have remarked
when he finished his "Twenty Years
of Congress" that he had never
enjoyed any tiling lie had ever done
so much as the writing of that book,
and he will no doubt indulge his
preference for that kind of work for a
time at least.
MARRIAGE IN JAPAN.
A Very Protty Cenemony Which DUFera
Widely From Oars.
A Japanese wedding in high life is
a pretty ceremony. Though no vows
are spoken, nor has the church or
religion any part in it, the rite is
nevertheless, solemn and impressive.
There are ten bridesmaids gayly
attired in costumes of the "Japs."
Two at a time enter from opposite
directions, and salaam each to the
other until the entire party has
passed in, each kneeling opposite
her companion. The parents of the
bride and groom now enter, those of
the groom at the left and those of the
bride at the right, and arc seated near
the bridesmaids on either side.
The bride attired in a snowy, filmy
dress and closely veiled, now appears,
leaning uqon the arm of her alllaneed
while the bridesmaids salaam. The
go-between assists the bride to a seat
by her parents, and the groom to one
near his. Tea is then served by the
go-between, three cups being given
the parents of the bride and groom
and to the happy couple. Each of
the bridesmaids receives one cup.
The go-between joins the hands of
the bride and groom, and the latter
leads lus bride to the front and
whispers in her car a promise of
faithfulness. The bride whispers in
return, and they exchange scats to
show the anion of the two families.
A simple
4repast
is now served, and
the bridal party disperses, the bride
and groom leaving first, then their
parents, and lastly the brides-maids,
salaaming as they go.
The go-between lsgenerallya friend
of the groom. In courtship she
settles the question and arranges and
assists in the marriage ceremony.
It is a pretty scene, but the absence
of the ksss, the ring and the invoca
tion of the blessing of God marred it
tor those who arc accustomed to the
Christian rites.
A band stand is being erected at
Edgelcy.
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ISjwNEARLY BONE.
A Kentucky Girl Becoming Ossi
--,licd---Peculiar Conditions
if- of tlie Victim.
For a Decade tlio Strange
Transformation Has Been
Going On.
A Case That Completely Mysti
fies the Whole Medical
Fraternity.
The fact has just become public
that the doctors of Louisville have
been closely studying the case of a
young girl whose muscles are gradu
ally becoming ossified. Dr. A.
Morgan Vance, whose patient the
girl is, declares it is a genuine case of
what is technically termed myositis
ossificans, a disease so rare and so
little understood as to causes and
treatment that very little lias ever
been written of it in medical books.
In fact it has not received more than
a mere definition. The case was
brought to the attention of the
medical society at its last meeting.
In speaking of the case Dr. Vance
dilated on the extreme rarity of such
cases and the utter inability of
physicians thus far to
AIUtEST THE mOOItESS
of the disease. From observation of
the few cases known to the world, it
has been found that all the muscles
gradually harden into bone, save
those immediately concerned in
digestion and respiration. The
organs of sight and speech are also
exempt from the general ossification.
The process is very slow and irregular,
and the patient may live for years,
gradually growing more helpless and
eventually dying of exhaustion and
confinement. The' reporter was
reluctantly granted an interview
with the invalid by her mother. The
family arc very quiet, unassuming
German people, living at No. 0.14 East
Market Street. The father, Mr.
John F. Schamback, a blacksmith,
and his daughter, Miss Emma, a
girl of 17 xears, are the afflicted ones.
She is rather a tall, slight-built per
son with blue eyes and brown hair.
But for her disease she would be a
very pretty girl. Her head is drawn to
one side by the hardening of the mus
cles in the side of the neck, and just
under the cliin, near the "Adam's
apple," is along projection as hard
and sharp as a nail to the touch. The
muscles of the back are so hardened
that
SHE CAN NOT KEND
over, and those about the chest arc
also ossified. In the right arm both
biceps and triceps arc affected, and
the muscles of the right tliigli arc
immovable. Her right arm she keeps
in one position altogether, and her
left she has but partial control over.
The hardening of the musclcs of the
thigh renders it impossible for her
to bend her left limb. The muscles
of the face arc gradually suffering
and are begining to stand out
prominently, as do those of the neclc.
The hardening of the facial musclcs
limit to some extent the motion of
the jaws, but notwithstanding this
fact, her appetite is good, and she cats
as heartily and with as much relish
as an entirely healthy person.
Miss Sella mback's mother stated
the girl had been subject to acute
muscular pains since she was about
7 years old. The mother believes
that tlic disease has been working on
the girl during these ten years. The
first symptoms which alarmed the
family and suggested the necessity of
medical attention occurred six
months ago. When in pumping a
bucket of water Miss Scliamback was
seized with excruciating pains in the
right arm, and, strange to say, she
now feels no pain, and save for the
inconvenience of rising and being
unable to move freely, never com
plains.
Nothing can be done to arrest the
progress of tlic disease, and tlic
unhappy girl is slowly but surely
becoming an almost solid mass of
bone.
THE GIANT GIKL.
Slio IJvcs Alono in a Cave and Vows She
Never Will Look afca Man.
Lorenzo' Keller, has been miss
ing hogs, pigs and sliecp from his
ranch near Marshall, Minn., and has
been totally at a loss to discover tlic
cause. He notified the Sheriff of tlic
existence of a subterranean c-avcrn
overlooking a little stream near a
heavy fringe of timber on his ranch,
which is the home and abiding place
of a mysterious, strange woman of
prodigious strength.
While driving his cattle to water
recently, lie saw a woman of enormous
stature, scantily clad and with her
hair Hying loose about lier face like a
veil, dart into the bushes near the
cavern, scramble up its sides and dis
appear. Entering the cave he found
himself in a chamber of great size.
On one side was a pile of neatly pol
ished bones stacked halfway to the
top and which satisfactorily accounted
for the disappearance of his live
stock. The cave was lined with
books, some of them valuable and
rare, and one of several apartments
he visited was fitted with exquisite
taste with a bedroom set, and a harp
stood in one corner, and other evi
dences of a female presence were vis
ible.
But Keller saw no traces of the
strange woman. Just as lie reached
the door lic woman entered. With
a piercing yell which reverberated
through the big cavern she sprang
upon him, knocked linn down and
dragged linn outside the cave, finally
rolling him down the hillside into the
stream. There she stood upon the
ledge leading to the cave and showered
invectives in a strange tongue upon
him.'
Frightened nearly to death by his
strange adventure. Keller scrambled
out and made Ins escape.
The discovery of the cave woman
recalls the strange romance and his
tory of Mcna Lorscn, a proud and
well-to-do Norwegian girl, who about
five years ago was basely deserted by
a perfidious lover on the eve of her
wedding day. She was noted for lier
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enormous stature and great strength,
along with a well cultured mind
When her lover deserted her sne
registered an oatli to allow no man
again in her presence. Her house
hold goods were carted many miles to
this cave, which was then in a literal
wilderness, and there she has since
made her home. She lias existed on
toots, berries and fruits of predatory
excursions on the ranches. For two
or three years after her residence in
the cave the sound of music coming
from the earth has frequently stam
peded cattle and frightened passersby
not acquainted with the history of
the cave woman.
She has been regarded by the few
who knew her history as a harmless
crank. Keller is the first man who
has ever looked upon lier face since
she was deserted, and his experience
was not calculated to make him thirst
for a repetition.
QUEER POSTAGE.STAMPS.
Tlicy Run Up to 1900 In Value, lut the Pub
lic Never Sees Thorn.
A $G0-postage stamp—who ever
heard of such a thing! A natural
ejaculation for 00 men out of 100 to
make if you talked of a stamp so
valuable. And yet there are such
stamps in daily use. There arc $48
stamps, too, $30, $24, $12, 80, $0, $3, $1.
90 cents, 84 cents, and so on down to
92, and including 1 cent,and of a pecu
liar kind which not one man in 10,000,
unless he be a postal employe, ever
heard of or ever saw. It's a matter of
considerable question whether many
of the men throughout the United
States whose money goes to pay for
these stamps know that such stamps
arc in existence far fewer ever saw
one.
These stamps arc for tlic payment
of postage on newspapers and
periodicals. There was a time when
stamps were placed direct upon the
periodicals now Uncle Sam docs all
the stamping himself. He has all
the fun of licking the stamps, pasting
them on and then spoiling tluir
handsome faces with ugly black
cancellation marks. Some large
dailies sends to the postollice great
bulky packages of paper for out-of
town distribution. The postage on
these amounts to one cent per pound.
The stamps used for paying this
postage arc about three-quarters of
an inch in width by an inch and one
quarter in length. From one cent
up to twelve cents tlicy arc a slate
color from 24 ccnts to 90 cents, red
while the higher priced ones arc red,
blue, yellow and green. Tlic stamp
bears upon it the words "newspapers,"
along one side, and "periodicals" on
the other, the denomination mark
being in the corner. The postage is
paid on the papers by check or cash,
all large daily papers keep
ing a sum on deposit ahead each
week. The postage for the day is
figured up according to tlic weight of
the package, and the stamps, to the
extent of the postage, arc then
selected. These are affixed in a row
to a sheet in a large book and can
celed. One every quarter these can
celed stamp slips arc sent on to
Washington where tlicy are kept for
record. None of these stamps are
ever sold, so that even if one passed
into dishonest hands it would be of
little use, for it is not a legal tender
and could not be used for postal
purposes. The stealer of a swag of
newspaper and periodicals stamps
would be forced to establish a little
postal system of his own, say on the
planet Mars, if he ever cxpectcd to
reap from his investment.
INSURANCE OF GERMAN WORKMEN.
It Is Compulsory nml Affects 13,000,000
of the Population.
The law affects a portion of the pop
ulation numboring'more than 13,000,
000, giving tliein an inalienable legal
claim to support in cases of infirmity
and in old age,says
Chambers' Journal.
The insurance is compulsory in all in
dustrial occupations upon persons of
both sexes over 10 years of age. Clerks,
trade employes and tradesmen's ap
prentices \\1io do not earn more than
$500 per annum also participate but,
oddly enough, assistants and appren
tices in apothecaries' shops are exclud
ed. Exemption from compulsory in
surance is granted to persons who work
for food, clothes and lodging only, and
who receive no pay and who are only
in temporary employment.
The pension for old ago varies from
$20 to £50 per annum, and is granted
to every insured person who has com
pleted the 70t.h year of his age, irre
spective of his ability to earn a liveli
hood,provided that he does not already
draw a pension for infirmity. The
latter ranges from $23 to $100, and is
given, irrespective of ago, to any per
son who is permanently incapacitated
from earning his living. The pension
can be refused if the infirmity has
been brought on willfully or in the act
of committing a crime. A person is
considered infirm if unable to earn
more than about one third of his usual
wage. Habitual drunkards may be
made to receive their pensions entirely
in kind.
In such cases the pension is paid to
tlie parish authorities, who supply the
person concerned with his food, cloth
ing, etc. In order to establish a claim
to a pension under the German law,
contributions,regulated by the amount
of oarnings, must be paid for a pre
scribed period. The means of paying
pensions are obtained by fixed contri
butions from the imperial treasury,
added to regular payments on the part
of the employers ami employed. Side
by side with this system there contin
ues in operation the law which com
pels miners to become members of ap
proved friendly societies.
Died Ijikc Gentleman.
Baron Gcmmington. lieutenant field
marshal and inspector-general of the
Austrian cavalry, who died at his home
in Gutlerborg, Austria, recently, has
been an active soldier for almost half
a century.
When, on the afternoon of his death,
his physician told him he had but an
hour or two more to live, the old man
sat up in bed and called to his mili
tary attendant in the next room. The
soldier came. "Bring my parade uni
form," commanded the general. The
uniform was brought. '"Now put it, on
me." The order was obeyed, while
the old soldier gasped heavily for
breath.
"Have Fritz send in a broiled
clneken, a bottle of bee and an im
ported cigar."
The order was filled and the tray
was laid on the general's bed. He ate
a little and drank much. He lighted
the cigar. He smoked it half down
without taking it from his mouth. As
he removed it to knock oft the ashes
the end came. He sunk back with the
cigar still between his fingers, and
died before it went out.
SL
A
FATA IV COLLISION.
Two Trains Collide Near the
Duluth Junction Witli
Fatal Results.
James E. Stinson is Instantly
Killed and Seven Others
.' are Injured,
The Accident Due to Over-Confi
dence on the Tartof tlie
Trainmen.
A St. Paul & Duluth passenger
train collided with the Wisconsin
Central express on tlic St. Paul &
Duluth road, two miles north of
Duluth Junction, atl o'clock Tuesday
afternoon, causing the death of the
young son of Supt. Stinson, of the
Stillwater union depot, the serious
and perhaps fatal injury of three
trainmen. Two other trainmen and
two passengers on tlic Duluth train
were also injured.
The boy, James E. Stinson, was
riding on the Duiutli engine and was
instantly killed, death resulting from
the terrible scalding he received from
the escaping steam. Conductor A. II.
Bycr and Fireman Kelly, of the Du
luth train, suffered serious internal
injuries which may prove fatal.
Engineer Walter Brooks, of the Wis
consin Central train, received inter
nal injuries and several slight cuts on
the body. Fireman McElroy, of tlic
same train, was also injured inter
nally. The express messenger on tlic
Duluth passenger, and two passengers
received slight injuries.
The Wisconsin Central leases the
tracks of the Duluth road from tlic
junction to Stillwater. For some rea
son or other the Wisconsin Central
passenger train due to leave Stillwa
ter at 12 o'clock, was nearly an hour
late, but Conductor Walters expected
to reach the junction before the
Duluth train, due at Stillwater at
1:15 passed. Conductor A1 Byers, of
the Duluth train, thoughtcvcrytliing
was all right and bis tiain startel out
as usual. Both trains were running
almost at full speed when tlicy col
lided on a curve about one mile west
of a point known as Summit Switch.
Both locomotives were .'totally demol
ished and rolled down the embank
ment, a distance of ten feet. The
tenders attached to both locomotives
remained on the track and the passen
ger coaches piled up over them, with
the exception of the two rear coaclics
on each train.
When Engineer Brooks, of the Cen
tral train, noticcd the approaching
Duluth train be immediately reversed
his engine, but the distance was too
short and the collision occurred, bury
ing Engineer Brooks and his fireman,
Frank McElroy, under the debris.
Engineer Gage, of the Duluth engine,
jumped and escaped serious injury,
but his fireman, Joe Kelly, received
severe bruises. James E. Stinson, an
cleven-ycar-old son of J. J. Stinson of
Stillwater was instantly killed. The
lad was riding on tlic locomotive,
with liis cousin, Fireman Kelly.
Engineer Brooks had his left leg brok
en, and was terribly scalded about
his facc and body. It is also feared
that lie is internally injured. Fire
man McElroy received severe internal
injuries. Conductor Byers of tlic
Duluth was in the baggage car when
the collision occurred, and received
injuries which may terminate fatally.
Express Messenger E. Fitzgerald of
tlie Adams Express company was also
in tlic Duluth train, and was terribly
injured about the bead and face.
A special train and a corps of sur
geons were immediately summoned
from Stillwater. Dr. Merrill, Pratt
and Hall, together with several news
paper men, departed for the scene of
disaster. The injured were placcd on
cots and carricd into the baggage car
of tlic Wisconsin Central train, and
were taken to Stillwater. A complete
list of the killed and injured is as
follows:
THE DEAD AND IN.IUIJHD.
.Tames E. Stinson, Stillwater, in
stantly killed.
A1 Byers, conductor on Duluth
train, injured internally.
.loe Kelly, fireman, Duluth, left leg
broken, injured about the bead.
Walter Brooks, engineer Central,
arm and leg broken, also scalded.
E. Fitzgerald, express messenger,
cut about the head and facc.
C. F. McElroy, fireman Central,
injured internally.
W. J. Walters, back injured.
F. W. Jayncs, Malitomcdi, face
cut.
John Thompson, Chicago, head
bruised and scratched about the facc.
W. 11. Harrington, Minneapolis,
facc slightly bruised.
WORLD'S FA III NOTES.
The educational exhibit from
Wisconsin at the Wort's Fair, it is
estimated, will require 0,000 square
feet of space, and application for
that amount has been made.
Mrs. French-Sheldon, tlic intrepid
African traveler, has applied for
spacc for exhibiting at the world's
fair the fine collection of curios and
trophies she has gathered.
A number of the far famed Kerry
cows arc to be taken from Ireland to
Chicago, at the time of the World's
Fair, for tlie purpose of presenting to
the admiring gaze of visitors the
spectacle of real Irish milkmaids and
butter makers—pretty ones, of
course—pursuing their avocation.
Through the department of state
at Washington official communi
cation has been convcycd to the
Board of Lady Managers of tlic
World's Fair from tlic Queen of the
Sandwich Islands. Queen Liliuoka
lam expresses the most cordial sym
patliy with thcaims of the Board of
Lady Managers and announces her
intention, in the event of a govern
ment appropriation, of appointing a
committee to give special attention
to woman's work.
On the inland waterways, which
traverse the World's Fair grounds
lrom one end to another, there will
be plying three kinds of boats for
public use. These will be tlic
omnibus, express and cab boats or
launches. The omnibus boats will
make regular trips around the water
ways. stopping at each building.
The express boats will make round
3^ \'$QMp?t
"••©.''Jt £&'?&*•nP'SiA
trips without stopping, while the cab
boats, with carrying capacity of four
personsj^ may be hailed at any point
and engaged foi*the trip or by the
hour, as is a hansom cab. JjPt
One of the most interesting exhibits
in the Government building at tlic
World's Fair will be a display of
arms, uniforms, tents and flags in
use in the United States army at
various times since 1776. This dis
play is being prepared in one of tlie
Gray's Ferry arsenal buildings. A
spacc of 0,000 square feet has been set
aside for this exhibit. The uniforms
will be draped upon lay figures and
arranged in realistic attitudes. The
one particular group in which cspccial
pride is taken is to consist of seven
figures on horseback, representing a
general of tlic present army and staff.
The ccntral figure will be as nearly as
possible an exact likeness of Maj-Gen.
Scholleld. All the articles were
made entirely by Americans and of
American materials. There is a col
lection of at least twenty-five flags,
and these alone arc valued at $8,000.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
Position of tlio Tarty on Questions of
National Importance.
Soctlon 1. The ropresoDUitivea of tlic Demo
cratic party of tho United States in nationnl
convention
Assembled
do ro-afllrm tlioir nlle-
gianco to tho principles of tlio party as formu
latod by Jefferson and oxompliflcd by the Ions
and illustrious list of successors in Democratic
leadership from Madison to Cleveland. Wo
believo tho public welfare doainnda that these
principles he applied to tho conduct of tho
federal govOrnment through tho accession to
power of tho party that adopted thein an wo
solemnly docip.ro that tho need of a ruturu to
these fundamental principles of freo popular
government based on homo rulo and individ
ual liberty was nover moro urgent thnn now,
when tho tendency to centraliio nil power tit
tbo federal cf.pltal lias bocoinea menace to the
reserved rights of tho stutos, that strikes at
tho very roots of our government, under tho
constitution us frumcd by the fathers of tho
republic.
Soc. 2. We warn the people of our common
country to bo jealous of tho preservation of
their frco Institutions: that tbo policy of tho
federal control of elections to which tbo Re
publican party lias committed itself is fraught
with tho gruvost dangers, scarcoly less mo
moutous than would result from a revolution
practl' ully establishing monarchy on tho
ruins of the republio. It strikes at tho North
as well as the South, and injures tho colored
citizens oven moro than tho whito creates a
hoard of deputy marshals at every polling
place, armed with federal power a measuro
doliborately and justly described by a laading
Republican senator as "the most infamous bill
that ever crossed tho throshold of tho senate."
Such a policy, if sanctioned by tho law, would
mean the dominance of a self-perpetuated
oligarchy of officeholders, and the party lirst
entrusted with its machinery could bo dis
lodged from power only by an nppeal to the
reserved right of tho people to resist oppres
sion, which is inherent la all self-governing
communities. Two years ui tho revolution
ary policy
Wiis
emphatically mdomned by
the pooplo at tho polls, but in contempt of
their verdict tho Republican party has defi
antly declared iu its latest authoritative utter
anco that Its success in tho coming olection3
will mean tho enactment of tho force bill and
the usurpation of dospotie control over tho
elections in all tho states.
Believing that the preservation of tlie Bo
publican government in the United States is
depondont on the defeat of this policy of legal
ized forco and fraud wo invite the assistance
of all citizens whodesiro to soo tho constitu
tion maintained in its integrity with tho laws
pursuant thereto which have given our coun
try a hundro-l ycara of unexamp'ed prosperity
and wo pledge tho Democratic party, if it bo
entrusted with power, not only to tho defeat
of tho forco bill but also to opposition of tho
Republican party's policy of prolligato ex
penditure, which in tho short space of two
yuars has squandered an enormous surplus
and emptied an overflowing treasury after
putting now burdens of taxatiou upon the al
ready overtaxed labor of the country.
Sec. 3. Wo roitorato tho oft rcpoatod declar
ations of tbo party that the necorsity of tho
moment is the only justitlcation for taxation
and wlienevor a tax is unnecessary it is un
justifiable. That when custom house taxa
tion is levied upon any artiolo produced in tho
United States tho dlfforonco between tho cost
of labor bore and abroad, whoa
6U"h
differ
ence exists, fully measures any possible bene
fits to labur and tbo onormous additional im
positions of tho existing tarilf fall
with crushing* forco upon our farmers
and wo'.kingmcn, and for tho mere advantage
of tho few whom it enriches, exacts from the
laborer a grossly unjust share of tho expenses
of tho government, and wo demand such a re
duction of the tariff laws that will remove tho
inequalities, lightou their oppression and put
them in a constitutional and equitable busi
ness. In making reductions in taxes it is not
proposed to injure any domes! io industries,
but rather to promote their healthy growth.
From the foundation oft his government taxes
collected at tlio custom house liavo been tho
chief sonrce of federal revenue. Such tliey
must continue to bo. Moreover, many indus
tries liavo come to rely upon legislation for
successful continuance, so that any change of
law must boat every step regardful of tho la
bor ar.d the capital thus involved. Tho pro
cess of reform must bo subject to tho execu
tion of this plain dictate of justice.
We denounce tho McKinloy tariff law on
acted by tho Flfl y-first congress as tho cul
minating atrocity of class legislation. We en
dorse tbo efforts mado by tho Demo-rats of
the present congrcss to modify its oppressive
features in tho direction of freo raw i:(gf.eri.ila
and cheaper manufactured goods thai enter
Into homo consumption, and wo propose its re
peal us ono of tho bcnelk'ieiit results that will
fo'low the action of tho people in entrusting
power to the Democratic purty. Since the Mc
Kinloy tariff wout into operation t'jere liavo
been ten reductions of wages of laboring men
to one increase. Wo deny tliat there has been
any increase of jiropertv to tlio. couutry since
the tariff wont into operation, and wo point to
tho dullueas and distress, tlio wage reductions
and strikes in tho iron trade as tho best poasi
bleevldonco that no such prosperity is re
sulted from tho McKinley act. Wo call tho
attention of thoughtful Americans tlio fact
that after thirty years of restrictive taxatiou
against importations of foreign products in
exchange for our agricultural products the
homes and farms of the country have bo.omo
burdened with a real estate mortgage of over
$2 5fl,iW0,0X) exclusivo of all other forms of in
debtedness.
Sec. 4. Trade interchange, on tho basis of
reciprocal advantages to the countries par
ticipating. is a timo honored doctrine of tho
Democratic faitb, but we denounce the sham
re. iprocity which juggles with tho people's do
siro for enlarged foreign markets and freer
exchanges by pretending to establish trade re
lations for a country whose articles of export
aro almost exclusively agricultural, while
erecting a barrier of protective tariff taxation
ngainst the richest countries of tho worl 1 that
stand ready to take our entire surplus of prod
ucts, and to exchange therefor commodities
which aro necessary and aro comforts of life
among our own pooplo.
Sec. 5. We recognize in trusts and monopo
lies, which aro designed by capital to secure
more than their just share of the joint prod
uct of capital and labor, a natural consequence
of prohibitive tascs which prevent the freo
competition which is tho life of honest trade,
but we believe their worst evil can bo abated
by law, aud wo demand the rigid enforcement
of laws made to prevent and control tliem,
together with such further legislation in re
straint of their abuses as experience may
snow to be neccsmry.
Sec. 0. Tho Republican p:irty, whilo pro
fessing a policy of reserving the public lands
for small holdiugs Ijy actual settlers, has given
away tho people's lieritago until now a few
railroads and non-resident aliens, individual
and corporate, possess a larger acreage than
that of all our farms between tho two seas.
The last Democratic administration reversed
tho improvident aud unwise policy of tho Re
publican party touching tho public domain,
aud reclaimed from corporations aud syndi
cates, alien and domestic, and restored to tho
people nearly 1 "0,C(X),OOJ acres of valuable land
to be sacredly hold as homesteads for our citi
zens, aud we pledge ourselves to con! inue this
policy until every acre of land so unlawfully
hold shaU be reclaimed and restored to tho
pcoplo.
Sec. 7. Wo dcnonnco tho Republican legis
lation known as tho Sherman act of 1-!X) as a
cowardly makeshift-, fraught with possibilities
of danger iu tho future, wliic'i should make
all of lis supporters as well as its author, anx
ious for its speedy repeal. Wo hold to tho aw
of both gold and silver as tho standard money
of tho country and to tho coinago of both
gold and silver without discrimination against
either metal or ohargo for mintage, but tho
dollar unit of coinaio of both metals must bo
of equal Intrinsic and exchangeabla value, or
bo adjusted by international agreement or by
such safeguards of legislation as shall insure
tho maintenance of tho parity of tho two met
als and the equal power of any dollar at all
tlme3 in the market and the payment of debts
and we demand that all paper currency shall
be kept at par with and redeemable in such
coin. We insis^upon this policy as especially
necessary for the protection of tho
and laboring classes, the ijrst aod moat d.
mt iiliiiiii
fensclcsi victims of unstablu money and a
fluctua ion of currency.
Sec. 8. We racotumcnd that She prohibitory
10 per cent tax oa. Etato bank Issue he re
pealed,
Civil Service Reform.
See. 0. Public offl is a public trust. Wo
reaffirm the acclarntion of the Democratic na
tional convention of 18*0 for tho reform of the
civil service, and we call for the honest en
forcement of tho laws regulating tho same.
The nomination of aprcsldSnt, as in thorecont
Hepublican convention, by delegations com
posed largely of his appointed, holding ofllco
at his pleasure, Is' sctwdalom satlro upon
free popular institutions aud a startling illus
tration of tho methods by which a presidont
may gratify his ambition. Wo douounuo a
policy under which federal officeholders Usurp
control of party conventions iu tlio states, and
wo pledge the Democratic party to the reform
of tlieso and aU othor abuses which threaten
individual liberty aud local sjlf-goyeimaout.
The Foreign Volley.
Sco. 10. The Democratic party is tlio only
party that has ever given the cMutry a foreign
policy consistent and vigorous, compelling re
spect abroad and inspiring contldencual homo.
Whilo avoiding entangling a'lir.nce-i, it has
aimed to cultivate friendJy relations with
other nations, and especially with our neigh
bors on tho American continent, whose -s
tinyis closely linked- with our own, and we
view with alarm tho tendaacy to a policy of
Irritation and bluslor, which is liable nt any
time to confront .us with tho altematIvoof
humiliation or .war. We favor tho mainten
ance of a navy strong onough for all purposes
of national (lefonso and to properl)" maintain
llio honor and dignity of tho rantry abroad.:
Protest Against Jewish Persecution.
Sec. 11. This country has always been tho
refuge of tho oppressed from every land—ex
iles for conscience sako —and iu thu spirit of tho
founders of our government, wo coudem tho
oppression practiced by tho Russian goverrt
mcnt upon its Austrian and Jewish subjects,
and wo call upou our national government iu
tho iuterest of justice aud humanity, by all
just and proper meana, to uso its prompt and
best effort3 to bring about a cessation of these
cruel p.rsecutions in tlio dominions tlicu
czar, aud to securo to the oppressed equal
rights. Wo tender our profound lind heartiest
sympathy to those lovers of freedom who aro
struggling fur homo rulo and tho great cause
of self-government in Ireland.
Pauper Immigration.
Roc. 12. Wo heartily approve all legitimate
efforts to prevent the United States from bn
ing used as tho dumping ground for the known
criminal and professional piripcrs of Kurope,
and wo demand tho rigid enforeeuienV of tho
laws against Chinese immigration and the im
portation of foreign workmen under contract
to degnuio American labor ftnd lessen its
wages, but wc condemn and denounce any aud
all al tempts to restrict t'-e immigration, of iho
industrious and worthy of foreign lands.
Pensions.
Sec. 13. This convention hereby renews tlio
expression of appreciation of drlotism of l-lio
soldier.- and sailors of the Union in the war for
Us preservation, and wo favor just and liberal
pen-ions for all disabled Union soldiers, their
wivej and dependents, but wo demand th^t
tho work of tho pension oificts shall bj done
indu- triously, impartially aud honestly. Wo
denounce the
present
The Cosamon School.
Sco. 17. Popular education being tho only
safe basis of popular suffrage, we rccommcnd
to the several States mopt liboral appropria
tion for the public schools. Free cammon
schools are tho nursery of good government,
and they have always received tho fostering
caro of tlie Democratic party, which favors
every means of incrooaiug intelligenco. Free
dom of education biing an essential of civil
and religious liberty as well as a nocoasity for
tlie development of intell'geneo, must not bo
interfered with under any pretext whatever.
Wo are opposed to state interference with
pnterual rights and rights of conscience in tho
education of children, as an infringement of
tho fundamental Demo-ratio doctrine 1 hat tho
largest individual liberty consistent with tho
lights of others insures tho highest typoot
American citizenship and tho be3t govern
ment.
Want Territories Admitted.
Soc. H. Wo approvo the action of tho pres
ent liouao of representatives in passing bills
for
the admission into tho union as states of
tho territories of New Mexico and Arizona,
and we favor tho early admission of all tho
territories having the necessary population
ind resources to entitle them to statehood,
and while tliey remain territories wo hold that
the oflicials appointed to administer the gov
crnment'of any territory, togol her with tho
District of Columbia and Alaska, should bo
bona fide residents of tho territory or district
in which their duties are to be performed.
Tlie Democratic party believc3 in home rulo
and tbecoutrolof their own alfaas by tho
people i.f ihu vicinage.
Tlie Protection of Hallway Kmployea.
Si c. 19. Wo favor legislation by congress
and stato legislatures, to protect tho lives and
limbs of railway employe aud those of othor
hazardous transportation companies, aud de
nounce the inactivity of tho Republican party,
aud particularly tho Republican somite, for
causing tho def-.at of measures beneficial and
protective to this class of wage workers.
Tho Sweating System.
Sec. 20. Wo aro In favor of tho enoctmcut by
the states of tho laws for abolishing the no
torious sweating system, lor abolishing con
tract convl.-t labor an 1 for prohibiting the em
ployment in factories of eliildron under fifteen
yours of ago.
Sumptuary Laws.
Sec. 21. We are opposed to aU sumptuary
laws as in iuterferenco with tho individual
ights of the citizen.
Upon tliis statement of -vincip!o3 and policy
the Democratic party oaks the intelligent
judgment of tho American people it as: a
change of administration and.a cliango of
party, iu order that there may be a cuangj of
system and a change of methods, thus assur
ing tho maintenance unimpaired of institu
tions under which the republic has growu
great and powerful.
THE UIl.T.OTIMST,
Stevenson Did the i:-Iiiil li:ig of I'ost mas
ters Under Cleveland.
As nearly everybody is asking, "Who
is Stevenson, anyway?" it will be in
order to publish a brief sketch of the
vice presidential candidate:
Adelai Ewing .Stevenson, of liloom
inylon,
111., the
23, 1835,
r-
administration as incom­
petent, corrupt, disgraceful and dishonest.
Public Improvements.
Sec. 14. The federal
government should earo
for an 1 improvo tho Mississippi river and
other great waterways of tho republic so as to
secure «r tho interior states easy and cheap
transportation lo the tidewater. When ujy
waterway of tbo ropub'ie Is of sufilcieat im
portance to demand aid of the government
that such aid should be extended on a dollui:1)
plan of continuous work until permanent im
provement is secured.
Sec. 15. Iu the support of nationnl defense
and the promotion of coiumerco between the
states wo recognize tho early construction of
tho Nicaragua canal aud its protection against
foreign contrjl cf great importance to tho
United Statcc.
.See. 16. Recognizing tho world's Columbian
exposition as a national undertaking of vast
importance, ia which tho general government
has inviiod tbo co-operation of all the powers
of tho world, nnd appreciating tho acceptance
by many of such powers of tho invitation so
extended and the broad and liberal efforts bo
ing mado by thom to contribute to the
grandeur of tho undertaking, we are of tho
opinion that congress should mako such neces
sary financial provisions as shall bo requisite
to tho maintenance of the national honor and
public faith.
Democratic candidate
for vice presidentof theUnitcd States,
was born in Christian county, Ky.,
Oct.
and educated in the com­
mon schools of Kentucky and at Cen
ter college, Danville, ICy. He removed
with his parents to BloomingUm,
pttiri*
'ttFtoi
I&JTETT
flKjrtf
jiW
tiLsHig
f^ii.
p-feiftoj
'MM
111.,
in 1852 and began the study of law at
i'.loomington in
1857.
being admitted
to the bar in May, 1858. He locatcd
at Matamora, Woodward county, Il'v
and immediately began the practice
of law, remaining in that city for io
years.- He was appointed to tbcoflice
of master in chancery by the circuit
judge, and after holding that position
for four years was
elected
district
attorney, an ollice which lie also held
for four years. At the expiratn olio
his term as district attorney lie
returned to Bloomiugton, 111., and
formed a law partnership with .Tames
S. Irwin in January,
1S0S,
which part­
nership still exists. lie was twice
elected to congress iu a KcpuoiRan
district. Stevenson was appointed
first assistant postmaster general by
Cleveland and held that office during
the
entire Cleveland administration.
As assistant postmaKter general he
was outspoken in his belief that it
was a democratic duty to rcimne
republican postmasters wliere\ti pos
sible and appoint reputable and em
cient
democrats in their stead, inc.
celerity with which
Gen.
removed republican pirstina^ttrb .m
appointed democrats made him \cry
popular, particularly throughout the
South.
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