Turner County herald., April 18, 1895, Image 3

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W. C. BROWN, Publisher.
HURLEY. SOUTH DAKOTA.
*The mercants report an Increased
•prlng trade In all parts of 'the coun
try, and there-are other unmistakable
evidences of a revival of business
and the coming of good times.
No receptacle has ever been made
strong enough to resist, the bursting
power of freezing water. Twenty
pound steel shells have been rent asun
der as though made of pottery.
The Maine Sons of the Revolution
have just admitted to membership in
their order the descendant of a Pas
samaquoddy Indian chief who fought
for America in the days of 1776.
Venezuela is near enough to the
United States to render her safety a
question of some concern to us. Eng
land must beware how she assails
tli« rights of that plucky little repub
lic.
A Frenchman who settled in South
Carolina a few ye^irs ago planted 150
acres in asparagus. At the end of six
years he sold his farm and returned
to his native country with a fortune
of $250,000.—Savannah News.
Prof. Young finds by investigation
that the sun's light is about 300,000
times as great as the moon's. If,
therefore, the sky was covered with
full moons they would give but one
eighth as much light as the sun.
The women of Danville, Ny., have
established a free industrial school
for the benefit of children whose op
portunities for home training are mea
ger. The school is held every Satur
day, and the attendance is aUout
twenty.
One of the signs of the disappear
ance of the financial clouds is the lack
,of popular interest in the treasury
gold reserve. That fund, happily, is
strong, and will grow stronger, but. it
lias ceased to be a subject of deep
concern to anybody.
In White county, Ga., there is a
mountain stream which runs up hill
at a steep incline for almost half a
mile. It Is supposed to be the con
tinuation of a siphon, which has its
source in a spring at a higher eleva
tion, at the opposite side of the moun
tain.
One of the picturesque features of
^park decoration in New York this
summer will be about one hundred
large banana plants that will be set
out in favorite places and permitted
to make what growth they can during
July, August and the hot weeks of
September.
The movement in the south for the
encouragement of immigration from
the north is making decided headway,
and the result cannot fail to be bene
ficial to that section in more ways
than one. It means the development
of a "new South" in the full sense of
the expression.
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The late Richard Vaux, of Philadel
pliia. was one of the most pictures
que figures of the time—a man repre
senting with persistent fidelity the
convictions the costume and the hab
its of fifty years ago. He was not
great, but he was interesting and cred
itable, and his death is to be regarded
in a sense as a national loss.
The great stride electricity is mak
ing as an industrial agent are often re
ferred to, and the figures concerning it
now coming to hand will add to the
surprise. An official report states that
on January 1, last, there were in New
York City 15,014,OSS miles of wire for
the transmission of electricity, or
enough to encircle the city 50,000
t'mcs. -v^-vgEg
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A Boston inventor has patented a
wire with a spiral groove miming
through it which is said to be self-
insulating safe to handle, free from
leakage, and able to carry the voice
Thousands of miles. It delivers elec
tricity on the water-pipe principle, and
Boston papers expect great results
from its application, 'j&j&RBl
England has a great hankering for
ship canals. Instead of prowling
around Nicaragua, where it may
get into trouble, it should en
courage British investors, who are
burdened with many idle millions,
to buy up and finish the Panama Can
al. The opportunity there to mobilize
capital will be found equal to all re
quirements.
An American railway to rifti within
110 miles of Havana is one of the pro
jects now under consideration. Its
terminus would be Key West, which,
though on an island sixty miles from
the Florida mainland, can be reached
by a chain of islands connected by
trestles and bridges of iron aiid stone.
Key West is 350 miles south of Jack
sonville, but trains will probably be
running into the town within two or
three years. This is a country of mag
nificent devices for annihilating them.
It is a curious and significant fact
that woman suffrage is stronger in the
west, than in the east. Colorado and
Wyoming have adopted it, Utah will
have it, and California aud Oregon are
soon to vote upon it, with the proba
bility of an affirmative result, Avhile
several of the new England States
have lately decided against it. The
women who want political rights
should, therefore, turn their faces to
'id the setting sun.
For Settle™ From the Went.
Savannah. Ga., April 14.—J. V. Cur
rln and R. W. Randall, representing a
Chicago syndicate, are here negotiat
ing for 100,000 acres of land in Mont
gomery county on which colonists
from the West are to be settled. ..
I'robhbly Kidnaped.
Toledo, April 14. Willie Bellamy,
aged ten, son of Theodore Bellamy of
Detroit, who was visiting here with
his father, has been missing since 8
o'clock last evening, and is thought
to have been kidnaped.
AROUND THE"GLOBE
DIGEST BV THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
All Important Occurrence* of th®
Past Week, Boiled Down and Arr
anged for Rapid Readlnfff. Froiu
Home and Abroad.
From the Nation'* Capital.
Counterfeit two-cent postage stamps
are in circulation in
large
quantities.
The department of agriculture re
ports the
average
condition of winter
wheat 81.4,. against S!.7 last April.
President Cleveland denounces the
Massachusetts minister who accused
him of Intemperance.
Ernest Harris and John T. Jones,
melter and assistant melter respective
ly at the Carson mint, have been sus
pended. The shortage in the mint* is
sso.ooo.
The controller of the currency lias
declared a 5 per cent dividend in
favor of the creditors of the insolvent
Northern National bank of Big Rap
ids, Mich.
The controller of the treasury has
rendered a decision in wliich he holds
that Judges Springer and Kilgore, re
cently appointed to the two districts
in Oklahoma, cannot receive compen
sation for their services as such
judges until after they have been con
firmed.
Personal Mention.
Charles H. Mansur, ex-controller of
currency, Is critically 111 at Washing
ton.
L. A. Thurston, Hawaiian minister
to the United States, sailed for Hono
lulu.
John Wallace, one of the oldest res
idents of Nebraska, died at Tekawah,
that state. He was an uncle of Gen.
Lew Wallace of Indiana
Jan Visscher, one of the earliest
pioneers at Holland, Mich., died of
paralysis. He was seventy-eight years
old.
Mrs. David Joyce, widow of the late
millionaire lumberman, died at her
home in Lyons, Iowa. She leaves one
son, William T. Joyce.
Mrs. Miles, wife of Gen. Nelson A.
Miles, was attacked with heart failure
while on her way to a theater in New
York. It is feared she cannot recover.
Lord Lamington will accompany
George N. Curzon to America to act
as best man at the wedding of Mr.
Curzon and Miss Letter.
Gen. Russell A. Alger, ex-governor
of Michigan, has arrived from the
Orient on the La Touraine, which has
been making a two months' cruise in
Mediterranean waters.
William Henderson, the last survi
vor of the founders of the Anchor
line of steamships, and of-the firm of
Henderson Bros., the famous.... boat
builders, is dead in Chicago. c"-:
Thomas W. Wood, president of the
National Academy of Design, is about
to found an art gallery at Montpelier,
Vt., the home of his boyhood, and has
a small but valuable collection of
paintings and etchings in hand for
this purpose.
Mr. Edison, the great electrician, re
ceives many amusing letters. Not long
ago he was startled by an epistle from
a Western damsel asking him if he
could not invent an electrical contri
vance that would enable her to see the
face of her future husband.
Rev. Dr. J. J. Reed, of Trinity
church, Newburg, does not propose to
talk to an inattentive audience. Dur
ing his sermon on Sunday he discov
ered a man reading a newspaper. The
preacher stopped short in his dis
course and called the offender down,
remarking that newspapers were out
of order.
In reference to requests for auto
graphs Mark Twain says that a doc
tor has no more right to ask a liter
ary man for an autograph than the
literary man has a right to ask the
doctor for a prescription. Gen. Lew
Wallace gets even by prefacing Ills au
tographic signatures with the words
"written by request."
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Unfortunate Events.
Sutter's general store at Lake Lin
den, Mich., was damaged $11,000 in
sured.
Despondency drove Robert Boyer, a
farmer at Abingdon, 111., to drown him
self In a well.
Henry Bollmler's house and barn at
Lively Grove, 111., were burned. Loss,
$5,000 insured for $2,000.
The steamer S. Y. Rea sank at
Brooks' landing, in the Cumberland
river, last night. No lives were lost.
The elevator and granary of Hasen
winkle & Cox at Hudson, III., was
burned. Loss $15,000 insured.
The steamer .7. T. Rhea, engaged In
the Upper Cumberland river trade,
sank fifty miles above Carthage, Tenn.
during a heavy wind. No lives were
lost.
The Susquehanna rolling mill at Co
lumbia, Pa., the largest in this sec
tion of the state, was destroyed by
fire to-day. Loss $50,000 partly cov
ered by insurance
'Wyoming train men report that
there are hundreds of cattle lying
dead alongside the railroad tracks,
where they drifted during tlio storm
and died.
The third attempt within two weeks
to burn St. Mary's Catholic church
in Washington, D. C., was made but
the flames ere extinguished with lit
tle !ass.
Daniel McCabe was killed at Peoria
111., by the blowing off of a boiler flue
eap| in the plant of the American Glu
cose company. He leaves a widow
and eleven children.
The fire on the farm of William
Bowman near Goshen. Ind., which
destroyed two large barns and their
contents was started by Mr. Bow
man's 6-year old boy. The loss is
$4,500.
The schooner .Toslah R. Smith of
Bath, from Baltimore to Boston, with
a cargo of coal,, was run into and sunk
last night three miles west of (Jay
headlight by the barge^Loug.
The crew were saved,
Rocky Ford, the EnglisirColony"set"
tlemeut on the Rio Pecos, near Albu
querque, N. Mex., established by the
AVestern Homestead and Irrigation
Company of Chicago, was destroyed
by fire, during a fierce wind storm.,.
Criminal Dolnqrs.
mMii.
Eight more indicted otlicers have
been arrested In New York.
Mansford C. Bailey, a union veter
an, blew out his brains at Omaha,
Neb., because of domestic troubles.
Philip Gaffron a watchmaker of
Denver, was shot and dangerously
wounded burglars.
John Stevens a farmer residing in
Marion township, Noble county, Ohio,
murdered his son.
Two negroes and a negress were
murdered by white men in a dive at
Houston, Tex.
Prompted by jealousy, John Winfield
fatally stabbed Sarah Taylor of Na
tchez, Miss. Both are colored.
Will Payne was murdered by his
brother. Lock Payne, near Kuotts
ville, Ky. The men quarreled over a
lien.
Judge John H. Sahler once a prom
inent citizen of Omaha and an ex
judge, committed suicide. He had
lost all his money.
William T. Bosley, who took an
ounce of morphine pills a few days
ago at English, Ind., with suicidal in
tent, iv dead.
Joseph Paul, an Indian Judge in In-
'dian territory, was shot and killed by
'"jjimison.i.McClure, a nephew, who al
leged that the judge had stolen his
wife. ... ,::
Capt. A. Ford Hursley, a well-known
vessel captain defeated last fall for
treasurer of Chippewa county, Mich.,
killed himself at Sault Ste. Marie
while despondent.
Officers at Romney, W. Va., spirited
away D. S. Shawn to the'penitentiary'
to save him from a mob that was pre
paring to lynch him. Shawn had his
death sentence pommuted to life im
prisonment.
Levi Warner of Mayfield, N. Y., be
cause he was worsted in a wrestling
match by Archibald Snyder, fired a
charge of buckshot into Snyder's neck.
Warner, was avrested. Snyder's recov
ery is doubtful.
Annie Schiltz and Marie Launenberg
fo\ight a duel in a yard back of the
Waterbury rope works in New York
city, over the affections of Pat. Dwyer
who drives a truck. The fight was
a draw owing to police interference.
George Sharpe, colored shot and
killed Fred Crowe, white at the Illin
ois glass works, in Alton, 111., who is
a niodelmaker, attacked Sharpe. He
claimed that Sharpe had insulted his
sweetheart. ^.
William Oonners. leader of the band
of bandits, which robbed a gambling
house of $615 has been captured ju
Denver, Col. The other two members
of the gang were captured at Aspen
Junction. w,wr
jFori.'lKli
Spaniards lose nearly 400 men in a
tight with Cuban insurgents.
Terms of peace between China and
Japan are nearly completed.
William Gully has been elected as
speaker of the British house of com
mons.
Li Hung Chang's wound is healing
rapidly and the bandages have been
removed.
British forces will occupy Uch and
Kotgala In India from the Gilgit side.
The garrison of Chitral is safe.
The steamer De Lesseps has brought
from Costa Rica to Colon a number of
Colombian exiles.
The Venezuelan congress, with much
enthusiasm, thanks the United States
for its attitude in the British-Venezu
elan difficulty.
The British museum has withdrawn
from public use the books in its col
lection of which Oscar Wilde^,.ls,Jh|
author.
A dispatch to the London^Tinies
from Calcutta says that sixteen men
were killed by an explosion in the
Kotar gold mines in Bangaloro.
The Japanese-Chinese armistice will
close in ten days, so that it is antici
pated by officials and diplomats that
the final terms of peace must be near
at hand. ~,v
The British" house of commons,' by
unanimous vote, adopted an address
to the queen praying that a signal
mark of royal favor be conferred upon
Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel, the re
tiring speaker.
The first brigade of the British
force moving to the relief of Mr. Rob
ertson. the British agent at Chitral,
has had an engagement with 5,X)0
Swatis, who were trying to block the
Malakand pass. The enemy were put
to flight after losing thirty killed by a
charge of cavalry.
Her majesty's steamship Pheasant
has received telegraphic orders from
Admiral Stephenson on the flagship
Royal Arthur to proceed north April
20 from Victoria, B. C., and patrol
Bering sea and the fishing grounds
during the close season, which be
gins May 1 and extends three mouths.
Officials of the Turkish embassy at
Paris say with reference to the dis
patch of American warships to Alex
andretta and Adana, Syria, that there
is no truth whatever in the report that
a massacre of Christians is impending.
They declare, on the contrary, that
perfect order prevails in Syria.
Otherwise.
A plan for the reorganization of the
Atchison road is issued.
The reported death of "Rat" Master
son is denied.
Ex-Recorder Smyth of New York
will be the new leader of Tammany.
The Massachusetts legislature pass
es a severe law on Sunday observance.
The Atchison directors have ap
proved the reorganization plan.
The Arkansas legislature adjourned
sine dieJffi
Striking
i!coatmakers
at Cincinnati
number 8,500.
Receiver McNulty sues ex-officials of
the whisky trust, alleging fraud.
Striking miners in Iowa threaten
trouble and the militia may be ordered
out.
Burglars robbed the bank at Cherry
Valley. N. Y., and obtained consider
able plunder.
Hypnotism is recognized by the
Kansas supreme court as a factor in
murder cases.
Leading horsemen form an organiza
tion to be known as the American
league.
The suit of a Chicago man against
Schweinfurtli, the Illinois "Messiah,"
for alienating the affections of the
former's wife, is on trial.
Before the New York East confer
ence Dr. Ilunt reported that 100.000
Bibles had been distributed in China
during the past four months.
Senator Palmer of Illinois protests
against the free silver action of the
Democratic central committee of that
state.
Gov. Rickards of Montana proceeds
to "whoop her up" for free silver, in
augurating what he calls an educa
tional campaign.
A member of the Arkansas legisla
ture tells of an attempt to bribe him
in connection with a railroad commis
sion bill.
Two traders. Healey and Hooper,
haye returned from Port Townsend,
Wash., from one of the wildest and
most hazardous journeys ever made
to Alaska. 1 i|
.T. M. Fielding, drummer for a New
York stationery iirm, has been mining
for five days from the Palace hotel,
San Francisco. His friends fear foul
play.
W. L. Smith of Memphis was elected
department commander at the annual
encampment of the Tennessee Grand
Army of the Republic at Athens.
Commander Lawler was one of the
visitors present.
Mrs. Boulton confessed at Ander
son, Ind., that she fired the shot wnich
killed William Foust at her house.
A man named Hires had been convict
ed and sentenced to thirteen years
for the crime. _,-V
A letter bearing the sienatul-e of
Bishop Chatard has been sent to the
Roman Catholic congregations of In
dianapolis. The bishop warns his peo
ple against the doctrine of which Col.
Robert Ingersoll is the chief exponent.
Farmers in the vicinity of Spring
Valley, Ladd and Seatonville. 111., have
organized the Bureau County Protec
tive association. They claim that un
employed miners have been killing
and carrying off live stock and poul
try.
The insurance committee of the
Massachusetts general court has re
ported a bill providing that no life
insurance companies shall issue a
policy upon the life of any child living
in the state less than ten years old.
The penalty Is $100 for each offense,
the law to take effect Sent. 1, 1S95.
Four members of the committee dis
sented, ... «,•
SOUTH DAKOTA KEW^.
GATHEREDfFROBI LATEST ASSOCIAT
ED PRESS TELEGRAMS.
A Change of Venuo In Black Hills Timb
er Suite—Official Death Blow to the Slate
National Guard—Sale of Tobacco to Mi
nors—State Flro and Life Insurance.
Harrjr Wriddlwooth was jailed at
Yankton a few dayB ago/ lor highway
robbery and attempted murder of
an Ireneman. His pal is still at large.
Arthur Low., an 8 year-old boy,
had his lej torn off above the knee a
Few days ago at Dell Rapids, by being
caught in the wheel while hanging on
the rear end. of a wagon.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed at Pierre for the Berreslord State
bank. Capital stock, §10,000 direc
tors, Boyson Ross, H. J. Thorde,
Akron, Iowa, and H. J. Merdel, of
Berresford.
Assistant secretary of State Gel
lette has tendered his resignation pen
ding inquiry unto the recent charges
made against him. It is asserted by
some that the charges are nothing
but spite work of enemies. j:
Chambers Keller, of Hot Springs,
lias issued a circular letter to the de
scendants of the American revolution
in South Dakota. It is Mr. Keller's
purpose to organize a chapter in each
considerable town in the state.
Information was received at Cham
berlain a few days ago that a reward
of $1,000 has been offered for the re
covery ot the body of Phillip Turgeon
and another man who were drowned
in the Missouri south of hamber
Iain a short time a^o.
Information has been received by
the Castalia Rebublican, published
near the Yankton reservation, that
n, detachment of United States regu
lars lroin Ft. Omaha will be present
to preserve order during the opei.ing
of that reservation to settlement.
Attorney General Crawford has
served papers in a suit for $27,0u0
Hgainst
ex-Commissioner of Lands
I'nomas H. Ruch: That amount was
lost to the school hind by Taylor's
defalcation, and it is alleged that it
was in Taylor's hands through neg
lect ou the part of Ruth.
While the interested parties refused
to talk, says a special telegram to
the Minneapolis Journal, it ii known
that the basis of charges against
Assistant Secretary of State Uillette
are alleged false vouchers to the
amount of $90 in the maintenance
account oi the statehouse for 18U2.
Other things are hinted at, but not.h:
ing specific will now be given.
Judge Edgerton heard the argument
made in the application of Wayman,
Partridge & Co., of Minneapolis, for a
receiver of the general merchandise
business of C. G. Leysp & Co., of
Brookings. The applicants also ask
die court to set aside chattle mort
gages to the amount of $10,000, given
by the Brookiugs lirm to Ayers,
Weatherwax, Keed & Co., of Sioux
City, and others.
A sad and probably fatal accident
occurred a few miles northeast of
Byant a few days ago when the 9 year
old daughter of Mrs. John Slaw was
horribly burned. She was playing
near a burning straw stack, when her
clothing taught fire, and, frightened,
she ran half a mile to her home with
her clothes in a flame. By this time
her right arm was perfectly crisp and
her body in nearly the same condi
dition.
A large Russian thistle was found at
Ordway a few days ago in a wire fence
and attached to the center of the
thistle was this letter: "Bismarck, N.
D., Feb. G, 1895.—Here I am set
adrift in a storm. Whoever finds me,
please report me to J. S. Clark, Bis
marck, N. D." This makes a dist
ance of about 160 miles the weed has
traveled, scattering its seeds. Prob
ably in its rambles bnck and forth
across the prairies, the weed has
traveled several hundred miles more
than the distance from Ordway to
Bismarck.
In the United States court at Sioux
Falls a few days ago indictments were
returned against Ole Anderson and
Arthur McKee of Kimball, S. D. The
former was indicted for selSing whisky
without a government linense, while
the latter was indicted for a much
different offence and one which is
quite novel. His crime lies in his
writing the following on a postal
card and nmiling the same: "Sin
There is a balance due me of §8.75
which I wani. by naxt Monday, and
if not paid by that time eomething
will drop. I have nioir^vrd with
you as long as 1 am going to."
The matter of closing saloons at
Huron was not referred to at the re
centcouncil meeting, mucin to the dis
appointment of a large number of
anti-saloon people present. Tiiro of
the new aldermen are strong temper
ance men—one a Congregational
preacher—but none of them seem in
clined to declare war aeainst the
blind pigs, holes in the wa'l, saloons,
gambling dens and other questionable
places until they have become more
familiar with their fellow aldermen
and the workings of the city govern
ment. It is quite certain, says a tele
gram from that city, that, four or five
members of the council will not have
everything their own way, and to
judge from present indications, the
saloon will not go from Huron thia
•yeai--
Seldom is it piven to any locality to
witness a sadder scene than that
which occurred in Blunt a few days
ago, the funeral of both Mr. and Mrs.
Phelps Moore, formerly (if St. Paul.
The couple came to Blunt a. year ^50,
and had just moved a house 011 to a
claim, preparing, as the aid gentleman
frequently said, to spend their last
days, I'a sunny old age 111 a Hiinny
state." Three weeks ago Mr. Moore
was thrown from a wagon by a runa
way team and severoly bruised. In
caring fo? him his wife was worn out
and ptieumoniaset in. From the first
each expressed a willingness to die if
the other should die. Mrs. Moore
died first, and 18 hours later her hus
ban 1 followed her. An only son from
St. Paul arrived a few hours after
their deaths.
If you are going into dairying don't
calculate that you will have as easy
work as you had trying to raise wheat.
You raised wheat mostly with machin
ery and a few months work each year
but you have got to milk these cows by
hand and that ordinarily 365 days a
year and 360 days each fourth year.
Just put that down now. You won't
do it by machinery—nothing will ever
take the place of your own hands for
this work. It means work, work,
work, early and tolerable late and a
long time and you will only succeed
after a long pull. It is quite a "come
down" from that 12 foot header and
400 acres more or less to the milking
day after day. But then there's anoth
er side to it. You won't lay awake
nights with starvation staring you and
yours in the face—your 100 acres will
cojitinuallyjrrow rifflier, machinery meji
will pass you by and your bank deposit
will grow a little better each month...
That means contentment, and it aint
the work that kills men, its the worry.
•'•ilii.Tobacco to Chlldrer^ii
"Considerable interest is being, mani
fested in the action the Civic Federa
tion of Vermillion is taking in regard
to the sale of Tobacco to children.
The organization, modeled after sim^
ilar organizations in Chicago fena
Minneapolis) has just been completed
and bids fair to make itself felt. No
tices have just been published and
posted warnirtt all persons to Obey
the state law forbidding the sale of
tobacco to children of less than 16.
Considerable opposition to this step
is anticipated^ but O. E. Prentis, one
of the wealthiest and most influential
men in that part of the state, is presi
dent of the federation and salutary
results are confidently expected.
'b A Change tit Venue.
Judge J. B. Carland, who was a few
weeks ago appointed special United
Status district attorney for the pro
secution of the lag timber claims
against ths Homestake Mining Com
pany, has moved the dismis-al of the
case, already begun in the Black Hills
district. The suit is for something
like |700,000, claimed by the United
States government for timber, taken
by the Homestake and appropriated
to the company's use. It is under
stood that Judge Carland will at once
recommence the action in the Sioux
Falls District. Lawyers in thee«stern
part of the state dislike very much to
try a case against the Homestake in
the Black Hills, and it is thought likely
that the new complaint will be filed in
Sioux Falls.
South Dakota Insurance.
The insurance records of the state
Auditor's office show the total foreign
fire and life insurance business of the
state tc be as follows:
Fir.5 INSURANCE.
Premiums received !j3S3,3i)2
Bscs incurred 2L0,U8'J
RIhIcb ivrit'eu 18,7lr».8(3
Losses l'lilil 189,360
LIFE INSUIIAWCK.
Insurance in force Dfc 31, 8f3... $1 i,110,133
Insurance written in 1SU-1 1,975,807
Premiums received 2815,17(1
Losses incurred S0.977
Insurauce in lorce Dee. 31. 181U... 0.999,450
The following insurance companies
withdrew from the state the past year:
Guardian, Great Britian, Hamburg,
Bremnn, Germany, Minnesota, Min
neapolis, Bankers' Life Association,
New York Bankers' Life Association,
Des Moines Dea Moines Life Associa
tion, Des Moines Equitable Life and
Endowment, Waterloo, Iowa Guar
anty Fund Life Association, Council
Bliiiis, Iowa London Guaranty and
Accident, London Northwestern-Le
gion of Honor, Moreneo, Iowa Penn.
Mutual Life, Philadelphia, the United
States Masons' Benevolent Associa
tion, Council B'.uffs.
The late legislature passed insurance
bills for the organization of the mer
chants' Mutual and County Mutual
companies, a law preventing compa
nies or agents from doing business in
this state without authority from the
state auditor a law exempting the
avails of-life insurance from the debts
of the decedent, and one allowing
guaranty companies to give bonds
for public officials. A maximum rate
bill was killed.
.j
Official Death Blow to the S. D. National
Guard.
A special telegram to the Minneap
olis Daily Journal from Sioux Falls
dated the 10th inst., says:
Adjutant General George A. Silsby
and
r'
tention
Sheldon, commander-in-
chief ot i.-e South Dakota National
Guards, have issued a circular letter,
which is construed to give the death
blow to the national guards in this
state.
The letter cnlls attention to the
fact that the last legislature failed to
make any appropriation forthe main
tenance of the guard, and that after
June 31 no further state aid can be
extended to that organization. At­
is called to the fact that only
two courses are open to the militia
nie«. One is to disband the other
to continue the organization at the
expen' jf the members and of the
ci("'''^r of.the localities in which the
comp ,nuis are located. Each captain
is re' uevted to lay the matter at once
beFo his men, and to secure from
them a prompt decision as to the
course they expect to take* it seems
to be the belief among military men
that the organization will disband, as'
the expanse of maintaining it entirely
without state aid would fall too
heavily upon the young men who
make up the state guards.
ThB letter states in conclusion, that
if the members see fit t.o keep up the
organization, the staff officers will re
joice at the decision and will be glad
to serve for the next two years entire
ly without pay. ..... .«
AGRICULTURAL LANDS.
SnlcN Are Sti»iJ«"n«lMl Until the State
L«*Kl*latiire» Act,
St. Paul, April 11. State Auditor
Dunn has received a number of in
of inquiries of late as to the date for
the next sale of agricultural lands,
which is usually held in the spring.
Auditor Dunn has been unable to re
ply definitely as to these inquiries, as
nothing can be done until the outcome
of the measures now pending in ihe
legislature relating to the state lands
shall have been determined. Conse
quently no announcements of sales
will be made until the legislature ad
journs. If neither of the qiue land
bills goes through the usual six weeks'
notice required under the present
law will be given. Under the terms
of H. F. No. 35!, the Staples measure,
if it should happen to become a law,
there would be no sale this year,
DAMAGED BY STORM. fit?.'
The Heavy Rainfall Occasioned Con*
sldvrnble Lomm.
Faribault. Minn., April 14. Last
night's thunder storm did much dam
age about the city and vicinity.
Bridges, culverts, sidewalks and new
walls of buildings being constructed
were washed away. Hail destroyed
a large amount of property. The elec
tric
Avires
gave brilliant displays and
many were burned. Cisterns, cellars,
wells, streets and rivers are full. The
water fall was immense and people
talked of it as the greatest ever seen
by old settlers. The damage will prob
ably reach many thousands of dollars.
The section men of the Milwaukee
road were called to-day to look after
a bridge washout south of the city
limits.
.Ah at the Crneilixlon
Charleston, S. C., April 14—Tne uev.
J. T. Hartzell, an Episcopal clergyman
residing near this city, publishes this
statement: "Good Friday of this year
the heavenly bodies which gravitate
around the sun will be in exactly the
same position" relatively to each other
and to the earth that they occupied
on the day Christ was crucified. It
will lie the first time such a thing has
occurred since that day."
A a
London. April 14. Three refugees
from Sassouu have arrived in this
city where tliey are the guests of the
Anglo-Armenian committee. They
were eye-witnesses of the massacre
by the Turks and Kurds, and their ev
idence coniirius the reports of the
atrocities. The child of one of them
was cut to pieces before his eyes.
They themselves had narrow escanes.
ON SOUND INANCES.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND WRITES
A LETTER TO CHICAGO MEX.
Ill Replying to an Invitation to
Make a Spccch in Cbkago, the
President Slakes a Pica. In Behalf
of Sorindl Money
Washington, April 1C. President
Cleveland has written a reply to the
invltatloh to attend a rdception in
Chicago to lexpress appreciation of the
•president's stand on financial ques
tions. The president, after regretting
his Inability to be present, says in
hope the event will mark the be
ginning of an earnest and aggressive
effort to disseminate among the peo
ple safe and prudent financial ideas.
Nothing more important can engage
the attention of patriotic citizens, be
cause nothing is so vital to the wel
fare of our fellow countrymen and to
the strength, prosperity arid honor of
our nation. The situation demands
that those who appreciate the impor
tance of tills subject and those who
ought to be the first to see impending
danger should no longer remain in
different or over-confident. If the
sound money sentiment, abroad in the
land is to save us from the mischief
and disaster it jnust be crystalized
and combined and made immediatijl/
active. It is dangerous to overlook
the fact that a vast number of our
people with scant, opportunity, thus
far, to examine the question in all its
.ispccts, have nevertheless been in
geniously pressed with specious sug
gestions which in this time of mis
fortune and depression find willing
listeners prepared to give credence to
any scheme which is plausibly pre
sented as a remedy for their unfortu
nate condition. What is now needed
more than anything else is a plain and
simple presentation of the argument
In Favor of Sound Money.
In other words, it Is a time for the
American people to reason together
as members of a great nation which
can promise them a continuance of
protection aud safety only so long as
its solvency is unsuspected, its honor
unsullied and the soundness of its
money unquestioned. These things are
all exchanged for the illusion of a de
based currency and groundless hope
of advantages to be gained by a dis
regard of our financial credit and com
mercial standing among the nations-of
the world. In these restless days the
farmer is tempted by the assurance
that though our currency may be de
based, redundant and uncertain, such
a .situation will improve the price of
his products, let us remind him that
lie must buy as well as sell that his
dreams of plenty are shaded by the
certainty that if the prices of th«
things he has to sell is nominally en
hanced, the cost of the things he must
buy will not remain stationary that
the best prices which cheap money
proclaims are unsubstantial and elu
sive, and that even if they were real
and palpable, lie must necessarily be
left far behind in the race for their
enjoyment. It ought not to be diffi
cult to convince the wage-earner that
if there were benefits arising from a
degenerated currency they would
reach him least, of all and last of all.
It is utterly impossible that any one
in our broad land, rich or poor, what
ever may be liis occupation, and
whether dwelling in a center of
finance and commerce, or in a remote
corner of our domain, can be really
benefitted by
A Financial Schema,
not alike beneficial to all our people,
or that any one should be excluded
from a common and i.niversal inter
est in the safe character and stable
value of the currency "of the country.
The discredit or depreciation in finan
cial centers of any form cf money in
the hands of the people is a signal of
immediate loss everywhere. If reck
less discontent and wild experiment
should sweep our currency from its
safe .support the most defenseless of
all who suffer in that time of distress
and national discredit will be the
poor, as they reckon the loss in their
scanty support, and the laborer and
workman as he sees the money he has
received for his toil shrink and shrivel
in his hand when he tenders it for
the necessaries to supply his humble
home. Disguise it as we may, the
line of battle is drawn between the
forces of safe currency and those of
silver monometallism. I will not be
lieve that if our people are afforded an
intelligent opportunity for sober sec
ond thought they will sanction
schemes that however cloaked mean
disaster and confusion, nor that they
will consent, by undermining the
foundation of a safe currency, to en
danger the beneficent character and
purposes of their government.'
AFTER THE HOMESTAKE.
One Suit Against It Dlmnhiied nml
Another Immediately Bronsrlit.
Sioux Falls, S. D.. April 10.—To-day
on motion of Assistant United States
Attorney Carland. the case of the
United States vs. The Homestake
Mining Company was dismissed. Im
mediately a new complaint was filed
charging the defendant with cutting
11'.).702 cords of government timber
in 1891 and 1S02, valued at $68S,804.
The case will be tried here in October.
Two lIiK Kirex.
PlaftSljurg, Mo., April 10. Afire
started to-day in the Stenum livery
barns and spread rapidly. The fire is
still burning fiercely. Among the
buildings burned is the court house.
After the receipt, of the above dis
patch telegraphic communication with
the town was cut off
Glen Carbon. 111., April 16.—The St.
Louis press brick woiks here were
partially destroyed by fare to-day. The
loss is about .?300,000
"What Are We Here For?'
El Paso, Tex.. April 1(. Webster
Flanigan. ex-collector of customs at
this port, generally known as "What
are-we-here-for" Flanigan, is on trial,
charged with assisting A. S. Dawson
to smuggle 20,000 sheep from Mexico.
Mnrder and Suicide.
New York. April 16.—Charles Junda.
aged 20. a Bohemian tarror. shot and
Instantly killed his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Camilla .Tanda, and then committed
suicide by shooting himself while
standing in Ihe door.
A Chicago Capitalist Tfenrly Klllci
by an Unknown Man.
Chicago Special.—E. It. Hunter, a
wealthy cattle dealer at the Unlor
stock yards, was the victim of an as
sault while sitting in his office las)
night which will probably result in
his death. The cause of the assault
is unknown. Hunter v. ..s'alone In his
office, and the first known of the af
fair was when he came staggering
out of his office covered with blood,
and said to the janitor of the building
who met him in the hall: "Did yoii
see him?" After asking the question
Ilunter fell to the floor unconscious,
and is now lying at the point of death
i"» his room. His assailant dealt hiin
ow with a brick which made a
§5§i fnl wound on the temple, fractur
ing 1 lie skull. Nobody saw the assail
ant enter or leave the building. Hun
ter had no enemies as far as known
and he had with him when assaulted
a gold watch and a large sum of
money, and no attempt was made 1
take them away from him.
Income Tax Instruction*.
Washington Special.—'The treasury
department to-day issued to all income
lax collectors a series of supplemental
instructions to conform to the recent
decision of the supreme court.
TWO GIRLS KILLED.
Bloody Work in A Chnrch In San
FranciHCO.
San Francisco, April 16. The
Emanuel Baptist church, at Bartlett
street, between Twenty-second and
Twentv-third, in this city, has been
the scene of two of the most atrocious
murders ever committed in the state.
Yesterday the mutilated body of Miri
uie Williams was found in the library
of the edifice. To-day the nude body
of Blanche Lamont was found in the
tower of the same church. The same
hand, the authorities believe, slew
both girls, and W. II. T. Durant, the
young man suspected of both crimes,
is now in custody.
Blanche Lamont and Minnie Will:
ianis were members of the Emanuel
church, and members of the Sunday
school class. The former was a
student in the normal school, on Pow
ell strer in this city the latter was
a companion in a family in Alameda,
across the bay from the city. 'Ihey
were both twenty-one years old, bru
nettes and pretty and modest girls.
Both had been the recipients of atten
tions from a young medical student
named W. H. T. Durant. who is also
the librarian of the church and the
secretary of the Young People's so
ciety of the church. On April 3 Miss
Lamont disappeared. Diligent search
failed to reveal any trace of her
whereabouts, and her aunt, Mrs. No
ble, with whom she had been living,
was totally unable to throw any light
upon the affair. Miss Lamont came
from Dillon, Mont, several months
ago, having been in San Francisco for
her health and at the same time to
attend the normal school to perfect
herself as a teacher. The last person
seen in her company was W. H. T.
Durant, who, it seems, had been on
friendly terms with the missing girl.
Yesterdav about 11:10 p. m. the mutil
ated body of Minnie Williams was
found in the library of the church.
The girl had been assaulted and her
remains were cut and hacked, the girl
having evidently died from loss of
blood. On further examination it was
found she had been gagged, the as
sailant tearing part of her under
^lothing and thrusting it down her
throat with a sharp stick, badly lacer
ating the tongue.
Mi»s Lamont'* Body Found.
I
.ate last night the detectives had
about decided Durant had murdered
Miss Williams, and this theory was
further strengthened this morning af
ter making a thorough search of the
Emanuel church. The dead and out
raged body of Miss Lamont was found
concealed in the steeple. Death had
been caused by strangulation. The
body was lying just inside the door
of the tower room nude and on the
floor. Around the neck were marks
of fingers that had been pressed deep
into the tender flesh. The mouth was
open showing the teeth, the features
were badly distorted, being drawn,
and the lips were swollen and blood
stained. The nose was the only feat
ure that retained its original shape,
for the cheeks were bloated. The
girl's hair was matted with dirt and
hung loosely about her shoulders. The
body was badly decomposed, the odor
emanating from the remains having
reached the nostrils of the detectives
before they opened the door. When
the officers reached the top of the
stairs they found the door leading to
the tower dome locked. They broke
in the door. It was so dark they
could not see, and one of the officers
struck a match and when the light
flared up they saw before them the
dead body of the girl for whom they
had been searching. The body was
taken to the morgue where it was
placed on a slab by the side of Miss
Williams. Durant has been arrested.
In his possession was Miss Williams'
purse. It is believed that he lias a
mania for murdering girls.
Fatality at a Bull F!sht.
Barcelona. April 16.—In ihe course
of a bull flight here to-day the en
raged bull jumped over the barriers
and among the spectators. A wild
rush was at once made for the exits
and in the stampede many persons
were injured. The employes of the
bull ring made an attempt to capture
the buli. but they could not get him.
aijd finally a civil guard fired at him
with his carbine, killing the animal
and one of the spectators. As soon
as it was known that the bull was
dead the spectators hurried to their
seats and
The
entertainment proceeded
as though nothing out of the ordinary
had happened.
SellM Booxe to IndlaiiH.
Milwaukee. April 16.—Fred Goethe,
a Green Bay saloonkeeper, has been
arrested the fourth time on charges
of selling liquor to Indians. Each
case litis been continued when it came
up in court on the application of ex
Congressman T. R. Hudd, who rep
resents him as counsel. Mr. Hudd
contends that Goethe has a right to
sell liquor to Indians off the reserva
tion that as a result of the allot
ment they have the same rights as
any other citizen, and he proposes to
make this a test case by taking an
appeal should the decision go against
him in the lower cowrt.
Warm Welcome Promised,
Denver. April 16.—On their arrival
in Denver to-morrow morning ex
Congressman Sibley, Senator Jones
and Gen. Warner" will be met by a re
ception committee at the head of
which will be Gov. Mclntyre and
Mayor McMurra.v. A reception will
be given to the visitors at the Brown
Palace hotel in the evening, for which
elaborate arrangements have been
made. Gov. Mclntyre will welcome
the visitors to the state, and one of
them will reply. Tuesday afternoon
an open air meeting will be held.
Special trains will be run from all
over the state, and it is expected from
20.000 to 25.000 people will be present.
First Run of Lo^h.
Black River, Falls, Wis.. April 16.—
The first new logs passed down the
river to-dav. They have been running
steadily all day. Millions of feet have
passed, heavy rains on the upper
branches causing the rise. All the
booms at Onalaska are full.
Same Old Miwtake.feX:
Fri to in A 1 6 O a
Johnson, while duck hunting, was
killed by the accidental discharge of
a shotgun which he attempted to.lift„
from a boat by the muzzle.
V'V. 1IEKORE SUPREME COURT.
RE
ii
Au. 'Aiuieul From a Sentence By
.1
mlse Ives.
St. Paul. April 13.—'The appeal of W.
I). Russell and Hugh Quigley from
Judge Ives' sentence of fine and im
prisonment for contempt in condition
and a part of the liquor cases, which
have caused so much trouble, were to
day argued and taken under advise
ment by the supreme court. Russell
appeals from a fine of $100 and thirty
davs' imprisonment, and Quigley from
a tine of $100. j-J.
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IMSsStw Reform In Milvrnnkee.
Milwaukee, April 13.—Milwaukee is
about, to experience a moral reform
crusade. To-day a delegation of the
Methodist ministers, including Rev.
W. J. I'atton and his unknown com
panion who recently inane a tour of
the tenderloin district, called on May
or Koch and demanded that steps be
taken to clean out the dives. The
mayor was furnished witli a list of
the objectionable places and regaled
with an account of their doings as
witnessed by Mr. Patton. If the may
or refuses to grant the requests ot the
ministers, then the ministers will be
gin a crusade on the ciTy administra
tion.
F0UK MEN KILLED.
BLOODY RIOT AMONG RAILROAD
CONSTRUCTION MEN.
Two Men Get Into a Rot'v Aboat
Some Trivial Matter and Fii'e
Several Shots at Each Other, Botll
Being Fainlly Wounded.
Little Rock, Ark.. April 14 Re
ports of a serious riot at. Sioam
Springs reached here to-day. Foiir
men were killed outright and others
were seriously hurt.
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11
Fot some
months past trouble lias been brewing
among the men engaged in tli£ rail
way construction work near tiie
springs, they being made up of for
eign born and native citizens Two
or three weeks ago there was it row
which for a time threatened bloodshed
but which was finally quelled by the
officers without the loss of life. Last
night two men, Glendenning and
Fleming, got into a quarrel about
some trivial matter. They drew pis
tols, and before they could he re
strained. fired several shots at each
other, both being fatally wounded.
The encounter brought together all
the men in the camps, and when the
disputants fell the pent-up excitement
burst, precipitating a riot, the men
fighting each other like tigers. Shot
after shot was fired, and knives and
clubs were used. Deputy United
Slates Marshal Proctor hastened to
the scene and ordered the men to dis
perse. He was attacked by three or
four persons, and in self-defense, was
compelled to kill two of his assail
ants. He was seriously wounded, but.
his action stopped the fight. Several
arrests were made, but a good many
of those who engaged in the tight es
caped.
MADKGE YORK'S MURDER.
Verdict
In
of the Coroner's Jury
Accordance W ith the Facta.
Philadelphia, April 14.—Deputy Cor
oner Dugau at noon to-day began his
official inquiry into the deatli of Mar
garet Winifred Drysdale (Madge
York), the young actress who was
shot and killed by Actor James B.
Gentry on the night of Feb. 17, last.
Under the advice of his counsel Gen
try did not testify, and after the hear
ing of a number of other witnesses,
whose testimony was unimportant,
the jury returned this verdict: "The
jury find that. Margaret W. Drysdale
came to her death by gunshot wounds
received at the hands of James B.
Gentry." Gentry was remanded to
prison to await the action of the grand
jury.
f&y
Agninnt Hartman.
Washington, April 14. Secretary
Smith has denied the motion for re
viewing the case of Angus McDonald
et al. vs. Einil Hartman et al.. coming
from Duluth. Minn. The motion was
made by Hartman, the secretary hav
ing previously decided against him.
This is the celebrated iron land case
known as the "Section SO case." in
which valuable iron mines have heen
discovered and has been before the
department for several years..
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She Roped Him In.
Perry, Okla., April 14.—Alfred Cless,
a wealthy German, has begun suit for
divorce from his wife. I-Ie declares
that they were married in Germany,
and that soon afterward he lost the
position of judge by the wrong-doings
of his wife. He also charges that his
wife misrepresented her age to him
before marriage aud also stated to lvim
that she was of rich parentage. In
fact she was old, of low birth and
never loved him.
Sehultz Snielden.
Tacoma. Wash., April 14.—The dead
body of Paul Scliultz. general laud
agent of the Northern Pacific railroad,
was found in his bed at ':4? by Hen
ry, his Japanese servant. He tired a
bullet into his right temple with a
revolver. The bullet went through
his head. Despondency and tlie loss
of his position was undoubtedly the
cause. His financial affairs are bad
ly tangled up.
Receiver Appointed.
Sioux City. April 14.—The Northern
Investment company, a Boston organ
ization. lias been placed in the hands
of a receiver on application of Charles
C. Harrison of Philadelphia, who
holds $100,000 bonds of the company
secured by mortgage on all its prop
erty. Harrison also filed a suit to fore
close the mortgage. There are other
mortgages, amounting to $400,000 pri
or to Harrison's. ..•
Lynching \piro«ed.
Corsicana. Tex., April 14. Nelson
Calhoun, colored, was taken from the
authorities to-day and carried to the
scene where Mrs. Hughes was rav
ished some days ago and shot. 'Ihe
verdict rendered at the inquest was:
:"Wns carried where the hellish crime
was committed and there recei\ed
wounds that caused his death—a pun
ishment certain, speedy and de
served."
Snpponed Robbers Arrested.
Pueblo. Colo.. April 14.—Two' men
answering the description gnen of
the Cripple Creek express robbers
were arrested'here to-da.v. They gave
the names of F. M. Miller and A. E.
Wilhite. and sav they had just come
from Oklahoma City. Chief of Po
lice Abbey will hold theiu until their
identity can be established
lly Way of Madrid.
Madrid. April 14.—An official (lis
patch received here from 11 in ana
says that the rebel leader. Gen. Maceo,
has again been defeated in an encoun
ter with the Spanish troops, and that
he is now surrounded by the latter.
Marti is believed to have fled to tlie
United States. «-«*,
Smallpox Epidemic.
Padueah. Ky.. April 14.—News tn
day bv steamer from Shawneetown.
III.', is that there are thirty-nine cases
of smallpox there. There is said to
be great excitement and many citi
zens have left town temporarily.
Bought Farms.
Raleigh. N. C.. April 14,-The visit
of the 103 farmers from the far North
west to this state lias proved to be
full of results, as over fifty have
bought farms, while twenty-seven
bought town lots.
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A Woman In It.
Jamestown. N. Y.. Special.—At Flu
vanna this morning Fred Mitchell ami
James Rainey, both of this city, quar
reled over a woman to whom both had
been paying attentions. Mitchell wa».
till aggressor, and Rainey. as lie
claims, in self-defense, attacked linn
with a knife. Mitchell was dealt two
ugly cuts in the neck, one ot which
severed the jugular vein, and he died
in ten minutes.-
Legislature of Its Own.
Springfield. 111.. Special.— A move
ment was set afoot by Repieseii(:Hi\e
Jones of Green in the legislature to-,
diy which, if carried out. will prac
tically sever Cook county (Chlcairyi
from the state of-Illinois. It
was
in
the form of a joint resolution
ing that the question of gning ^ook
'•ounty a separate government fro.n
(lie balance of the state shall be miU
niitted to a vote of the people.
Pythian Convention.
Ashland. Wis.. Special.—The dele
gates of the regiment of the
of pvthias of Northern Wisconsin he 1
a convention at this place last evc::n
Castle hall. Alter the
convents
had concluded a banquet by lo
knights was given the delegates at the
ICnight hotel.