Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1891 — SILVER IN WISCONSIN. [ARTICLE]

SILVER IN WISCONSIN.

LARGE OUANTITIES OF RICH ORE DISCOVERED. Many Vwd.s In Atlantic Gates—Romfta Hastily Increasing: Her Nary —Algiers la LAne—Gang of CounterfWters -Broken Up tu Wisconsin. Counterfeiters'Gang Broken Up. United States Marshal Craig arrived fit St. Joseph. Mo., with Edward Duncan and wife, who were arrested »MtaT Parnell City. The couple are charge 1 with counterfeiting stiver half dollars of 1886, and dollars of • 1839. Duncan could nett he held at the examination before Cownttssfoner Beach, hut enough evidence was disclosed against his wife to send her to the penitentiary for years. The capture of the couplo and a -main named McCarty breaks up a gang who have flooded Nodaway County for months with thousands of dollars of spurious money. The outfit came from Omaha, and the gang is supposed to have a plant nit that placu.

FULL OF SILVER. Very Rich Find in Wisconsin Hills. Silver, apparently in great quantities, has been found within twenty miles of West Superior, Wis., and already the mining craze has affected the whole town. Ore has been brought into town which assays over 300 ounces of silver to the ton, and the deposits aro said to be very extensive. The find was made by W. C. Tonkin, a practical miner from Nevada. Surrounding the city.at a distanco of seven to fifteen miles is a rough range of hills, semicircular in form, rugged and almost precipitous It is heav-lly wooded and indented by deep gullies that render driving almost impossiblennd which liavo prevented a thorough exploration of the range. The lower portion of the elevation te fairly approachable, and more than twenty years ago copper was found in such quantities as to give the range of hills the title by which they are now known, “Copper” Range. The mineral was found in Its native state, but the top formation convinced miners that the cost of taking the metal out would not warrant the putting in of a prospect plant on a large scale. RUSSIAN GUNBOATS LAUNCHED. A Fleet cfTorpedo Rents and Other Vessels Also Under Way. A St. Petersburg dispatch says that Russia is pushing with vigor the Incroaso of her navy. An ironclnd, tho Navasin — rather a significant name for tho vessel—was launched and a half-armored gunboat, the Otiajoy, wa9 also launched on the same day. A gunhoat, now about completed, will soon, follow, and a fleet oi torpedo cruisers is under way. Tho last mentioned order was given since tho Chilian war, and their construction was undoubtedly due to the proved efficiency of torpedo cruisers In that.conflict. Great activity In naval shipbuilding also pro calls in the Black Sea, where Russia already has a formidable fleet.

TRIED TO KILL ENLOE. A Bride Thrown at tho Tennessee Congressman While He Was Speaking. An attempt was made to assassinate Congressman B. A. Enloe at Sardis. Tenn., while he was delivering an address. A half-brick was thrown through a window at him tout, struck J. N. Galbraith,of Centre Point, inflicting serious injuries. SEAS MOUNTAINS HIGH. Several Wrecks Reported oil the New Jersey Coast—Arrival of tho Alaska. Incoming steamers at Now York report the storm at sea ttorso than over before. The Guion liner Alaska, several days overdue, arrived, having boon kept back by the severe gale. A terrible rainstorm sot in along the New Jersoy coast and continued twenty-four hours. The wind that had been blowing at forty milei an hour increased to fully fifty and possibly sixty. The breakers have been rolling mountains high, and they dashed upon tho shore they cavsed ruin and destruction. Bulkheads, bathing-houses, piers and bluffs were torn away like so much driftwood. Robbed on His Child’s Gruve. Edmund D. Landers, au aged, wealthy and retired merchant, of Brockton, Mass., was found lying senseless on the grave of his only child, a daughter who died forty years ago. He will probably die. He rallied sufficiently to say that while he was visiting the grave he was strangled by a highwayman and relieved of his money and valuables. There is no clue to the perpetrator.of the deed. Algiers in Line. The Governor General of Algiers, Africa, notifies the United States Consul that Algiers accepts the invitation to take part in the exposition. “My intention is not,” ho writes, “to make a special section for the colony,, and I trust I will obtain permission that its products be exposed with those of France, forming, nevertheless, a distinct sub-section.” Meancy Gives Himself Up. Meaney, of the New York and New Blfgland train which was wrecked at Hawleyvtll6,‘Conn., has surrendered himself. Three lives were lost by the accident and the Coroner issued warrants for manslaughter against Meaney and Conductor Conrad. Both men fled. Meaney gave bail in $2,009. Wooster University Get* 820,000. By the settlement of the Renick contested will case Wooster University, at Cleveland, receives a s3tt,ooo addition to its endowment. The original gift wus $25,000, but the case has been in litigation for years, and tho college authorities were glad to compromise for the smaller sum. Steamer Devonshire a Derelict. The British steamer Norwegian, Captain Christie, has arrived at Glasgow from Montreal with the crew of the British steamer Devonshire, from Barrow for New York, which was abandoned 550 miles west of Tory Island. Mexlcau CharityAt the City of Mexico the ball fight far the benefit of the Spanish flood sufferers will be the grandest ever given on the American continent. Never la the history of tho art of tauromachy have sueb ex“ tensive preparations been made for aa extraordinary spectacle, and devotees of the ring aro waiting with great interest tor the affair lo come off. Contest Over Roulanger** TVIIL The daughters of the late General Boulanger have retained counsel to contest four clauses of their father’s wIIL Storms Around Bermuda. A special cablegram from Bermuda says: A tremendous rain and wind storif been raging around Bermuda for two ■ays, and all incoming steamers report saving experienced very rough weather. The mall steamer Du art Castle was seven 4ays in running from Bt, Thomas to Bermuda She ran short of coal and had to burn her woodwork. The captain reports hevtng encountered the roughest weather The city of Fierra Mojado, Mexico, has toeea visited by a heavy storm. Bain fell Is torrents, and a river that passes through

the city overflowed its T Ja hks ffhd flooded j many buildings. It Is estimated that the damage to property will reach s2oo,Otft, Many persons had narrovy escapes ttom drowning. HOVV MEXICANT RISONERS ‘ESCAPE." Permitted ta Bket a Short Distance Away, They Me Shot iu the Back, teeven loiters below RloGrande City, Tex., smd on the opposite side of the river, the body of a nephew of Julien Flores, a suspected revolutionist, swings to a tree with nineteen bullet holes in It Tho young man was arrested some days ago and left for Victoria under a guard of soldiers. The corpse is rotting away, but no one is bold enough to cut it down. Folippo Slras, another member of Garza’s band, was caught .and has been removed in the same way. The soldiers excuse the death of these men by stating they were killed mtffler a law permitting the shooting of a prisoner who attempts to escape. By its warrant hundreds of men have been executed In Moxico within the past five years. A political prisoner is given to understand that he must make a break for liberty, and that if ho does not he will bo shot anyhow. The victim is allowed to put some ten yards of space between himstilf and his captors and is then tumbled on his face with bullets through the back. LYNCH LAW AT OMAHA. Police 'Officials witli Weapons and Firemen with Hose Repulsed. At Omaha it was reported that little Lizzie Yates, the five-year-old victim of an assault by Joe Coo, a disreputable negro, had died. Coe was confined in tho city Jail. “We’ll lynch tho nigger,” was soon heard on every side. There came a confused sound of tramping feet hurrying along tho paved street toward tho county jail, and iu a remarkably short time the jail was surrounded. There was no organization apparent. No leader seemed to control the crowd. Tho entire police force of ninety men were carried away bodily, firemen with linos of hose were hustled off the scene, and desperate men tore up street-car rails to use as battering rams upon the formidable steel gates and doors within. The cowering victim was taken ou», and in a twinkling was strung up to an electric trolley wire. The mob then dispersed, and it became known that the girl had not died ufter all.

TAKE YOUR CHOICE. Business Improving, Though Prices Are Low and Collections Slow. R. G. Dun & Co.’s woekly review of trade says: From ail parts of the West and South coine advices that business is gradually improving, and tho Improvement is felt in Eastern centers. Tboro is still a most encouraging absence in any trade of that speculative excitement and over-con-fidence which is so often a presage of disaster. Purchases aro governed by unusual conservatism, and yet are large in volume. Failures are rather numerous, but aro In nearly all cases the results of a long continued commercial strain, since the foreign disaster of last November. It is Irue that prices of nearly all products are very low, and the margin for profit is very narrow while competition is severe: but the volume of trado is larger than In any previous year, in spite of the fact that some branches of business are retarded. It is also true that collections in some quarters are slow, but the latest, reports from various sections are on the wliolo more favorable. Tho news regarding the chief industries is decidedly favorable.

CHINESE STILL COMING. They Enter the United States in Large Numbers by AY ay ol Canada, Canadian customs returns show a steadily increasing influx of Chinese into British Columbia from China, witli every indication that such a state of affairs will continue until some understanding i< arrived at between Cunada and tho United States by which the government of tho Dominion will co-operate with the authorities at Washington to prevent Chinamen from crossing tho border from Canada into the United States. The Minister of Customs said that from Jan. 1, 1890, to June 30. 1891, the total Chinese population entoring Canada from China through tho regular channel was 2,(137, each paying SSO per capita on landing. The number lo whom certificates were granted to leave tho country and return was 2,107, and the number returned 1,101. Tho number who passed through the country on route to China or the United States was 2,410, KIOWA’S MAYORESS UNPOPULAR. Business Men Petition Her to Resign Because of Her AA’ar on Suloons. Kiowa, Kan., is in a turmoil because of the open revolt of the people against the lady Mayor, Mrs. Piuxton, and have petitioned her to resign. The business men, who depend for much of their trado on the cattlemen, are opposed to prohibition, and Mrs. Paxton has kept up a continual war on the saloons, and recently sent out a lot of special Deputy City Marshals to destroy all liquor found and nail up the dooKs. A subscription paper was sent arosrtid among the merchants and an attopa’ey enployed to fight the order, when it was found that Kiowa had no ordinance empowering the Mayor to close the saloons. Then followed the petition asking Mrs. Paxton to resign. Her husbund’s name is said to bo attached to it

DAKOTA AVHEAT SAVED. Cool XVeather Prevent* tbe Grain from Growing in the Stack. Three days of sunshine and a few booming thrashers have revived hope and driven away clouds and despondency from the Northwestern harvest fields. The cool, windy weather has prevented the wheat from growing, and the machines and men already sent forward and others promised at once have made the people hopeful and happy. Many farmers believe that the quality of their grain will Improve by the sweating process, s> they are stacking it and will let tho grain stand until wintar. South of Fargo and the main line of the Northern Pacific the grain Is practically all stacked, and in that region, except along the line of the Fargo and Southwestern, local machines will be able to do the work. BARDSLEY BREAKING DOAVN. The Disgrace and Confinement Beginning to Tell on the Ex-City Treasurer. Jdhu Bardsley has foun I an occupation in prison that seems to agree with him and of which he has made a success. It is that of boxxnaidng. and the ex-City Treasurer has shown a Aegree of skill in the work that has surprised those who fail to remember that In his younger days he was a blacksmith and supported himself for many years by hard manual labor. The loug strain napou Bardsley, his disgrace, aud the prison ooafisement are beginning to tell upon his health and deafness is coming upon him. He lives in the hope of a pardon through political influence after a few years’ confinement. FIRE IN A COTTON WAREHOUSE. About I-GOO Bale* Bunted at HawkinsvilM, Ga. At Hawkinsvllle, Ga., fire in McCormick A Bridges’ Lone Star Warehouse destroyed 1.500 hales of cotton. Loss, over $40,000. Moffatt’s mills, with 1,500.000 feet of lumber. burned at Dalhousle, N. B. Loss. $25,000. RAINMAKER MELBOURNE. WIB Water Western Kansas for 10 Cents Per Cultivated Acre. Melbourne, the rain wizard, failed to make rain at Goodland. Kan., in large quantities, but the Inhabitants believe that be'can make rain under favorable circumstances. He has agreed to produce all the water necessary tor tho crips next

| summer in Western txanf.as for 10 cents per cultivated acre. It is the opinion of a number of lawyers that this method of irrigation will come under the Irrigation law passed by the last Legislature, and that forty counties interested may therefore issue bonds, as provided by that law. In 1889 there were over 2,000,000 acres under cultivation in these forty counties ED NEAL HANGED. The Condemned Man Confessed His Crime but Refused to Reveal His Identity. Ed Neal, who murdered Mr. and Mrs. Allan Jones near Omaha in February. 1889, has been hanged. His neck was broken by the fall. The name Neal was an assumed one, but the condemned man refused to make known his identity, and ull efforts to discover the prisoner’s true name or any fact about his life previous to the murder have proved futile. He confessed his crime on the gallows, but said he preferred to die under an assumed name to save Ills parents the shame and sorrow of knowing his ignominious end. The purpose of the crime was robbery. AVHOLE FAMILY STRICKEN. Five Children Burled AA’itliin a AVeek and tlie Mother Dying with Diphtheria. Stantonsvlllo, a small village in Kent County, Del., is having an epidemic of diphtheria.. William Hammond, a hardworking farmer, lias buried his entire family of five children within a week. The faithful mother sat by and nursed them until tho breath left the last one, when she took to bed with the dreaded disease, and her death is hourly expocted. The husband is prostrated with grief. What adds to his misery Is that ho is compelled to bury the dead and care for the wife, it being almost impossible to securo help. One Killed und Several Injured. • Several cars of a freight train on the Erie Railroad were thrown from the track near Ridgewood, N. J., by tho breaking of one of the wheels. Before there was time to send out danger signals an extra triin carrying trainmen from Peterson to Waldwick dashed into tho wreck, badly damaging tho locomotive and knocking the cab to pieces. Engineer Bicker was thrown over among the wrecked freight cars and badly bruised. Fireman Tibbetts had his leg broken and was badly scalded. Ho died on the way to the hospital. Much AVlient "Will He AA’orthlesK. There is still a great deal of alarm among elevator men and grain- buyers regarding the wheat of Northern Minnesota and North Dakota. Col. C. A. Morton, tho Fargo expert buyer, writes: “Tho present outlook for a portion of this crop, not less than 40 per cent, of it. is docldodly squally. Of all the grain raised in North Dakota, fully that percentage is today in the shock, and no small portion of it is sprouting. If th s weather continues tho stuff will bo rotten, worthless, unfit even for hog food.”

Costa Rica at Pence with the World. The Minister of War of Costa Rica denies the rumors rocently given publicity iri tho American press, that his government is making active preparations for war. Costa Rica is at peace with all the world. Her boundary question with Nlcaragna has been arranged amicably, and tho settlement of that, with the republic of Colombia in respect to Hocus del Toro was left to Mpain. which government Is expected to announce tlie result of bor arbitration at tin early day.

Rioting in China. London dispatches announce that there liasbiei serious rioting forty mll os from tho town of Amoy, China. Th’e population of Amoy, amounting to about 300,000 people, is in a state of great excitement. The riot was caused by official abuses. Several mandarins and other officials wire killed by the rioters. It is officially announced from Shanghai that tlie promoters of tlie Icliang outbreak aro proceeding tiShun King, In tlie province of Su Chueu, on a tributary of tlie Yang Tse lvlung. Russians Relieving (lie Jews. The St. Petersburg authorities have forgotten their bigotry for once, in view of the horrors of the famine. It has been ordered that relief to tho starving peasants shall he given without any discrimination as to their religion, tho orthodox receiving no more than the Stundlst or tho Jew. Murdered l>y Robbers. Dr. William M. Lockwood, formerly ol Stamford, Conn., was found choked to death on a road near Berkley, l’a. Robbery Is supposed to have boon tlie motive for the murder, us tho deceased was thought to have some money. No trace of tlie murderers could be found.

More Wheat Thresher* Wanted. Reports from tlie whcattlelds of North Dakota are more encouraging, but the demand for thrcsheis Is more urgent than over. Tho weather is good, but as less tliau half the crop lias been threshed it Is feurod that much of it will bo lost. Fast AVork on u Typewriter. In a typowriting contest at Portland, Ore., F. E. McGurrin wrote 311 words in 59 seconds from dictation on a typewriter. He wrote 104 words per minute blindfolded. AVants Arizona Admitted. Acting Governor Murphy, of Arizona, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior, recommends that tho Territory be admitted to the Union as a State. To Succeed M. H. Ford. J. S. Lawrence, of Grand Rapids, was nominated for Congress front the Fifth Michigan District, to succeed M. 11. Ford, deceased. Ex-Governor Itlgelow Dead. At Now Haven, Conn., ox-Governor died at the New Haven House.