Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 7, Plymouth, Marshall County, 27 January 1899 — Page 6

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HOLDING UP A BOAT.

IVAN WHO USED TO TRAVEL ! TELLS THE STORY. ! Jlarrbaflt Hitler's llravery Little Old Jim fisher Wh as Cioo.l as Iii Word Not Afraid of Any uujlitr j f Koltbers. I "Now, I don't suppose any of you ever heard of :i steamboat being held up, hey?" said an Ar.aeostia man who wed to travel cut we.t with a onenight stand circus, according to the Washington Star. "Yo;i'e heard of trains, any number of 'em. be ing held up, am! stages, slf's o "em, being held Iii, ami burro pack trains, loaded to the guards with virgin silver, being held up, and men, individually and collectively, being lit Id up in such places as Chit-ago. Hyena Gulch. Cemetery Station and euch places; but I'll bet money that none if you ever hoard before of a -steamboat bing he-U up. Well. I did. Nut only did I hear of it, hut I have told it. Not only have I told it, but I was in the holdup, a a bullet scar on the outside of my left ankle would show if I had time to take off iny fcho. Hut it was a good, oidtlir.e, regular steamboat Lold-up, all the same, and the first aud original une." "Well, here's how it happoued: "I nas boss tentman with Robinson's circus back in '77. We played the middle western circuit all during the sunu.ier and along toward the wind-up of August we struck cross country from middle Nebraska for the Black hill?. That was during the Mack hills excitement and we calculated to show up there in that region for a month or so charging 'em all the Tv-ay from J2 to $3 a head to see the show and then to sail down the Missouri and Mississippi on two or three chartered stern wheelers for winter quarters In Memphis. The program went through all right. We did tip the Black hills for about six weeks, playing to capacity and just coining money. "Then it commenced to chill up some.and some of the animals that had been born and reared down around the equator began to sneeze and cough a good lot, and so it was decided to pack up and trek out of the Black hills for winter quarters. Old man Bobinoa was -willing to leave after the six weeks, for he hadn't done a thing hut just mze about a hundred thousand dol'ars cut of his one-ringer during llWit season, and he had been especially prosperous at from $2 to $5 a head, in the Black hills country. So we moved down to Yankton, where old man Bobinson had a couple of the old sUrn-wheelers the two biggest that ctct navigated the Big Muddy waitinn to take on the show. ".The stern-wheelers were the Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and the Gen. Phil II. Sheridan. Big as they "were we had some trouble in loading all of our monster, mammoth, mastodonic, miraculous show aboard of 'em, but we finally did do it, and away we started down the Big Muddy. We rot r.Iong all right, except thr.t we noki-d our noses occasionally into a saad bar and when we got down as lar as Omaha wo figured on beginning tc unload in Memphis about three weeks later on, which would be making corking good time, as time was made in those days. "Nov.-. let me digress just a bit right here. I was on the Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, and our boat, because we had the better pilot, kept nbout a quarter of a mile ahead of the Ges. Phil II. Sheridan right along. One MOST DIFFICULT Of all the Hungarian dances, the most difficult is the "Kalkei Kettos," or "double Csardas." It require much strength, agility and skill, and few succeed in mastering its strange steps. The music for this and for the court dau'-os, the "Magyar Kor" (Hungarian circle) and the stately "Palatos" is the same at first. For a short time the "Csardas" stems simple. It is when the music, bf-gins to brighten up that the agility and strength of the man is tailed into play. He must twirl the women separately and together at intervals and also swing them from one arm to the other in opposite directions so quickly that he will not lose his step or cause the women to lose IhUrs. Unless this et is performed pr.ri.sely at the exaut moment the dance is spoiled, am! unless he performs the swing torrectly and exchanges the wom en with proper Impetus and direction by force of his arms he will briug about a collision between them, which would end disastrously, for all concerned. The wornn never know when they are to be twirled or swung In this manner and consequently all the credit for a perfect performance and a graceful execution of this weird dance belongs entirely to flie man. This dance had Its origin In the tonnty of Kallo, where an army olfletr, attending a ball during the revo

of the men ith the show was a cross peevish little eld bareback rider named Fisher, who had been in the business about a hundred years or so, and whose temper was a heap soured for that reason. 'We all had talked a good deal about the po.-siiility of bring held up when wo were up in the Plack hills country, and one r.ight this little barebacked rider man, Fi.-her, got up on his hind legs and declared himself ou the holding up question. I want to tell you all one thing.' paid he. "and that is. that the nine-foot high plug doesn't live in this world that's got the weight and the heftiness to hold me up ac the point or a gun. It can't be done. I can't be held up. I want to go on record right hero and now. in the middle of a wild neck of country, by saiug that Jim Fisher can not be held up and never will be held up.' "Oh. well, we had all heard that kind of bluff talk often before, and so we all gives little Fisher more or less of the laugh. "All right. We left Omaha our two stern-wheelers about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of an October day, and we more than tossed up the water behind us. Must have made fully four knots an hour, I reckon. Anyhow, about the middle of the night the Gen. Sherman shoved her nos-e alongside an elevated sort of sandbar by Kaston, Mo., to take on wood. We hadn't any more than come to a full stop thar. all of us down on the deck heard a commotion in the pilot house and some short, loud talk. " Tp with your hands and git away from that wheel in a hurry,' said a voice that none of us was familiar with, and in a second or two we heard some of the same kind of talk, directed by another unfamiliar voie to the engineer of the boat, who had been snoozing in an armchair. Oh. we knew all right what had happened. We knew better, though, when we looked up to the bridge and saw six ducks with Winchesters pointed right our way. They had just sneaked over the rail when we drew alongside for that wood, and they just about had us, armed and ammunitioned as all hands of us were. In about a minute the Gen. Sheridan moves alongside us and we could see that she, too, was pretty fair in the hands of the enemy, for there were about a dozen of 'em, also with Winchesters, taking it nice and easy looking almighty alert, just the same on the bridge. ' Old man Bobinson was on our boat and he hustled out of his cabin with a roar and got to the foot of the bridge ladder, where he was gently told by one of the quiet looking ducks on the bridge to stay just where he was. " 'What's this here game, anyhow? asked old man Bobinson. 'What you after? My summer's pickings? " 'That's about it, I reckon,' said the man on the bridge, who seemed to be the leader. 'You can just stand where you are and tell this boy alongside of me where your dust is. He'll take care of it. You needn't bother about moving yourself.' ''Well, old man Bobinson just stood there frothing at the mouth. lie was speechless. Wo were all more or less speechless. Then it happened. It happened. It happened so blooming suddenly that it nearly gave us all heart disease. Little Jim Fisher, the bareback rider, who didn't intend to be held up by any man, he said, stood right behind me when all this wa3 going on. When the robber on the bridge sprung that spiel about holding obi man Bobinson who had been Fisher's employer and friend for about twenty years up for his summer's rake-off. I could bear Fisher breathing hard. I figured that he was skeeart

HUNGARIAN DANCE. lution, motioned to a young woman to come to him and participate in the "Csardas." As she stepped forward ttnothr young woman standing near her also approached, thinking the invitation wa-i meant for her. Not wishing to slight either of the girls, the solder declared he would dance with both of them. He threw himself into bis task with such enthusiism and skill that It created Immediate attention, and the "double Ceardas" has been famous since that day. These famous old-time Magyar dances will be reproduced for the first time iu America at the Hungarian peasant ball, at the Grand Central Palace. New Year's eve. The two court dances will be performed by forty young men aud women. Ixdislaw Klein will give the "double Csardas" with Miss Annie Zsoltvai and Miss 13ora Roscnfeld.

to death. But he stepped right out Into the light, and he had a gleaming 43 in each hand. "'Why, curse your impudent eyes!' said little Jim Fisher, and before you could sneeze he had hanged away at the leader of the robbers on the bridge. We all jumped to cover, but Fisher's move gave us nerve. It gave them nerve on the Gen. Sheridan, too. and you never heard such a fusilade in your life. Hut in four minutes there were not any robbers in sight but dead robbers six of those and after we had chased the others, thrown the dead bodies over the side and taken on our wood we went ahead down to winter quarters. And so, for a wonder, Jim Fisher's thundering in the index about nobody being able to hold him up wasa't a bluff, after all."

CHEYENNE'S REFUSE RATIONS. Content! Tint tltw Issue Shall lto the Hoof. Some of the Cheyenne Indians living in and near Kansas have branched out in the show business for a livelihood. Some time ago the commissioner of Indian affairs made a ruling that the Indians were no longer to be Issued beef in the carcass, but that it must be dressed by competent butchers and issued on the block. The Indians objected strenuously to this arrangement, 's they regard the parts rated as offal by the slaughter houses and packing houses as the best part of the beef. White Shields of the Cheyennes instigated a revolt among the Indians. in the vicinity of Red Moon's camp, la the western part of Indian territory, and the Indians refused to take their beef off the block. Major Woodson, the agent, then suspended all rations and the Indians still maintain their independence. A large part of the Indians a few weeks ago, at the instigation of White Shields, refused to send their children to school. Their rations were cut off, but a .short time ago they yielded. About a third of the Chej--ennes and Arapahoe Indians are no longer receiving rations on account of ! their refusal to take their beef off the block. White Shields, with two other chiefs Red lieg and White Horse is traveling about, over Southern Kansas giving dances and iu this way are maintaining their independence of the government. Major Woodson, speaking of the Indians in an interview, says: "There are always some of the Indians who have an insatiable desire to impress the other Indians with their importance. Wnile Shields is one of these. I see that a band of Cheyennea was here a short time ago giving dances. These Indians are absent from the agency without my consent. Indians are very much like children and I have to treat them as such. If they get too unruly I can have the stray band brought back to the agency by the soldiers. They are doing this to keep from working. They were born lazy and I have failed to get it worked out of them. Old White Shields has been the cause of some of the school trouble, too. He got mad about the change in the issue of beef and revolted. The other Indians wanted new school houses built, and accordingly I ordered them erected. White Shields then got in his work with Red Moon's band and they refused To send their children to school. The commissioner of Indian affairs wrote me to enforce the treaty rules and after doing without rations for a few weeks they consented to send their children back to school." Peppery laiough, Perhaps. "Our hired girl doesn't earn her salt." "Then she's like a good many of them. I presume too fresh." New York Press. An lliplana tlou. "Why is the villain in the play always a dark man?" "I gneiss it's because villains are naturally opposed to the light." CLEVER LITTLE STORIES. A professional talker arose one day to address a Suuday school. "My dear little ones," he began, "what shall I say?" and a little girl In the front row, who Ir.id spoken pieces herself in school, replied, "Plc-a.se, sir, what do you know?' The story Is that a German Judge was perplexed by the evidence. "No two of your witnesses tell the same story," declared the man on the bench, to the plaintiff. "That's true, ycur honor," answered the plaintiff. "You see, I didn't want to make the trial too monotonous for you." Miss Jinks was out walking with an admirer on each side. A storm came on, accompanied by lightning. Jones said he was frightened. Brown thought it a capital opportunity to show off his superior courage befora the adored one. "What are you frightened at? I am as cool as x cucumber." "Ye.., I should not fear," replied Jones, "if you and i were alone, but I am afraid of Miss Jinks in this lightning; she is so attractive." Brown Is still a bachelor, but Jone Is not A soldier who served In Cuba relates that one night, after a march, a few of the boys pitched their tenta close to the tct of au officer of another couij.auy. The boys were talking quite loudly, as taps had not beea sounded. "Hush up out there!" shouted the officer, angrily. "Who are you?" asked one of the boys. "I'll show you who in if I come out there!" was th answer. The talking conilnued, an ooii out came the officer. Ilia anger was great, nnd ha threatened to report the men lo their colonel, winding up with: "Don't you know enough to obey aa officer?" "Yes," replhd one of Iho boyi. "and we should have obeyed you If you had had shoulder straps on your voice." I

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Action of Germany May Lead to a War. STATE DEPARTMENT MOVES. Sei-retary Hay Has Demanded ai r.iplanation from Hit; AutlioritU s at Iierllu American Warships to He .Sent to the Islam! at Or.ce. A clash b-nwern the German con-ul in Samoa on one hand and the representatives of the tniicd States and Great Britain ou the oilier, as reported, has thiealened the most serious complications. The German agent broke into the supreme court building at Apia and took possession, ostensibly in the interests of King Mataafa. The American and British consuls ejected him. There was no violence beyond this. The United ststr-s government addressed a .-harp note to the German embassy in Washington on the subject of the intrigues in Samoa. It was reported that the tenor of the communication was such as would be likely to cause a stir in Berlin. Then, was a good deal of war talk at Ihe departments iu Washington, following a diplomatic conference participated in by the secretary of state, the British ambassador and a representative of the German embassy. The administration is anxious, and took steps to have warships proceed to Samoa. The cruiser Philadelphia, now at San Diego, was ordered to go to Apia, and it was thought Aumiial Dewey would be ordered to send one or more ships. It was reported that Croat Britain would send tbieo more warships. Berlin newspapers admit that the situation has become critical. espe;-:nily in view of the growing hostility 5etweeu the United States and (lermany. The Pall Mall Cazette of IVrndon declares that Cermany has willfully violated the treaty respecting the protectorate. Invalid from I'orto Itu-o. The array transport Port Vic tor arrived from Porto Rico and has ahoaid VIS sick soldiers from the army hospitals in that island. Will Urine Hod leu Home. Michigan will bring back the bodies of its soldiers who died in other states and countries during the: recent war.

PROSPECTIVE LEADER OF THE HOUSE.

It Is expected that Se-reno F. Payne, of Auburn. X. Y., will be given the: place of the hue Nedsem Ditigley as chairman of the ways and moans committee. Speaker Reed lias intimated Jo some members that a haitnum will not be appointed at the present session of congress, but it is generally expected that after a reasonable lime edapees, Mr. Payne's appointment will be announced. Mr. Paiie is entitled to the plae -e by reason of bis standing next tti Mr. Ditigley on the committee, and be fills as well as any other member the important condition that the t hairman shall be in the; e onlide tu e or the speaker. He has been a inen her of congress continuously, exc epting ivo years, since the forty-ei:;hth eetngress. He has always been in Speaker Reed's To Work for Independence. The Filipinos have established a junta in Europe to work counter lo American annexation er coutrtd or nnythins ave entire independence. China to SeeU Tratte. It is stated that t'hina will send a commercial mission to Fuiope and mcrka in March. Hlnes of Hon Carlo. Don Carlos, duke of Madrid, the Bourbon tretender, is seriously bick at Vienna.

IS $30,000 SHORT. Criminal Court Clerk Uagrman of St. I.ouis Missing. Al J. Wagvnman, clerk of ihe court or criminal correction of St. I.ouis is missing. Hi fiienus fear he ha. committed suicide. They say he confessed a subversion of witness and ;'.uo,' fees to the amount of $:0,000.

rr;;vs C'ockrrll for President. The Kar.-a-- City '1 :in-s. which has he:i a s'ar.cii suppoivr of William Jennings Bryan, urges the candidacy of Fnited SL.tc, srT'utnr Fiancis Marion Cockrc-ii for the iuo: ratic presidential nominal ion. KtOt-rs .re tc JltTt. T!;o Paris .oleii pubüsi.e-- a report to the "fleet t hat the v:ar in May next will sp nd a fortnight on the Iliviera, where he will be visited by President Fa are and by Km;ei or William of Cermany. Hre l.os of !MOO.teit. The six-story brick and stor.e building on the southeast corner of Sixth avenue aud Twentieth street. New Yoik. was gutted by fire. The loss will bo about $4i0.OOO. To lie-enter Diplomatie SerTloe, Prince Herbert Bismarck, it is rumored, is about to re-enter the diplomatic tervice. The report is denied Hint he intends to reside permanently at Friedrichsruhe. Houor for Judge CiroitM up. Judge Peter S. (Iro.-scap cf Illinois was nominated by the p:id nt to succeed the late Judge Shon alter as Unite ii States circuit, judge for the Seventh district. I'a tr.tl;le Keport od C'boat. The senate committee on fore' en relations agreed lo a favorj'M'" report upon the nomination cf Joseph II. Choate to be ambas.-ador to Great II ri la in. Want tli Cexsloit Sauct soned. The Spanish cabinet has decided to submit a bill to the t orus sanctioning the cession of the Philippines beiore presenting the peace tieaty for ratification. Kxpeet Vil War Soon. The Carl ist agitation lias recommences! in Spain and the go eminent believes it has reason to fear civil war in the spring. ('debrate len. Lee's ltlrthday. The birthday of Gen. Robert K. Lee was celebrated in all the leading cities of the south with more than usual enthusiasm. eop.tldence. and along with Messrs. Dingley, Dak'.ell and Route lie . has long been considered one of l!;e republican Waders. He will he the leader when be becomes chairman of this committee, for that is the most important condition that attaches to the position. He is now in bi tir'ty-.-ixth year. He is a native of New York state, a graduate of Rochester University, and an able lawyer. As an orator he has licit achieved eminence, but be is a good speaker, and it is believed by his friends that lie will be an effective party loader. He has frequently been he; temporary presiding officer during the deliberations of the house, and his long iervite on the ways and means committee has rendered him familr with much of the work wbich will etiliio before it. Dr.; Kobiuon Serioiudjr III. The Rev. Dr. Charles Seymour Kobinsou. the well-known Presbyterian preacher and author of hymn books, is dangerously ill at New York. M: Capital of S..OOCI.enO. A new trust has been formed. It Is called the American zinc trust, and has a capital of $"..0iM,.000. Tin Ore In Teva. A deposit of tin ore has been discovered lifteen miles from K Paso, Tex., litiis of low hills

A WEEK IN INDIANA.

RECORD OF HAPPENINGS FOR SEVEN DAYS. Koby Kart Track I.efrleuded Cains Temporary Advantage In legislative I":ht The Trial of Mrs. Koscubarger lu Progrem at Princeton. Ztoby Kate Track Pef rlonded. Indianapolis A spirited contest, in which the governor w.is temporarily beaten, aro. e in the house today when r. 'nil! was read providing for the; granting of injunctions when applied for in th. name of the state, without giving bond. It is an open secret that the governor had the bill drawn in order that proceedings might bj had under it against the Roby Racing Association and also against those who persistently defy the natural gas Taws. Representative Kno.ts of Lake county took a determined stand against the bill und it was argued for three hours. When the vote was taken on advancement of the bill it was announced a.s 47 to 13 against it. It was found by consulting the roll call, though, that two members who voted for the bill were recorded against it, and one who voted against it was recorded for it. These votes will be ordered corrected in the morning and the vote will then stand 4G to 46, thus leaving the measure on the calendar. Sirs. Itosenharger on Trial. Princevon, Ind. The Rosenbarger poisoning case was bognn today in the Gibson circuit court before Judge Wclbora. Mrs. Rebecca Rosenbarger is accused of having tried to poison her son Alva Nov. 5 last. He is the prosecuting witness an" is backed by his father. Alva testified that his mother dictated a confession of suicide, which he signed and which was afterward published. He declared he signed it to save his mother from the penitentiary. Tha boy was given a large quantity of chloral hydrate, which almost caused his death. Two local physicians figure in the. case, and the mother is a prominent church member. Many unsuccessful attempts have been made to smother the case and have it thrown out of court. The accused woman looks careworn, but she is calm and collected. Nearly all of thy church people are in sympathy with her. The evidence given today was, it is claimed, damaging to the defense. The trial will last all the week. A Young Wife's Sensational Suit. Wabash, Ind. In Elktart circuit court Mrs. l'mma Bell Kessler has filed suit for $15,0C0 damages against Thomas aud Harriet Kessler, prominent and wealthy residents of Gosben, for the alienation of the affections of her husband. Guy, son of the defendants. They were married in 1S93, and lived together until December, when her husband left her. They made their homo with the defendants, and it. is charged that the latter poisoned the mind of her husband; sent him away and made life for plaintiff unendurable. The complaint alleges that $25.cOO of the property of the joung husband has been transferred to the defendants to prevent plaintiff obtaining any part, and she asks that the conveyance be s.et aside. The filing of tin? suit has C'-iused a groat sensation. nan Ran Wild. Indianapolis, Ind. Oil is used for fuel at the State Deaf ami Dumb Institute, and last week the tank, containing 12.000 gallons, sprung a leak, and man' barrels escaped into a sewer before the mischief was corrected. Later in the day some of the down-town .stores were permeated with a strong smell of a peculiar gaseous nature, and in one store a woman fainted and several had to be assisted in the open air. The natural aud artificial gas companies were warned of a dangerous leak, and. after a long search, they located the cause o the trouble. It is supposed that the escaping oil from tho state institute, upon striking the water in the sewer, threw off this gas. and had a lighted match come in contact with it. it i admitted that the consequences would have been disastrous. Wanted in Soutli Iteutl. South Rend. lnd. John Simons, alias Sam West, who escaped from tho Chillicothe (Ohio) jail, has been identified as George West, alias Charle Rivers. He was brought here from the penitentiary and convicted for robbing the South Bend National Pank of $1G,000 in ISO:!. West broke jail here after sentence was pronounced. Chief Doitsch of Cincinnati wits notified. Kmtezr.ler Tired or Hiding. Noblesvillo, Intl. Harry Kennedy of Youngstown, Ohio, who traveled for I). H. McBride & Co.. publishers, of Akron, Ohio, last fall, surrendered himself to the authorities in this city today. He claims to have embezzled $300 from the firm, being money which he collected on sales. He i willing to return and plead guilty to the chargo of embezzlement. Obsequle of Charlea T. II a uglier. Wabash, Ind. The body of Charley T. Haughey, late member of the Chicago Board of Trade firm of 'Wright & Ilati&hcy, arrived here at 10 o'clock and tho funeral took place at 11 from the Presbyterian church. Rev. Dr. Charles Little conducted the service, which was largely attended. The remains wero interred in Falls cemetery. Thero was a profusion of floral offerings from members of the Chicago board. Mr. Haughey began lifo here as a telegraph operator.