St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 12, Number 18, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 30 October 1886 — Page 4

THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE bast. Joseph B. Clarke, formerly Mayor of Manchester, N. H., hanged himself because cf political disappointment and business cares... .W. J. Sherman, the Catholic priest of Brooklyn charged by Julia Mulvaney with deceiving her by a mock marriage. pleaded not guilty and was held for examination. .. .In the Supreme Court of New York, George H. Tilden has brought an action to contest the will of Samuel J. Tilden. .. .The planifig-mill of Calkins <t Co., at Tonawanda, N. Y., valued at $25,000, was destroyed by fire. The works of the Canada Paper Company, at Windsor, were also burned, the loss being $200,000, which falls wholly on insurance companies in the United States. James G. Blaine visited the college from which he graduated, at Washington, Pa., accompanied by his uncle, John 11. Ewing, 90 years of age. They were presented to the students as the oldest and the most distinguished living graduates.... By the explosion of the boiler of a portable saw-iaill near Caernavon, Pa., two men were fatally injured and three others were serior sly cut... .The fire in the mountains near Reading Pa., has been extinguished, after 5,000 ac es of valuable timber land had been Inr ted over. A number of cattle perished in the flames. A wooden idol, four feet high, is being erected at Middlebury, Conn., by a wealthy farmer named Elisha Gedney, who is a iV Second Adventist. He insists that the image is Daniel. THE WEST. w On the Crow reservation in Montana, a B party of fifty Sioux made an attack on a ■ Crow camp near the Custer battle-field. I The Sioux were driven oft' with the loss of I five w niors, who were promptly scalped, f ... .M ilham Smith and Emil Kilmeyer had a quarrel in a St. Louis saloon, but were prevented from fighting. Smith followed Kilmeyei home, and calling him outside beat him. wi.h a heavy club until he was dead. Smith was arrested. Fire at Versailles, Mo., destroyed business buildings valued at $50,000... .The Mayor of Chicago has forwarded to Charleston the sum of $5,000, raised upon his appeal to the charitable. A coroner’s jury at Chicago, in the inquest on the body of Terence Begley, held four of Pinkerton’s men to the grand jury, without bail. On the Grand Jury which, it is expected, will investigate the Haddock assassination at Sioux City, lowa, are nine Democrats and three other persons who are belie' ed to be opposed to the Prohibition law. It is believed that Henry Peters, a missing witness, was killed by the assassins to prevent his revealing their names. A decomposed body found on the 4th inst. at Crescent, lowa, and interred in the Potters’ field at Council Bluffs, was exhumed and an examination of the clothing led to the almost complete identification of Peters. Near Meremac, Mo., a person who had gained admission to the Adams Express .Company’s car, attached to a passengertrain~Uii the St. Louis and San Francisco Bailroad, by means of a forged letter, representing that he had been employed as an extra hand for the run. overpowered the agent and robbed the safe of at least $40,000 David S. Kiel, a prominent Republican of Indiana, one of the owners of the Fort Wayne Gazette, died in New York, where he had gone in search of health... .A mysterion.s and fatal disease has broken out among cattle in Montgomery’ County, 111. The anim ds suddenly become stiff, lie down, and die in a few hours... .Walter B. Scates, who died at Evanston, 111., was Circuit Judge in the Cairo district fifty years ago, was a lieutenant colonel in the Union army, and held the collectorship of customs at Chicago under President Johnson.

r ======= THE SOLTH. Near Kilgore, Texas, some miscreant fired six times with a Winchester rifle into an International train, striking a New York drummer m ihe hip. Sharp shocks of earthquake were experienced at Charleston, Summerville, Columbia, Savannah, Wilmington, N. C.. Raleigh, Augusta, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Louisville, and other Southern points, on the 22d. Washington also felt rhe quake. Rumbling sounds accompanied the vibrations, which were very severe, causing, in some instances, a good deal of apprehension. Four shocks were felt at Charleston, while two or more disturbed the other cities mentioned, but no damage is reported. The late hurricane along the gulf coast well-nigh ruined the orange groves of Plaquemine parish, Louisiana, cutting off twothirds of the crop of the State. As A train was pulling out from Fort Smith, Ark., a big negro entered a sleeper, refused to pay fare, and was removed to a passenger coach only with the greatest difficulty. Here it became evident that he was insane, as he pulled out a knife and cut three men and an aged woman in a dangerous manner. When it appeared that the negro was about to run amuck in the car Sheriff Hawkins, of Washington County, drew his revolver and shot him dead. Henry H. Meyer, of Memphis, has been acquitted of the murder of W. B. Dunavant, the debancher of his wife. Meyer will return to Germany with his children. WAS! II.YGTON. Gov. ZULICK, of Arizona, in his annual report, says that in the removal of the renegade Apaches from the Territory he sees the dawn of a new day. He recommends the parceling out of the San Carlos Reservation, giving 640 acres to each head of a family. . The Governor also gives interesting statistics as to the resources of Arizona. General Miles reports the capture of Mangus and ten others belonging to Geronimo’s baud, who for forty days had been pursued by Lieutenant Johnson. ... A meeting of the House Committee on Approp iations will be held in Washington Nov. 2. It is Mr. Randall's intention to have the ap ropriation bills ready for action by the House soon after it ass mbles. Rumors coma from Washington that President Cleveland and Gei eral Sheiid n will endeavor to reduce their circum- ■ ference by massage treatment. . . .President C eveland has appoin ed Daniel N. Lockwood At ornev for the Northern District of New York, an 1 Lucius M. Lamar to be Marshal tor the South rn District of Georgia....T e Secretary of th ■ Interior has declined to recommend the removal of Mai or J. H. Wag .oner, recently appointed United State-: Pen-ion A-ent at Knoxville, Tenn., upon the request of leading Democrats. The n quest for ihe Major’s removal was made by Democrats who urged that the Major had voted, after the war, _to di franchise t e Confederates. The Secret! ry says that to recommend thi < removal would not be the best wav to heal the issues of the war. All the annual estimates have been received at the Treasury Department except

those for public works, for the naval establishment, and for the postal service. They show little change in amount from the appropriations of the present year. The estimates will be prepared for submission to the Appropriation Committee when it meets in Washington Nov. 20 A Virginian visited the White House with two blooded puppies, which he desired to present to President Cleveland. When the animals fell to fighting they were driven out with their owner. Wine for sacramental uses is the only j kind of liquor that will henceforth be allow’ed to enter Alaskan ports The Secretary of War has given orders that Chief Mangus and two of his braves be sent with Geronimo to Fort Pickens. POLITICAL. After balloting for six weeks, the Republican conference in the Seventeenth District of Pennsylvania nominated Edward Scull for Congress... .The interest in politics in New Y'ork is great. The registration this year is only about 6,000 Tess than in the last Presidential campaign. The National Convention of the W. C. T. U., at Minneapolis, passed resolutions promising the Prohibition party support, protesting against the Government's toleration of the liquor traffic, denouncing the use of fermented wine in the Lord’s Supper, and demanding more pronounced temperance utterance from the pulpit. A minority report, that it was unwise to pledge the support of the organization to any political party, even to the Prohibitionists, was rejected by a vote of 150 to 33. Daniel J. Campau has been appointed Collector of Customs at Detroit... .District Attorneys Benton of Missouri and Stone of Pennsylvania have been suspended by the President for making stump speeches. Benton is a Democrat and Stone is a Republican.... It appears that Alfred Taylor, the Republican candidate for Governor of Tennessee, is also running for State Senator. His brother Robert is an aspirant to the United States Senatorship, should he fail to be elected Governor. It is probable that Robert can capture both places, and that Alfred may be chosen President of the State Senate and elected Governor to fill the vacancy. GEiWERAE. Another Gloucester fishing schooner, the George L. Smith, with a crew of fourteen men, has been given up for lost. This makes a total of twenty-seven vessels of the Gloucester fishing fleet lost so far this year. The death roll has been increased to 116. On a farm near Shueyville, lowa, Martin Soukup fired a barn and killed the wives of two neighbors who went to suppress the flames. The fire in the house was put out by neighbors, who captured the madman affer a desperate struggle, but the barn was consumed, together with forty hogs, a horse, and a large quantity of hay and grain. Soukup was taken to the Sioux City jail for safe-keeping, and threats to lynch the saloon-keeper who sold him the whisky were made... .From a mine discovered last June in the Negaunee range of Michigan six thousand tons of iron ore have already been shipped. .. .The disease known as “pink-eye” is prevalent to a large extent among horses at Milwaukee Lawyer Haseltine, on trial at Stevens Point, Wis., for the murder of Cashier A. E. Morse who was criminally intimate with Mrs.,Haseltine, was acquitted. Business failures for the week number 198, against 179 last week. The casualties in the Eastern and Middle States are light, while in the Western, Sout ern and Pacific States the number reported is above the average Captain Grace, of the steamship Americi, cf the National Line, died at sea, the 16th inst. His body was brought to New York on the steamer of which he xvas master.

Canon Carmody, the Catholic chaplain at Halifax, refused to read service over the corpse of a soldier who died while in an intoxicated condition. Gen. Russell thereupon ordered the burial of the deceased with military honors, after services by the Protestant chaplain. On the last trip of the ocean steamship America, Captain Grace died from a congestive chill, caused by exposure to the storm for forty-two hours, and an insane Englishman leaped overboard and was seen no more. The world’s championship in base ball was won by the St. Louis Browns, who defeated the Chicago League nine by 4 to 3. The games of the past week will net the champions about $14,000. The Episcopal Council at Chicago has elected Rev. R. M. Kirby, of Pottsdam, N. Y., Bishop of Nevada, and Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, of Macon, Mo., Bishop of Wyoming and Idaho. Mrs, Cornelia Stewart, widow of the late Alexander T. Stewart, the New YorK millionaire merchant, died suddenly the other morning in the marble palace erected by her husband. The question as to whether the stolen remains of the late Mr. Stewart were ever recovered is yet undecided. Other recent deaths: Hon. Mason W. Tappan, Attorney General of New Hampshire; Judge William H. Horner, of the Circuit Court of St. Louis. John Bowles, confidential clerk in a Montreal jewelry house, skipped to Rochester with a large amount of diamonds and thirty gold watches. .. .A threatening fire occurred on the steamer Queen, after reaching Liverpool fiom New York. The vessel was flooded with water and the fire subdued. .. .Failures are announced of Rothschilds & Co., wholesale jewelers at Toronto, Ontario, for $100,000; and of Helbronner & Co., clothing, at Philadelphia, for $51,000. Samuel J. McCaull, accountant of the Grange Trust and Insurance Company at Owen Sound, Canada, has absconded to the United States wi*h several thousand dollars of the company’s money....At Puerto Confer, Honduras, General Delgado, Lieutenant Colonel Miquel Confer, and Lieutenant Gabriel Lozario, were shot for complicity in the filibustering expedition against the Bogran Government. FOREIGiV. Unknown parties wrecked a national school at Cahirmurphy, Ireland, to which the teachers had admitted children of boycotted citizens... .The Skinners’ Company Las sold 35,000 acres of land in Londonderry to 1,000 tenants, in accordance with the provisions of the Ashbourne act, on terms similar to those of the sales made by other city companies. The death is announced of Baron Frederick Ferdinand von Beust, the distinguished German statesman, in his 78th year. The killing of Baron Reutern by the Czar is confirmed. The latest report is that the act was committed in the heat of passion because the young man resented some of the Czar’s harsh remarks. Mr. Williams, a London socialist leader, was banquetted on his release from prison. A number of incendiary speeches were made, one of the speakers saying that, if peaceable means failed, hundreds of thousands of people were ready to stand behind barricades and fire pot-shots at their enemies.... Justin McCarthy has been awarded a seat in the House of Commons to represent Londonderry, which he contested against Charles Edward Lewis.... The Bev. Mr. Spurgeon made an attack on.

Beecher, virtually calling him a blasphemer. Crofters of Kilmuir, Isle of Skye, attacked a force of police who were assisting the Sheriff to make evictions. The military was called upon for aid, and charged the Crofters with the bayonet, wounding several. Six were arrested... .Numerous Limerick tenants are paying their rents readily. Some have been granted large reductions. In one case the rent has been reduced from £332 to £2OO, and in another from £212 to £l4O.

Mr. Gladstone having been asked to contribute to a book defining the Liberal programme, replies that his friends forget his years, that he had held on to politics in the hope of settling the Irish question, but the general operations of the party he is obliged and intends to leave to the hands cf others....lt is claimed that the Right Reverend Dr. Gregg, Protestant Bishop of Cork, has been converted to the home-rule faith Prince Bismarck’s organ expresses satisfaction at England’s colonial policy... The I rench Senate has passed a bill providing ■ for the sale of the crown- jewels. ... West- । phalia’s mining interests are in a depressed | condition.... Ten thousand natives have . invaded Xesibeand, in South Africa, aud are committing great depredations. The British Government is taking steps to suppress the outbreak. ADDITIONAL NEWS. Mr. Fotheringham, the express messenger who was robbed on the San Francisco road, says the perpetrator gave his name as Jim Cummings, the last of the Jesse James gang, a participant in the Bl ie Cut train-robbery, which yielded him only $1,500. * J P. M. Arthur, of Cleveland, has been . re-elected Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers for three years ... An alleged scheme is said to be on foot to elevate President Diaz to the Dictatorship of Mexico... .The rolling mill of the Old ; Colony Iron Works at East Taunton, Mass., , was burned, entailing a loss of SISO,IKK). I The Case School of Applied Science at Cleveland, 0., was al io destroyed, the loss being placed at $200,000. The structure was completed and opened a year ag0.... The Episcopal Convention, in its session at Chicago, agreed to further changes, rhetorical and otherwise, in the prayer-book, which will be communicated to the dioceses with the view to final adoption at ti.o next convention. The question of church unity was intrusted to a special joint commission, and all proposed canons on marriage and divorce were laid over until the next convention. Gen. Boulanger asks a credit of 392,000,000 francs for the French army... .The Swiss government proposes to purchase all the railroads in Switzerland... .Floods have p irtially submerged the City of Avignon, in France. .. .The Boers have annexed the greater portion of Zululand. The Governor of Natal has informed .he legislative council of that colony that the British government has declined to consent to the absorption. The importance of the cut of 15 to 20 cents per hundred pounds in the freight rate on butter and eggs from Chicago to New York becomes apparent when it is known that this class of business averages six thousand tons per month. .. .The Havana, Rantoul & Eastern Railroad, extending from New Albany, Ind, to Leroy. 111., has been sold under a decree of the United States Court for SIOO,OOO. The new owners will alter the road from nurrov to standard gauge. Under a reciprocal arrangement with Spain. President Cleveland has withdrawn his order for the reimposit on of dis Eliminating duties on imports from the Spanish West Indies. Sixteen structures, including two hotels, and the princip d business houses at Pocahontas, Ya., were destroyed by an incendiary fire. One man perished in the flames, and other persons are reported missing. The financial loss is placed at $50,000. An assignment has been made by the drug-house of A. A. Mellier & Co., of St. Louis, with liabilities of SIOO,OOO and assets of $30,000. . . .The old Cincinnati firm of Shipley, Dorsey & Co., owing about $1,000,000, has asked an extension of New York creditors..... The first section of a freight train on the Louisville, New Albany and Chi ago Road broke in two at the grade near Cedar Lake, Ind., the released cars dashing down the incline and into the second section. An engine and seven loaded cars were wrecked and burned. Two drovers were killed, and four other persons received fatal injuries. William Emerich, a prisoner in Newark, N. J., obtained a wife in Michigan by threatening her husband, a farmer named Hill, that he would burn his (Hili’) house and barn and murder him if he (Hill) did not let him (Emerich) have his (Hill's) wife. Hill consented, and Emerich married the woman. A charge of bigamy in the case is now under investigation.... Father Mogyoroxi, a priest of Allegany, N. Y., has married Miss Edith C ose, of Newark, and his whereabouts are unknown. He is a native of Hungary, 35 years of a<e, of tine presence, and ranks high as a speaker. To keep the cork in bottles nothing is better than a single splash of hot sealing-wax on one side of the cork. A ■determined twist will break it, but rarely the shaking up of a trunk or sachel. A stick of wax is easily carried and is seen with less regret than a ruined best gown.

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AN AWFUL BEAR STORY. Told in the Columns of a Contemporary by Captain Quinton, U. S. A. [From the Chicago Telegram.] I noticed recently a story in the papers, going the rounds of the press, of an extremely large snake discovered among the other wonders of the National Park. The snake in form and shape is, barring the barnacles, of the fabled sea-serpent order, and is said to travel with his head threatening and with such fearful velocity—fifteen feet raised from the ground, while his every movement is accompanied with loud hissings and sizzings like the frying of a dozen geysers concentrated in one. Jack Baironette is one of the discoverers of this snake. The papers speak of him now as Captain Johnßarronette. 1 suppose that .lack gets his title of Captain from the fact of being the boss story teller of Montana. When I was acquainted with him he was simply Jack, and was one of the curiosities of the park. He was then a hunter, guide, trapper, and a first-rate story teller. But, while Jack could tell a good yarn, it was not always best for a listener to be too confiding, as nothing gave him more pleasure and delight than to help a fellow out who kept a diary, one of “them dura literary fellers.” In 1873 I went through the Yellowstone Park under Jack’s guidance, and during the trip of over hundreds of miles, and which lasted many weeks. Jack regaled me with many a tale of adventure by flood and field. One of these I remember, and tell you it as it was told to me. “When 1 fust cum to this country,” said Jack, “I was the greenest specimen of a pilgrim that you ever set eyes enter. I wus so green that the sap used ter regularly start outer me. I had killed a few deer, a mounting lion or two and was just a spilin’ for a chance to go for a b’ar. ” “Well, one day when I was out a-nos-ing round the mountains I spied a right smart grizzly a-histing in his dinner offen a thick clump of berry bushes. ‘Thar is my chance,’ said I to myself, ‘and es I don’t git that ar b’ar 111 sell my hide for saddle-bags.’ So I began to approach him —kinder cautious like —aiming to git the wind so that it would blow from him onto me, as the nose of a b’ar is keener than a white man’s eye. Well, I finally got around to a p’int where I had a full view of the b’ar —and as I come into full view I suddenly discovered that thar was two b’ars a feedin, in that clump of bushes ’stead of one, and, what made it wuss still, the b’ars—both on ’em—discovered me jest as soon as I showed up and < ame rarring and a-charging straight for me. So I had to climb a tree that was—fortunightly for me—quite clus, and the way that I got into that tree was a caution to cats. I skun up thar quicker’n X. Beidler’s beaver did when the dogs were arter him. An’ I took my Winchester up, too. “Well, the b’ars charged right up to the roots of the tree and began ascratchin’ and a-diggin’ like as they were mad. They had a kinder disappointed look about ’em, too, while they were a-growlin’ and cavortin’. I sat thar and watched them for some time and finally, knowin’ that they would keep me thar until a day after eternity es I did not make some move, I kinder climbed out on the limb of the tree, my gun pointing downward, and drawed a bead upon one of the b’ars. Well, jest as I was about to pull the trigger I heerd a kinder crackling, and you can land mo in perdition es that denied limb didn’t give way—and down I came, my gun going one way, while I came down and landed right square on top of one of the b’ars. As I settled myself I reached'for his ears with both hands, and let a yell outer me that was like to raise the dead, meanwhile kicking the b’ar in the ribs with both hee's io make him git up aud travel, and I think frum the way he lit out he thought a trip-hammer had gotten on to him. A quarter-hop wasn't a patchin’ to the gait that b’ar struck. And he gave me the duradest, all-firdest ride that 1 ever had in my life for about two miles.

“1 did not notice the country much, but as I kalkerlated that I was quite clear of the other b’ar I gave mine an extra kick in the ribs, raised another yell, and then slid oil behind, kinder easily and quiet like, and es suthin hesn’t headed him off, I expect that ar b’ar is a runnin yet. Lieutenant, say we take suthin, my throat’s gittin’ kinder dry.” Our Rapid Transitory Existence, Brief as it is at the longest, is liable to be materially curtailed by our own indiscretions. The dyspeptic eat what they should not, tho bilious drink coffee in excess, and the rheumatic, neuralgic and consumptive sit in draughts, get wet feet and remain in damp clothes, and then wonder when ill how they became so. To persons with a tendency to neuralgia, we recommend a daily use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, and always a wineglassful after unavoidable exposure in damp or otherwise inclement weather. Efficient protection is afforded by this pleasant safeguard, which diffuses a genial glow through the system, invigorates and tones it, and promotes nerve tranquility. Fever and ague, biliousness, constipation, dyspepsia and r.nal disorder, are among the maladies which it remedies and prevents. A Great Cattle Range. The great plateau between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierras, comprising the Territory of t tali and the State of Ne ada, is apparently destined to become the greatest cattle range in the country. Already immense tracts of land, some embracing nearly 250,00 J acres, have been purchased, and owners of large herds in Texas and other Southwestern States are looking for ranges in this wide section of natural pasture land. The pressure of settlers who wish to engage in agriculture and found homes upon the lands in the great fertile plains of the West and South has begun to crowd out the cattle kings, who have for years monopolized the largest part of the States which by nature are better fitted for the raising of < rops than for the pasturage of herds. Thus there has begun a hegira of cattlemen toward the West, which bids fair to add materially in the development of those great sections of our country that have hitherto been left almost exclusively in the hands of Indians and peripatetic gold hunters. '1 his movement of stockmen toward the West is a matter of cons derable importance to ihe people of this coast, ft r the region which will be appropriated by them is by nature a tributa y to California, which should be benefited by +' J estab ishmeut of great moneyed i. terests in a locality from which up to this time little benefit compared with the extent of country has been derived. The cattlemen are also the precursors of the husbandman, who, when a country has become to some extent settled, would readily seek in it opportunit es for agriculture; and t may confidently be expected that there will, before many years are passed, be more agricultural land discover-

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