Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 40, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 March 1896 — Page 3

MY PLA YIYiATtS.

The wind comes whispering to mo of the cor. n try green and coo! Of redwing blackbirds chattering beside n reedy pool; It brings me soothing fancies of the homestead on the hill. And I hear the thrush's evening son j and the roLi:i's morning trill; So I fall to thinkit'g tenderly of those I used to knowWhere the sassafras and snakeroot and ci.eckerberries grow. Whit has become of Fzra Marsh who lived on linker's hill? And That's become f Noble Pratt whose father kept the mill? And -That's heroine of Lizzie Crum and Anastasia Sue!!. And of Iloxie Hoot, woo 'tended school in Boston for a spell? They were the boys and they the girls who shared my youthful play They do not answer to my call! My playmates whore are they? What has become of Levi and his little brother Joe Who lived next door to where we lived some forty years ago? I'd like to see the Newton I oy and Quiacy Adams Rmwn. And Ilepsy Hall and Ella Cowles who spelled the whole school down! And CJracie Smith, the Cutler boys, Leander Snow and all Who, I am sure, would answer could they only hear my call! Td like to see Hill Warner and the Conkey boys a ain. And talk about the times we used to wish that we wen nion! And one I shall not name her could I see her gentle face And hear her jrirlish tieble in this distant, lonely place! The flowers and hops of springtime they perished long ago. And the garden where thoy luossonied is white with winter snow. O cottage 'neath the maples, have you seen those girls and boys That but a little whole ago made, oh! such pleasant noise? 0 trees, and hills, and brooks, and lanes, and meadows, do you know Where I shall lind my little friends of forty years ago? You see I'm old and weary, and I've traveled long and far; 1 am looking f.r my playmates I wonder where they are! Eugene Field, in Chicago Record. THEY SAVED THE GUN It is not yet quite fifty years since the close of our war with Mexico, yet the swift movement of modern life has nearly overlaid recollection of it among our people, the colossal tragedy of the civil war intervening between now and then, serving still further to dwarf the older and smaller event. In its day it was one of the most remarkable military events in history. The batflv' of Kucna Vista, on the 2LM and TM of February, is 17. was, after the opening lights of Palo Alto and Itosa'a de la Pahna, the only considerable conliict of the war in which our forces stood on the defensive, if the' may Im said to have so stood in those opening battles. After the enpit illation of Mantanzas. (Jeneral Taylor had moved forward with a strong column, attacked and taken the fortiiied city of Monterey, had advanced to Saltillo, where he had been joined by the column commanded by General Wool, which had marched from Lavaca, Texas, by way of San Antonio, and was preparing to push forward toward the Mexican capital, and a meeting with the strong force which Santa Anna, the Mexican president, was collecting to "destroy the invaders." when he was overtaken by the order from General Scott, detaching the larger part of his force, including nearly all Lis "regulars" and the larger part of his seasoned volunteers. This was done to strengthen the column destined to Invade Mexico from the southeast, landing at Vera Cruz. The effect of this order was to reduce General Taylor's force to less than 5.000 men. made up of volunteers, much the larger number of whom had been soldiers little more than six months, and had hardly been "under lire" at all. Most of them not at all. There were left fo him two or three batteries of "flying artillery," commanded by regular army othcors, but in large degree manned by men detailed from volunteer infantry regiments. There were one or two squadrons of regular cavalry, but other than this Insignificant squad of trained soldiers his force was made t.p of green volunteers, mainly from I iuG.-t :;ri. Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi and Arkansas. He !' General Scott's orders had been ::ni d into effect General Tavlor had advanced to Agua Nuv:i. about twenty miles beyond Saltillo, but the exasperating depletion of his forces iii.nl" further advance impossihl": and hero, too, i.o was met with intelligence that General Santa Anna bad oiganI.etl im army of more than !'O,00O nn-n, and was pushing northward with the purpo.-o to destroy him, ami then turn his victorious forces to meet Scott, wheresoever he might land. There was no ground at or near Agua Nueva where an inferior force could hope to s'and. and General Wool was sent baek to select a place where defense might bo made. Near lluciiu Vista, .1 dozen miles In tlm rear of Agua Nueva, the mountains on the left of the road along which Taylor had advanced approached more closely than elsewhere to a deep and Impassable valley on the right of the road, the sharp foothills running; toward the ragged ravine like the outspread lingers of a man's hand, until, at the Pass of August urn. there were but a few yards between the point of the- rocky spur and tin; brow of the deep valley. This was the ground selected for demise, and the whole of the suudl army fell back to this point. Captain Washington's battery, in which the afterward famous (Wieral Grorge IL Thorn-

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mediately commanding the pass, supported by six companies of the First Illinois Infantry, commanded by Colonel John J. Hardin, who xvas killed near the close of the battle, and whose oldest son. Conenil Martin I). Hardin, subsequently graduated from West Point, was desperately wounded at the second battle of Hull Kim, where he lost au arm. Two incidents of this extraordinary battle illustrate in a forceful way some of the peculiar qualities of the American soldier, and as general history makes no mention of them, being merely letalis, hidden in the general event, it may prove of some interest to recall them for the readers of this generation. The lirst attack of the second day, by a Mexican column of some four thousand men, was delivered directly at the Pass of Augastura, and was beaten off almost, perhaps quite, altogether by the terribly destructive lire of Washington's guns. It was barely over, when a second column of live thousand or more, headed by a brilliant body of lancers, moved out to attack the American line nearer its center. Almost at the same moment a body of American troops, only a few hundred in number, moved out toward the front and advanced beyond supporting distance, as if challenging; the whole Mexican army. It was composed of Colonel Howies' Second Indiana Infantry, or a large part of it, with a sectiontwo guns of a light battery, under the command of Lieutenant OTrien regarded as cue of the most brilliant and promising of the younger ollicers then in the army and manned mainly by men selected from volunteer regiments of infantry. Orders had been sent to Colonel Howies to take up a designated position and aid in repelling what seemed the grand attack of the day. Hut the position to be taken was not clearly specified, or for some other reason he misunderstood it. and advanced his men XV 6 r w (My - ' I.I - 7j MWKt

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entirely beyond support. The first shock of the attack by more than ten times their number fell on this little force, and they stood in peril of being literally trampled under foot. They were as good lighting material as there was in the army, and they fought desperately, until their ollicers, seeing, too late, the error that had been made, without deliberation, gave a vague order to retire, and they did retire. There was no limit to the order and it might have meant "cbir home to Indiana," as one of them subsequently said. Mot to put too line a point on it, they literally ran off the field, and though all. or nearly all. of them fell in with other troops or fought bravely through the day. they did not regain their own organization. H 'fore this disaster many had been killed and wounded, and the men of O'Hrien'.s guns had more than r ha red their losses. The trained soldier knew into what a shamble he had been led. but he never wavered or grumbled, and he worked his guns with desperate energy, every discharge opening long lines in the advancing column aim slinking it to the remotest ranks. At last all the men and horses of one gun were disabled, and all but the commander at the other gdn were stricken down, even part of the horses. And even as the supporting infantry wen meliing from the field, and O'Hiien stood alone, within less than a hundred yards of the bead of th' advancing column, with his own hands, unaided. he charged his own active gun. doubleshotted with grape ai:d canister, and hurled its tempest of shot full in the faces of the foe with terrible effect. Then, as the column reeled under the blow of his single gun, he glanced swiftly alnuit him. Not a man of the little force was left on his feet, but he saw one man a member of an Illinois regiment, Flynn by name who was one f his command, half lying, half sitting against a small bowlder. To him he spoke fiercely: "Get up here, damn you! and help me limber up this gun!" "I can't. Lieutenant." rej lied Flynn. "I'm shot through bolh legs." "Well," replied O'Krien. "you can lift a little," and so saying be seized the man. sat him down on the ground under the limber prolong. i rhaps they call it-of the old-fashioned gun, cut losse the harness from the dead horse, and with superhuman strength rolled the body out of the way, and while Flynn lifted, despite the torture of his wounds, the gun was limbered. Then he dragged the man from the ground, tKrow him like a saddle, astrhlo the

Still hot and smoking gtm. nnfl shouted: "Hold tight, now, for I'm going off from here like hell!" And leaping, like a fiend Incarnate, on the back of one of the horses, with a defiant shout to the foe, in a hurtling rain of bullets, he did "go off like" he said he would. Twenty minutes later, from a uew position with the nearest friends, his gun was again hurling grape into the still advancing column. And Flynn lived to tell the story long afterward at his home in Illinois. The other gun, which (Prion was forced to abandon, was one which had been captured from Santa Anna eleven years before by General "Sam" Houston on the bloody held of San Jacinto, where Texas independence was won. Had Santa Anna won at Kucna Vista, how he would have vaunted the recapture! Hut he did not win, and after the battle was over the gun was found by some of our soldiers, spiked and thrown into a ravine. A few years later OT.rien djed n Tampa. Fla., sincerely mourned by the whole army. Of such material have our American armies', North and South, been made up. The other incident referred to, affecting more men, but illustrating similar soldiery qualities, followed on the heels of this. The misfortune that overtook the Indiana men was full of the presage of defeat. Another such disaster, and the destruction of the little army, outnumbered more than live to one from the lirst, could hardly be averted. The next force to feel the attack was the Second Illinois Infantry, commanded by Colonel William 1 1. Hissell, subsequently Governor of Illinois, and also a member of Congress from that State, who, while holding this latter position, "gave pause" to a fiery Southerner who sought a duel. However, "that's another story." The light of the Indianans had left this full Illinois regiment almost as far beyond effective support as the routed men had been, yet they calmly stood in line and await-

V S f ed the onset, their Colonel sitting his horse, silently watching the advancing foe. The Mexican column, recovered from the shock of )' Prion's guns, moved steadily forward in perfect order, their lances glittering in the sun, and the heavy column of infantry swinging sturdily up a gentle rise. The jingling of spurs and the linn voices of ollicers preserving perfect alignment, vth the dull, mullled sound of many feet, could be distinctly heard. Soon there came a dropping lire, and when the column came within range the guns of Kisscll's men were heard, not in a volley followed by silence while reloading the old-fashioned muskets, but at lirst "tiring by file," which began on the right and rolled steadily down the line, and then every man loaded and fired as fast as he could. The oncoming column was shaken for a moment, but still moved sternly forward. The Illinois men stood "in the open." unprotected. Men dropped in the ranks, but the cool command to "close to the right" was as coolly obeyed, and not a man left his place except to lie down and die, l-'ai- down the slope, nearly a mile away, could be seen Hardin's First Illinois and McKee's Kentuckians running at top speed to join the fray, and a little to their left the ge.ns of Ilragg's battery leaped and bounded savagely forward, as ollicers and men plied voice and lash and put their shoulders to the wheels ami raced onward with the hurrying guns. Desperate and mad hurry it was, indeed, and yet it seemed that, do their utmost, they must be too late, and Kisscll's devoted men. alone under the tempest, must be swept from the field. Yei, still they fought on, their Colonel calmly watching the foe, and the line ollicers firmly closing up the ranks as. lile after tile, the undaunted men went down. Suddenly a mounted stall officerMajor Kliss, a son-in-law of Genoral Taylor "bloody with spurring, fiery red with haste." dashed through the storm of bullets, and addressed Colon. 1 Hissell: "Colonel, can you take ground to the rear without danger of another panic':" Hissell looked calmly into his blazing eyes and answered: "As surely, sir, as your regimental drill." "Then do so. Hut do it at your peril." Hissell rode closer to the right of his regiment and commanded: "(.'ease Illing!" The command passed swiftly down the line, and the llring censed. Then, followed my his aid, who carried his plumed hat in his hand, his lingers tlu X'hing it rigidly, the impassive CoV

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onol galloped to the center and rear ot his line, and his familiar voice rang in his men's ears: "bout face!" and the line turned in its track. "Forward! Quick time! Steady men steadymarch!" and the line swung steadily toward w hat had been the rear, following the Colonel's uplifted sword and tho aid with his crushed hat and his heart in his mouth, while men dropped in the ranks as they moved away, and some were caught and helped on by their unwounded comrades. The aid measured with excited eyes the distance from the foe and that to where Hardin's and McKee's panting men and Kragg's mad gunners pressed forward, and presently said, half under his breath: "That will do!" Instantly Hissell wheeled his horse, waved his sword, and swiftly rang out the commands: "Halt! Kight dress! About face! On the right, commence firing!" and once more Kissell's guns poured in a storm that checked the cheer of the enemy even as it began. "The battle's won, by God!" shouted the excited Kliss. as he clapped his batten d hat on his head, and, dashing his spurs into his horse, rode swiftly away to report. And, even as he spoke, Hardin's and McKee's men opened lire, and Kragg's madened gunners poured in, with incredible swiftness, a tempest of grape that broke up th' enemy's column and shattered the grand charge of the day. These are some of the "little things" the details which general history cannot pause to record, but which vividly Illustrate qualities of the American soldier, and. taken together, make up and are indispensable to the great things the results which history does record.

RATTLESNAKE WINE. It Is n Favorite Medicine in the Wcsl I ndicä. Kenjamin Gooch, in his "Medical and Surgical Observations," published in 1771, gives a summary of different ancient therapeutic methods, based on the use of animal poisons. One of his observations relates to a case of severe pains, spasms, etc., of long duration. Gooch says, after speaking of the patient's sufferings: "Not to appear inhuman to so wretched a being, after telling him I could do nothing. I sent him a bottle of rattlesnake wine, to take a glass of frequently. This was in the West Indies drank as the highest cordial. Three nights after the patient walked in. 'Sir,' said he, 'you cannot be so much amazed as I am, nor half so much pleased; I am come to thank you, and, if not criminal, to worship you.'" Gooch's account of how he learned the virtues of rattlesnake wine is as follows "A very wealthy old gentleman in the West Indies ha-d long been alMieted with leprosy to a high degree, which was deemed incurable by his physicians. Apparently in ;i dying state, he made his will, leaving a large legacy to a female servant, who had lived with him many years. This circumstance being known to the servant, she and her paramour studied and contrived how to make away with him in stiel a manner as to raise the least suspicioif They put the heads of rattlesnakes into the wine he drank, thinking it would prove an infallible poison; on the contrary, he grew better, and the criminals, imagining the poison was not strong enough, added more snake venom, whereby the gentleman was restored to perfect health. Conscience linally put this servant upon her knees before her master, confessing her crime. Forgiveness was granted, and the old gentleman gave her a sum of money, ordering her to depart and never see him more." An Oregon Freak. A curious physical freak has been discovered on the tongue of the infant child of Mrs. Carl F. Wagner, the wife of a railroad man of Albina, Ore. Altout a week ago. when the child was but a week old. the mother called the attention of the family physician to the fact that she experienced a peculiar feeling when the child was nursing. She had not investigated for herself, but thought the babe's tongue was exceedingly rough for one so young. The doctor opened the child's mouth and was astonished to lind its tongue covered with silken hair of short growth. This was somewhat extraordinary, and lie could hardly believe that what he saw was a fact. The attention of some of the most prominent physicians there has been invited to this freak of nature. They say it is an unparalleled case-. It is so extraordinary that a report of it will be furnished all the leading medical journals in the country and Kurope. A local museum man has already made Wagner, who is a poor man. an offer for the use of the child as soon as it can be safely taken from its mother. Aluminum. The production of aluminum In this country has Increased from eighty-three pounds in ISN" to SÖO,(HK) pounds in 1SPÖ. ami the estimate for lS'jq is .I.UOO,Of m) pounds, the process for making it having been greatly improved. The price at the reduction works rangen from ."0 cents to Tm cents a pound. Applied electricity explains the ease with which the light metal is now turned out. Will last a Li Pet i me. Prof. A. C. Totten. of New Haven, has issued a calendar good for (57,71.'',"ÖO years. It Is said to have a very simple key. and is evolved on a cycle of lJtxj.m.K) years. A New York electrician has succeeded in sending messages over a telegraph wire at the rate of 1,714 words a minute. Mamma Willie, where are those apples gone that were in the storeroom? Willie They are with the gingerbread that wu In the cupboard. Exchange,

DUNK AR DS LN EXODUS

TWENTY COLONIES GO FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST. Members Are from Six Different States and They Pass Through Chicauo on Their Way to Dakota Dr: tain to Hecognize Cubans. Feck New Home. Twenty col nics of Ihmkanls from six different States passeö through Chicago on their way to new h.'ie.es in North Dakota. The colonist, nuinhereil l.."0'., ami they expect to settle along the line of l!ie Great Northern Ilailr .i l in North Dakota. The Dunkard arrive.l over the lialtimore and hi,.. W:i? :!'i. Ni.-kel Plate, Paii-Hainlle and M.::.ia r-a-ls. They are from colonies in halt a hun.ln ! towns iu Virginia. West Virginia. Penns Iva nia. Ohio, In. liana an-1 Hi n :s. Tin- soc ial trains were si v :i; arriving. As lal as suüicienr cars w re on hand a i:ev trail! w;n niaiie t:;i i s ti e Wiscov.:a Central yar.ls ami started for the Northwest. In order to carry ail the emigrants four trains were necosary. The compositum of these trains was twenty passenger coaches and lirj freight cars. In the freight cars were families moving their household g Is. farm implements and live stock. In the coaches were families having sold out most of their goods, thinking it cheaper to pay cash for what will be needed in their new homes than to pay freight rates ..n the old. A number of women used the Coaches while their husband and elder sons l.-uked after the goods in the freight cars. Their SccoimI Kxodiis. The present is the second exodus of Dunkards from the Pat to North Dakota in the last three years. They come from old-established colonies which have been s tiding out members to the West for half a century. Often children grow up. have families of their own. and h ave the parent colony much after the natur." of bees, which swarm when their quarters become too crowded. Such is the case in this instance. The fathers of large families have left their Kastern homes, where land is high, with a view to establishing large family estates in tee Wot. These emigrants are not of th poorer class. Many are well-to-do and all are industrious, desirable citizens. l'or some time the elders of the churell have been investigating the desirability for settlement on North Dakota lands. The reports have been favorable and th" present emigration is the result. The fate of the present colonists will decide the future action of several times as many who have staid at home and are watching the venture with a view to following should it prove successful. The one great objeet of the movement is the desir" to possess more land. In tiie country where they tire going there remains a large tract of Covernment land open to settlement. This was not r.-ady for such purposes until recently, when the itear Northern pushed its road through what is known as the Devil's Lake country. Within a few years many small towns have sprung up along t!uline and the country is rapidly being broken up into fanes. Ihuh head of a Dunkard family will homestead en 1'i acres of land. His sons and sons-in-law over 'Jl years old will take a like amount. In this way families will absorb entire sections of land. Each family will als. be a nucleus around which other Dunkards will settle. In a few generations the big farms will be divided and subdivided among the children, until finally no more land will remain and another exodus will be necessary. A MORTON RALLY. Enthusiastic (lathcriu of Kcpuhlicans in the Kmpire State. Messrs. Depow, Miller. Piatt and Lauterbach will be the four delegates-at -large to St. Louis from New York State, and they are instructed for Cov. Morton. The blot upon the indorsement w h i c h New York gave to (luv. Morton consist of IUP votes out of a total of 7-h, against the election of Messrs. Piatt and Lauterbach as d.cle-gates-at-large to St. Louis. A correso indent says: In reality this vote was a Uon CEVI P. MOIITON. test against the leadership of Mr. Plait rather than a protest against the candidacy of (inv. Morten, and in the convention those who at heart favored Major McKinley as second choice numbered at least loo. In the platform no mention is made of State issues, and the expected tight over the Haines excise tax law did not therefore materialize. The resolutions declare for a protective tariff, are uneijuivocally for a gold standard and against the free coinage of silver, and present iov. Morton to the Republicans of the nation as New York's choice for the presidency, lauding his public service, praising his ability, and declaring that notwithstanding his age he is slill in the prime of his vigor. DRITAIN TO AID CUBA. To Follow America in Pccogniiug the Patriots. Aid for Cuba has come from an unexpected source. .lohn Pull will pat Pin ie Sam on the shoulder in any proposition to intervene to stop the butchery on the island. Au informal intimation to this effect has been received at the Slate Department and the status of the Cuban question has changed at once owing to this sudden development. While Spain has been preparing for an appeal to 1'uropoan nations against the United States. (Jreat llritain has quietly taken the other tack, and decided to join with the Pnited Stales in helping the Cuban patriots. Naturally, such a communication was not convened in an ollicial letter, but Secretary Oiaey was given to understand by Sir. Julian I'aunceloie that (Jreat Prilain would not only not object to any action the I'nited Stales might take in regard to Cuba, but would ecu welcome any reasonable interference which would tend to stop the butchery now going on in the island. That such an intimation was given semi-ollicially was learned positively, and the effect of the information when it becomes generally known will be to render almost certain speedy action by this country. 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statement that a definite pdicy lias been agreed upon there. Spain pr p se,l to peso as the champion of I'ur ope. hi nations huhling possessions in America against the arrogance of th.- Yankees. The Ihiropcan nations were to be s. mailed in order to secure concert of action, and then Spain was t tell President 'leeland to go ah- ad if ho dared in t!i fa.ee of a formidable alliance which would prevent active intervention by force if necessary. This plan has l-.n bio -ked completely by the action of (I rear ltritain. and President Cleveland's haads have beeti strengthened" immeasurably by Lord Salisbury's government. Croat I'ritain deplored tlie inhuman Spanish warfare on, the island, and lh;glis!i .mtn.'r !al terests could not look on unmoved while the price of sug "- v.vj m e o g up"--d the result of the des: l -.'.et ic". of Cuban" ta i! et' -Ms. Therefore eatue the informal intim. uii.u that Crat 1'ritaiu would gladly stand aside and see th I'nited States take the initiative in Cuba. No promises were made that could bind (I rent Lritain in any way. and theOneen's g.vrnn: nr was n t put n record in any way. hut Stcretary Ohny has been given to understand that if the President decides to recognize the patriots rs belligerents Cieat llritain will not be far behind in doing the same thing.

MILLS IS FOR WAR. Texas Senator Says the United States Duty 1 to Tree t ut :i. Senator .Mills spoke Tuesday it! defense of the Cuban resolution introduced by him. He said the resolutions heretofore before the Senate were steps in the right direction, but very short step. The people of Cuba had far greater claims on the 1'iKti'il States than mere recognition of belligerency. If Ireland struck for liberty to-day the hearts of the American, pcple would beat in sympathy, and so if Poland or Hungary asserted the right of liberty. Hut the I'nited Stativs had much loser relations to Cuba than to Ireland or Poland or Hungary, for it was part of the WesUrn Hemisphere over which tho V. A ' s?y.ei-- ,11 . SKXAToi: MlI.I.s. Monroe doctrine xtcnde.l the influence of this country. Mr. Mills declared that the Monroe doctrine was a law of protection and that as such Coil was the author of it. It was the same right of self-protection which an individual exercises in abating a nuisance or destroying a powder house near his premises. IctVer-i n had used plain words in threatening to join Lugiand and sweep tlie French licet s from the seas if France persisted in holding the ne-nta of the Mississippi river. Tin same spirit had brought fort A President Cleveland's Yuie.uida inessage. Cuba stood as the key to the gulf, and our unvarying policy, said Mr. Mills, lias been to resist any transfer f Cuba to another monarchy. The I'nited States litis stood by as a jailer and prevented Cuba from going to France or Ihigland. And. if we insisted on keeping Cuba iu the pessessiou of Spain, was it not the moral obligation of the I'nited States to see that Spain gave Cuba fair government, to s"0 that the hell of all hellish despotism was lilted from the Cuban people? "The day will come." said Mr. Mill, "when the American conscience will be aroused to its guilt in permitting the oppression of Cuba, and when that consciousness coiiK-s the American people will till this chamber with Senators who will stop that oppression." The Senator ivad of atrocities attributed to (Jen. Wcyh-r and added: "Thi. is the work of that atrocious scoundrel. He could not be in Cuba to-day if the Fniied States would draw her sword. How the check? of our American women must be suffused, how our children must blush to know that this government stands idly by while Spain, with Ihe keys of her dungeons dangling at her side, permits such an atrocious villain to raise his hand against defenseless women." BOOST FOR rvVKINLEY. Kiijhtceii Mors Votes (e Into the Ohio Coin in ii. Just before the Minnesota State Republican convent;. ei was called to order it was announced that Senator Davis had wired Congressman Ta wney wit lidra wing from the presidential race. This action was due t the refusal of three of live Minnesota district conventions to indorse his candid:'c . Ilei'ore an adjournment tin- 1 lowing resolutions Were adopted lo :i rising vote: "l'esolved. That C. K. IVVV1S. The well considered and pronounced preference of the Republicans of Minnesota for presidential standard bearer in Iv.hJin William McKinley, and this convention expects the delegates and alfernaies-at-large to-da to he elected by it to do all in their p.c,cr h moi.ibly from now until 'that object is accomplished to bring aKut promptly the nomination f William MeKiniey for President of the I'nited States." Telegraphic Urevitic, Col. Thomas P. Ochiltree is seriously ill at his home in New York. His valet says he is unable to see aavoti, and his physician has ordered absolute o,uiet. Capt. W. H. Pradbury. deputy warden of the Missouri penitentiary for thim-s-x. years, is dead, aged 70. He had a remarkable record for persona! courage. .lohn .Jones, who is wauled by Cov. Altgeld for kicking Mrs. Susan Meudeuhall to death while he was town marshal of Anna. 111., has been arrested in St. Louis. The barn of Secley Y. Mason, live miles from Monmouth. 111., burned. Louis Hutton, a farm hand iu the employ of Tbos. Hays, who rented the place, was sleeping in the barn and lost his Uiu.

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