Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-28
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENTS.

4 O~~N - - - SOAAANAA04 ~ VAO OG1AV ~ n
| A Strange Suicide-Insanify of Bi.ho,
/ Duesan-Openins of Naviration-Ly
man, AldricIi X Lincoln-Paeific Rail
read DemOitstratien-The Flour Trad
of chieago-Ifs Rapid Growth and I'm
mense Productions.
l believe there has been but on,
mode yet discovered by which per
SONS may come into the world
though there are many ways III get
ting out of it. The latest improve
lnent in the manner OF shuffiing of
this mortal coil, was Invented and
put into practice the othe~ day by q
~ell-known saloon keeper named
Oatman, who placed himself upon 8
table, under a gas-burner, attached
rubber tube to it, turned on the
gas, and then sucked it until he ex-
pired. He left no word as to wheth.
er the sensation was pleasant, but il
was certainly a rather strange way OF
committing suicide. The causes
which led to the ash act were do
mestic infelicity and financial embar-
rassment. He was jealous of the
young wife he had married six weeks
before, and not without some cause
II appears; he was harrassed by cred
itors on all sides and the police
We're about to ''pull"his place. which
was low resort, known as a 'spretty
Waiter saloon" He lacked the NOR
al courage to face this combination
OF difficulties, and resorted to the Pc
cullar method of relief mentioned
above. The death of such men is no
loss 10 the community, and would
hardly be worth mentioning but for
the strange manner of his "taking
off,"
For some time past it has been
known to his untimeIy friends that
Bishop Duggan, Of the Catholic
church was suffering from mental
disease which threatens to render
him perfectly insane, but until with
IN few days the matter was kept
from the public. He is sane enough
regarding most matters, but in re-
gard to everything relating to his
Church he is just the reverse. He
1magines he is to be arrested and ex-
communicated, and has frequently
refused to ride out IN his carriage,
lest he should be seized while away
from home. So bad has he become
that 1T has been deemed ex xped:eat to
remove him temporarily from the
diocese, and he is now at the resi-
dence of Archbishop Hendricks, at
st: Louis. 1t is supposed that his
recent difficulties with several of the
priests OF his diocese, has had much
tn al tf Il. t,v.tv l. a
disease.
The opening of navigation has Civ
en- increased activity to all branches
of trade. / cannot refrain from
speaking of one branch which is
now particularly active and the COM
petition i'm which is affording great
inducements to country dealers. /
mean the boot and shoe trade. The
first wholesale house Of this kind in
Chicago was established in 1851, and
did but a small business. In 1S5.
the trade had grown to such propor-
tons that there We're eleven firms
engaged in it, whose annual sales
amounted to three million dollars.
Three years afterward the sales
amounted to thirteen millions, and
now there are some thirty firms,
whose annual sales reach about TWEEN
ty-five millions. Prominent among
these firms for the immensity of theiI
trade, the cheapness Of their goods,
The excellence of their quality, and
the general affability of all connect
| ed with the house, is the firm of Ly.
man, Aldrich & Lincoln, Nos. % and
% Randolph street All of the firm
being educated TO the business, they
/ understand it thoroughly, and by
their correct course of business have
built mp one of the largest and best
trades outside OF Boston. In the
West they have no superiors and
very few equals, either as to quality
4f goods or oheapness of prices. They
have all extensive manufactory at
the East, where labor is lower than
1t is here. and thus have superior ia.
| cilities for furnishing cheap goods.
let they deal very extensively i'm
goods of Western manufacture, and
in fact in everything in the boot and
shoe trade. There is not more com.
plete and perfect establishment ol
the kind i'll the country, and many
of your dealers will doubtless agree
| with me in saying there is not a
cheaper house in the West than tina
of Lyman, Aldrich d Lincoln. II
there be person among your read
ers who thinks differently, let him
try them when next he has occasion
TO buy anything in the boot and shoe
line, End / will wager him new hat
he Will be convinced of the correct
ness of my statements. They send
price lists free on application, and
all your dealers will do well to Oh.
tain one.
The great Pacific Railroad celebra.
ton is being pushed for ward. A
committee of one hundred Of oul
| prominent citizens now have the
matter in hand, and as money is be
| ing literally subscribed, and Chicago
generally spreads herself on such oc
| casions, all imposing demonstration
may he expected.
| The Hour trade of this city is in
cre:sing so rapidly, and has already
assumed such vast proportions, thai
!he old system of selling by samples
at the Beard of Trade, as grain was
sold few years ago,..is To be aban
dOned, and graded system is to bs
| adopted and ins i,ectors and depOsi
tories selected, so the whole trade
can be done without one ever seeing
barrel of the flour he is buying oil
selling. Ten years ago the annual
shipments of grain from Chicago
wer' but 40, 462 barrels, while last
ye. r they amounted 10 a,239, ,49S
This shows much greater proper
tiOnatc increase than the wheat trade
even, and demonstrates that the
West Is yearly sending forward a
greater portion of her breadstuffs in
the shape OF flour and less in the
shape of wheat As the country isfilf.