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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-11
NssFE1.YN WOODEN r11s-7.S.
N0T7CE.

1t affords us the greatest pleasure to
zee that steady increasing demand
proves that our efforts to manufacture
honest, substantial goods-made to @ear
as we'll as to seil--are appreciated; but
resret to have thus to notify our distant
cash customers. that all we can possibly
do between this and rnid-winter, Is to
finish cusiom>work and supply present
orders. We expect to double or treble
our capacity for next season.
WIN. OLDHAM. p-,,
4Stf JOHN +. JONES,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-11
GEoRGE ii FARRAR,
Room Clerk West EuI Hotel.
D,sYflcr or Coirum.. BoAHp or HsALrH,

''''"''' w " a s OCT. u, lo,3 /
Hon, T. 0 Ho'cet
DEAR oiR;--l saw MIR. RamsdeIl, who
telegraphed to the New York Tribune
in regard to Senator Carpenters being
refused rooms ut the West End Hotel,
Lous Brlncp, in ...lnne last, soon after
MIR Ramsdelis return to Washington.
then informed MIR kamsdoll that ! was
personally acquainted with the lady Ia
question, having attended her proics
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-11

FUR5, Fl RS-Dellers stock of lurs
must he sold. He is Offering goods IN
this line at surprisingly low prices,
deeming it better policy TO close out ecen
at cost than to carry them over till next
wear
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-11
THE RIGHT Row. William Edmond

THE Right Rev William Edmond
Armitage, d. D., died Sunday in
New York. Bishop Arlnitago was
the eighty-second in the succession
of Bishops in the American Church,
lie was consecrated Assistant Bish-
op OF Wisconsin, Dec. 8, 1866, and
succeeded to the Bishopric on the
death of Bishop kemper, May u,
1870.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-11

By vote of al ayes to 20 nays,
the House passed a bin on Monday
granting universal amnesty, without
exception, and repeating the test
oath. Mr.. Jefferson Davis has only
to take the oath Of loyalty il he
wants to 20 to Congress.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-11
EXEcUTlyE Mansion,
Judge I, q. llewe
wLLAaps Horst, WAssSGroS, Oct, 20. 1873.
nan T. a. hDtrr

wrLLAaps norEL, wAsMSGroS, Oct 20, 1873.
HOn T. y. h0tnr.
DEAR S,R:--ln regard to the charges
against senator Carpenter at Long
Branch the faces are simply these MIR,
CARPENTER came with several others, and
there was not vacant room In the
house. told him so, and gave hlm u
note OF introduction to the Ocean House
Ii the President had called ut the same
timo Tor "a room, | should have told him
the same thing. AIR. Carpenter was
neither intoxicated nor gaIlY os any I'M
pruprtoty whatever
-. LII L
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-11

THERE is much speculation in
Washington IS 70 the probable ac-
ton Of the Senate on the appoint
ment of Attorney General Williams
to the Chief Justiceship. There is
some opposition to him, but it is be-
lieved that he will be confirmed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-11

Branch. and had been refused a room at
the hotel, for reasons best known to
himself and the proprietor OF the hotel.
I his Telegram suggested base false
hood, as Rtm>dell we'll knew ut the time.
He devised it, as he himself admitted
aiterward, solely for the purpose OF get
ting even with Senator Carpenter.
After this had gone through the press
there came charge made by BRICK
! Pomeroy, IN bis sheet in this citY, that
! Mr. Carpenter was refused q room, be-
cause be was in a state OF intoxIcation,
and it was said that his appearance was
Z dirty and iithy in the extreme, and
i Brick moralzed as follows:
( at was Eitifu sight, this drunken person
Il tool Of the President, himself a senator, re-
fused quarters al a Long Branch hotel because
he was not in III condition 10 associate WIN
the people who were guests there. John Nor
rlsscy could ret the best accommodations
there because he would 20 clean and sober" "
"A few days were allowed for this to
be copied hy the press, preparing the
public mind to believe that Mr.. Carpen-
ter, in such condition, M Ght be guilty
OF urpihlng, and then the moral Editor OF
the Tribune came out with column OF
his usual wild western rouiyism, oharg>
ing Mr.. Carpenter with having outraged
the decency Of the land by haunting n
paramour in the face Of decent mothers
and wives The charge OF "beasuy IN
tox ication' was necessary basis upon
which TO rest the other charge, for no
one would believe tha. Mr. Carpenter
was such natural~burn IDIOT as to do
what was charged if he were sober and
Ia his right mind
The Times concludes and perfects
its defense Of Mr.. Carpenter by
publishing the following letters,
which leave no unprecedented person
at liberty to believe there was the
least ground save malice on which
to base the yillainous calumny:
EXEcurvE Mansion,
WASHINGTON, d C., Oct. 20, 1913
DEAR JCpGE.-Much has been SAID in
the public Prints relative to your coli
league, Senator Carpenter, during bis
vi~is to !.cn9 Branch this last simmer
One charge made against him ! know to
be untrue, llc spent m hour or more
with me during the evening OF his stay,
md | can answer ~ to his being at the
time sttctIy sober, gis ing no evidence OF
having been drinking to mark It's effect
mt that time The other charges | know
nothing about, and made no inquiry
a. .,,, ,L.;,Lin., tha N, len nossihIn nur-
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-11
IN obedience to an order from

IN obedience to an order from
the Ministry Of Public Worship,
the police authorities have closed
both the Augustine College and the
Theological Seminary OF the Roman
Catholic diocese Of Munster, situat-
ed at Gacsdorch, in Rhenish Prus-
sia, for failing to comply with the
ecclesiastical law Of May last.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-11

THE House committee on the sal
airy repeal was il session on SGtur-
day, aud agreed to report bill re-
peaiing the law, except as to judges
and the President. The bill fixes
the pay of members at $4,000 per
anuum and mileage, 1t also in
cludes % provision legalizing pay
ments to the Treasury. The pro-
posed act is to take effect from the
date OF its approval, and does not
effect pay already received.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-11

A strong pressure is being brought
to bear upon Congress for the re
peal Of the Bankruptcy Law. 1t
viii undoubtedly be repealed or
very essentially modified.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-11

THE Captain of the Loeb Earn
has made a statement relative to the
collision of his vessel with the Vile
du lavre, from which it appears
that the conduct Of the French cap
tain and crew was cowardly in the
last degree. They were the first on
board the Loeb Earn, ana made no
effort whatever to save the passen-
gers Of their own boat. They evi-
IDENTITY ought to have been drowned.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-11

TANrs Eauurro -C8ll on FeasiNle X
Plrmele ana u Will Il "a hon taxes are
reduced
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-17
Death Roll.

The Death Roll of eminent men during the
last ten days is unusually large. Public
honors were generally paid to the memory of
Chief Justice Chase on Friday and Saturday
of last week throughout the country, and on
Monday his remains were finally Inferred at
Washington. Few Of our public men have
borne through life so conspicuous yet SO fault
less a record, or have died more universally
regretted
The funeral services of Bishop hcilvaine,
whose body had been brought from Europe,
took place at Cincinnati on Friday OF last
week. A large number of bishops and sever
al hundred clergymen of the Episcopal
Church, from all parts of the country, were
present to witness or take part In the ccremo-
MES.
The remains Of James l.. Orr, u s. Embassa
dor to Russia, whose death we mentioned last
week, are on their way here ioc interment.
Mr. Orr was native of Pennsylvania, but
while yet young had moved with his parents
to South Carolina, where he became eminent
as politician He had opposed secession
as long as any man in his state BIZ. when over
borne by the tide, was borne along with it.
After the war was over he WIS among the
first to make his peace with the powers at
Washington, and was finally rewarded with
the mission to Russia.
The funeral of Oaks Ames, whose death we
also mentioned in our last, took place at
North Easton on Sunday, and was attended
by over 5000 people. Among those present
were Vice President Wilson, Seno'or Bout
well, Coungressmen Gooch Butler, &c, 400
of Ames' workmen also marched in the pro
cession. Ames had attained tie age of Sd
years.
John Stuart Mill, the great English public
list and statesman, died at Avignon, in France,
on Friday evening of last week. Dir. Mill
left an autobiography ready for the press, and
several other completed works. His remains
were taken to England for interment
Jose Antonio Baez, for many years Presi-
dent of Venezuela and whose history during
most of his life is mixed up with that of his
country, died an exile in New York Oh Fri
day of last week, in the SD year Of his age.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-17
THE PRINCETON PLATFORM.

The Nation newspaper, in New York city,
gives its sympathy unrescrvcdly to the far,
mers of Illinois in their struggle against the
monopoists Yet it is unable TO endorse the
Princeton platform, upon whichi Mr.. Craig
was nominated for Supreme Judge. The Ma
ton takes it for granted that Mr., Craig has
too much selfrespect to accept nomination
rendered on such terms, yet the Ndtto" is
mistaken in the man-Mr. Craig accepts Oh
the Princeton convention it says
This meeting resolved, among other things
lst, that railroad charters arc not contracts
as they have been held by the courts to be; "a
that the Illinois cnactments relating to rall
roads are not repugnant to the Constitution OF
the United States; Sd, that the Legislatures
shall pass laws establishing reasonable maxi
mum rates, and that this legislation, WhateV
er il NAV be, shall be enforced by the courts
4th, that they will support no candidate Ion
Judge of the Supreme Court who does no.
agree with these resolutionS-the last rcsou
ton being that a recent judgment Of this very
court in a matter having nothing to do with
railroads " is a violation Of the principle o
free government" The Chicago 1ft6un
saws that on this platform the convention un
dertook to nominate some one for supreme
Court, but the gentleman named, who :" Is /;
respectable member of the bar" very natural
W. wrote premptory refusal to be candi
date" Nolawyer with any selfrespect could
do otherwise, for the platform is a direct at
tack on the independence of the judiciary
and an attempt to degrade it into the mere
tool of the legislature. Delicate questions o
constitutional law cannot be decided by
popular body like n farmers convention; anC
even if they could that would be no excuse
for binding hand and foot the purest an'
most intelligent part of the government "h'
exaltng in its place the most suspected.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-17
Commotion in the Grain Trade.

For some time past there has been grow
;po commotion and dissatisfaction among
grain shippers along the canal and river III
regard to the inspection of grain at Chicago
Wheat has gone into Chicago as No. 8, Dut
ALWAYS comes out of the warehouses as NO.;
but what affects the region IN question much
more seriously is, that corn shipped by the
river and canal, is uniformly inspected at
Chicago as rejected" while in point OF fact
it is equal to the best No 2, and often, under
the old regulations, would have passed as
No. /. The corn crop Of last year was eXcep-
tionally good, both as to quantity and quailty'
and was well gathered SO the natural con
clusion of the shippers is, that they are SWIM,
died ont of from three to four cents bushel
on their corn at Chicago by some hocus pocus
or rascali,y in the inspection. This ieeling
has gone SO far that the shippers have held
meetings and resolved that they will ship no
no more grain to Chicago. The railroads
have stepped in and offered to take gram
from La Sale, Utica, Ottawa, Morris, &c, 10
the East by way of the Rock Island road ana
tho Joliet cutoff at rates which Will lana
grain at Buffalo, New York and Boston at
less cost than canal and lake carriage will
give. after making allowance for the inspec
tion gouge at Chicago. From 40 to 100 loads
n dav of corn have been leaving Ottawa for
tbe mast week and the railroad along its whole
lenrth west of Joliet, is crowded with corn
for the cutoff route.
The effect on canal tolls is disastrous to Il
degree, and the effect on the grain trade OF
Chicago must be equally disastrous.
Meantime the Chicago Board of Trade anu
warehouse men wipe their hands and say II
is no fault of theirs Hitherto they had ap
pointed their own inspectors and regulated
the grading of grain so as to enhance inc
grain trade of that city. But last winter the
Illinois legislature in its stupidity, passed
law providing an entirely new system OF IN
specton, and appointing state Official 10 ell
force it, and this state inspector, in attempt
ing conscientiously to enforce stupid law
is the cause of all the mischief. II the IN
spector is fit for his place, he ought to know
that little common sense is great zeal Det
ter than palpable legislative stupidity, anu
ought so to administer the law as not to rum
trade which the legislature at least meant
to benefit instead of destroying,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-17
Excitement in Kansas.

Kansas is iearfully excited over the discoV-
ery of series of horrible murders in the
southern part of that state For a year past,
persons passing from Independence towards
Usage Mission had been noticed mysteriously
to disappear and the belief began to prevail
that there was an organized band Of murder
crs in the suspected region, though nobody
had seen them 4 couple of months ago a
brother of Senator York, of Kansas, having
zone to the Usage region, also strangely disap'
neared and Senator York determined to find
his murdercrs, or at least learn his fate. He
took strong party with him, and arriving
at place known as Big Hill, stopped at the
house of an old man named Bender, the per
sons occupying the house being old Bender
and his wife, and son and his wife. The
sons wife pretended to be spiritual medium
and doctress, having advertised her business
as such in various Kansas papers. York, in
his researches, had occasion to suspect these
Benders rs having something to do with the
strange murders in question, and instituted Il
search of the premises,-not, however, until
after the inmates had taken the alarm and
fled. On searching the premises the body OF
York was found in plowed field, ten rods
| from the house. The head was found 10 he
badly broken, both temples crushed in, and
an ndenture on the back of the skull. This
discovery stimulated further search, and The
house being entered, a trap door was found
below which were one or two more bodies
and in a trench near the house six or eigh
other dead bodies were found. The suppose
ton is, that travellers or others were lured Il
f the house, either to see the "doctressn or a
wayfarers seeking shelter, and when ASLEEP
were despatched and robbed, their bodie
f being pitched down the trap door ana after
wards removed to the trench. The Bender
, have been traced to st Louis, and as the dc
tectives are close after them, it is hoped the
! will soon be arrested and brought to condig
! punishment
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-17

,;ons Justus Stevens, had u pass on the T., d.
G. n in his rocket The candidate nominal
cd NV the convention, Craig, is Il raiiroao
lawyer. .,..,.oa could scorcc.
IL he eynectcd to represent the wishes OF inc
farmers throughout the district, and no farm
cr in This locality regards its action AS Oh t'e
iaoet ;mnortancc whatever. We have trleu
Judge Lawrence for many years, ana kho"
him 10 he a capabc and true man, and we pc
love that our interests are lar SAFER III his
hand than in the hands of a railroad attorney
Who has shown himself capable OF represent,
;nc n railroad company in the Constitutional
Convention, instead of the farmers VINO eicc'
w We wish il to be fully and distinctly under
stood that we have no interest III thls elect,Uh
whatsoever, except an interest as FARMERS We
do not blame Mr.. Craig because ne IS u ruii'
road attorney; what we ob)ect " Is Una, lH,,'
ers should be asked to vote ior nm uhucl 'iio
pretcnse that he has no cohheclioh WIN run ran,
rpnads We object to his running under false
,,ra,onsos If The facts had been known he
,non,d never have been nominated, even by
,ho pr;nccton Convention. We should not be
surprised if the railway interest secretly sup
norris him rs we think it is doing here, be
cause that interest can control him II elected,
We are. however, very certain he will not be
elected, and he certainly should not receive
the sunpOrt of farmers. we have maze lhe
tnr r suIpG statements after careful investiga
ton Of the facts, and can furnish abundant
proof of their correctness;
A. G. CLAY,
Presidea Farmers association hnor Co.
c. A, HINKLEY,
President Of tie Galesburg Farmers Gun.
A. j. DUNLAP,
VicsPresident state Boardcf agriculture.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-17

PENITENTIARY CoNNIssIoNERs.-lhc la'c
Commissioners of the Penitentiary at Johet
having been invited by Gov. Beverage 10 IT,
sign for the only apparent reason that 'hey
had redeemed the penitcntiary from beng an
expense of quarter million year to the
State and made it selfsupporting the toy
ernor has appointed new set As the only
conceivable objection to the old Commissioner
was that they had departed from the correct
radical practice of stealing two dollars whii'
they made one for the State, the Governor Is
to be congratulated that there is no prooapii
itv that his new Commissioners VIII be charS
able with the same irregularity." The ne"
Commissioners are named VI. NJ. Bane, Iheo
dorc Copisius and ]. w. Wham. Bane Is
man of rather imposing personal presence
lazy rood natured, and VIGOROUSLY incom
netept Canisius is played out politician
whom even Grant could no longer carry; anc
Wbam is the brother-in-law of John y. Logan
who helped him manipulate the famous Ieior
Sioux steal. There can be little question a
TO the object of displacing the late em'nenuN
lcompetent and successful Commissioner
with such unmitigated political dead-oea'S'
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-17
The La Sale County Farmers Association

Meets at Ottawa today, pursuant 10 ad'
ioprnment in March last. The meeting ex-
cites good deal of interest, and full attend
ance from all the towns oranges and associa-
lions in the County. While the call OF the
meeting includes no such object. yet doubt
les its action will have important reference
70 the impending Judicial election in June
1t is to be hoped, at least, on that head, that
the Convention will not, like the one al
Princeton and another at Joliet recently, allow
itself to be manipulated by the politicians.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-17

The Chicago Times having taken the pans
for Il purpose to mutilate the resolution
drawn by Judge Dickey and adopted by
farmers convention in Ottawa seven years
ago it is but just that the resolution Shoulu
he published correctly, as follows:
Resoiced, That corporations are regarded ID
law as artificial persOns-but have no hiSHcI
qualities or more sacred rights than hatuI0,
persons and while they should, IKE n'Iu .,'
persons. be protected in their righis ny .le
| law. they at the same time should IKE ha'ur-
al persons he subject 10 the law anu nay,
like natural persons, De rcstralne| ny law
| from cXtorion and wrong.
| II is held in all civilized countries - uc CON-
petent for the law-m&king power 10 IN NlaAl-
mum rates of interest IN money io'Aeu' lil'N-
imum rates of icrria@c' maximum rates VI
toll for grinding bread>iuiis, and "'S upon
the principal of cxtortion, where one party
| has The advantage of the other, may he pro
hibited by statute.
Upon this principle we assert the iighl 81
the nublic to have maximum rates 81 travel
and TRANSFORMATION 10y railways fixed by the
| legislature, and the present arbitrary dis
elimination between different paris oi d't
same line prohibited.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-17

The saying that almighty mean men get
Office out west" is illustrated in the case of
the newly elected radical senator Mitchell,
from Oregon. \ dozen or so of years ago n
Young man named Nipple studied law at But
Ter, Pa. After being admitted to the bar he
formed sort of partnership with Col. j. NJ
Thompson, of that place, an eminent lawyer
enjoying Il large practice, but wasting some
of his time in politics. Nipple married, ana
things were running along smoothly, untii
one day our hero came up missing; so ana
some $4,000 he had collected in the name oil
the firm In short Nipple had slopeo ior inc
far west, leaving his poor wife and creditors
in the lurch. When recently twas announced
that J Ohm Nipple Mitchell was elected l. .
Senator from Oregon, the name suggested IN
ouirv, and it leaks out that the Senator is no
other than the absconding Pennsylvania at
tornev. under thin alias!
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-17

The result of the Penitentiary investigation
month or two ago has resulted in the re-
moval of the Commissioners and Warden Ed
wards. and the appointment OF another set =
YorkcWe Record.
But ifGov. Beveridge is to be believed II
was not the result" of the investigation
which resulted a" in the removal of the Com
missioners. rs Gov. b. assured the COMMITS
s;opcrs the result of the investigation had
nothing TO do with the resulting removal
The removal resulted purely from a desire
to reward partisan friends, with no thought
or care as To the result " 10 the Interests %
the prison or the state.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-17

The announcement Is made that the Hon
Chas. Sumner has obtained n divorce from
his wife ON account of five years wiliul de-
sertion. Sumner had lived happy bachelor
10 the age Of sixty before he was caught in the
meshes Of matrimony by n gay and festive spin
ster Of o. She loved company, gaieiy, balls,
parties &C. all of which, to Sumner, was
vanity and vexation cf spirit. He would en-
dure a route until 10 or II o'clock and ther
say To his wife, my dear, our carriage il
waiting for us at the door" She would reply
" You dear, good old soul, you are tired,
know You need not wait for me, but q
home and rest | will come in an hour o
two" She had fastened herself 10 hand
some Prussian Secretary of legation, of whom
Sumner grew MORALLY jealous; there was
hareup and divorce was agreed upon. Blu
as no sufficient cause for divorce was appal
cnt, and as the laws of Massachusetts, make
years absence sufficient cause, the lad,
agreed to 90 to Europe for the requisite time