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Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12
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In another column we publish let
ter written to the Register, in which
Mr.. Cooley of Ottumwa, is urged for
Secretary of State. We know him
personally, and can heartily endorse
the good things said of him. We
hope he will get the nomination, for
he will make a Secretary, of whom
the State will feel proud.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12
A Miraculous Escape.

Another wonderful escape from
death occurred on Thursday last, near
Midway, east of town, OF young
man giving his name as Henry Cole,
and who says his father is VIM. Cole,
Of Marshalltown. The boy is about
sixteen years old. He says that he
had been doing farm work in Wood
bury county for the past three months,
on a farm belonging to his father !;
that the Saturday before the accident
he took notion to leave his work
and go to Kelley, point ON the Mar
row Gauge road some five or six
miles from Ames, where two Of his
brothers and sister reside. He trav-
eled on foot, keeping on the railroad
track from Battle Creek Station to
Jefferson from Jefferson he rode in q
stock car to Moingona, where the
brakeman ordered him out, and he
continued his way on foot, passing
Boone Thursday morning. After
leaving Midway he grew very sleepy
and tired, and that was the last he
could recollect until he was thrown
from the track by freight train GO
ing west. Engineer Chas. Zilley and
his fireman, John d. Russell, tell the
balance of the story. The fireman
says that when coming through a sag
east OF Midway, and running at the
rate of twelve or fifteen miles per
hour, he discovered laying on the
track between the rails what looked
to him like a small key with an old
coat thrown over it +; but, as the train
reached the object he concluded it
was black dog, but too late, discov-
cred that it was man lying between
the rails, curled up and with his back
turned toward the approaching en-
CINE, his head toward the north, and
his feet lying over the south rail-
The pilot of the engine struck him Just
below the shoulders. He was thrown
high in the air., like block of wood,
and with great violence, clear off the
track, coming down head north and
feet south. The engineer reversed
his engine as quickly as possible, and
when the train stopped the young
man was about opposite the way car
at the rear of the train, and, much to
the astonishment of all, was standing
up when the train stopped. Conduc-
tor Warner took the boy into the way
car and brought him to Boone, and,
strange to say, he was only slightly
scraped ON one side of the face, though
not sufficient to bring the blood. We
were in .. T. Marshalls Office while
the boy was there, and he did not
complain of feeling bad, and only said
that his back felt little stiff. The
railroad men who saw the accident
say that it is utterly incomprehensi-
BILE to them how it happened that the
young man was not killed outright,
and every bone in his body broken
Boone Republican.
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jim sNNbChSoN uttuS NiViiiii. siitSi
having sworn time and again that
there was intimidation in East Felici-
ana Parish, and having again said so
by telegraph to Potter as late as May
l4th last, and knowing that there was
not a single vote for Hayes cast in the
parish in 1876, though two years be-
fore the republican majority was about
a thousand;-we say in the face of all
these things this Jim Anderson alias
Cronin noW swears that the election
in East Feliciana was fair one; says
that he has lied all these years, that
it was perfectly fair where not re-
publican vote was cast. The repub-
lican members of the Potter commit
tee offered to prove that Anderson
lies nor and told the truth when he
said the election was not a fair one,
but the democratic members of the
committee would have none of that;
they at once voted down the PROPOSE
ton to let in evidence upon that point;
they rejected that sort of investiga-
ton as systematically as a mad dog
would water. This for men possess
ing shame might be regarded as a
tight place. The democrats of the
committee are in large majority
and of course rule the committee.
They are willing to get hold of man
who confesses himself perjurer to
prove that the East Feliciana election
was a fair one and then deny the re-
publicans the privilege of showing
the contrary by other testimony.
The honest truth of the matter
is that the democratic party North as
well as South don't believe in univer-
sal suffrage and if they could they
would take away the right to vote
from tens of thousands of voters in
the old free states to-day. They don't
think "a Niger" as they derisively
style him, has any business voting,
and they look on here in the North
with the coolest complacency at the
shooting down of the colored race
who attempt to exercise their rights
and to-day the united democratic par.
ty are claiming the election of Tilden
when they know he carried several
states by reason of white democrats
with shotgun in hand, terrorizing vo
tiers and keeping them from the polls
We say the democracy know this
there is not the least doubt of it-ant
knowing it they sustain it. Why, thu
fact is, the organ Of the democratic
party in Wapello county lays dowr
as its cardinal principle-''white SUI
premacy"-and this is just what thu
So uthern democracy are doing, tina
is carrying white supremacy int
| practice.
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Gov. BRASMAN, of Idaho TER

Gov. BRANMAN, of Idaho Terri
tory, is in hot water. The people of
that territory are very much incensed
against him, and if their charges are
true, they have reason to be. We
notice the President has nominated
John p. Hoyt, of Michigan, to sue
coed him.
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More Southern CHARACTERIZATION

WASHINGTON, June lO.-Col. Don
Manuel Freyre, Peruvian minister,
died yesterday.
The storekeeper of a distillery at
Austin, Texas district, having been
mobbed and forced to resign the in
ternal revenue commissioner has au-
thorized the collector to use troops and
arrest the proprietor of the distillery.
The collector says it will take ten men
to make the arrest.
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WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, June lO-The Sam
ate by vote of % to "a authorized
the present Legislature, New Hamp-
shire, to elect U. s. Senator for the
term beginning March 18th, 1879.
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Henry WattersOn, editor of rebel
paper during the war, and editor of
the Louisville COurier-Joamdl since
the war, delivered an address recently
at the National Soldiers Home at
Dayton, Ohio. In the course of this
address he said:
! should like to be an autocrat for
one day. would double the pension
OF every one of you. / would multi
| ply institutions of this kind. And, in
dealing out benefices of government
with no niggardly hand, / would not
stop on MasOn's and Dixon's line, but
would see to it.that the crippled vete-
rams of the South got a little along
with the rest. In sober earnest, l
would ask nothing for myself that l
am not ready to give; but 1 do ask all
for myself that l am ready to give.
In republic there must be no dis
elimination. Equality is indispensa-
e to fraternity.
Henry Watterson was cheek -by-jowl
with the quadrilateral newspaper ring
in the liberal movement of '72. He
made speech in Washington, d. c.,
a year ago last winter in which he
said hundred thousand men could
readily be assembled at the national
capitol to seat Tilden, makinga most
infamatory speech. Now he goes
over to Ohio and makes speech to
the crippled veterans, and uses the
language above quoted, which is a de-
mand that rebel soldiers shall be PEN
stoned alike with Union soldiers. He
claims that the citizen who was Grip
pied in the war upon the nation is
as much entitled to a pension as the
one who fought for the country, and
was crippled. He says this is de-
manded before there can be hearty
union, before they will be conciliated.
This is his significant language: "M
Republic there must be no discrimind-
ton. Equality is indispensable to fra
te,nity." This language covers PEN
sions to the blue and the gray alike; it
covers claims for losses in the rebellion
to the loyal and disloyal alike. We
are stupid dolts, or it is the legitimate
deduction from President Hayes re-
mark that all the difference in the
great struggle for national unity was
that our side had the most Greeks.
AS sure as the sun shall shine, just so
sure will theincoming of democracy
to power in this country herald the
adoption of the views fOreshad-
owed by Watterson, and whether the
people of this country shall heed the
warning not, it is no less the duty
of good citizens to give the warning.
1t is an issue that overshadows all
Others; it is an issue, that besides it,
there is no other that should be let to
interfere with it's settlement. If
treason is not made odious, but rather
advanced by the side of and even
above loyalty, then the latter dies,
and law and order perish, the nation
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Mexican Revolutionlsts Defeated.

GALVESTON, TEXAS, June 1.-The
~ escs Laredo special says Courier
brought news yesterday to the effect
tnat Col. Algeria and $50 Govern
ment troops attacked 200 Revolution
lists under Cara Agala, at a place
called Los Ladrones, forty miles
north of New Laredo, and after no.
we're engagement completely ronted
them making many prisoners and
capturing arms, horses, etc. MANY
are reported killed and wounded on
both sides. but details are wanting.
There was great rejoicing in New
Laredo. on the receipt of the above
news. The revolution is regarded as
q complete failure in this section.
Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12

GOV. GEAR has appointed Noble
Warwick, of Fort Madison, Adiutant
General of the State. He will assume
the duties of the Office on the 10Th inst
Mr.. Warwick was splendid soldier
of the Union army, and lost leg in
the defense of his country; he is re.
puted as well qualified for the posi-.
ton. The Governor has also appoint.
ed Mrs. S. b. Maxwell State Librarian
She is the widow of a Union soldier
and is reputed most estimable lady
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The Matthews CommIttee..-

WASHINGTON, june 1.-THE special
senate committee to investigate Sena-
tor Matthews met to-day. Edmunds,
chairman, was detained by illness,
and Allison presided. 1t was agreed
to defer the business until adjourn
ment of congress, and not meet during
July and August.
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Commission but were ordered print
ed and at his McKinney's) suggestion
certificates were printed in back Of
book containing the proceedings Of
the Electoral Commission and at the
suggestion of Garfield he recently
compared said certificates, finding
they had become mixed and were
duplicated. Witness continued, the
Commission dealt only with printed
papers, except in one or two instance
es. Could not explain. how the GER
titicates became mixed and duplicat-
ed in printing. At request Of the
chairman the examination proceeded
and witness stated, in reply to ques-
tions by Mcmahon, that when Gen.
Garfield came to him inquiring into
the matter Of tho mixture of certifi-
Gates in the printed volumes, he said !:
"You will probably see the impor-
lance of these in few days. There
have been some charges made that
some Of the certificates were forged"
Mckinney testified that Garfield came
to him in the clerks Office of the SUI
preme Court, and, to the best of his
recollection asked him if he remem-
bered any difference in the Kellogg,
La, certificates, to which he replied
he did, but did not recollect what the
difference was, whereupon, at Gen.
Garfield request, got the octave vol
ume, called the Count of the Electoral
Vote, in which the duplication APP
peared, and while Gen. Garfield read
certificate No. l, l looked at No. 2,
and the difference was that one of the
certificates was separate as to Hayes
and Wheeler and the other was a
joint certificate. The certificates
were never compared after they were
received from the printer and in one
or two instances at the request Of
members the papers were sent direct
from the printing offices to their
houses that they might receive them
early in the day.
Levissee was recalled and made
some correction in his previous testi-
mony, among which was one denying
having told Asher that he would take
$1,000 and refuse to accept his cleo.
toral certificate.
Q-By the Chairman-Have you
any idea who signed your names on
the certificates which you have testi.
fed were not signed by you?
A-Not the remotest idea.
Q-By Cox-Have you any recol
lection as to the number of times you
signed your name or places.
Any recollection is distinct as to
the places signed, but do not remem.
Der the number of times, but should
say at least ten or dozen, on the sew
eral certificates made out.
| Q-Chairmsn-Have you anything
additional to add to your statement il
regard to your voting blank wa
charged.
A-Nothing in particular. l tool
a ticket and endorsed my name on it
There was no blank votes. / cal
sw ear positively to having heard then
read as they were taken out of thu
box after they voted. Recess.
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FOREIGN
Tho English Mine Disaster.

LONDON, June S.-An explosion in
Evans coal mines at Haydock, yes
terday, occurred at Ii in the morning.
The Woodpit colliery consists of two
mines, Ravenshead and Florida. The
explosion was confined to the last
named. The men went to work at
q a. IN. The condition of the mine
was examined as usual and ten min
utes before the disaster it was to all
appearances safe. There were $50
men in the Woodpit colliery, Is in
Ravenshead and the remainder in the
Florida mine. The men in Ravens
head were got out Immediately, one
died and Others were much affected
by after damp. The two mines are
connected by tunnel and it was in
the working of the Florida mine be-
yond the tunnel where the explosion
occurred.
1t is the general opinion that every
man in. that part of the mine is dead.
Explorers found the dead bodies of
men and horses on every side, fear
fully burnt and mutilated, giving ev-
dence of the dreadful force of the ex-
plosion. A great fall of coal occur
red. The men engaged in exploring
the mine are working night and day
endeavoring to reach the place where
the most of the bodies are supposed
to lie. A great crowd of men, wo-
men and children have assembled in
the vicinity of the pit, and general
grief prevails, nearly every family in
the village of Haydock having suffer-
ed the loss of one or more of its men,
bers.
No powder was used in the mine.
The manager of the mine went down
the shaft five minutes after the explo-
sion and finding number of men at
the bottom lying on their faces, OPEN
ed the ventilating doors and thus saw
ed the lives Of the eighteen men in
Ravenshead mine. The bodies al
ready found are all much disfigured.
1t will probably be some days before
all the bodies are recovered. Explor-
ers have suffered greatly and have
had to be constantly relieved.
Crowds of women surround the pit
since the explosion weeping and beg
ging for news Of the explorers, but
on the whole the people are very qui-
ct and orderly.
Michael Stall, spinner of Bradford,
has failed. Liabilities $4,000 pounds.
BERLIN, June 1.-THE condition of
DR.. Modelling is 80 much improved
that it is thought likely he will re-
cover.
The recovery of the emperor is
progressing wonderfully. To-day he
celebrates the 10th anniversary of his
marriage.
Arrests for reasonable utterances
among the classes inflicted with So
cialism continues very frequent.
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Passing AWAY

New YORK, June 1.-THE Ecenang
Post says Mr.. Bryant lies in coma
tose state and physicians are almost
afraid to give him any nourishment.
He sleeps all the time.
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Happy Weaver.
bloomfield Republican

General Weaver thinks the demo-
Gratis will vote for him whether the
convention endorses him or not
Happy Weaver.
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perishes, Justice and rightare no longer
distinctive terms from injustice and
wrong.
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WASHINGTON, June S.--The COM
mittee investigating alleged frauds
in Louisiana and Florida resumed in
quiry to-day. Mckinney, deputy
clerk of Supreme Court and clerk of
the Electoral Commission, submitted
printed copies of original certificates
used before the Electoral Commission
and testified that the original now
before the Potter Committee compar-
ed with the printed copies. The GER
titicates were never read in full In the
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APPOINTMENTS

WASHINGTON June S.-The Presi-
dent has nominated John c. Fremont
of N. ". as Governor of Arizona and
John P. Hayt, of Michigan, as Cover
nor of Idaho.
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SEVERE AND CHRONIC CASES OF
M II u r. "A LGIA
As shown in the above letter are always
cured by using the Curative.
CLEVELAND. O. Dec. 9th Is

CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 10Th, 1916.
Gentlemen--I desire TO make statement re-
garding the effect OF your Curative upon me.
! suffered intensely for two months with Seattle
Rheumatism, and naturally tried all the rene
dies could hear of, the Curative among the
Others, but found no relief; was persuaded
finally to give your Curative thorough trial,
by one who had been cured. ! again COM
menced applying the Curative in earnest UNI
der his direction, and in weeks time was
free from pain and we'll. firmly believe every
case Of Rheumatism will yield to Lawson's
Curative but 1t must be used freely and per-
Hstently, as you direct
JAMES H. BROWN,
18th Ward.
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SANFORD'S
RADICAL CURE
For CATARRa

A purely vegetable Oscillation entirely
unlike all other remedies.
j every herb, plant, and bark Is subjected to dis
is obtained in vapor, condensed and bottled. what
remains in the still is inert, yalgeless and totally
passages. Yet all snnffs are insoiubie compounds
ofwoody tlbre; all tinctures, saturated so4tions.
SAnFORD'S RADICAL CURE
local and constitutional remedy. and is applied
az
cleansing, and purifying the secretions: internally
sa the
poison that has found its way into the stomach and
the s 10
human ingenuity to devise more rational treat
SURPRISING CURE.
asens With faser Ksmp "a Sir fois co ss
s,s s 81 Ssss Which, S,sa
essos anna sas nass
sn A.
gans and throat sensitive that the slightest cold
trated. In this way continued to suffer- The .ast
to se to ny SPEAK,
quick consumption, and firmly believe that had
these symptoms continued without relief they
would have rendered me an easy victim. When
in this distressing condition. commenced the use
ofsANFoRp's RADICAL CURE FOR CATARRH, very
as
wonderful medicine gave me the greatest relief.
ts hardly possible for whose head aches, eyes
count Of the choking denominations in his throat,
to realize how much relief obtained from tho first
its influence, both internal and external, rapidly
recovered, and by an occasional of the remedy
since have been entirely free from Catarrh, for tho
first time in twelve years.
GEO. W. AOLBRoOK.
WALTHAM, MASS, Jan. 8, 1876
Psi purchased the RADICAL CURE of GEO
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Each package contains DR., sanford's Improved
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Retail Druggists throughout the United States and
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THE nomination of John c. Ere
mont to be Governor of Arizona will
be we'll received by the country.
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SUFFERERS FROM
RHEUM ATISM
Should not be discouraged when they
have such evidence as the above
before them.

CLEVELAND, June 9, 1874.
This is TO certify that l have used LAWsONS
CURATIVE for Neuralgia in the head and
shoulders, and have felt speedy relief from its
entire cure. MRS. EDWIN DENISON,
No. 43y Woodland Ava
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THE SUBCOMMITTEE.

JACKSONVILLE, June lO.-The Inves-
eating Committee returns to-mor-
row.
McLin testified that he had been in
formed, at the instance Of the Presi-
dent, that he would be appointed As
sOciate Justice Of the Supreme Court
Of New Mexico. His defeat in the
Senate aud consequent disappoint-
ments, are due to the hostility of
Senator Conover. The following
prominent actors in the Florida cleo
ton were provided for: Governor
Stearns on the Hot Springs commits
sion; j. w. Howell, who got up
Driggers' returns in Baker county, is
now collector of customs at Fernan-
dina Joseph Bowes, election inspec-
tor, charged with manipulating bal
lots in Leon county, is in the Treas
ury at Washington; William II.
Vance, clerk of Archer precinct, No.
2, has federal position at Wash
ington; r. III. Black, inspector at
the same precinct has federal clerk
ship in Philadelphia; Bell, inspector
in Jefferson county had received an
appointment, but was since removed !;
Geo. II. Leon, inspector in Leon
county, is clerk in the Treasury at
Washington; Dennis, of Alachua
county, had, recently, a position in the
Treasury Moses j. Taylor, one of the
Returning Board for Jefferson, is in
the land Office at Washington.
Several visiting statesmen, includ-
inc Nnvoc himcolf told u,;%,, no. thnx
Moves was the bosom friend Of Hayes,
and represented Hayes and Noyes
impressed on witness that the whole
matter was Ringing on Florida the
other States were all right; Moves
only promised that members of the
Returning Board would be provided
for. General Lew Wallace, who was
active in getting up evil
dence, said Hayes had telegraphed
him to come to Florida, and that if
Hayes got in he would be taken care
OF SO we'll as other Florida Republic
cans. Howell, candidate for State
had told witness that he got
up the Digger returns, making Bak-
err county Republican instead of DEM
ocratic. Dennis told witness Of ad-
ding PIG Republican votes in Archer
precinct, and expressed a desire of
revealing the whole thing. Bowers,
inspector of Leon county told witness
in January, 1877, he would have to
leave the State for having stuffed bal
lot boxes with little jokers. Bell,
County Judge of Jefferson county,
to witness how 100 votes
were replaced by 100 Republican
votes in the precinct where Bell was
inspector. No direct money offers
were made by Noyes or Stearns.
Once Mr.. Manton Marble, after as
surfing witness the State had gone for
Tilden, said there was no need of
witness dying poor II he did his duty
had been threatened by anonymous
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WASHINGTON, D. c., Mar. 13, 1877.
His excellency, the President:
The undersigned respectfully rec
ommend for appointment as foreign
Consul at either Callao, Belfast, Can
ton or any place of the same impor-
lance, Mr.. Jas. E. Anderson, of Louis
lana. This has the approval of the
whole Louisiana delegation and we
ask the appointment be made at an
early day.
(Signed), Respectfully, ETC.,
o. B. DARRALL.
g. f. NASH