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The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
PUGIL1sTIC PARSONS.

Two Ministers OF Hartford. CT, Have q Des-
perate Fight, Fall into y BaptisInal Font
and Each Attempts to Drown the Other.
HARTFORD. Ct, Special Telegram, June "a
Rev. DIR. Parker and the Rev. Mr.. Everts in
dulged in a fierce fight in the baptismal font
of the South Baptist church Sunday after
noon. For a long time Congregationalism
has boen striving to capture the church.
Rev. Mr.. Everts is pastor of the much coveted
prize, while Rev. DIR. Parker is the leader Of Con-
gregatonalism. 1t seems that DR.. Parker con-
ceived the purpose Of baptizing . score or more
Of young children in the baptistry Of the South
Baptist A procession was formed. At the
head of the procession was y double quartz
led by q hand organ which had recently
been repaired at considerable cost Be-
sides nearly 200 children in the procession.
there were fully that number Of adults, mon
and women, mostly the parents Of the children.
The procession entered and took possession.
By this time the s~acristan had notified
Rev. MIR. Everts, who quickly sent for the dea-
cons. Meanwhile Rev. DR.. Parker aud his
crowd had turned on the water, which
was rapidly filling the great tank
used for Laptisms. Children were be-
ing :.%1prepared for receiving the rite and
followers in what he called a battle for con-
gresationsllsm. Presently Rev. MIR. Everts
arrived. followed by his deacons. He protested
with Rev. Parker against the outrageous
intrusion, but the reverend doctor simply re-
what he had como to do. Before the
great tank had filled, the spacious edi-
tice was resounding with inquiries,
protestati"ns and recriminstions. The invad-
ing PARTY could not be persuaded to leave.
gregations were
MAKING PANDEMoNIUM
of tho place, the two ministers carried on a
bitter warof words between themselves, DR..
Parker proceeding all the while While with bapt,z.
with blanchod faces and forms
That shook with fright. Suddenly
q struggle between the two sides broke out in
earnest. An Understandable scrimmage took
place. The sh1icks of tho children, the vail
ings of infants and the implorings OF women
mingled with the angry cries of pastors and
officers OF Tue contendins congregation. Many
Sunday clothes almost torn of them.
DR.. Parker and Mr.. Evarts had q
ly fell into the immense txnk, firmly grasping
each other. Each slrove to drown the other.
SO busy were the other fighters that they
could hot observe the accident that happened
to their pastors. Some OF the peace makers
turned their attention 10 the struggling pastors.
1t was found impossible to tear them apart, so
they were taken out, locked in a fierce
embrace, and both unconscious. They We're
finally separated, though they chung to each
other with the tenac,ty OF drowning men,
ministers were reconciled, and it was a source
of great rejoicing to the Baptists that DIR.
Parker had been completely immersed. That
several were not killed in the fearful strug-
gle is q miracle. Many are confined
to their bed from the effect of fright Both
clergymen are in a sad condition mentally and
physically. The unfortunate affair has scan
dalizsd the whole Christian community.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
A Thief's Wonderful Exploit.

The escape of John frankfort. with
Clearance A. Dunn and j. Lewis Robson,
three desperate horse-thiefs was a re-
markable exploit in its way. frankfort
a short time ago was arrested for horse
stealing, and was placed in the iron
apartment of the West Chester (Pa.)
Jail. The cell is completely lined with
boiler.plate iron a half inch thick. elf
you get out of here, Frankford," said an
officer, "you can get out of any iron cell
in the world" Frankford smiled, and
said he wouldn't be in a hurry.
1t did not take long for Frankford to
discover that in the adjoining cell, which
was also lined with plate iron, was
another horse-thief, ]. Lewis Robson.
Frankford at once planned for his es-
cape and Robson agreed to join him.
frankfort procured two old knives and
fitted them rudely into large handles
wrapped in rags. He transformed these
knives into saws. On one iron plate
we're nine heavy bolts that fastened the
plate in Frankford's cell and then ex-
tended through a twenty-inch stone wall
md fastened a plate in Robison's
cell. These bolts were
fastened by heavy hammered heads,
and were almost flush with the plates.
The plates We're white-washed.. Frank
ford, with his rude tools. sawed the bolt
from his cell. This work was slow, and
Frankfort made wooden imitation bolt
leaC.s, whitened them, and deceived
the %jailer.
When the iron plates were removed
in both cells the twenty-inch wall was
tunneled, and Frankford wa able to get
into Robison's cell. During the day
they could put up the plates 80 snugly
as to deceive the most experienced eye.
The stones, of course, were also nicely
laid in, and the mortar and sand con-
cealed in their mattresses. The two
prisoners at night then worked their
way through the iron ceiling of Robison's
cell up into the upper tier cell occupied
by Clarence A. Dunn, another horse
thief under sentence. This very diff
cult task was safely performed, where
upon the three cut their way into the
attic, thence through the roof, then low
cred themselves to the ground by
blanket ropes and escaped.
To reach the roof they had to saw
through 3 six-inch joist twice. All this
work had to be performed in silence,
and in,the dead of the night, with two
old knives and the iron bolts they
pulled out of the wall by which the
plates We're fastened. Before going the
desperate men with false keys unlocked
a side door at the Jail anu liberated
thirteen prisoners, in Jail for various
petty crimes.
Late the same night they were cap
tured by citizens at the point of the pis-
toll. They are nov back again in Jail.
Frankford takes his recapture very
could do.NI CT easps e1lcsG New Wy York RI
Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
Arrested for Selling Forged Bonds.

New York Special, 2sth: Isaac A. Briggs,
broker, and Wesley Lion, lawyer, both of this
city, with Emil Brio, lawyer, nearly seventy
years old. Of Stamford, Ct, were arrested on 8
charge of selling forged Missouri State bonds
ic Edwin r. Kirk, a resident Of Hoboken, n. j.,
doing business In this city as 3 sail maker.
Kirk was induced to purchase bonds at their
face value, 1921, ls5, but subsequently, be-
;oming suspicious, hs instituted inquiries, by
which he learned that Brie had similar bonds
autographed in this city on the representa-
ton that he was . State official of Missouri
Briggs was sent to State prison som years
ego for attempting to blackmail J. ]. Astor.
Bris ranks as q professional forger. and was
arrested IN Michigan in 1868, in company
with his father, Charles Lacia, and Wesley
Lion on . charge Of selling forged bonds, but
was released on bail and has never been tried.
When Briggs was arrested there was found in
his possession bonds Of the New York & At
lanta Railroad company and Chicago. Brazil
Il Ohio Railroad aud Coal company. They are
suppossd to be bonds Of mythical companies
prepared for %swiudling purposes.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
Dyspeptics and burg Stories.

DIR. Felix L. Oswald, writing upon
Remedies from Nature" in the Popu-
lar Science Monthly tor July, says:
But nine out of ten dyspeptics resort
to the drug store. They get a bottle OF
"tonlc bitters." They try DR.. Quack's
Dyspepsia Elixir" They try a ''blue
pill" in the hope of rousing nature, as
it were, to a sense of her proper duty.
Now, what such "tonics," can really
do for them is this: They goad the sys-
TEN into the transient and abnormal ac-
tivity incident to the necessity ofexpell-
ing a W%irulent poison. With the accom-
plishment Of that purpose the exertion
ceases, and the ensuing exhaustion is
worse than the first by just as much as
the poison fever has robbed the system
of larger or smaller share of the little
Thraaim}ng strength. The ~stilnulant has
wasted ths organic energy which it
seemed to revive. But" Says the pa
tent, .'if a repetition of the dose can re-
lieve the second reaction, would the re-
suit not be preferable to the languor of
the unstimnlated system? Wouldn't it
be the best plan to let me support my
s%tgsngtfl by sticking to my patent ton
Yes, it would be very convenient, S.
pecially in times of scarcity, if a starving
horse could be supported by the daily
application Of a patent spur. 1t would
save both oats and oaths. Even a fas-
tidious nag could not neIp acknowledge
iag the pungency OF the goad. But it so
happens that gurfed horses are ome
what short-liyed, though at first the diet
seems to act like a charm. For 8 day or
two the drug stimulates the activity of
the digestive organs as we'll as of the
mental faculties, but the subsequent
.prostration is 80 intolerable that the pa
other poison fever. Before long the
pleasant phase ofthe febriIe process be-
comes shorter, and the reaction more
severe; the jailed system is less able to
respond to the goad, and, in order to
make up for the difference, the dose of
The stimulant has to be steadily increased.
The invalid becomes a bondman to the
drug store and hugs the chain that drags
him down TO the slavery offs confirmed
poison habit. ID"
Circumstances may differ. A dyspep-
tic who intends to make his own quietus
within q month or two. and in the mean
while has a certain amount Of work TO
finish, would be justified in stimulating
his working capacities by all means, in
oraer to improve to the utmost whatev-
er chances Of mundane activity, remains
to him. But hs who intends to sta J
has to make up his mind that recovery
cannot be hoped for that he has not
only discontinued his drug, but expia-
ted the burden of sin which the stimu-
liant outrage has added to the original
cause of the disease. Nature has to
overcome the effects both of malnutri,
ton and malpracti ,e. The drug has
complicated the disease.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
HOW STAGES ARE ROBBED.
"A Lady Relates Her Experience in Nevad:
From the Sacra,n en+o kCa1 \ Racord- union

A Lady Relates Her Experience in Nevada
From the Sacramento (Cal.) Record Union.
Mrs. Pratt, wife of Superintendent r. n.
Pratt, WHO arrived home yesterday from
Sierra Valley, in addition to the mountain
air, had. while travelling in a stags between
Randolph and Truckee, the enjoyable and
impressive experience of capture by a stage
robber. There We're three men, two ladies,
and two children in the party besides the
driver, who were taking in the mountain
scenery and expatiating upon the climate,
when q masked man, decorated with a
double barreled shotgun, which was at full
cock, and with a sword bayonet attached at
the muzzle, a revolver and a Ratchet, STEP
ped out from behind a tree standing by the
track and demanded the driver to halt.
His persuasive command was oebyed, when
ne told the driver to throw out the express
box and open it. The driver replied that
he couldn't, as it was chained down and
locked. This was too thin" for the party
just then III command, and with a show of
compelling obedience in a summary man
ner, the driver got the box out. The robber
directed the inmates of the stage to get out
atd stand Oh the other side Of the road,
which they did, The diver then, under
instructions, BROKE 2 large rock upon the
treasure box in trying to break it open, but
not succeeding, the robber threw his hatch
ct to him, and after considerable effort with
this he succeeded in gettingit open. The
robber then directed hat he should bring
the box under a tree by the roadside, which
re lil, end then returned, under orders mi
nutely given. I'd the stage. The robbsr
then cody but cautiously laid down his gun
by the side of the box, and getting dow
upon his knees took out what coin there
was, and went through the letters and pa
pers with the utmost coolness and deliber-
alton, not appearing to be in the least
hurry. Coming ac1oss two Chinese checks,
he swore in a foreign dialect, and said:
These checks ] can i.ske no account. +"
Having abstracted 1912 il. coin aud papers,
he kindly replaced in the box all the papers
and articles he did not want, and permitted
the driver to take it into custody again and
the passengers to resume their places in the
stage. he tLen SAID po.itsly: Good even
ing to you ALL" and ordered the driver to
drive d, while he left the road and passed
over the hill. stopping to see that the stage
passed quietly along without instituting
measures looking to his apprehension.
The passengers were not molested az to
their valuables, which was fortunate, as
there were a great number of fine gold
watches in the party, besides several hun
dred dollars in money.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07

Iceland is represented as almost in g
starving condition. The loss Of stock
during the terrible winter of a year
ago was the greatest known in the his
tory of Iceland, ave during the erup-
ton of Hecla in the 18th century; and
about $500, 900 worth of stock persisted.
This is a terrible loss of working capital
to a naturally poor people of but 10000
souls; and it must mean added poverty
for some years till the focks can be ill.,
creased by their natural growth. The
only solution of the problem presenting
itself to the Icelandic people Gems to
be the desertion of the country; and
there is a movement for a large migra-
ton to America, particularly to Dakota.
But none lie so scarce in Iceland that
the people cannot eye realize on their
personal effects and land.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
NEWS NOTES.

l Southwestern kansas, or more properly
the lower Arkansas galley, is in the midst
of hal vest. This section, including the coun-
ties of Sedgwick, Butler, Cowley and Sup
ner. never. had finer crop of wheat. These
counties will cut about $500 acres, or
from 1000, 600 to 5000, 900 bushels. The
O&t cop, which is ripening rapidly, will be
immense. The counties named have
nearly 100000 acres Of growing corn.
The supreme court of Ohio gave out its
opinion in over 5000 words On the Scott
liquor tax law, holding it valid and
constitutional, except the second sec
ton, wherein it is held not to apply to
leases executed prior to the 'assage of the
act, rs no contracts made can be violated.
Within the past sig months the Boston
port physicians have examined %, $50 as.
sisted emigrants. Many of them uess 700
feeble by reason of age or other imtirmity
for self-support, and must be aided by pri-
vate and public charities. Most of them
are without luggage and s~cantily clothed.
The failure of Henry W. Wright of Merrill,
Wis.,, was the cause of great excitement at
Oshkosh. 1t is said that the liabilities
principal attorneys in the case say they
cannot figure more than $175, 600. The as
sets are placed at 1922, 600,
The amount of capital invested in build
ing improvements during the past year in
Faribault is $l62, si5. Several business
blocks and re idepces are nov in process of
construction that are not included in this
list.
The Dominion minister of militia has de-
clinad to grant the request of the Victoria
Rifles to csoes the line to attend the review
at Champlain on the Fourth OF July.
The ststue of the late President Gen.
Zachary Taylor arrived at Loui syille from
Carrara, Italy, and will be unveiled az soon
as il is put in the cemetery.
The first wheat of the season was ,eceived
at Kansas City, on the Goth. 1t was shipped
from Oxfold, Sumner county. Kans. The
quality was very good.
Evangelist Moody's Northneid, Eass.,
quest Of $4,000 from a Boston man.
The report ste fight between two minis.
tiers in a Hartford babtiap,sl tont is said to
have been wholly unfoundea.
The Bessamer steel works at Bethlehem,
Pa, have shut down. One thousand meu
are out of work.
Nashville has a new National bauk zith
$500, 600 capital. and to be called the Ameri.
can Nutionsl.
William Stage has been appointed State
treasurer of Michigan, vice Humphrey re
signed.
Great preparations are making for tn.
opening OF a Yello Vstone Park hotel Au
gust 1.
Cedar Rapids bgoilsd at lO3 degrees in tn,
shade Friday. Mitchell Oak; took it at 95
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07

Professor Elisha Gray, the electrician
n a letter to the Chicago Tribune and
Professor Swing, on the Racine tornado
and tornadoes generally, says they are
short lived and expend their force in
from one to fifty miles ordinarily, but
sometimes retaining their force Tor long
er distances, even to a hundred miles.
In regard to their character he says:
1.-THE immediate cause of the terrific
force of the tornado is electricity" and
farther he states: We can manufacture
miniature tornadoes in the laboratory
with no other force than electricity, that
show all the characteristics of their
larger brethren" This is indirect oppo-
sition to the vacuum theory so called of
which so much has.been written, though
the latter has much that is at least plaus-
ible in it's favor.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07

The difficulties attending all efforts
for an economical administration of
governmental affairs are made palpable
by the intense opposition disclosed to
the consolidation of revenue districts.
Though acting in strict accordance with
the law of congress-, which rendered it
necessary to discharge a few surplus Of
%icials, the president, and Secretary
Folger have been criticised without the
slightest reason; and pestered day and
night by kilograms and personalsolicita-
tons from politicians to violate or evade
the law for the purpose of saving a few
useless officials from being relegated to
private life. But happily the admins
tration is firm and the reduction will
take nlace.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07

The investigation which is nov going
on in Washington ofthe doings of chief
architect Hill of the treasury depart
ment, is laying before the public and the
administration some valuable informa-
ton, which will be likely to stop impor-
tant leaks in the future, in the way Of
the purchase of building and other ma
terial at several times its value. The
mystery as to how it costs the govern
ment about three times as much as it
does other parties to build anything, is
being laid bare, and hereafter, perhaps,
it may be able to do such things at no
more than twice their actual cost. 1t is
the fashion of q certain class Of newspa-
pers and public men tn sheer and scout
at all such Investigations and discredit
those engaged in such work, but the
great masses of people of both political
parties take a very different view Of
things. They want honest and econom-
zeal administration andjoyfully hail every
indication of progress in that direction.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
Concerning the Beauty for Whom
Senator Fair Shattered All His
Household Gods.

From the Peru (Ind.) Republican.
Reference has been made lately to the
unhappy domestic relations of Senator
Fair, of Nevada, which eliminated in a
decree of divorce and alimony for his
wife. The girl in the case, who seems
to have completely captivated the old
man with his $lO,OOO,0 GOO is "Annie Car
penter" a plump and handsome blonde,
about q years of age, with crushed
strawberry hair. Annie has a history,
and SO has her mother and her aunt.
She is the daughter of J. III. Smith, who
was the editor and proprietor OF the. Pc
ru Free Press about thirty years ago. In
1876 Mi. Smith left her husband in Pc
ru and accompanied Mr.. and Mrs. John
I. Stevens to ~Caiifornia-or at least was
a passenger on the same ship with them.
Mrs. Smith went to the home of her sis-
ter, Mrs. Schultz, also 9 Peruvian, who
was then living with her husband and
keeping hotel at Young's Hill, Il mining
town not far from San Francisco. Very
soon after her arrival there her daugh-
ter was born and christened "Annie."
Mrs. Smith obtained a divorce from the
husband she abandoned in Peru
and married miner named Car
penter, whose name her child by
the former marriage was permitted to
assume. She left Carpenter, oblalned a
divorce from him, and for a while had
employment in Washington. After re-
turning west she was remarked to Car
penter. The little daughter Anna went
to live with her aunt, Mrs. Shultz, who
was very fond of her. Mrs. Shultz be-
came q member of Colonel Bakers fam
lily in San Francisco, and, taking advan-
tage of her husbands absence in q min
ing town, procured a divorce and &C.
companied Colonel Baker TO Washing
ton Soon aftsrwerd Calonel Tom Fitch,
silver-tongued orator ofthe Pacific slope,
became enamored of Mrs: Shultz and
married her after having procured a d.
vorce from his wife.
Like her mother and her aunt, Anna
Carpenter has her charms. Some time
aga,e San Francisco doctor or dentist
fell desperately in. love with her, al
though he was at the time the husband
Of one wife. Through the influence OF
Colonel Fitch he procured adivorce and
married his new love at Virginia City
Afterward the wronged wife had tho
proceedings of court granting him adi-
iy.orce. set aside and this annulled mis-
marriage with Anna Carpenter. She
has since made conquest ofiarger game.
Her :siations With Senator Fair
were the grounds for ihe
divorce recently obtained by Mrs. Fair.
The ten-millionaire is now free to marry
his bonnie Annie, who is said to be
pretty as we'll as viyacious.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
Mai. wasson's Punishment.

Army officers have at last received
a wholesome lesson against the
violation OF the regulations as
to gambling. The president has approved
the finding Of the court martial and the
recommendation of the secretary of war
that Maj. James r. WATSON, late paymaster
n from anf th pn a ! s to Ss h 'mpyiso Rs ' eightsen
months at h I'd labor in some prison yet
to be selected, and to have the causes Of
his punishment published at length in the
newspapers of Iowa, the state from which
he was app tinted.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
The great failure in Chicago of the
lard men scarcely made a ripple after a
few days though the losses of the specu-
lstors are set down at over six millions.

General William F. Sherman will re-
linquish the command Of the army to
General Sheridan next November and
take up his residence in st. Louis. His
actual retirement will not, however,
take place until February 8, 1884, upon
which date he will be ga years of age.
His status from November until Febru-
ary will be that ola leave of absence.
Under the recent act of congress, the
general will retain his full pay and emol-
uments after he goes upon the retired
list
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07

sixty-ive immigrants exclusive of a
tii4mber of children, have arrived in Alex
andrla. and Will select homes in Douglas
amount oofgoods from sweden ana are we'll
supplied with money, having already de-
posted over S., 600 in the bank of Alexan-
aris. Some of these families have $1,000
to $l0,0 600 apiece, and nearly all of tn EN-
from 81, 600 to 5 1900 apiece.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07

the saltwater duck. He says it was
difficult to walk without treading on
the eggs. He brought away several
bushels of these eggs. The shagg's eggs
are offs light blue color and somewhat
smaller than s domestic hens eggs.
The gulls eggs are somewhat larger in
size, light brown, spotted with black
dots.
LARGO says he could easily load a ship
with those eggs from this island, but as
there is no ma ket for them here they
are not worth gathering.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07

the 1st of January being the date of balance
sheets and general settlements, the number
OF failures IN the last and first quarters of
each year is uniformly larger than the 9TH
er quarters.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07
RAILROAD ~RU1IBLINGS.

l. west bound freight train was wrecked
at the wstsr tank near Belle PLANE. Sew
enteen cars We're Gmashed; eleven of which
were ditched. The accident wac caused by
the train breaking in two.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07

Connecticut has the largest ivory fac
tory in the world. IT is at C%entrebrook.
y sometimes has Sl2:5 ,0Oo worth of ivory
bleaching. r -
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07

There were 5000 people at the Red Rock
camp meeting last Sunday.
The water of st. Louis is receding at from
six to eight inches a day.
The Dickinson press., 1883-07-07

Amasa stones estate proves to be
worth about $8,0O0,0Ms