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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-11-21
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TILLINGHAST'S TRIBULATIONS.
A Statement OF the Assets and Liabilities
of the Chicago Firm. 3,

We find the following statement in
reference to the affairs of III. c.. Tilling-
hast Il Co., who recently made an as
signment, in the Pioneer Press of the
14th:
CHICAGO, November 13.-H. G. Til
linghast Il Co., dealers in hides, leather
and buffalo robes, made an assignment
to-day. The failure caused much sur
prise and regret among the trade, as the
house is one of the oldest, heaviest and
most honorabiy conducted in the west.
The Immediate cause Of the downfall
was the protest yesterday afternoon of
an acceptance OF "a sixty days draft for
$4,000. The firm has no preferred cred
itors, not even it's own bank, to which
the firm is said to be indebted about
$4,000. The causes leading to the fail
ure were that the firm borrowed money
with which to pay cash for hides and
leather, and sold ON one to four months
time, and the fact that its purchasing
agent in Montana has overdrawn $50,000
on stock which has not arrived. Their
assets are estimated at 1915, 900 to $780,
900, including a $50, 900 interest in a sill
yer mine and smelling works ia Mon
tana, the stock in hand and in transit,
branch leather houses in Dubuque, Iowa,
and Colorado Springs, Col, and book
accounts. The latter includes a claim
for $50, 900 against Putnam, Phelps &
Co., of Leominster, Mass. The liabili-
ties are estimated at $40, 200. The pa
per of the firm is understood to be wide
ly distributed.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, November 13.-Great
surprise was manifested in this city to-
day by the announcement that III. G..
Tillinghast & Co., of Chicago, had made
an assignment, and the surprise was
further augmented by the fact that at
1880 o'clock last night an attachment
had been issued on the stock of the con-
Germ in favor of the employees in the
Dubuque branch OF the firm to the ex-
tend Of $3,946 back wages due them.
The Dubuque branch was ably managed
by VIM. Mcdonald, and the firm was
supposed to stand on a solid foundation.
A letter statement sent out by the assoc
ciated press is to this effect:
CHICAGO, November 16.-Later deve1-
opments in regard to the failure of Ell.
C. Tillinghast & Co, leather dealers, in
Dictated that their assets will only reach
about S150,O00, instead Of 100000 as at
first stated, and their liabilities 1910, 900,
instead Of $500, 600.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-11-21
Exonerating Mr.. Emery.

The following dispatch has been hand
ed us by E. q. Maclay, cashier Of the
First National Bank of this city:
CHICAGO, November Is, 1883.
First National Bank, Fort Benton:
Newspapers have cast reflections upon
Jas. II. Emery. We have the utmost
confidence in him and will not see him
abused. II. G.. TILLINGHAsT & Go.
The item which cast reflections upon
Mr.. Emery, who is the agent of Filling
hast & Co. in this territory, was an as
ISOLATED press dispatch sent out from
Chicago. We are pleased to publish
this positive denial of the statements it
although no one in Montana
believed Mr.. Emery was in the least
respect guilty las charged in the indict-
ment.O
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-11-21
Vol.IV
THE STOPPING OF THE CLOCK.

Surprising falls the instantaneous calm,
The sudden silence in my chamber small.
/, starting, lift my head in half alarm
The clock has rtopped-that's all.
The clock has stopped! Yet why have / go found
An instant feeling almost like dismay?
Why note its silence sooner than its sound
For it has licked all day.
So many lives beside my own go on,
And such companionship unheeded keep;
Compauionship scarce recognized till gone,
And lost in sudden sleep.
And so the blessings heaven daily grants
Are in their very commonness forgot;
We little heed what answereth our wants
Until it answers not.
A strangeneas falleth on familiar ways,
AS if some pulse were gone beyond recall
Something unthought OF, linked with all our days
Some clock has stopped-that's all!
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-11-21
The Escaped Convict.

Davis, the horse thief who escaped
from the White Sulphur Springs cala-
boose about two months ago and who
has been skulking around in the vicin-
ity of Barker for SO long, has been heard
Of again. Last week he was down at
Nose Solomon's place on the Marias for
two days. While there he sold his horse
to a neighboring rancher for SIS, and
the next morning came to the house, it
Is supposed, to steal the horse from the
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-11-21
A Big Run.

I A letter received from Barker last
evening states that the smelter was run
ming on the high grade ore from the
Silver Belle and doing better work than
eyer before. On Thursday S5 bars of
were run out during n eight
hour shift, the best record eve made,
and probably the richest bullion yet pro-
duced. At this rate so55 bars would be
turned out in one day Of "a hours while
the biggest run heretofore has been
about $50 bars. Good ore tells.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-11-21
Notice.

Parties wishing to secure turkeys for
Thanksgiving should leave their orders
with Higgins & Ayres, Produce Market.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27
COURTED HIS FATE.
An Illinois Shootist Goes Out to Shoot and
Comes Home Shot-An Old Fued Set
led

An Illinois ShOotist Goes Out to Shoot and
Comes Home Shot-An Old Fued Set
tied.
CAIRO, his, Sept. 81.
A gentleman from New Burnside, on the
line of the Wabash road fifty miles north
of here, gives the particulars of a savage
affray which took place there yesterday.
A hard character named Frank Smith hav-
ing al grudge against couple of young
men named Howerton, concluded to get
even, ard, to screw his courage to the
proper degree, he became partly intoxi-
Gated. Mounting his horse he sought the
trothers, who were engaged in threshing
rear the village, announcing his approach
ny firing off his pistol. After reloading
and when in good range, he directed his
shots at the young men. They naturally
in self-defense, opened fire on the
enemy, which resulted in Smiths
hat receiving bullet holes through the
crown, brim and outside, one ball, which
caused his death, entering the left breast,
about four inches below the nipple, ranging
downward. His horse was instantly killed.
He fingered until to-day, when death ended
his sufferings. Previous to his demise he
expressed wish to be baptized, and in
the absence of anything else new wagon
bed was improviSed. filed with water and
the dying mans last wish gratified. The
Howertons disappeared after the affray,
but Will no doubt surrender, as the shoot
ing was clearly case of Self-defense. An
old feud is said to have existed between the
parties, in which it appears that Smith was
the original aggressOr.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

IT has been decided by the Treasury De-
partment that hemlock bark is not dutiable
under the provisions of the Tariff act,
which fixes the rate of duty for extract of
helnlock and other bark used for tanning,
but is free of duty under the provisions of
the free list.
THE President of the New Orleans Nation
al Bank, against whom Postmaster General
Gresham's recent order in relation to the
lottery company's mail matter was directed,
subsequently had an interview with the
Secretary of the Treasury on the subject.
Secretary Folger told him the question of
delivery of mail to banks was one over
which he had no direct control, that being
under the jurisdiction of the PoStofflcs De-
partment.
AT Shreveport, La, on the night of the
22nd, the boiler of the engine running at
the bridge being constructed over the Red
River, by the Shreveport &, Pacific Rail-
road Company, exploded with terrible
force, killing five and wounding five men
who were at work as the night force. A
boy named Watts was the only person on
the boat who escaped unhurt.
THE Jacksboro, Texas, stage was robbed
the other evening, eight miles out, by
lone highwayman, one of the two who
robbed the same stage few weeks previ-
Gus. The passengers, three ladies and one
gentleman, were not molested, the robber
demanding only the mail sacks.
FRED P. jerks, well-known cotton
broker, recently hired rooms at the Ire
mont House, in Boston, and was afterwards
found dead, having poisoned himself. In
vestigation proved him to have been for
ger for various amounts, aggregating $13,-
600.
BERNARD GALLAGHER, brother of DR..
Gallagher, under sentence for life in En-
gland for having been concerned in dyna-
mite plots, was lately sent to the New York
Inebriate Asylum.
THE steamships Main and Elbe, which
arrived at New York from Europe, recent
ly, brought 100000 francs in gold.
ADvICES from the Indian Territory stated
that four men named Saddler, Upton, and
two brothers named Gray, from the vicini-
ty of Paris, Texas, camped on Big Greek,
in the Choctaw Nation, some time ago, for
the purpose of hunting and fishing, and
that the other night their camp was raided
by party claiming to be pursuing four
horse thieves. a fight ensued, and one of
the Gray brothers and Saddler were killed.
The other Gray and Upton escaped. The
posse then plundered the camp, taking
away all valuable effects.
RETURNS from the election for Chief of
the Greek Nation, in the Indian Territory,
indicated the election of Spieche over Per-
riman and Chicote by about forty majority.
progressive party.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27
A BIG BLAZE.

Destruction of the Hannibal st. 10 Rail-
road Shops at Hannibal by Fire-Three
Locomotives and Several Freight Cars In.
cluded in the Loss.
HANNIBAL, Mo-, Sept. 21.
At $3.50 this morning the city was
awakened by the blowing of whistles, clang
of bells and the cry the Hannibal & st. Jo
shops were on fire. The citizens turned out
Ell masse and discovered the shops to be
one sheet of flames. The fire department
arrived promptly on the scene and began
throwing streams of water upon the burn
ing mass, but finding it impossible to save
the machine shops they turned their atten.
tion to the other buildings and worked with
such a will that only the machine and
blacksmith shops were burned. This build
ing stood between the car and carpenter
shop and the round-house, and both of these
buildings were saved. The machine and
blacksmith shops were totally destroyed,
with their contents, including tools, ma
chinery, material and three locomotive en-
gines that were undergoing repairs. One
of these was completed and would have
left the shop to-day. The fire on the
east communicated with three freight
cars, valued altogether at 100000, and
burned these and their contents.
The roof was burned from the engine house,
but the engine itself was uninjured. The
car building was also badly scorched, but
otherwise not damaged. The loss will fall
heavily on the labOring men, nearly 1000
of whom are thrown out of employment,
and whose tools. which were very valuable.
were burned. The total loss is estimated
to be from $4,000 to $4,000, but it is be-
lieved to be covered by insurance.
The fire originated in the eastern part of
the machine shop, and was first discovered
by some section hands who were sleeping
The men have been working from fifteen
to eighteen hours day in the shops, and
had been working in this room until 10:3)
p. M; but there had been no fire in the
room all day, except that connected with
the riveting machine, nor is any smoking
allowed on the premises. The watchman
says he passed through the building at two
O'Clock, and at that time saw no signs of
fire.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27
Secretary Teller's Admission.

WASHINGTON, Sept. p.
Secretary Teller has admitted that he has
promoted several department messengers
to the grade of $500 grade en-
braced in the classified civil service as laid
down in the rules and regulations promul-
gated by the President. The Secretary de-
fends himself by saying he thinks he had a
right to make the promotions, because he
does notregard the rules relating to competi-
tive examinations as applicable to messen-
gers appointed prior to July16, when the civil
service law took effect. The Civil-Service
Commission takes issue on this point with
the Secretary, and the matter will be laid
before the President.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27
A STATE-PRISON SENSATION.
A Hundred COnvicts in the Connecticut
State Prison Suffering the Pangs of Poison
-COrned Mutton the Supposed Cause-No
Fatal consequences.

HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 21.
Thursday afternoon, between three and
four o'clock, one of the inmates of the Con-
necticut State Prison, at work in the shoe
shop, complained to the overseer of being
sick at the stomach, and he was immedi-
ately sent to the hospital steward for treat
ment. Barely had he reached the stewards
quarters when another convict who was
deathly pale also complained of illness, and
he likewise was referred to the steward for
treatment Within short time the num-
ber of applicants from the convicts began
to increase rapidly, causing alarm and ap-
prehension among the prison officials. All
the men showed unmistakable symptoms of
poisoning. They were affected with grip
ing pains in the abdomen and stomach, dry
ness of the mouth, a parching thirst, fire.
quent vomiting and severe retching. Within
an hour of the time that the first complaint
was made twenty-five cOnvictS were being
treated for poisoning The additions tC
the ranks of the sick were frequent and
rapid, and at six O'Clock one hundred con-
victs were stricken. DR.. Warren, the
prison physician, was kept busy admins
tering opiateS and antidOteS, and it was
1880 p. m. before all the afflicted had re-
covered. Medical treatment in some cases
and the antidOte had an immediate effect,
while other cases were stubborn and re-
fused to yield. The majority of the con-
victs were kept in their cells, but four of
them were so bad that their removal to the
hospital was necessary. After administer
ing to the wants of the men, Warden Ser
geant and his sUbOrdinateS began to look
for the cause of the trouble. They exam
ined the food that had been served to the
men at dinner, and concluded the poison
emanated from the corned mutton which
constituted the meat ration of the convicts
that day. 1t was purchased of the market
man who regularly supplies the prison, and
was considered unusually fine. The prison
officials never buy barreled corned meat,
but purchase sufficient to supply the re-
quirements of each day. In addition to the
cOrned mutton the only rations served the
men on Thursday were bread, potatoes and
water. The women prisoners were sup
piled with the same rations, but did not
partake of them, preferring to save it for
the evening meal, so that they could have
it cold. 1t was, however, taken from them
and they were not allowed to eat it. War
den Sergeant to-day visited the dealer
from whom the meat had been purchased,
and learned that he corns all of his own
meat in the same galvanized iron tanks.
From these tanks large quantities of meat
had been sold, but no complaint was made
except that which came from the prison,
Dr.. Warner, the prison physician, believes
the symptoms were those of zinc or copUer
poison, and may have come from the brine.
The condition of the men to-day is much
improved, and many of them have been
able to return to the shop, though some are
still confined to their cells.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27
Miscellaneous.

DR.. j. H. OYSTER, of Paola, announces
that it is his intention to publish complete
Flora of Kansas just as soon as the botani
cal survey of the State can be completed,
He wishes to include nothing without its
identity has been determined beyond i
doubt. He will give the general distribu-
ton, and therefore will have to depend up.
on the cooperation of the botanists in the
different parts of the State to great eX-
tent. He desires a list of every species in
each county, and would be glad to have
persons interested in botany send him
specimens, say from three to six of each
variety, where found, the time of Towering
etc. DR.. Oyster also desires the names and
postOffice address of all bOtanists in the
State.
THE charter for the Beverly Mining Com
pany, Dodge City, was lately filed with the
Secretary of State.
REV. JOHN BUTLER, cOlOred, of Wyan
dotte, on Sunday, the 10th, went into his
pulpit (the Baptist in usual health, took
for his text, BLESSED are the dead who die
in the Lord" and when speaking in an ex.
cited manner, just as he closed a sentence
with the words, dispatched to Heaven
quickly" he suddenly ceased speaking,
leaned forward on the pulpit and expired
in an instant.
THE State Fish Commissioner says there
is no State in the Union that has as many
miles of streams habitable for fish within
its borders as Kansas.
THE Commissioners of Ellis County have
decided to tax the telegraph wires running
through that county at SO per mile.
The fifteen-year-old son of Mr.. Penning'
ton, living near Salem, was killed by
runaway team recently. He was riding on
load of hay, when the horses became
frightened and he fell between the horses
and the wagon and was dragged and bruised
in such a manner that he died in about
fifteen minutes after he was found.
MCPHERSON has just built water-works
for protection against fire, at cost OF
$1,000
JOHN KENNEDY was recently fatally in:
jured in attempting to board a moving
train at Argentine.
A DINING room girl in Deavenworth,
named Clark, employed at the Planters
Hotel, recently took laudanum, but not
enough to kill her, and by the assistance OF
those around her was promptly reSusci
tated.
C. C. WHEELER, General Manager of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, has
resigned.
HEAVY rains in the Neosho Valley.
THE other night burglars entered Colonel
c. K. Holidays residence at Topeka. He
was aroused by their noise, got out of bed
and struck light. One of the thieves was
discovered in the kitchen, hid behind the
stove, and when the Colonel made rush
for him he fired, the ball missing Holiday
by about four inches and lodging in the
door casing. Two negroes were arrested,
one of whom had been employed by Colonel
Holiday since last February.
COLONEL CHURCHILL, of st. Louis, was
recently in Topeka trying to discover
traces of his daughter Mary, who left home
in August. He was unsuccessful.
The Democratic Convention of Leaven.
worth County nominated Colonel Thomas
Moonlight for Sheriff.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27

The Egyptian Government is taking
active measures for the suppression of the
slave trade. The police recently captured
250 slaves at Ascot and arrested the chief
SLAYER at Cairo.
THE National Liberal League met in
Milwaukee on the 21st.
THE Louisville Convention adopted a
resolution favoring Federal aid to educa-
tion.
BURGLARS blew open two safes in Mil
waukee on the morning of the 21st, secur.
ing about $3.50.
NINE hundred and fifty-two invita-
tions for the Governor-GeneraIs ball at
Ottawa, Ont, on the 21st were accepted.
THE French Prime Minister Ferry has
asked for English mediation in case nego-
tiations with China fail.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT HILL pub
fishes detailed reply to the report of the
Investigating Committee.
+. B. THURBER of the -A1onop-
oily league testified before the Senate Labor
Committee on the 21st.
AT Lakeland, Ohio, on the 21st,
Philip Kuhn, canal boatman, killed me-
gro named Ezekiel Lee with blow of his
fist.
AT a banquet following the grand
military review in Austria, on the 21st,
King Alfonso occupied the seat of honor.
The Chinese people demand that the
Empress, who does not seem to be energetic
enough to suit the popular demand, shall
Of
the Emperor.
A COMMITTEE of the Lancashire
operatives appeal to the trades unionists OF
Great Britain for assistance for the strlk-
ing weavers. Ten thousand weavers are
idle.
A FARMER named Fitzpatrick was
shot and seriously wounded in Clonmore,
Ireland, on the 21st. 1t was an agrarian
outrage. Two arrests were made.
Mrs. MARY MCGOUGH recovered q
verdict in the Kings County On. " Court,
General Term, on the 2lst, for $1,000 dam
ages for the loss Of her husband, who was
killed by the Long Island Railroad in
March, 1879.
A BELT of woods near Great Falls, n.
fighting the flames. There is great scarcity
of water there.
ZACHARIAH /. SNYDER was found
guilty of murder in the first degree at Yer
non Ind, on the DIST, and was sentenced
to death. He participated in the killing of
John Ven Wy, August Il, for eighteen dol
lars.
P. CAIN, charged with the murder
of Murdock Campbell, of Clinal Haven,
Me-, August +, pleaded guilty on the 2lst,
and was committed to the Insane Hospital
for observation.
A HUNDRED prisoners in the State
Prison at Wethersfield, Conn, were taken
sick suddenly on the Doth, supposed to be
poisoned by corned meat. No serious re-
suits were anticipated.
ESTIMATES for the cost of the Russian
army for 1888 are ,O0O, 900 roubles in excess
of those of last year.
SECRETARY FOLGER has rendered an
important decision on the subject of dulles
Oh charcoal and round iron.
THE Secretary of the Navy has eX-
pressed willingness to issue rations to des-
titute people on the Naval Reserve at Pen
sacOla.
DEMPSEY and Boylan, the two pugil-
lists arrested in New York when about to
spar in public, have been committed to
jail.
A PARTY of four hunters from Texas
were attacked in the Choctaw Nation by a
posse in pursuit of horse-thieves and two of
them killed.
A DISTRICT convention of river coal
miners will be held on the 2Sth at Pitts.
burgh to consider the advisability of asking
an advance i'll wages.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27

SECRETARY CHANDLER, Secretary Lin
coin and Commodore English had con-
sultation on the 18th for the purpose of
discussing the question of attempting a re-
lief expedition for the Greely party this
fall. After the conference Secretary
Chandler sent word to DR.. Bessells, the
well-known Arctic explorer, that he would
like to confer with him on the subject.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27

CADET JOHN V. HAMILTON, of the
Fourth class of the Military Academy, has
been dismissed the service for conduct un-
becoming an officer and gentleman. Ca
det Thomas L. Kerrin, same class, has been
suspended with loss of pay until July l.,
1884, for violation of the rules of the Mill
tary Academy.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27

INFORMATION from Guaymas, Mexico,
is to the effect that they have fever there
every year, but this season the physicians
said il was yellow fever, and the people,
becoming scared, lay down and died like
sheep, so that there is no longer any
business doing, except in coffins.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27

HENRY L. PIERCE declines to be a
candidate for the Republican nomination
for Governor of Massachusetts.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27

THE Diamond Match Company has
issued circular making a fifty per cent.
reduction in wholesale price of matches.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27

THE Secret Service Division of the
Treasury Department has received from
Boston one of the five-dollar notes of the
Irish Republic, previously reported in cir
culation here. 1t is said by the treasury
experts to be fair imitation of the United
States treasury notes.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27

THE monument erected by the State
of Kentucky to General Zachary Taylor
was dedicated on the Doth.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27

PRESIDENT ARTHUR received the Cor
can Embassy on the 18th at the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel, New York.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27

THE siXtieth session of the Illinois
Annual Conference of the NJ. E. Church be-
gan at Danville on the 18th.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27

THE Maryland Democratic State Con-
vention, which met at Baltimore on the
18th, nominated Robert NJ. Mclean for
Governor.