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Middletown transcript., 1883-12-14

Two Reapers. Hand Corn Shelter, Wheat
Thresher. / Ten horse Pelton Power, Corn
Coverers, Horse Cart, l Bickford & Huff
man Drill. Farm Wagons, iron aXles; one
Corn Crosser, Roller. York Carriage, one
Mill Wagon, Carriage Pole. l Hog Trough,
new Plows, Harrows and Cultivators. sets
Wagon Harness, Plow Gears, Brides and
Collars. / set Cart Harness. / Blacksmiths'
Bellows. Anvil and Smiths Tools, Wheel
wright Tools, Scything Cradles, Moving
Scythes, Glover Seed Sower, 3 OX-chains,
Hoes, Forks. ShoYels, Spades and many other
articles not herein mentioned. Also. sets
of Carriage Harness, one side of Harness
Leather. 2 Saddles. 8 Berry Crates, Cider
Barrels, l Harness Horse. several hundred
bundles of Corn Blades, Barrel of Tar, two
Hogsheads. Work Bench and Vice, Block
and Fall, Pruning Shears, l Cider Mill, one
Post Machine,
ALSO. A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD AND
KITCHEN FURNITURE.
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SPECIAL OFFERS.

To enable new subscribers to begin with the
first volume under THE CENTURY name, we
make the following special offers:
NeIO subscribers beginning 1Utth November,
1888, may obtain the magazine for one gear
from date, and the tloertgfour precious mum
berS, unbound for $500. Regular price for the
three gears, $500.
Or, if preferred, n subscription and the
twenty-four numbers bound in four elegant
volumes will be furnished for $40. Regular
price. SIG.
Middletown transcript., 1883-12-14
M1ppLErowN. DEE. Dc. sth. lsss.

MIDDLETowN, DEL, Dec. Sth, 1883
DEAR OLD FRIEND KRIS Your favor of the
Ist inst. is before us: You will pardon us for
our long delay in answering, but the fact is,
when your letter arrived, we were in New
York purchasing goods. Trusting our ex-
cuse will be satisfactory. we hasten to reply ::
In the first place, we expect you to make our
store your HEADQUARTERS during your stay
in Middletown. Our chimneys are large-as
you know, having used them before-so you
can come and go at all hours with perfect
ease. As regards the stock, we know you
will be more than satisfied when you see it,
you have complimented US on our good taste
in selecting just what you want for both old
and young, but more especially for the little
people. We could not begin to name the
many things we have, as it would take col
umns and columns of a newspaper to do it,
but will say that we have about everything
you will want for the little folks and big
folks. And as for Connections, we have ToNs
of it Of every variety, and OF the finest and
cheapest. Also. Paper-shell Almonds, Raisins
of the finest quality, and other foreign fruits.
So come along; our chimneys are newly
swept and all ready.
Respectfully,
Mr.. AND MRS E. B. RICE.
P. S.-Since writing the above Kris has ar
rived and says he would prefer if the heads Of
families would call and select such things as
they would like to have and he will deliver
them. E. B. R.
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HARPER'S PERIODICALS.

HARPER'S PERIODICALS.
PER YEAR:
HARPER'S MAGAZINE. a M
HARPER's WEEKLY. Aoo
HARPER's BAZAAR. IN
HARPER's YOUNG PEOPLE. $50
HARPER'S FRANKLIN SQUARE II
BRARY, One Year (52 Numbers), 10 90
So Postage Free to all subscribers in the
United States or Canada
Middletown transcript., 1883-12-14

In fact, everything for Amateur Theatricals.
SAMUEL FRENCH & son.
50 E. I4th ST., New York.
T ADIESg-our CHRONIC CARDS. free
IL Send &c. stamp for postage. HOYT & Co,
Syracuse, New York.
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HEAD MICH COWS.
Farming Imnlamants !

| HEIFER, l DURHAM BULL, "a HEAD OF
SHEEP. 20 SHOATS, BROOD SOWS.
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1900 TURKEYS WANTED !

HARPER & BROTHERS, New Yorl
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

THE excitement in the coal-mining dis.
tricts of st. Clair and Madison Counties,
ILL.,, was said to have subsidized on the Sth,
and no further trouble was anticipated.
The Barber brothers, the Iowa despera-
does, in Jail at Waverly, Bremen County,
for murder, were taken from the prison on
the 9Th by a mob from Fayette County,
where the crime was committed, and were
hanged a short distance from town. They
neither finched nor pleaded for mercy.
j. N. HAYS and G. Hopkins, proprietors
of the Central Paint & Roofing Com
pany, at Cincinnati, were fatally burned by
an explosion of oil on the Sth.
A FARMER of nearly forty years. expert
ence, after passing over eight COUNTIES in
Iowa, reported on the Sth more corn grow
ing, and in better condition, than ever was
seen there at the same date.
A MEETING of the Florida Ship-Canal
g. Transit Company was held OH the sth at
New York, at which General Stone, the
Engineer, reported that it was feasible to
cut a ship-canal across the Peninsula. The
survey would be made at once.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
IYNCHED.

Tho Doors pfthe Jail at Hermann. Mo
Broken d " a Band of Vigilants-Whtt-
new. a Ci4king Assassin, Taken From His
Cell andIRnged to a Tree.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June6.
A spechtrom Hermann, Mo-, says that
| the CITY I'd thrown into a state Of intense
| excitement shortly after midnight Tuesday
morning h the lynching of Whitney, the
murderebf young Burchard. The mob
a~umber$bout two hundred. They sur
rounded le Jail, guards being stationed
with dr.h revolvers to keep back the curl.
ous croA which was attracted by the
noise Jade in breaking the Jail doors
The .J,fr refused to surrender the keys,
when kes were brought. Whitney sup
pose he purpose of the assault, and
crorhh upon his cell floor and prayed
ferenhy. His voice could be heard out
sid. The Jailer was forced to lead the
w to Whitney's cell, which was
TIN forced open, and a long rope which
te mob had brought with them was put
found his waist. Half fainting, the
k0omed man fell on his knees. When
Ibnce in the open air he asked leave to pray
hgain. This was granted, but as he con-
Ftinued his appeals to Heaven too long he was
jerked to his feet and dragged through the
town into a dense woods that covers the
bluffs, a dozen Of the lynching party warn
ing the crowd not to follow, and intimidat-
ing them by displaying revolvers.
When the woods were reached, the prlson-
er was handed over to a dozen masked men.
He said his real name was Fisher, and not
Whitney; that his parents lived in Virginia;
he did not know whether he killed Burchard
or not, as he and his partner, whose name
was Collier, fired five shots each. He then
shook hands with part of the mob, bidding
them good-by, after which he was strung to
a tree. The mob then dispersed.
1t was expected that the Court would hold
q special session to try the accused, but
when it was announced yesterday that the
trial would go over to the fall term the i'll
dignation was general, and threats of lynch
ing were made. The mob was quite order
ly in its behavior. There was an absence of
conventional masks, and many of the lynch
ers were recognized.
Whitney was a desperate of the James
stripe. He and another outlaw named Col
lier, after robbing several stores in Gascon-
ade County on the 10Th of last month, at
tempted to burglariZe the store of Burchard
& Lakes, in the little town of Bein, during
which they shot and killed young Burchard,
a son of one Of the proprietors.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
Shipwreck.
CAPE NAV.

APE MAY, N. j., Junee.
The schooner Fannie A. Bailey, Captain
Manson Hume, Jr., came ashore in a thick
fog on the north bar of Hereford Inlet at
1880 o'clock on Tuesday morning. The YES
sci left Windsor, N. S., fifteen days ago,
with a cargo of three hundred and seventy
tons of rock plaster consigned to Phil
adelphia. The thick weather and south
winds were encountered during the passage
down the coast, the land being hidden
entirely the greater part of the time. Some
time on Monday evening Barnegat light was
sighted, after which the fog settled and OBJ
structed the coast. At 4::3O the next morn
ing the lookout reported breakers ahead.
In another minute the afterpa1t of the vessel
thumped upon the sand and Immediately she
bulged and commenced to show signs of
going to pieces. The weather was SO thick
that the Captain could not tell where she
was, and consequently could not decide as to
what course to pursue. r
Hastily gathering i'll the ships papers,
which he afterward lost in his struggle with
the waves, the Captain ordered a boat low
cred. Into this were lowered all but the
Captain and one sailor, and the boat was
dropped astern to wait the lifting of the fog.
Ere many minutes the heavy sea capsized
the boat, and all, including the Captains
wife and only son, a boy of three years,
were thrown into the sea. The now
almost distracted husband and father
lowered the only remaining boat and
succeed in getting the unconscious wife and
child into it, at the same time throwing a
line to the unfortunate steward, who was
struggling with the waves. The poor fell
low, however, was too much exhausted to
use it. The next wav capsized this boat
and the only means of succor remaining
was the line in the hands of the man who had
not left the vessel. With this the Captain
reached the schooner, bearing in his arms
the almost lifeless form of his wife.
At eleven O'Clock Captain Holmes, of Life
Saving Station IS, and Captain Ludlam, of
Station SO, manned the surf-boat and brought
the saved to the beach. The crew consisted
Of Captain Hume, +. Bruce (mate), Thomas
Shields and Harry Huling (steward), Harry
Worden and Charles DALEY, who were
drowned. Harold, the Captains son, was
also lost, but the mother was saved. Tho
vessel was nineteen years old, and hailed
from Portland, Me.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
Exciting Scene on a Passenger Train.

huntsville, Ala, June 9,
A fearful encounter took place on an
East Tennessee passenger-train while pass
ing through this place. A passenger named
Lawrence, from Randolph, was in an intox-
icated condition. He was approached by
the conductor, E. L. Nelson, who asked
for Lawrence's ticket or fare. Without
further provOcation the maddened man laid
one hand on the conductors shoulder, and
as ne laughed, said: "You don't want anv
fare from me, do you?' He then drew a
knife across the %astonished rain-oficial,s
neck. Conductor Nelson was terribly
wounded, but had strength and courage r.
draw his pistol. Lawrence withdrew along
the aisle, and did the same thing ROTH
began hiring at each other, and kent f
up until their weapons were emnt;od
len shots were fired. The train was
running rapidly, and the %jostling was smch
tlat the aim of neither availed ANYTIME
Not one OF the passengers was hit bv one ef
the many random balls. Engineer Sutton
was apprlsed by the ringing of his bell that
somethlng was wrong. Stopping his train
ne came back to the passenger car. CON-
auctor Nelson was then such a sight tn ha.
hold, reeking with his W blood tha+ c"t
ION tainted. Fortunately for the wounded
man, a down freight-train was met at
6urnsville and he was brought back. Dr
clark ana all in his power for the ininrad
man. II is not thought that he is danger.
ously hurt. oansei'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
Barbed Wire Patents Void,
ST. LOUIS, June 6.

ST. LOUIS, June G..
In the United States Circuit Court Mon.
day Judge Treat rendered a decision of i'm
p%ortance to people in all parts of the United
States, in which he refused to grant a tempo
rary injunction to the Washburn-Moen Com
pany against a number Of defendants, thus
settling the great barbed-wire fence contro-
vversy, OH the ground that the Kelly & Gid
den patents were void. Under these pat
ents the Washburn & Moen Company
claimed exclusive right to manufacture
barbed wire of kinds, or to grant
licenses to other companies to manu-
facture the same under such restrictions
as the w. & NJ. Company saw fit to inn
pose. The decision rendered is lengthy,
and covers all points in the case, deciding
against the monopoly and opening the man
l%facture of barbed wire to all companies.
The subordinate question of the right to
make OF use the machines for making the
barbed wire wa also decided against the
Washburn-Moen Company.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
One Of Guiteau's Jurors Goes Crazy.
June 6.

WASHINGTON, June o.
The Guiteau case will never down for
good. 1t has come into prominence again
owing to the fact that P. j. Sheahy, one of
the Jurors, has gone crazy and been sent to
the st. Elizabeth Hospital for the Insane.
The case is peculiarly pathetic in
some points. 1t is reported that
Sheahy believed that Guiteau was
insane and that the jury should have so
found, but he had not the courage, in face
of the unanimity of the rest, to stand out and
say SO. He was also afraid, it seems, of
what he knew was the public clamor on the
subject. Since Guiteau's execution it is
said he has been continually haunted by re-
Election upon the case, and the conviction
that he had voted to hanga lunatic, until his
min had given way under it. His insanity
took a fierce Turn, SO that his family were
afraid for their lives, and he has been placed
In a cell at the ASYLUM.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
A Terrible Tragedy.

VINCENNEs, Ind, June
The bedroom of one of the most eled
mansions in Vincennes was the scene (
horrible tragedy at 1915 o'clock Sun
morning. The house is owned by
Joseph Pollock, proprietor of the Broadl
flouring-mills, III of the most upright 4
honorable of our citizens. The room WI
the tragedy was enacted was occupied by
son, Charles Pollock, and his young Vi
The couple were married six months ago
We're fondly attached to each other, u
affection being increased by the anticipl
arrival of an animated treasure which !
to bless their union. In the past years Polld
who is twenty-eight years old, was of ,
sipated habits, but his marriage prom|
to effect a complete reform. Howe1
during the past three weeks he has !
drinking freely, and apparently labci
under some excitement. During the aft
noon Saturday young Pollock tried to
row a revolver from several of his frien|
and being unsuccessful was compelled
hire one from a gunsmith. He VI
home about midnight, and was
mitted by his mother, who was surprised
feel her sons arms around her neck and
kisses shoWered on her face. He told
that he must say goodbye, that he was go
to leave her, and, calling out a farewell
his father, walked upstairs to his wl
room. What transpired in the room bdl
the tragedy will forever remain a mysd
Within half an hour after his arrival lpI
a female member of the household, NJ
Ross, was awakened by the screams of
si%ster-in-law, who cried out: 80, ChaTld
don't, Charley, don't!" followed by a pig
shot. Mrs. Ross ran to the room, but IN
hall met the murdered woman, who fell
the floor. Passing her, Mrs. Ross ente
the fatal chamber just as the shot was N
which killed the unhappy husband 4
brother. Returning to the vi
Mrs. Ross turned her over, q
found that her spirit had fled, and
twenty minutes the suicide had breatl
his last. The murdered woman was Oal
eighteen years of age, and her maiden la
was Clara Clendennin. She was pIet!
feature and OF irreproachable cllalac
Nothing that she has done could cause
ousy on the part of her husband, and
never intimated that the greeI-t'
monster had taken possession
him. During the past WI
Mrs. Pollock visited her parents
Petersburg, and only returned home on
day afternoon. Pollock seemed to Dc
ious for her arrival, and met her at lF
pot. They had no quarrel. ana
only theory of the tragedy is that Ivy
had turned the young mans brain: as a..
complained that something allied III, III
The bullet that caused Mrs. lolo'
death entered her right side ABOVE
breast and ranged downward.
locks death was caused by i
which entered his right side and passee
tirely through the body. Neither u qnd
parties spoke a word after being shot ID
is no doubt that Pollock laid his pla1 ,l
accomplishing the double deed at al ps aa
hour Saturday, as he telephoned 10 i lor
burg to know if his wife was coming s,,a m
seeming anxious for her arrival. lin
bodies will be buried in II grave IND ,% na
noon. The tragedy has caused great CAV
ment in the city.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
LATER NEWS

Ax1A 4I1N NE =. 81
AFTER thirty years burial i'll the land &
his exile, the remains of John HowaIl
Payne, the author of "Home, SWEET
Home" were on the 9t:, laid to rest in tb
soil Of his native land, at Oakhill Gem.
terry, in Washington, with great pomp, tb
procession being graced by the Presidet
and his Cabinet, the Judges of the Suprem
Court, and a number of Congressman. Th
day was the ninety-second anniversary 4
the song-writer's birth. 4
TIMOTHY KELLY was hanged at Kilmair.
ham Jail, in Dublin, Ireland, on the 9th. b.
ing the NTH man executed for complicit-
IN the Phoenix Park murders, and the las;
OF the group sentenced to death.
DURING the month of May there wer.
elghty-one deaths from yellow fever al
havana, Cuba, and the disease was steadil,
increasing.
to the Agricultural Department
at Washington on the 9th showed the con
oltlon OF winter wheat throughout the en-.
TIRE area as unusually low, being seventy.
five per cent. for June, against eighty-tbre,
for May, while in June, 1882, the figures
were ninety line per cent. Spring whea,
averaged high in all districts, being ninety.
elght per cent.-the same as reported at
Chls Time last year.. An increased area of
COTTON planted amounting to 405, 5000 acfes
was reported.
H grain elevators of Douglass, Stuart
q Forest, in Chicago, were completely de.
stroyed by fire On the 9th, the loss being
100000
oN the 10th David G.. Knowles, aged sew.
enty-eight years, of Bradford, Mass. and
John Behue, Of Philadelphia, Pa, aged
thlrty-six years, committed suicides: in
Hartford, Conn.,, Raphael Rocco and Thorn.
as Buckley We're stabbed to death; and in
Syracuse, N. Y, Benjamin Morley killed
his st~ep-daughter, Mrs. Luella Bynes. and
then killed himself.
A LONDON dispatch of the 9th saws that
the recent powder-magazine explosion at
Scutari, Turkey, killed seventeen nersons
and wounded sixty.five.
SIX HUNDRED " assisted" immigrants left
Galway, Ireland, on the 9th, for the United
States.
JOHN WILLIAMS, a merchant at Trims.
vllle' KY, was shot dead by an unknown
person on the night Of the 9th, and John
w. Green, a farmer, living near Williams.
town, KY, was shot dead from his horse
by a person in ambush.
CHARLES POLLOCK, of V%incennes. Ind.
wealthy young miller, shot and Instantly
killed his wife of eighteen and then ended
his own life on the night of the 9th, Pol.
lock had been drinking heavily. and while
m a dlsordered nervous condition COM.
.nltted the awful crime. There had been
previous trouble between the young
nlg been an exceedingly atf~ectionate cou.
Die. wv
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23
A Giant at Chattanooga Holds His En-.
envy on a Red-H Slab of Iron.

Mans inhumanity to man was eXemplified
Thursday at the Leith-Tredgar Iron-Works
In this city, where a difficulty occurred be-
William Thomas, in which Browder tried to
murder his antagonist by burning him to
death on a red-hot iron slab that was being
prepared for converting into nails. The
slab was four feet long and twelve inches
wide, and was of solid bar iron, welded to-
gether. The trouble grew out of a friendly
scufle, in which the two parties engaged.
Thomas, though a smaller man, was getting
the best of Browder in the scufle, which,
together with the taunts of the bystanders
and the evident satisfaction of Thomas, SO
enraged Browder that he lost all control of
himself, and seeing the red-hot slab, imne-
diately, with the strength of an Infatuated
mailman, threw his antagonist on the seeth-
ing iron, holding him there till pulled away
by friends.
When taken from the slab Thomas pre-
sented a sickening sight. From his head to
his heels he was a mass of blisters, his back
n legs being almost roasted to a crisp.
The witnesses OH the trial testified that the
appearance Of the unfortunate ma was most
horrible, and that a number of persons were
compelled to leave the presence of the
body to escape f%ainting. 1t was with diff
Guilty that Browder could be dragged off
the poor fellow, and he seemed deter
mined to roast him alive. The muscles of
the shoulders and the tendons of the legs
are frightfully burned, and should the
wretched man recover, which is doubted,
he will hardly recover himself enough to be
able to work at his trade. Browder was
promptly arrested by the police authorities
on a charge of felonious assault, and put
upon his preliminary trial before a Justice
Of the Peace.
The evidence so far goes to show that it
was a most inhuman and uncalled-for at
tempt to take the life of a fellow in a most
cruel manner Browder is about six feet
high, powerfully built, and weighs $50
pounds. Thomasis much smaller, but wiry
and muscular. The latest account from
Thomas is that he was resting easy, his
wounds having been carefully dressed nv
his attending physicians.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-23

themselves as in favor of the measure. 1t
imposes upon saloon-keepers selling whisky
an annual license Zee of $500, while those
combining themselves to the sale of beer
and wine will be required to pay $3.50 per
annum.