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The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
Sensible Talk.

PARIS, May 2.-The Minister of
Foreign Affairs speaking in the Sen
ate on the triple alliance, said he be-
lieved in the sincerity of the declar-
ations of the italian Foreign Minis
ter and Hungarian Prenliers that no
idea Of aggression against France
was entertained. He believed the
alliance would not in any way change
the relations of France with the
Powers. France must be prudent for
a vanquished country which is re-
gaining its strength and which is
compelled to maintain large re-
serve force must not be surprised to
find itself exposed to jealousies.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
Aid for the Cyclone Sufferers.

New ORLEANS, May Ia Times
Democrat Jackson specia. says: Col.
J. l.. Power, Grand Master of the
Odd Fellows and Grand Secretary of
the Masons, has received for the re-
lief of the sufferers by the cyclone
1916 from the Masons, 1858 from the
Odd Fellows, $265 from the Ameri-
can Legion of Honor, $25 from the
Knights of Pythias, and from so citi-
zens' various committees $618, all of
which has been distributed in Beau
regard. Wesson, Rockpoint, Westville,
Morton and French Camp. Reports
from the interior indicate a vast
amount of distress which will only
be relieved by continuous conrribu-
tions.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
CAPTURED CREES.
Eighty of the Raiding Reds
Caught on the Fly by U. s.
Troops.

Special dispatch to the MINER.
HELENA, May 2, 1883.
A special to the Independent from
Fort Assinaboine, dated May 1st,
says Lieut.. John Anderson with a
mounted detachment from company
c, 18th United States infantry, cap
tured a party of Canadian Cree In
dians numbering about 80, in the vi
cinity of the Bear Paw mountains
and conducted them to this post.
They bad few guns and ponies and
were on their "winging way" to the
boundary.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
DorseY's Denial.

WAsH1EGToN, May 1.-Senator Dor
sew has returned an answer to the
suit of William Lilley for $4,000
damages alleged to have been sus-
tanned by him from personal attack
bv Dorsey. The answer is confined
to a simple and broad denial of Lii
ley's allegations and the expression of
the respondents willingness to refer
the case to a jury.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
Horse versus Man.

Boston, May THE six-day race
of ten hours a day, between Charles
Leroy, riding horses, and John 3.
Prince and w. M. WOodside, riding
bicycles, was completed to-day. The
score was 3O3 miles for the horses and
3l2 for the bicycles. At the fourth
hour to-day Leroy fell, dislocating his
shoulder, and Francis Ware was SUBJ
stituted.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
New York Stock Market.

New YORK, May2.-Governments
weak, and ! a. t lower. The stock
market made the highest prices of
the day in the last hour. The gen
eral list of stocks closed higher last
night. The strongest stocks in the
last hour were Canada Pacific, New
Jersey, Denver. Central Pacific,
Union Pacific and Wabash preferred,
all of which were from ! to II higher
than last evening.
Mining stocks were very dull;
Sierra Grand declined to $50; Robin
son Con-, so to "a, closing at 50; Hall
& Anderson, l.55 to Las; Sonora
Con-, 70 to IS; Chrysolite, IS, and
Bodie, 1.25.
Pipe line certificates are active and
strong, advancing from 93 to 95, clos
ing on call at 94a.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
Shnfeldt in Luck.

WASHINGTON, May 2.-Vice Ad-
miral Rowan has asked to be relieved
from the duties as Superintendent OF
the Naval Observatory, AMI Secre-
tary Chandler appointed Commodore
Shufeldt to succeed him. Commo-
dore Shufeldt will on the 9th of this
month be promoted to Rear Admiral
as on that date Rear Admiral E. r
Calhoun will be placed on the retired
list. It had been decided to give
Shufeldt command of Mare Island
Navy Yard, but now some other
officer will ba sent there instead.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
Another Strike.

ST.. LOUIS, May 2.-The union
stone cutters and plasterers went on
strike to-day. They presented de.
mand on the bosses yesterday for an
increase from $3.50 to 81 per day, and
the establishment of a uniform rate.
The employers refused to accede, and
this morning about 500 stone cutters
and 600 plasterers quit work. The
bricklayers will tomorrow demand
an increase of half dollar per day,
which the bosses will not accede to,
and they will probably strike. There
are rumors of the usual spring strikes
in the various trades.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
The Strike Trouble.

PITTsBURG, May 2.-Complete re-
ports from the railroad coal district
in which the strike was inaugurated
yesterday state that all the miners
have joined the strike against reduc-
ton save those employed at the w.
& p. r. r. and Cherry Hill Co.'S. A
delegation of strikers headed by
martial bands will surround these
pits this afternoon and remain until
the men at work join the strike.
Operatives are preparing to have the
strikers kept Off their property, but
no violence is ANTICIPATED.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05

BERLIN, May 2.-Admiral Berger,
second commander in rank of the
German navy, has resigned, which is
due to the fact that army officers
have been placed at the head of the
navy. The Reichstag referred to a
committee the resolution introduced
by the Socialists in regard to criminal
proceedings against the police who
arrested some Socialist members Of
the Reichstag while returning from
the Socialist congress at Copenhagen.
MONTREAL, May 2.-The National
La Crosse team and the Indian team
started tonight for tour through
Great Britain and Ireland.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
Amendments Withdrawn.

ST. LOUIS, May 2.-Mayor Wing
sent a message to the City Council
Withdrawing list of appointments
sent in a week ago against which
such strong opposition was devel-
oped.
The deposition of Jay Gould was
taken i'm the Texas Pacific suit.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
Wash1ngton Gossip.

WASHINGTON, May 2.-The Presi.
dent made proclamation of supplem.
antary Extradition Treaty between
the United States and Spain.
The President appointed George
Little, OF Plum Creek, Nevada, post
master Of that place.
Bliss continued his argument in
the Star Route trial.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
Washington Notes and Indian

WASHINGTON, May 2.-The Presi-
dent has selected Boston, Atlanta
and Chicago as the names for three
new steel cruisers.
At special cabinet meeting to-day
all members were present except
Brewster. The civil servic commits
sion regulations were agreed to with
out any substantial change.
Late advices from New Mexico say
reports of Indian maraudings are
rife again. Muchacho, a negro rene
gade, De Mescalero, an Apache,
with twenty OF Victoria's old band,
attacked pack train day or two
ago near White Sands and three
companies of cavalry started in pur-
suit. Another smaller band raided
a ranch at Alamo Springs. Colonel
Forsyth has sent two companies of
the 4th cavalry after them.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
Burned to Death.

BAKLEY's HARBoR, Wis, May 2.
"A fire this morning destroyed Will
liam Jackson's residence, and his
daughters, seven and twelve years OF
age. were burned to death.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
KENCK AVENGED.
Henry Fohrman Hanged at Noon
Yesterday in Helena.
Stolid, Unrelentlng and Without
Repentance or Remorse.
Special dispatch to the MINER.

| Sp0Cl8l OlSp3LC0 10 tue MINER.
HELENA, May 2, 1883.
The first legal hanging which ha
occurred in this city for many year
took place in the Jail yard to-day. A
four minutes before twelve O'Clock
Heinrich Fohrman was hanged fo
the murder of Jacob Kenck. TIL,
prisoner seemed but little affected by
his impending doom. He slept wei
last night and ate a hearty breakfast
this morning. At half past clever
o'clock the sheriff, accompanied by
Fohrman's attorney. entered the cell
and read the sentence to the doomed
man in English, an Interpreter re-
peating it in German. The prisone,
listened to the reading with a blank
smile, giving no sign whatever ol
being effected by the awful solemnity
of the occasion. At 10 minutes before
IL O'CLOCK he was led to,the scahold,
which he mounted without a tremor
and stood upon the trap while his
arms and legs were being pinioned,
wearing to the last moment the same
look of entire unconcern. When ad-
dressed in English, which he did not
understand, even up to the moment
before the black cap was adjusted he
would smile and rod assent to every
thing said to him. At four minutes
before IL O'Clock the trap was sprung,
and the murderer of Jacob Kenck
was launched into eternity to meet
his victim. His neck was broken by
the fall, the body hanging notion
less and without a contortion or the
culver of a muscle. At S minutes
after II o'clock the pulsatiOns had
ceased and the body was lowered in
to the coffin. The stolidity of Fohr-
man was SO remarkable that many
point to it as an evidence of insanity,
but others regard it as the natural
conduct of a man who had commit
ted the crime of murder after long
deliberation, and who was entirely
unrelenting and without repentance
or remorse to the last. The execu-
tion was private, only the officials
and invited guests allowed by law
being present. Fohrman made
will just before his death, in which
he bequeathed his remains to the
surgeons for the benefit of science.
An autopsy will be held upon the
body, and special examination will
be made with reference to the condi-
ton of the brain.
FOHRMAN's CRIME.
The crime expiated by Fohrinan
OH the scatlold to-day was the mur-
der of his son-in-law, Jacob Kenck,
on the 22d of last December. The
murdered man was, when shot,
in the door of his saloon
;alking with a man who was outside.
Fehrman, who had been occupying
\ position by the stove, walked up
behind Kenck, and placing the muz-
lie of a pistol close to his head, fired.
Kenck fell mortally wounded. He
vas removed to his home and died
within few hours. Fohrman was
indicted and tried at the March term
If court and convicted of murder in
he first degree.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
Another Democratic Victory.

ST.. PAUL, May I'm the city
election to-day the entire Democratic
ticket was elected. The Republican
convention indorsed the principal
Democratic nominees.
The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Culled From the Columns Of Our
Exchanges.

Irvine lake, in the vicinity of Deer
Lodge, is to be stocked with carp.
The sheriff of Dawson county is
camping on the trail of Carl Trow-
bridge, who is accused of bigamy.
The White Sulphur Springs Com
pany are about to expend $50, 900 on
improvements for the accommoda-
tion of visitors at the springs.
Master c. S. Voolfolk, of Helena,
is the proud possessor of pistol cap
tured by an ancestor from British
officer at the battle of Bunker Hill.
The River Press says rich streak
has recently been struck in the Mon
tana mine at Maiden, the ore from
which runs about $3.50 to the pound.
The Benton Bar Association gave
q banquet in honor of Judge Gal
braith and Hon. Joseph X. Toole at
the close of the recent term Of court
in that city.
Two railroad thieves, O'Connell
and O'Brien, robbed an old German
in Dawson county last week of Il
considerable sum of money. Both
are under arrest.
George A. Macarthur, who was
tried for the murder of J. d. Russell
at the recent term Of the Custer
county court, has been released on
So, 900 bail, the jury failing to agree,
and recommending q dismissal of
the case.
Edwin Robinson, better known as
the "Old Colonel" aged fifty-six
wears, died at St. Joseph's Hospital,
Deer Lodge, recently. He was an
Englishman by birth, came to Alder
gulch from the East in 1S64-5. and
has been IN the Territory ever since.
Frank Martin, who was recently
arrested on the charge of horse steal
ing and discharged by the district
court at Benton, proceeded immedi-
ately after his release to the Marias,
made a sure enough steal of a horse,
and lit out for parts unknown.
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-29
DEAD LANGUAGES.
A Demand that the Living Languages Be
Placed on an Equality with the Dead.

Boston, June 28.-The address before the
Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was de-
livered by Charles Francis Adams, jr. Fol-
lowing is synopsis of his remarks:
Has not the time come when the study
OF the living languages should, as a basis for
college education, be placed on an equal
footing with the study of the dead languages?
AS it is, and has traditionally been, the col
leges do not fit their graduates for the work
oil actual life. No modern speciality, learned
or scientific, can now be thoroughly pur-
sued in one language alone, or pursued
at all in any dead language. Yet
the course taken by the colleges, as regards
the dead languages, operates practically to
prevent their students acquiring any real
knowledge of the living languages. The
modernist is crowded out of our schools by
the classicist through the Intervention of the
colleges. Yet the dead languages having no
use in actual life, are taught as a mere re-
quirement to college admission. The study
OF them, therefore, as now pursued, is a mere
form, resulting in no benefit to the vast ma
jority of those who go to college; as tested by
long, actual experience, they derive from it
nothing either useful or ornamental. The
practical in life has thus been sacrificed to
the theoretical and traditional-the nine col
lege students in each ten, to the one.
Under these circumstances, is it not time
that the policy of our colleges should un-
dergo a radical change? Should not pro-
fciency in the modern languages quite as
much az a superficial knowledge of the dead
languages, entitle student to admission to
the college course? Why should this great
and exclusive privilege attach to Latin and
Greek alone? Neither reason nor practical
experience in life justifies it. The study of
Greek in particular, has for generations been
an educational fetch. As a compulsory re-
quirement for admission to college it has
done and is doing much positive harm,
general and individual AS a compulsory
requirement it should be discontinued
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-29
THE HILL INVESTIGATION
Testimony that Work Was Charged For
Which Was Not Done.

Which Was Not Done.
WASHINGTON, June 2S.-In the Hill in
vestigation Mr., Coleman called for all
vouchers for money paid to George L. Da-
mon since August 1876, for iron safes or fire.
proof shutters; also for all vouchers for
money paid Bartlett, Robbins & Co., or Hay
ward, Robbins & Co., the present firm, for
work done or materials furnished by them
TO the government since August 1876.
Objection was made by Mr.. Thomas that
such wholesale expose of the business of
the present firm in that it would disclose
their business to those who may be compet-
ing against them.
Mr., Coleman-How can that be when they
have monopoly of the business
Protracted arguments ensued, during
which the counsel for prosecution charged
that Bartlett. Robbins & Co. had secured
nearly all contracts for tiling since the ad-
vent of Hill as supervising architect, and
had been enabled to do so through corrupt
influences in the architects office, although
not the lowest bidders
Mr.. Thomas (eXcitedly)-If the gentleman
charges that Bartlett, Robbins & Co. cor
ruptly obtained contracts, denounce it as a
SANDER
Mr.. Coleman replied-Let us see the docu-
ments showing the amounts of money which
these gentlemen have received and we will
be able to tell something about it.
The committee, after consultation, ruled
that the counsel should be permitted to in
spect all papers included in his call, and
should submit them to the committee
General Steinmetz then took the stand. In
1874 witness held the position of assistant
superintendent of construction on the New
York postoffice and had charge of all work
Bartlett, Robbins & Co., had the contract
for iron work, stairs, gratings, illuminated
tiling, etc. They furnished material under
the immediate direction of the witness
The bills rendered by Bartlett, Robbins &
Co., were then put in evidence. Witness
read only the items charging for extra work,
and testified that one pair of stairs for
which Bartlett, Robbins & Co. charged 1868,
never were put into the building, and
that other charges for extra work appeared
on their bills for which he (Steinmetz) never
gave any order
At this point a number of VOUCHERS which
had been called for by the prosecution were
brought in, and upon suggestion of Mr..
Alexander the committee adjourned for the
purpose of affording the witness chance to
inspect the papers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-29
Notes and Personalities.

WASHINGTON, June 2S.-David B. Parker
declined the appointment as postmaster at
Washington. He will retain his position as
chief of the postal inspectors.
Bonds to the face value of 500, 900, 900 we're
cancelled at the Treasury Department yester-
day, by fifteen persons and five machines,
and are now ready to be ground up. None
of them had been issued to the public.
The Postoffice Department has received in
formation that the Australian colonies have
resolved to apply for admission to the uni
versal postal union. ii the application is
successful, Bolivia will be the only country
with organized postal service not included in
the union.
The attorney for the Chicago & North
western Railroad Company to-day made an
argument before the Postmaster-genera IN
support of the application of the company
for remission OF fines and deductions for
non-performance of contracts to carry mail
The company allege that they are not prop
erly responsible for the delays caused by the
foods.
Secretary Teller is investigating the charge
that some of the registers of land offices in
Nebraska use their position to force adver-
tisements into certain newspapers at the ex-
pense of settlers.
The naval retiring board to-day recon-
mended the retirement of Commander
Thomas H. Eastman.
Hon. Walter Evans. Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, has directed Collector Slack.
of Boston, to make an investigation of the
charges against the newly appointed revenue
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-29
THE PENSION BUsINE S.
Inability of HE Bureau to Disburse the
Amount Appropriated.


Inability of the Bureau to Disburse the
Amount Appropriated.
Washington Special.
Commissioner Dudley is finding that $780,
900, 900 is good deal of money to pay out in
one year, and he cannot accomplish the task.
Taking into account the return to the credit
of the pension account at the beginning of
the year of some $15, ,000,0 not used las
year, the net expenditures from the appro
priation for the current year will not much
exceed 500, 100000. He started ont with a
programme to use up the unexpended 49,
100000 turned over from last year and $85,
100000 besides. He finds that such a vast
sum cannot be distributed, although the
office here might allow the cases. The
agencies cannot check it out to the individ-
uals The result will be nearly 100000, 900
unexpended to be carried forward to next
year, where it will be deducted from the
estimate for the next appropriation. Colonel
Dudley will be disappointed in not being
able to dispose of all the arrearage cases, as
he promised, but it was beyond the range of
possibility to make such a vast expenditure
with the present machinery for payments.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-29
THE SCOTT LAW.
The Decision Construes the Second Section
The Law Valid.

COLUMBUS, June 28.-The Supreme Court
to-day gave out its opinion in the Scott
liquor-tax law, holding it valid and constitu-
tional, except the second section, wherein it
is held not to apply to leases executed prior
to the passage of the act, as no contracts
made can be violated Leases, however, en-
tered into subsequent to the passage Of the
law come within its purview the same as
rentals, wherein the collection of the tax is
a first lien on the premises. The court held
that to subject freehold to the payment of
these assessments, when made against a ten
ant for carrying on business upon premises
leased prior to the passage of the statute,
would be an unwarran table interfer-
ence with private property, subjectng
one mans property to the payment of an
others debts. If the infrmity can be taken
out OF the statute by applying it only to
cases arising under leases executed after the
passage of the statute, it is our duty to so
construe it. Every presumption must be
taken in favor of the validity of the statute
1t will be presumed that the legislative in
tent was to apply the statute to subsequent
leases, only if necessary to preserve it from
constitutional objection. 1t will not be pre-
sumed that the Legislature intended to pass
an unconstitutional law
The opinion goes into lengthy argument
showing the difference between the Scott
law and the Pond law, that the latter, with
its bond feature, implied licenses, which is
consttationally prohibited; that the Scott
law differs fundamentally on this ground,
and is in no sense q license according to the
best authorities on the definition of license
The point is made that declaring one section
null and void does not destroy the validity
of the law as a whole and its legality is not
thereby affected.
Okey dissents; johnson, McIvain; Doyle
and Upson concur. Last year the decision
was four TO one the other way
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-29
THE CHICAGO MARKETS.
Pork Declines Three Dollars and Wheat
Eighteen Cents in Three Weeks.

CHICAGO, June 2S.-Markets on Change
suffered another bad break this morning,
and the forenoon session was marked by un-
easiness and attimes great excitement. The
depression in prices extended to provisions
and grain as we'll but was more especially
felt in pork and wheat. Pork has shown a
steady and heavy decline the past three
days, and this morning took another tumble
of 42H050c and lard desce nded 71%C0. .1715c
making the quotation for July option less
than that touched on the Saturday made no.
table by the failure of McGeoch Wheat,
which has displayed weakness for the past
week, dropped 11l@21zc a bushel in
addition to-day. These declines re-
newed all the uneasiness of the past
three weeks, and the announcement was
made at noon that o. H. Kenyon & Co. and
John Sinclair had succumbed They have
been dealing in grain, hut are not rated as
very extensive dealers. One cause assigned
for the unusual weakness displayed by the
market is owing to the bad showing made
by the firms of MoGeoch, Everingham & Co.
and NJ. S. Nichols & Co., and particularly the
latter firm, from whom better report as to
assets had been anticipated. Three weeks
ago wheat was quoted at $1.172s This morn
ing's break caused much excitement among
the wheat men, and there is fear the price
will fall still lower