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The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23
NATHAN FoHD's ENTERPRISE.
Knabc by Telephone.


Several hundred OF the prominent citizens
ofSt. l:aul had the unusual privil ge oflisten-
ing to the musical treat afforded by Mr.. Tit
comb'sr recital last Thursday evening through
the telephone. The piano wareroomsof Ma
than Ford, at 81 East Thirl street, were con.
neclcd by telephone with slxty-f five residences
in different parts OF the city. The eagcsness
ot those who received Invitations to tins tele.
phonic treat to insure connection in time,
showed their ppieciation ofthe labor and en-
Ierprise oftl.ose hayingthe matter in cha &c.
Their assurance tn t the III: gniticent tones of
the hnabe pianos retained their richness not
outstanding The mlly miles OF metaili cir
cult, add anotherto the many laurels won by
the knabe this season.
Truly marvellous are the wonders of cleo.
tricitY, and the privileges conferred by its use
multiply daily. Itnow becomes possible not
only to order knape pianos by telegraph but
to listen TO their tu1es at Il distance of miles
by telephone. Intending purchasers OF 'the
best pianos made can .. reatter ring for
connection" with Mr.. Fnrd's music store and
select their pianos and order them sent to
their residences without ste pping outside
their eoors, for electricity in tones, like sun
lig:4tin photography, tells the truth.
Mr.. Fod is to be congratulated on this
latest enterprise of his, and the gratitude of
the ci.:Zens OF the northwest il daily mani
Testing itself by their actions.
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23
CUNNING OF ELEPHANTS.
How Wild Ones are Decoyed-AS Skill.
full Theft Concealed.

AAOAN OOAaSOUlOus
The highest mental faculties are more
developed in the elephant than in any
other animal, except the dog and the
monkey. The general fact that the ele-
plants are habitually employed in parts
of India for storing timber, building,
etc, shows a high level of docile intelli-
gence. But perhaps no labor in which
they are employed do they display a
more wonderful sagacity than in help
ing to catch the wild elephants. A herd
OF Wild elephants is driven into a corral
and two tame ones ridden in among
them. Two decoys will crowd up on
either side of wild one, and protect
the no%oseruntila rope is fastened around
the wild elephants ley, when the tame
one, to whose collar the other end of
the rope is fastened, will drag the can.
tive out and wind the rope round a tree,
while the other decoy prevents any in
terterence from the herd, and pushes
the captive toward the tree, thus enabl-
ing tho first one to take in the slack of
the rope. The conduct of the tame
ones during all these proceedings is
truly wonderful. They display the most
perfect conception of every movement,
both of the object to be attained and OF
the means to accomplish it. On one oc-
casion, in tying up a large elephant, he
contrived, before he could be hauled
close upto the tree, to walk once ortwice
around it. carrying the rope with him;
the decoy, perceiving the advantage he
had gained oyer the nooser, walked up
OF her w accord and pushed him back
ward with her head till she made him
unwind himself again; upon which the
rope was hauled tight and made fast.
One could almost fancy there was &
display OF dry humor in the manner in
which the decoy, thus play with the
fears of the wild herd, and make light
OF their efforts of resistance. When re-
luctant they shove them forward, when
violent they drive them back; when the
wild ones throw themselves down, the
tame ones butt them with head and
shoulders and force them up again; and,
when 1T Is necessary to keep them Gown,
they kneel uponthem, and prevent them
from rising TIL the ropes are secured.
"A remarkable degree of cunning was
displayed by an elephant who had been
chained to a tree, and whose driver had
made an oven at a short distance in
which to put some rice cakes to bake.
The man covered his cakes with stone
and grass and went away. When he
was gone the elephant with his trunk
uniastened the chain round his foot,
went to the oven and uncovered it, took
out the cakes, recovered the oven with
the stone and grass as before and went
back to his place. He could not fasten
the chain again around his w foot, SO
he twisted it round and round it. in or
der to look the same, and when the
driver returned the elephant was stand
ing with his back to the oven. The
driver went for his cakes, discovered
the theft, and, looking round, caught
the elephants eye as he looked back
over his shoulder out of the corner of it.
Instantly he detected the culprit, and
condign punishment followed.-Popular
Science Monthly.
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23
Ira A. HAYNES, Kentucky: l6. Willo,ahhv

Ira A. HAYNES, Kentucky; l6, Willoughby
Wake Virginia; II, Edwin G.. Bullock,
New Jersey; IS, Chase w. Kennedy, Ohio;
IS, Louise Ostheim, Pennsylvania; 90,
Charles G.. Morton, Massachusetts; 81, Sam
uel Adair, West. Virginia; %, Godfrey H.
Macdonald, Illinois. %, Herbert w. Ser
geant, Illinois; "a, Matthew F. Steele, Ala
bama; 25, Edwin A. Root, Indiana; 26,
John M: Neall, Nevada; 81, William Ia.
Smith, Missouri; % Isaac w. Littell, N. W
Jersey; 20, George IL. Cameron, Illinois.
30, Walter X. Wright, New York; 81, ~
rec r. Rivers, Tennessee; 80, Roger s. By
ran, Massachusetts; 80, John w. Heard,
Mississippi; "a, John H. S~hollenberger,
Pennsylvania; IS, Charles II. Osgood,
Massachusetts; So, Harry G. Hale, Illinois;
81, Robert ID. Walsh. California;
IS, Charles H. Cochran, Ohio; 80, Gilmore
+. Taggert, Ohio; 40, George w. Reed,
Iowa; Al, Sampson l.. Faison, North Car
DINA; 42, Alfred Hasbrouck, Jr., New
York; 43, Jacob f. KEEPS, Pennsylvania; AZ,
Henry c. Cabell, Jr., Virginia. As, Charles
G. Tear, Illinois; AZ, Edgar s.. Walker, Mis-
souri,; Al, Charles McQuiston. Indiana: 48,
Thomas w. Griffith, Pennsylvania; 40,
Frederick Perki $, Maine; so, Omar Bundy,
Indiana; 81, Lawrence ID. Tyson, North
Carolina; 50, Clarence P. Edwards, Ohio,
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23

The Star Route Jurors Come in
With the Surprising Verdict of Not
GUILTY..

AAAA7 kNAASO VI kNOO
Guilty.
"You can ask the jury whether they have
any communication to M Ike to the court"
said Judge Wylieto the crier when the GRIM
inal court at Washington hearing the star
route case reassembled the 18th. Crier Don.
aldson soon returned with q message that
the jury desired to communicate with the
court. They filed into the court ROOM, ap-
parently none the worse for their contine-
ment. When they were seated Judge Wylie
said: Gentlemen Of the jury, the court has
sent for you for the purpose of inquiring
whether you have any communication to
make." The foreman in reply stated that
the jury had agreed upon a verdict, and a
painful silence tell upon the court room,
only to be broken by wild shouts of APP
plsuse, when in a clear.toned voice the fore
man stated the verdict, was mot guilty."
Immediately the decorum Of the court of
justice was forgotten, and the cheers re-
sounded from all quarters of the crowded
room.
Judge Wylie sat dignifed, but apparently
dazed by the announcement ofthe foreman,
since he made no effort to chez the tumult
about him For a few minute the noise was
so great as to 'ender it impossible for any
thing like orderly proceedings. Many oftle
NV 0vASAoS ~ CSC0G, ollO
the%d discharge of the jury was the signal of a
rush ofcongratulat,ng spectators. Mrs. Dor
sey, Mrs. Peck and the Misses Kicker, after
standing or chairs and screaming, laughing
and sobbing alternately, somehow got out
of the crowd and organized an impromtu
camp meeting in the nearest corridor. They
sang, cried, laughed like demented beings,
In the ante.rooms and halls the jury was
beset by q throng of interested persons,
prominent among them being the defend
ants and Mrs. S. w. Dorsey and Mrs. Peck,
who thanked them Tor the verdict with tears
in their eyes. As the foreman reached the
sidewalk q large crowd assembled there burst
into tumultuous cheers, which were renewed
as each juror made his way out of the court
house.
The crowd then poured pell-mell into
stree. to "the hole in the wall" 10 stairs
sat Dorsey. Calling to the proprietor he
ordered Tree entertainment, solid and liquid,
and i'll q very short time a seem of enthusi-
asm II excitement followed. Meanwhile
Mrs. Dorsey and two or three other ladies
got up stairs, and having exhausted their
lungs fell to kissing. Ingersoll cried, Miner
sobbed, Vale fairly blusbered. and taking
all in all a right round quantity of tears
was shed in and about the court house. In
the afternoon the defendants enjoyed an
ovation wherever they went.
There is talk of pushing the other indict-
ments and bringing civil suits, but it will
probably amount to nothing. Dorsey talks
OF suing allshe newspapers that have called
him a thief. The press and the people gen.
orally accept the result as inevitable without
much indignation or curiosity. A few re.
gard it as a vindication of the purity of the
star route martyrs. The general drift OF
opinion, however, is that the administration
of justice in Washington is as rotten las the
administration of the post Office department
under Brady.
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23

New York has begun suit against the New
in a recent letter of Mark Twain.
The Rev. r. g. morgan, of Connellsville,
Pa, has been expelled from the Baptist
church for malicious lying and grossly I'M
moral conduct.
The personal property assessment roll OF
San Francisco, Gala, foots up $50, 914, sG5,
an increase of 81, 1927, $40 over last year.
A Chicago judge jumped down from the
bench recently pounded a refractory consta-
BILE, and then resumed business.
The new directory of LincolL. Neb
contains 5,422 names, and shows a popula.
ton of 1877.
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23
NEWS GOSSIP.

Lord Carlingford, III mister of agriculture,
received all Influential deputation ,epre.
senting towns in England claiming 1u.WO,
600 people, the object of which was to pro-
test against the restrictions of food supply
C%arlingford stated the decrease in the I'M
portatlon OF American cattle was due 10 the
fact that better prices We're obtained in
America, and not TO the system OF compul
sorry slaughter at British ports. He saidthe
government would continue to act up to the
spirit OF the present laws, and not strain
them i'll the direction of further prohibit
ton: as urged by the opponents to the i'm
portion Of American cattle.
Admiral Pierre, commander of the French
fleet i'll Madagascar waters, in his report of
the bombardment of Magurguayoray OH the
9th of May, says he demanded the surren-
der ofthe place, but received an evasiye re-
ply. Five vessels opened fire on the town
and the three forts, mounting thirty guns,
were quickly sllenced. The Hova quarter
of the town was destroyed, but the French
factory and most of the American houses
escaped injury. The garrison of 1000 men
retreated. The French sustained no loss of
men. They occupied the town and are co..
lectiEg customs.
Great excitement has been caused at
Cairo on account of the conversion of a
young Mohammedan by American mission
aries. Arab fanatics attempted 10 maltreat
the convert, but the British consul, Malet,
protected him. He will be sent to Cyprus
tor safety.
London Truth says that the queen has
recovered from the injury to her knee.
The depression Of her spirits is said, how
ever, to cause some snxiety, owing to TIE
influence it will have on her general health.
1t is her intention to leave for Scotland on
the Goth.
AT Innsbruck. Austria, recently the trial
for high treason of Sabidini, who drove
Overdank, the bomb manufacturer, across
the frontier, was begun.
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23
THE CRIMINAL RECORD.

Five hundred masked men visited the Jail
at Sheboygan, Mich, on the 18th, over
powered the sheriff, took Till Warner, the
supposed ravisher of the young girl, Nettie
Lyons, to . point just outside of the town,
and hanged him to the cross ties of the
railroad viaduct. The girl had identified
him. The victim was cut down after a
lapse of two hours. He protested his ;nno-
cellce to the last. He was let down once
before he died, but would not confess.
H. w. Sprague, the elevator incendiary,
has been taken from Buxton, OAK, to Gale
donia, where he was lodged in Jail, and will
probably be safe from the hands of the
mob. Last spring he induced John Little
of Buxton to make an assignment to him,
by false representations. He afterwerd
failed in business; has repeatedly threatened
to clean out the town and destroy certain
ones in it. He has not found bail yet.
At $500 clock Thursday morning the
citizens of Iron River, a Michigan mining
and numbering town. twenty-seven miles
northwest difference, N Y, were startled by
a fearful conclusion. A shot of giant powder
had been placed under the southeast corner
Off building owned by Mrs. Harmon, and
had shattered the whole front of the struc-
tnre and broke glass ! 200 feet away.
Frank Lincoln and William Vickers
quarreled at Frenchman's rancho, on the
Sinking Water, Mont. After fighting for
sometime, in which Nickers was worsted,
the latter went..out and procured a gun,
with which he shot and killed Lincoln.
Nickers lett the county before the sheriff
could be communicated with.
A. p. Adams, q wealthy ranchman of Red
Cloud. Neb., who has been sued in Omaha
for $4,000 damages by Stewart Hoge, for
the alienation ofhis wife's affections, declares
he is innocent and was not III Omaha on
the day specified by Mrs. Hoge, and has not
been in Omaha for three years. Some peo-
Pile think it is blackmail.
John Williams, aged seventy-seven, was
turned out of the Little Rock penitentiary
recently. In 1861 he was convicted of
murder in the second degree and sentenced
to imprisonment for life. The longest pun
ishment allowed by the statutes tor that
otfense is twenty-one years.
Robert Lee, the defaulting postmaster OF
Dr.scoll, Ala, who unlawfully dealt in
stamps, forged thirteen nam es TO his bond
for 500, 900, and also the Justices signature
and seal. He is charged with three muir
ders i'll Mississippi.
Investigation shows that by paying a
a bride to certain alderman of 81, 500 Mrs.
Brayley sold the city of Buffalo a site for a
school for $4,000. which she had previous
ly offered for SIG, 500.
Osmund Geir, secretary of building asso-
Citations, and proprietor of Fairview Park
Readinf, Pa, has been arrested, charged
with d%efrauding the associations.
AT Hastings. Neb., John Babcock, indicted
for murder, pleaded guilty to m~ansIaugh-
ter and was sentenced to ten years in pris-
on.
d. G. Freeman, who has been representing
Lindblom a. Co, OF Chicago. in Louisville,
has disappeared, owing $4,000.
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23
PITH OF THE NEWS.
EVENTS IN

Congress having reduced the appropria-
tons for the next fiscal year, immed late
discontinuance of the following named sig
nal service stations is made necessary and
ordered: Eagle Pass, Tex; Eagle Rock,
Idaho; Keogh Fort, Mont; Missoula Fort,
Mont; Phoebe, New; Puntarassa. Fla; Ro-
chester, N. Y; San Antonio. Tex; Santa
Fe, N. NJ; Springfield, Mo-; Tuscon, Ariz.;
Visalia, Colo; Washable Fort, Wyo.;
W~innemucca, New; Sandusky, Ohio, is re-
established as a station of the first class.
class will hereafter be maintained as sta
tions of the first class; Custer City, Mont;
Rio Grande City, Tex.
Comment on the star route verdict is still
rife in Washington. There is, gcnerelly
speaking, no fault found with the jury. 1t
appears from a poll oi the jury but four Of
them are republican and eight are dem
ocrats. They ore all considered honest men
real difficulty was in the indictment for
conspiracy. AS was pointed out a
year ago, before the first trial, a conviction
for conspiracy had never been obtained IN
this district.
The special agent sent to investigate the
alleged smuggling of Chinese laborers into
British Columbia, in his ,eport to Secretary
Folger places the number at 10000, chiefly
employed by the Canadian Pacific. The
agent says it is not likely they were ever i'll
this country, and claims that no Chinese
rom British Columbia have entered Wash
mgton Territory without production of proof
OF previous residence i'll the United States.
Judge James, in the case of ]. G.. Rigelow
against Bette Mason, to restrain the pay
ment of the 'Betty and baby" fund, and for
a decree making Bieglow an allowance for
his services as counsel, signed all order,
Diminishing the bill on condition of the
payment of $500 to Bigelow for his expense
in defending Sergeant Mason on his trial
for sht citing at Guiteau.
The secretary of the treasury gives notice
that exchanges of34 per cent. bonds into 3
per cents will not be made during July
next, the books of these two loans being
closed for the preparation ofthe August first
dividend. Continued bonds received for
exchange during July will be exchanged
upon %reopening the books interest at
81 per cent. remaining 20 that date.
1t is understood that the president and
Secretary Folger have practically hit upona
scheme for the consolidation OF the internal
revenue districts. TIL details are not yet
ready for announcement. In the main, it
is believed that the plan is identical with
that proposed by the bureau and published
some weeks ago.
Postmasters commissioned: Mills Kundx-
son, Oslo. Wis; Rasmus Signalui, Blue
Mound, Mimi, Charles A. French, Mara,
Dal.; Frank Aldricn, Waneta, Oak.
The president has appointed Albert
Woodcock of Illinois as United States con-
sui to Catalonia, Italy.
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23
RAILROAD

G. K. Barnes, general passenger agent of
the Northern Pacific, in response to various
inquiries. has issued a circular letter, setting
forth that the road is completed to Helena,
Mont, LISA miles from ST. Paul, and that
at Helena there is q daily line of stages
crossing a gap in the road of $50 miles; that
the work of completing the road is progress :.
will be finished by the last of August, aud
through trains then be running between ST.
Paul and Portland.
A meeting of the citizens of Dubuque was
held recently for the purpose of Inaugural
s ting the ;ea pffGj;aete gd; Iail Ire adj from rom this M city to to
the leading capitalists of the city were pres
en-: and great enthusiasm was shown. 1t is
prepared to run the road up the val
ley OF Wapriepriour, and from thence
Northwest.
Chief Engineer Blunt says that new steel
rail has been laid on the Winona G. st. Peter
railroad between Sleepy eye and Tracy.
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23
A Celebration Damn4ned

AT the ceremonies attending the dedica-
ton of a soldiers monument at Mystic,
while a salute was being fired in honor of
the governor, by a battery of artillery from
Fort Trumbull, the Williams and Sedge-
wick posts of the G. A. r., passing at the
time, received two guns in their ranks.
The first discharge was received by the Will
liams post, and the second by Sadgewick
post. Eighteen men were injured, but
none fatally, except Lieut.. William Car
ruthers, assistant postmaster at Norwich.
Commander j. c.. Brewer, of Sedgewick
post, Norwich, was seriously hurt.
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23
The Graduates at " est Point

Following Is The list Of graduates at West
Point, with their standing:
l. George A.. linn, Pennsylvania; 9,
William c. Langitt, Ohio; 3, Henry +.
Waterman, Minnesota; 4, William F.. Han
cock, Obi; 5, Henry C.. Davis, Jr., South
Carolina; 6, Beverly w. Dunn, Louisiana:
Z, Samuel d. Freeman, North Carolina: 8
William F. Flynn, Connecticut; 9, Robe |
]. Duff, Michigan; 10, Thomas Ridgwav.
New York; II, John w. Ruckman, Illinois;
IL, Alfred b. jackson, Massachu.
sets; ID; William P. Stone, Arkansas
IA, William E. Shlpp, North Carolina; is
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23
Last End OF an Ex-ChicagO Million.
aiva

William A. Putney, at one time proprie-
tor OF one of the largest dry goods houses o
Chicago. and rated among the mi%llionaires,
became hopelessly involved, and finally
gave up his business on account of impair
ed health. He returned East and became
salesman in the store of Shepard, Norwell
&Co. The firm has missing copsiderab BILE
valuable goods. Detectives traced the thefts
to futney, and he was arrested at his sum
mer cottage, Nantucket. The officers, with
their prisoner, took a steamer to Boston.
Suddenly, while chatting with the officers,
he plunged overheard. He was taken from
the water by the boats crew, and died in
ten minutes, aged 80. A large amount of
stolen property was found in his residence
at Boston and Nantucket.
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23

The Rothchilds own 1900, 900, 900 United
States bonds, or nearly one-quarter ofall the
bonds that are out.
H. Dukes, who was killed by Young
Mutt. was buried On Saturday at Union
town, Pa,
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23
A Ravishcr in Great Peril.

Cheboygau, Mich, Special.-Till Warren,
All Alpena man, was arrested last evening
between here and Mackinaw City, as the
ravisher oI Nettie Lyon, and brought to
this city and examined BY physicians, and
trouble was anticipated as the infatuated
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23

crowd gathered about hooting and telling
to lynch him. He was assaulted while in
charg, OF the officers on the way to the
county jail under a strong guard, but was
not hurt. He was placed IN Jail and a
powerful guard took charge. The crowd
prowled around the Jail most of the night,
but were dispersed nv the officers.
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Tennyson are spend
ing the summer at Farringford. 1t is ru-
nored that the great poet will give up his
beautiful Isle Of Wight home when the
railroad is extended from Newport to Var
mouth and Freshwater, which will be soon.
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23
Minnesota churchmen on Divorces

The following is the full text of the reso-
luton passed at the session of the State
Diocesan Council of Episcopal churches at
Faribault last week. in regard to divorces:
Whereas, The alarming increase ill the
number of divorces granted and the con-
tinued enlargement or the various causes
for which they may he granted shows the
foundations of society, therefore be it.
Resolved, That the delegates of this
council to the general convention, be in
structed to use their best effots to secure
some action by that body, either by memoir
ializing Congress to pass a genera! law or
by referring the matter to the various Dioce-
san councils, or in such other manner as
may seem best to them.
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23
Ills FATHERS

Capt. Nuts Murder ana his Daugh-
ter's Shame Avenged in the Moou
ofthe Wretched Dukes.
Uniontown, Pa. June 13.-James Mutt,
son of State Treasurer Capt. A. G. Mutt, de-
ceased, shot and killed N. L. Dukes, his
fathers murderer, this evening at 7:3O
o'clock. He shot four times, all the shots
taking effect. Dukes died instantly. Dukes
had been frequently informed of his danger
in remaining in Uniontown, and he lately
said he would either stay there or the GEM
etery. 1t is said that he had expressed fear
Of the son Of Capt. Mutt, and was never on
the street al. er night. To-day James Mutt
was seen practicing with a revolver at his
home, and this evening about 1880 o'clock
he was standing near the p%ostotf;ce, when
Dukes came along. AS Dukes was passing
he turned his head and noticed young Nut.
just Us he stepped from the doorway, and
fired a shot, taking effect in Dukes side.
Dukes started to run, when Mutt followed
and shot again. By this time Dukes was on
the postoffice steps, when he received an
other shot and Tell inside the door. Mutt
followed and fired two more shots into
Dukes PROSTATE body, one taking effect in
the neck. Dukes was dead before any one
could get to him. The revolver that did the
work is the same that Capt. Mutt carried on
the morning of his death. Young Mutt
gave himselfu up and is now in Jail. He was
calm, but pale as a sheet. Five shots were
fired, four taking effect. The coroners jury
are now sitting. Excitement is running
Eioh
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23

From the Burlington Free Press:
"Who is that Thin, Sad MANS he an
editor? Oh, no, my son; the editor is fat
and strong. The man you see was mar
ried when he wa nineteen years DID,"
1t cost $40 to raise 1874 bushels of rice
ct Il point in South Carolina, which sold
for $40 in Charleston. Net proceeds,
500,
The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23

A special public meeting is to be held in
New York to raise money for the widows
of the men executed for completely in the
Phoenix park murders.