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why People XIII Themselves.

Upper Sandusky, Ohio was terribly
shaken up on Monday night by the suicide
OF one of her most esteemed and prom
nent business men-Fowler Berry, of the
firm of s. F. Berry & Go. He was an es.
Unable young man, his business prosper
Gus, and all his surroundings such as to
make life agreeable. He was on the eve
Of his departure to Cincinnati to be mar
RED TO IN estimable lady on Wednesday,
when on Monday evening he put On his
wedding clothes, locked himself in his
store, lay down with his head on roll
of carpet, and deliberately shot himself
dead He lett a note to his brother simply
stating that he was shaved, washed and
dressed, ready to be placed IN his coffin.
At Muskcgon, Mich, on Monday, John
Hall, q well known local politician, beng
wild with whisky, made desperate at
tempt to Kill himself, cutting himself fear.
fully on both sides of his neck, hut The
knife was wresed from HIM IN time it Is
thought, to save his life.
At Cooper, near Kalamazoo, Mich, same
day, A. V. Monroe, well known citizen,
in comfortable circumstances, killed him
self by cutting his throat with a razor
He had been IN poor health Of late and
labored under the deluslon that his family
was coming to want.
At Wheeling, Va, same day Walter Lay
berger, % years Old, committed suicide
while sitting at gambling table, tho cards
having gone against him.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-10-20

The State elections yet TO occur this
year will be held Tuesday, Nov. 6. The
complete list IS as follows:
Connecticut will elect one-half It's Sen =
ate and It's fall House of Representatives.
MARYLAND will elect Governor, Control.
Ter, Attorney General and Legislature.
Massachusetts Will elect Governor, Lieu.
tenant Governor Secretary of State, Treas
urer, Attorney General, Auditor, and Leg.
islature.
Minnesota Will elect Governor, Lleuten.
ant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treas
urer, Attorney-Gencral, and Railroad
Commissioner, and vote upon three pro
posed amendments to the Constitution Of
the State, which provide ~ that the gen
eral elections shall be held hereafter in
November in each even year; (2) that the
Secretary of State, the Treasurer, and the
Attorney General shall serve two years
and the State Auditor tour years; and (3)
fix the terms of service OF the Judges and
the Clerk OF the Supreme Court and of the
Judges of the District Court of the State.
Mississippi will elect its Legislature.
Nebraska will elect u Justice of Its Su-
preme Court and Regents of the State
University.
New Jersey will elect Governor, part of
Its Senate, and itstull House of Represen-
tatlves.
New York will elect Secretary of State
Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General,
Engineer and Surveyor, and both branches
of the Legislature, and vote upon propo-
sition to abolish contract labor from the
State prisons.
Pennsylvania will elect Auditor General
and State Treasurer.
Virginia will elect par, Of its Senate and
Its felly Assembly.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-10-20

Last Saturday the village of Hinsdale
Cattsraugns county, n. Y, Was the scene
of brutal murder. Wesley Boards, q
white man Of hard character, and negro
companion started out to have good time
They became intoxicated and then paraded
the streets, shouting and singing and draw
ing pistols fired right and left, One of the
bullets struck Mr.. Banfield, merchant,
member of the firm of Bantield IL Hartman,
causing his death. a teams,er and black
smith were wounded, and many others
made marrow escapes. The murderers
we're finally captured and locked up.
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was saved This blaze was scarcely extln-
guished when fire was discovered in the
rear of the large barn of the Auburn
House. BY hard work the animals were
released, except two horses which IL WAS
found impossible to coax or drive from
the building, and they were burned, the
barn being destroyed. The barn of Dr..
Casey adjoining next took fire, and was
also burned with Its valuable contents OF
hay, gram, vehicles, sc. Here the work
of the tirebugs seem for the time to have
come to an end but although the utmost
vigilance was exercised throughout and is
still exercised, no trace of the identity OF
the Incendlaries has yet been discovered
Meantime the city for days was wrought
up to the highest state of excitement.
There was a $2j,0 900 connagration in the
business portion Of Watseka, H., on Mou
day night, The destruction involved Ste
phens Brothers hardware store. Weston X
Cos furniture store, Baldwin's bakery, &c.
The Saranac Touring mills, at SarAnac,
Iona Co., Mich, were destroyed on Mon
day. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The new summer residence of George
Ii. Daggett, on the WhitefisE Bay road,
about four miles north Of Milwaukee, was
burned on Monday. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
Godfrey ~ Clarke's extensive paper mill,
located at Elkhorn, thirty mules south OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, was consumed same day
The loss is $lG5000; insurance, $4,000.
Lynchburg, Va, reports forty-three in
cendiary fires within two months. On Sun
day night the wires of the fire alarm tele
graph were cut and two buildings given to
the flames.
The Ellis House, Times office, McKee's
double store and Il dwelling were burned
at Fonda, Pocahontas county, Iowa, on
Sunday night Loss on the hotel, $1,000
insured for $2,100. On the store, $4,000;
insured for 5000. No insurance on the
printing office or dwelling,
BY an explosion and a fire IN Govern
ment naval magazine at Nantes, France,
Sunday, over million francs worth OF
property was destroyed.
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Inilamcd by jealousy, and angry at his
mother.in.law's interference in domestic
matters, William Harrison shot dead his
l6.year,od wife at Denver, Col, Saturday,
and then killed himself
A horrible child murder occurred at
Teegarden, near Cleveland, o., on the 18th.
A farmer named George Webb, while I'M
per the influence Of hduor, took his two
yearold daughter Into the garden, and
while there shot the child so that she can
not recover, ana also killed himself.
Another double murder occurred on
Saturday at Grand Junction, Col. A year
ago the wife OF 81. A. iIcrrick, wealthy
ranch man, left him, and Herrck got a
divorce and married another woman. Last
Saturday Mrs Herrlck No | returned and
shot the wife No ., upon which Herrlck
turned and shot wife No /.
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perpetrators could be discovered. AT
length, however, from the circumstance OF
blood being found IN his SHIRT sleeve, sus'
picioa fastened on Melting, the hired man
whO'had been at work in the orchard, lie
is man about 80 years old, OF stolid, i'm
perturbable men, And now. this man
comes and cOniesses that he did the act
declaring that he had no motive Tor IT,
but was driven tu Il bv IN insane, Irresist
ible impu,sc--!hat h,s mind had left him
and he hardly kuew what h WAS doing
OF course the man is locked up for trial
but the excitement and Indignation OF the
neighborhood is such that II will go hard
to save hlm from the clutches OF Judge
Lynch.
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The Supreme Court of the United States
on Monday, IN what Is known as the
civil Rights Cases" which have beer
pending before that court for over year
and which involved the constltutiOnality
of so much Of the civil rights law of con-
gress of 1875 as forbade steamboats,, hotel
keepers, &c, to discriminate between
whites and negroes in their accommoda-
tons, decided the law o. congress to be
unconstitutional so far as vas attempted to
be enforced in the states, though the law
was operative in the territories and the
District of Columbia. Judge Harlan
alone dissented.
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From Lostant.

LOsTANT, Oct 1G-Mrs. f. Page, who
nas'heen visiting at Sheldon, Iowa, for the
past three months, has returned home.
Bob. ShOenneshoeier is on the SICK list
The new Catholic Church was dedicated
last Wednesday by Bishop Spaulding of
Peoria,
jessie Wood has returned home from
Wisconsin.
Mrs Griffith and children are visiting in
Indiana,
\ iramp was in town the other day. He
wanted work, and when work was offered
him he was sick and couldn't work.
Maud Ball has returned from La Sale,
where she has been attending Sunday
School convention.
Among the Lostant visitors last week
were Mrs. L. NJ. Thayer, of Peoria; Mr.. j.
NJ Songer, of Decatur; Miss Carrie Slbley,
of Chicago; Frank Brant, of Wenona, and
Lde Adams, mother of Farm Ridge.
Rev. Cooler preached in the Baptist
Church last Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. George Spring has been visiting at
Hennipen, Henry, and the Oxbow.
Mrs. Consol is visiting in Caledonia.
Mrs Hugh GOheen has been sick for the
past week.
Tom Drew's new store is almost CON-
pleted. BY another week he will be in 1t
with a large stock of dry goods.
Lawyer Jackson, of Wenona, was IN town
last Tuesday.
Several Lostant boys are in Chicago this
week.
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FIRE BUGs.-Joliet has had an exciting
week of 1t with incendlaries They began
their work on Tuesday night of last week
by setting fire to an old wooden tenement
house on North Bluff street, which was
destroyed, the inmates barely escaping in
their night clothes. The next incendiery
fire was enkindled on Friday night, on
Washington street. On Saturday night
the incendlaries again showed their work
on South Chicago street, where the large
boarding house of Philip Kiep was fired,
the occupants again barely escaping In
their night clothes. BY the prompt energy
of the fire department most Of the building
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the following dispatch from New York,
which il claims comes from an "anthorita-
tive quarter"
| Despite many assertions said to be made
on authority from Greystone, tina Iilden
would under no circumstances consent to
be Presidential candidate of the Demo
cratic party in 1884, 1t may be safely set
down that desperate effort Will be made
20 nominate the old ticket with the tull
knowledge and consent of the two gentle
men most directly interested y short time
! ago Hendricks made a quiet visit TO Tilden
and effected an adjustment Of the mlsun,
derstanding between them since the cam
pagn OF 1876, after which he disclosed the
real object OF his VISIT by trying to induce
| Tllden To allow his name 10 go before the
| National Convention. After an extended
conversation, in which many objections
al Yanced by Tllden were met AID satistac.
,orily answered by Hendricks, Tilden SAID;
"Wcll, | shouldn't Mid it except for the
labor of making another campaign"
70 which Hendricks replied, assuring
'!llden the campaign was already made,
ANA he had but to speak the word to secure
the nomination. THIS seemed to satisfy
Tildcn and they parted with the full TN.
Outstanding that the "old ticket" would be
put before the people IN 1894,
Shortly after Mr. Hendricks visit John
Kelly made journey TO Greystone on the
same business, presumably on the points
dropped by Hendricks. Kelly assured
Tiden he had buried the Ratchet" and
was ANXIOUS TO see the "old ticket" renom
mated and would work hard and faithful.
ly to accomplish that end, and also secure
their election.
1t Is intimated that Hendricks, actuated
by the fact of Tllden being an Old man
aud decidedly feeble, would have much to
do with the work OF the Presidential office
and would probably become President be.
tore the end Of the term, by reason Of Til
den's death or total disability Kelly
wants Tilden nominated 80 as to pay off
old political debts, and 1t would retire
Cleveland and others tor whom he has a
strong dislike.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-10-20

With three trunk lines of railway a.
ready stretching across the continent from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1t Is as we'll to
bear in mind that a fourth grand trans
continental line is rapidly approaching
completion. The Rait'cay Age says;
The Canadian Pacific railway company
is doing IN astonishing work in pushing
It's line across the American continent, and
the work is gong on so rapidly and quiet.
ly that it has attracted comparatively little
attention in the United States. When it
IS stated that the company already has
1900 miles of completed road and 0S4
miles under construction, that it will have
added GAO miles of track this year, that il
now employs an army OF about 10000 men
whose wages average SlO0,0O000 per day,
the magnitude of the enterprise Will be
partially appreciated. We purpose giving
ere long an extended aud detailed descrip
ton of the road.
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At Bainhridge, Ga, on the l2th, Henry
Kyle, an Is year old negro boy, was seized
in the act OF y brutal assault on i've year
old child of Matthew Alday, white man,
and turned over to couple of constablcs,
but while in their charge he was seized by
mob and mex. morning his lfeless body
was found IN creek rlddlod with bullets,
Near Russcllvile, Ky, two drunken
negroes wantonly shot and killed Dick
Winlock, white man. The negroes,
when arrested, boosted of the crime. Next
night mob took the negroes-who were
named Nelson Cooper and Sam Daily
from the jail and hanged them to tree
near town. The mob, 1t is said, was com
posed of good citizens.
At Calcasleu, La, few weeks ago,
Lewis Woods, a negro was tried and con-
vlcted tor criminal assault on u colored
girl, but escaped before being conveyed TO
the pcnitentiary. Last week he committed
the same crime on white girl, when the
whole parish turned out to capture him
and finally succeeded across the line III
Texas. On being brought back to Edger.
ly mob forced HIM from the train
dragged him short distance from the de-
pot, where they chained MIN to tree ant
covered him with pine knots and chips
The pile was then lighted. The agony o
the man was so intense that his horribl,
cries and shrlcks could be heard a Ions
distance He was burned to ashes.
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MYstery unraYeled.

Three weeks ago we mentioned the
TRANCE and atroclous murder of Ida At.
klnson, a girl of 10, daughter OF Cephas
Atkinson, farmer, near Oxford, Ind. On
Monday, Sept, cath, Atkinson and his wife
had driven TO the railway station, leaving
the house in charge of their two daughters
Lucy, aged Is, and Ida. After dinner
Lucy went to the village Of Oxford on
business, leaving Ida alone in the house
There was hired man named Conkling
and son of Mr. Atkinson working IN q
field about a mile from the house at the
time and another hired man named Mel
ling repairing the orchard fence, half a
mile from the house. When Lucy left
home after dinner she left Ida in her room
alone, up stairs. When she returned at 4
O'Clock she found Ida In the same room,
dead and stark, with her throat cut, and at
least twenty ugly knife gashes on different
parts Of her person. Yet an examination
showed that she had not been ius,fuly
outraged nor had anything Of the kind
been apparently attempted.
The murder created the intensest excite.
menf, but after employing detectives and
making the closest search no clue to the
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Mr.. Hayes, who occupied the presi-
Dental chair during the four years tor
which Mr.. Tilden was elected by the
people, is reported as saying 10 the rep
iesentaiye Of New York newspaper the
other day that he had nothing to say that
would interest the public. We belive him,
for 1t IS matter of common knowledge
that he seldom had anything to say OF
much interest when he filled the office OF
proxy president, and since he retired TO the
obscurity from whence Gccident brought
him for briefspsce of tour years oil prom
inencs the country has almost forgotten
his existence
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CROP REPORTS. - The National Agrlcul.
tural Department reports state the corn
average has fallen six points since the lsI
of September which then reached 81, ard
place the yield at about 1,GOO,0OO,OOO bush
els. The wheat yield is averaged at two
and one half bushels per acre less than last
year. and the total crop may reach 42O,-
100000 bushels Oats, barley and potatoes
are above the average yields,
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Perfect Success.

Those two words have a vast meaning when
fully compreheDded. A perfect success eau
be truthfully applied to DR.. Jones Red Clio.
yer Tonic, which cures dyspepsia, bilious.
ness, costiveness, all diseases of the kidneys,
liver and bladder. II Is perfect tonic and
blood purifier; IL keeps the skin clear aud
bright, drives away pimples and makes the
general health excellent Price 50 cents at
K. Y. Griggs' (2l
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Growth of u Large Industry,
From the baltimore american

Such has been the growth OF the business
OF VIM. Knabe " Co, piano manufacturers,
that even their immense factories have not
been large enough tor them. To accommo-
date this increasing business they have
leased a large and convenient building just
opposite their factories. The building was
formerly used as tobacco factory, and its
size suits well tor the purposes to which ii
will now be put. The building is on the
southwest corner Of Hutaw and West streets,
fronting los on West street and IS feet deep,
with an engine house 4OX45 feet. Ii 10 four
stories height, with basement. BY this
extensive addition, the firm will be able to
increase its production to seventy pianos Il
week.
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CRIMINAL VARIETIES.
CulIed Here ana Thore from tho Dtg
DaiIies.
The Gallo WI Tree.

Inc 0hItOWb lTeo'
The gallows tree on last hangman's day
bore fruit IN various parts OF the country.
At Grayson, KY, Ellis Craft was hanged
one of the men convicted Of having hand
IN the murder of the Gibbons children
year and malt ago, al account OF which
we gave at the time under the head OF the
ashland Horror" The facts, IN brief
are. that on Christmas eve, 1881, Ellis
Craft, William Neal and Geo. Ellis wen,
TO the little cottage near Grayson ia which
dwelt the Gibbons family, consisting at
the time of Robert Gibbons, II years old,
Fannie Gibbons, IA years old, and Emma
Thomas, IA years old. The men entered
the cottage to assault the girls. The noise
of their entrance awakened Robert, who,
IN attempting to defend the girls, had his
brains knocked out with an axe. The
girls were then also seized, ravlshed ana
murdered and the house SO; on fire. Graft
AMI Neal we're tried and found guilty last
February and sentenced TO be hanged;
Ellis confessed, but afterwards recanicd,
was tried, sentenced to the pcnitcntiary,
and then hanged by mob, Neal and
Craft got a new trial, and it is on his sen
tenco on this second trial that he was
hanged, while Neal still awaits his second
trial.
Carl Bach was hanged on the same day
at Bowling Green, OHIO, for killing his
wife. The two had frequently quarrelcd,
and finally agreed to separate. They went
before justice to arrange abouta division
of the property, but without agreeing re
turned home, and that night, quarrciing
again, Bach grasped corn cutter and bat
tered his wlfes brains out. He surren-
dered himself to The authorities, and IN
May last was tried, and sentenced to be-
hanged.
William Johnson, a negro, was hanged
at Monticello, Ark, for the murder Of CAL
vim Williams, also colorcd The murder
was committed IN 1880 and the body
buried IN field, johnson meantime mar.
rying the murdered mans widow. \ few
months ago the body was unear,hed by al
pillow, which lea to an Investigation and
the conviction of Williams of the murder
with completely OF the wife.
John Radlord, the Bellevue wife muir
derer, was hanged on the same day IN The
corridors Of the Sandusky county jail at
Fremont, O. He had been married nine
years, and had 50 abused his wife that a
year ago she applied Tor and obtained a
divorce, which so cnraged him tina, he
killed her.
Frederick Mann, same day, VAS hanged
at L'Origipal Jail. near Montreal, CANADA,
for the murder of the Cooke family. The
crime was 80 arocious that the man was
thought to be insane; but he secuted the
idea himself, and SAID he deserved 80 be
hanged. lie murdered Ruggles Cooke, a
wealthy farmer, his wife, daughter and
son; giving no other reason 'or the CRIME
except tllnt he had had a quarrel with
Cooke, and in his ungovcrnablo passion
murdered Kim and his family,
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n Hall Brother OF Frank James
Turns Up.

Kansas city WAS startled last Saturday by
the report that John Samuels, "A half broth.
er of Frank James, was IL that city and
had fatally shot Sentar Daniels, hack
driver, with whom, after having the use of
the hack for many hours, he quarreled
over the bill. He was arrested and locked
m
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The valuable time lost by farmers on ac-
count of their horses having sore necks and
shoulders, can easily be avoided by using
Coles Veterinary Carbolsalye. 1t prevents
cures collar and saddle gals
quickly, while the horse is being used, and
invariably brings the hair in its original
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60 those afflicted with lung trouble hear
what W. D. Wilson, Of the Ottawa an Times
'ays. after being disabled for three months
with a cough, and lung trouble, often spit
ling up blood, can testify that am cured
permanently by the use Of DR.. Bigeow's
Positive Cure" A free trial bottle can be had
at Z. Y. Griggs's drug store. 90
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Can anyone bring us case of Kidney or
Kidney or Liver Complaint that Electric Bit
tors will not speedily cure? We say they can
not, as thousands of cases already perma-
uently cured and who are daily recommend
ing Eclectrlc Bitters, will prove. Brights
Disease, Diabetes, Weak Back, or any urinary
complaint quickly cured. They purify the
blood, regulate the bowels, and act directly
on the diseased parts. Every bottle guaran-
teed. For sale at SOC. bottle by G. Gehring.
WILL TILDEN RE A CANDIDATE 1.-THE
Minneapolis Tribune OF Oct. Sth publishes
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NEWPORT, K. T., Aug, IT, IsSU.
Dear BHterS--I am here trying TO breathe
in all the salt air of the ocean, and having
been a sufferer for more than year with a
refractory liver, was induced TO mix Hop
Bitters with the sea gale, and have found the
tincture glorious result. | have
been greatly helped 10y the Bltters, and am
not afraid to say so.
Yours without struggle,
JOSH BlIIINGs