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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15
MONOPOLY IN NEWS.
Another Shot from tho "Enquirers" Guns
at the Advocates of tho Proposed News
Copyright Law.

Another Shot from tho "Enquirer's" Guns
at the Advocates OF the Proposed News
Copyright Law.
CINCINNATI, o., March !3.-The oppo-
nents of the impracticabe and manifestly
unfair proposition to create monopoly In
the news of the day by means OF the pro-
posed news copyright law have an able
champion in the Enquirer of this city.
Much opposition is apparent among the
newspapers of the leading cities and towns
of this State, Pennsylvania and Indiana
and Senator Sherman is roundy denounced
because of his introduction in the Senate of
the bill to make such copyright the law OF
the land. The Enquirer of Tuesday says
editorially:
Congress should not dilly-dally with the
scheme to create monopoly in news If the
people who are work ing to that end propose
to get up events and want patent, that IS
one thing; but they stand tor h as uneXam-
pied instances of impudcnce when they ask
for patent on events which they merely pro-
pose to chronicle. The work OF book-maker
"a writer of books-is wholly different Inc
matter of the book is the coinage of the
brain of the man who asks for copy
right. The gentlemen with more gan
than judgment or fairness who are now
Congress to give them a patent on motive
power as a whole-on the principal OF the
steam engine or the water-wheel-as TO ask Tor
guarantee of proprietorship i'll events 10
which they bear no relation except that OF
chroniclers. A more direct route to the re,
lief they seek would be to forward with Dill
and ask that the people In their respective
bailiwicks be compelled TO become
subscribers to their slobber. Failing
in that, how would it do for them
to go before their Legislatures and ask the
law-making power to come down on the du-
plicate and subsid!ze their abortive efforts IN
Journalism that can not stand ordinary com
petition? If the bill introduced at the in
stance of the monopolists can pass, the shoe
makers, matters and iron-workers now en-
gagged in business should Immediately de-
mand that all new corners shall be
ruled out and the people compelled to
buy from them, and from them alone.
The bill is fraud. 1t Is for
the purpose of establishing dishonest mo
nopoly, and Congress should sit down upon
It without ceremony, and with unmistakable
force. The scope of the bill is possibly not
comprehended by the publishers whose inter
Dayton, Springfield, Hamilton, Chillicothe
GAINESVILLE, Akron. Urbana, Youngstown, Del
aware Lexington, Frankfort, Paris, Gym
thiana, Lafayette, Evansville, Shelbyvilie
Terre Haute etc, might as well ask thell
members of Congress to legslate them out o,
business as to tolerate acquiescence In this
most iniquitous of monopolies. The country
not assure themselves of continued prosper
ity by Indifference to the action of their Con
gressmen Their material interests and the
rights of the pubic have been attacked in the
highest legislative body. Letters to your
Representatives and Senators are IN order
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15
AMONG THE POLITICIANS.
Interesting Notes Concerning the Prog
ress of the Coming State and National
Campaigns.

Interesting Notes Concerning the Prog
ress of the Coming State and National
Campaigns.
The Republican State Convention of Texas
will be held at Fort Worth, April 81. The
most prominent candidate for the guber-
material nomination Is G. G. Brinkley, Of
Sherman, who Is strong in the cattle re-
gions
The Michigan Republican State Conven-
ton for the selection Of delegates to the
National Convention at Chicago will be held
at Grand Rapids, April "a.
The California Democratic State COnven-
ton will be held at Stockton June 10.
At Charleston, S. c., Tuesday, the Re-
publican Convention of the Seventh Con-
greSsiOnal District nominated Robert Small,
cOlOred, for Congress, to succeed E. w. M.
Mackey, deceased
A dispatch from Norfolk, Va, says that
In an interview General Grant expressed the
opinion that either Arthur or Blaine would
receive the Republican Presidential nOmina-
ton. He thought the Southern Outrages
would be used by the Republicans as cam.
paign rallying'cry.
The Arkansas State Democratic Conven-
ton to nominate State officers and select
delegates to the National Convention will
be held at Little Rock June %.
The Vermont Republican State Conven-
ton for the election of delegates to Chicago
will be held at Montpelier April 80 The
GubernatOrial Convention will be held at
Burlington June Is.
The Republicans of Maryland will hold a
State Convention May to select delegates
to the National Republican Convention.
w. M. Smith, eXRailrOad and Warehouse
Commissioner, denies that he is candidate
for the Republican nomination for Leuten-
ant-GOvernOr of Illinois.
The faction of the Republican party in
Missouri known as the "Filley Republic
ans have decided to hold State COnven-
ton at Sedala April o. AS this is the same
time and place decided upon by the regular,
or Van Horn, Republicans for holding their
State Convention, there will undoubtedly
be music in the air.
The Wisconsin Democratic State Central
Committee met at Milwaukee WedneSd "
and decided to call State Convention to
meet at Madison, May 26, for the election
of delegates to the Chicago Convention.
The date of the convention to nominate
State officers has not yet been fixed upon.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15
An Old Man Cruelty Murdered.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, March Is. Frederick
Vierke, an old resident of the town of
Lind. Waupaca County, was fOuly muir
dered Tuesday evening. He was found by
his wife at one o'clock in the morning ont
side hlS barn with his skull crushed, prob
ably by a heavy mallet found lying near
him. He was undoubtedly murdered, but
by whom Is not known. He was very rich,
and usually carried large sums of money
with him. Vierke was eighty-five years
oil
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15
Disappearance OF a Poker. Playing Clerk

NEW YORK, March 13.--J. H. Fullerton,
a Sl,20O-a year clerk of the Manhattan
Beach Railway was missed yesterday, and
with him 4.4 shares of stock, valued al
S45, 900. Fullerton is single, aged thirty
five, and had held confidential position
with the company for four years He fell
in with eXtravagunt club fellows, and is
known to have lost as much as $500 pei
night at poker.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15
A New Industry for East ST. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 13.-John B,
butcher ID. Ii. Sherman and several other
Eastern capitalists who own the old beef
canning establishment in East. St Louis
arrived here yesterday and arranged to turn
their property into large slaughtering con
Germ, from which they will soon send great
quantities of dressed beef to New York and
the East in refrigerator cars.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15
A Great Game in Prospect.

New YORK, March Is. William Sexton,
the billiard player of New York, has chal.
lenged George F. Slosson, of Chicago, to
play three games for 81, 900 a side in Chica-
go or New York, beginning the first week
in May, one game to be cushion carrOms
500 points, one of regular three-ba carrom
of 1,500 points, and one a hampionship
game of 1000 points. The games to be ten
DAYS apart
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15
Death OF Bishop Clarks0n.

OMAHA, Neb., March 11.-Rt. Rev. Rob
ert II. Clarkson, Bishop of Nebraska, died
about one clock yesterday morning He was
born Noymber ., 1926, at Gettysburg, Pa. He
graduated at Pennsylvania College in 1874,
and graduated in theology at st. James Col
lege, Maryland in lS4S He was rector of St.
James Church, in Chicago from 1919 to 1865,
when he was consecrated Bishop of Nebras.
ka and Dakota, and came to Omaha, where
he made his home.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15
Sentenced for Life.

MUSHROOM, Mich, March l3.-Judge
Russell has overruled the motion for a new
trial in the case of Mrs. Koren Larsen, con
victed of poisoning John Guild with rough
on rats last August She was sentenced
to jackson Prison at hard labor for life
She was calm and collected. Her husband
will be tried in MAY for the same Offense.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15
The Garden OF Eden.

BosToN, March 12.-President Warren,
u Boston University, was the Speaker at
the meeting of the Boston Evangelical
Alliance He read an elaborate essay tC
prove that the Garden Of Eden was To-
Gated at the North Pole.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15
Disastrous Fires in Michigan Towns.

DETROIT, Mich, March l3.-Forty stores
and a number of other buildings were de-
sroyed by FIRE at Allegan yesterday, entail
Ing loss of over $500, 900. A Ere also de-
stroyed $I5O, 900 worth Of property ut Grand
Banda
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15
for Infants and Children.

"Csstoria is so well adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
anown to me- H. A. ARCHER. MD
III So. Oxford St., brooklyn, NY.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15

Castoria cures Collie, Constipation. ~
Sour Stomach, DiarrhCra, Eructation,
Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di,
gestion.
Without injurious medication.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15


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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-15
GREAT ROCK ISL AND ROUTE,

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the low rate OF sEvEhTv-FivE CENTS EACH.
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via the famous
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-06
RIIoNIE.
A Town without Doctor-A Tenn
porary Business Lull.

A Town without Doctor-A Tenn
porary Business Lull.
Correspondence OF the Gasette.
RRoME, TEx,, Dec. 4.-our beautiful
weather for the past two weeks has
been followed with blasting winds.
The health OF our vicinity seems 10
bid defiance to old Dame Natures rules
aud regulations, for no case OF sickness
can be reported within hearing of
Rhome, and we are without doctor.
Starvation for want of practice draws
the sons OF EsculApius from our door.
Rhome Is full OF patronage, without
patrons for dry groceries. There IL not
even II second class dry grocery house
in the place.
Mr.. Il. j. White win open his bust
ness In the Rhome building In JAnua-
ry we understand. II so, he will reap a
rich reward unless some energetic be-
ing takes "time by the forelockn and
opens before lac does.
The town ia dull and has been for O
few days past. We ask our farmers
what's the matter? They answer; We
are taking advantage OF this fine spell
of weather to plow, lay in winter
wood, clear or break our land and per
form various other farm duties
that We cannot accomplish
in bad weather; and s.
We retire and admire the economy OF
the farmers life aud wonder why
everybody Is moi farmer.
Our school is progressing finely, over
sixty scholars Ia attendance
We notice several carloads Of grain
aud hav being Skinned this week,
A little excitement and good dea
Of suppressed feeling has arisen in lhs
past two weeks about our postotiies
site here. The present site Of the post
office Ii as convenient 20 the bust
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-06

conductor for protection. He,
thinking her crazy, got a pair
Of handouts and tied her TO
n seat and there kept her until Dallas
was reached. Mr.. Baumert was out
early this morning seeing what could
be done with the Central railroad or
the conductor. Mr.. Baumert says his
wife Is not crazy, but the negroes 40
frightened her that she might have so
appeared. She was taken to the Ger
mania house on Elm street. The
above Is the statement of Mr.. Baumert.
who does not know the name of the
conductor. The unfortunate woman
Ia confined 10 her bed.
The addition OF the stables
of A. w. Campbell and Capt.
Armstrong 10 the race stock Of
Dallas is drawing out all lovers Of
sport and furnishing as good races, II
not better, than are generally wit
messed on the circuit. After the holt
DAYS Mr.. Campbell will start Sleepy
Joe and Fuller. and the free for all
trotting and pacing races will embrace
some OF the best horses In the country
The Dallas Driving club will give
regular exhibitions every Thursday
during the winter.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-06
ToMFooLERY.
How 1t Caused Destruction of Life
and Property.

How II Caused a Destruction of Life
and Property.
DOVER, N. H., Dec 5.--Later par.
ticulars from Strafiord show that Ste
phen Young, In whose house the ex-
ploslon reported yesterday occurred
had party last night. There was
dynamite for blasting purposes on a
shelf In the house and one OF the party
to scare the rest fired revolver. The
conclusion caused the explosion OF the
dynamite. The house was blown to
atoms and burned up.
One person, Frenchman, employed
by Mr.. Young, was killed outright.
Seven others We're wounded.
Bonds to the amount OF $50 600 and
an amount OF railroad stock were
destroyed.
Miss Sadie Greenfield OF Rochester
was blown through a window and her
head out open.
Several Of those injured will proha,
bly, die, Among them Is DIR stephen
Young OF Rochester and his uncle,
Stephen Young, at whose house the
explosion occurred
LATER--leo. l.. Goodwin, aged %,
died this morning. He leaves "a wife
and two children.
The following four will die;
George Young aged 81.
Joseph May, aged IS lately from
Philadelphia
Mary Young, aged 90.
u T. Berry. aged 80.
The injured, but not fatally, are Miss
Sadie Greenfield, aged a5, OF Roches.
ter.
Ella Ready, aged IS.
stephen Young, aged rs, widower.
The death of Il. I. Berry, Jos. MAY
and Geo. Young Is hourly expected.
Mary Young may linger some days.
The cartridges ca plosion was heard
az a distance OF fifteen miles.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-06
VERGE OF REVOLUTION.
A Passenger Train Derailed in Mex
ico-Fears of Raid on New
Laredo.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
LAREDO, Ten, Dec. 5.-The many
predictions of trouble in store In Mex.
leo are beginning to be verified. Yes
terday evening at point near LWari-
da, the scene of the former train rob-
berry, the passenger train was stopped
and almost thrown from the track. On
examination 1t was found that large
roughly made rope, six to eight inches
thick, was stretched across the track
over trestle. While the crew and
passengers were examining the place
man was seen to ride swiftly away
through the brush,
Last nightin New Laredo great eX-
element prevailed, occasioned by the
report that Cayote was again threaten
| ing to raid TIE town. Crowds of men
were on the streets shouting viva
| Quintana' and making other demon
strations, The military were ordered
| out in force. The custom
house was placed under guard
and several of the leading
spirits Of the rioters were placed under
arrest. The commandant of the post,
who who was attending the theater on
this side, was sent for to direct affairs,
as serious trouble IL anticipated.
Men who have hitherto ex.
pressed no alarm say now
that If Diaz does not show himself u
be the extraordinary man the peoply
think he Is, q general revolution is in
evitable.
The troops are ordered under arms
again tonight. The absence of Col
VlllaTeal is regretted. as he would un
doubleday act decidedly and If possible
clean out the "Cayoten and his band
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-06
THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
The Annual Report ofthe Secretary OF
tho Navy "A Review Of the
Recent Work Done.
The Building Of Seven Cruisers Each
Year for q Period Of Ten Years
Recommended.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5,--The annual
report of the secretary of the navy was
made public to-day. Secretary Chand-
Ter says:
Three new ships have been success
fully launched and it has been shown
that our steel makers can readily fur
nish excellent material in large guam
tity, the quality being assured by the
tests adopted.
The department, in adopting the
recommendation OF the advisory board
for additional new vessels, calls atteu-
ton to the necessity for torpedo boats.
The secretary recommends the con-
struction of seven modern cruisers an
nually for period Of ten years. Such
plan, he Gays, conforming to the de-
mands Of our national policy and
afi0rding time for the adop'
ton of every new device in
construction, would give us AZ
"A moderate cost navy adequate to
| train ofiicers and maintain our safety
and honor.
In regard to the existing navy the
secretary says: 1T appears from the
condition of our fleet that at the end of
fifteen years the only cruisers of the
present list remaining will be three
small iron vessels"
Concerning the navy yards the sec.
rotary holds hat only two naval work
shops should be maintained, one on
the Atlantic coast aud one on the Pa
cific. The New London yard should
be restored tn Connecticut and the
League Island yard to Philadelphia
The BO-tJ yard should be
sold or reduced in size
The Pensacola and Portsmouth may
be kept for naval stations, The work
shops would then be at New York
Norfolk and Mare Island.
These need improvements in theii
organization. First of all, politics
should be excluded from their manage
ment; second, responsibility for worl
must he more definitely fixed.
The secretary reports the remova
from Siberia of the bodies of Lieut. d.
Long and his companions, and give
the history of the Greedy relief eXpedi
ton. the expenditures for which wer
81, 600 008.
( The expenditures of the department
for the fiscal wear ended June 30
! 1854, were SIT 292, COL. The estimate
1 loI pIulualN pun pNata anu w pun
. works for the next tiscal year are $l7,
$50. 058, and the estimates for the IL
e crease OF the navy Sl5,07l 672.
. The recent enactment repeating thu
{ laws requiring all American vessel
Y arbitrarily to carry foreign mails, Tia
secretary says, should be supple
: mented by provision that contract
3 for carrying such mails in America
line steamers over all the priRcipS
1 ocean highways should be let for
q term OF years TO the lowest bidder az
e equate, the compensation therefor I
II be paid by the government upon I'll
same principle az that adopted in e
tablishlng our great national po
routes on land
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-06
A SHOOTING MATCH
With Human Beings for the Bulls.
Eyes-Three Men Probably
Fatally Wounded.

Special TO the Gazette.
GATEsvILLE, TEX, Dec, ga difll-
Guilty occurred here to-day at 1890 In
the courthouse yard, in which DIR. II.
j. sauls and his father, Absalom
Sauls, and Henry Bnsham were shot.
DR. Sauls - shot five times-three
times in the bowels and once in the
chest aud In the shoulder. 1t does not
seem possible for him to recover.
A, Sauls thigh il broken in one
place, the bone being shattered, and
he has other minor wounds. He Is sc
years old and II is not thought that he
can recover.
Basham has wound In the right
shoulder and neck and may recover.
There has been an old feud between
the Saus and BashRms for some time,
aud both parties seem more or less to
blame. They had been about to fight
for day or two To-day DIR, Sauls had
proposed to fight any or all OF
them, when Bill Basham with an oath
drew his pistol and fired at him. His
father also received a shot from Bill
Basham's pistol at the beginning.
| Others commenced firing on the Sauls
Charley Parks and Harry Harris are
charged with assaulting the Bashams
ID. a. Sauls was also in the melee but
was not hurt DR.. Sauls was the only
one of the Sauls that was armed.
Henry and Bill Basham, Harry Har.
ris, Charley Parks and @. ID. Sauls are
under arrest.
The Sauls family are from Bel
county. The other parties live in tn,
western edge of Coryell county. The
affair is sadly deplor,d, asl nearly al
the parties are highly respected.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-06
SAN ANTONIO.
A $26S,595 Attachment-A Compro
mise Regarding the Sabinas
Coal Lands.


An attachment for S26s sos was run
on Frank OIsmith & Co.'s gun-store to-
day, in favor of Moore & Sons of New
York. 0lsmith recently made an as
,ignment for the benefit of his cred
itOrs This attachment will likely
cOmplicate matters.
1t is rumored at Piedras Negras that
a compromise has been effected be-
tween Milmo and the Southern Pa
eific railroad people, whereby the
Sabinas coal lands can il released and
work on the valuable mines resumed.
Fence-cutters are at work again near
Uvalde. Capt. Warren Wallace is the
latest sufferer, having lost about half 3
mile of his fence by this use of the
nippers, The captain owns every foot
of land under his fence, and is very
indignant, Rangers are on the trail
of the cutters and will likely capture
some of them.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-06
TAKEN FOR CRAZY.
A German Woman Tied aud Hand,
cuhed by Railway Conductor.

A German Woman Tied aud Hand
cuffed by a Railway Conductor.
Special TO the Gazette.
DALLAS, Tex, Dec. 5.-Edward
Baumert is German, who has been u
year In America and who works at Joe
Bailey's dyeing establishments ON Main
street. A few months ago he raised
enough money to bring his wife from
faderland, and she arrived last night
tied aud hand-cuired 90 seat, and
with a tale To tell OF her experience
from Houston 60 Dallas that threw far
into the shade the perils of the deep
When the train arrived the conductor
called 10 Police Oillcer KeehAn 10 take
charge OF crazy woman who was
ticketed 10 Dallas. The officer took
charge OF aud started OIL with her. On
the platform abe threw her arms
around man, who happened 70 be
her husband, who had come TO the
train 10 meet her, ana over TO whom
tha officer turned her. She related
tAas AZ Houston she was put IN a car
hll Of negroes, who tried to out
rage her. She called upon the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-06
DowNs-TERRY.
How the Eloping Deacon Provided for
His Wife-High Standing of
the Partiea

New YORK, n. Y, Dec. 5.--Mrs
Terry, the wife of Mitchell Terry,
who eloped with the Rev. Mrs. Downs,
wife of the pastor Of the Worthwhile,
l.. l., church, says that she had not
the slightest idea OF her husbands
running away. He had always been
very anectionate, and treated her
we'll She did not believe he had left
her until last night, when she received
q letter from him, dated Hotel Bristol
New York City, Dec. 3,
and possmsrked Jersey City
where 1t had evidently been
dropped in letter-box as he was pass.
ing through to the cars.
la this letter Mr.. Terry states that
he Will never return TO Worthwhile;
that he had decided the farm TO his
wife, and inclosed the deeds,
He also inclosed a check In her
favor ON the Rtverhead Savings bank
for 1904, the balance TO his credit;
also, a number of bills, amounting ID
several hundred dollars, for her to col.
lect.
The farm buildings and stock are
said TO be worth $4,000 Mrs. Terry
thought that her husband had taken
about $4,000 in cash with him, having
recently sold some property aud drawn
the money from the banks.
| The wife Of the Rev. Mr.. Downs
the lady who has eloped, Il
a daughter of Rev. Samuel Hand
a local preacher OF Bridghampton, anC
Is related TO the wealthleat families o
Suffolk county.
Mr.. Terry always took an activ,
part In politics and religious move
ments. il IL believed that owing I,
unpleasant relations between Mr.
| Terry and his sister, who eloped I,
ldoiida with Capt. Henry two wear
ago, the new clipping couple have no
gone 10 that part Of the country.