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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-08-07

c. II. Newman, the Texas Cattle King.
Swindler, Proves to Be Crook Wanted
at E. gin, ILL.,, Where He Was Known as
Alb ,rt C. BIakesIee.
ST.. LOUIS. Mo, July 81.
City Marshal Powers Of Elgin, ILL.,, called
on Chief Harrigan yesterday and re-,
quested to see C. H. Newman, who is
now in Jail on a charge of victimizng the
Mermod, Jaccard Jewelry Company.
When admitted to the prisoners pres.
ence, the Marshal instantly recognized
him as Albert G. Bakeslee, whom he had
known for twenty-five years. Fourteen
years ago Blakeslee, alias Newman, lived
in EIgin and acquired a reputation for
dishonesty.
Three months ago Blakeslee went to
Elgin and hired a span of horses valued
at S400. He sold the horses, pocketed
the money and fed.
Marshal Powers followed him to Ohio
and captured him. The prisoner secured
several continuances of the charge
against him by representing that large
amount of cattle belonging to him would
arrive in few days, and that all claims
against him would be settled. This de-
vice becoming stale, the day preceding
his trial the prisoner became very ill
and was taken to a private house for
treatment. That night he disappeared,
leaving no trace of himself. While out
West he assumed the name of George
Parker, by which he was known here.
When the authorities here are through
with this man of many aliases he will be
turned over to the Elgin people.
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Colonel John P. st. John, the nominee OF
the Prohibitionists for President, was born
at Brookville, Franklin County, Ind, Feb
ruary 25, 1888, to which place his father
moved from Orange County, New York,
some years previous. Colonel St Johns
early opportunities for education were
only of that character furnished by the
Indiana log school house of half a century
ago, but still he was diligent in improving
whatever facilities the times afforded and
succeeded in obtaining fair education.
Ambitious to earn his own living, at an
early age he entered a store at six dollars
per month. The family located in Illinois
and before attaining his twentieth year
young st. John went to Cali
fornia, where he worked at mining, wood
chopping and such other employment as he
could secure. From California he made
voyages to South America, Oregon, Central
America, Mexico and the Sandwich Islands.
In 1898 he took a hand in the Indian
wars of California and Oregon. Returning
to Illinois in 1860, he entered the law-ofiice
of StaTkweather d McLain, at Charleston,
as a student and one year later be-
came partner. During the
year 1861 he enlisted as private in Com
pany c, Sixty-eighth Regiment of Illinois
volunteers, and was unanimously chosen
Captain or his company. Ills regiment was
stationed at Alexandria, Va, and Captain
st. John assigned to duty as Acting Assist
ant Adjutant General. In 1862 his regiment
returned to Illinois and was mustered
out Captain ST. John was after
ward chosen Lieutenant Colonel of
the One Hundred and Forty-third
Illinois Regiment and served until 1864. He
then resumed the practice of law at Charles
ton, Ills. In 1865 he removed to Independ-
ence, Mo-, and took an active part in the
politics of the day. In 1889 he located at
Olathe, Kansas and commenced the prac-
tice of his profession. Was elected State
Senator from johnson County in 1872, but
declined a denomination at the end of his
term. He was prominently before the
Republican Convention for Governor
of Kansas in 1876, and declined the nomina-
tion rendered. him by the State Temperance
Association, although an ardent temper
ance advocate. Colonel st. John was nomi-
mated by the Kansas Republicans for
Governor in 1878, and elected by a large
majority. He was Te-nOminated and elected
in 1880; was again nominated in 1882, but
defeated by the present Governor of Kan
sas. Since retiring from office Governor St
John has devoted much time to the cause Of
temperance principle which through him,
more than any other one man, has been
grated upon the fundamental law of his
adopted State,
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FARMERS ACCOUNTS.
What n Newspapers Prize Offer Brought
Out i'm Relation to Farming Operations in
New England-The Benefit of Keeping
Accounts Plainly Apparent.

What a Newspapers Prize Offer Brought
Out i'm Relation to Farming Operations in
New England-The Benefit of Keeping
Accounts Plainly Apparent.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, August 1.
In March, 1888, the Nclo England Home
stead, an agricultural journal, printed a
plan for keeping farm accounts, and Of
-fered prizes for the best years accounts.
Ninety contestants began keeping ac-
counts April 1st, 1888. Forty-twO ac-
counts for the year ending April lst,
1884, were submitted to the Committee
of Award composed Of the Secretaries of
the Boards OF Agriculture Of the New
England States, ex-President Stock
bridge, of the Massachusetts, Agricultural
College and the editor of the Homestead.
The first prize - an eighty-dollar
moving machine-was awarded TO
H. Z. Russell, OF North Hadley, whose
farm paid $l9.02 per cent. profit on the
capital invested, after paying for all
labor and other expenses, including
wages to the proprietor. Other prizes
were awarded. One account is given of
a New Brunswick farm that paid almost
sixty per cent. on capital OF 80, 300. Out
of the forty-thrce accounts returned,
thirty-six show profits on the capital in
labor) of from one-half of one per cent.
to over forty per cent. The average Of
the thirty-six different farm accounts that
show gain, indicates a profit Of
ten per cent. on total cap
ital of 100000. Six accounts
show a loss of from one-quarter of one
per cent to twelve per cent. The av-
erage of the six accounts is six per cent.
loss on a total capital of $22, 300 The
average for the whole forty-two accounts
is a net profit of eight per cent. on an in
vested capital OF $3.50 The losses
shown in the six accounts were ascribed
almost wholly to the unprecedented
drought of last year, following upon the
similar disaster of the previous year.
This is the first record ever made or pub
lished giving facts and figures Of the bus
mess of New England farming. The
showing is a most remarkable one, tho
more so when it is remembered that the
season of 1888 was one of the worst ever
known in New England
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Held for an AocidentaI killing.

LOUISVILLE. KY, ) uly 81.
Several years ago Edgar Wyatt, of this
city, while in the Internal revenue SER
vice, shot and killed young man named
Pffanz, of Portland, while in search of
moonshiners near Horse Cave, Hart
County. Wyatt has always claimed that
the shooting was accidental though
he was indicted and has had several
trials, one of them resulting in sentence
for ten years. His attorneys appealed,
and a new trial was granted. The
Tompkinsville correspondent of the
Bowling Green Gazette of yesterday says:
''The case of the Commonwealth against
Edgar Wyatt for killing young Phanz
near Horse Cave, seven years ago, re-
suited in a fine of $1,000. Being unable
to pay so large sum, he languishes in
prison"
Those who know Wyatt best have al.
ways doubted if he intended to kill
Pffanz, and believe his explanation that
the shooting was accidental. Edgar
Wyatt is a brother of the noted revenue
officer, John Wyatt, who, after a long
and efficient service against the moon
sinners, died at the hands of policeman
while resisting arrest for misdemeanor.
He has also a brother, Jesse Wyatt, who
is an efficient lieutenant of police in
Louisville.
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A sWINDLER CAPTURED.

A Bold and, For n Time Successful Swindler
Brought to Grief-CoIOradO Has Him and
Missouri Wants Excellent Chances to
Survey the Interior of "A Prison.
JOPLIN, Mo, July 81.
A very successful attempt to obtain
money by false pretenses is coming to. light
since the arrest of the perpetrator, John
Z. Dearing, in Golden, Col. Dearing
played very bold game, and realized in
all about 81, 900. He came here last
spring, and being civil engineer, was
engaged to do some surveying in
Newton County. While looking
over the records at Neosho,
Dearlng became familiar with the
names of several business men of that
place, to whom he represented himself as
being an intimate friend of George IL.
Nettleton, of the Gulf Road. He said
that If the business men of NeOsho
would pay for the survey he
could induce the Gulf people to
extend their road from Joplin to
Dearing to do the work, paying him tor
his services. He employed Engineer
Sam Mckee and a corps of young men of
the city and the line was soon located to
Neosho. Dearing then told the business
men that the Guf management desired
TO extend the road TO Fort smith,
Ark, if they could meet
with proper encouragement. The
gentlemen told Dearing to go ahead.
While the party was at work between
Neosho and Southwest City Dearing
formed the acquaintance of the daugh-
ter of prominent business man and
they were soon afterward married.
Meantime he contracted as many, aud
paid as few debts as possible. Dearing
took his bride to Bentonville, Ark, where
he obtained $3.50 from a bank-a dead
loss to that institution. He then placed
Mckee in charge of the survey, with in
structons to make out the pay roll and
send it with the field notes to the Gulf
headquarters in Kansas City, and that
the men would soon receive their pay.
Dearing then started on his bridal tour
through Colorado, and Mckee followed
the Instructions of his employer, but the
papers were returned with the informa-
tion that the Gulf Road had nothing to
do with the proposed extension, and that
the man making the survey was
fraud. No definite information
was received from Dearing until yester-
day, when IL was learned that he had been
captured and lodged In jail at Colorado
Springs for frauds committed there.
Steps will be taken to have Dearing re-
turned to Missouri as soon as the Colo.
radO authorities get through with him.
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Our Minister to st. james.

MALYEBEs ENG.s August /.
Minister Lowell presented the prizes tc
the graduates at Malvern College and de-
liyered an address to the students. He
spoke of the growth of education in gen.
eral and alluded to the desire for learn
ing eVinced by the early colonists of Mas
sachusetts, one outcome of which had
been the founding of Harvard University
He observed with pleasure the indications
that America and England were growing
more friendly day by day, and declared it
to be his chief ambition to have part in
furthering this growth Of cordial reIa-
tiOns- between the two great English
speaking communities,
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A Series Of Crimes that VIII Probably Re-
suit in Hanging Bee I'm the Near Fu~
ture.
BooNvILLE, IND, July 81.
A number Of horses have been poisoned
near Taylorville recently. Suspicion
was entertained against Spradley and
one OF his farm hands named Ingram. A
vigilance committee was formed and a
reward Of $500 was offered for the arrest
of the guilty persons. A notice was also
given Spradley to leave the country with.
In ten days. John l.. Bethel,
a farmer, endeayored TO earn the
reward, and, getting Ingram under
the influence Of whisky, he succeeded In
getting the desired Information, which
was 70 the effect that Spradley and him
self had done the poisoning. Last Mon
day Ingram was arrested and placed
under bonds for his appearance at court,
and has apparently left the country. Yes
terday while Bethel was on his way to
town he was murdered. The ten days
notice given to Spradley expired last
night, and the committee declare they
will lynch him. The Sheriff and posse
of men have gone to TaylorVfile.
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Indignant Cattle Men.

JALVEbIDN, IEA-s JuIV 81.
The Texas Pacific Railway agent
here yesterday received a telegram from
headquarters instrnctlng him to refuse
all shipments OF cattle to points north OF
Denison and Texarkaua until further or
ders This action Is owing to alarming
reports of a cattle fever in the north
Cattle shippers express great indignation
at this action, which they denounce as
arbitrary, and calculated 70 do them seri-
Gus injury, as all cattle 10 the interdicted
sections are Ia the best of health and
condition. Many cattle are now await
ing shipment The shippers and ranch
men Of Mitchell County an indignant
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THE CATTLE DIsTEMPER.
Too Much Water After a Prolonged Thirst
Said to be the Cause.
CHTC AGO IL. Ir1lv 20

Too Much Water After a Prolonged Thirst
Said to be the Cause.
CHICAGO, ILL, July 80.
It was decided not to shoot the cattle
suffering from the strange distemper, nor
those exposed to it. The healthy animals
will be killed at the slaughter houses
under the direction of the health officers.
The bodies of the dead animals were re-
moved as fast as life became extinct and
were taken to the rendering establish
ments. An investigation of the organs
of the slaughtered animals will
be made by the health inspector,
and if any disease is found
the meat will be condemned. 1t
is believed here and at Kansas City that
the animals were allowed to founder
themselves after having been exposed to
q prolonged thirst. There is no reason
to believe that the Texas or Spanish fevers
have anything to do with the deaths, as
the symptoms are entirely different. The
disease does not appear to be contagious,
as no other animals have been attacked
outside of those among which the disease
broke out. Reports from Nebraska say
that some herds are affected, but it is be-
lieved that the disease existing in that
State is also due to local causes, and is
not infectious.
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Prohibition in mississippi.

VICKSBURG, Miss, July 30.
The State Prohibition Convention met
in Jackson yesterday with large attend
ance. Resolutions indorsing the work OF
the National Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union were passed, also inviting
Luther Benson, OF Indiana, to visit Mis-
sissipi after the November elections and
canvass the State in the cause of temper
ance. The platform declares that prohi-
bition should not be entangled with poll
tics, and, without disturbing party aff1lia-
tions of citizens, asks their support OF
this great reform, which should be en-
throned above the contest for place and
power.
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OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED.
Ex-Governor Hendricks of Indiana For.
malIy Notified of His Nomination as
Democratic Candidate for the Vice-Presf
dency.

Democratic Candidate for the Vice-Presf
dency.
SARATOGA, N. Y, July 80.
The committee appointed at Chicago
to notify Mr.. Hendricks of his nomina-
tion for the ce-Presidency arrived this
morning. They held a meeting at noon
to sign the address to Hendricks and fix
upon an hour for the formal ceremony.
The address expresses the same sentf-
ments as that to Cleveland yesterday.
The committee was in session nearly
an hour. Messrs. Villas, Hooker, Walter
and Stockton were appointed a sub-com-
mittee to ascertain Mr.. Hendricks pleas
ure. They reported that two O'Clock
would suit his convenience, and that time
was chosen. A resolution was then
passed extending thanks to William 4.
Villas and N. NJ. Ball for the dignifed and
efficient manner in which they have per-
formed their respective duties as chair
man and secretary of the committee.
The committee then adjourned.
The large parlors of the Grand Union
were filled by two O'Clock. Lady guests
in summer toilets occupied the lounges.
The committeeman were arranged in
semi-circle in the middle of the room.
The appearance was decidedly more pict-
uresque than that witnessed yesterday at
the Executive Mansion. Hon. David
Davis and wife were conspicuous among
the spectators. MIR. and Mrs.
Hendricks entered the room
shortly after two O'Clock, and were
greeted by the clapping of hands. Hon.
w. f. Villas, after brief pause stepped
forward and delivered his address. It
was an eloquent and impressive GRAFTON,
referring gracefully to Mr.. Hendricks
distinguished services and the affectionate
regard in which the Democracy of the
Nation hold him.
The official notification was then hand
ed to Governor Hendricks, incased in a
handsome black Russia leather cover.
The Governor, on rising, was received
with a hearty round of applause. Mr..
Hendricks briefly responded, promising
as soon as CONVENIENT to make formal and
public acceptance of the honor.
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Exports and Imports.

WASHINGTON, D. O., July 81
The report on the foreign commerce
of the United States shows a balance
in favor of this Government for the last
fiscal year as s72, ,29s, ,997, against ba l..
ance in our favor of 500, ,65s. .4ss the pre-
ceding year. The total value of the exports
of merchandise for the fiscal year Just
closed was $40, ,514 800, against $685.
s39, ,4O2 the preceding fiscal year; a fall
ing of of $50, 1925, s42. The imports of
merchandise amounted to $667, TIA, 56s,
against s713, ,1S0,9l4 the preceding fiscal
year; falling of of $50, 4G6,35l.
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MUsKEGON, MICH, July 80
A report reached this city through Fred
Blohm, a prominent citizen of the town
of Nester, that a woman of that place
has been missing since Sunday. She
went out berrying, and has not been seen
since Twenty-Five men searched all day
yesterday and found pieces of her dress
on the bushes, and bear tracks near by.
1t is believed that a bear attacked her
while she was picking berries and killed
her carrying the body off. A large black
bear has been seen around the lake for
several weeks.
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NEAR York, Pa, on the night OF the 26th,
Mrs. Adam j. Miller was mortally wound
ed, and an eccentric brother in-law is
thought TO be the one who did the deed
NEW YORK has appropriated two million
dollars for the erection OF armories for the
National Guard.
In Marisle. Asia Minor, fire on the 2Sth,
destroyed four hundred houses, four ho-
tells, three mosques, and the municipal
palace.
POLICEMAN MCLAUGHLIN who was shot
at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the Goth, by
hoOdlum, died. The excitement against
the murderer is intense.
On the 2S5h a passenger train on the Bed
ford Narrow-Gauge Road went through
bridge at Bloomfield, Ind, into the river,
the engineer being killed and a number of
persons seriously injured.
OK the afternoon OF the Goth a cyclone
in Virginia did great deal Of damage
in Norfolk County to buildings and cattle.
On the 20.h a gang of cattIe-thieves, who
have been ravaging Oregon, were run
down by regulators, and out Of seventeen
captured two were hung.
ON the 28sh the iron steamship Alverto
ran down and sank the propeller J. NJ. Os-
borne on Lake Superior. The mate and
five deck-hands were drowned.
NEAR Lewistown, Montana, seven trees
were decorated with tue bodies Of as many
horse thieves on the 29th, the operation be-
ing superintendent by Regulators.
AT Greenport, L. l., while Robert B.
Covey was working on the wreck of the
ship Ohio, on the 29th, some dynamite
which he was using exploded and drove
bolt, fourteen inches long and weighing
two pounds, through his head, killing him
instantly.
On the 3Oth Frank Bean, a bad colored
man OF Baltimore, Md, was fatally stab
bed by bad white man.
WHILE boating with young lady near
Cooper stown, n. Y, on the 30th, Edward
G. Steer accidentally shot himself.
AT Beatrice, Neb., on the 3Oth, during a
thunder storm, lightning struck Nathan
Miller's frame house, instantly killing his
four daughters.
MRS. APMEIER, of Cincinnati, exploded
a six-pound rocket on the 3Oth by striking
II with an axe, and she, her daughter, son
and another little boy were dangerously
injured.
A PARTY of masked men with revolvers
on the 31st compelled RhOdY Boyle, a
farmer near Petrolia, Pa, to give up S13,-
900. They escaped.
THE suit for libel at Dublin of Bolton
against O'Brien, editor of United Ireland,
resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaint-
ifP.
MAJOR NORTH, one of the men in Buffalo
Bill's show, was thrown from his horse at
Hartford, Conn.,, on the 3ist, and severely
injured.
THERE was much excitement near Battle
Greek, Mich, ON the 3Ist, over the discov-
cry of a cremated child. A young woman, ,
mother but no wife, was suspected.
A GANG of burglars who worked the
fashionable residencs portion of Pitts
burgh, Pa, were captured on the 31st with
$4,000 worth of swag in the shape of jew
eIrv, silver wa e, etc.
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TRADE TOPICS.

The Clearing House Rcturns-ContInued
Decrease-Oliver Ames-Reduced Wages.
Boston, July 29.-The following table
compiled from special dispatches to the
Post from the managers of the leading clear
ing houses of the United States gives the
clearings for the week ended July 26, with
the percentage of increase and decrease
compared with the corresponding week of
1893
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To Test our steel production.

WAsHIEGToE, D. C., August /.
Before final adjournment the House
of Representatives appointed a select
committee of seven, with Mr.. Randall as
chairman, to inquire as to the capacity
of steel-producing works In the United
States TO make steel of suitable quality
anS sufficient in quantity to furnish metal
for guns Of high calibre and metal plates,
and other material for the construction
of vessels of war, and to furnish the
armor or sheathing for such vessels. The
committee was empowered TO sit during
the recess.
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A WOMAN'S CURIOSITY.
She Finds Out What the Inside Of a Sky
Rocket is Made OF.

CINCINNATI, o., July 30.
The home of Henry Upmeier was
this morning the scene of terrible ex-
plosion. 1t was noticed last night that
several of the hundreds of sky-rockets
which contributed to the en- tertainment
of the Highland II ouse failed to explode
in the air, and the residents on Hill Side
admonished the children not to meddle
with them. However, Philip HILL
aged ten, and Charley Up
meier, aged seven, found the
head of fve-pOund rocket, and took it
to their home. Later Mrs. Upmeier's
curiosity was aroused, and she took an
axe and struck the missile a heavy blow.
loud report followed which startled
the entire neighborhood. Mrs. Upmeier
was dangerously wounded, and her
daughter Ida, aged twelve, fatally in
iured. Two boys were also seriously hurt,
but it is not thought fatally unless from
Misunderstanding.
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I,EnrcEn MAGEs

james Street. for many years en-
gineer on the Lehigh q Susquehanna
Railroad. became suddenly insane re-
Gently, and as his train approached
Maueh hunk, instead Of slackening, he
opened wide the throttle valve and ran
fOr several miles at the rate of mile a
minute. frightening the passengers and
all along the line. - PITTSBURGH Post.
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-Four little children, all less than
twelve years old, landed at New York
recently and were sent to their parents
in Ohio and Chicago. They came frol-
Switzerland alone, with leather tagR
tied to them giving directions TO the
Captain of the vessel and the railway
conductors. N. y. Tribune.
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The summers sport at Block Island
q sword-fishing. Frequently the game
shows fight, and in such cases the ex-
element is intense. The swOrd-fish
caught on those waters weigh from two
hundred 10 five hundred pounds, and
the swords are from two TO three feet
In length.