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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-25
Hastings.

Mrs. DIR. Finch, though not improving, is
holding her own bravely. Hon. John F.
Norrish is on the sick list and unable to at
tend to business. E. NJ. LeDuc, who for
four years has acted as cashier OF the Bank
of Cannon Falls, will leave shortly for the
South to recuperate his failing health. The
First National bank of Hastings has about
consummated a purchase of the Citizens
bank of Cannon Falls, now owned and oper-
ated by B. G. Halves of st. Paul. The two
banks will be united. The new malt house,
operated by the president, Louis Niedere, is
running to its full capacity. Thirty thousand
bushels of barley have already been pur-
chased, and about $50 bushels are daily manu-
featured into malt. The school board are
confronted by a most perplexing question,
viz, what to do with the greatly increased
attendance. AT present us children are
taught by fourteen teachers and one super
intendent. there being no school room for ad.
ditional teachers.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-25
Soon to Go 10 Odessa.

DR.. Thomas E. Heenan. the recently-ap-
pointed consul to Odessa, in st. Paul yes
day said he should leave Minnesota early in
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-25

Burglars entered the postofice at Aurora.
Ind. and secured 500 in money, besides a
large quantity Of stamps.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-25
Another Chance forthe Indians.

OTTAWA, Ont, Nov. 24.-It is reported
to-day that representations have been made
to the government respecting the conduct of
Stipendiary Magistrate Rouleau of Battle
ford, which may cause postponement of
the execution of the eight Indians sentenced
to be hanged at Battleford on Friday next.
He is reported to have threatened that
every Indian and half-breed and rebel
brought before him after the Instruction
was suppressed would be sent to the gal
lows if possible. In view of all the crcum-
stances, and particularly as Judge Rouleau
was heavy loser pecuniarily by the Indian
outbreak at Battleford, it is cOntended that
he should not have been allowed to preside
at the trials of the prisoners. A memorial
has been received by the department of
justice, asking that the matter be investi-
gated
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-25
ADDITIONAL ST. PAUL NEWS
A CLUMSY SAFE BREAKER.
Michael Churchill fries TO Break a
Safe with Hammer and Drill.

Mic Ia eli Church hill Tries TO Break a
Safe with Hammer and Drill.
The shrill ring of cold steel attracted the
attention of Officer Babe this morn
ing between the hours Of l and
2 o'clock as he was pacing his beat,
near the corner OF Eighth and Robert
streets. Upon investigation he found that
the sound proceeded from the Office OF the
j. f. Tostevn marble works, 452 Robert
street. Entering the building. he found
fellow hammering away at the
safe with large drill hammer and cold
chisel. He had succeeded in cutting the
combination knob off the door as well as
the catch handle. He was promptly ar
rested and taken to the police station with
HIS KIT OF TOOLS
which consisted of three hammers and two
drills. He gave his name as Michael
Churchill and says he was employed in the
establishment as a marble cutter. He was
! evidently under the influence OF liquor at the
/ time. and was certainly novice at the
business or he would have gone about the
work more quietly. He boarded at the
fremont hotel, corner of Robert and
Eighth streets. About the same time
that Churchill was arrested Officer
VOntrot took fellow in the vicinity of the
building who gave his name as John Mara,
but refused to tell where he had been or
where he was going, and he was locked up
as an accomplice of Churchill.
Hutchinson, Glencoe & Southern.
In few days articles of incorporation
will be filed with the secretary of state of
the Hutchinson, Glencoe & Southern road,
a line to run from Hutchinson southeast to
Glencoe, and from there almost directly
east. paralleling the Hastings & Dakota
division of the Milwaukee & st. Paul. to a
junction with the Minneapolis d st.
Louis road near Waconia. Those inter
ested in the building of this new line are:
w. j. Peppart, president, and Hon. W. j.
Ives, D. A. Adams. W. T. Bonnwell.
Hutchinson; J. Y. Bassett, Minneapolis; G.
K. Gilbert, Glencoe; A. Fl. Reed. Glencoe.
Thomas Hoyme, Canadian contractor, is
interested in the line and will probably
build it. A conference was held with Vice
President Truesdale of the Minneapolis
& st. Louis road yesterday by some of the
interested parties, and if the line is built it
will most likely be operated by the st.
Louis company.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-25
wisconsin Farmers, institute.

Special to the GLOBE.
HUDSON, Wis, Nov. 24.-The State
Farmers institute met at opera hall this
forenoon, large number of farmers being
in attendance and much interest was mani
tested. Supt. w. H. Morrison of Madison,
Hiram Smith of Sheboygan Falls, j. NJ.
Smith of Green Bay, president of the Wis
consin Horticultural society; W. D. Hoard
of Fort Atkinson, president Northwestern
Dairymen's association; j. G. BarthOlf of
Milton, Stephen Faville of Devan, A. A.
Arnold of Galesvlle, Prof. W. D. Parker
of River Falls. Profs. Henry and Armsby
of Madison. Messrs. Hubbard and Williams
and other,distinguished specialists are present..
The organization was perfected by the cleo
ton of Hiram Smith as chairman. Hon.
j. C. Bartholf read an interesting paper on
Shall the Young Wisconsin Farmer Go
West? Farm Machinery and its Care. was
the topic of a paper by W. c. Bradley. a
particularly interesting paper by E. Conner
of Eau Galle on the Care and Keeping of
Bees contained much valuable information.
Wheat Raising vs.. Stock Raising by c. NJ.
Sired elected considerable discussion, many
valuable facts being brought out. w. ID.
Hoard. Prof. and Mrs. Parker, Mrs. ID.
Barlow and others read very interesting
papers. In the evening United States SEN
ator Spooner addressed the institute, W. d.
Hoard responding. The program for to-
morrow contains many interesting papers
and The success of the meeting is assured.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-25
RUMORs OF WAR.

REPORTS Being Circulated that the Half
Breed Friends of Riel Are Quietly
Organizing.
An Uprising in the Spring Predicted,
When the Scalps of Settlers Will
Be Taken.
Latest Phase of the Omaha Tragedy
Shocking Suicide OF
Farmer.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-25
Supreme Court.
DECISIONS RENDERED.

Total. ...........................
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02
A NTaddencd Whale.

Portland tSle.J Press
The steamer Valora, of this port, Capt.
Haskell, is engaged in shooting whales
for the factory at Boothbay. Thursday,
when off Cape Porpoise and just in sight
Of land, an immense whale was encount-
cred and the steamer started in pursuit,
but Just as they got near enough to fire
at the monster he sounded. The steam
er started again for the prey when he
came to the surface, and this time they
got in a shot. Mr.. Haskell, the brother
of the captain, fired the bomb, and it en-
tered the animal, which Immediately
swan with great speed directly out to
sea. The steamer followed, and after a
long and exciting chase succeeded in
driving the whale inshore, when he again
sounded. After q short time, during
which the steamer lay to and waited for
the temperance of the monster, he rose
to the surface and plunged directly for
the boat Had he struck the little YES
sci, coming as he was with almost ire
sistible force. she would certainly have
sunk. The signal to back was given, and
the steamer coming round just in time
to allow the whale to dash by only a few
feet from the tide, Haskell, afraid of los
ing the prey, again fired, and this time
the bomb accomplished its work, and the
dead body Of the animal sank in IS faith
oms of water. The whale was very large
for the species, being fully twice as long
as the VaIora, a 45-foot vessel. The car
cass will come to the surface in eight
or nine days, when 1t will be taken in
tow by the steamer.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02
POE,s LAST LECTURES.
The Erratic Genius at His Best---His
Pathetic Rendition of The
Raven"
Baltimore American.

Baltimore American.
/ heard both Of Poe's lectures in Rich
mond. They were the last he ever de-
livered. The admission was fifty cents
and the hall was crowded. On both oc-
casions Poe was at his best. never
heard a voice that was so musical as his.
It was full Of the sweetest melody and
an incident Of the evening showed how
marked an impression IL made. During
the lecture he recited Hoods Bridge of
Signs" A little boy about twelve years
Of age was sitting near me. He was lis
tening intenlly and before Poe had fin
ished the poem he was in tears. Could
there be any greater tributn to 4 speak
er's power? After the lecture Poe very
modcstly said 81 have been requested to
recte my own poem, The Raven No
one who heard this will ever forget the
beauty and pathos with which this reci-
talon was rendered. The audience was
still as death, and as his weird, musical
voice filed the hall its effect was simply
indescribable. 1t seems to me that [ can
yet hear the long plaintive "Never-
more" At the second lecture a rather
amusing incident took place. A we'll
known country physician who lived near
Richmond was present with his family.
He was afflicted with a certain kind of
hydrophobia. lie could not look upon
water without an insane desire to take a
drink of it, That night q big stone pit
cher had been placed on the platform
from which Poe delivered his address.
The lecture had progressed and every
body was listening with absorbed inter
est when some mischief-maker pointed
out to the doctor the stone pitcher. He
wriggled and squirmed in his seat for
two or three minutes and at last, his
thirst Conquering, he arose from his chair
walked up the aisle with the laundering
sound of his cow-hide boots, poured out
two glasses of water and drank them
down and then marched back as stitfly
as he had approached, while the audi
ence suppressed its merrimcnt as best it
could. Pan paused for minute or two
in his address. bat quietly resumed after
the doctor had taken his drink.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02
\ Trap for Mud Hens"

New York Herald.
Every stock brokers' office on Pine
street. San Francisco, is more or less in
tested with a class of clucking, noisy,
busy women, whom the operators have
dubbed mud hens" They crowd
around the ticker to the exclusion of the
paying patrons of the office, block up the
space in front of the quotation list, and
generally behave in fussy and annoy
ing manner. \ stock broker named Lee
D. Craig, worried into desperation by the
fiocks of ''mud hens" who made his
Office their particular stamping ground,
procured a pound of gunpowder and,
making of it ring about his desk, swore
a solemn oath on his check book that if
any one of the women ventured into the
charmed circle he would touch it off
with his cigar tip and blow the intruder
to Tophet. One woman, named Mrs. S.
E. Thornton, more daring than the 9TH
crs, Immediately crossed the line. With
out any Gladstonian hesitation, Craig lit
a match and dropped it on the powder.
The explosion that followed not only
burned the WON n badly about the an
kles, but gave the other women such a
signal fright that, though Craig lost his
eyebrows and half of his moustache, he
does not think the victory dearly won.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02
DIR. Gimp's Duck Trap.
IIa-nll


Several years ago DR.. Gimp fell vic
tim to second Adventism. Not far from
the back of his kitchen he built plat
form some twenty feet high and capable
of holding his entire family. Here they
were to gather and prepare to ascend
when Gabriel blew his horn.s But Ga
riel didn't come, and Mrs. Gimp dried
apples on the platform all summer. In
the fall Gimp, thinking to help things
along, made big tin horn about ten feet
long and four feet across the big end.
He polished the inside Of it till it was
bright, painted the outside green, and
hung it in big tree over the platform.
Gabriel didn't blow. however, and in the
spring, when the wild ducks commenced
to fly north, Gimp rugged up a tallow
dip, and, pointing the big end of the
horn due south, set the lighted dipin the
little end. Then he sighted the durn
thing till it pointed straight at his back
kitchen window. The streak of light
that shot out of the big end of that horn
looked like an aurora bOrealis. First
thing Gimp knew duck flew into his
horn and went like shot through the
kitchen window. The duck was flying
so fast that he didn't burn himself or put
out the light either but he fell inside
with a dull thud. One hundred and
thirty-seven ducks went through that
horn-nineteen of them canvasbaCks.
Every time canvasback would go
through the horn would give loud toot
and Gimp would wake up and screech,
Gabriel, by gum" !" Then he'd go into
the kitchen and find it was only another
duck.
You see what made the horn blow was
the scraping of the canvas on the ducks
backs.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02
SECURING our HARBoRs.
Gen. Roy stones Experimentation
His Water PIow" Does the Work.

Gen. Roy stones Experimentation
His Water PIow" Docs the Work.
Chicago Journal.
An experiment in deepening the chan
neIs Of a river, especially at its mouth, is
making fair progress in New York har-
Dor, and promises to be successful. Gen.
Roy Stone, u distinguished military com
mandcr during the war, invented the
plan which is being tested, and, as is the
case with other remarkable inventions,
it is extremely simple, and every body
wonders why it had not been thought of
before. The machinery consists only of
a steel hose and pumping power by
which a furious jet of water is exploded
on the banks of sand, soil, solid sewage
and other accretions at the bottom of
the channel, and the current bears the
most of the matter 50 stirred up into the
sea.
Gedney's channel is one of the outlets
of New York harbor in the lower bay,
and is used by in and outgoing shipping
to a greater extent than any other en-
trance But it has only twenty seven or
twenty-eight feet of water, while thirty
to thirty-two feet of water is required by
many vessels navigating the seas. The
"water-plow, as Gen. Stones invention
is called, has been at work two weeks on
this channel.
The powerful waterr-iet throws up the
sand, mud and waste by the hundreds of
tons; it is held temporarily in solution
by the water, and the current washes the
flood of filthy ooze over the shadows and
into the depths beyond, where it can do
no harm to navigation. This is some
thing like Capt. Eads' operations on the
New Orleans ietties and like hydraulic
mining in California where earth is re-
moved, trees uprooted. bowlders washed
away and the quartz rock exposed by the
attrition of artificial torrents of water
produced for the purpose.
A water-blast OF the kind described
might be useful in deepening the en-
trance to Chicago harbor and the chan
mel of the rivers. 1t is far cheaper and
more effective than dredging, and vast
fields Of the river and lake bottom which
a dredg, can not reach. might be scour-
ed by the operation. One such water
pIow would do more work than forty
dredges.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02
From Poverty to Wealth.

John Anderson, of Anderson Station.
Tenn, when he began life purchased ten
acres of ground on credit at the foot of
the Cumberland mountains, on Crow
Creek. While he was clearing his wife
made maple sugar which he carried to
Cedar Bluff on the Tennessee river, and
exchanged for piece of iron made at
Carter's Iron Works. He carried it to a
shop near Winchester, working two days
as a striker to get it made into a 'bar-
shear" plow. He used rawhide for ira
ces and was soon turning the soil. He
is now very wealthy man, and owns
&c, 900 acres of land. He kills $50 hogs
annually for his own use, and has not
lock or bar on his house and outhouses.
An intelligent daughter said 10 cores
pondent, SIT is no use to lock here, when
anybody can have what they want for
the asking" He employs teacher by
the year, and anybody can send who
wants to-"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02
Another Charlie Ross St,

Boston Herald.
The latest attempt to impose on the
parents of the lOng-lost Charlie Ross was
reported yesterday by personal friend
of the Ross family. 1t happened but a
few days ago. What had the appear
ance of being well-dressed young man
called on Mr.. Ross at his home in Phila-
delphia and stated that he had reliable
information that the abducted son was
at a certain place in England. He said
if the father would pay his expenses he
would willingly go and fetch Charlie
home. Mr. Ross requested n second in
terview, and on investigation it was dis
covered that the young person was a
woman from New York city, who had
donned male attire. She acknowledged
that her intention was to work upon the
sympathies Of Mr.. Ross to such an extent
that he would advance the money for
tickets. On further inquiry it was found
that the woman was the newly made
wife of New Yorker 72 years Of age, and
that she, becoming tired of of living
with him, had taken this means to avail
herself of European pleasure trip. The
plan failed. Mr.. Ross and his wife are
still hopeful that some day the missing
boy may be restored. The public sym
pathy expressed for the family is re-
markable. For long time Mr.. Ross has
received annual passes from the mana
gers of different railroads. Sometimes
as many as three new clues to Charlie
will develop in different parts Of the
country in single week, while again
several weeks will pass without a single
bit of new information.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02

Indianapolis Journal
\ very popular form Of hilarious abuse
nowadays is that which newspaper wits
lavish on old jokes. 1t is not enough
that a joke be set afloat on the commu-
nifty, but there must follow jokes on the
jokes, then jokes on the jokes on the jo-
kes. and then jokes on the jokes on the
Jokes on the jokes, uutil justice loving
people turn 10 last years almanac as a
blessed refuge from this years comic
journalism. As the spring poet, with
his vernal verses. his rhythmical lettuce
and spinach, is much more acceptable
than the sneering, jeering criticism
which he arouses, so the old joke, the
chestnut" as it is now botanically ter
med, has more valuable mission than
the feeble jibes which follow it.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02

Col Samuel Shock, president of the
Columbia National Bank, at Columbia,
Pa, celebrated his 88th birthday Thurs
day. Notwithstanding his extreme age,
he attends to all his duties as bank presi-
dent and conducts a large correspond
ence. He volunteered as a private dur
ing the war of 1912, when only II, mar
ching to Baltimore with the contingent
from Harrisburg, Pa, and in 1888 he
was one of the three remaining alive
to receive a pension frsm the govern
ment for services rendered.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02
CLARA BcIIe's" Inquiry.

Boston Courier
CLARA Belle" wants t. know what a
young man won't do when he's in love.
Well, he Won't eat onions, he won't give
his attention to his business, he won't
wear a poorly laundried shirt, he won't
go to see his girl until he has oiled his
hair and scented his pocket handker-
chief, he woIt't leave his girl at night
until he hears the step of her exaspera-
ted father on the stairs, he won't believe
his girl anything bat AN angel, for he
never saw her hanginsout the washing
with six clothes pins IN her mouth at
one time, he won't take no for an an
swer when he is parting with her on the
stoop and asks for ''just one, he won't
but what's the use of going further 4:
Give US a harder one, Clara.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02
A Sly Old Rat,

Providence Journal.
Two or three months ago one OF our
citizens missed five of his young chickens.
Lifting board near the abode of the
chickens, he scared a large rat away and
found the missing chickens, dead and
partially eaten. He found, also. n nest
of thirteen active, healthy little rats,
only a day or two old. He took them
away, determined that they should not
grow up to kill his chickens. He dis
posed of four of them by feeding them
to the cat. and saved the rest for some
purpose, he did not know for what. He
happened to be speaking of the matter to
a friend, when the latter suggested that
if he put the little rats into box and put
them into rat trap, the old rat would
find them and come after them, and if
the trap were nicely bated he could cap
ture the old rat and thus destroy the
family. He thought that good idea,
and tried il. The next morning he found
the trap sprung and the old rat therein,
He rushed to the trap, satisfied with the
result of his experiment. The old rat
saw him coming, and, putting forth
extra efforts, succeeded in escaping from
the trap. Then he looked for the little
ones, thinking he would set the trap
again in the same way, when he dscov-
cred that the old rat had carefully re-
moved the little ones to place of safety
before running any risks itself, and now
had gone to join them.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02

The death is announced of Rev. II. A.
Stern, D. D., at the age of 64. Mr..
Stern, who had been for more than forty
years a missionary among the Jews, and
was one of the Abyssinian captives who,
after years of protracted and cruel i'm
prisonment, was delivered by Lord Ma
pier of Magdala in the year 1868.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02
Great Auction SaIel

I will sell at public auction, at my store, cor
ner Lemon and Second street, Saturday, May
End. Second hand buggies, fine new buggy
harness, brides, halters, whips, and second
hand furniture. | have just received $500
worth of dry goods. which | shall offer for
sale to the highest bidder, without reserve.
These goods must be sold Hours of sale from
II IN TO = p IN. Don't forget the day
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02

4 bust of Osceola, painted in life like
colors, has been placed in the National
Museum, Washington. 1t was modelled
from the plaster death-mask of the war
rior and the portrait of him painted
shortly before his death, by Catlin.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02
J. H. MERRYDAY,
HOUSE And SIGN PAINTER,
Corner Oak and Fourth Streets.
Good Lands Cheap,
A W arning.

If any parent. guardian, or other person
shall entice take or carry away or harbor or
cause the same to be done, any child from the
possession or service of another after said
child has been apprenticed as above the said
parent, guardian or other person so offending
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction shall return said apprentice and be
fined in snm not exceeding one thousand
dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six
months at the discretion of the court. McC.
Dig, Page 104, Sec. s.
The above is to notify the public not to hire
or harbOr a yellow boy by the name of John
Wheaton, aged about II years, who is an ap-
prentice of mine and has abscOnded dishonor-
ably. L. MEYER,
Of the Palatka Steam Paint Works.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-06-02
FACTS vs. FANCY.

Facts are, that Harry Heath makes a speci-
atty of difficult repairing of line watches,
cleans jewelry, chronOmeters, all kinds of
nautical. surgical electrical and medical in
srruments, and understands ali complicated
mechanical combinations and how TO repair
them. As to fancy the ladies fancy the way
he finishes his jewelry repairs, which come
out new every time For fine work always
take it to Harry Heath, in the Calhoun block
on Lemon street, Palatka, Fla.