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The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29
DIR. wIsE's GREAT THEORY.
NJ GEORGE HORTON.

6 1S S9 bt eT wis SsAr
A Aaa 9 9sst tA sSIf su G@sss,
Which excited such vast scientific SURPRISE
This old Dr. Wise wonderful man.
He could tell how fever germ acted and grew.
FeSSEs. the P9O and SeS S9i lyl0E
He seldom or never contri1ed to pull through
With the greatest presumption
And.lad all the blame on some parasite sly.
4 n lSF came sansS of han am h '%%G.
But this WONDERFUL man not alone
As common practitioner shlne
when he publ his book. The Domestic OUTLOOK
Without S% r fd1TeSs or Poison oas or Cats.
why. the plan pretty 50 simple and witty il SCENE
That rats 6y million and billion and trilhon
should haunt human dwellings IN country and city
just secure mad cat,
h aS5 the tSs fs' G Ss a m 1s5 rat.
Ie'a si Sed st yG neIf lSSaT'
And then this other
Would poison his brother.
Al see your face dmrie with jos at the iseme
T Ti sSs lasi rs MG %s. s iraSnd
But twas most 'a as a. critic that Dr. Wise came
To make for himself a professional name,
For whenever patient of wealth or of birth
Would escape his ply se!ans by fleeing from earth
Which showed that the death to mai practice was due
That s i %an of T s%SS sl iHire'y'
An avoidable i'll, which ought never to kin.
In fact he announced 1t 10 be hs conviction
For the body was naught but machinery cunning,
While life hen Rf PG should h1 not Kept
Some cordial dstil,
That might bid defiance
To deaths power to Kill.
Some unctuous elixir, L. friction superior,
That should lubrcate mans complicated interior
Whenever he felt himself slightly weaTierS
This argument met all sides with great favor.
For of reason II really did seem To SAVIOR,
BESIDES. 1t Is true In religion and ply sic,
When the spirit or body l. feeble or Is SICK
Man retains best the nostrums of plea santest
OR, 10 hold this thought up TO more evident view,
Man accepts the truth what he'd like To have
How many preacher i salaried we'll
For weekly discourse n the absence of hell,
Though
Now, IN all human breasts is implante a strong,
illogical longing to live and live long,
Antedating DE Icons historical scramble
Throu gh dan wilderness, hieket and hramble
over desert and PLAIN and mpassa BILE mountain,
To regain his lost years in a thical fountain
The world, then, received
DIR. Wise very kindly;
And ere long II believed
His great theory blindv.
The excitement produced in a storm eliminated,
Into which the famed savant at last Illuminated
That he the inVincihle investigator.
Had found receipt for the great lubriCatOr.
Well, To shorten a story already too long
a hall was secured and a numberless throng,
The young and the gray.
The religious, the
Sisters and brothers and fathers nd mothers.
Assembled from every WI here, distant and near,
\ lecture on How to Live Always" to hear.
No sconers were there their belief was complete,
And each brought "A note book To take the receipt.
Eight clock the hour W ich the doctor had
do his faithiu III disciples grow weary fret|
Nine CLOCK and then hen
\ carriage was sent for the great man in question.
IL went. 1t returned, and the news quickly spread
The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1888-12-29

alt is o condition and not theory that confronts
rs to-day" But 1t takes clever theory to clearly
account for the condition.-NeC Orleans Picaysnne
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
LATER NEWS.

FoRTY-FoUR new cases of How fever
We're eporled for the 9Th ut Jacksonville,
Fla The Deaths for the same time were g.
For he 9,h there were fifty new cases re-
ported and z deaths, making total OF GOA
CASES and ~ d. aths. A very bad storm
| prevailed during the night of the Och and
| The weather unfavor:ble for the patients
An unusually rich strike of gold and sill
| Yer ore was made near Spokane Falls W.
T., on the 9Th.
DISASTROUS fire broke out on the after
| noon OF the in the Sash and Door fac
tory of Day, Huter & Croker, San Fran
| cisco, Cal TIE enorc fire department
was called out Three blocks were almost
totally destroyed The loss is 81, 25O. 600
VESSELS that arrived at Gloucester Mass,
on the 9Th brings the tidings of severe
cyclone Off the COST Of Iceland. The whale
Of the Grench fishing fleet were concentra-
ted there. Several vessels were lost nnd
! many damaged. As near Us could be as
csrtained the number of mon lost were
about 1877. N..
DAVID H. BENNETT, q Wall street broker
was found on the 9th at his residence dead,
having been murdered In his bed No cine
to The perpetrators -
The rear part of John Robinson's circus
train was run into by freight train near
lWaynesville, O., on the OH. Four persons
were KILLED outright and seventeen injured
PRESIDENT C1EvE1AND's letter accepting
the Democratic denomination was made
public on the 10Th s.... ~. &. .-
HENRY GoTZEAN's granery, containing 400
bushels OF oa,s, his barn containing eight
horses and three large stacks OF grain were
burned ut his farm near Emerald, OAK. ON
the 8 b.
JAMES TwADDLE. a saw mill employee. at
West Superior, Wis, was drowned on the
Sth. He was on the boom sorting logs when
he slipped and fell into the water He was
unable to swim fss-. ~ t5.15,H st
CONGRESSMAN WILSON'S retaliation bill
ia &ffir.natives to negatives. Not q
quorum of the House but Us no objection
was raised the passage was legal . %
The conference COMMITTEES from tbs
House and the Senate, cana to an agree
ment on the 85h. The aggregate amount
agreed upon in the bill is So, 972, 600 for
fortitica ions
JOHN SERVER living at Elizabethtown,
Ill. shot and killed his sweet heart Alice
Fowler, on the ana thon committed
suicide Thsy were to havo been married
in 4 few days.
FREDRR1cK E BEARDsLEE the we'll known
lie: rjclan was found dead in his labra .ory
ton III 9Th. II was case Of suicide
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
The News Briefly Chronicled.

The News Briefly ChrontcIed.
Mra Covey, of Verndale, while breaking
some eggs recently discovered a live ami
NAL somewhat similar TO a leech in one OF
them. It remained alive several days.
The bill appropriating $3.50, 600 for post.
Office at st. Paul has been favorably re-
ported in the United States Senate.
George Lothrop had COW die with all
the appearance of poison. His two
youngest children drank of the milk be;
fore the COW was taken sick, and both
were dangerously sick. What the poison
was was mystery.
The corner stono of the new Masonic
Temple at Minneapolis, which will cost
$25O,000, was laid the other day by the
Grand Lodge Of Minnesota
Alittle sensation was created at Motley
recently by one Of the citizens Offering his
neighbor two dollars for his wife, the lat
ter accepting, and bill of sale being
given. And what was more the husband
by emption was said to be living with her.
The Indians are becoming quite numer-
Gus around Perham, and as usual are CON-
hitting great many depredations. It is
said they are fishing on Big Pinelake with
nets, which is contrary to law. ta -
Elder Schram, well known as an Advent
ist preacher, died at Fergus Falls few
days ago Of gastric fever. q. .-&
Charles Dean, a travelling salesman,
quarreled with the baggageman at the
Union Depot in st. Paul recently, and the
baggageman seized Deans gold:headed
umbrella and by an upward stroke knocked
out his left eye. Dean now sues the Union
Depot Company for $4,000
John Cornwell, of Concord, was driving
his cattle from the field the other day
when he was attacked by a large bull and
badly gored and stamped until his life
was despaired of. ..z
The Comptroller Of the Currency has
authorized the First National Bank of
Tower to begin business with capital Of
$4,000
Some sneak thief entered the office of
the SO rotary Of the Southern Minnesota
Fire Association at Rochester Q few days
ago and made away with twenty-f five dol
lars worth Of penny stamps. three dollars
in money and several articles Of small
value
The result of the fight on the saloon
keepers in Pipestone was that they agreed
to close up and abandon the business.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
A Little Child Killed.

The three-year-old daughter Of James
Kearn, of Winona, while playing on the
track of the Chicago, milwaukee, & ST.
Paul railway recently, was struck by the
EAST Mail'' and instantly killed. The
child was not discovered by the engineer
until too late to stop the train. The whis-
tie was wildly blown, but the child did not
realize the danger and did not get of the
track,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
Isal3road Men Resign.

w. H Fisher, vice-president and man.
ager Of the St Paul e. Duluth railway; E..
F. Dodge, general freight and ticket agent
Of that line, and his assistant, P. A. Rock.
we'll, rendered their designations few
days ago. Their retirement was said to be
the first result of a game of "freeze out u
inaugurated by. President Hayes, who
claimed that there were too many high
priced men on his road.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
Thieves Mt Faribault.

While the parade of Barnum's circus
was going on in the streets of Fari-
bauit few days ago gang of pilferers
were working the various houses, vacated
by the people to see the show. As near as
could be learned they secured about fifty
dollars worth of plumber, and to get this
shey entered six different houses. ... =
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
To Open q Hospital.

The Society Of St. Joseph, Of St. Paul,
has purchased the convent at Winona
formerly occupied by the Sisters of St.
Francis as a convent and school and is pre-
pairing it for use as a hospital. It will &C
commodate two hundred patients. The
building occupies two squares, is of brick
and stone, three stories high and cost $50.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
Married at the Fair.

, Thomas clifford and Adeline POSTER, the
latter the daughter OF well-known
Olmsted County farmer, were married the
other day in the sight of five thousand peo-
pie on the fair grounds of the Southern
Minnesota fair at Rochester. A band and
ten little bridesmaids were adjuncts of the
interesting nuptials.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
A Land Decision.

The official copy of the decision Of the
General Land Office at Washington in the
famous Osborne-Lockert contest case
reached Duluth the other evening. The
decision of the local land Office is reversed
and the land, which is valued at $780, 600,
goes to Osborne.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
Enormous Wheat Receipts.

The receipts of wheat in Minneapolis
for the crop year ended August 81 were
Al, 100, $780, as against 81, 81, $50 bushels last
year. This was the largest quantity of
wheat ever received in any primary mar
ket in the world. 1t exceeded the whole
wheat crop in Minnesota.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
A Good Senal.llR.

Miss Mary E. Hill, daughter of Presi-
dent Hill, of the St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba road, was married to Samuel
Hill, a young attorney Of Minneapolis, the
other evening. President Hill made his
daughter wedding present Of a check for
$20O,0OO During the forenoon, while out
driving with his law partner, Frank T..
Atwater, the groom was thrown from the
vehicle and seriously hurt, but insisted on
being taken to St. Paul for the wedding
ceremony.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
Wants Damages for Bruised Heart.

. .7WHnts U0mA9es 1Or 2BruISod HeNI1>
The usual order Of things is rather re-
versed in the suit that was begun in Min
neapolis recently by Harry McNiven
against IDA G. Ruhnke Ida, who is now
the wife OF Albert r. Ruhnke, was at one
time the widow Of David Lyke. It was
then that Harry McNiven wooed and ap
parent!y won her. It was in 1885 that the
tickle Mrs. Ruhnke promised to wed him,
but April 81, 1855, she married Ruhnke
McNiven seemed to have grioved for three
years over this cruelty, and now thinks it
will take SIC, 900 to patch up the breach in
his affectiOna
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
MIN NESO a STATE NEWS
: DROWNED HIMSELF.
Bon Y. Simpson, Discouraged Over Ymex.
80 lraAcK Ttllllllag.

Bon Y. Simpson, Dlacoura geh Ove,. Rmsx.
mary Troubles, Takes His Own Life.
Ben Y. Simpson, city engineer and water
commissioner at Winona, committed sui
eide the other morning by jumping into
the river. He had been brooding over
Imaginary business troubles for some
time, and on the fatal morning asked .
friend to. drive him to the river below the
city. Arriving there he scribbled q few
lines In his note book and deliberately
leaped over the bank into the water Mr.
Simpson had represented the city in tho
Legislature. He was the only son Of ".
Simpson, one Of the wealthiest men In
Minnesota. He was a thirty second degree
Mason and was universally popular. He
leaves wife and children.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
Victims of the Gale.

HAVANA, Sept. 7.-Tuesday's hurricane
caused the loss Of sixty-one lives, fifty in
Sagua and nine on board a gun-boat at
Batabano and two on board the Spanish
man of-war Jorge Juan here
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12

'bouthview," n e a r
Stamford, Conn. He
was seized with an
attack of apoplexy
Wednesday morning,
while sitting in his
library, an d W a s
found on the floor
unconscious. Every
assistance was rem
dered him, physicians
worked over him all
day, but only once he
showed signs Of i'm
prOvemeHt. T b is
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
FOREIGN.

The mercury was down to the freezing
point in Manitoba on the 4th. .,-~-
The foods in Bohemia had on the 4ta
reached alarming proportions. At Bud
weis fifteen thousand persons were home
less. Six villages in the valley of Poprad
were submerged, and crops and grannries
had been swept away.
ADvICEs of the 18th say that floods in
Japan destroyed one hundred and eighty
houses ut Mayosagori and drowned forty
six people.
A CYCLONE passed over Havana, Cuba,
on the 5th, laundering vessels off the
coast two sailors being drowned. dam
aging wharves, destroying property aud
injuring many persons.
NINE persons were killed and many in
jured in q collision of railway trains near
Dion, France, on the 9Th.
The houses formerly occupied by evict-
ed tenants on the Clanricardee estates in
orders on the 9Th. Some of the houses
were owned bv the tenants.
FURTHER advices Of the 9Th say that the
recent cyclone in Cuba was terribly de-
structive of both life and property. At
Sagua fiftv persons lost their lives there,
while the damage done to dwellings and
village of Pueblo Nuevo, in the neighbor-
hood of Sagua, was literally wiped out.
ADv1CEs of the 9th say that regular
slave traffic was being carried on between
the islands of Pemba and Madagascar by
vessels carrying the French flag.
ADv1cEs of the 9th say that during gale
in Behring sea, in the far north Of the Pa.
citic region, five whaling vessels were
wrecked, but all of their crews, one hum
dred and nine in number, were rescued.
TWELVE HUNDRED men employed in the
cotton mills at Bolton, Eng, went on
strike on the 9th against a new system Of
weighing cotton.
AN earthquake shock occurred in tho
City of Mexico on the 9TH, but no damage
was done.
IT was announced on the 9TH that the
Customs Department Of the Canadian
Government had decided to enforce fine
of $500 against the American schooner
Gladiator, seized while towing in Canadian
WaterA
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
DEATH OF LESTER WALLACK.

The Veteran Actor and Manager Passes
Away at Stamford, Conn.,, the Result Of
an Apoplectic Stroke.
NEW YORK, Sept. I-Lester Wallack
died at 20 o. clOck q. M, at his residence,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12

sippi, Sixth district, n. r. stockdalc
dem }. Texas, Fifth district, 1ilas Hare
(Dem J. Missouri, Thirtoonth district.
William II Wade ,(Rep.) ronominatcd.
New Mexico, NJ. =. Otero (Rcp.). Ohio.
Twelfth district, = T. Neal (Den J.
MINNESOTA Republic in State oonven.
uon at st. Paul on the 9th nominated Will
lam r, Merriam for Governor and COM
pleted the ticket by nominating the pres.
emit officials. The platform indorses the
National candidates and q protective tariff,
d but favors . REIMBURSEMENT and cautious
reduction Of tariff duties; promises to con-
tinue Efforts to regulate the sale Of LIQUOR;
favors honest civil-service laws; com.
mends Governor McGilrs administration;
denounces the fisheries treaty and the fail.
ure to admit Dakota to the Union, and
favors liberal pensions
LESTER WALLACK, the veteran American
actor, died on the 9th from stroke Of
apoplexy at Stamford, Conn. He was six.
ty-eight years Of age.
IT was reported on the 9TH that forty
counties in Arkansas voted against LIQUOR
license at the recent election, and that bal
3lot-boxes stolen from the State capitol
were from precincts giving large prohibi-
ton majorities. E.. s.
NOMINATIONS for Congress were report
ed as follows on the 9TH: Indiana, Fourth
district, NJ. D. Wilson (Rep). New York,
Twenty-tifth district, J. ]. Belden (Rep. J.
Missouri, Second district, A. O. Eubanks
(Rep). Alabama, Fifth district, j. E.
Cobb (Dem.), renominated. Michigan,
Third district, Eugene Pringle (Dem.)
Sixth, NJ. s. Brewer (Rep). NJ
The official vote Of the recent election in
Vermont was given on the 7th as follows:
Dillingham; (Rep.), Il, 252; Shurtleff lDem),
20, 3S1; Seely (Pro.), 1895; scattering, T.
Dillingham's plurality, 1851; majority,
&c, $40; Republican gain over 1884, 5,S75;
Democratic gain, 692.
A DEMOCRATIC mass-meeting at New
York City on the 7th adopted an address
to the Democratic State convention de-
nouncing Governor Hill and opposing his
denomination in unmeasured terms
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12

sIGsA ne WHO OF JOnnS MCOun6, farmer, OF
Mastic township, Pa, committed suicide
by hanging on tho 9th because her hus-
band accused her Of making poor bread.
herman, failed on the It'll for &l25. OO0
IHH Hatfields of Logan County, w. Va,
who were tried for the murder Of the Mo-
Coy family at jackson, Ky, were acquit-
tod on the 7th. tss
MISS ADA FLYNN, handsome and 40.
complished young lady OF Glasgow, Pa,
was murdered by robbers on the 7th while
alone at the house Of her grandfather.
A STRIKE OF 'longahoremen at Fernan-
dina, Fla, resulted in rloting on the It'll
and the placing of the city under martial
law.
Isaac WooLEY, Of Shelburn, Ind. died
suddenly on the 7th, few hours after
ward his wife suddenly expired, although
she had been apparently well, and ono Of
the children was ut deaths door from the
same mysterious disease.
THE State Rangers and two local mill
tary companies were called into service in
Fort Benton County, Tex, on the It'll, where
1--WE hundred negroes and the whites were
likely to come in conflict.
NEAR Crystal Falls, Mich, on the It'll .
lamp exploded In Louis Browns bed room,
eAN 4AAos OAOWu WAC C0NSuV tu0 uAIu0S
and fatally burned. Mr.. Brown and his
six children escaped. but Brown went back
for his money and was burned to ashes
ACCORDING to the report Of the Com
missioner Of Education at Washington,
made public on the It'll, eight million chill
dren daily attended the public schools Of
the country during the past year.
DURING the seven days ended % the
9TH there we're 1e4 business failures in the
United States, against 1856 the previous
seven days. .5.sZg@
TIE September crop report for Michigan
indicates yield of 1885 bushels Of wheat
per acre. or total yield of Is, S9S. 461 bush
els, an increase Of 5000, 900 bushels over
the August estimate. %E
CHARLES Voar & Co., of New York, i'm
porters Of china, failed on tho 9TH for
100000.
Fro SITS in Connecticut and Massachu-
sets had ON the 7th practically ruined the
wheat and tobacco crors
DURING the twenty-four hours ended on
the eth there were " new cases of yellow
fever at Jacksonville, Fla, and 9 deaths.
Total cases to date, 511; total deaths, 81.
At McClenny, thirty miles west of Jack
sonville, Is cases Of the fever were re-
ported and 81 deaths. =
Mrs. ANDERSON, wife of Rev. F. W.
Anderson. was killed by q train at
Uhrichsville, o., on the It'll, her husband
and little son witnessing the tragedy.
THE house Of William and Allen Turner,
apair of old bachelor brothers owning a
fine farm near Columbus. Ind, was On
tered by masked men on the 7th, who by
threats of death obtained $1,000 from the
brothers.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12
Killed His Brother While Defending Him.

Killed His Brother While Defending Him.
CAMERON, No, Sept. 7.-Goodie Walters,
tramp umbrella mender, assaulted
Charles Aultman for the purpose Of
robblng him. George Aultman, q brother
of Charles, came to the rescue Of tho
latter and fred six shots from q revolver
at the umbrella member, three Of which
took effect One Of the shots struck the
brother, inflicting wound from which he
died four hours later. Walters can not re-
cover. -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-09-12


LESTER "AL1AAch. was only temporary,
and he slowly sank until he died. Several Of
h friends were with him wheA he passed
away. kilograms of sympathy are pouring
in. The members of the Wallack fam ly
are completely Frustrated by the misfort-
uAe which has So suddenly befallen them
The funeral will be held in New York
probably on Monday from the Little
Church Around the Corner. Church OF the
TRANSPORTATION on Twenty ninth street.
No definite arrangements have yet been
made His remains are in charge Of tho
family undertaken. ...- .5- -
[John Lester Wallack was born in New York
City sixty mine years ago. He received his ed
ucasion in England. He was intended for the
army, and as he was about to sail for India
with an army commission he resigned and de-
term he'd to follow the stage in the footsteps
OF his father, James William, his uncle, Henry,
and the latter's son, James W.. Wallack, Jr.
He soon made his debut in Dublin as Dom
Pedro in "Much Ado About Nothing"
He played in Liverpool and Manchester
with great success. He made his APP
pearance IN 1917 at the old Broadway
Theater, and became favorite in this coun-
try. Wallack, ST., opened theater In New
York in 1851, and here the son appeared Tor
ten years or more In 1863 Wallack wrote
"Rosedale." which the author considered his
best play. 1t was en:nently successful. In
1866 Mr.. Wallaclx was attacked by nerve
malady, which was treated in this country and
Europe. 1t grew upon him. however, and, in
1862 he was obliged to go abroad again. In
1874 he brought out 1.-THE Shaughraun," which
scored a great success. The new Wallack
Theater which now stands at Broadway and
Thirteenth streets, was opened January 3,
1882 The testimonial benefit to Mr.. Wallack
last winter, which netted $4,000, is well re-
membercd.1