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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
Crushef Betueen Cable c.rs.

CHICAGO, May 15.-A cable car accident occurred in the Lasalle street tunnel, which resulted in tbe serious injury of Edward Lash, conductor. A grip car going north jumped the track descending the slope. Lash got off to investigate when another came along, and, being unable to check up, ran into the derailed car. Lash was caught be tween the cars and crushed. He was re- moved to Alexian Brothers hospital
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
The Southern Baptist Convention.

The SOuCn0rn BdpCIBC COnVHUCIOHs
 RICHMOND, Va, May 15.-At the Southern Baptist convention Dr. Sydnar presented a report of the work among the colored people, urging need of more money for work of the board among the southern negroes. The re- port was discussed at length and adopted. The report of the treasurer of the foreign mission board was presented and adopted.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
No Rehearing of the Telephone Case.

WASHINGTON, May 1a-Justice Miller yes terday, in annoincing the decision of the su- preme court denying the application of the Drawbaugh telephone people for a rehearing of the telephone case, said that as none of the three justices who had concurred in the opin- ion of Chief Justice Waite, upholding the validity of the Bell patent, had requested a rehearing, and as that was the settled rule of the court not to grant rehearings unless this was done, the application was denied. When the decisions had all been announced Justice Miller announced that the court stood ad- journed until the opening of the fall term next October.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
Another Row Over "Ia Tosca

Another Row Over "La Tosca."
 NEW YORK, May l5.-Fanny Davenport has obtained an order for the Manhattan News company to show cause why it should not be restrained from selling a novel en- titled "La Tosca."
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
Arrested for Conspiracy.

NEW HAVEN, May 15.-Otto Schebel and Julius Walthgodt were arrested to-day for conspiracy to injure the business of the brewers. More arrests will follow.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
Another Fight Over Mrs. Stewards win.

Another Fight Over Mira. Stewards VIII.
 NEW YORK, May 15.-The trial of the suit of Mrs Sarah N. Smith, niece of Mrs. A. T. Stewart, against Judge Hilton and other executors of the wills of MT. and Mrs. A T. Stewart, for the removal of the executors, the appointment of receiver of the estate, and a distribution of the property according to the will of Mrs. Stewart, was begun in the supreme court yesterday, and after some ex- plantations by counsel was adjourned until Saturday. A curious feature of the case is that some of the heirs named as codefendants deny in their answers the validity Of the oodicils, thus practically joining issus agAinst the executon
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
ACCIDENT ON THE NEW ENGLAND.
A Car Breaks Axle and is Drawn
 Half a Mile.


 Half a Mile.
 BOSTON, May 15.-As the train from New London on the New York & New England railroad, due in Boston at 2 o'clock, was approaching Dedham June tion early this morning, an axle on next to the last car broke. The train was going fast, and the car was dragged over the sleepers for half mile, until it struck Endicott bridge, where it was thrown across the bridge, narrowly escaping plung- badly shaken up, but no one was killed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
Weather Indications,

For Wednesday, in eastern New York, east ern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and in New warmer, fair to partly cloudy weather, with variable winds becoming southerly followed by rain in New York and New Jersey.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
Accu,ed of Criminal Neeleot.

WALDEN, Mass, May 15.-Orto and Eliza beth Tuncker, of Everett, arrested for al- legged fatal neglect of their S-weeks-old child, were arraigned. They pleaded not guilty, and were each held in s2, 1000 bail for trial on May 19, and went to jail
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
The Emperor Better.

BEE11N, May 15.-The emperor passed a good night and arose refreshed this morn ing His appetite is returning and he continues to gain strength.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15

Pafne-Bennett Revolver Contest.
 PROVIDENCE, May 15.-The Paine Bennett revolver contest will be shot the week of June 4 June 4 and 5 the shooting will be in Spring field, June and 2 in Boston, and June and at Narragansett park.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
LABOR PARTIES CONVENE.

United Labor and Union Labor Trying to
 Agree.
 CINCINNATI, May 15.-The United Labor Party National convention met at 10 o'clock this morning. Two hundred delegates were present. The Union Labor Party $ convention met at noon. Prospects of fusion of the two parties is very slight.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
THE HATCH INQUEST.
I3rother-in-Law Ferris Tells His Story He Employed the Detective Out O Curiosity.

Brother-in-Law Ferris Tells His Story.
 He Employed the Detective Out of
 Curiosity.
 NEW YORK, May 15.-The inquest on the death of Broker Hatch, who was found lying dead in the rear of Mrs. Scofeld's house re- gently, was resumed yesterday.
 Detective Clark testified to the facts of his being employed by Ferris to shadow MT. Hatch and Mrs Scofeld from Mime. Fanny's restaurant to the Scofield house. Mrs. Sco- field was recalled, and declared that she knew nothing of being shadowed, and could not imagine what Ferris motive was. Tho jury then went to the scene of the tragedy and viewed the premises On returning Fer ris was examined.
 He said he camo to New York seventeen years ago from California, and is a broker He first met Mrs Scofeld in 1869, and knew her then as Mrs Capt. Stowen Actor John Mccullough introduced them. He first met Hatch last February, in a business matter the introduction of 8 patent typewriter. They discovered the mutual acquaintance with Mrs. Scofeld, and Hatch spoke admir- ingly of her a witty and business like woman. The object in asking the detective to watch Hatch and Mrs. Scofield mere curiosity. The coroner asked several times what motive Ferris had in the detective work. Ferris each time insisted that there was no motive but curiosity. He grew un- easy and excited, and finally declared that the coroner might ask questions all his life and not get any different answer. He testi- fled that after leaving the restaurant he went home. and was first apprised of the trouble by note from Lawyer Buck.
 The jurors annoyed MT. Ferris very much by their pertinent questions, such as whether he and Mrs Scofield took advantage of their mutual acquaintance to inveigle wealthy men into their schemes He showed great in- dignation in shouting sNo" to such questions. The coroner held him in S, 900 bail to appear at to-day's session of the inquest, and in de. fault of it he went to the house of detention.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

about a dozen notices like the follow
ing, and before church hour Went
around to all the churches and gave e, a
COPY to each sexton to be handed the
preacher to be read before the congre-
cations:
To the Benevolent of this Congregation
There are now being guarded IN cars at Wy tipl
depot in this place some 201 snow pound reuel
prisoners. They are out OF food. those Wht
ARE able are invited to contribute poftlon Oh
their abundance to relieve the hunger OF lhese
men. COMPANY Y, 'olh la
After dinner T went out to the depot
to see the effect of this notice. Men,
women and children came with baskets
full, and 1 think some of these rebels
had better dinner that day than they
had ever enjoyed before.
It was week from New Years day
before 1 was able to get home. 1t was
the worst storm and coolest day III
history. 7 saw whole train loads Of
hogs frozen to death. Trains We're
abandoned, and business generally
suspended for nearly week.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

nees, Cheyennes, and Apaches. =
proved to be difficult task to ~ y
serve anything like what mirh+ n'
termed harmony. Not long aftas s
were located there one of our i,
and boy he was, too, for he was ~ ~
thirteen years of age when he ;o Eal
our ranks, while in line of dut,v ' sIs
and killed an Indian chief Who s a
violating his treaty. The Indians W w
to their heather natures, never w y
tired of making demands for nav \
their chief. They wanted to offer T.
ritice for their chief, and wanted -
substitute United States soldiorss
place of rams and bullocks, and ,
were not anxious to be sacrificed
the Indians surrounded us and y
hopes for life grew very faint; bnt
little before midnight we sent up :.
sky rockets. The Indians vamose1 .
ranch, and left to confer with II.
great medicine for further on]a a'
About week later they tried us aa,; ~;
but we met them at the breastwosl
and after thirty minutes with shell a
canister the Indians fell back again !
another weeks counsel. At the emf
that time we were REINFORCED and .
Indians gave up their chief.
Earning His Shoulder Strans
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

the enemy away. There was swamp,
thickly grown with small trees and
bushes, through which the troops had
to march. There seemed to be some
hesitancy about entering the swamp.
A sergeant said. Colonel, l can take
those men through there" and he did
so. Colonel Rusk and several other
officers, half an hour after the enemy
had been scattered, were riding past a
farm house, when they discovered some
of the soldiers doing lively work in the
way Of capturing poultry. The lady
OF the house rushed up to Rusk and
asked, excitedly:
Are these your men, Colonel?"
They are, madam"
SWELL, l wish you would tell them
not to steal my chickens"
Madame, your chickens are perfect
~ safe. The sergeant over there is in
charge of these men,. and he will allow
no plundering. Why, madame, that
sergeant is a Methodist minister, and
would not permit anything of the kind
to be done.
The lady threw up her hands and
said, "a Methodist minister! Oh.
Lord, shan't have chicken left"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

prisoners were taken through one of the
neighboring mountain gaps, and thence
southwark toward Richmond. Near
Rectortown his captors became con-
vinced that one of the prisoners, Cor
poral Daniel A. Tremain, Company e,
One Hundred and Fourteenth New
York Volunteers, was too sick too pro-
coed, and they left him at an old
schoolhouse The situation of the poor
fellow would have been deplorable but
for the kindness of Good Samaritan,
a sterling Union woman who lived near
by, who had him brought to her own
house and kindly treated. Being fear
full that he might be snapped up any
day and sent to Richmond, this noble
woman caused information to be sent
to the nearest Union headquarters, and
soon the eyes of the sick soldier were
gladdened by the sight of a company
of blue-coated cavalry galloping into
the yard. He was taken to Alexandra,
where he was given sick furlough.
He died at his fathers house the next
January, Of consumption; and nothing
but the kindess OF this woman restored
him to his home for that brief time.
This was not the only instance in which
Mrs. Holland, of Fauquier County, Viz
ginia, manifested her interest in the
Union cause and IN the men who were
giving their lives and health to uphold
it. Many veterans to-day cherish the
most grateful memories of her.-Chi-
cag0 Ledger.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

er received an honorable discharg'
He was the funny man of the comp
ny, without trying to be so. On ~
occasion the regiment was being trap
ported somewhere by rail, and soy
OF the boys had managed to becol
possessed of a canteen of whlsA1
which was being mysteriously pass
around. Pete's eyes discovered !
and, assuming an air of innocence
called out, "Boys, will you please .
pass that water over this way?" lpe]
were some who thought he was as
nocent as he looked, and they Pa1
posely managed to have the canrt]|
passed to him, expecting to note n
surprise when he came to drink. 4
took the canteen, wiped the top wi
his sleeve, and took several good ss1
lows, which he undoubtedly rellsps1]
and then, suddenly taking the cantsS 81
from his mouth, he passed it Da u
saying. "Now, look here, boys, t ,'
deprecating behavior; if had not I'll III
quick to discover what it was, l ns'|
have taken full swaller."
J. K. NJ, i
Seventy-eightn llliI'''
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

The Norwalk Record says that when
Gen. Sherman was invited to attend
the installation of Col. Anderson as
National Chaplain he declined, saying
with vehemence: "Just put yourself
in my place. Imagine yourself chased
up by crowd who stare at you and
holler at you. and then you can appre-
ciate the situation. I sometimes feel
as if I'd like to strangle some Of these
Marching thro'- G eorgia' singers. You
see those fingers? Well, I've entirely
lost the use of them shaking hands"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

4 GHOST that has been for several
months soaring the engineers at GER
tain trestle on q railroad near Atlanta
was found few days ago lying uncon-
sclous and nearl y frozen to death in a
pool of water near the spot. She had
neither shoes nor stockings and few
other clothes, and was evidently de-
mented, although she could talk ration
ally on some subjects. She seemed to
be OF good birth and had evidences of
refinement about her. She said she
was Annie Garrett and had taken to
the woods because she was disguised
with the world and lacked the courage
to commit suicide. A hole was found
dug out beneath the trestle, and in
that she had lived.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

provided for by the surgeon, and we
marched on, discussing the bad fate OF
our comrade, as some believed he would
die. But, toward night, much to our
surprise, our comrade returned to his
place in the ranks, telling us how
deathly sick he was at first; how when
he fell back the surgeon put him into
an ambulance and dosed him with
whisky; that he lay in the ambulance
all the afternoon, sleeping off the infu-
ence of the liquor, and that when he
awoke he was we'll as ever. All were
pleased at the good luck Of our com
rade when, suddenly, our funny man,
Pete, clapped his hand to the back Of
his neck, staggered few steps, and
then fell out of the ranks, inquiring
how far it was to an ambulance, saying,
Il have been bit by spider" Tie
other boys. said, pete, that won't do.
If a spider should bite you, you
wouldn't know it, for it would kill the
spider" j. X. NJ,
Seventy eighth Illinois,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

BAvAR1AN horses are celebrated for
their general worthlessness. A dealer
sold one to German officer during
the Franco-Prussian war, and war
ranted him to be good war-horse.
The soldier came back afterward in a
towering passion, and said he had been
swindled. "And how?" said the deal
er. "Why, there's not bit O go in
him, and yet you warranted him as a
good war-horse." Eyes, did; and, by
George! he is a good war-horse; he'd
sooner die than run"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

One Of the rarest Of wild animals, a
white deer; was killed few days ago
near Snowshoe Mountain, Clinton
County, Pennsylvania, by Prothonotary
Mann, of Sunbury. 1t was nearly
pure white, and one Of the largest does
ever killed in the region. But three
white deer were ever killed before in
this part of the State. Old hunters
generally believe in the backwoods' SUI
perstition that to kill white deer fore
bodies evil to its slayer, and all who
have heard of Parliamentary Mann's
deliberate defiance of the superstition
are aghast at his temerity, and proph-
esy all sorts Of bad luck for him. He
will have the magnificent skin of the
animal stuffed and mounted.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

"Ihe average infantry volunteer, \
says, chad vague notion that shay|
shooters, to be used for the purpose
crawling UP behind trees and KILN
the rebel Generals, were principal
needed. Nearly every man who Ell
listed at this juncture intended to cor
meet himself with that branch Of tl|
service, and to use in that connected
some fantastic combination of ted
scopic sights and breech-loadiI
rifles" Those who expected to hay
the offices when the regiment was q
gained exhibited a Colt revolvin
rifle, representing that this arm Won.
be used by this regiment. At Bento
Barracks a slouchy-looking man. witt
out insignia Of rank other than a rot
OF gilt buttons, appeared. This wa
Brigadier General w. r. Shermal
who, Wv tn his lack Of fuss and featA
ers, who bestrode no war-hor AMI
beloved no commands; scarce came u
to the ideal standard of the romant.
volunteers. It Was rumored he wa
crazy. "This same lunatic," Capital
Croker says, the Fifty-ffth follove
to the end Of the war;" At this pls3
the regiment received lot of miser1
BILE old guns, most dangerous at II
breech, and, as Captain Croker add1
with quiet satire, "Colonels Stuart AM
Malmborg and some other officers ha|
their sabers ground SO as to be pra
pared for future emergencies.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

.ubserve an excellent purpose in astro-
nomical photography, for by their use
it is possible to map out stars in the
heavens which are so dim as to be to-
tally invisible to the eye looking
through the telescope. The plate is
fixed and allowed to remain behind the
eye-piece of the telescope, the rays of
light invisible to the eye gradually
producing the change in it necessary to
the production of an image. 1t is
claimed for them that they will photo
graph the eruption of scarlet fever
some time before it is visible to the
eye, thus permitting the trouble to be
recognized earlier than formerly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

their horrid glut of iron globes
line of abattis was to be built aero
clear space in point-blank range
the Confederate gunners and shar
shooters in front.
Sergeant, says the officer in chars
go pace that opening and give me i
distance as near as possible"
Says the sergeant (for we will
him tell the rest of the story:
1 started right off. When I got
the opening l put'er like q ship in
gale Of wind. What with grape, can
ter, roundshot, shell, and a regul
bees nest of rifle balls, | just th,
there must have been q fearful drain
ammunition on the Confederate am
about that time I don't know how it We
but [ didn't get so much as scratc
but got powerfully scared. When
got under cover | couldn't er told /
the life of me whether it was humid
or a thousand PAGES. Says the Ga
tain:
well, sergeant, what do you ma!
of it?"
Soon's I get my wind, says I:
Give a guess, Captain. ~
He looked across the opening Sc
cond or two, then says:
"a hundred and seventy-five pace
say"
Thunder, Captain, says I, "you'
made a pretty close guess; it's Just
hundred and seventyone!"
"And," concluded the sergeaE
after the laugh had subsidized, "tha
how I got my shoulder straps"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

SENATOR EvARTs rides to the Capi-
tol in one of the long red herdic
coaches that pass within block or two
OF his home. The drivers all know the
Senator, and stop the coach as soon as
his shirt-collar heaves in sight. The
Senator then goes up the vehicle as far
as he can get from the door, which
move, OF course, brings him near to the
ticket-box. In chat position he PLAYS
amateur conductor with much grace
and amiability-puts five coppers in
for the Irish ladies with large baskets.
asks Change or tickets ?" of gentle
men who pass up silver dollars, and
for his own part, always prudently in
vests in tickets, instead of recklesslv
putting five cents in the box.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

am haunted by tie pitiful, imploring
look of that poor, innocent dying bird,
and feelings of deep remcrse come
over ne whenever see a robin. 1
would be willing to make great sacri-
fees to be made gu;ltless of the wan
ton murder ofthat poor, innocent bird. :"
The General makes special plea for
that sweetest of all American song
sters, the Unnamed cat-bird. But as
for the English sparrow, he says with
righteous wrath: Kill him wherever
you find him, in season and out of sea-
son. He has never been known to do
any good, and is of no use. Give him
no quarter, but go for him as you
would for any other thief"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-24

IN speaking OF billiards., says the
Chicago IriJ1t11e, even the scientific
signal-service man is accustomed to
say that the "Manitoba" wave is COM
ing, and this has been so often reiter-
ated that many people have at last
come to believe that billiards. are home
products of that section of the Cana
dian Dominion. Manitoba, however,
can hardly carry off the credit of rails
ing the wind in this extraordinary man
ner. The origin and operation of the
billiards and their partially for Da-
kota, Western Minnesota, Iowa, Kan
sas, and Nebraska and the TERRITORY
even farther south are worth at least
little theorizing. Why is it that east
Of the Mississippi River they arc only
felt with diminished force, and east of
the Ohio line, for instance, that is, in
the Central States, New York, and
New England, hardly at all? The re-
ply seems to be a simple one. The
southern part of British America, from
Labrador west to the upper shores of
Lake Superior, is travelled by what is
known as the Laurentian, and at the
extreme west the Huronian Mountains,
composed in reality of an enormous
rock formation, the Oldest vet discov-
cred, with no shells or fossils to tell
us its age OF what time it lifted it's
great wall above the waters. It is the
oldest sedimentary rock found on the
globe. The thickness of it's beds has
been estimated at 1000 feet. It rises
in hills and mountains 1000 feet high,
and on the gorges of the Saguenay
forms sheer cliffs 1900 feet high.
1t makes a solid everlast-
ing rock barrier; no wind, be
it blizzard or tornado, can pass It
shelters all the country to the south of
it from the icy blasts sweeping down
from the Arctic regions. At it's west
ern limit they may strike against it and
defect like water meeting an obstacle,
and in Wisconsin, Eastern Minnesota.
Michigan, and Illinois they NAV be felt
with diminished force. West of that
limit, however, there is no break, Be-
tween a line from that point north and
south and the Rockies and Sierras.
which guard all to the west of them.
stretches one vast unbroken plateau
from the polar regions straight south
to the Gulf of Mexico. Along that
plateau Boreas, starting from the pole.
finds no obstruction in his path. He
comes down with a rush, sweeping
everything before him, chilling and
freezing everything he encounters, and
planting his snow, sleet, and ice even
on the shores of the far-off Gulf of
Mexico. The more favored regions
south of these gigantic mountains of
rock interposing their friendly barrier
know little Of the terrors of these bitter
Arctic currents, which carry death and
destruction along with them to the
jewellers on the plain. Manitoba is
only mid-station the road from the
pole to the Gulf. 1t is not the home
Of the blizzard.