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Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-09
Illegal Otter-Hunting,

WASHINGTON, November Sth.-The Treasury
Department has instructed the Collector of Gus
toms at Sitka to complain to the Governor of
Alaska of white hunters shooting otters there
and soaring then ont to sea and beyond the
reach of the natives as the law only permits
natives to hunt and kill them.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-09
SUE ON.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

A NNUAL MEETING OF THE ST0ORHOLD-
n ers of the Peoples Savings Bank will be
held at the office of the Bank Sacran ento City,
MONDAY EVENING, December 8. 1898, at 7:3O
O'clock VIM. f. HUNT00N, Secretary
ms 1m4p
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-09
A Secret methodist Council,

Boston, November Sth-The Bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church began their semi
annual session this forenoon in this city. The
Episcopal Board is made up of eighteen men,
bers, sixteen of whom are here. The Bishops
in council represent more than 2 900, 900 COM
municants They will hold their sessions
mornings and afternoons. These councils are
sanrat
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-09
The mill-saw with its teeth of steel
Bites through the log upon the tram
And drops the dust like golden meal
Into The tIan m hnlnla- Tho Ian,

Well, what of it? This is prosaic fact,
not at all poetic, and the versifer has not
clothed it with a poetic thought; it is
merely rbymed statement of an obvious
occurrence. Any one can write this sort
of thing with a running pen. Applying it
to our own trade, we say:
The steam from out the 'scape pipe floats
Into the ambient air
And takes the form of billy-goats,
Which jump, and buck, ana rare
GN. B.-"Rear' is the proper word but viii
not rhyme.
If persons who are determined to write
machine poetry would only reflect several
times before publishing once, we are sure
that they would avoid modification in the
future.-1he Engineer.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-09
Laree Purchaae or Ron6s

NEwBURGH ~. ", November Sth.-Danel
J. Herty, the pedestrian, covered 33A miles in
four hours on Tuesday, beating the best Ameri-
can fOur-hour record
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-09

WASHINGTON, November Sth.-The Secretary
OF the Treasury this afternoon accepted AZ per
cent. registered bonds amounting to 81 ,259 455 at
1887
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-09
Death on the Rail.

NEwBERG (N. ", November Sth.-A freight
train on the Hudson River Railroad ran into a
passenger train at Fiskhill Landing, opposite
this city, this morning. One Canadian woman
WAS Killed Nobody else WIS hurt
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-09

MILWAUKEE, November Sth.-This morning, 6
building occupied by the wholesale grocery
Loss, 100000; insured. Three fremen mar
rowly escaped death by suffocation.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-09
BUSINESS CARDS.
UNDERTAKgBS,.
REEVES ALONG.
FRITZ & MILLER,
U M ID N H TT Ii. Tx Ia .sg- ss

OFFICE IN ODD FELLoWS TEh pI.s
W Ninth and < streets Complete qtcek c
Undertekers' Goods constantly on hand. Cir
and country orders promptly attended 10, Ga!
or night at reasonable rates Telepho-,e l5S i
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-09
a Blockade Raised
A S1O ono Fire

New YORK, November Sth.-A cable dispatch
received from Bayti states that Jacmel, one of
the insurgent towns of HayE, has been occu-
pied by Government force and the blockade
of the port has been raised
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-09

4 LWAYS ON HAND THE MOST COMPLETE
n Stock of UNDERTAKING GOODS on tbs
coast. Country orders, day or night, VIII rs
ceive prompt attention. TELEPHONE EuM5ss
1S4. I4p1 GEO. 81. CLARK, Funeral Director
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-09
Machine Poetry.

We note that some of our trade papers
are dropping into poetry" occasionally on
themes not unconnected with industrial
pursuits. If they would thoroughly dis
courage every man who writes machine
poetry, the world would gain something.
Verses and rhymes are not poetry; usually
they are far from it, and one called ''Saw-
dust" Is a case in point. Here is sample
verse.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-09
HONE AFFAIRS.
CHINESE PEANUT "MERCHGNTS -
TO COME IN.
Heavy Shipment of Arms for Hayti-
Illegal Otter Hunting-Anar-
chists Not to Parade.
VERY SICK.

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO 7nE aroonD-vs.os.i
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-08
NCIENCE OF Tile RRAIN.

Paul Broca's discovery that the hrail is a CON
geres Of organs, each having It's special function,
is being confirmed 10y later researches. Prof
Matthias puval has had the opportunity of deter
miuilg-by the post -mortem examination Of
eleven persons who, during life hat been acci-
deutally deprived Of the faculty Of speech or the
memory of words or certain letters Of the alpha
het-that the faculties Of speech ana memory Of
words reside in the second and third couvolutions
Of the brain. In each case examined there hai
been injury or disease of these convolutious, des-
troyiuE their functions Comparing Gambetta' :
brain with that Of the late DR.. Ber,illon, an
eminent statistic,an, Duval ana Chudz' uszy
found that in the brain Of the fcrner the third or
"Broca'S convolutiau"-as the speech-ceuter is
now called-is extremely developed, while in
Bertiious is reduced to its mos simple ex-
preston. Gambetta was active and loquaciolls.
Bertillon reticent and retiring the oratorical
qualities Of the two men were diametrically op-
positc, and this result is now seen to be due to
the physical couformations Of their respective
brains '-SCieutiic Journal
Is it possible that scientists are begin
ming TO admit the theory Of DR.. Gall?
The science of phreuology, from which
many hoped so much, was compelled to
succumb 20 the sneers and criticisms of
scientists. And the world hal to abau
don the hope of the discovery of some
rule by which the real could be distin-
guished from the assumed character. Ii
is indeed a disgrace TO science tbat at
this late day it ha, done so li;tge in the
discovery of the causes OF mental and
moral phenomrna. The scieLce of phren-
ology, imperfect as it was, contained true
principles, some of which were funda-
mental. And it Is to be hoped that they
may not be lost in the night of forget
fulness. To those familiar with DR..
Calls discovery, it will sound curious to
read OF "Psul Brocs's discovery that the
brain is conjeries of organs; each hsv
ing its special function" No matter,
however, who made this discovery. The
important thing is, that it be made ba-
sis, upon which shall be reared the most
valuable science ever known to man.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-08
Cases of Mistaken Identity


friend of the listeners tells him that
he fancies himself the hero of the story
related recently of a Iady's mistaken
salution Of strange man on the street as
her husband. His story, however, differs
from that told recently. He was walking
along School street when lady took HIM
suddenly by the arm aud exclaimed: Did
you ever see such a looking thing in your
life?" He looked up, surprised, and at
the same moment made an effort to es-
cape from the lady's familiar grasp.
"Why, what is the matter with you?" she
said; and then she looked very hard at
him, and suddenly dropped his arm and
turned very red, looking around III com
plete confusion; and from the haste with
which she joined another gentleman be-
hind him, the Listeners friend was con-
yinced that, having become separated
from her escort on the crossing, she had
mistakenly fixed upon some one who re-
sembled HIM physically, towit, himself.
As everybody knows, this is not an uufre-
quent mistake, though it is generally dis
covered before it has gene so far as this
abrupt lady carried it.
The hero CT this incident, by the way
relates an odd mistake of his own, of the
same kind. Walking along fremont
street one day, he saw, as he supposed,
his sister and his cousin looking in al the
window of a picture store, with their heads
very close together. Stepping up behind
them, he playfuIly put hand on each CT
their heads and gently knocked them to-
gether. The two ladies sprang away in
astonishment and in very vigorous resist
ance. As they turned around be saw that
they were total strangers. His confusion
was so great that he could not say word
but it must have told the story just the
same, for the comicality of the situation
at once dawned on the two ladies, and
they began to laugh heartily. Under the
| cover of their laughter the gentleman beat
hasty retreat.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-08
News in Eriet.

JEFF DAVIS will be eighty years old on
the 3rd of June.
JUDGE GRESHAM is expected to spend
his summer vacation at Wsukesha, Wis.
MAYOR CHASE has ordered all Clinton,
Iowa, saloons to close June l.
Mr.. JOHN Q. GRAY, of Albia, Iowa, served
at the age of 26 years as drummer boy
at Waterloo.
The gold and silver output of Montana
last year was between S23,0O0, 900 and
S2+,00O,OOO.
PROF. r. d. IRvING, of Madison, Wis,
University, died on Wednesday from a
stroke of paralysis.
MB. BLAINE is daily visitor to the
American exchange in Paris, for the pur-
pose of looking over the files of the daily
papers.
ST LoUTs is to have permanent ex-
position with tropical garden ard the
largest concert hall aud art gallery in the
world.
AT the annual meeting of the national
civil service reform league. George Will
lam Curtis, who presided, was re elected
president for the coming year.
THE Presbyterian General Assembly in
session at Philadelphia, voted to hold its
annual meeting, next year, in the Fourth
Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York
City.
THE school census of Nebraska lust
completed shows 2S5,000 children of
chcol age.
TIE state of Kentucky hes begun suit
against James NJ. Tate, ana his sond-
men 70 recover $4,000 less certain
credits.
BUSINESS failures for the week in the
United States snd Canada number POS,
against 225 last week. The failures on
the Pacific coast were ~, a number far
above the average.
LOUIS HULLER hiss purchased 5000, 900
acres of land in the States of Chiapas
and Chihuahus, Mexico, for colonization
purposes.
THE Supreme Court of Kansas has rem
dered dicision declaring invalid an or
dinance passed recently by the City Coun-
ell of Topeka forbidding tire sale on Sun
day of anything besides drugs and medi-
zines.
The Prohibition candidate for presi-
dent is Clinton B. Fisk of New Jersey,
and for vice president, John A. Brooks of
Missouri.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-08
VERNON COUNTY HORROR

The Mystery all cleared up at Last.
VIROQUA, Wis, June 1.-The murderer
of the Drake family which was commit
ed in the town of KickapoO, Vernon Co.,
on May "a, has been apprehended and
has made full confession of the horri-
bic deed. His name is Andrew Grand
staff, a hard character, "a years of age,
and lives Ia the immediate neighborhood
wkere the dastardIy affair occurred. He
committed the deed in the belief that the
brakes had a large amount of money in
their possession. His confession is to
the effect that he went to the house
about nine O'Clock in the evening looked
in at the window knocked at the door
when the old gentleman Drake said come
in and he entered asking for a drink of
water. He then commanded of Mr.
Drake to give up his money and the old
man said ne had none but was expecting
some soon. This did not satisfy Grand
staff and he shot him twice. He shot the
old lady as she was coming out of a bed
room with q Winchester rifle in hand
While he was ransacking the house the
two little grandchildren of the old peo-
pie got out of bed and recognized
him, and he cut their throats 10 make
sure OF removing all trace of his identity.
The officers arrested Graudstaff on sus
picion last night, and brought him 10
this city today. He made a full cor
fessiou while en- route mere. There has
been loud talk of lynching him all day
and it Is feared the excited people will
| accomplish their purpose tonight The
n4urderersecur ed no money from the
premises.
Grandstaff was born IL this county, is
an illegitlmate child, and is ignorant and
daring. Many depredations have been
laid at his door, but he has never been
arrested for them. Daring a school
meeting at Kickapoo Center, in Febru-
ary, he was shot In the bowels with e
charge of common shot, but through his
robust nature and general cussedness, he
recovered. The arrest was made by .. j.
Farrell, of Piukerton's lCnicago) force,
who has done valiant work during the
twenty-fouI hours he has been on the
ground. He was assisted by ex SGeriffs
Gooden and Morley. They broush ht
Grandstaf to this city, arriving here
| Z O'Clock this morning.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-08
SCORES OF OHIO DIPES.


Victims ola Big Swindling Gang.
LIMA, Ohio.-For two or three years the
authorities of Auglaize County have sus-
pected that a gang of sharp swindlers
had headquarters about Spenceville, in
northwestern part of the county, and
Detective Lowe, of Wapokoneta, has
spent nearly year Ill working no the
case. Two weeks ago he arrested Elijah
Hogue and Frank Lewis for blackmailrng
farmer near Kossuth out of $50.
Hogue was convicted recently anG
sentenced to the penitentiary for eig hteeu
months. Lewis trial is in progress
Since the conviction of Hogue has con
fessed to A. G. Layton, County Attorney,
that b reg ular band of blackmaiIers have
their headquarters at Spenceville, with
branches in Van Vert and this county.
The members do not know each other
No work is done in their own neighbor-
hood, all the operations being planned
from headquarters when the victims are
selected. The gang has a number OF
schemes, but the favorite one, which is
very successful in the unsophisticafed
communities in the counties named, is to
give farmer VINO has been picked out
| brand new bill and get him, on some
pretense, to see if it is good. As the bill
Is genuine, there is no difficulty in pass.
ing it. The dUpe is then told he will be
supplied with any amount of similar
good money at a trifiug cost.
If the man bites be is made to sign a
documGn: which he is told admits him to
membership in a secret society know as
the Y. f. A. R., and the money is to come
in few days. Instead a man, who
represents himself as a United States
officer, appears. He shows up the docu
msnt signed by the poor fellow, which
proves to be practically confession of
circulating counterfeit money, and calls
his attention to the bill he passed. The
victim is told he must 60 to Washington
He Is cleverly told of the long delay al
heavy costs and the sure penalty. When
the dupe is sufficiently wrought up the
officer offers to com promise for all the
way from $500 to $4,000. The money is
paid or secured and the document torn
up. Neither ever squeals. Hogue says
there ere over hundred members OF the
band, and has given the prosecutors az
many names as he knows. Since Hogue':
| arrest several citizens of Spenceville
nave fed, ana the hegira has extended to
| other counties, but the off ,ers have fully
dozen under close watch, and they will
be arrested in day or two. He says the
gang has realized $4,000, in the past
| three years.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-08
ELECTRIC SPARKS
Fires And Casualties.

JAMES RICKEY. dealer ia wallpaper al
Minneapolis, has failed for $4,000.
DENHAM, Mass.-The chocolate fac
tory of c. B. Brooks burned. Loss
! $50, 900.
HENRY o. BILLINGS, hat manufactur-
er of South birmingham, has assigned
Liabilities, 100000.
DURING heavy rain and wind storm
Sunday 81 bents of the G. B. j. Q. trestle
bridge approach were blown down, dam
| aging the structure $4,000.
AT Ellington, Ontario, Frederick n.
Toye, the Township Clerk, with his wife
and three children, persisted in their
| burning home.
AT Mianburg, resort On Lake Ponch
artraIn, one nan was killed outright and
ten Others fatally injured by lightning
striking building.
SAN FRANCIsCo-Fire Wednesday night
at Selma, Fresno county, Cal, burned QUE
half OF the block opposite the Southern
Pacific Railway Depot. Loss 100000;
partially insured
HEAVY frOsts were reported Friday
from East Tawas and Tustlr, Michigan,
as having damaged vines, clover and
fruit and a severe hailstorm from
Springfield, Mo, that injured all crops
and ruined some wheat and corn fields.
A CYCLONE at Browton, twenty five
miles east of Bonham, Tex, destroyed the
Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian
churches, aud eight dwellings. colorad
man named Williams was killed, and
eight other persons were fatally in jured,
among them the Sheriff and County Re.
corder.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-08

In all these states except Wisconsin
the decade of high tariff from 1870 to
1880 actually reduced the number of
sheep very largely. In Wisconsin there
was slight incrorso; but not at all in pro
portion To- the increase in farm areas
and in other stock. 1t is clear, therefore,
that except upon tho plains where
herders of vast iiOcks of sheep grazed
them upon land for which they paid
no rent, and subject TO no taxation the
tariff did not operate "a Il stimulus TO
wool growing.
!, Again, this il shown by the statement
of Mr. William q. Markham, of avon,
N. Y, prominent representative of the
National Wool Growers nssooiation. He
Bays:
The average price for medium woods In Boston,
for thirty five years preceding the war, and under
n low tariff was nearly i3 cents. The average
price of the same woods during the fifteen years
of the present tariff has not been above that fig
ure, and with the exceptions Of the years 1877
aud 1872, has been materially less
These are hard facts. They Indicate
that the farmer in Wisconsin has littlo or
no interest in the present tariff on wool.
It has not stimulated but hampered his
wool growing industry; and has resulted
in loss prices for wool than ruled under
former low tariffs; has injured his home
market for wool 10y itH crippling effect on
the wooden manufactures; and has largely
increased the cost of his clothing, which
he has been obliged TO purchase; and de
prived him in n great degree of the ben
eft which machinery has given to the
world in reducing the labor and cheaper
iny thp cost of manuiacturp
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-08
Criminal.

THE coroner's jury in the Fountain
Col, railway disaster, exonerated the rail
way company from blame.
THREE deputy sheriffs were shot during
an atempt to arrest gang Of riverm en-
at Musick's Ferry, Mo.
SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD Charley Durgin ac-
knowledged to the Chicago police that
he had shot his father because he had
been unkind.
CONSTABLE PRICE, on trial at Des
Moines, Iowa, for attem pting to extort
bribes from violato, of the liquor law,
was convicted on Saturday. Constable
Potts was convicted few days pre-
viously.
JOSEPH SHERER, aged Y, employed in a
restaurant in Albany, N. Y, shot and
killed Lizzie McCarty, aged 81, and then
shot and killed himself. The giIl had re-
fused to marry him.
SEVEN highway robbers were shot dead
recently by the police and soldiers of
Durango, Mexico, who had captured them
shortly after they had murdered and
robbed a wealthy cattle owner on his
ranch.
THE jury in the case Thos. B. Kerr, of
New York, on trial for alleged bribery
of the aldermen who passed the Broad
way railroad franchise disagreed and
were discharged.
ANDREW GRANDsTAFF, the murderer of
Reuben Drake and wife and their two
grandchildren, near Niroqua, Wis, was
lypched Saturday morning. At last
accoun is his body was still hanging.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-08
TASCOTT HEARD FROM
He Says his Body VIII be Found in the Lake
Naop NiI,Yor1lyaa

He Says his Body VIII be Found in the Lake
Near Milwaukee.
WAUKEGAN, Ill.-The latest Tascott
sensation has b0bbed up in this city.
Some fishermen while out on the lake
captured bottle, tightly corked, which,
on being broken, was found to contain
one of Chief Rubbard's $4,000 reward
clrcrlars and letter pur porting to be
from W. B. Tascottt. The letter was
written with lead pencil on paper torn
from note book, and the hand writing
is trihe smoother than the specimen
shown in the reward circular. Following
| is a copy of the letter:
MILWAUKEE, March 28, 1e88.-To ell
whom it may concern: [ cannot live a
| fugitive from justice any longer. Heav-
en- Will forgive me the crime | have
committed, while the law of man would
condemn me to an ignCminious death
upon the gaIlows. Therefore l seek re-
lief through death at my own hands.
God knows that | did not intend to
commit murder, yet il the eye of
the law 1 would be pronounced
guilty and hanged unforgiven. Fate
was against me. [ even 5huddered at
the thought of ever committing murder,
yet circumstances controlled my actions.
J would let no maN take my life. My
victim attempted to take mine. | will
| not plead self-defense because | placed
| myself in a position where he had
| a legal although not moral right
to take mine. He who judges
all things right will Judge US.
Should this statement ever reach hu
man being, l charge him to send the
same to my grieVing father, whom L ask
with dying breath forgiveness. Farewell
till judgment day.
"WILLIAM TAsCOTT.
"(Charged with the murder of A. j.
Smell, of Chicago.) Ny body will be
found under the ice in Lake Michigan,
near Milwaukee. W. B. T.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-08
A HORRIBLE SIGHT

The Prisoner, Covered with Blood, Fights
Desperattly-Th First Elevation.
VIRoQUA, Wis, June 2-The scene at
the Jail is horrible. The prisoner, cover
ed with blood, was terribly mangled while
the steel cage WAS being bat
tered down. The matter stands
just where it did an hour ago, everything
is excitement. Grandstaff is still held
by the halter and is pleading for his
life while the mob is persistent. 1 think
it Will be settled within a few minutes
one way or another.
12:45 a. m.-The mob just hung the
prisoner to tree in front of the court
house and let him down again to see if
he would confess. He will probably not
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-08
THE HANGING

The Prisoner Tortured by Three Elevations
He Tries to impliCate Uthers-Iiis Paren-
tage-Many Prominent Citizens Take
Part
VIRoQUA, WIS, June 2, 1:5O a. m.-The
suspense is over. Grandstaff came into
the world disgrace and has just gone
out a disgrace. The mob finished
his career by the third eleva-
ton to the court house
oak. After the second elevation he made
statement that he, with Frank and
Elisha Carey had the murder concocted,
and that they had the deed accomplish
ed before he arrived at the
house, none of which is thought to be
true. Grandstaff's illegitimate father is
a brother of iona Love, who is now
serving sentence at Waupun for the
murder of Ole Olson, at Furdy in this
cobuty in Feb. 1887. His mother is dead,
Many leading citizens, both in the city
and from the country, were prominent in
the hanging affair. Grandstaf hung for
IL minutes before life was extinct. His
remains will not be cot down till morn
inp
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-06-08
HANGED BY THE MADMOB
The Murderer of the Drake Family
Vernon Co. Meets a Horrible Fate.
Citizens Batter Down the Jail Doors
and String Him up TO Tree.
Terrible Scene at the Jail-The Blood
Covered Fiend Fights Desperately.
FHE ATTACH

Fully One Thousand Determined Men Secure
the FieEd
VIRoRQUA, Wis, June 1.-At 1850 p. M.
fully one thousand determined men
marched upon the jail and demanded the
murderer, and the officers resisted and
the barriers TO the jail were broken
down. One hour was consumed
breaking down the steel cage in the up
per room of the jail, where the prisoner
was confined. He fought desperately and
warded off everybody but was finally
overcome. A rope was put about his
neck and he was brought to the
porch below where he firmly
protested his innocence; but two or three
in the crowd were aware of his confession
and they refused to give evidence. The
mob is now somewhat quieted but will no
doubt finish the work. Further news in
a few moments.