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The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-10-26

TnE old tragedy of the bull and
locomotive vas enacted near st. John,
n. b., the other day. \ huge bull
strayed on the Grand Southern Rail-
way just as a locomotive drawing a
picnic train appeared in sight. He
lowered his head, paved the ties,
switched his tail, beloved, and paid
no attention to the frantic toots from
the engine. When the locomotive drew
near the bull charged furiouslv. There
was a below, IL cloud of dust and
steam, and then silence. When tho
smoke, dust and steam rolled sway the
locomotive and the bull lay in the
ditch. the horns of the latter locked in
the bars of the cow-catcher. The noble
animals neck was broken. No one on
the train was hurt.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-10-26

A coLoRED woman in Florida, it is
reported, vas bitten by o ground rat
tlesnake. one of the most poisonous of
the r%attlesnake family, and was in
tremendous agony. A so-called mad
stone was applied to the wound after
being plunged in hot vinegar. It at
tached itself firmly to the wound, and.
adhered like u leech for nearly five
minutes. 1t then fell of, and being
placed in warm water threw offa greasy
fluid, grayish in color, with here and
there a trace of green. It was again
put upon the wound and chung there
about a minute. BY this time the
woman was asleep and apparently free
from pain, and at last reports she was
fast recovering from the effects of the
bite.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-10-26
They saIa ..Hands Up"

A bold attempt was made by three
masked bandits to wreck and rob the Fort
Pierre md Black Hills railroad train owned
and operated by the Homestake Mining
company, at Reno's gulch, nine miles from
Lead City. The train left Lead City o
half hour late with the paymaster, W. "A.
Reimer. supplied with about S20,ON0 to
Jay off the timber employees. Chief En-
gineer Dick Blackstone and passengers
aud employees, amounting to about twenty
people, were on board. They ran with in
creased speed to make up lost time to q
point about 100 yards from the scene of
attack, when they slowed up to lot some
section men off. This alone ayerted a
great calamity, for before the train got
fully under way the engine slipped from
the rail that had been removed q few inches
by the robbers and the train derailed.
During the excitement Of the moment, a
command of hands up came from the
robbers. accompanied by Q volley from
their Winchester rifles in the cab, fiat cars
and engine without any serious results. w.
A. Reimer, who was on the engine, dis
charged both barrels Of his shotgun loaded
With bpckshQt at tNo Of the robbers. who
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-10-26
Mysterious Find of u hunting PARTY.

Mysterious Find of u Hunting Party.
While some young men We're hunting
near Blencoe they discovered q satchel
near the Missouri river containing Il small
pocketbook. some scraps of paper and a
suit of clothes. In the papers a letter was
found written in Norwegian. but nearly
illegible. 1t was signed "Nels Nelson,
Sterling. Neb." 1t seemed to have been
written to n brother of the writer. and de-
tached sentences said: II have never
harmed any one: have never stolen any,
thing; have always behaved myself. and 1
don know why they are after me-" Near
by. lcading to the river. were footprints,
and considerable interest has been aroused
over the mystery. 1t is thought that the
writer of the letter was drowned in tho
Missouri river, or else was the victim of
foul play.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-10-26

fell MORALLY wounded. The others led 10
where their horses were tied, mounted and
disappeared In the u~nderbrush. One Of
the wounded robbers a captured and IL
now in the Deadwood Jail and will prob
ably die. His name is Billy Wilson, an
indicted horsethief from Pennington
county. for whom the sheriff has been
hunting with a warrant for the past two or
three months. He says the other two are
named Clark and johnson. The latter
was the leader and escaped. The sheriff
and . posse Of Homestake employees are
securing the vicinity and their capture is
certain. Excitement run high and If they
are captured lynch law will be summarily
dealt.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-10-26
Married White the Train walted.

Married While the Train Waited,
When the regular passenger train from
Gretna arrived at Neche last week, Henry
Williams and Miss Matte Sawyer. q beau
tiful girl of IL, announced that they
wanted to get married at once. Conductor
Scott said he would try to accommodate
them and hold the train until some one
could be found to perform the ceremony.
While the messenger was hunting up q
clergyman the %baggageman, Billy O'Brien,
of Minneapolis, was keeping the crowd Of
spectators away, having IN q pair Of box
ing gloves and threatening to lay out the
first person who should attempt to dis
turb the couple. Meantime the Rev. John
Scott appeared, told the young couple to
stand up. called on Deputy Collector of
Customs Miller to witness, and in q minute
the clergyman pronounced them man and
wife. Engineer Bunnell, Station Agent
Roberts, Collector Miller, and Baggage
man O'Brien each demanded and received
a kiss for his services. Conductor Scott
CAV the signal to go, and the train left
with the happy couple amidst shouts and
congratulations from the numerous spec
tQtOrS.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-10-26

aud the examination yet unfinished. The
company will not lose by this nor the
agent, as Jerry Rudy dia once while he
was agent, for in this case the company
made the agent exact n bond, and it was in
force when Mr.. Sloanaker disappeared.
This bond is by the Canada Insurance
company and as they have the reputation
of protecting themselves from defalcations
by pursuing ~delimquents, it is safe to say
that Mr.. Sloanaker will be arrested some-
where sooner or later. Mr.. Sloanaker is
about % years of age aud came to Sioux
City from Ames about three months ago.
He has not been seen since Saturday even
ing, at which time he left his home, 315
West Third street, telling his wife he was
going to Missouri Valley. Active search
is going OH for him.
Rapid Trans System for Sioux City.
The Sioux City transit passenger lines
are evidently in progressive hands. as the
city is destined from the present pro-
gramme to be the most complete in its
transit service next season of any city in
the United States. When the elevated line,
the cable line and the motor lines are
finished it looks as if ii would require q
grand ride and a general ride to keep the
SFsi'auS GApeuses Ut pun. ne stteet cur
company, the first carrying service the city
ever had. is not going to be outdone by the
other street lines and will next year aban-
don the mule for electricity or some other
swift propelling power. "We have a prop
osition under consideration to supply our
tracks with an electric power ut a cost of
about $4,000" Says President Peavey,
bit we have determined only on one thing
so far and that is we will dispose of the
mule before another winters snow flies.
The animal. extensively as We use him, is
too expensive and withal too slow for a
Sioux City gait. When yon can go from
Douglas street to the Gordon block in
three minutes for Il nickle time will
amount to more than the money. Rapid
transit is what city people demand.
"A Heavy Weight Navive Iowan.
Correspondence Davenport Tribune:
During this trip l have been over a large
part of this state and find Iowa has the
largest and best corn crop that has ever
been raised in the state. Iowa does not
only stand ut the head of the list as a corn
state, but stands also Mt the head for
large mon. l was n of the two largest
men on q train last week, and the two of us
weighed Just Two pounds over a half ton.
l weighed 80 pounds and the other fellow
weighed inst 7D2 pounds. His name vas
j. III. Craig. He is g feet a inches long,
and was lorn in Iowa City 32 years ago.
He is said to be the largest man in the
world ut the present time. He is we'll pro-
portioned. full of fun, and as playful as a
kitten. He told me that when he went to
church he put Il dollar in the collection
basket and took u whole seat for himself.
He has weighed 1913 pounds. but uses to-
lacco now to keep his weight down below
$50.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-16

lumpy heads their cotyiedons) through
the easily broken inch of ashes. But the
effect has always been bad. very rarely
plant appeared through such a cover
ing. The cause is apparently too close
an exclusion of air, viii b is indispensa-
bic at the moment of termination in free
supply.
Coal ashes are great benefit to grass
when strewn on very early in the spring.
They allow the sharp points of the grass
sprouts TO pierce through and largely
preserve GOODNESS and moisture 10 the
roots. while they effectually smother all
fat-leafed intruders and MOSES. In fact.
so many are the uses and real value of
this material, which accumulates about
all our houses during every winter, that
one sees with regret so much of it wheeled
away IN the spring to be dumped into
any hole or corner where it will be out Of
sight. 1t should be sifted as taken from
the fires, both to save the half burnt
Goals for night fires, and the exhausted
cinder for path and road making, and for
the manifold beneficial uses of the finer
siftings.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-16
The Destruction Of Moles.

correspondent of the Southern
Painter writes: The last number of your
journal contains letter from J. H. Riley,
Esq, of Onancock, asking for a mole
remedy.
If Mr.. Riley will insert in the mole
tracks or burrows sufficient number of
bits Of raw beef soaked in a solution of
strychnine he will never see another
track.
Five years ago was much annoyed by
them and poisoned them as above, since
which time have never sign any sign Of
them on the place.
There is no doubt about the mole being
a useful animal. 1t subsists mainly on
grubs and worms, destroying vast num-
bers Of cutworms and other enemies to
vegetation. They may have taken a
little toll from Mr.. r. potato field, but
I expect the greater damage was done by
ground mice using the tunnels of the
moles to get at them.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-16
Burberry He'd &es.

Since the general introduction of barb
wire fences the Importance of hedges has
greatly diminished, but for both orna-
ment and utility they may still be en-
plOyed to advantage. The most perfect
and really substantial are union of wire
and hedge plant. Formerly, the honey
locust and the Usage orange made the
best barriers; but the honey locust re-
quires much and frequent cutting back;
and the Usage orange as much so, with
the additional drawback of winter kill
ing in regions of severe winter. The
buckthorn and the barberry are both
hardy, and both have a hedge like
growth, but neither are stiff enough alone
for farm barriers. But with two or three
barb wires included with them, stretched
successfully while the hedge is growing
IN height, they Eecome perfect-re luir-
ing but little cutting back, forming a
stiff hedge and presenting a fine orna-
mental appearance when kept in good
shape. The purple barberry is as hardy
as the common sort, and makes as good
hedge, and when in bloom early in the
season, or in scarlet berries later, is an
object Of great beauty. The plants are
easily raised from seed, and are very
readily and safely transplanted. The
privet has naturally hedgy growth,
and is often recommended for hedges,
bnt it is not perfectly hardy, and is
liable to die out in patches Country
GeHtlemGn.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-16
Use of Coal Ashes.

On the subject of the use of coal ashes
New York I'rittae correspondent says:
Probably coal ashes have little other than
mechanical effect. They render clay
more divisible, and so more permeable
to the air. But the air must not enter
the soil in storms, but have, as it were,
only slow but constant infiltration,
sandy soil is apt to admit it with its
caustic qualities more freely than the
roots can endure. The fine sifted ashes
correct this by filing the intersticles;
and so benefit IN both cases.
Every thing grows well under mulch
of coal ashes provided that the plant
leaves are not covered, and that the ashes
be stirred after rains during the growing
season. Without this they pack so as to
exclude the air too much. In planting
the seeds, we cover them with soil
that is open and friable or with leaf
mould, as our soil is heavy and
soon packs. We have tried coal
ashes several times, thinking that the
XQang seedlings might easily Push thelT
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-16
Mixing Fertilizers.

Many farmers are not sufficiently care
full to have their fertilizers thoroughly
mixed with the soil, SAYS an agricultural
exchange. Three hundred or four hun
dred pounds per acre is very small
it is about one ounce to eight or nine
square feet. An ounce is a very small
handful, and if this small quantity is
not quite evenly spread over square
yard, the effect OF the fertilizer is more
or less missed or diverted from its pur-
pose. We have seen fertilizers so care
lessly spread that large handful was
thrown III a solid lump here and there
without any regularity. Having given
paiful to an incredulous neighbor to
try in his garden, this man applied the
whole to one row of peas, and, of course,
killed every plant. Bat the ad Join ng
rows more than made up for the loss and
the result taught a most useful lesson,
and this farmer now uses several tons
yearly in his market garden and farm.
The safe plan is to spread one-half the
fertilizer directly before the narrowing
on the plowed ground-this is for spring
sown crOps-and the other half on the
surface as soon as the seed is narrowed in
or planted. Hill fertilizing is open to
several objections and risks. Never use
superphOsphate,o or other mixed fertiliZe. S
of which this forms a part, when the
land has been lined, and on limestone
land only when the crop is able to make
the most use of it. Lastly, it is better to
use 400 pounds to one acre than 200
pounds per acre on two.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-16
FARM AND GARDEN.
WOrmy Apples.

The cause of apples falling off while in
an immature state is the presence of the
Goblin grub or larv5e of the Goblin moth.
This insect is becoming far more de-
structive to the apple crop in this coun-
try than even in Europe, Of which it is
supposed to be native. The moths u.s.
ually appear soon after the apple trees
have blossomed in the spring, flying
about the trees in the evening, and de
posting their eggs one by one in the
blossom end of the fruit. The eggs soon
hatch and the grubs bore their way into
the young apples, thus causing them to
fall off. No practical mode of prevent
ing the attacks of this insect has yet
been discovered, but if all wormy fruit
is gathered up and fed to hogs or other
wise destroyed during the summer, the
pest Will rarely become so abundant as to
cause all the fruit to drop off before ma
turing. YoTk Sun.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-16
The Mikad0 of Japan.

An American who saw the Mikado OF
Japan at Toxic recently says: HE sat
in lonely state, a dark featured. black
haired, thick-ipped MN, dressed in the
uniform of a European General, and
with nothing grand in his makeup OF
appearance. The absolute monarch OF
thirty-six million people in a tight fitting,
gold laced blue coat and French shake
for a capt. Shades of Gilbert and
Sullivan preser7e us. 1 wanted to pull
off his foreign tailor trumpery and pitch
his coat into the nearest canal, scatter
his monkey-like soldiers and make him
and them all over again in the Likeness
of their royal ancestors"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-16
RecineS.

STEwED PoTATOEs.-Cu in small
pieces enough cold boiled potatoes to fill
a vegetable dish, put them in one pint
of milk, half a cup of butter, salt and
pepper to taste; thicken with one tea
spoonful of flour; stew five minutes and
serve.
COLD WATER Plea good substitute
for custard pie when milk is scarce. Two
tablespoonful of flour. level, two table
spoonfuls of sugar, heaped, one egg, a
lump of butter the size of a hickory nut,
nutmeg to taste, and good half-pint of
water. This makes one pie.
BAKED RABBIr.-Skin, SINCE, and
wash two young rabbits Boil and mash
four good ed potatoes; add to them a
large tablespoonful of butter, teaspoon
full of salt and a teaspoonful of onion
juice; beat until light. Fill the rabbit
with this, sew up, and truss the feet
close to the stomach. Place a slice of
bacon over each; dust with pepper; add
a half teaspoonful of salt and gill of
water to the pan. Bake in quick oven
one hour, basting every ten minutes.
Garnish with fried parsley, and serve
with currant jelly sauce.
LIMA BEANS. The German way of
cooking Lima beans is recommended.
Open a small can of the beans and rinse
them in fresh cold water. Fry an onion
in a tablespoonful of drippings, add a
gill of beef gravy, a tablespoonful OF
vinegar and a cake of sugar; salt and
pepper; now add the beans and warm
them in the gravy; dredge IN a little
brown flour, and when the sauce thickens
slightly serve Dry beans soaked till
tender, then boiled and served with
cream thickened with Toured butter, Is
a nice and also an inexpensive dish.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-16

ROUGH on PAIN Plaster, P1rosed. &c.
ROUGH on COUGHS" Coughe, colds, &c.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-16

The total number of overland passen-
gers to California last year vas 100, 900.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-03-16

The volcano appears to be nothing but
an instance of absurd exaggeration OF
The principle OF the pimple.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-06
CONDENSED NEWS,

Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill have arrived in London.
 Commoner Cox has been removed to the infirmary of Limerick jail He has entirely lost his appetite, and his strength has appre- ciably diminished.
 Before the publication of the Austro-G Ger man treaty Count Kalnoky informed Prince Lobanoff, Russian ambassador at Vienna, of the joint intention of Germany and Austria to that effect Prince Lobanoff replied that Russia could not officially object.
 The tariff bill is to be reported on Wednes- day and will probably be voted on in March
 Senator Blackburn was taken suddenly ill at friends house in Washington and carried home almost unconscious
 The project of an elevated railroad in Bcs- ton has received an unexpected impetus in the bad service of the surface roads.
 John Wilkins, the much married young man now in jail at St. Paul, is averse to talking of his woes till all the counties are hearl from.
 The stoppage of starvation wages for a few days past in the Pennsylvania iron mines has sent thirty families to the poor house already.
 Renewal of work in Sing Sing prison re- stores cheerful ness to the convicts. The story that two prisoners became insane in their cells from enforced idleness is denied by the prison authorities.
 Edward Irving and Edward Winters, ac- cused of robbing the express office at Scars dale, were arrested by the Fremont police On Irving were found three clever forseries of Chauncey NJ. Depew's name.
 Miss Coffin, the would be slayer and eN odmirer of Kyrle Bellew, the actor, will moi attend ker fathers funetl ubS appear belors @s New Y&t cduEt2
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-06
A STARTLING DECISION
That May Liberate Many Persons Ac-
 cused of Murder.


 HoNEsDALE, Pa., Feb. 6.-Judge Hand, of the Scranton district, has given decision in a capital case which has made decided sen- sation ill the legal circles of Pennsylvania, and which has been carried to the supreme court. J. J. Keefe was indicted for murder ill the first degree, having been party to the murder of a saloon keeper in Scranton a year or so ago. The jury before which he was recently tried disagreed, and proceedings were taken, accord ing to all precedent in this state, for bis pro- sccution in new trial. Keefe's counsel held .iiat having been once placed in jeopardy of life by trial, the isagreement of the jury could not again place him in jeopardy. Judge Hand decided that the counseIs proposition was right, and established the principle that dis agreement of jury in a capital case was equivalent to an acquittal of the accused, and that the prisoner could not be jeopardized a second time.
 This was an entirely new theory in the criminal practice of the state, and the district to the supreme court for final interpretation of the law in the case. If Judge Hand is sus- taned it will establish precedent of the most vital importance There are several alleged mrrderers in prison in various parts of the state awaiting their second trial through dis agreements of juries, whom affirmation of Judge Hands decision will of course set at liberty A decision of that kind will also es- tablish the uncomfortable fact that many persons have been hanged in Pennsylvania who, under this judicial theory, would have been entitled to their lives and liberty.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-06
HURLED FROM THE TRACK.
A Railroad Accident, Accompanied with
 the Usual Sicl<ening Details.


 the Usual Sic!<ening Details.
 BRADFORD, Pa., Feb. 6-Train s, the fast day express for the east over the New Y York, Pennsylvania and Ohio road was wrecked at Hamburg station twelve miles west of Sala- manca, yesterday. Train was running forty five miles an hour. Near Steamburg station a broken frog or rail was struck. The engine, baggage car and smoker passed oyer in safety, but the day coach, which contained only nine ten passengers, was thrown off the rails with terrible force and into the side of a ca boose attached to freight which was stand ing on the siding waiting for train to pass One passenger, lady, was instantly killed and several others were more or less injured In the caboose, which was completely wrecked, were three men, one of whom had his neck broken by the shock. The dead and wounded were brought to Salamanca. The list of the dead and injured is as follows:
 Killed: Hattie Abbott, aged 16, of Sheffield, Ills, and James Dean, fireman, of Meadville.
 Injured: George A. Ki1nball, passenger, Bradford, Pa, body crushed, serious scalp wound; recovery improbable; George Ellis, conductor, Meadville, Pa., badly hurt about the head; Henry Shaffer, Meadville, Pa., brakeman, cut about the face and head; Mrs. Cyra Battey, passenger, badly bruised about the Lead and body; Bertha Battey, slight in- juries; William McNeill, passenger, Coving- ton, Ky, injured about the limbs and body; Frank Williams, passenger, Columbus, Pa., leg injured and face cut.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-02-06
Starting Their Long Walk,

NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-Nearly 15,o0o people witnessed the starting of the contestants in the six-days go-as-you-please race in Madison Square garden immediately after midnight to-day, and thousands were outside the doors of the great hall clamoring for admittance at the time. Promptly at 12 o'clock the sixty men remaining to make start, who had taken their positions in front of the scorers stand on the Twenty seventh street side of the hall, were ordered to go, and began their test of speed and endurance. Nearly all started at trot, and received a send off ill the shape of a tremendous medley of yells from thousands of throats Their costumes presented terrible medley of all the colors of the rainbow. lilly, the clown of the track, distinguished himself especially by his gro tesque attire. He and Sullivan, of Bangor, have the contract to keep the crowd in good hunor, and will succeed.