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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-06-29
A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
Grafton wv. Va EagIe.sentineI.


One of the most distressing and
unlocked for fatalities that has
ever thrown the mantle of mourn
ing over this community, occurred
at Z o'clock last Thursday evening.
On Monday Deputy Collector, Jos.
II. McGraw, and his sister, Miss
Mary. had gone 10 attend the com.
mencement exercises, at Morgan.
town, and remained until Thurs.
day afternoon when they returned
home, full of life, health and enjoy.
ment aud without any premonition
of the trrible catastrophe that was
even then impending. In coming
from Morgantown that morning
Mr.. McGraw had made the acquaint-
ance of ". Il. Bee and and w. A.
French, who were also enrOute TO
their homes, and while his newly
made friends were waiting between
trains at this place he undertook to
show them over the town. About
Z o'clock he and one Of his friends,
the other having gone to the hotel,
assembled into the cupOla Of the
court house to get bird'seye view
of their surroundings and having
reached temporary platform made
with some loose boards Immediately
under the bell, Mr.. McGraw essay
ed to climb the ladder which led up
still higher. Scarcely had he as
cended two rounds until the ladder
tilted, when to save himself, be step
ped hastily backward without look
ing behind and, missing the boards,
fell through the opening with fright.
full force to the marble floor beneath,
distance of over 40 feet. Hun
dreds of hands FASTENED 10 his help
as soon as the accident was known
and a number of physicians we're
hurriedly summoned, but without
avail, as the unfortunate young
man never regalned CONSCIOUSNESS
and died the next morning before
nine o'clock. Strange TO say, not
a bone was broken, the only visi.
BILE injury being an abrasion of the
scalp, and his death resulted from
concession of the brain.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-06-29

Everybody respects Mr.. Thurman.
He is an honest man-sO honest
that he undertook the job of put.
ting some of the rascals Of his own
party in the penitentiary for frauds
upon the ballot box in Ohio. For
this he is entitled to the thanks of
the people irrespective of parties.
But he is a free trader of the Frank
Hurd stripe, and for that reason he
will not be accepted as an exponent
of American policy, nor receive
the votes of those who favor
American industries and American
labor. lie was opposed to the Re-
sumption act, as we'll as the Nation
al Bank law, and for that reason
will not be acceptable to the bust.
ness circles. His record on the
great controlling interests of the
country will not bear scrutiny, but
it will have to be subjected to the
calcium light that exposes all de.
fects and all deformities in tho acts
and opinions OF those seeking favor
and recognition as a candidate for
the next highest honor in the gift
of the people. valley YirgiRian.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-06-29
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

"Young nppecanOe and Morton,
too Will wilt the bandana.
The best definition we have yet
seen of a "tariff refOrmer" is that
he spends one fourth of his time
denying that he is a free trader,
and the other three-fOurths howl
ing for free trade.
Salt sells now at 60 and 20 cents
a barrel in Michigan. Twenty-Five
years ago, before the present pro
tective system was inaugurated, 1t
sold at 81 to 1926 a barrel. Can
any one explain why the free trad
ers should howl for "free salt ~
The first arrival of new wheat
reached Baltimore Saturday from
the RappahannOck river. 1t in
cluded 90 bushels, prime, which
sold at SLIP per bushel, and thirty
bushels garlicky, which brought
81 per bushel.
The Tribune: The "Tribune'
wastes no Time in protesting 20 re-
gard Mr.. Cleveland as weak can
didate. Morally he is weak. In
tellectually he is weak. In execu-
tive blunders, in selection Of bad
men for Office, even when he knew
them 20 be bad, he is weak. In his
hypocritical professions of reform,
which his whole course as Presi.
dent has contradicted, he is weak.
Alexander Graham Bell of tele-
phone fame was a penniless boy
in Edinburgh twenty-five years
ago. lie is now 40 years old and
is described as a handsome man of
modest demeanor. lie came to
this country IN 1872, and has a
beautiful home in Washington
Ills wife is a deaf mute, but she
aud her husband converse just as
we'll as other people, for he under
stands every movement OF her lips,
as she does of his.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-06-29

1t is impossible to believe that
Mr.. Mills and Mr.. Breckenridge
and Mr.. O'Ferrall do not know
better when they assert, in support
of their low tariff views, that our
ancestors went to war with Eng
land on account of the high tax on
tea. Every school boy in the land
knows that they fought against
taxation without representation,
and the amount of the tax on tea
was no consideration whatever
But we are not surprised at any
short cut or desperate expedient
resorted to by free trade politicians.
-I'eterSDurg Iader-Appeal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-06-29
A Young Man KiIled-Hls Mother
DrODs Dead.

CHARLESTON, w. VA, June 30
Last night fire broke out in tue
old Charleston Brewery Oompany's
property and consumed the build
ing. Loss 81, 800; no insurance.
Mrs. Margaret Scott's son was
killed in the fire, and she fell dead
az her home on Court street on
hearing the news of her sons death,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-06-29
GEN, BENJAMIN HARRISON.
SKETCH OF THE INDIANA FAVOR
TIE AND TIE PARTY'S CHOICE.

l -
TIE AND TIE PARTY'S CHOICE.
General Benjamin Harrison, son
of Hon. J. Scott Harrison, and
grandson of President William
Henry Harrison, was born at the
home OF his grandfather, North
Bend, Ohio, August 20, 1888. lie
was thus seven years old when his
distinguished ancestor was elected
president of the United States, IN
1910, on the Wing platform of pro-
lection for American industry. lie
graduated at Miami University, Ok.
ford, Ohio, in 1852, when he was
nineteen years old, with high hOnOrs.
He began the study of law in Gin
cinnati, and a year after his grad.
nation, he married Miss Carrie L..
Scott, of Oxford, whose acquaint-
ance he had made while he was in
college. In 1854 he commenced
the practice of law, aud settled in
Indianapolis. lie soon rose to dis
tinctiOn in his profession, and gam
ed prominence as a successful law
yer. In 1860 he was a candidate
for reporter of the Supreme Court
of Indiana, and after many joint
debates with Governor Hendricks,
was elected. In July, 1862, having
taken an active part in raising the
Seventeen Indiana Regiment, he
was elected and commissioned col
onel by Governor Morton, and at
once went into active service in
Kentucky, Tennessee and elsewhere
with the Army of the Cumberland.
During his absence the Democratic
Supreme Court declared his office
vacant, but in 1864 he was re-elect-
ed by a large majority.
He served in the army until the
close of The war, attaining the rank
of brigadier general, and receiving
high commentator from his COM
handing general.
When the war was over he re-
sumed the practice of law, in which
he became well known throughout
the state, and was often engaged
in the most important law suits oc'
curing in the West. In 1876 he
was induced, much against his in
clinatiOn, to accept the Republican
nomination for governor, and made
a thorough canvass of the state,
but was defeated, although leading
all other candidates on his ticket.
In 1880 he headed the Indiana
delegation at Chicago, where he
combatted the "third term move
ment, and was largely instrumental
in bringing about the nomination oil
/ President Garfield. In the cam
paign of 1880 he was very active,
and the Republicans gaining the
ascendency in the Legislature, he
was elected to the United States
Senate, where he served Six years
with distinction. In 1884 he was
often spoken Ofas an available nom
inee for the presidency; but he de-
clined to allow his name to go be-
| fore the convention. In that cam
paign the Democrats, coming into
power again, made an infamous
gerrymander Of the legislative dis
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-06-29

rights Of Chinese in our country
as we can get az This time. Our
people are practically quiet on the
subject, and the ISSUE at the polls
in November will be fought on the
tariff. The recent election in
Oregon shows what position the
people there hold ON tins subject
The nomination OF General Hani.
son 1t seems 90 me was tine best
possible solution of the complica-
ton in which the convention found
Itself this morning
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-06-29

The Washington Post, Democrat
ic, talks out in meeting about
the nomination of Thurman. 1t
says:
ale is necessary now. Too old
in 1885 to be secretary of State,
too weak and infrm in 1888 to be
either associate justice or chief JUS
tice of the supreme court, he is
still strong enough in 1888 to run
the gauntlet of Presidential cam
paign, aud quite Young enough to
be inaugurated Vice President in
1889.
"Verily the stone which the build.
ers rejected has become the head
of the corner"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-06-29
New York Tribune puts il tbiI

New York Tribune puts it this
way:
"What does the red bandana
mean as a political emblem 2 some
one asks. That's an easy one. Ii
means that the Democracy, finding
that there is nothing ahOut Mr..
Cleveland calculated to rouse en-.
thusiasm, is making a desperate
and unprecedented effort to win
the day by going into the fight tail
foremost. 1t means that Cleye-
lands denomination was a bitter
pill to his party and that Thurman
is the sugar that coats the pill. 1t
means that the old Roman is
several sizes larger than 'My Per.
sonal Comfort 1t means that the
Cleveland button tpatent doesn't
sell worth cent, and can be given
away with difficulty. 1t means
that the caudal appendage wags
the ticket
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-06-29

A dispatch from Ell Paso, Texas,
says information has been received
there from the flooded district in
Mexico that fifteen hundred lives
were lost by the Inundatlon, and
that one thousand bodies have been
recovered, Leon is a city OF 1OO,-
900 inhabitants, and large part of
it is in ruins.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-06-29

TOO BUSY TO WRITE THIS WEEK,
OUR ADVERTISEMENT WILL ynL
THIS SPACE NEXT WEEK.
l. 7. & R. E. StOneburner.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
A MethodfcaILife.

A Boston merchant WHO lived and
died on Summer street was curious
instance of one who was an invalid
from childhood, always extremely
hypochondriacal, who never imagined
himself i'll when he was not, nor ex-
aggerated his actual illness, nor feared,
unduly, sickness or pain or death
itself. But it was the business of his
life to take care Of his health, and he
devoted himself to this work with a
wonderful assiduity. He rode just so
far each day, when the weather was
fair, and at such an hour. He pos
sessed a great variety of clothing,
which he regulated with precision by
the Thermometer, sometimes changing
his dress many times in a day, and
selected for his overclothes when he
rode out the very garment which the
mercury indicated. He had weather.
cock put upon his stable within fair
view from his bedroom and sitting
room, and that and his thermometer.
and all possible or impossible signs
of the weather, he was watching con-
stantly, and found in these occupa-
tions very agreeable way of employ
ing all his day and all his days. How
far his long life is to be attributed to
this excessive care it is impossible to
tell; but he outlived every brother
and sister, every brothers. wife, every
sisters husband, and his own wife,
and died in 1887 at the age of ST.
T Boston Advertiser.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
Tariff and Wages.

High-tariff men claim that protec-
ton makes higher wages for labor. On
this point the real effect is we'll ex-
planned by a lumber dealer, Mr.
Blanchard, of Chicago, who said: 81
am high-tariff on lumber, but low
tariff on wool, iron, glass, cotton,
leather, etc. I will tell you why. ]
own timber lands and stumpage; be.
sides, operate largely myself, and
this tariff puts money in my pocket
I get So per 1000 more for my stump.
age and 50 per 1000 more for my boards.
l have just sold 5 10000 900 feet Of lum.
ber. Now, $2 thousand on 5000, ,0OC
is just $4,000. That is the difference
to me between high-tariff and free lum.
Der. l am high-tariff on lumber,
am. This blessed tariff, they tell us
is all for the benefit of the American
laborer. What do you suppose l die
with the $4,000? Divide it among
my workmen? Not bit of it. put
it right in this calf-skin wallet. Ofall
my workmen l am the only protected
American laborer. Wages depend or
supply and demand, my friends, and
not on taxes. When you see two
men after one boss, wages are low
but when you see two bosses after one
man, wages are high; and that is the
whole Of 1.-THE theory, principle anC
practice. ~ Exchange.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
Shakespeare and Bacon,

No author probably ever set greater
store than Bacon upon the produce of
his brain or was at more pains to see
that it was neither mangled nor mis-
represented by carele rs printing or
editing. Neither is there the slight
est reason to believe that he did NOT
take good care-nay, on the contrary.
that he was not at especial pains to
insure-that the world should be in
formed of everything he had written
which he deemed worthy to be pre-
served. Two years before Bacon
made his will the first or 1923 folio Of
Shakespeare's plays was published,
with the following title page: "Mr.
William Shakespeare's Comedies,
Histories and Tragedies. Published
accordinging to the True Original
Copies. London: Printed by Isaac
Jaggard and Ed. Blount. 1928" TWAS
a portly volume of nearly one thousand
pages, and must have taken many
months, probably the best part of .
year, to set up in types and get
printed off The printing of similar
folios in those days was marked by
anything but exemplary accuracy.
But this volume abounds to such ex-
cess in typographical flaws of every
kind that the only conclusion in re-
gard to it which can be drawn is that
the printing was not superintended
by any one competent to discharge
the duty of the printing-house
reader" of the present day. but was
suffered to appear with "all the inn
perfections on its head" which dis
tinguish "proof sheets" as they issue
from the hands OF careless or illiterate
compositors. Most clearly, the proof
sheets had never been read by any
man Of literary skill, still less by any
man capable Of rectifyirg blundered
text. In this respect the book offers
marked contrast to the text q
Bacon's works, printed in his own
time, which were revised and 70
revised until they were brought up to
finished perfection.-[ Blackwood's
Magazine.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
Fatal Rai,road accident.

CHICAGO, April IA special from
Creston, Ia, says that the fast mail on
the Burlington Road collided with a
freight train near there this morning.
Fireman Shoot of the freight train was
instantly killed. Engineer Osborne,
Brakeman G bbons and Miller
and Engineer Carpenter of the
mail train were badly bruised,
Two mail cars were thrown
down the embankment and totally
burned, together with the bridge near
which the accident occurred. The
mail clerks. were rescued. The wreck
is said to have been caused by a
freight train running past the station
where it should have sidetracked.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
Fire.Proof Scenery.

Wire gauze is woven so fine that
scenes can be painted on it and still
he as flexible as linen. The difficulty
heretofore has been that it is porous,
that the paint passed through the
meshes and only adhered in patches.
Ernst Topper, a Berlin painter, has
succeeded in making paste or COM
position which adheres quite tena-
ciously to the wires, stops up the
pores, neither cracks nor peels off, and
forms flexible grounding upon which
the painting can be carried out. 1t
has thus been made possible to en-
ploy this wire gauze for stage scenery,
and in very few weeks the first
practical trials of it on large scale
will be made at the Court Theater,
Munich. h.--[Chicago News.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
An Early morning Fire.

Shortly before half-past one O'Clock
this morning Officer McKeag discov-
cred a fire in R. Laughlin's grocery
store on New High street. He turned
in an alarm from box 2l, and the fire
department responded promptly. AT
ter the doors were broken in it took
but few moments to put out the
flames, which had badly scorchei the
woodwork. No idea could be obtained
as TO how the fire originated. Officer
McKeag had looked carefully around
the place half an hour previous to the
discovery Of the fire, for there had
been An attempt to burglarize the
store but = few nights before. The
damage by fire and water probably
amounted = taoo. Il
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
FROM THE EAST.
Both Brewers and Beer
BoycOtted.
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENTS
Congressional Outlook for the
Week-LincOln Memorial
Exercises.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HEaAI D.

NEW YORK, April 15.-Prepara-
tions for a probable lockout al
the breweries tomorrow was ac.
lively carried on to-day in the labor
organizations OF the brewery eIh-
ployees and the unions afliliating with
them. According to the bosses pro-
gramme the lockout will be declared
at noon tomorrow by the brewers in
"pool." The "pool" employers say
that within thirty-six hours after the
lockout they will be able to resume
work with a new force of employees.
This the men admit, but they threaten
to square matters by boycotting the
spool" beer.
The Central Labor Union to-day
declared boycott on all "pool beer"
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
I'm Quarantine.

SAN FRANCISCO, April Is. - The
steamer Parthia, the first to touch
here of the Canadian Pacific steam
ship line between China and British
Columbia, arrived this morning.
General quarantine having been de-
clared here against all Chinese ports,
there was much comment as to whe-
ther or no the Parthia, which lately ar
r.vedsat British Columbia from China,
and cleared at Vancouver with a
clean bill of health would be ordered
into quarantine as though she came
direct from a infected port. On the
arrival of the Parthia the order was
given and the passengers who took
passage at Vancouver for this city
are quarantiued as though they HAD
come from China. When the Parthia
left Vancouver the quarantine officers
there telegraphed the officers here
that if the steamer should be ordered
into quarantine on arrival here, inter-
national complications would arise.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
Foreign FlOtsnn.

The Figaro and other journals deny
that Mackay has been supplying Bou-
langer with funds for the political
campaign.
1t is learned through reliable
sources tnat the Emperor Frederick
wanted to extend amnesty to all So
cialists and to recall those who have
been banished, but Bismarck dis
suaded him from doing so.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
THE SHORT LINE.
Proposed Route of the Leaven'
worth and Denver.

proposed hOute Oh the LeaVen.
worth and Denver.
CHICAGO, April 15.-The Times o
tomorrow will say: 1t is announced
upon very good authority that the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Company is behind the proposed
Leavenworth and Denver Short Line
which is just now exciting great
deal of interest among the business
men of Denver and points along the
proposed line. 1t is known that the
st. Paul has purchased 1850 acres OF
water front at Oakland and that it
has quietly secured the right Of
way for distance Of $50 miles from
Oakland through Stockton and Lath-
rop. The direction Of the route Sc
lected is eastward from the Pacific
coast to Salt Lake City, and as the ex-
pressed intention of the people hav-
ing in charge the Leavenworth and
Denver Short Line, is to construct a
line from the former point to Denver,
thence westward through the noun
tains to Salt Lake City. 1t is very
easy to believe that tue St. Paul is
interested in the new enterprise.
1t has been an open secret among
railroad men for several years that
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
is anxious to reach the the Pacific
Coast, and it is only question Of
time until this company will operate
a line Of its own from the Missouri
river to San Francisco. The company
has an independent line to Kansas
City and is anxious for western and
southwestern branches. 1t would be
an easy matter to extend this
line to Leavenworth and thence west
ward to Denver. The statement is
made that the Denver people propose
to tunnel the mountains and push the
new line on to Salt Lake. When
these disjointed facts are put together
it rounds out colossal but entirely
feasible scheme, behind which looms
up the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul Railroad Company. In striking
for the Pacific coast the Burlington,
Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific and Union
Pacific have found it essential to
build to Denver. The Rock Island
is ON the way, and there is everything
to indicate that the st. Paul is making
formidable preparation for the west
ward march, and that the proposed
short line from Leaverworth TO Den
yer is the line of its advance.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
Coming Racing Evcmt.

NASHVILLE, April 15.-Extensive
preparations are being made for the
spring race meeting at West Side
Park, which commences Satul day, T,
April 2Sth, and continues for seven
days. The weather has been beauti-
full for the past week and the
track is in a splendid condition.
The trainers have taken advantage Of
the favorable circumstances to get
their horses in a good racing form.
There are now over 200 horses at the
track, and those to come will swell
the number to nearly 600.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
steamer Movements.

New YORK, April l5.--The Alaska
arrived from Liverpool, Marion from
Barcelona, Servia from Liverpool.
LONDON, April 15.-The Aurania
from New York for Liverpool arrived
at Queenstown to-day.
The La Champagne from New York
arrived at Havre to-day.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
EOoIishly Drowned.

MARysv1LLE, April 15.-This after
noon J. Fritz, a laboring man, while
under the influence of drink, at
tempted to rescue his hat, which lad
fallen into the Feather river, west Of
this city, and not being able to swim
was drowned before assistance could
reach him. His remains were re-
covered.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
The Growing Crops.

WASHINGTON, April 15. - The
weekly weather crop Bulletin says !:
The weather for the week has been
favorable for the growing crops in all
agricultural districts. Reports from
the Southern States show it was fav-
orable for cotton and cane, and that
the small grain crops have been
affected favorably. The season is
probably ten days late in the middle
Atlantic States and from fifteen to
twenty days late in the Northwestern
where the seeding is progressing
slowly.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
More Railroad Killing.

CHICAGO, April 15.-A special from
Fort Smith, Arkansas, reports that
the passenger train on the st. Louis
and San Francisco road ran into car
of ties at station in the Indian Terri
toryyesterday. The engineer and fire.
man were killed, and several passen-
gers badly injured.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-16
Mills to the Fore.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-Represen-
tative Mills arrived in the city to.
night from Fort Monroe, where he
has been for the last week. His
health is much improved, though he
is not yet entirely we'll. He Gays
that he will be in the House on Tues
day when the Tariff bill comes up.