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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-07-07

forcement can be obtained almost at
once. The value of the service in an hu
manitarian sense may be understood
when 1t is borne in mind that sudden
sickness or death in the case OF un-
known Individuals can be reported
through the telephone, and quickly at
tended TO by the ambulance service,
without delay The organization Of the
patrol wagon service consists of q patrol
wagon, with its outfit, horses and detail,
for each district into which the city is
divided; and at certain points over the
city patrol telephone boxes are estab-
lished, 10 which policemen have access
for the PURPOSES explained.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-07-07

A big apple crop is in sight to fol-
low the peaeh harvest. This is a
year of plent@ and may be an era of
good feeling.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-07-07

70 William l.. Scott, boss and
chief director, care of Grover Cleve-
land, Washington, D. Co.: 1t will
cost $4,000 to carry Pennsylvania
for Grover this year-not 5, but ma
jority.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-07-07

The aeronaut who fell from his bal
loon in Maryland and fatally injured
the spectator whom he struck may
be said 10 have played a fine trick
That is, he got the drop on his vic
tim.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-07-07
DRAFT STATIONS
SALVADOR & FERDINAND

Will make the Season of 1888 AT
500. 90 TWENTY DOLLARS TO INSURE $50 90
Payable when mare is known to be with
foal parting with the mare fortsits The m
suranee and the HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-07-07

WHEN YOU are in need OF a nice spring
hat, in all STYLES, 10 would pay you a. cal
on :. BRAFAfAN,
BALTIC. Clothing House
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26
reri.hea In the Flood.

Rims and high waters prevailing in Nir.
ginia A number of people were standing on
one of the bridges OF the Baltimore Ohio
spanning Wheeling creek at Wheeling, watch
ing the swift flow OF the waters bearing
Wrecked shanties and deblis when the bridge
suddenly gave way, prtcipitating all who
were standing on it with the food
The number of people who were on
the bridge il not known, the estimates
vary from twenty TO thirty. Eight
persons were rescued al a distance of a
mile IRON the point where the bridge was
located, and il IL feared that from ten 70
twenty persons have persisted. The city is
intensely agitated over the disaster, and per
sons whose whereabouts cannot be ascer-
tanned are supposed to be among the mum.
ber At CaldWel's run, in the lower end Oi
the city, four dwellin IS were swept away by
the food and eleven persons drowned. A
young man named HoHSIn. the wife aud
four children of Thomas Howley, three mem
beers of the family of John Stensil, n dairy
man and two visitors at his house are
among those believed to be drowned
and it is feared more are TO he
included in the number. sub
stautiai bridge ON the suburban Elm Grove
motor line, at Leatherwood, was washed
away. Loss TO the city will reach $4,000
and the damage to crops in the country is
inestimable. The ruin wrought by the cloud
burst out of town Is awful and ean only be
asecrtained definitely when means of com
munieation are reported A man named
keltz was washed away By Bogg's run. and
he and his horse were drowned. Four lives
are lost at Ringrove, i've miles east OF
Wheeling.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26
Routing Great Speakers.

Some of the most experienced ora,
tors have been disconnected by very
trivial. circumstances. Daniel Web
ster, rising to speak at apoultry show,
was unable to continue in rivalry
with a giant Shanghai which began
to air it's lungs at the same moment,
and mad to resume his seat in confu-
sion. Erskine was always extremely
sensitive to a lack of interest by his
audience. "Who can get on with
that wet blanket of a face Of yours
before him?" he said once to Garrow,
who was engaged with HMM cause.
His first speech in the House of Lords
was a humiliating failure, owing to
the action of Chatham, who. as a
speaker began, took up a pen and
made a few notes as if with the in
tention ofreplyina; but notwithstanding
a few moments, be dashed pen and
paperupon the floor witha contempt-
uous smile. This indifference, real
or pretended, completely upset Frs
kline, whose svoice faltered; he strug-
gled through tho remainder of his
speech, and sank into his seat dis
pirited, and shorn of his fame. y
Burke was also extremely sensitive.
Selwyn relates that he rose on one
occasion to speak, holding bundle
of papers in his hand, when a rough
bewn country member started up and
said: "MySpeaker, hope the honor
able gentleman does not mean 60
read that large bundle of papers. and
to bore us with q long speech into
the bargain. " Burke was SO suffocated
with rageas tobe incapable ofspeech,
and rushed out ofthe House. ssNey-
err before" says sselwyn, did / see
the fable realized of a lion put to
fight by the b-a,Fing of an ass. -
The Gentleman's Magazine.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26
The Record Of casualiles.

George H. Staynor and Henry s. Ives, who
are wanted in New York badly on SERIOUS
charges are now in Canada.
A volcanic eruption has occurred at Max.
mats in Japan, by which 400 persons were
killed and 1000 were injured.
NJ s. LttlHeId president Of the Jackson.
vile 4 Tallahassee in New York, charged
with passing a worthless $50 check. signed
by III. s. Beardsley, payable to Littleheld's
order. He paid the money and was dis
charged.
The sheriff OF Sioux Falls. D. T.. took pos.
session OF II. Iathrop's creamery plant at
Reyes. Lathrop has disappeared. IL IL
charged that during The past three months
he has been paying 10 cents an inch for cream
and selling his butter to Sioux Falls shippers
for Is cents per pound cash; that il has been
his custom to pay nothing to producers, and
that when his creditors perempforiiy demand
cd pay for the product Of their slairies he left,
having cleared $4,000.
a shocking snicide was comnitted in RUSH
City. MINI. Alexander Bixby, carpenter,
went into a card SOON oFer Cain MeGuire's
saloon, and placing a revolver TO his temple
blew his brains out He was a single man,
twenty-five years old. The decreased had
been drinking great deal for the past few
days, and the night before lay on the hotel
steps. drunk all night. The coroners Jury
found that he had shot himself while tenn
porarily insane He leaves mother, wife OF
the village Justice, s. b. Clark, and one mar
riesi sister.
Helena, Montana, was treated to sensa-
ton in the shape of jail break whereby
George Godas, u halfbreed under sentence 10
hang Aug 10 for murder. and two prisoners
serving terms for burglary named Dawes and
Wilson gained freedom. The manner Of their
escape was daring and incredible. They cut
u hole through the iron floor OF the cell next
10 the east wall Of the jail ON the south side
of the cage. dug away the dirt underneath
until they had tunnel under the jail wall and
emerged into the jail yard. Thence they east
u made their escape into the streets.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26
English and Yankee Manners.
From the Forum.

rum INC
A result Of the apparent induration Of the
cutiele in Englishmen is the curious coarse.
ness Of phrase which so often annoys an
American No time can ever reconcile a els.
Atlantic ear to the heartiness with which an
otherwise well-bred lady will talk frankly of
Tubing" and cleaning herself" II sug.
gests the complaint made by Lord Melbourne
of certain London beauties, that they gave
him too much Of their natural history / do
not know any welltducated American except
one or two southern lady noyelists who hab-
itually use the word ''nigger, both in English
literature and speeh it seems universal
Froude employees il through all his b,joks OF
travel, and even 50 graceful writer as the
late Mrs. Ewing uses il in her pretty stories
Sh. also has very offensive word sinking
and one finds and hears il everywhere. As
a rule, writes James Payne from London,
in the New York independent: II hate peo-
Pile that stink of money" So, in society.
Americans are constantly placed in the alb
surd position OF being leotured for want OF
refined PERCEPTION by writer's whose Ian
guage and manners offend us at every step.
The highest, the most gifted, are not free
from the oIsensiveHFss oflangHHge. When
heard the most eminent OF English poets say
that il was .'rot, /" at a time Wien the odious
Anghcism had not crossed the Atlantic, il
seemed to my startled Imagination as il the
Venus of Milo had opened her marble lips and
had begun to curse and swear. The trouble
Is that such phrases reach us also very rap
idly, and take root among us like other
weeds. No doubt America furnishes some
slang to England also, and we often go to
London 20 hear it for the first time from cul-
tivated lips. But it must I've Remembered
i,'isSi.ssts anu circIs riCiers are not here
to be found so frequently in fastidious circles,
and thus our opportunities of picking up
their flowers Of speech are more limited than
in London.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26
The STORY Of a Skull.

A murdered mans skull is among the ex-
hibits in the Office of DR.. A. r. Thompson.
The relic is well preserved, although it bears
the scars of bullet, Ratchet, aud saw, the last
being the result Of a post-mortem examine
tion, while the bullet-holes and other marks
were made at the time of the murder.
'fThat skull looks as IL 1t had seen harsh
treatment" visitor remarked to Dr.
Thompson recently. We'll, it has been
through exciting experiences" replied the
doctor. "The woman who murdered the
man TO whom TINT skull belonged is now in
the penitentiary al Syracuse. think she is
serving a life sentence. Her name is Harriet
Van Anken, and the murdered man was her
husband, Darius Wan Auken. They lived in
Sandy Greek. where passed my boyhood.
lie was little, hght-waisted sort Of a man.
while she was n big. strapping heavy weight.
The neigkbors credited her for having made
life unpleasant Il her husband. The murder
was committed tea or twelve years Rgo. They
had an adopted iesn, think itwas. living
with them. Mrs. Van Auken took a pistol
from a shelf and sud. 'D'rias I'm going to
kill YOU oh, don'it' the husband exclaimed.
That was the last time bespoke. She fired,
and the bullet went into the brain through
the left cye-that's the hole She fired again.
and tile ball went through the skull above
and in front of the left ear. Then she chopped
him with hatehct after he was dead Those
two holes farther back were made by the
hatcbct going through the skull She cut the
body up and buried it in different places
The remains were found after a time aud she
was arrested and tired. The skull was used
on the trial and tn, coroner loaned il to me
To study 1t was brought out at the trial
that Mrs. Van Auken's first husband disap.
peared suddenly several years before she mar.
RED Van Auken. Troy IN. W Times.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26
Condition 81 The Crops.

Tho following is the weather crop bulletin
for the week ended Saturday, July II, 1883
issued by the sigrnl Office: Reports from
the corn and wheat states Of the Contra
valleys Of the Northwest indicate that tn,
weather during the past week has been favor
able for the growing crops, especially corn
potatoes and grass which have doubtless
been geuerally improved by recent
rains. Reports from Keutueky and
Tennessee indicates that the weather
during the past week has generally i'm
proved the condition of corn and tohaeco.
Staple crops in the Southern States have been
very much improved by the favorable wealth
er during the past week, and the late condi-
tions are favorable for cotton in South Car.
DINA, Alabama and Mississippi, and for corn
aud rice in Louisiana. Rain ia the middle At
lantic states during the past week slightly de
layed harvest work. and has greatly improved
the conditions of the growing crops
especially corn and potatoes. In New Eng
land, the rainfall and temperature were below
the normslduringthe week and the deficiency
in rainfall will doubtless reduce the yield in
the hay crop. In Tennessee and Arkansas
local storms and heavy rains injured crops
in some sections. The harvesting of oats
and fax in Kansas, wheat in Illinois and
soGthern Michigan, and OF hay in southern
Minnesota, has generally been attended by
favorable weather.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26

The latest Developments in theStain-rrom.
well case at Bangor, Maine, are stastling
and seem to establish beyond any doubt
that young Stain manufactured out of cloth
the evidence which has nearly brought his
father and Cromwell to the gellows, 1,
seems that some time before the Dexter bank
robbery and the murder ofCashier Barron,
the Winthrop bank, situated in Win,
throp, Me-, lost by robbery over $4,000
in negotiable paper. Shortly after this rob.
berry young Stain was confined in Norridgc-
wock jail for some thieyiug operation.
While in prison he made statement to the
authorities that he, his father, Cromwell
and New York Crook" named Gleason
had robbed the Winthrop bank. He was
promised the reward offered hy the bank in
case his story proved true. He put his state
ment in writing The bank officials carefully
investigated the story, aud were satisfied
that 1t was wholly untrue, an hat young
Stain had made up the yarn ~! 1Ss"sDr the
purpose Of the reward, The written state
ment, however, was filed AWAY by the bank.
The remarkable fart now brought out is that
the statement of young Stain is almost word
for word the same as his so-called confession
in connection with the Dexter robbery aud
murder, except that the names of the two
towns are changed. Counsel for Stain and
Cromwell now have the memoranda above re-
ferred to in their possession, and the general
opinion seems to be that these men had no
hand in the murder of which they have once
been convicted.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26


fools, . angrily replied Jchn Hsn,s
ssNone of them wants to marry Z
beautiful queen, who congerses a.
blank verse; / don't understand Il 5
"Ah, no, you cannot understand.
your notions are so differmt FINN
ours. Among your people NM
would have 81 chance, to wsd who's
fat we're cen but half SO large S.
those of our women. So with us Tia
opposite is true.
1t seems TO meyourfect areofgen.
erous size, Queen"
"Yes, yes, as you regard it,
John Henry pondered q mofEent
as though revolving an idea. As
with sudden resolve he hlurtsd
out:
''Queen, since no one else will hava
you, suppose you bestow yourself on
me. / have known you but a fsw
minutes, yet already l love Won;
right well. True, your feet are 4
triie larger than we consider tbs
right thing, but we might 90 Ia.
Chicago to live; there no one woul31
notice anything strange.
II know full well that it womb
come to this, that you would thus
propose to me. / do accept. hit
know that can never leave nv pa.
tive land; here must / live and die.
our customs and our laws do so or.
dain. Stay here with me and helm
me reign; twill be an easy task, ;sad
this, our country, is not SO bad when4
once you've learned It's ways
Shy iove, Queen, you offer is not
half bad; / will stay"
cts well. Ho, therei he vassals
go without and spread the JOYOUS
news. 0-wha-ta-faik has found
spouse. Now haste, prepare the mar.
riage feast.
"And my companions-what oI.
them?" inquired John Henry.
"They shall return again to their
respective home, or else be made
policemen on our force"
Thus il caIne about that John Hen
nv Smith was never seen in iwFe,s
hawken, N. Y, again.-P ittsburv
Chronicle Telegraph.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26
Apyn.miter's Confession.

Frank Chleboun, the man who, with Johr
Hronek and Frank Chepak, intended to muir
der Judge Garry, Judge Grinnell and In
spector Bonfield, OF Chicago, has made full
and complete confession. The preceding day
he had intimated that he was ready TO tel
all he knew and Inspector Bonheld went e
hear his story. Through the interpreters
Chleboun went into the shole story from
his first meeting with Hronek and Chepak
His confession was that Hronek had unsolded
his plan for revenge aud had told of bomb
which he (Hronekl had invented. II was
small, no larger than base ball, and was 10
be loaded with dynamite aud bits of glass
Ii was denied by Chleboun that the plot was
to murder the judges and inspector. That Is
he heard of no sach definite scheme.
About July I he was visited by Hronek
who brought him two bombs OF the broken
glass variety, and two sticks of dynamite
from which he was to make bombs of Eas
pipe after the usual pattern. He had tn,
stuff in his house for about n week and then
grew so afraid that it would be discovered
that he made away With it by throwing 1t in
priyy vault. BY his confession, il is under
stood, Chelboun has virtually secured immu
nifty from prosecution. The two other mer
are still at large but they may be arrested at
any time.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26
Coat Tails I'm Greece.

The rich old costumes are coming,
or have come, to be regarded as ridic-
ulous by the islanders, and are only
put on to please stranger or by
way Of joke. neutrality-suspicious.
or two the curious traveller win be
unable to find them. Those that
have gold and lace upon them win be
bought up by Jew dealers, who have
been for years securing the Egean
like the corsairs of old. The rest will
be torn up or thrown away. Itisthe
same thing in Peloponnesus. The
men who are the great dandies all
through Greece still don their Al
bantam costumes in Sparta and Meg
alopolis, if they have not seen the
world. But among the rich scarlet
and white of this splendid dress
you see the really fashionable man.
the NJ. p, or local magnate in black
dress coat, and chimney pot hat,
perhaps with n gray plaid wrapped
about his shoulders. And this hide.
ously-dressed person is looked up to
as the glass of fashion by the people
around him, whose national dress
gives them that dignity of mien and
ofmanners which always accompan-
les a rich costume. So it is with the
women. About Mount Parnassus
and its neighboring Alps you will
still find the women dressed ON holi-
days in eolors and coins quaint and
beautiful to behold In l'eloponnesus
CANDY arsenic green, magenta, and
puppies of the most nauseous hue are
worn in ill-made dresses copied from
the Bavarian Courte taste of 20
years ago. To see such people on a
Greek island in the midst of Aiediter-
ranean blue dancing a national dance
with its curious spiral form is like
seeing a beautiful engraving daubed
over with water colors by an expert
menting childhood Words.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26
Curious ana Mr,terlons Cas-

An International episode of Importance
took place in Duluth Mimi. being the cuI-
mutation OF the chase Of man wanted BY
the Russian government for year and a
half
A year and half ago the chief governor
OF the district of kosfrona and two subor-
dinates in an important Russian town we're
fouily murdered by, as strong eireumstantial
evidence showed, several officials of the same
district Both the mur,lercTs and the muir
dore1 men were in high position under the
Car, and one at least, vas held in great ia
yor by the government Neyiska who
londed in Duluth q FEW days ago from the
East, by boat, en- route for Pembina. OAK
was minor areessory and was wanted
by the government for this and he
cause he was the only man whose
testimony would absolutely show the guilt
Of the three accused officials He has been
followed by the government emmissary for
some months. Intercepted letters from his
wife of kastrona had given clue, his wife
and five children hring imprisoned until such
time ms he should arrive and testify in behalf
Of the government. Neviska was approached
by a heavy bearded stranger, who at once
recognized him, accosted him in RuRsiG and
obtained him in the name Of the Gar. Ne
viska, realizing that he woHl.i fare better
after reaching home if he made no trouble,
and understanding the fact that ne was
wanted chiefly as n witness did not demand
extradition. and the eouIle left for the East
on the Omaha train 1t New York they will
take n steamship and uturn to Russia Ne
yiska Is a man OF about medium size well
dressed, and apparently Of more than ordi-
nary intelligence
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26
Nnrh Hard Nnnsr

The director of the mint reports that foI
the year 1857 the product Of gold amounted
TO S';B, 600, 600 and az silver to S.,3 psf 900
coinage of the mints during the calendar
year. S60,3T9. ISL Bars Of gold and silver
manufactured SOS. 33s, obs. Total metaii,
stork in the United States on the LIST ofJune
1883: Gold coin, $500. l29, 702; gold bullion
in the mints, Sl14,TI0.sl7 Total gold
S7oG.Sio,519. Silyerdollars, 1927 ,099, 79O
subsidiary cnins, $40, 400 ,si2; silver bullion
in the minis $40, i54 Dos.
Total silver. $685.. Cos, 003 Total gold
aud silver. 81 .n9o. 49G, $50. Gold and silver
used in the arts, $3.50, 900 The coinag,
of the world during the calandar year 1887
was S124.99s, 49, gold and $133, 502. OCT
silver Reported consumption OF gold in tht
industrial arts in the world for 1856 was
SIG Oua,O00 gold and SD ,000, 900 silver
Production of gold and silver in the world in
1856 was sos, 764, 235 gold and s126, 457
500 silver
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-26


Indians are thoroughly excited and threaten
to exterminnte al whites in that part Of the
country. The only way troops can go up is
In canoes, audit IS estimated that this viii
occupy three weeks, as il Is distance 81
ninety miles up the river TO the scene of the
trouble, and great many portages, which
mako packing slow. The Indians Who arr
causing tho trouble are the worst on the
coast. are large powerful fellows and nearly
all well armed. Great ;ineasiness is felt es
10 what may befall the balance Of the whites
in the Unsolicited district
The Prohibitionists Of the Fifth Minnesota
district held congressional convention al
Fergus Falls, and nominated candidate
for congress. Rev, Sanderson OF Stevens
county was chairman Delegates present
from eight Of the thirty counties in the dis
triet. as follows: Otter Tail. Norman, Ste
vens, Polk, Becker. Douglass, Pope st. Louis.
Ear ID. Szott OF Duluth was nominated for
eOngrew. no other name being presented
Ar. Scott n thriy-nine years old and Is 0
member Of the firm OF Scott 4 HOlston. who
have planning and cash fartory there. HI
was converted thu; summer from the Repub
iican ranks He has resided in Duluth since
1880