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St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-29
LODGED IN JAIL.
Tibbetts and His Wife Held as
Witnesses in the Scandal Case.

Tibbetts and His Wife Held as
Witnesses in the Scandal Case.
Special to the Globe.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, April 2S.-Last
night Mrs. Sadie TibbettS and her hus-
band we're brought from Eau Claire and
lodged in jail to be retained as witnesses
in the case of the State VS. l.. j. Newall
and Abe Goldberg. 1t will be remem-
bered that about three months ago Mrs.
Sadie Tbbetts, of Eau Claire, who had
been in the city visiting friends, was
dragged from one of the main streets,
while making her way to the depot, at
about 1920 in the evening. Two of her
assailants she identified, and two re-
main a mystery. The men tried to
effect a settlement, but refused to pay
81 600, thinking that $3.50 was sufficient.
Everything possible was done to keep
the matter a secret, and the men would,
probably, have escaped, had the district
attorney not unearthed the facts. At
examination it was shown that the men
were guilty in the extreme, and every
one who heard the evidence was ap-
palled. They were held in $1,000 bonds
each. which was furnished. About
two weeks ago Mr.. and Mrs. Tibbetts
were sent for and came to this city to
confer with the two above men, who
offered them 81 600 to leave the country.
They agreed to it, and 5000 cash was
paid, and note of $1,000 given. To be
sure that they went, man was sent
with them to Portland, Ore, where they
wished to stay. After staying at hotel
some days, they went to the bank to
draw the $1,000, and it was discovered
that the note was forged. They were
then so enraged that they told the story
to their landlord, who at once
telegraphed it to the district attorney.
They expressed a willingness to come
back if they would be protected, which
was readily taken up with by the au-
thorities. In the meantime the assail-
ants heard that they were coming, and
were watching the Omaha depot. but
when they reached ST. Paul the district
attorney telegraphed them to come by
the way of the Milwaukee & St. Paul
road, in order to check the watch. They
did so, and last night the sheriff went to
Eau Claire and brought them up and
lodged them in Jail. The man who ac-
companied them will probably be ar
rested. The circuit court will sit in this
city on Tuesday next, and the case will
come up during the term.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-04-29

Nofhf1o like !! anywhere,
mummy Read the list Of Wants with care
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31
The RovaI Plat

The following is a synopsis of a
speech delivered in the house of repre-
sentatives by Congressman Ryan on
the tariff:
The pending measure subject to such
necessary concessions as have already
referred to, is presumably framed
with reference to revenue exclusively.
Just who the author of it is does not
seem to be of much moment. For the
present 1t is anonymous. 1t is the pet,
though not born of the White House.
1t is not just the creature the Presi-
dent was yearning for in his message,
1t Is too much of cross with the hated
breeds for that; yet it is sent forth as
the fetch of the power that reigns at
the other end of the avenue. 1t is to
be "honored and obeyed'' until one of
the full blood shall take its place. LET
it be enthroned" is the tat from the
reigning dynasty.
GU gentlemen on the other side
who do not heed, beware! Ny friend
from Pennsylvania Mr.. Randall re-
fuses allegiance, and is pursued with
the envenOmed fury of offended ROYALTY,
Down with the traitor,' comes from
the imperial master; down with the
traltor?' echo the organs; and, in the
name of civil service reform. a thou
hills and valleys of the old keystone
State, painting for his scalp in their
eagerneSS to hang it upon their masters
belt to prove their devotion. ZAP
plause.
And there is lny other friend from
PENNSYLVANIA MIR. Sowden.l Oh, re-
bellious Sowden, the Allentown build
ing has gone the way of the disloyal.
Look well, my friend; look well to your
fortress. Hear you not the organ!
Listen:
The Democratic party has now
reached point where it can not afford
to tolerate infidelity to the Democratic
creed. And least of all things can It
afford to have the Democratic Adninis-
tration feeding at the public crib men
who work in the vineyard of the
enemy.
President Cleveland's tariff message
is his platform for the Presidential
campai gn. He is responsible for the
fact that loyalty TO him and his party
is inconsistent with refusal of loyal
support to the pending bill,
And again the organ.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31
Vandalism.


Several acts of vandalism have lately
been perpetrated at Maplewood GENE
erery. But few days ago a beautiful
monument was wickedly defaced by
shooting a large piece from it. Yes
terday we were informed that some
persons are in the habit of breaking
off the flowers and shrubbery from the
graves. One woman was caught in the
act on Sunday, and we have her name,
as well as several others, which will be
published if the act is repeated. The
cemetery authorities, however, have
taken the matter in hand, and the next
case will be prosecuted in the courts.
The worst feature is that some people
who pretend to responsibility are
among the ones who thus desecrate the
homes of the dead. These people would
not for moment think of walking into
a neighbours garden and helping them
selves to flowers, yet they thus meanly
not only steal but break and mutilate
the. flowers and shrubbery placed by
loving hands on the graves of their
loved ones. Let one of our readers for
a moment think what his or her. feel
ings- possibly actions-would be were
they to go out and catch one of these
vandals tearing off the shrubDery from
the graves of their father, mother,
child or other relative? Possibly it
would be blow first and words after
wards.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31
Comfy supsrintsndsntu Convention.

Professor Wilkinson attended the
convention of county superintendent
at Salina the past week. This meet
ing has heretofore been held at Empo-
ria, but the Salina people got it away
from us this time.
The following is part of the Pro-
fessOr's report as he writes it up for an
eastern educational paper of which he
is Kansas correspondent.
The meeting could not have been
more Hospitality received anywhere in
the state. The superintendent were
taken in carriages to the Wesleyan
University where the programme of
the day was carried out with the adj
dition of one very important item not
set down, namely, fine lunch set by
the hospitable young ladies of the
school.
The attendance of superintendent
was not large, but all were there who
had promised papers except Superin-
tendent Hitchcock, OF Sumner, whose
absence was caused by sickness. In
proportion to the whole number of
ladies in the superintendency the at
tendance of that sex was notable, but
it was also notable that their repre-
sentation on the programme was large.
Half the lady superintendent of the
state were on the programme and half
OF those on the programme were alb
sent. OF the thirteen male superin-
tendents named on the programme
nine were absent. Still it was a good
meeting and those who missed it are
to be cOmmiSerated
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31
cRAwFoRD-BALLARD.

The Course Of frue Love Never Buns Smooth. -
Closely following one another have
come the events in the lives of J. III.
Crawford and Miss Cora Ballard,
which have brought them into public
notice. Crawford's arrest and trial
before the police court on the serious
charge; his trial and conviction in the
district court; his being taken to the
penitentiary; her being put under the
care of the sheriff for safe keeping;
the motion and the granting of the
new trial by the supreme court, and
lastly the second trial and acquittal,
an account of which was in Saturdays
issue, all go to make up the lives of
these two as the public knows them.
To-day we chronicle what may be
called the browning event in their
checkered career as told heretofore in
THE NEWS.
On Saturday evening, scarcely three
hours after the acquittal, Mr.. Craw-
ford and Miss Ballard appeared in the
probate court, asking for license. AS
the bride-elect was not eighteen years
of age, the fathers consent was neces-
sarY. This was another sand-bar
against which their ship had grounded,
as the father has always been opposed
to the match. He was hunted up,
however, and his consent gained, and
the wedding proceeded, Judge PAIRING
ton conducting the ceremony. Parties
who were present say they were the
happiest looking couple that have
emerged from the probate court for
many moons.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31
Let Tbem Reason Toostbsr.

The New York Tribune expresses
some views regarding the spirit that
ought to, and doubtless will, prevail at
the Chicago convention, that the dele
gates elect to that body would do well
to consider. 1.-The frank and friendly
comparison of opinions, says the Fri
bune. (which will precede any ballot
ing whatever, is not unlikely to bring
about considerable harmony of pur-
pose and action. If that conference
disclOses that more than a majority of
the entire convention think, and repre-
sent Republican constituents who
think, that Mr.. Blaine is the strongest
candidate who can be nominated, it is
quite likely that there may never be
more than one ballot. But this confer
ence must be frank and friendly, and
If it is disclosed that majority of the
convention believe and represent con-
stituents who believe that some other
candidate would be stronger, the
utmost Difference to that opinion will
be shown by those Republicans who
prefer Mr.. Blaine. For, men and
brethren, this is going to be in very
truth grand council for the welfare
of the party and of the country, and
not battle for personal preferences.
1T is in this spirit that all Republican
delegates should be prepared to meet
each other. The delegate who is ''go-
ing for" his candidates anyhow, re-
CARELESS of the information which a
friendly conference may disclose, will
probably be made to feel that he is
much out of place in an assembly of
patriotic men, of whom the overwhelm-
ing majority are prepared to lay aside
all personal preferences if the welfare
OF party or country demands. 1t is not
to be denied that large proportion,
apparently more than a majority OF
the delegates selected, will go to the
convention with an impression that
Mr.. Blaine would be the strongest can
didate to nominate. But they, and
others who have different opinion.
will doubtless go nevertheless with
minds fully prepared to seek and can
didly weigh all information which NAV
guide them to wise determination
Others VIII justly expect that attitude
of mind from those whose PROPOSES
sions are in favor of Mr.. Blaine, anG
these, no less, will expect it of Other
delegates. A convention assembling
and frankly comforting in that spirit, is
likely to reach decision which the
people will ratify at the POLLS
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31

THE Welshmen, at their late Gym
reigyddion 1--WE may have disarranged
a few letters in this alphabet), urged
on all their cOuntrymen to become nat
uralized citizens: or, as an Irish orator
recently termed it, 'native-bOrn Amer
icans," on the first opportunity. It
has never been charged upon the Welsh
that they lack patriotic love for their
adopted land. They have a happy
faculty OF never ceasing to be good
Welshmen, but of being at the same
time tile best of Yankees. 1t is only
of late that it has been known to be a
popularity of any European stock to
pour in largely to enjoy the privileges
of citizenship, without involving them
selves in the duties incurred by natur-
alizatiOn. 1t would be we'll if our con-
stitution limited privilege in this direc-
tion.-Globe-De Democrat.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31
Jonas Houghton.
Dated Nav 28th, lSS9.

The funeral of Jonas Houghton took
place Monday and was conducted by
Revs. Byers and Sauerber, after which
the remains were conveyed to Maple
wood cemetery for interment. From
the slight acquaintance we had with
the deceased the impression was most
favorable. Although eighty-one years
old at the the time of his death, to us
at least, it was entirely unexpected.
Only short time ago we saw him APP
parently in good health, and the news
of his death was, therefore, shock to
us and many of our citizens. He was
tall, finely proportional man, bearing
himself always as a perfect gentleman.
Impressive in his address, progresses
ing in his manners and deferential in
his disposition, he commanded the re-
spect and esteem of all with whom he
came in contact. Although we know
but little of his personal history, we
are satisfied that he was a man of more
than ordinary ability and energy and a
prominent and leading citizen where he
formerly resided. In his walk and con-
versation here and in all his business
transactions he showed not only what
he was but what he had been-the soul
of honor and grand man. His death,
even at his advanced age, is loss, net
only to his family, but to our whole
community
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31

THE Topeka Capital has several fool
ideas: One of them is that the republi-
can party is in as bad a condition as
the democratic, the former depending
for existence on Blaine, while the lat
ter's only hope lies in Cleveland. An
other is, that Farmer Smith is the only
man competent to be governor ofsKar-
sas. Still another is that, because a
republican does not howl for ssBlaine.
first, last and all the time," he is an
enemy of the man from Maine. And.
last but not least, the Capital evidently
thinks that Misrepresentation is argn-
ment, inasmuch as it wilfully misstates
matters in referring to its contempo-
raries. We would advise little closer
communion with the truth on the part
of the editor of that sheet. Possibly.
however, the combination of editor and
real estate dealer with veracity is
Impossible.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31
Emporia, Kansas.
An Attsmnt. At sn,o;a.-

Late Monday evening a gentleman
probably about thirty years of age en-
tered Morris drug store and asked for a
quarter s worth of strychnine and told
the clerk he wanted it for rats. When
asked to sign up he said he couldn't
write, so his name was written and his
mark put in the proper place. After
wards Morris saw him on the street
and noticed something was wrong with
the man. He informed the sheriff and
the purchaser Of the deadly poison was
arrested, lodged in Jail and the medi-
cine taken from him. He cried like a
child for the poison and said he was 90
ing to kill himself. ''John Brown was
the name given by him at the drug
store and to. the sheriff and he said he
was from Kansas City.
He rested well last night in the sher-
ifs care and as he was feeling much
better this morning he was released.
There was no paper of any kind about
him whereby he might be identified.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31
"POLITToAL PERsPToUTrY.,,

O@<A = AS<AA@ A11S<C1 4GO14 \
The following we find in the Kansas
City Times of Sunday:
1t is alleged that Senator Plumb, in
letter written to a friend in Kansas,
said: Cleveland has gained strength
since the day Of his Inauguration. The
prospect OF the republican candidate
for president is gloomy, indeed. About
our only hope is in Cleveland making a
mistake before the election, which is
not probable Senator Plumb's opin-
ion is in line with the prophecy of Sem
ator Ingalls, made shortly after Mr..
Cleveland'S election. Senator ingalls,
predicted that unless Cleveland made
some glazing mistake it would be i'm
possible to beat him for reelection.
The political perspicuity of the two
Kansas senators will compare fayora-
bly, with that OF the most aStute poll
ticians OF this great and glorious coun-
try.
Cleveland's chances must indeed be
getting gloomy when his friends have
to resort to such nonsensical bosh as
the above. To any one acquainted
with the senator, however, the absurid-
ity of the alleged story is evident.
The writer of this heard Senator Plumb
in private conversation but a short
time ago express his unbounded faith
in the selection of republican presi-
dent at the national election. Senator
Plumb is not the man to write or talk
about gloomy outlooks for his party or
friends, even were such his private
thoughts. The last sentence of the ar
ticle, however, is correct. The politi-
cal perspicuity of the Kansas senators
is only equalled by the lack of the same
as shown by Missouri senators in the
late contests over pension matters in
the senate.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31
PRIVATE rs. .GENERAL.

1t is wonderful the amount of love
the democratic party can show for the
union veterans under certain circum-
stances. In Illinois the republicans
nominated for governor a gentleman
who had been a private in the union
army. And now the democrats, not to
be outdone, have nominated a man who
was union general. Mr.. Fifer is the
republican nominee, and General John
NJ. Palmer the democratic. The demo-
Gratis, of course, claim that Palmer is
the better man so far as capacity,
craftsmanship, ETC., is concerned, and
as proof of it refer to the fact that he
was general, as showing his ca
pacity, claiming that the war devel-
open men who were capable. while
those who were not remained in the
ranks. This may be good logic, bnt
we predict that the privates-who do
most of the voting-will not swallow it
to any great extent. Besides this,
those who saw service are fully aware
of the fact that many a good man
served in the ranks under one who was
in every way his inferior, simply be-
cause the modest man kept in the back
ground and even refused rank, while
the man with the immense gall stepped
to the front and took the sugar pIums.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31

j. ELLEN FOSTER, Peter Her, Helen
NJ. Cougar, Sheridan Shook, Albert
Griffin, Louis Froleich, Townsend and
Cox, twenty-three saloon keepers, del
egates to the national republican con-
vention from New York, and other
"God-fearing republicans" are CO.
laborers in vigorous campaign against
the saloon. Hear them Shout in con-
cert; 1.-The saloon must go."-Leader.
The above, and the entire prohibition
argument, is on par with that of the
member of the Methodist church who
found two or three of his fellow mem
beers were saloon keepers. Instead OF
attending church meetings and doing
his duty by assisting to keep the whisky
dealers in the background, he goes out
on the streets and assists the enemies
of the church by asserting that du in
the church are in league with the
devil, and tries to start a little church
of his own.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31
AS the prOhibitionists are principally

AS the prohibitionists are principally
recruited from the republican ranks.
the New York Tribune finds consola-
tion in the circumstance that in eight
states where prohibition tickets were
run last fall, the total vote showed a
falling off of 1900, OF more than IL
per cent, from the year before. The
vote increased in Massachusetts from
S,25l to 1O,945, in New York from
S6,4l4 to Al $50, and in Ohio from 2S,-
$50 to 29,7OO; but in New Jersey it fell
from 19,s0s to 1862, in Pennsylvania
1T dropped all the way from 81, 45s to
l6,47l, in Maryland from Z, 1876 to 4, 4l6,
in Nebraska from s,175 to $3.50, and in
Iowa from 5ls to 1927. Total in these
three states in 1886, I41 ,799; in 1887.
l23, 800.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31

IN New York city few days since
woman undertook to start a fire with
coal oil. She held in her hand a can
containing a quart of the fluid A
flame from the stove was communi-
Gated to the vessel, the latter exploded,
and in a moment the poor woman was
in blaze from head to foot. In her
pain and terror she leaped from win
dow to the sidewalk fifty feet below,
receiving horrible injuries, was
promptly removed to a hospital and
died within fifteen minutes after
reaching it. She would doubtless have
been burned to death if she hadn t
leaped. Cases of this kind are fire.
quent. Scarcely a week passes that
the telegraphic dispatches do not con-
tain announcements of substantially
similar occurrences. And yet, deaf to
the lessons of experience, people who
know better, or ought to know better,
persist in lighting fires with coal oil.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31
The Market. Of the World.


Here is another unshotted gun
called The Markets of the World
The markets of the world! How broad
and cool these words are. They stretch
from the frozen region of the northern
pole across the blazing tropics to the
ice-bound shores of the Antarctic con-
tinent. All this we can have if we viii
but give up the little hands breadth
called the United States of America.
What are the markets of the world?
To hear these rhetoricians declaim you
would imagine the markets of the
world were vast vacuum waiting till
now for American goods to break
through, rush in and fill the yearning
void. VIII your goods go to Austria,
to Italy, Germany, Russia or France?
Around all these :benighted countries
are the Chinese walls of tariff. Britain
herself is protected by vast capital ac-
cumulated through ages, the spoils of
her own and other lands, by a trade
system as powerful as it is relentless.
All these nations will contest with you
for the other countries which they
already overflow. Does your mouth
water over the prospect? What market
do you give up for all this? What is
the best market in the World-Where
have the people the most money to
spend? Right here in the United States
OF America. after tWenty-SeVen years
of protection rule. And you are asked
to give up such a market for the mar
kets of the world. Why the history of
such transaction was told tWenty-four
hundred years ago. 1t is a classic.
You will find it in the works of Esop,
the fabelist. Once there was a dog.
He was nice little dog. Nothing the
matter with him except a few foolish
free trade ideas in his head. He was
trotting along happy as the day, for he
had in his mouth nice shoulder of
succulent mutton. By and by he came
to stream Dridged by a plank. he
trotted along and looked over the side
of the plank, he saw the markets of the
world and dived for them. A minute
after he was crawling up the bank, the
wettest, the sickest, the nastiest, most
mutton-less dog that ever swan
ashore.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-31

He was a young man out canvassing
for subscriptions to projected demo-
cratic daily. The man who answered
his ring had G. a. r. button in his
lapel. This was the conversation:
Would you like to put your name
down for our paper?"
Guess not; it's democratic.''
Yes, but you ought to hear the other
side.
Thanks. I've heard the other side. -
Where was that?''
From 81 to IS at Gettysburg,
Antietam and several other places. -
The young man is now canvass
ing with door mat for an attraction.
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THE Kansas City Times makes Sc
rious charge against John p. st. John.
1t says that on Saturday last, in that
city, he was full. However, it modifies
the remark by stating what he was full
Of-hope at the outlook for the prohibit
tionists. We are afraid Mr.. st. John
and his fellow fanatics will find hope a
rather thin drink to get full on. A milk
shake would be much better.
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the Son of man is Lord also of the Sab
bath, - we learn that it was the Lords
day; and in Elk. 20: 10, we find that it
was the seventh day. So, my friends,
this argument on the part of our
friends is merely assumptive.
By reference to the Baptist Manual, ,
Methodist Catechism,' and 'Presby-
terrain Confession of Faith we find
that they take substantially the same
position as we do on the law that it is
of binding obligation upon all, and,
dear friends why not accept it as such,
that by it we may be saved in the day
of his coming, and enter through the
gates into the CITY for Christ Sake's.