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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-07-12
F. r. LEROUX, Redacteur.

police, lanc6s a sa poursuite, FONT
arret6 ct ramen6 a Syracuse. La,
CO miserable avou6 son forfait
avec un tel cynisme que les habi-
tants indignes FONT arrach6 des
mains des agents, ct apres lavoir
conduit sur le lieu meme du crime
FONT pendu a un poteau de t6le
graphe ct ont cribl6 son corps de
bales.
Une scene dun autre gene, mais
avec lA meme r6sultat, a eu lieu q
Chetopa. Deux individus, les nom
mes Risbee ct Lee, que des agants
venaient d'arreter ont mortellement
bless4 les agents en- cherchant a
s'eyader. LIE sheriff est parvenu q
s'emparer des deux vauriens ct los
conduits a ph0tel de vile en- at
tendant le train qui devait les EN-
mener a la prison du comt6 Les
prisonnie RS 6taient sous bonne gar
de; mais tout dun coup, les lam
pes 6lectrlques eclalrant lhotel de
Vile sc sont 6telntes ct trois cents
hommes arm6s ont envahi p6difice.
En- un clin d'oeil, les gardes ont etc
r6duits a l'impuissanc ct les pri
sonniers conduits dams une sallt
du premier 6tage don't la fenetre
6t6 ouverte; on les fait monter
sur le rebord de la fenetre, on leur
a pass6 a chacun une corde autour
du cou ct, en- braquant sur Gu des
revolvers ct des carabines, on les
a forces q sauter dams la rue. Dams
cette chute de pres de trente pieds.
Risb.e a Gu la colonne vertebrate
bris6e ct etc tue sur le coup; Lee
est mort par strangulation.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-07-12

Balandard chass Pours dams les
Pyr6n6es, avec quelques compa-
gnons.
Un ours de superbe taille appa-
raft sur un rocher, tandis que Ba-
landard raconte a un ami:
-J'sdore l'ours. Une tranche
sur le grill est excelIente.
En- VOLTA un! lui crie-t on.
All! hurle Balondard en- prenant
la faite, celui ci nest pas assez
cult!
II est question, entire jeunes fl
les, dc Pepoux ideal:
MOI, dit Angelo, je ne veux f.
xer mon choix que sur un homme
qui aime les betes.
Pour 6tre aimee?
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-07-12

ron de Sulphur Springs, lorsqu'1l
heurte avec ses souliers un vieux
vase en- fer tout rouille, presque
complement enfoui dams le sol,
mais que des pluies r6centes avaielt
d6couvert. LIE fermier Gu la Gu
riosit6 de voir ce que pouvalt bien
etre ce vase 6tranga. Ilpa d6terr6
ct il eu pagr6able surprise de le
trouver rempli dor portant toutes
DIES dates anterieures a la guerre
de secession ct formant une somme
de $4,000.
Sur le bord de la route Sc tror-
We un arbre dams le tronc duqueI
on peut voir encore settlement en-
fonce un gros ct vieux clous don't
la tete, depassant dun pouce envi-
ron semble indiquer Pendroit pre-
,is Oh le tresor 6tait enfoui. On
suppose que le tr@sor a etc enfoui
a Get endroit par quelque richie resi-
dent du voisinage pendant la guer-
re de secession.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-07-12

Variation medicale:
-Et bien, monsieur le docteur,
que pensez vous sincerement de
notre pauvre malade?
Hum Vous permettez que je
reserve mes appreciations. Et de-
bord, a qui al je lhonneur de par
ler?
"A son neveu, docteur.
-Cest que, vous comprenez, je
pouvais cra1ndre que l'6motion, la
surprise. 90. Mais puisque vous
etes le neveu, je puis parler sans
hesitation ct dissiper toute inqni6-
tude. Xotre oncla est perdu.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-07-12
Strategic d'Amoureux.

L'amour rend parfois ing6nieux,
surtout quand il est contrari6, ct
sill ne faut qu'un exemple pour l.
prouver, nous allons offrir celui ci {:
Thomas Strong, qui nest pas un
garcon tres malin, Sc consumait d a
mour depuis longtemps pour une
jeune b aut6 de son comt6 natal
de Sumter, en- George. Ii n'avalt
pu TOUGHER le coeur de la rebelle,
qui lui pr6f6rait une sorte de dude
qui porte le nom de Stephen Pen
hard ct avec lequel ellie s'6tait
fanc6e, apres avoir donn6 trois
fois capot au pauvre Tom. aussi,
celul-ci, au d6sespoir, s'6tait decide
a Sc d6faire du peu de bien quill
poss6dait en- ce monde Four gutter
lie pays ct aller oublier au loin Get
te cruelle Sue. Aurait-il pu y vi
vre plus longtemps, apres tout,
quand chaque soir il voyait, dams
une savane voisine, son rival Sc
promener avec la jeune file? Non,
la ialousie laurait tue. II cut &C.
pendant une inspiration: parmi ses
animaux il await un jeune taureau
qui, sans etre absolument vicieux,
ne voulait voir d'autre homme que
son ma1tre, auquel il obeissait com
me un chien. Dave-c'6tait le nom
du Ia 1reau--a al]ait etre l'instrument
de la vengeance de Tom, 81 toute,
tefois il ne devait pas elre pavocat
de sa cause bien compromise. LIE
soir suivant, vers Pheure de la pro
menade des amants, Tom laissa
passer Dave dams la savane. puis il
Sc cacha ct attendit dams la plus
cruelle impatience. II Wit en6n pa
ra1tre le couple, entrelac6, absorb4
dams son bonheur a tel ont quill
6tait a vingt cinq pas de Dave sans
pavoir WI, bien que panimal pio
chat ferme la terre. Ce ne fut
qu'au premier b,uglement de la
bette que Stephen fut rappel6 d la
r6alit6 ct son premier mouv: ment
fut de vouloir entra1ner la jeune
file du cote de la barriere, mais
Sue 6tait p6trii6e par la frayeur ct
ne bougeait pas. Stephen, voyant
panimal s'6lancer vers lui tete bas
se, ne songea plus qua con salut
ct, poussant un cri de frayeur, il
Iaissa Ia sa bslle pour atteindre le
barri6re. A ce moment supreme
Tom franchit la barri6re ct VIOLA
au secours de la pauvre Sue, quill
enveloppa de ses bras pour la mleux
prot6ger. Dave en- voyant son mai
tire, courut vers lui, non pour lui
fare du NAL, ct Tom cut qua te
mir une corne du docile animal, don't
Pair m6chant 6tait des plus from
peurs, pour SO poser en- h6ros de
want la ]eune file quill adorait.
Des que celie ci fut remise de sa
peur, ellie lui declara que Stephen
await fait preuve dune trop grande
lachet6 deyant cette vache pour
au'elle lui adressat encore la paro
le. Tom lui laiss6 croire que
Dave 6tait une vache; mais trois
semeines p1us tard IL conduisait
Sue davant un ministre qui les
unlssait en- marriage.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-07-12
Une bonne fortune.

Les tr6sors ne se trouv, Mt gu61 e
dams les rues ct sur les routes q
notre 6poque. ct pourtant un pau
vre fermier du comt6 de Hopkins,
Texas, a eu la bonno fortune den
ramasser un, ces jours derniera,
sous ses pas.
L'heureux fermier chemlnait SUI
uns route, q quatorze miles envi.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-07-12
POUR RIRE.

LIE docteur j. venait d'op6rer
pn de ses clients auquel il await
coupe la jambe.
Un proche parent de la victime
le prend a part:
-Pensez vous, monsieur le doc
teur, lui- -demande-t-il, que le mala-
de en- r6chappe?
-Lui? Ii ny jama1s eu pom-
bre d'espoir.
-A.ors, a quol bon le faire souf-
frir!
Eth! que diable, monsieur, est
ce qu'on peut tout de suite dire a
un malade quill est perdu?.
Ii faut bien amuser un peu.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-07-12

Dams la petite bourgade de
c.. WYATT un jeune notaire
dout P6tude devenalt de jour en-
jour plus horlssante. L'ld6e lui
vint de Sc marier, II 6pousa une
femme cancaniere ct bavarde qui
lent bientot brouille avec tout le
monde.
Un des amis de Pinfortun6 ta-
bellion passait rautre jour par
CO..
-Faut IL beaucoup d'actes? de-
manda il Pun des habitants.
--Oui, des actes de contrltiop.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-07-12

Guibollard Sc prom9ne avec un
ami qui est pris soudajn dun SAL
gnement de nez.
-CouroDs vite chez un pharma.
Glen, s'6crie Guibollard. C'est tres
dangereux, un de mes oncles en- est
mort d SoIferlno.
COMMENT. mort dun sal
gne1aent de nez?
-Certajnement. :. un saigne-
ment de nez cause par une bale
quill recue en- pleine figure.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-07-12

Blaise, voyant a lagonie
Lucas, qul lui devalt cent francs,
Lui dit, toute honte bannie.
Ca, payez moi vite, il est temps.
-Laissez moi mourir mon alse
R4pondit faiblement Lucas.
oh! pal bieu, vous ne mourez pas
Que je ne sois paye, dit Blaise.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1888-07-12

Premiere entrevue entire fances.
LIE jeune homme a la file:
->Comment vous remercier, ma
demoi5elle, de m'avoir accept6..
-Mais monsieur
-Cest que ]'avais d6ja 6t6 refu-
a6 par plus de vingt jeunes 6lles...
Tete de la fanc6e!
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13
A Popular Democratic Senator.

The deepest solicitude is felt by every
senator for Senator Beck in his illness at
Fortress Monroe. There are, indeed, few
men in the public service who can say as
he did only few days ago: ''Mr. Presi-
dent, | believe this is the first time in
about twenty years service that l was
ever obliged to say, either in the senate
or house, that was not well enough to
take part in the debate, but that Is the
fact this morning" Twenty years of
public service and never too sick day to
attend to his duties is, indeed, proud
record. Few men arc so popular as Is
the great hearted old Scotchman. Parti-
san he is, and fierce antagonist, but in
all the fierce debates and Contests in
either house he has never said n word to
wound He has always remembered that
he was o gentleman among gentlemen,
and his invariable courtesy and absolute
fairness have won him the love and es-
teen OF every man in Washington
Baltimore American (Rep.)
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13

Gen. Harrison says that he is In favor
of the civil service reform law and of its
faithful enforcement, and that "some ex.
tensions of the classified list are practical
BILE and desirable"
This measure of reform We have now.
The law as to the classified service has
been as well enforced, in the main, as 1t
is possible to do with partisan officials.
And the classified list has recently been
extended by order of the president.
But it is in the realm now beyond the
law that the need of reform Is greatest.
Of this Gen. Harrison says that only the
interests of the public service should sug.
gest removals from office" The trouble
with this glittering generality is that for
twenty four years the Republicans acted
upon the theory in the nation. as they
still do in every state and city controlled
by them, that 1.-The interests of the pub
lie service require that none but Repub-
licans should hold office. II the politi-
clans of that party did not believe that
their candidate for president still holds
and would act upon this view polar
wave would chill their canvass.
They are after the spells and will not
deny it.-New York World.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13

AS the president says, this is no crusade
of free trade. No one not lunatic de-
sires the establishment Of free trade in
the United States. 1t would be as absurd
in one direction as the theory of an abso.
lutely home market for all we manufact-
ure or produce, maintained by Chinese
wall of protection is on the other 1t is
as true now as it has been, that our in
dustries require protection against certain
forms of foreign competition, and that
the best way to raise a revenue for ma
tional expenses, aside from the taxes on
luxuries and vicious indulgences like
whisky and tobacco, is from tax on i'm.
ports. Providence journal.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13

Senator Sherman objects to the retalia-
ton upon Canada proposed by the presi-
dent because lin the state of Ohio there
is invested several million dollars in lake
commerce, which would be stopped by
such measure" This is very much like
Mr., Blaine's objection to it because it
would hurt the business of Portland, the
winter harbor of Canada" The Republic
can leaders are very anxious that Canada
should be brought to terms, but they want
it done without hurting any Of their
special interests. Do they suppose retalia-
ton can be made one -sided? Their furious
patriotism oozes out like Bob Acres cour-
age when confronted with the possible
loss of some of their boodle.-New York
World
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13

Our relations with foreign powers
should be characterized by friendliness
and respect. The right of our people and
Of our ships to hospitable treatment
should be insisted upon with dignity and
flrmness. Our neighbors will
surely not expect in our ports u CONNER.
cial hospitality they deny to us in theirs.
-Harrison's Letter.
We are glad to see that Mr.. Harrison is
in accord with Mr.. Cleveiand's retaliation
message
II Harrison is elected, however, Blaine
will be president, and in that case the
Lord only knows what kind Of middle
we shall be in. We have had taste OF
Blaine's foreign policy, and it's chief Pc
culiarity is a row with everybody we have
any dealings with-New York Herald.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13
Brush the Hair Thoroughly.

A certain hair balm" was very popular
many years ago, and did wonders if the di-
rections were followed. The "balm" was to
Be used night and morning, first rubbing the
scalp with a stiff brush for five minutes be-
fore applying the stuff. The thorough use
Of moderately stiff brush will greatly pro-
mote the health Of the scalp and prevent the
falling Of the hair without balm" or other
preparation.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13
A Dsmornlixetl PARTY,

The Republican party is cornered and
confused on every issue now before the
country.
The Chicago platform declared against
any reduction of the tariff. holding out
the alternative Of surplus spending or
free whisky. The Republicans Of the
senate are now trying to tinker up q tariff
reduction. The Republican congressman
and organs, discovering the sum Of the
years lavish appropriations, cried In glee:
'"There is no surplus" Gen. Harrison.
mindful Of the accumulation of $l32, O00.-
600 in the treasury and Of the continuing
excess of revenue, echoes the presidents
warning by declaring that I'VE are con.
fronted today with the question, not how
we shall get money. but how we shall
wisely stop some Of those avenues by
which wealth is pouring into our pub.
lie treasury"
The Republican senate rejected. for
political effect, treaty settling upon o
lust basis our differences with Canada.
The president promptly called for author.
ton. And the Republicans, though quib-
bling and hating. dare not deny his
request.
The intermeddling senate having in
voked rejection by China Of the anti
immigration treaty, the Democrats of the
house promptly passed bill to shut out
the undesirable hordes. And the Repub-
lican senators can only agree to the bill
while protesting against the stealing Of
their thunder"
The Republican platform condemns
trusts. Mr.. Blaine defends them. The
New York Republicans favor high license.
The national platform favors free whisky,
which Mr. Blaine says would kill high
license in every state"
Wherever there Is real issue in the
canvass, there is the Republican party
Sin q hole New York World.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13
Down with Monopoly.

The Democratic party is the party Of
the plain people. Its mission is to govern
for the benefit of the masses Of society
for the general welfare. It's corner stone
is that the humblest citizen is entitled to
the same liberty and the same protection
that the most exalted enjoy. 1t, there.
fore, wants all the plain people, without
regard to race or color, to hold up it's
hands that it may endure forever, that it
may preserve free government and that it
may strike down every monopoly or other
powerful engine of despotism and oppres-
sion.-Evansville Qnd.) Courier
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13

Candidate Harrison should have been
more careful in that letter. lie can't con.
tradict the matchless leader, the I'M
crowned king, etc, with impunity, and
neither can he afford to offend the fat"
manufacturers Of Pennsylvania. To be
sure, his protest against trusts is pitched
in minor key, but it is his manifest duty
to help his friends, not to upbraid them.
But then perhaps he put his tongue in his
cheek and tipped them the wink when he
put in that paragraph.-Brooklyn Citizen.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13
The Zeal of a Recent Convert.

The chief fervor of Harrison's letter is
given, as might naturally have been ex-
pected, to the Chinese question. There
can be no doubt at all that the candidate
means to be understood as entirely sound
on that question now, whatever may have
been the fact in the past. In this matter,
as in the matter of opposition to pauper
and contract immigration, he has all the
zeal of the recent onvert.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13
MARRIED IN MIDAIR.

That couple will, doubtless, get on in the
world There is certainly no shrinking, no
native modesty about pushing forward. II
worst comes to worst the husband can take
to life insurance, and the wife would I'M
doubleday make an excellent book agent
After foundering about for a while Mr..
and Mrs. Davis were rescued by the drag
rope, which was fastened to a tree. Then
they proceeded on their wedding trip on terra
firma by rail.
The cut given is taken from Frank Leslie's
Illustrated Newspaper.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13

The New York Tribune is trying hard
to make good Blaine's assertion that tho
Republican plurality in Maine is over
10000, but it cannot accomplish the inpos-
sible. 1t still stands over 800 below that
of 1884, taking the press reports as accu-
rate, which they are probably not, as the
news gatherers down east are generally
Republican partisans. Brooklyn Citizen.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13

Blaine has stopped twisting the British
lions tail, All is just now telling his
Maine henchmen what very bad thing
retaliation would 10 for the British
Canada American railways. Hit rail-
road any time, and Blaine springs up like
the 'jack In the box" does when the
spring is touched.-Rockport IN. "
Democrat
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13
Morton Has Not Come Down. 81

While weeping crocodile tears over
Cleveland's contribution to the campaign
fund, Republican managers are inquiring
under their breath whether Candidate
and Millionaire Morton has come down as
handsomely as was promised. Chicago
Times.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13

The Democratic standard bearer has
left nothing unsaid that bears upon the
situation, and what he says is said in
manly, ringing style. He is discursive
without being heavy, firm in stating his
convictions and the opinions Of his party
without being dogmatic. Richmond
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13

A Republican exchange says that Can.
didate Harrison needs rest" and we may
add that in his downward fight he needs
the sympathy Of all his fellow beings
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13
AN AERIAL MARRIAGE.
1t Took Place ut Providence and Caused
Much Excitement.

On Grange day of the Rhode Island state
fair at Narragansett park, Providence, a
couple stood in the bridal car of the big balloon
"Commonwealth," and were married in pres
ence of 49, coo people. The bridal gifts were
displayed on a table near by. The happy pair
were Mr.. Edward j. Davis, shipping clerk,
and Miss Margaret Buckley The brides cos
tune was white satin and she carried bridal
bouquet of white roses, of course The ofiiciat-
ing Clergyman was the Rev. E. d. Hall, of st.
Psul's Methodist Episcopal church, and if he
was wise he secured his fee before the guy
ropes were let loose, for more absurd sight
than clergyman looking up to catch gold
piece from a groom darting upward in
balloon would be impossible t. imagine.
The balloon was managed by skillful aero
nauts, but not SO skillfully as to prevent its
coming down in a cedar swamp near Easton,
Mass Here the bridal couple, roses, wreaths
and all, were obliged to cling to the ropes
above the bridal car, which at this time it
would be well enough to designate as basket,
to keen from drowning
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13

PoRTLAND's STATUE OF LoNGFELLow.
than its line of kings, gave Longfellow the
place to which he is entitled among Eng .ish
poets by placing his bust in Westminster
abbey. These honors are just, but as one Of
she closing stanzas of the prelude says:
The poet needs no monument
In lasting bronze or stone;
So long man shall live
His silver words alone
Shall keep his memory greenl
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13

Forty five manufacturers of barbed wire
met at the fremont house In Chicago yes
terday and formed trust. 1t is largely
. private affair" with which the farmers
have nothing to do.-Springield (Msss.)
Republican.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13

An cesemblage Of men Is an accumulation
Of 6olian harps, whose notes are d:scordant
q harmonious, according to the way tho
wind blows-Carman sylvia.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-10-13

BUCKS ROW, WHERE ONE BODY WAS FOUND.
lam hammond the eminent alienist, very
sensil " says that the police have gone wrong
from the start, because they have looked only
for self evident william, a man 'whose face
would 60 far to hang him." while the proba-
bilities are many to one that the perpetrator
is decorous and soft spoken gentleman, liv-
ing an apparently virtuous life, a man whose
closest acquaintance do not suspect of crime.
Such was the appearance Of the noted De
Retz, the French "Bluebeardn above referred
to, and of the young man who confessed to
seventeen murders. Incidentally it may be
noted that Kate Bender was not all unattrac-
tive, and that Jesse Pomeroy was what many
people would call a ''tine looking boy" He
was sent to the Massachusetts, states prison for
life, and though the papers stated that Kate
escaped, there are men in Kansas who could
show you the very spot where she, her half
witted brother and her parents were laid be-
meath the prairie sod.
Chief Inspector Byrnes, of New York city,
accepts the opinion of DR.. Hammond and in
sists that the New York police could have
caught the man by using the women as de-
coys. He adds:
1--WE caught the fellow who had mania for
throwing vitriol upon women's dresses red
handed Immediately after it was reported.
His crime was localized He frequented Four
tenth street. made victims for him, and
my men were thickly scattered through that
district We have no such autocratic powers
as the London police, but If crime is 20
plainly localized in one particular district, a.
In the case Of these London murders, We
would most assuredly arrest the perpetrator
in short order"