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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07

but one other mill In the state of this con.
struction, and the Marseilles mill will have
a capacity of 1875 barrels per day The driv-
Ing power is with belts, running much
smother than with cogs, Everything,
even to buckwheat, corn and feed tor cat
tie is ground the same way, farmers
grist included. In short 1t is roller GUS
tom and merchat mill combined.
Here is what the best experts say of the
-four made by the above and latest improved
method-the centritlcal SYSTEM"
"Straight flour. with low grade out, (being
less than per cent? is equal to the best pat
ents made in this country. Yield is bushels
"A l.S pounds uncleaned wheat per barrel"
Mr. Dawell will place -four upon the
market that will have firm hold in every
family.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07

An Indiana Judge has held that tele-
phone companies doing a general telephone
bushes in that state are bound to furnish
all persons applying for service with tele-
phones at the legal rate of 50 per month
The company endeavored to show that i,
was not furnishing private telephones, but
that it established public stations through
out the city, at which each person upon
the payment of five cents, could be placed
In communication with all portions of the
system,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07
iron or steel lately. He Is writing tariff
articles with high tariff pen, that's all.

The Chicago Tribune says that the re.
publicans need not grope heeplessly In the
dark for an issue next year aside from the
only one they now see Of putting tobacco
on the free list and maintaining useless
tariff taxes" as the party can take up the
Pacific railroad robbery as an issue. 1.-THE
Pacific railroad fund" the Tribune says, "is
the greatest swindle ever perpetrated on
the American people, and II stands unre-
dressed, with the pillage still bullying In
the pockets of public thieves, who, with an
insolence worthy of Tweed, ask what the
Government and people proposed to do
about It," The Tribune has not forgotten
that those infamous robberies were author
lied and accomplished under republican
administrations; and that II was not until
the democratic party came into power that,
as the Tribune itself says, "the facts are all
clear now" The Pacific roads have moth
Ing to fear from the republican party, es-
peciallv republican Senate, who will
insist, like the republican tariff "reformers,"
that the account of stealings shall be made
up and settled "by the friends of the road"
and not its democratic enemies" No, the
Tribune will hardly be able to switch the
republican party off the high protective
tariff track on to side track with the
Pacific road as a national issue.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07

The Canadian authorities do not propose
to have annexation discussed within the
Dominion. c. E. Knapp registrar OF
probate has been threatened with dismissal
from office for even suggesting advantages
Canada would derive in being annexed to
to the U. s., which when Parliament meets
next month an effect will be made to i'm
peach John V. Ellis of St. Johns, "a mem.
beD for advocating annexation in his paper,
the conduct of both being branded as trai.
torOus.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07

The New York Board of Education will
introduce manual instruction in the public
schools February 1st. Its first operations
will be necessarily experimental, but they
will constitute an experiment that will be
watched with great interest, and, If well
conducted, will probably lead to general
system of teaching children how to earn
their own living. 1t is subject that will
bear study in the country as we'll as in the
city.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07
JOHN BHERMAN'S BID.

No sooner had the Atlantic cable flashed
the text Of President Cleveland's message
to Jim Blaine In Paris, than the latter
perceiving at glance that It brought the
question OF tariff reform to the fore &C
prominently that II must become the great
Issue In the campaign Of 1883, promptly
cabled back vigorous attack on the mes
sage. by way Of reminder to the Repub-
lican leaders that In the presidential con
test at hand the party must have leader
of pronounced record on the tariff question
In opposition TO the Presidents views, and
that Jim Blaine was that man.
Nothing was more certain, Of course,
than that Blaine's prompt bid for the Re.
publican leadership Of 1888 must be fol.
lowed by like bid from John Sherman.
But while all there Is Of Jim Blaine Is on
the surface, and his impromptu efforts are
always his best, Sherman Is slow and heavy,
and, familiar rs he Is, from long service on
cognate committees In the senate and as
Secretary OF the Treasury, with the ques-
lions Of national taxation and finance,
was as impossible for him to flash out
bright and ready screed like Blaines, as II
would have been for Blaine to prepare a
deliberated and studied production like
Sheimans.
There Is likeness, however, in both
manifestos. Both are purely al captandum.
As even Blaine would hardly have dared
10 make such wild and reckless utterances
In the Senate, so Sherman must have
blushed with the consciousness that though
nominally addressing the Senate, he was
talking to Buncombe. How otherwise 10
II possible 10 account for the reckless, un-
blushing mendacity Of the one. and the
studied, deliberate misrepresentatic and
capitalization OF the other,
Passing Blaine by, let US take brief
glance at Sherman's remarkable utterance.
The Presidents plea OF the necessity for
revenue reduction to get rid Of dangerous
surplus is answered, In the 6rst place,
glibly, by the question, why have surplus
II the President had signed the river and
harbor bill, with all its log.rolling inlqui-
tles,) the dependent pension bill, with Its
implied insult to the soldiers,); and con.
gress had made more liberal appropriations
for coast defenses; and had muniflcently
subsidized our mercantile marine; had
passed the Blair Educational BILL and the
Secretary Of the Treasury had bought at
Shylock prices government bonds In the
markef,-there would be no surplus. But
the mendacious and unmanly insinuation
Is made that the Presidents dread of the
dangers of an unwieldy surplus are affect
ed, and that his real object is to "alarm the
country SO as to induce congress to break
down great industrial interests!" Rather
than endanger these, Mr.. Sherman un.
blushingly announces himself in favor of
Stree whisky and free tobacoo" using the
demagogical argument that although the
tobacco manufacturers and whisky distil-
lers may not complain Of the tax, the farm
ers who raise the tobacco and corn do, for
they primarily were the greatest sufferers
from the tax.
But the President was opposed to re-
hitting any Of these taxes, to give him the
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07

Hon. John Virgin, the Vice President of
the Illinois State Board of Agriculture for
the Ninth Congressional District, has com.
pleted arrangements for what promises to
be an interesting meeting, for the farmers
and others interested in agriculture, resid-
ing in the counties of Kankakee, Iroquois,
Ford, Livingston, Woodford and Marshall.
The meeting will be held in the court
house, at Pontiac, on the 10th and 18th of
January, 1888. Mr.. Virgin has secured
able talent as speakers, and all the proges-
sive farmers and stock-breeders In the dis
trict are invited TO attend the meeting.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07

The shutdown of the Standard OIL Co.
and the stoppage of production has had the
effect intended. "Oil is booming" and the
oil exchanges In New York and Pittsburgh
are veritable pandlmoniums. OIL that
at the date Of the shut down was worth
40c, and Dec. 18th from 70 to TN was
on Wednesday worth 90 and 81, and still
"a-goin" As the company bribed the
men by promising the profits on several
millions of barrels set aside for that pur-
pose, the latter will probably enjoy their
prosperous spoils in this gambling trans.
action. How many of them will remain
to be honest men after the dividend on the
speculation is divided remains to be seen.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07

Having concluded the Hon. Robert Lin
coin is not available as presidential can
didate, Illinois republicans now seek to
"harmorize" the scramble for the guberna-
torial nomination by placing him on the
State ticket for that Office
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07
Formulation lO.354.

Some time ago a resolution was introduced
of the township taken, in order to ascertain
whether or not we are entitled to another
supervisor, making four. The resolution was
voted down; but at the next meeting petit
ton, with two. hundred signers, to the same
effect was passed, and Town Clerk Albert
Maierhofer ordered to do the work.
The task was completed on Saturday last
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07

Ex.Secretary Holcomb, of the American
Legation at Pekin, says that out of AGO.
0OO,O 900 inhabitants of the Chinese Empire
fully 3OO,OOO,0O0 spend less than $3.50 a
month for food. And China is the ideal of
all protected" countries.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07

The Santa Fe road is now open for traffic
and passenger trains began running Jan y
LIST from Chicago to Fort Madison. The
road will be stocked for the passenger
traffic in the most sumptuous manner for
operations after the road has settled after
the spring thaws.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07

On Dec. 3Oth the rubber manufacturers
held secret meeting at Boston. No one
outside the ring understands what was
done; but retailers fear an advance in
prices and the workmen a reduction in
wages-the two seem to 60 hand in hand
thoco davc
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07

1t must be said in migitation Of the
assaults made by some on the Reading strik-
ers, especially the miners, that while the
operators gave them an advance of eight
cents in September, they intended to take
1t of January LIST, although there was no
reason for the reductionin the state of the
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07

the government bebt, payable In 80 years.
the bonds TO be delivered TO the secretary OF
the treasury, and a mortgage made 10 two
trustees for the benefit of the government
as security. II the roads do not accept this,
then that they be forced TO pay the treasury
40 per cent of their net earnings In llew OF
the % per cent, now aquired by law. The
minority report recommends that the char.
ters be annulled and the roads put into the
hands Of receiver. The reports show a
most extraordinary swindle which con
gress and the courts should Immediately
take steps TO punish and guard against In
the future. The audacity Of the thieves Is
amazing. They regarded neither the law
nor public right and there isno doubt II
the roads We're honestly managed, there
would have been fewer milliCnaires, but
the bebt TO the government would have
been paid and the patrons of the road less
ruthlessly robbed.
The fight against the Washburn Il Moen
barbed wire monopoly resulted In
brilliant victory for the opposition at
Dubuque on Thursday last, when Judge
Shares handed down decision declaring
the monopoly's patent invalid "for want OF
novelty" The "Beat EN- All Co. fighting
Washburn IL Moen showed that the Gid
den patent has been brought into use as
early as 1859 by Morley OF Iowa thus
ante dating the Gledden patents under
which the monopoly has operated and un.
Ill now shut out all others or forced the
payment of a royalty. The case will I'm.
doubtly go TO the U, $. Supreme court, but
II is thought that Judge Shiras' decision
will be sustaince by the higher courts, and
that the great barb.wire monopoly, which
has 80 long oppressed the farmers OF the
West, Is on the threshold os a final defeat
and obliteration.
The government" in England Is not In
a state of hilarity over the Irish question
In this festive New York holiday season.
On the contrary, they are decidedly blue,
so to speak. The question never stays long
In one place; il changes like kaleido
scope; and now that n rent reduction has
been ordered by the government, the land
lords, who pinned their faith and hope to
the present government, are questioning
whether they had not better have stuck TO
Gladstone and his guarantees But blow
never hurts till IL falls, and until IL falls II
may be warded off. Gladstone, when rents
were lowered 25 to 30 per cent on vol
untary contracts, guaranteed the new rents
for fifteen years. But on January lst
the government announced a compulsory
reduction of II per cent more; thus after
but six years throwing Gladstone's guar.
antees to the wind And now the land
lords want to know where II will stop. |
English tenants are In as bad way as the
Irish tenant, some say more So VIII his
.ents also be reduced? No wonder the
cries are disheartened.
The Pope's jubilee, Dec. 3lst, was
observed In Rome with great magnifcence
md commemorative services were held in
avery civilized land.
The news from the continent continues
o be decidedly war like, though peaceful
negotiations are In progress. The cold has
,een severe, and temporarily put stop to
he movement OF troops on the Russian
rontier.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-07

Numerous borings (prospecting) fer coal
are being made in Deer Park township at
points accessible to the new l. v. & N.
rns6
Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-18
HETZKE MUST HANG.
The Murderer OF Little Max Gilman
to Paw the Payalty.

CHICAGO, Feb 17.-[Specal Telegram to
the BEE. death was the punishment the
jury this morning decided to infict in the
case of August Hetzke, who beat to death
his little step-son, Max Gilman No man
ever received the same announcement with
less show of emotion. When the verdict was
read the few words booming the guilty man
to the gallows fell upon his hearing without
any apparent significance. He made no mo-
tion nor never, for single instant, took his
eyes off the floor. The big muscles stood out
on his neck and the veins were full about his
temple, that went to show he was fully con-
scious Of what was going on, although he
pretends to be unable TO understand English.
The murder of little Max Gilman was a
peculiarly brutal one. The boys mother
died in June last and Hctzke's cruelty drove
the lad away from home, After one of those
runaway episodes the little fellow returned
to his step-father's house November 20, and
that night he was gwen terrible beating
Hetzke used strap and beat the child so
that his body from head TO foot was one huge
sore. Several times during the night people
living in the house at No. 422 Lincoln street
heard the CHILD crying and once they heard
Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-18
AN OLD MANS DEVILISH DEED
Horrible Tragedy Enacted By Adam
Wirts Near Burlington, Ia.
FATALLY CUTS HIS SONS WIFE.
And Then Burns Up His Two Grand
children and Hangs Himself
Dubuque Gamblers Raided
Iowa News.
A Most Revolving Crime.

BURLINGTON, Ia, Feb 17.-TSpecial Tele-
gram to the BEE. IA horrible tragedy oc-
Cured to-day in jackson township, twelve
miles north of this city. An old man named
Adam Wirts, living with his son, attacked
his daughter-in-law with a corn knife, in
ficting probably fatal wounds Two of the
children fled from the house and
hid behind straw stack Wrts
then set fire to the house, which burned
down and consumed two little children, one
an infant only two months old. He then shot
the best horse in the stable, broke the gun in
pieces and hanged himself in the haymow.
The daughter-in-l law, escaping from the burn
ing house, dragged herself to neigh
boris, half mile distant, where
her husband was at work.
She tainted from exhaustion and loss of
blood, being terribly cut and bruised. Wirts
was about seventy years old, Of a bad dispo-
sition naturally, and inclined to make trouble.
1t is believed that he committed the inhuman
crimes from pure deviltry. 1t is the most re-
voting and saddening tragedy ever happen
ing in this county.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-18
A Cleveland Sensation.

CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 17.-[Special Tele.
gram to the BEE. when Mrs. Josephine
Ammon, a wealthy Euclid avenue lady, wal
committed to Jail for contempt of court i1
refusing to reveal the whereabouts Of the,
heiress, Josephine Blann, she based hey
hopes of release on the fact that Probatd
Judge Tilden was soon to vacate office, and
that his successor, Judge White, would re-
move the obnoxious guar dian, and thus pers
nit her to open her lips. To-day Judge
White decided that Miss Blann must be pro-
duced in court before any steps can be taken
for changing the guardian. This means that
Mrs. Ammon must remain prisoner in the
county Jail until she chooses to change hen
barren quarters there for her luxurious homd
on the avenue by answering the question OF
the court as to the hiding place of the miss<
ing heiress or, which would amount to the
same thing, producing the young girl I'M
court. Mrs. Ammon declares she will neveu
do this, and so far has wthstood the entreatt
les of her family, friends and lawyers cont
hinpd
Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-18
somnambuiism and Death.

BosToN, Feb. 17.-[Special Telegram to
the EE.l-The body of John NJ. Underwood
a wealthy resident Of Oak Knoll, Danvers,
was found this morning about quarter Of a
mile from his house For some years Mr.
Underwood has been afflicted with somnam-
bulism, and within few nights past has
been found wandering about the house in his
sleep. AS he did not appear at the usual
hour this morning. his sister went to his
room, but he was not there. Word was sent
to the nearest neighbors that Mr.. Underwood
was m issing. They instituted search, Mr..
Fish &c ing toward Beaver Creek station and
Phillips taking tnes opposite d rection. Mr..
Phillips was quickly recalled by ashout from
Mr.. Fish, who had found Mr.. Underwood's s
body lying in the road. He was clad only
in his nightdress and death had undoubtedly
ensued hours before the discovery. 1t is
thought he must have left the house about
midnight The mercury stood at daylight at
from 50 to 10o below zero. Years ago Mr..
Underwood left his house under much the
same circumstances. The night was very
cold, but he was seen by neighbors in season
to save his life,
Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-18


him praying. In the morning he was found
dead. When accused Of having killed the
child Heitzke's reply was:
THE loafer oughtto die"
The man, ever since his arrest and all dur
ing the trial, showed no regret or any feeling
of sorrow for his crime, and when 1t beanie
known to-day that the extreme penalty was
to be meted out in his case the judgment was
that he deserved it and that the verdict was
just one. One man voiced the popular feel
ing when he said:
"a few more juries like the one that tried
Hetzke is what we want just now"
Once before his arrest for killing his step
son Hetzke came under the notice of the po
lice for his share in piece of petty persecu-
ton. II was August 22 last that he presented
himself to Lieutenant Schumacher at the
West Chicago avenue station with a COM
plant that his house had been robbed. He
had a list of the goods alleged to have been
stolen, and said the thief was his house
keeper, blooming young German girl named
Johanna Ketzke The articles alleged to
have been stolen were lot Of worthless
trinkets belonging to the deceased Mrs.
Hetzke. When the girl told her story'a new
state of facts was revealed. 1t appeared that
Hetzke wanted to marry her and she refused
him. A week after she came to his house
Hetzke proposed marriage, but the girl told
him she was already engaged and put him
of but Hetzke kept on proposing and when
the girl told him she did not like him and
would never marry HIM Hetzke swore he
would send her to the penitentiary. The
trumped-up charge of theft was the conse-
auence and the girl was dismissed.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-18
The Standard Again on Top.

BUFFALO, N, Y, Feb. 17.-[Special Teldb
gram to the BEE. The pluckiest combat
ant the oil interests have had in late years u
in trouble. The Buffalo Lubrcating oil
company, through the failure Of the inde.
pendent combination, finds itself in financial
difficulties, and in the hands of receivers
1t has three suits for damages pending
against the Standard. One is for 81 ,000, 600
in which the Buffalo company got verdict
for $40, 900, and asked for a new trial ON tho
ground that the evidence called for the
award OF q greater sum. Another Is for
$3.50, 900, based on grounds OF cons piracy, tha
same as the famous criminal action OF lasg
spring which resulted in the conviction of
two of the leaders of the Standards intetS
ests. The Standard has now made an ofiep
of S25, 900 in settlement of all suits, and the
receiver asked instructions from the suprema
court. The settlement is opposed by most Of
the stockholders and creditors OF the Buffalo
COMPANY.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-18
Failed to Make Peace.

CHICAGO, Feb. II. Every interested line
in the northwest was represented to-day at
the managers meeting of northwestern lines.
The matter Of existing troubles was put into
the hands of committee which, after con-
sideration, reported that the only way to Sc
cure peace and harmony was to merge the
Western, Southwestern, and Northwestern
associations into one, to be governed by the
same rules and regulations and with one
head. A committee was appointed with in
structions to confer with the managers of
southwestern lines and arranged joint con-
ference at the earliest possible moment. A
resolution that all rates be restored March /
to the tariffs in effect prior to january 81,
was defeated, the Burlington lines refusing
to restore rates until q permanent agreement
was adopted.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-18
ON TRIAL FOR MURDER.
An Unsavory Couple Before Kansas
City's Criminal Court.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, Feb. 17.-[Special Tele-
gram to the BEE. Paul Enders was placed
on trial to-day in the criminal court on the
charge Of murder in the first degree. The
indictment charges Enders and Blanche Con-
nors, alias Matte Mason, with killing Joseph
Peters on Christmas night for the purpose Of
robbery. The evidence adduced at the pre-
liminary examination showed that Blanche
Connors and Peters went to the house of
Jane Grigsby, No. II East Bell street, on
Christmas night. There they met Enders
and some others. A quarrel followed, and
Enders, Peters and Blanche Connors went
outside. A few minutes later there was a
cry for help, but the inmates of the house
paid no attention to it. Enders and the
woman soon rejoined them. An hour later a
policeman discovered the dead body of Peters
on the sidewalk in front of the house. There
was large knife wound in his groin. Enders
and Blanche Connors were arrested the next
morning
Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-18
The Fire Record.

PROVIDENCE, February IA fire this
morning destroyed several business build
ings and caused a loss Of about $4,000. 1t
was discovered at o'clock this morning and
ragged for three hours. The fire started in
D. d. Mett's building on Broad street. The
flames from there worked their way into tho
Wells block, and from there into Segar block,
q three-story building adjoining. Turning
the corner of High street, the Stillman build
ing, three-story frame structure; Bradford
block and Mantle bank building, two-story
brick, were burned. The thermometer was
"a degrees below zero, and thirteen firemen
suffered severely from exposure.
The total loss is now estimated at $40, 900,
and insurance at $50, 600.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-THE grain warehouse of
]. S. Smith e. Co., on the river, was damaged
to the extent Of $4,000 or 100000 shortly
after midnight.