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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1889-05-03
BISMARCK. DAKOTA. FRIDAY, MAY ;. 1889.

from which the start was made, up Broad
way as far as the eye could reach, the side
walks were literally blockaded with peo.
pie, while the windows, doorways and
roofs of the buildings were simply q mass
Of Of. humanity: a9 anti The scenes along the first
description. Washington square was sim
ply seething, hustling, bustling. crowd
Of humanity. AS the troops passed down
Waverly place and up Fifth avenue under
the grand arch, the scene from the grand
stand was a magnificent one. The long
line of soldiers with their trappings and
trimmings glfttering in the sun, looked
moving on, turning aside for nothing. As
the troops filed down and into Fiftha ave-
nue. they were greeted with cheer after
cheer. On up the broad avenue passed
the pageant with martial music and steady
tread. Ladies forgot torn buttons.
torn dresses and disorderly attire. They
had come to see it all and see it they in
tended anyhow. Into Union square came
the head Of the column. The troops made
beautiful turn, and passing by the statue
of the immortal George, wound around the
square like some huge gaily colOred ser
pent. Madison square seemed mass of
flags and bunting. The president and
party arrived at IL 80 o'clock,
THE BANQUET.
The Metropolitan opera house was to
night the scene of the second chief event
of the great centennial celebration, and
the theatre of the greatest banquet ever
held within the recollection of man. The
interior decorations OF the now historical
building excelled even the splendor and
display Of the ball celebration of the pre-.
vlous night. The stage and auditorium
connected in one continuous floor, was
the foundation OF over a quarter of q
hundred tables alrayed in double horse
shoe fashion, with seating capacity fol
800. Nearly 5000 wine glasses glittered at
intervals along the array of tables
and 200 twaiters, as well drilled
as SO many soldiers, stood ready to respond
to the slightest wink of the diners. The
tables were elab0rately decorated. The
chief steward, stationed at the presidents
chair, controlled the electrical wire ir
communication with the chief cook. ani
at a given signal the large congregation Of
diners started simultaneously with dinner
The expense of the dinner is said to have
been SS5.00o, the wine alone coming
to an expenditure of nearly $4,000
Over the presidents seat, surrounded b,
flowing American flags, was suspended {
huge picture of the face and bust of Wash
ingt0n. At Mayor Grants right hand sat
the president and Governor Hill was on
the mayors left. Next to the president
sat Vice President Morton.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1889-05-03
Hung to . Tree.

SOMERSET, Pa, April S0.The commu-
nifty was startled this morning by the dis
covery Of another horrible tragedy. at an
early. hour Jacob D: Shan1is, a wealthy
farmer go years Of age who lived in Jeffer-
son township, eight miles from this place,
was found dead hanging to a tree back Of
his residence. Lying in the barn yard q
few feet away was his young wife. shot
through the body and fatally wounded.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1889-05-03
Is it . Trance.

+. s. . b b..
CHICAGO, May lone week ago today
Miss Wilhelmina Stahl, aged 81 years, re-
siding in a surburb Of Jefferson Park, died
of rheumatism of the heart She had once
gone into trance in Germany. This time
when the time for the funeral arrived. the
body showed:no signs of decomposition and
the burial was postponed. The lips re-
manned red, the cheeks flushed and there
was no pallor of the body. The mother
believed it was another trance. The body
was put into bed and artificial heat applied
In the hope Of restoring her to life. Finally
physicians were called In and made scien-
tific tests. "A looking glass was tried, arti-
fetal respiration and artificial abdominal
pressure were applied without q result.
Finally the tibial artery was opened and
then completely severed, but not drop Of
blood flowed, showing c0nclusively the
girl was dead. Still the mother was not
convinced and the body remains unbur-
led and efforts at resuscitati0n continue.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1889-05-03
FIGURING Min Burned.

LACROSSE. Wis, May Ia fire tonight
destroyed Listneau Touring mill. Loss,
$125, 600; insurance, $4,000. The adjoining
saw mills were saved with difficulty.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1889-05-03
Crushed to Death.

CHICAGO, April 3O.-One hundred thous.
and men, women and children were tossed
in the waves about the big Lake Front
park tonight. Half a hundred people are
known to have been seriously hurt, a num-
ber perhaps fatally. Scores of others suf-
fered painful injuries. The people were
massed in walls as solid as the frowning
stones Of the Auditorium against which
they were hurled when che first
strong blow of excitement broke
the great mob into a score of
tremendous crushes and stampedes,
Under the glare of the fireworks which
the throng had gathered to see, the faces
Of thousands of women showed white and
pleading. The shrieks of children
trampled under foot could be plainly heard
above the booming of big bombs and the
cheers of the unaffected parts of the vast
assemblage. The first pressure on the
west side forced the crowd against Stude-
baker Bros building and art institute, and
reaction came and with a great roar the
mob was forced eastward to the
lakeside. The Illinois Central SUI
burban trains were forced to stop.
pOWerlesS 10 get through the press OF peO-
pie. Aside from the great crowd itself,
the cause of the excitement was the huge
rockets. One of them shot out from a
stand and squirmed through the people,
scorching everybody in its course.
Another followed, seeming literally to rip
the crowd in two. Women tainted every
where and were brutally trampled upon
as they lay in the grass. The movement
of the crowd away from the scene of the
a onf
In the opposite direction, and the
result was q terrible cOnvulsiOn Of
the whole body. The seventy-five police
men sent by Captain Bartram to keep
order were tossed about as if they might
have been on billowy sea. But the worst
was to come. Congress street is narrow
alongside the Auditorium, and when the
greatest jam came, as it soon afterwards
did when the fireworks were over and
people started westward, encountered mul-
titudes1 who mad been unable to see the
pyrotechnics. The collision was frightful
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1889-05-03
PRICE FIVE CENTS.

drove at oLce to ice-President Mort0n's.
1t is estimated that up to that time $1,000
men had passed him.
LEAVING THE CITY.
During all the forenoon and early even.
ing. great crowds of people were taking
their departure from the city, including
many military organizations which had
taken part in the celebration. All those
who came in early in the day for that pur-
pose had to be carried to their homes,
among them any number of fire companies
from the surrounding districts. with their
panies and railroads were taxed to their
utmost, and special trains were being sent
ont.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1889-05-03
The President Afloat.

NEW YORK, April 29.-Arrangements
for the naval party were to-day carried out
to the letter. The presidential party were
escorted up the bay by over 400 vessels,
among which his vessel took the chief
place. When the Dispatch reached the
rear of the naval division. the yards of all
Of the vessels were manned and each ship
fired a salute of twenty-one guns. AS the
Dispatch passed each vessel the officers
and crew uncovered, the marine guards
and sentries presented arms, the drums
beat four ruffles and the bands played ma
tional airs. The triumphant passage of the
Dispatch between the parallel lines
of steamers occupied about an
hour. At the last gun from
the Chicago, the naval, revenue
and yachts division got under way and
steamed up the bay and north river at a
speed of six knots an hour preserving the
same formation and distance as when at
anchor. The merchant marine in two
great divisions of five squadrons each, fol-
lowed the Dispatch up east river. When
off Wall street the Dispatch came up to
anchor, the merchant marine passing on
up to the stake boat off 3Oth street. 1t is
understood the merchant marine column
was seven miles long. On the arrival
of the Dispatch in East river
a barge manned by crew
of ship masters from the
Marine society of the p st of New
York, with Capt. Ambrose Snow, president
of that society, as coxswain. put out to
mo- no md tfN % al 81
Pier No. Ii, where the president landed,
was one Of the most brilliantly decorated
spots in the city. The roof was one flut-
tering mass of flags and streamers, and
the interior, usually so s0mbre, was brill
liant with all the col0rs of the rainbow.
at which the boat containing
its distinguished passengers. The float
was handsomely carpeted and the stairs
leading to the pier were covered with a
canopy of bunting. Streamers were strung
across the river from Wall street to Pine
street. The president was received as he
Grant, Hamilton Fish, president of the
centennial committee; and William G..
Hamilton, chairman of the committee on
states, and with the other guests in car
riages was escorted to the equitable build
ing, where a reception and collection was
President Harrison was introduced
to the guests at. the banquet table by
Hamilton Fish. President Harrison
merely bowed in recognition Of Fish's re-
marks. and this ended the formal recep-
ton, the guests Immediately taking their
departure, though in this they were some
what impeded y the enormous crowds in
the Equitable building was scheduled to
end at $50 b. m, Another minute after
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-06-21
on Saturday.

on Saturday.
The local press has contained no word OF
the inner history Of this case. Indeed, the
Star exercised itself to give the public the
impression that Commissions Tanner was
most reluctant to part with his confidential
clerk. This is the course of the Washing
ton papers in every case. Never since the
time of Don Piatt has there been a Wash
ington paper that has had the courage to
lead the attack against any abuse. Perchance
after some outside paper has led the way
and everyone is abused. the Washington
papers may be led to reluctantly follow
the lead.
The clique that first revealed the crook
edness of the Washington aqueduct con-
struction found that the city newspapers
turned a deaf ear to their story. As usual
the first revelation reached the public
through the correspondents of the out-of-
town papers. Aggressive General Boyn-
ton, of the Cincinnati ComMerc1at Ga-
sette, sent out the first statement OF the
scandal. Even the local papers followed
the dictates of the War Department Off
cials and pooh-poohed it. That didn't al
feet the Generals perseverance. He ham
mered away until official investigation had
established the existence of a gigantic
swindle. To-day there is going on an i'll
~yestigation of the almshouse officials. The
charges are serious and the defendant
make only a feeble protest. Yet not one
word editorially has been said by any
| Washington paper. And this is one oil the
reasons why Washington people read out
| of town papers to get the news.
The average postmaster becomes SO at
tached to his office that it is almost impos
| sible to separate him and the object of his
affection. While this is an honorable love
and does credit to the postmasters unselfisi
generosity, it may lead its victim into devi
Gus paths. Several commissions have
been withheld for a few days when they
got into the hands of the man about to b.
deposed. The climax seemed reached Sat
urday when Geographic notice was givel
the Department by a Texan who was re
Gently appointed that he had not r%eceivet
his commission. On inspecting the records
it was found that the original commission
had been mailed him May 1G, and the du
plicate June I, An investigation has beef
ordered, but will probably be without an,
practical result. In the meantime, TIL
Democrat there had one extra month of Off
cial existence.
The number of Office seekers has in
creased in the past week, and one agail
sees many Of the faces that were familia
in March. The faces are not so cheerful
now as then but they look immensely wise
and even chastened as the faces of thos
who have unexpectedly toyed with circula
saws. WESTON.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-06-21
prohibition state convention.

The Prohibition voters of the state OF
New Jersey in the various counties, are re-
quested to meet in their townships and
choose delegates to their county conven-
tions. BY a resolution of the State Central
Committee it was requested of you that in
your county conventions delegates be cho-
sen to a state convention to be held in
Educational Hall, Asbury Park, On Thurs
day, July 18th, at 3 O'Clock P. NJ, and con-
tinue two days. Said convention is for the
parpose of nominating a candidate for gov
ernor to be supported at the ensuing cleo
ton, and for such other business as may be
brought before it. At your county con-
ventions you will also choose three persons
to represent your county on the State Cen
trail Committee.
The basis of representation in the State
convention, will be one delegate for every
twenty votes or fractional part thereof,
cast for governor in 1886. The chairman
of each County Committee will promptly
attend to this matter, and it is requested
that your county conventions be held at
the earliest moment, and hat a correct list
Of delegates, duly authenticated, be mailed
to the secretary, at Warrenville, N. j.
This is very necessary as the convention
under the call will contain nearly a thou
sand persons, and a complete list will aid
very materially the work of the conven-
ton. Signed,
C~oRTLANDT L. PARKER, Chairman.
WALTER WESLEY WINANs, Sec'y.
WarreuUiNe ~. j.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-06-21
ESSAYS
Read at ihe Lawn Party at ''NOrning
side" nca I~IarrfsOnviIIe, June
18Th. 1859.
THE SUNSHINE MISSION.


IL. NJ. L.. PAYeoAsT.)
You have asked for something from me
about the work that lies nearest my heart
domestic service reform-and the i'm
portanee or non-lmportance in connection
with temperance work. know you would
like to carefully consider it, so / want to
give you a few reasons why our w. G.. t.
T.. should endorse ''The Sunshine Mis-
sion."
For God and Home and ece,y Landn
is the great liberal motive of the grandest
body of women that ever worked together,
namely, our Worlds W. G. T. u, with
Frances E. Willard for its present head.
For God and Home and eoery Land. Do
you realize all that this covers? In the
little word home is found the connecting
link between God and humanity, the one
universal parent and His children of every
land. 1t has been said that the ''Homes
of a nation are its strongest forts" They
are far more, for they form beside its
purcst altar, its grandest church, its great
est school house.
All great reforms germinate within the
home or through the influences sent out
from it. Beneath its sheltering roof the
little embryo life takes root and grows in
to the highest type of manhood or woman
hood, and walks consecratcd into Gods
service. In the purity OF the home lies the
nations strength, and from the system and
order of the home is evolved the admins
tration of a perfected government. If, then,
through a want of system or a lack of
capable and willing helpers the home is
not smoothly run, the state or nation can
not be, and all philanthropy and reform
movements must suffer, together with our
spiritual and physical development, if our
home service be undisciplined and incom-
plete. When God created woman He gave
building for mankind's salvation, and she
has only been entirely successful in her eff
forts, when the kitchen, around which all
home life must centre, has been conducted
by competent workers.
Build a house without the kitchen in
some isolated place where no neighbours
kitchen or next-door restaurant can be
used. Is home there? No. The home
means not only a feeding Of the spiritual
and mental. but the physical also, without
which we cannot live in this world. Take
a reformed drunkard-he wants to do
right, TO let the drink alone, to be a man
once more. Let him return to a warm fire,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-06-21

One cannot but admire the religious
trend and God-fearing ways of some who
are in authority over us at Washington,
the capital of u country.
When a cabinet officer at the court OF
one of the greatest powers on earth, stated
ly and regularly leaves tue place of his
distinguished compeers to attend a sabbath
school at home, the influence is most salu-
tory, and great is the future of that coun-
try that makes such an example possible.
But perhaps the SAVIOR that will even
more thoroughly salt the body polite of
this country is found in the example of the
President of the United States taking part
in Il religious service at church and con-
Quoting private devotion in the family cir
Gle at the Executive mansion at home.
s'Verily righteousness exalteth a nation
while sin is a reproach to any people,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-06-21

In looking over the confession of Wood
ruff, the horse thief, who was charged and
doubtless was in some way IN accessory to
the murder of the late DR.. Cronin, we were
impressed by the low price at which the
devil secures his help for $25, a sum earned
weekly by a decent mechanic. This man
Woodruff, was willing, in bis w words,
to attempt anything in Gods world if
there's any money in it," and did attempt
and help execute a contract for $25, which
may yet send him to the penitentiary if not
to the gallows.
Take the case of Filler of ourown county,
now locked up in the Cumberland Jail, a
young man barely thirty years of age, a
bright, smart fellow, born with the assur-
ance that commands success, and yet be-
cause of a course of persistent wrong doing
without a dollar in the world and scarce a
single friend, and all for what? Reputation
gone, half, at least, of a vigorous life gone,
blessed opportunity gone, and all for what:
All that he might serve the devil at the
DEVILS wages, death. Young man work
for a good master, work for good wages,
and remember that the gift of God is life
eternal, while the wages of sin are death.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-06-21
WASHINGTON Letter.
(From our regular correspondent.)
WASHINGTON. D. c.. June II, 1899.

(fGOIl our regular correspondence.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. June II, 1889.
When COMMISSIONS of Pensions Tanner
came on from Brooklyn to assume the du-
ties of his position, he brought with him
an ex-employe of the New York custom
house, who was promptly installed as his
| confidential clerk. In former administra-
tions, the private secretary to the Commits
sioner has been quite an humble individual,
who has simply drawn his $500 per annum
salary and occupied the back ground. But
Capt. George B. Squires had a soul above
all this and thirsted for power. He hadn't
been in his Office thirty minutes before he
was Colonel.
And then began two months of the 'ad-
ministration of the private secretary" No
caller need see the Commissioner. 1t was
only necessary to obtain the ear of the pri-
yate secretary for any action, when, presto,
it was done. Claims were made special
without the formality of complying with
the Departments requirements. Scores of
cases were pushed through by the doughty
Colonel. The rag tag and bob tail Of the
clerical force who fawned upon the new
autocrat were loud in his praise, and in re-
turn were promised all sorts of favors by
him. They were to be assistant chiefs of
divisions and special examiners galore.
He was made commander of a Grand Army
post, and his deluded followers tried to join
the post in a body. This cheerful lot OF
hyenas had but one w%atchword, George
And George might have waxed long in
the land, if he had not commenced to sign
official letters George B. Squires, Private
Secretary and write in the first person
and become personally responsible for a
great amount of gratuitous information.
The annuities of official correspondence
must be observed, and when, for the first
time in Departmental history the private
secretary usurped the province of his chief,
old fashioned people were shocked.
Without warning, George was last Thurs
day removed to an inferior position in the
land Office, and his heelers were left to
mourn. 1t was the shortest and most
brilliant administration that ever graced a
Bureau. In it's meteoric career it recalls
the Kaleidoscope reigns during the French
revolution. 1t is now even said that the
chief supporter of the late dictator will be
removed, and indeed two were discharged
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-06-21

These are the days when the sweet girl
graduates, and the sweet boy graduates,
too. for that matter, pre-empt the earth.
Is anything more delightful, more fasci-
mating, more bewitcaing, more bewildering,
even, than the commencement exercises of
a graduating class. particularly if the class
be composed of ladies'. If SO, We are i'll
ignorance of it. Commencement day is
with some the Supreme moment of their
lives. They are treading in Ito them an
untrod path. The world is new TO them.
So far as they are able to scan the future
it is roseate with promise, and if, per-
chance, there be a single tinge of apprehen-
sion as to the future, if with hand shading
the brow they peer cautiously, ~wistfully
into the unknown, hope lends her aid, and
if hope lags the bright and swift wings Of
fancy watt them where the skies are more
golden, the fields more v%ernal, the flowers
more beautiful and the music more ravish-
ing thar mortal ever before knew, and
this, too, while standing IN the threshold
of the plain, practical, hard sense, every
day struggle with life. How true it is
that we learn nothing save by experience,
and how fortunate that our experience
with a cold, unsympathetie, hard world
doesn't come until after commencement
day.
For this we love the day. We know all
that will follow. Some will be heard ofas
o,- f,4,ro a1fforc Tim cfnab of tba
Greeley's, the Pulitzer's, the Childs', the
Dana's, the Benefits and others need
constant and growing accretion. The
mantle of the great Sturgeon, Moody,
Beecher and Talmage will fall upon
others yet to follow, and some will figure
as great physicians, great merchants, law
yers, mechanics. etc, and it is just posi-
BILE that the world may yet see another
Edison. Another Jenny Lind, another
Madam Nelson, Patti and Kellogg will
yet appear to sing away the sorrows and
burdens of the future generation, as the
above named have of the present, and some
OF all these will come from the ranks of
the many thousands who last week crowd
ed the footlights ou commencement day.
Some will never be heard from after
commencement day, and some-well it is a
mercy that kind Heaven hides from their
ken, and the ken of Others, the miserable
role that some are yet to play in the
worlds future,
Last week we attended commencement
exercises, not so much to see the pretty
hall in which it was held, redolent as it
was with the perfume Of sweet flowers and
heavy with the strains Of delicious music;
not so much to see the wall flower divini-
ties (the creation, to some extent, of that