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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
A Life Insurenos swindie.

A New Bloomfield, Pa, dispatch to the
Philadelphia Record Of the Goth, says:
AN exposure of speculative life insurance
business which far outstrips in some of
its phases the doings Of any Of the sharks
who figured in the graveyard insurance
case that swept over Pennsylvania a half
dozen years ago will be made within
twenty four hours. It is asserted by those
conversant with the evidence thus far OBJ
tanned that it will be shown in short time
that a syndicate of we'll known and been
to-do citizens of Perry county has we'll
engaged in systematic attempt to swindle
insurance companies by procuring the is
sue of fraudulent and forged applications
The parties involved, it is alleged, include
an insurance agent, a practicing physician
whose profession and apparent respecta-
bility served as cloak to conceal the un-
lawful transactions of the gang-a mer-
chant and several farmers.
1T is alleged that these people have been
engaged in robbing companies, mainly To-
Gated in the west, and they have become SO
bold and defiant that some concerns have
been forced to compromise with them
rather than undertake to fight them in the
courts. The statement is made that the
syndicate has had altogether over $500. 900
worth of policies in its possession and that
its holdings at present aggregate several
hundred thousand dollars"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
Packing Nov. Ito Hate:
Worked IA Gigantic Fraud.

A gigantic fraud which realized nearly
million dollars for the man who worked it..
Henry G. Friend, has just been discovered.
company, embracing many English and
American capitalists, was formed for the
purpose of refining sugar Friend claimed
that he had an electric process which was
much better and cheaper than the ordinary
way, but he had no process, and bought
refined sugar and claimed that he had re-
fined it himself Friend has disappeared
taking the money with him.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
was known as the Cutlus col, and, ac-
cording to the Greg oman, was evident
ly made to eat. rather than to be eaten.

TIE Duke of Hamilton's family MAUI
solemn rivals anything of the kind in
this country. 1t cost 100000. The
tomb is model of the CASTILLO di San
Angelo ct Rome, and the internal dec
orations are superb, the gates being
copy OF the Ghiberti gates ut Florence,
and the coffin Of Duke Alexander, who
built the mausoleum, is inclosed in an
Egyptian sarcophagus of black marble,
covered with hieroglyphics, which was
brought from Alexandria.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
A Nervy Sheriff.

Friday night at Garland, Texas, Sheriff
Moore started to take Jake o Brien, a burg
lar, to Dallas for safe keeping. While at the
depot masked mob of dozen men took
the prisoner from the officer and strung
him to tree, Moore cut the rope in time
to save O'Brien's life. Part Of the mob
then hsld the officer while others took the
burglar and strung him up again. Moore
finally freed himself, and, with revolver
in each hand, advanced on the would-be
lynchers and again cut Q'Brien down.
Both parties then opened fire, and several
of the mob were wounded but it is not
known whether they were fatally injured
or not. Moore finally reached Dallas in
safety with his prisoner
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
Tinid Gas Lamps.

The gas furnished the city of San
Antonio is of very inferior quality,
and consequently the streets are very
poorly, lighted, but the street lamps
are allowed to burn until after day
light. a stranger asked a prominent
druggist:
"Why do the gas lamps burn all
night in this town2R
aPecause, dose cash lights vas 80
small dot dey vas afraid TO go out ven
it vas dark. - Teras Strings.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

JOHN STUBS. of Danvers, ILL.,,
husked 167 bushels of corn in ten hours
the other day, and W. d. Snow, of
Mclean County, husked 100 bushels,
MIXED ten cows night and morning,
and did the other chores about the
farm for days work,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

Hill Floresh, postmaster at Rico, has
been arrested for robbing large number
Of valuable bank letters from Denver and
Chicago banks addressed to the Dolores
County bank Of Rico, as we'll as $500 of
the money order postal funds belonging to
the government. Floresh was only re-
Gently married and his young wife is heart
broken at her husbands disgrace.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

The Home Market Club of Boston
is to send 500 men to the Inauguration.
So far, says the New York sam, New
York and Pennsylvania seem to have
pre-empted everything in the best
accommodations, and the Hoosiers will
have to take what they can get.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
Chief Arthur win Retire.

1t is stated at Cleveland that Chief
Arthur, of the engineers brotherhood,
will decline to serve again after this term.
He is said to have been dissatisfied with
the policy of the brotherhood in inaugur-
ating the Burlington strike and with the
views Of many of the members since.
Furthermore, he is getting old now, and,
being well-to- do, feels like taking rest.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

TEE astronomers who perch on the
top of Mount Winnemucca, New, in
January to observe the total eclipse of
the sum will be in the center of the
path OF totality, 5000 feet above sea
level, and in an atmosphere almost
totally destitute of humidity. They'll
have the best place to be found in the
United States, and great results are
axnected.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

A LONDON physician says that no
two lives are alike. One man must be
temperate and steady to live fifty years,
while another may be ever SO reckless
and live to eighty. Whisky kills some
and adds years to the life of others.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

AN English parson has astounded
his congregation by exhorting them ,
before his sermon, to pray fervently
for the early discovery of the White
chapel murderer. Such an appeal at
such time in the service is contrary
to the rubric.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

The Cincinnati Enquirer is respon-
sible for the following: Pink nails,
Incidence. Red nails, war-like ma
ture. Marrow nails incline to mischief.
Filbert nails are associated with de-
ceit. Small, round nails denote obsti-
macy. Crooked nails indicate fierce
nature. Nails abnormally pale, or with
black specks on them, denote sickness.
Broad nails are considered to be indie
alive of bashful and gentle natures.
Long nails appertain to those of tenn
porizing disposition; these are the
nails of persons who hate scenes.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

AN elevator in New Hampshire fac
tory stopped suddenly, the engineer
having shut off the steam, and the lad
who was riding on it became so
frightened lest it should fall that he was
attacked with heart disease and died.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

NOTHING remains of the famous Eng
lish settlement of jamestown, Va,
begun in 1867, save the ruins of a
church tower, and this is crumbling
year by year. Tree roots have cracked
the monumental slebs in the church.
yard, and thus one of the few localities
recalling the first years Of American
history Is slowly losing its distinctive
features.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

EVERY school house in Nebraska
and Dakota has been supplied with an
extra stove, extra wood, and q stock of
provisions to be used in case of biz
card.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

The wave motor, which was begun
at Point Lobos about three years ago,
is nearly completed. AS described by
San Francisco paper, lit is ma
chine for utilizing the dashiug in of
the waves by turning their power into
practical use, such as furnishing water
for sprinkling the streets, flushing the
sewers, and even driving cable cars.
Only one piston has been put in as yet.
This pumps at the rate of three bar
rels a minute. The motor will run
from eighteen to twenty hours per day,
and if the wind and tide are favorable
can be worked throughout the whole
twenty-four."
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
BENT. HOPPING Funeral.

The funeral of Ben Hopkins, late CASH
Ter of the defunct Fidelity bank, occurred
at Cincinnati on the morning Of the 9th
and was an exceedingly quiet one. Only
q few friends of the family were present.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

A PARIS correspondent says that lola
"is not as bad as he seems" Still the
lurid novelist keeps right on seeming
bad ell the time.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

TEE Portland Oregonian has dis
covered the species Of fish that swal-
lowed Jonah. A specimen WAS sent
over to Portland from Yagurah, which
was nearly al head. ITS ears were situ-
atsd at the back Of its neck, and its
month extended from ear TO ear. 1t
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

Since the storm of November Is and 20.
Eve ships, which with their cargoes were
valued at $1,000, 900, have been missing
and have been given up as lost. There
are ffty-fou persons missing who we're on
board the vessels.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

A WATCH lost by an Ohio farmer two
years ago was found in the throat of
one of his cows which had choked to
death the other morning. She had
found it in o straw stack.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

A FRENCH surgeon has known of five
cases where men with squeaky voices
cut their threats in attempting suicide,
had them sewed up again. and ever
after their tones were like the below
ing of a, bull Try it. No cure, no
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

CAPITAL punishment has been abol-
ished in Italy. This was done. in
Switzerland some seven years ago, but
the result was not regarded as salts
factory, and capital punishment was
again re-enacted. 1t is curious that it
should now be abandoned in Italy,
where the murder rate is the highest
in Euroue
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

Gov. JACKSON, of Maryland, states
that he will take heroic measures to
suppress the oyster pirates. The latter
number nearly 5000 armed men, and
have 800 vessels. The pirates are de-
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

No STEEL articles should be kept in
q cellar or damp place, but in dry
attic or closet. If they must be kept in
cellar they should be we'll coated with
paraffine and wrapped in cloths or
paper; oiled paper would be prefer
ob1o
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

NORTHERN sheriffs don't open fire
on mobs intent on lynching. In eleven
months thirty-two men have been
taken from Northern and Western jails
and hung up.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

It's own line through to the Black Hills q
thing they do NOT want to dog but It forces
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul and
other competing lines through. There
fore, they oppose the measure The COM
mittee recommends the bill to pass, and
asks congress to give these Indians ell the
land they can use and teach them that
governments are not created to support
them, but to protect them. and that, like
other people, they must work.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

Gladstone started Wednesday for Naples.
AIgreat crowd gathered at the railway sta
ton and the ex-premler was enthusiastic
ally cheered when he departed.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

ONE out Of every FIVE school children
in Philadelphia is obliged to wear
glasses, and the proportion is rapidly
increasing.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
But Net I COED Politician.

Poet The editor Of the Cute ought
to be good grammarian.
Friend Why9
Peet-Bec@use be has declined 80
many Of my contributions. - YanLes
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

WILLIAM LADNE, of Toledo, who
nearly died from exposure in skif
which was wrecked, is now wearing
snow-white hair instead of black.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

MOBILE has $500, 900 appropriation
for her harbor, and the largest ocean
vessels will by and by be enabled to lie
ut her wharves.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
Fell Six Hundred Feet.

Friday night John Clark, engineer at
the West Leisenring mines of the Con-
nellsyllle Coke and Iron company; William
McFarren and William Shearer went into
the cage to go to the shaft. Fireman
Lewis Fueher, who had charge of the en-
CINE, started the cage, but forgot to re-
verse the engine. The cage went to the
top tipple rapidly and there the rope broke,
dropping the cage and men to the bottom
of the shaft, 600 feet below, killing them
instantly.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

M. DE LEssEps. who has just entered
upon his S4th year, is in excellent
health and seems to lose none of his
remarkable physical vigor.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
why Senator Began Chews Paper.

The carpet on the senate chamber is 50
clean and the senators are so careful about
keeping Q neat appearance about Their
desks, that Mr.. Regain, of Texas, beinf
washed up into that body, felt compelled
TO break himself of the habit Of tearing vi
pits Of paper while engaged in thought
He finds il hard to live up to this resolp-
tion, now that the tariff debate is ON ans
feqHiFes some working of his brain, II
lieu, therefore, Of dropping paper ON thu
floor he tears off small pieces and put
them in his mouth. He finds that chew
ing paper assists bis thoughts almost %
much as tearing if MP to be scattered aboq,
his desk. He is . SLOW, methodical think
Pr, and must have something to eohsea.
trate his mind .--R philadelphia Telegraph
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
WRECKED BY WIND.
A TERRIBLE CYCLONE SWEEPS OVER
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

Buildings wrecked and Scores OF People
Buried In the Debris-The Number Of
Dead and Wounded Reaches an Awful
. Number--Many Houses in Mourning as
the Result of One of the Greatest of
Caiamities.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
Enoch Arden Eclipse.

A peculiar case of Enoch Arden charac-
ter came to light at Montreal last week.
Eighteen years ago man named Charest
deserted his wife and young family to seek
his fortune in California. Nothing was
heard from him. and about four years after
his departure rumor reached his wife,
who had meanwhile been in great poverty,
that Charest was dead. She was soon
after urged by devoted lover to marry
him. She did SO, but they had hardly
been married three years when he was
killed by falling off a bridge. After re-
spectacle delay the twice bereaved woman
again married, this time to farmer in
Laval county. All went we'll, they had
children and were prospecting. Wednes .
day the couple were surprised by the ap-
pearance of Charest, who had made for
ture Of over 900 in the mines Of Cali
fornia and came back to seek his deserted
wife. She declares she will have nothing
to do with Charest, preferring to remain
as the wife of husband No. 3. Charest,
however, insists on resumption of the
marital relations and 1t is probable the
case will go into the courts.
Mrs. Parsons Delivers Another Violent
Speech.
Mrs. Parsons, the anarchist. Saturday
made another violent speech at Chicago.
similar to the one she delivered last Sun
day, and this time, as before, she was un-
molested by the police. Her audience met
in Waverly hall. near police headquarters.
and was ostensibly gathering Of social
lists, whose purpose was to discuss paper
on Salvation from Poverty" Mrs. Par
sons said: Il am revolutionist, and I
believe all means are justifable to get rid
Of the present industrial slavery: The
capitalists. our masters, nullify the ballot.
Revolution by force must come, and the
sooner it comes the quicker will your
emancipation arrive. Behind the ballot
must be Winchester rifle" Concluding,
the dark skinned speaker vehemently de-
ciared: For one, am going to follow
the truth if it takes me behind prison bars
and if have to die for it.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
MURCHIcON LETTER.
THE AUTHOR CLAIMS IT WAS WRIT
TEN IN GOOD FAITH.

A Railroad Psymasaer Lives Beyond His
Means and Then DccamPs-The Deed Of .
Devil i'm Washington Territory Niagara
Falls Changing-Chief Arthur wa Retire
LIN General.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
The Old Man Got Her.

John Horton, New York merchant,
has for the past few years made his sum
mer home at Hillsboro, N. J. Daniel, his
20-year-old son, was in business with him.
When Daniel returned after one of those
trips last summer he was accompanied by
young and pretty woman, Miss Gro
bert, and it soon became noised about that
she was soon to become Mrs. Horton, jr.
Finally Miss Grobert returned to Brook
Ign, after quarrel with her lover, and the
elder Horton, who had seriously objected
to his son keeping company with her, per-
suaded Daniel to go to Europe for few
months. Horton refused to say what objec-
ton he had to the girl, and only remarked.
Il don't like her." Young Daniel started for
England and less than month after Miss
Grobert was back in Hillsboro, this time
as The guest of the elder Horton. One
day Horton, who is 80 years old and q
widower, and Miss Grobert drove to South
Summerville and twenty-four hours later
it leaked out that the old gentleman and
his pretty visitor had been married. MIR.
Horton and his bride continued to live in
Hillsboro till Thursday, when Daniel
reached home and family affairs reached a
climax. Daniel sprang at Mrs. Horton
and would have strangled her but for the
interference of servant and his father.
Daniel then turned on the latter ana
knocked him down. He was finally re-
moved from the house by force and the
next morning was found hanging to a tree,
two handkerchiefs forming the rope. He
was cut down just in time to save his life.
His father will send him west.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
Loft with the Cash.

Henry D. Schall, assistant cashier in the
paymaster's office of the Chicago NJ d
Northwestern Railway company, has left
Chicago with $11,5OO of the company's
funds and 81, 500 belonging to the Clerks
and Merchants Building and Loan asso-
citation. of which he was treasurer. Schall
is about rs years of age and is said to have
been a man of good habits, but with a
taste for society life and good clothes, and
it is thought his expenses exceeded his
salary. Small amounts are supposed to
have been taken from the companys funds
until they reached sum which he found
it impossible to replace, and it became
necessary for him to leave before being
exposed. 1t is now said that young
Schalls defalcation will reach $50,00D.
Three days elapsed from the time of the
theft till its discovery, and it is believed
that the defaulter made good his escape.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
The Decd of a Devil.

Last Monday morning at 4:30 o'clock
Gilman, little coal mining village forty
five miles distant from Seattle, W. T.,
was the scene of dastardly dynamite ex-
plosion perpetrated by an Italian fiend
with the assumed name of Albert Schaef-
fer. Three persons, John and Michael
Shurvik, brothers, and nine-year
daughter of George Bodalya, Bohemian,
were blown to pieces. Bodalya, himself,
had his left leg torn from his body. The
explosion created terrible commotion in
the village and brought every inhabitant to
the spot. An armed posse went to the
Italians cabin where he and his mate lived.
The angry miners seized both men and
took them before justice. Sheriff Coch-
rane arrived from the scene of the late
Newcastle riot, and wher the justice court
adjourned for dinner, took the men in
charge. The sheriff also went to dinner,
leaving the two men in the Knights of
Labor hall, intending to bring them to
Seattle on the train soon to leave there.
A body of armed miners came and broke
into the hall and took Schaeffer and lynch
ed HIM, hanging him to tree near by. Ali
efforts to make him confess failed. He
died in ten minutes. Schaeffer's deed was
actuated by revenge. Last March he as
saulted Bodalya's wife, intending to out
rage her. Bodalya had him arrested, and
Sohaeffer served term in the penitentlary,
being liberated July !. He frequently
threatened to kill Bodalya and his family
for revenge.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

packing in the vest has been about 296, 900
hogs, against 215, 900 the preceding week,
and $4,000 for the corresponding time
last year.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17

THF Legislature of Ohio will be asked t,
psss Lev prohibiting any minister of th,
gospel from being present at execution
r. fhs spiritual adviser Of tie condemned
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
OHraA has NOT been without rebel
lion In some portion of the empire for
l20 years.

MORE than 60 per cent. OF the adult
Englishwomen, married and unmarried,
are working for daily subsistence.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
Fatal Labor Riot.

Slnce NEW lear there has Deen mucu
wrangling between the Knights of Labor
and the Miners union, two rival organiza-
lions at the little coal mining town Of
Newcastle, eighteen miles from Seattle.
Trouble arose over Miners union man
being given preference over knight.
Friday the Knights of Labor began an at
tack upon the Miners union. A force Of
thirty knights cut the Telegraph wires,
stationed sentlnels and began assaulting
the men at the mines. The attacking
party afterward boarded the 9 o'clock train
|. at Newcastle, armed with rifles, and rode
to Coal Creek. At that point the regular
force of the Miners union was attacked by
the knights with every kind of missile.
The train was on a trestle, aud some of
the leaders were driven or thrown off,
falling seventy feet or more. They then
returned to Newcastle and assaulted
the men there again. Foreman Dun
can Ross was badly injured. Terrace
Mularkey was using his Winchester upon
the unionists, so the Miners union
brought out their rifles and opened fire on
the knights. Three fell. Their names
are not given. The sheriff with posse
went to Newcastle in the afternoon, and as
tne urlnB was very Herce, calleu Ior inc
militia. The latest reports are to the
effect that the trouble is about over. A
train arrived late that night with one
corpse. Personal experiences We're pretty
severe, and S. j. Crobut, of the Miners
union, who was injured. says he was first
saved by bad shot of knight, and was
then dubbed down by the butt of the gun.
Others jumped on him and he was badly
injured. Other experiences we're like this.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-01-17
NEW YORK
MILWApKEE.

LAVE HEooK- Hogs. ....-........ $50 9 50
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