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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24
A H0R RIBLE RECITAL.
GEORGE HILLS STORY or BRU-
TALITIES IN THE CHICAGO
INSANE ASYLUM.


CHICAGO, May 20.-The most
horrible revelation yet made in
Judge Prendergast's investigation
Of the management Of ChicagO's
public insane asylum was reached
today IL the testimony Of George
Hill, an engineer, now running toI
the Lake Shore Road.
Sir. Hill is a shre8d.lOOking man,
with q straightforward manner
that carried conviction with It, He
said .r was adLGtted to the insti-
tuition in January, 1888, and was
discharged as cured the following
May. He was not violently insane
VIII en- he went 10 the asylum, and
on his arrival was asked by an at
tendant named Lock if he was
insane. ne said he was not
SWELL" replied Lock, 1--WE Will
make You a Id sight insaner
than you are nOw.o
"Then another attendant named
Julian ordered me to sweep out the
room. | replied thai | was not
sent there for that purpose.
"lOu amt, eh : We Will see
about that
"Then he knocked me down and
kicked me in the body and mouth
and kicked two teeth out and
broke my arm.
Hill rolled mp his coat sleeve and
showed about three inches below
the elbow a huge lump where tn e
ends of the broken bones, lily
joined, stuck out. "They knocked
me down again." continued Hill,
"and broke one of my ribs. My
arm caused me great pain and
had no proper treatment. tried
to see the doctor, but Julian told
me If dared to speak he woul d
kill me-"
81 told Supervisor Jones that |
was badly treated, and he sent me
to another ward. Then Lock and
another attendant held me down
while Julian kicked me in a ter
rible manner. | got up bleeding
and SAID | would have justice some
day.
You - said JOllan,
I'VE will give you all the justice
you want and he struck me and
knocked me down again
"One day poor fellow named
Levy was Brought in. lie did not
know enough to 90 to the dining
room, and | was showing hun the
way, when Lock asked ME what |
was doing. Julian came up and
Lock said, "The -- won't
ea;.' I'LL show him how to eat
said Julian, and be grasped Levy
by the hair, and, throwing his | cad
back, jammed big piece of bread
into his mouth. Levy tried to run
away and hid in one of the rooms.
There he was caught by Julian and
Lock. They struck him in the
face, knocked him down and
Jumped on his stomach. Leyy's
face turned black. Get up y
they said, but he could not move,
and they picked hun up and threw
him on the bed. The poor fellow
died that night"
The courtroom was as still as
death during the awful recital
The witness was told to bring in
his wife TO cOrrobOrate his story,
aud DIR. Harold Meyer was in
structed by the judge to examine
Hills arm and RIB.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24
CHURCH DIRECTORY


LuTHERAN.-Rev A. A. j. Bushong
breaches in the Lutheran Church, on the
list Sunday night the 2nd Sunday morn
ing and night and the ith Sunday night
Of each month.
MErHoDIsT. - Rev. Is. +. Ball
breaches 10 the Methodist Church, on
the lst Sunday night, the 2nd Sunday
morning and night, the 3rd Sunday night
and the eth Sunday morning and night
PREsBYTERIAN.-Re v. I p. Epps
breaches in tho Presbyterian Church, at
Woodstock, every Sunday morning and
evening.
EPIscOPAL.-Rev. James W. Shields,
will preach in Emmanuel Protestant Epis-
copai Church, Woodstock, on the LIST and
Sd Sundays of each month, morning aud
night.
REPoRMED.-Rev. A. X. Kline breaches
in the Reformed church on the LIST and 3rd
Sundays in the morning and every Sunday
night
CHRIsTIAN.-Re J. A. Spencer, preach
es in the Christian church ct Woodstock,
on the Sd Sunday morning and evening.
CATHOLIC Services the second Sunday
of each month at 1890 o'clock, A. NJ.
NE. CHURCH, COLORRD.-Rev John
Meredith, breaches in Woodstock every 80
Sunday.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24
LFaroclous Fight.

WINNIPEG, MAN, May 81
Word has just been received here
of a feroclons fight which took
place near Fort Mcleod last week
between band of Blood Indians
on the one side and force com
posed of soldiers, cowboys and
Gros Ventres on the other. The
BloOds have lately been stealing
horses from the Gros Nentres, and
the latter, assisted by the soldiers
and cowboys, made an effort to
recover the stolen animals. AS
usual, stories az TO the number
killed are conflicting but it is GER
tain that quite large number we're
slain.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24
Will a Bull Bog Trust be Formed.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 1S.-A
special says that the Standard Oil
Company has placed an order IN
Philadelphia for 200 bull dogs
which will be used to guard the
Standard tanks in the Ohio field
against tramps. Numerous fires
have been caused by fire from the
pipes of tramps, and it is thought
the bull dogs will keep them away
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24

James Doran crushed his wife's
skull and cut his own throat Fri
day at Maltby, Pa. The tragedy
was the result of ungOvernable
temper. Their twenty.fve-year-
old daughter refused to allow her
father and mother to be buried
together.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24
Sam lones' Awakening.

DANvMLE, VA, May l6.-lnter'
est in Sam Jones' meetings Is In
creaslng. Crowds are pouring IN
to hear him preach, and town folks
have partly quit business to attend
the meetings. The tabernacle
holding between 5000 and 5000
is packed three times day. There
have been over 200 conversions so
far.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24
Rivalry in Baptism at Richmond

RICHMOND, VA, May IGNORE
than six hundred colored converts
we're baptized here this afternoon.
OF this number $50 were baptized
in James river by Rev. Richard
Wells, pastor OF Ebenezer Church.
This devine and Rev. John Jasper
whose peculiar yagaries about the
solar system have given him con.
siderable notorIety, have not been
on the best terms for some years.
Last Sunday Jasper baptized 2S5
converts, to-day Preacher Wells
list was more than a third larger.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24
Killed for Five Cents.

LOUISVILLE, KY, May 1S.-ln a
quarrel oyer five cents, which LOUIS
Jackson claimed as interest for a
loan Of twenty cents to John Bailey,
Jackson last night shot Bailey, in.
flicting wounds which proved fatal.
Jackson is under arrest.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24
POnderOus Legal Battle in West
Virginia.

The Fleming. Golf Gubernatorial
Contest COmmitte will not exam.
inc any of the dispositions submit
ted to 1t until it has first decided
the legal questions which have
been argued and submitted to it.
The depositions already submitted
will make 10000 pages of manu-
script or 5000 pages of printed
matter, and will take several
months to wrap and bind. 1t is
thought there will not be a session
Of the Legislature until next Jan.
uaTy,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24

Gov. Lee, of Virginia, will de-
liver the Grafton aud Mr.. d. B.
Lucas, of CD arlestOwn, W. Va,
the poem, in Norfolk, on Confeder.
ate Memorial Day, on the 9th OF
June.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24

Cyclone Bill and w. Z. Cum
ningham were arrested in Arizona
Territory on a charge of being
implicated IN the robbery of
United States Paymaster Wham,
from whom $4,000 was taken by
outlaws.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24

res. etc, will appear, aud there are to
illustrated articles on Bible scenes.
eating especially the subjects OF the Inter.
liional Sunday-School Lessons. George
r. Cable viii write Strange, True Stories
. louisiana" There will be novelties
d short stories by leading writers, occa.
ouh articles on war subjects (supplement.
a. the famous "War Papers" by Gencrpi
at and others, which have been appear.
ga Tic entUU), etc, etc.
7 rsntmv costs four dollars year. aud
; yIulisue1 by The Century Co. q y -
{. who will send copy Of the full Dros
flst0aIy one on request.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24

place ia It's pages. Il - the
result Of four years w0ss
Of Mr. Timothy Cole. ulc
leading magazine cagrasc5
Of the world, in the gale. cs
Of Europe, engraving from
the originals the greai.sl
pictures by the old mast -
A series Of papers on Ire
land, its customs, land
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24

Steven Brodie jumped over the
Passaic Falls, New jersey, Mon
day morning, and came of without
injury. The distance was 100 feet.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24

THE SIBERIAN PAfkk-,
George KEENAN,, are attracting the AZ
lion Of the civilized world The CT
40 Tribune says that mo other magazine
iiicles printed in the English language jus,
w touch upon a subject which 50 vitality
forests all thoughtful people in Europe and
ucrica and Asia" As is already known,
ics Of The Century entering Russia 'av,
losearticles torn out by the customs officials
90 lie frontier.
DURING ls.9
7c CcnhUD will publish the most I'm
.t,.t art foasuts. fhof bgu vof f,tt,-. .
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24

,.us its thwty-seyenth
me. Two great feat
. OF the magazine
ch are 10 continue
I~oughout the new vol
ne are already well
own to the public, the
ucoln history aud the
pcrs on siberia and
e Exile System" The
81 Of these, written by
,ssrs. Nicolay and Hay,
esidcnt Lincoln's pri-
lie secretaries, contains
o. inside history Of the
* days Of the war, -
a from the White
use.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24
L uunAI MAdnD.-..
The Century for 1889.

<~----y - He question has often been
asked, ITO what does The
- ~ Century owe It's great circu-
&~z~.LfJ lation" The Christian UIaioH
NWN once answered this by the
O " statement that lit Las been
fairly won, not by adver-
isiug schemes, but by the excellence which
aaracterizcs il in every department" In
heir announcements for the coming year
he publishers state that IL has always been
heir desire to make The Century the one in
Ispensable periodical OF its class, 50 thar
shateyer other publication might be desira-
lie ia the family, The century could not be
eg'ecied by those who wish 10 keep abreast
{ TIE times in all matters pertaining 20
allure And the unprecedented circula
ion of the magazine would seem 70 be ;hf
,sronse Of the public 10 this intention.
Win the November number The Century
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-05-24
HCHEDULE B. & o. r. r.
Taking Effect May 18TH, 1889.

NORTH BOUND.
No. 4i6 No. AS No. 44s
~. Freight. Pass ger. Freight.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-23
Foreign Briefets.

Walter I. Griffin, commercial agent at
Limoges, calls attention to the fact that
France stands second to the United States
us n wheat growing country. France being
discouraged with the vine, is giving more
attention to the production of her own food
supply.
LeCaron. the man who acted as q spy fol
the British government in the movements O.
the Irish leaders in America, and who testi
fed for the Times before the Parnell commits
sion, declares that he and DR.. Cronin, who
recently mysteriously disappeared from Chi
cagO, were the closest friends. LeCarOn be-
lieves that DR.. Cronin has been killed, and
the friendship between himself and the muir
dered man may account for his removal.
The Hamburg-American line steamer Rugia
from New York May 2 for Hamburg, which
arrived at Plymouth England, reports that
the cotton in her afterhold was spontaneous
ly ignited on the night Of the 9th inst. The
fire burned fercely, but was quenched afte,
five anxious hours, during which everything
steamer. One hundred and thirty burning
cotton bales were %jettisoned. Great fright
prevailed among the passengers, who re.
manned on deck for forty-eight hours
Through the efforts to quench the fire the
cabins were flooded and two-thirds of the
passengers luggage was spoiled. Two of the
crew were Injured. 1t is feared that the steam.
er's cargo is greatly damaged.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-23
Barnum's First Hippopotamus.

"The first hippopotamus ever seen
in this country" said Tody Hamil-
ton, twas brought here by Mr.. Bar
mum. It was abouttwenty-fve years
ago. Mr.. Barnum wanted one the
worst way, and had been on the look-
out for one for many years, when he
heard that some natives in South
Africa had caught q big fellow in a
pit, and that it had been sold to a
German dealer in wild animals. The
dealer got an offer Of $4,000 for it
and the offer was accepted. Ten
thouand dollars was paid when the
brute was safely placed on board the
vessel that was to bring him over;
another 10000 was to bepaid wnen
he arrived here, and the remaining
rs, 900 at the expiration of three
months in case the brute lived. He
arrived here in good condition and
was the .center of curiosity fors several
months. But he was SO big and
clumsy and required SO much room
that Mr.. Barnum consented to rent
him to a man named Berry, who
wanted to take him round the coun-
tey exhibiting. Berry paid $500 q
week for him, and, the venture was
SO profitable that he cleared $780,
900 in one year" New York Sun.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-23
Oddities of the Patent Office.

Occupying a prominent position in
a case in the center aisle is the model
of a boat for lifting vessels over
shoals. 1t was patented to Abraham
Lincoln,in 1949, when the future
president thought to make a reputa-
ton as an inventor rather than a
statesman. Lincoln is the only presi-
dent who ever secured a patent.
The first shoe was patented in 1911
by two Massachusetts men. It is of
undressed leather, and there is quite
a difference between the workman
ship of that and the present machine
stitched shoe. So we'll was the work
done, however, that it was impossi-
BILE to tell whether it was pegged or
sewed until some sacrilegious clerk
cut the sole and ascertained it was
pegged.
In the class of perpetual motion
machines the patent Office is deficient.
1t has no working model, but an in
ventor stepped in the other day to
say that he had completed and tested
model which he would send shortly.
1t required some few alterations, he
said, such as a governor to keep it
from going too fast and running
down. When the machine arrives
it will be given an entire case b yitself.
There are in the neighborhood of
100000 models in the patent office,
and had it not been for two destruc-
tive fires the number would be near
.. half m~illion.-Washinton Post.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-23
Minor Casualties.

Prof st. Clair. the %aeronaut, in attempt.
ing to give his leap from the clouds" at the
Fair ground park, at Houston, Texas, lost
his grip on the parachute and fell 800 feet
to the earth. Nearly every bone in his body
was broken.
Miss Johanna Goodmanson was instantly
killed ut French Church, five miles east Of
Grafton, Oak. Michael McGrath and George
Finkle, while driving spirited bronchos, were
run away with and thrown out of the buggy.
Tn team ran into n wagon driven by Alex
ander Goodmanson and containing Miss
G~oodmanson and w. G. Sykes. Miss Good,
manson was thrown out and was either hit
by the pole OF the wagon or trampled upon
by the horses and killed. His neck was dis.
located.
While the Milwaukee & st. Paul switch en-
CINE was doing some work at Winona, a
young nan named Joseph Sikorski grasped
hold of the ladder of q box car. His body
hung over the side and struck a switch post
on the Chicago & Northwestern track. which
runs parallel with the st. Paul track. 81.
korski was thrown upon the ground, and
two cars passed over his left arm, badly
crushing it above the elbow. Sikorski was
not u railroad employe.
One of the most severe hail storms that
ever struck East Virginia passed over Nor
folk and Portsmouth and vicinity. In the
country the truck farms were badly torn up,
the strawberries and peas, cabbage and 9th
er crops being runiousIy beaten to the ground.
The vineyards and orchards suffered severely,
vines and trees being cut terribly and the
fruit destroyed. A swath of five or six miles
broad was cut through Norfolk and Nansa.
mond counties by the storm. The loss will
probably reach 81, OOO, 600.
On what is known as Blodgett farm which
was owned by Michael Michael's near Fari.
bault Mimi, who was one of the. victims, a
terrible accident occurred. George King and
Michaels were sinking an old well by means
of q small augur, and had occasion to go
down into the well to arrange some of the
machinery, when they were overcome by
foul mir. and..when help arrived both were
dead. Michaels was upwards of fifty
years of age, and King was ~twenty-four.
King had lived in Faribault, for q number
of years and was well known. Michaels was
q newcomer.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-23
A QUERY.
scriber,, Would Like to Know,

What "Subscriber'' Would Like to Know.
We have recently received q letter
from one of our well-knoWn subscrib-
ers upon subject which we prefer to
publish for the perusal of our read
ers, anticipating that in SO doing
some one will relieve us OF the re-
sponsibility of answering "Subscrib-
ers's" questions. Here is the letter:
"MY DEAR ED1ToR:-For several
years past l have the recipient OF
several pamphlets issued from time
to time by Messrs. HI. Fl. Warner &
Co., of Rochester, N. Y, which in adj
dition to containing an extensive
treatise upon kidney disease, it's OIL
gin, usual symptoms and growth,
also includes numerous testimonials
from parties whose fac-simile sigma
lures are attached thereto, attesting
the statement that they have
been individually relieved by
the use of Warmers Safe
Cure, which is prepared
by the above firm, for the use of per-
sons SO afflicted. Now, Mr.. Editor,
| l would like to know if the state
ments made by those parties who
testify to the great good which
Warmers Safe Cure has done them,
can be relied upon. They seem hon
est enough from the way they read.
"Warner's Safe Cure saved my life
after the doctors had given me up"
says John Doherty, 1873 N. Main
street, Concord; N. HI. II was given
up to die with Bright's Disease of
the kidneys. The doctors said they
could do nothing for me. A friend
advised me to take Warmers Safe
Cure, and my family consider me as
given back from the grave" says
Mrs. Carrie A. Fry ofWathena, Kas.
DR.. L. B. Rice, of Hanover c.. H..
Va, says that Warmers Safe Cure
cured him of Bright's Disease"
Each phamphlet which I have re-
ceived contains a hundred or more
testimonials, and the same one does
not appear in more than one pam
phlet, so it seems that there r a
good many who are being helped by
that remedy.
1t strikes me that there is a good
deal of sense in the claim which
those parties make that the doctors
are treating too many persons for
wrong causes, and that oftentimes,
people are treated for consumption,
brain, heart and nervous disorders,
when they are suffering from kidney
disease which should be treated, as
they say, by the use of Warmers
Safe Cure and as a result, when dis
ease is first removed therefrom, that
which is supposed to be disease in the
lungs or other organs, will disappear.
Many of my neighbors tell me that
this remedy has done much good for
them-more good than their doctors.
If kidney disease is the real cause OF
so many other diseases why, Mr..
Editor, don't the people who are af:
| ficted with sickness, insist upon a
more careful inquiry being made, in
order that the true cause may be as.
certained, and the proper treatment
giyen?" SUBSCRIBER"
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-23
a Cargo Of Bones.

Eighty Thousand pounds Of bones
form q part Of the cargo which the
British steamer Wingates, from
Alexandria, Egypt, brought to New
York few days since. There were
many human bones among the num-
Der. Egypt has become 9 great
source Of supply for bones. Thecar-
go of the Wingates was bought, OF q
German dealer in Alexandria a, who
has made a fortune by his business.
He sends out caravans into the des-
ert, and the natives CLEAN 9 harvest
without any other effort than pick.
ing them up. The great quantity OF
bones now found is the accumulation
of thousands of years. Those who
died were quickly buried in q foot or
two of sand, and thus every strong
wind that blows reveals new mines OF
CHASTITY treasures. The Egyptians
who gather them have only onescruple
about sending their father skeletons
to become American fertilizers. They
will not send the skulls. These are
carefully buried again by the collec-
tors. '": @. &e.s ~"
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Latest News Cleaned From AssO.
ciated Press kilograms.
Washington lettings.

The new star route scandal develops at
Washington. Assistant Attorney General
Tyner heard the explanation of the four con-
tractors involved to-day, and will complete
his report to the third assistant postmaster
general tomorrow. In the meantime, the
facts whose discovery lead to the ordering OF
the v%cstigation are leaking out. Mr..
Whitfeld's attention was first attracted by
the frequent temperance in a large lumber
of contracts of the same names in different
combinations as contractors, sureties and
witnesses, all written in the same hand. He
picked out all the contracts Of the descrip-
ton, and found they amounted to $4,000
The contractors interested ale W. Fl. Smith,
s. s. Chapelle, C. W. Underwood and J. f.
Pigg, and their names perpetually reuppear
as sureties on each others bonds. The wit
nesses to these contracts are j. W. Packard
and Ida Z. Pickard. All the contracts are
attested by Sally Shelton, postmistress OF
Winsor, Iowa, where all those people live.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-23
Thought They Were Bewitched.

At the village of Reinberg in Aus
trio recently a very religious family
became possessed with the idea that
they had been bevitched by an old
crone in the village, and the men
with his three daughters and son
and a young girl, who was in their
house at the time, locked themselves
in and began to pray and sing. They
remained without food or drink for
several days and fred at neighbors
who attempted to come near the
house. They threatened to kill the
girl when she wanted to go away.
Their cattle were left to starve in
the barn. At last the neighbors sc.
cured warrants against them as in.
sane, and a force of asylum officers,
assisted by the peasants, stormed
the place, captured it, and took the
family prisoners after a hard fight,
One doctors neck was grazed by q
bullet, but there we're no other cas-
ualities. The girl was released and
the others incarcerated in an asylum.
New York Sun.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-23

The MILITARY display at New York
was a suggestive pageant. Thegreat
majority of the immense column OF
drilled troops that moved through
the streets of New York was com
posed, not ofthe soldiers ofthe stand
ing army, but Of the militiamen OF
the several states. It must have
been q surprise to foreigners who
had in mind the meager figures which
represent the United States army.
The citizen soldiery Of this nation
constitutes it's main reliance. 1t
would take hardly more than q drum
tap to muster / 100000 men to the
national defense.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-05-23

TWENTY-FIVE stowaways were dis.
covered at sea on the steamer St.
Romans, which recently arrived at
Liverpool. The captains reputa-
ton for kindness must have been
good among the boys else they
would not have swarmed upon the
st. Romans; but he destroyed it by
cruelty fogging the runaways, and
the case is now under investigation
by the British consul.