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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
AWFUL WORK WITH A RAZOR.
A Despondent Young Man Almost Sever
His Head from His Body.

His Head from His Body.
George Wick, 20 years old, painter, cut
his head almost off with one desperate
stroke of razor at his rooms, in New York
City. and bled to death in minute. He
went home in the forenoon, and after
lying in bed few moments got
up and taking his young wife by
the throat, said: Nellie, I am going to die
and you must die with me-" She wrenched
herself from him, and ran screaming to the
rooms of a neighbor. Suddenly recolIect-
ing that their only child 2-months- old
baby, was lying in the crib, she ran back
with her neighbor. Her husband lay on
the floor dead. The baby was safe in the
crib. Dependency at failure to secure work
was the cause Of the suicide.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
ROBBED THE GOVERNMENT.
Superintendent Chase, of the Genoa (Neb.)
Indian School, Short $4,000.

Indian School, Short &20,OO0.
Superintendent Chase, of the Indian
school located at Genoa, Neb., has disap-
peared and Government Inspector Mallett
who investigated the affairs Of the school,
says Chase has robbed the Govern
ment of over $4,000 One of Chase's
methods was to write vouchers for
several times the amount due
workingmen in the employ Of the school,
which the men carelessly signed. pay them
the amount actually due, and keep the rest
himself. In one instance man signed a
voucher for So due him, which was alter
ward presented to the Government for
$3.50. Chase also took the savings of the
children deposited with him and appropri-
ated their weekly allowance for spending
money.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
A Perpetual Motion Crank.

T. W. Bunch, of Keokuk, Iowa. claims to
have invented a machine for perpetual
motion, which he offers to clearly demon
strate to any parties putting up a bonus Of
81 200, 900 in a Keokuk bank.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
Killed His Brother with a Bale Club,

At Avondale, Ohio, q village that Joins
Cincinnati on the north, Edward Burns
killed his brother John with a base ball club.
Edward is about % years old. He went
home drunk and abused his mother. John
Burns Of Walnut Hills went to see his moth
er, who told him of Edwards conduct.
John talked to Edward on the subject. and
the two came to blows, in which Edward
crushed Johns skull with base ball bat.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
Came Near Bein. Ivnched.

William Harris, dive keeper at Water
Valley, Miss, has been arrested, charged
with the murder of brakeman named
James Jennings. He was taken from the
jail by a mob and was about to be hanged
when Baptist minister interceded for him
and he was returned to the iail.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
Appointed United States Senator.

General Gilman Marston has been APP
pointed by New Hanpshires Governor to
serve as United States Senator from the
4th of March until such time as the Legis-
1ature, which meets in June, shall make q
selection for the Office
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
A Peculiar Epidemic.

Indians at Lake Manitoba, on the Battle
culiar epidemic, which is fatal. The mus
cles of the throat and neck swell rapidly.
preventing the swallowing of food. 1t is
feared that the entire tribe will be exter-
minated
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
Political News.

The Bigham police BILL providing for the
election by the General Assembly Of three
commissioners for cities having an excess
of $4,000 population, who shall have full
control of the police and fire departments,
has passed the Indiana House.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
Favorable to Learnine Trades.

The National Association of Builders, in
session at PHILADELPHIA, passed resolu-
ton to the effect that the members recon-
mend to the various State Legislatures the
passage of a law making it felony for any
person or association to prevent or hinder
any American youth from learning some
trade or handicraft
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
PA SSES AWAY.
DR.. John C. Dalton Dies at His Home in
New York.

!. DR.. John G. Dalton. President of the New
York College of Physicians and Surgeons,
died at his home in New York City. Dr.
Dalton was born at Chelmsford, Mass, Feb.
2, 1926. graduated at Harvard in 1874 studied
medicine, and in 1851 won the annual prize
Of the American Medical Association by an
essay on Corpus I.utteum.' During the
war DR.. Dalton served in the army. going to
Washington in April. 1861, as surgeon of the
Seventh Regiment of New York. His con-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
TRIPLE MURDER AND SUICIDE.
A Michigan Man Kills His Wife, His Two
Daughters, and Himself.

A Michigan Man Kills His Wife, His Two
Daughters, and Himself.
One of the most terrible crimes ever en-
acted in Michigan took place at Tecumseh.
Frank L. Silvers, q prominent horse
breeder and woll-knoWn citizen, shot his
wife, his two daughters aged and II years.
respectively, and ended the awful deed by
shooting himself, NeighbOrs, noticing the
absence of all life about the premises,
broke open the door and entered the par
lor, where horrible sight met their gaze.
There upon the floor near the stove, full
dressed and with her CLASSY eyes
staring at the ceiling, lay the body
of Mrs. Silvers in q pool of blood. In a
small bedroom, directly above the parlor,
were found the bodies of the two little girls
only few feet apart, while at the foot of
the bed lay the form Of Mr.. Silvers welter-
ing in blood, and with life almost extinct.
The victims had all been shot through the
temple, and, with the exception of Mr.. Sill
vers. all had died instantly. The murder
was carefully planned and coolly and sys-
tematically executed, but why is not known.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
The Gentiies Ahead.

The gentiles were successful in the mu-
nicipal election at Ogden, Utah. for the first
Territory. There was great ejoicing and
ME city was wild with excitement. The
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
Stabbed in a Church.

In a little church near Somerset, Ky,
while Aaron Price was taking drunken
man from the building he stumbled against
Il man named Angel, who drew d knife and
fatally stabbed Price
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
Died at an Advanced Age.

Colonel W. B. Dunn, a prominent citizen
and lawyer of Mobile, Ala, died at the great
age of 81 years. He was noted for his knowl-
edge of the political and constitutional his
tory of the United States.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
Rear Admiral Chandler Dead.

The Navy Department at Washington is
informed that Rear Admiral Chandler, COM
handing the Atlantic Station, died at Hong
Kong from an attack of apoplexy.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
Fire at Cane Vincent.

Fire at Cape Vincent, N. Y, destroyed the
Opera House Block, in which was located
the Cape Vincent Bank and several other
business concerns. The loss is estimated
at 900.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
tributions to medical literature we're num-
erous and valuable.
RIFLES AND SHELLS FOR HAYrI.

The Carondelet Sails for SANTANA with Mu-
nitionS of War.
The steamer Carondelet has sailed for
SANTANA. tits automatically stated that 1873
cases of rifles. shells and ammunition.
taken to New York City by the Red Star
steamer Westernland from Antwerp. were
placed on board of the Carondelet. 1t is
announced officially that Henry Kunhardt.
the Haytian Consul at Boston, has been
removed by President Legitime.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
MEMBERS OF THE CABINET.
Gen. Harrison Said to Have Selected His
Advisers.

Advisers.
An Indianapolis Ind, special of the 18th
inst. says that the Cabinet of the incoming
administration has been selected. It will
inciule Blaine for the State Department.
Window for the Treasury, Wanamaker for
Postmaster General, Noble of Missouri for
the Interior, W. H. Fl. Miller of Indiana for
Attorney General, John R. Thomas for the
Navy, Jeremiah NJ. RusG for War,
and Warner Miller for Agriculture.
This may be changed If it appears
within the next few days that there is any
important reason for not taking into the
circle of Presidential advisers one or two
of the men who have been. doubtless,
chosen after careful consideration of all in
formation concerning them that could be
obtained, but at this time Gen. Harrison is
satisfied that the selections are the best
that he can make
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21

Father Dougherty, of the st. Louis
Catholic diocese, has renowned priest
hood, and says he will locate at Chicago as
a practicing physician.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
LabOra tOry DESTROYED.

Fire destroyed the chemical laboratory of
the Ohio State University at Columbus.
The loss is $4,000
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21

A Murder in Dundee Leads to the Arrest
of the Supposed Whitechapel Fiend.
The mutilated body of a woman was
found concealed in wooden chest by the
police at Dundee, Scotland. A post M rtem
examination showed that the woman had
first been strangled. and that her body had
then been mutilated, the abdomen be-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
LincO1n's Birthday.

The eightieth anniversary Of the birth of
Abraham Lincoln was suitably commence
rated throughout the country on the 18th
inst.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
An Eccentric Woman.

Miss Catherine Pierson died recently at
Richmond, Mass. leaving an estate of
nearly a half-million dollars. Among her
effects were found nearly fifty bonnets.
some dating back over fifty years, seventy
shawls, and nearly three hundred small
walls. which We're wrapped in tissue paper
and hacked AWAY
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21

Mary Powers, d 13yearol girl, of La
porte, Ind, has been sentenced to five years
in the State Reformatory for the murder Of
her infant brother. to whom she admins
tered arsenic,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21

WHAT made you tell ne lie, John
n.y." angrily inquired Mrs. Brown. Be-
cause" pleaded little Johnny, Il knew
you wouldn't like me if I told you the
truth Thine.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
Want the Name Changed.

bill has been introduced in the Kansas
House of Representatives to change the
name of Kansas City. Kan, to Wyandotte.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
AROUND THE WORLD.
INTELLIGENCE FROM EVERY PART
OF THE GLOBE.

News from Foreign Shores-Domestic Hap
penings-Personal Pointers-Labor Notes
Political Occurrences, Fires, Accidents,
Crimes, Etc.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21

ing ripped open and the legs and
arms twisted and broken. The VIC
TINS husband, W. Fl. Bury, resident
of Whitechapel, London. was arrested
on suspicion and confessed the crime. He
says that he and his wife drank heavily be-
fore retiring, and that he does not know
how he gotat bed. Upon awakening, he
says, he found his wife lying upon the
floor with rope around her neck.
Actuated by sudden mad impulse,
for which he cannot account he
seized a knife and slashed the body.
Upon reason returning he became alarmed
and hastily crushed the body into the
chest in which it was found, thinking to
flee and make his escape. The theory of
the police officials is that Bury's wife knew
of facts connecting him with the East End
atrocities. and that she took him to Dundee
in the hope of preventing recurrence of
the crimes.
ROMANCE OF A POOR YOUNG WIFE
Heiress TO $4,000, Havir Been Deserted
as Baby by Her Father.
A poor family, residing near kalamaz 90,
Mich, has fallen heir to $4,000. In 1870
girl baby was left at the home of Peter
Gahide, a kalamazoo shoemaker, for adop-
ton, by girl of 16 and an old man. They
refused to give any reason for DESERVING
the child. The baby grew up there, and
worked in that city with several re-
spectacle families as a nurse. In 1887
She married Fred Moore q farm hand and
they live in the country on SIS month.
The other day a detective arrived in Kalam-
azoo in search of the girl, and he found
her. His story is that her, erring father
died recently in Kansas, leaving $4,000 to
her, which she will soon receive. The will
set forth the clues to be followed in finding
the girl. Her mother is still living and is
reported to be worth 100000. Many Of the
older residents of Kalamazoo remember the
incident of 1870
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21
"Red-Nosed,, Mike Guilty.

At Wilkesbarre, Pa, Michael Rizzolo
ais "Red-Nosed Mike" was found guilty of
murder in the first degree.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-02-21

THERE is considerable difference OF
opinion as to what is the best tackle to use
In fishing but then what makes success
in angling is usually very much subject
of de bate.-Ocean.
The more hurry the less speed, or, in
other words, the more hurry the deeper the
newspaper man inadvertently socks his
paste brush into the inkstand. oil City
.Bhssard.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13
REFLECT.

You farmers who have to pay as in
terest on farm mortgages in the
ten western states, the sum of $780,
100000 a year-averaging interest
and commissions at s per cent.
There is no exaggeration in this
statement. 1t is cold, hard, unwel-
come fact. Any one is indeed a
dreamer who can imagine that this
can be paid.
By thecensus OF 1880, which we have
modified by several state censuses of
1885, the total taxation of the United
States, internal revenue, State, Coun-
ty, Municipal and school, reaches the
sum OF $3.50, 100000. Now if the inter-
est on chattle mortgages be added to
the land mortgages, we find the alb
solutely appalling fact that the farm
ers in the west are paying interest
enough to run the whole vast machin-
cry of this mighty empire-from the
school district to the nation at large! !
1t is inconceivable-but it is as
true as the fact can make it. We
must rise against this monster or
perish beneath it's feet.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

Congress will soon be struggling
with the question: How long a
time can we give the Pacific rail-
roads to pay their long past due
debt-so that they will feel certain
that it will never have to be paid.
Why cannot the U. S. government
deal fairly with it's people? Such an
outrage would have cost an English
king his head. Charles II was be-
headed for crimes infinitely less than
giving a bonus to the Companies Of
a hundred million dollars.
AS an exchange observes, NOW is
the time to take these roads on the
mortgages and run them ourselves.
Why should pity be shown such pitt
less robbers when our prisons are full
of more deserving malefactors +?
Shame on such a tyranny of the
money power-it has never seen it's
equal on the earth's face!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13
A ACORRECTION.
MARsHALLTOWN, Ia, 1865

MARSHALLTOWN, Ia, 12-6-S9.
DIR. FISH:
l see in all your estimates of rail-
road building you have used the price
for rails which gave you in the -
& contract. 1t will not answer
for general contracts. They are un-
der standard, and are iron. Most
roads now use "standard" rails and
steel, though more or less important
roads still use iron. Standard steel
rails are quoted at $22 ton. The
c. NJ. & st. P. is using $25 steel.
This makes good ironing" come to
about $2,SOO a mile to $4,000 a mile.
Roads are irOned, as in the contract
sent you, at 81, 800 to $4,000 a mile,
especially where under standard iron
rails are taken from tracks being re-
laid. In fact most northwestern
roads are laid for less than $3,
600 to the mile. This will bring up
your estimates OF 4,5OO and $500 a
mile to from $4,000 to $4,000. But as
you have always allowed from 81 800
to $4,000 a mile, you have no reason
to worry over the matter. Yours
truly, etc.
The above was written by a
man who knows whereof he speaks.
The contract spoken of refers to
Nebraska road-apattern of road like
the 500 line-and most of our west
ern lines-including vast sections of
the Manitoba and all the branches of
N. P.
Gradually the country press will
see the truth of what we say, and
publish the facts as they are: That
from $500 to $4,000 built and
equipped every mile of road in Mime
sofa, including every fixture and at
tachment-and that a moderate
road, with cuts and fills well mixed
in, can be built and equipped for
from 5 to 1000 mile.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

Money? Scarcity of money? Why
bless your soul, during the past three
years you have taken up over 200 mil
lion of undue dollars Of obligations,
paid from two to seven years interest
on them for future years, and besides
paid an enormous premium on them.
What for? Why SO the banks could
loan money to you at from ten
to twenty per cent, when before you
were paying only AZ per cent. These
were 4 and AZ per cent government
bonds. The people paid the interest.
Now your Treasurer gives the Shy
locks OF Wall street seven years inter-
est in advance, takes up the bonds,
gives them the money-and you bor-
row your own principal and your
own interest of the banks at three to
five times the rate.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

The government is now run on the
plan OF saving the money-kings-the
any trouble. inconven-
ience, or losses. The United States
Treasury comes to their relief
whenever the sky is cloudy. 1t has
done so time and again. 1t even buys
up the bonds-which were bought at
6Oc. or less on the dollar, at a pre-
MUM of from 16 to "a cents on the
par dollar! And yet-and yet-you
struggling children OF toil-that
same kind government sees you
mortgaged to the teeth to consum-
ing Shylocks-wIth $3.50, 100000 lock-
ed in it's own vaults without loaning
a cent to labor. 1t could do so at
three per cent to every advantage
conceivable. And then. if foreclosure
take place, the people would own
the land. Kind government that
which sees labor in it's rags because
of it's protection to the SodOmites.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13

''Why can't farmers unite for their
own welfare ?" asks a correspondent
from Pope Co.
We will answer it: Because, Thorn
as, in nearly every township there
are fools among the farmers them
selves. They are thickest about the
villages and county seats. At Glen
wood, in your county, the farmers
lost @ cents bushel on wheat for
two years-they lose fourteen cents
now. They had an elevator wrecked
over their heads. They pay a hun
dred dollars a week to the clay
patched old railroad. They pay $24O
for a bridge built of twelve plank and
one 4x4 timber. And yet the Alliance
there is pulled to pieces by the
knavery and traitorous folly of a
dozen farmers who stand in with the
Combine" gang. The Combine
supports a political villain right in
their midst. Our advice is to have
the farmers draw the line clearly and
closely between those who stand in
with robbers and those who don't.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13
Appreciation of Prosperity.

That expose of the editors of the
Renville Union and Hector Mirror
had it's effect. Seventy-five new SUBJ
scribers, in their letters this week
say ''amen" and "good!" And one
says, -"GOd be with you till we meet
and may he keep you for the mighty
work" Another says, "Now we've
got a man who can expose political
swindlers, let us stand by him."
We thus introduce a statement to
clinch our spikes through the rotten
hulks of such political frauds. The
Assessor of New York state officially
declares that the farm-lands of that
''empire state" are rapidly passing
into tenantry by the mortgage
route.
The Maryland Farmer states a
similar condition.
The New Hampshire state govern
ment has formed paid commission
to see why their farms are being de-
serted, and how to avoid it.
The Vermont farms are in a condi-
tion even worse than New Hamp-
shire
In ONE COUNTY OF Minnesota, with
butS,OOO population in 1880, 800 farm
ers have been driven out of the cOun-
ty by the mortgage route in ten
years. We get this from bankers
books.
=
tell who is helping to dc it: The edi-
tors OF monopolistic newspapers
which stand by the gang!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13
VOL. l, NO. 9.

The local papers, and conservative
alliance men dread the approaching
conflict which draws nigh. Old men
remember Lovejoy, Charles Sumner,
John Brown and Kansas wars. Pre-
monitions of violent strife are in the
political atmosphere. That thee
ing struggle will be confined to the
political forum is almost certain. but
that it will be bitterly and fiercely
fought, with antagonisms never be-
fore equaled in human history. is
equally certain. A base line of oper-
atlons will extend from Pixies Peak
to the Yellow Sea-from Brazil to the
Hebrides-but the luminous focus
will be on the American ballot box.
Europe listens with alarm to the deep
diapason of unrest, and the profound
utterances OF unarmed toll trembles
into speech out from voiceless past.
1t is Labor's approaching battle.
1t is the cry of distress thrown fierce
~ against the Rock of Ages-calling
for it's Christ. From caverns of To-
norance, whence want has crowded
the suffering; from prison houses of
toll where the windows open into a
hopeless future; from the shadows
OF despair, where no bright evangel
has spread her wings of light; from
the haunts of vice, where the past is
dwelling in the present, and from the
half-closed temple of Justice-will
come the throng. The cry will be-:
"Unchain!" And when the conflict is
over it will be found that Righteous
ness hath loosed it's quiver, and sthe
monster Greed has been stricken.
Let this conflict come-it must
come! This rising tide has never
stayed it's course, though revolutions
have marked it's ebb and flood.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-13
Build Your Own Railroads

Build Your Own Railroads
Why should not the state or coun-
ties build their own railroads? Rail
road building has been magnified in
to a tremendous triumph of modern
cngineering" There isn't a county
surveyor this side of Terra Del who
couldn't build railro ad without ten
minutes preparation. The cost of Il
moderately built line is less than
81, 1000 to the mile, all ironed, side
tracked, switched, ballasted, bridged,
fenced, stationed and ready for busi-
ness, with it's boots blackened and
hair cOmbed. There is not a road in
Minnesota which cost $4,000 to the
mile. They are nearly all bonded
and landed for $6O,OOO to the mile,
and those not landed are bonded for
$40, 1000 to the mile.
If any railroad contractor says a
western railroad costs more than
these figure he is liar! Tell him the
GREAT WEST says SO.
$4,000 to the mile will furnish a
a moderate equipment-rollingstoc
etc