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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

The three-days' auction sale of Orien-
tai porcelaine lately conducted in New
York by two Chinese mandarines, Wang
Shih Yuing and Yang Yam Dock, aggre-
gated in value $42, 1850.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

THERE could be no mors striking con-
trast than when Chief Justice Fuller
and Justice Harlan Of the Supreme
Court walked down Pennsylvania ave-
nue. together. The Chief Justice is as
much below the average size as Judge
Harlan is above it, and they are some-
times spoken Of as David and Goliath.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

AT Columbus, S. c., the other day
the ten pall-bearers Of Rev. Thomas B.
Clarkson, an episcopal minister of high
standing, were all colored men. Such
q thing has never before been seen in
the South.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

DANIEL LAMONT, says the New York
Herald, is wise and willy man. He
has trained his baby to cry whenever
reporters appear in the room, and hence
little is known about that Surface rail-
road,' for no reporter is hard-hearted
enough to keep father from his crying
babe.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

TALL oaks from little acorns grow.
The collection of duties at the port of
New York in the first year beginning
Aug. 5, 1889, were 1896, 03S.S5, and for
the year ending Dec 81, 1888, the duties
paid amounted to $40, $50, OSO.35.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

THE Zulus should come over to Hayti
and take few lessons in modern war;
fare, as practiced in the West Indias.
In pure fiendishness, the dark continent
bears no comparison with the dark citi-
zens of the western Republic"
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
A Good Word for the Spy.

HE fact that I
was a scout and
spy during the
greater part of
the war does not
bias me one iota
when I say that
men who will
take their lives
in their hands as
spies do are not
deserving of the
stigma which at
taches to the
name, says q
writer in the
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
The oru.eh in the Corner.


Why, Billy, your room Is as cold as the hut
We had by the swamp and river,
When we lost our Major and Tim, you know,
And twenty more, with the fever.
Well, Tom, Old conarade, it's hard enough
But the best at times knock under:
There's nary stick Of wood ia the house
But the crutch In the corner, yonder.
Sorry 1isted2y Don't ask me that, Tom;
II the flag was again in danger,
I'd aim gun with this aching stump
At the foe were he brother or stranger.
But cay, ought a wound from q shot or shell
Or a pistol-bullet, by thunder,
Forever doom poor fellow to want
With that ar In the corner, yonder2
That crutch, my comrade, ought ever to be
A draft at sight on the Nation
For honor, respect, and q friendly hand,
For clothing and quarters and ration.
I'd sooner have kicked the bucket twice DER,
By shell or q round ten-poundsr,
Than live such o life as I'm doing now,
With that ar In the corner. yonder?
There's nary thing left for to pawn or sell,
And the winter has closed on labor;
Yon crutch is all that 10 left me now,
With my pistol and trusty saber;
And then by the sunlight above us, Tom,
No power from my touch can sunder,
Save the power that releases me at last
From that ar in the corner, yonder.
can raise this arm that Id left to me
To the blessed heavens above us,
And swear by the throne of the Father there,
And the angels all who love MS,
That the hand lost and the hand have
We're never yet stained by plumber,
And for love OF the dear old flag now
Use that ar In the corner, yonder.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

The Saturday Globe, of Utica, a
weekly paper having sworn circula-
tiSh Of 165, 900, announces that after the
LIST Of January, 1890, it will discontinue
the publication of all advertisements.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
Not Coed as Collateral.

Impecunious Simultaneously, Mis-
ter, your sign says that you advance
money on titles.
New York Land Agent Certainly,
sir; where is your land situated?
Land be blowedl My title is Gen.
Buford St Clair. How much do you
loan on that sort of q title 2 Teas
Sijtiggs.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

HEREAFTER in Kansas grand jury
can only be drawn on petition of 100
taxpayers, and not then if the Judge of
the district shall declare a month before
the beginning of court that there is no
necessity for it.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

The members of Baltimore jury,
trying man for murder, were taken to
the scene of the crime and each in turn
looked through key-hole, through
which one of the witnesses claimed to
have seen the act committed.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

IT is said that the Marquis Of Lorne
is ITO be Governor Of Ceylon, at $40, 900
"a year and board. Princess Louise will
go with him.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

AMONG Barnum's novelties the COM
ing season will be set Of trained peli-
cans, which will fly race about the
hippadrome track, three trained sheep,
q band Of Moors, and an elephant thirty
six inches high which will ride a
hiovc1a
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

THE Emperor of Austria has dis
missed the principal officers Of the late
Crown Princes household and the MEM
Bsfs Of his encourage are disgraced and
banisbed from the court Count Hoyos,
who is regarded as the principal culprit,
is going to Central Africa.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

ExHIBITERs' tickets Of admission to
the Paris exposition will have their pho
tograph affixed to the pasteboard to pre-
went transferring them.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

The borough Of Pottsville, Pa,
wanted bridge across the Pennsyl-
vania and Reading railroads. which run
side by side. It taxed each company
$4,000, built the bridge for $18, 932.0S,
and was over one thousand dollars in
pocket.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

Mr.. Houston, of the London Times,
who was so miserably duped by Pigott,
was heard to say few months ago that
within six years he expected to become
Prime Minister of England.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

CLARENCE BAKER, rapid young man
of Lafayette, Ind, having in one year
squandered his inheritance of $4,000,
is now a candidate for the insane
ASYLUM.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

CARCELY any
two men behave
alike under fire.
Those who are
naturally stub
born and COM
bative become
more SO, and
make the best
fighters. TIL e
way men behave
when exposed to
the enemy's fire
d Q p 9 n d s on
whether they ex-
meet to be- hit or
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

IT is said that the letter mail Of Post
master General Wannamaker at his
great Philadelphia store costs him $3.50
q day.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

Mrs. NOBLE, wife of the Secretary of
the Interior, comes from Northampton,
Mass, where her father was a twenty
five years proprietor of large sanitar-
ium.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

PRESIDENT HARRISON is the four.
teenth lawyer to hold the executive
chair of the Nation. He is also the
fourteenth of pure Anglo-Saxon blood.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

JOHN G. ROPES, the lecturer of Cam
bridge, possesses the finest portrait of
Napoleon now in existence. 1t repre-
SCENTS the Emperor at the battle of
Arcola
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

A SILVER pipe, on which is the inscrip-
tion; Presented by Major General
Harrison, q. s. A., on behalf of the
United States, to the Shawaonese tribe
of Indians, 1874" has been presented to
President Harrison by q gentleman who
secured the relic in the Indian Terri
fory
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
ON THEFIELDOF BATTLE
INCIDENTS AND INTERESTING ANEC-
DOTEs OF THE WAR.

The Veterans of tho Rebellion Tell Of
WhistIing Bullets, Bright Bayonets.
Bursting bombs. Bloody Battles, Camp
Life, and Festive Bugs.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

MISS SCHULTZ, who has taken the
degree Of NJ. D., in Paris, with the
highest honors, is a particularly pretty
young woman of 81 summers.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

T the end Of
TWEEN t y-f We
years, all the
great s u b.
jects of the
war b a v 9
been fully
.discu 8 8 ed
. n d | a id
aside, but in
cidents like
the following
are always
new. It will
not be long
before t b Q
grandma t h.
ers who were
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

CALUoRNIA is coming to be the home
OF big Stakes, as Of big trees. 1t has
recently contributed some excellent
goldsmining fabricationa, . ine assort-
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

a BILL @to regulate the sale of horse
flesh for human food" is before the En-
glish Parliament.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

IT has not yet been settled whether
Shakespeare was Bacon or Bacon was
Shakespeare. Some one ought to draw
cuts for it.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
A Soldier Artist.
BIZ JAMES FRANKLIN Fits

AN Y til a.
sands Of peo-
pie every year
visit the char
ming village of
atkins, N. T.,
at the head of
Seneca Lake,
andwhile there
ex plore tn g
world : famous
Glen, which is
equal in wild
ond niofur-
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

ment Of Samoan yarns, and now comes
to the front with weird story about an
Indian massacre in the Yellowstone
Park.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

The preservation of rails in use is due
to the formation of magnetic oxide pro-
duced by the compression Of the rust
on the metal.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

The story that the microbe of diph-
liberia had been discovered by French
scientis was Paris newspaper canard.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23

A GERMAN peasant has been detected
in tapping telegraph wire to cure his
rheumatism.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
Nat Russell.
BY DAN KNIGHT.

AL RUSSELL was 9
long, lank, ungainly
looking chap, over six
feet tall in his stock
ings, who, at the OUT
break of the war, en-
listed in Company G,
Fifth Iowa Cavalry.
He was q @comical
cuss" in some respects,
and often k ept u s
amused by his SEEM
ingly unconscious hui
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
OF THE TIMES.
a Choice Selection Of Inter-
esting Items.

LONDON is to have mining exchange
separate from the stock exchange.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-23
Men Under Fire.

BY COLONEL FLOYD cLARsoN.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-09

public, and of their successors, down to
the present era of monopoly government.
A tariff schedule embracing nearly every
commodity in daily use, and averaging
AZ per cent, with the heaviest burdens
resting upon the necessities of the masses,
and the lightest upon the luxuries of the
rich, is a prostitution of the taxing power
of the government to the service of private
interests which can find no precedent in
the early history OF the republic, and no
sanction in the teachings of its creators.
1t is gross insult to their memory to
invoke their authority in support OF such
fragrant departure from the great prin-
ciples OF justice and equality which they
enforced by precept and example. Presi-
dent CLEVELAND is thoroughly familiar
with the history of his country, and COM
prehends perfectly the sentiments in
which our institutions had their origin"
His partisan critics appear to be as
ignorant of the one as they are incapable
OF understanding the other.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-09
WORK OF AN ITALIAN FIeNo.
He Blows Up His Enemy's House, KILN
Three Persons-The Murderer Lynched.

He Blows Up His Enemy's House, Killing
Three Persons-The Murderer Lynched.
SEATTLE, W. T., Jan. This morning at
4:S0 o'clock Gilman, little coal-mining vii
lage forty-fve miles distant, was the scene Of =
dastardly dynamite explosion, perpetrated by
an Italian fend with the assumed name of Al
bert SchaeHer. Three persons were blown TO
pieces. Their names are:
JOHN SCHURNICH.
MICHAEL SCHURVICH.
- BODALYE, nine-year old daughter of
George Bodslye, Bohemian.
Bodalye himself had his left leg torn from his
body The explosion created terrible COM
motion in the village, and brought every IN
habitant 10 the spot. An armed posse OF min
ers went TO the Italians cabin, where he and
a mate lived. The angry miners seized both
men and took them before the justice. Sheriff
Cochrane arrived from the scene Of the late
Newcastle riot, and when the Justices court
adjourned for dinner took the men in charge.
The lnerif also went TO dinner, leaving the two
men in the X. of l.. hail. intending TO bring
them to Seattle on the train. 4 body OF armed
miners came and broke into the hall and took
Schaetfer and lynched him, hanging him TO q
tree near by. All efforts to make hIm confess
lalleQ- lie OieQ I1llulte-
Schaefier's deed was actuated by revenge.
Last March he assaulted Bodalye's wife, in-
tending to outrage her. Bodalye had him ar
rested, and Schaeffer served term In the pen
itentiary, being liberated July /. He fire.
quently tried to kin Bodalye and family for
revenge, and when freed went straight 10 Gil
man 10 fulfill his threat. Christmas night
he made an unsuccessful attempt 70
blow mp Bodalye. Bodalaye then
asked Schurvich's brothers TO sleep
down stairs in his house 10 guard him, and sold
his property preparatory to leaving Gilman
and get away IRON Schaeffer. The bend
started out at midnight and awaited his opPOr-
tunity until early this morning. when he threw
the bomb under Bodalye's house. He then
went home, and was pretending to be asleep
when discovered. Bodalye lies in the hospital
here and may die any moment Bodalyes
wife will not recover. 4 little eighteen
months-Old babe was not injured. George and
Mike Schurvich were blown twenty-five feet,
and their heads and limbs were torn from their
IL
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-09
IF He Is Proven Guilty. {"

The Nelrs says ''there is no sentiment
here that is going to shield DUDLEY If he
as prorea guilty.
We do not recall that the Ne,rs talked
in this strain when certain democrats
were charged with petty election fraud
year or two ago. The Nelos did not wait
until they were proven guilty" until it
condemned them. 1t filled its columns
with denunciations of them long before
their trial, and did everything in its power
to bring about their conviction. In this
matter of the Dudley letter, no person
familiar with the facts, who is capable of
adding two and two, has any doubts. Mr..
DUDLEY has publicly admitted the author
ship OF the letter, and the Ne,cs has voiced
the opinion OF all honest men that it is
''the letter of a scoundrel." And yet at
this late day it is saying that there is no
public sentiment here that will shield
him IF he is proven guilty" Is there
no public sentiment here that is trying
to prevent him from being proven guilty
Is there no public sentiment that is try
ing to prevent him from being put in
jeopardy for his crime? Are there no re-
publican politicians who are Boosting on
the streets and in other public places that
eve have enough votes on the grand jury
to prevent an Indictment" Are there
no newspapers here that are using their
columns, directly or indirectly, to break
down the investigation? Are there any
republican lawyers, preachers, doctors,
merchants or editors who are doing any,
thing to promote the ends of justice in
this business? Is there federal Judge
who is insisting upon an indictment as
there was when democrats were charged
with forging tally sheets? Is there a
committee OF one hundred offering re-
wards for evidence against him?
Everybody in indianapolis knows how
these questions must be answered. And
everybody also knows what kind OF COM
mentary the answers will afford upon the
Ne,rs' assertion that there is no public
sentiment here that will shield DUDLEY il
he is proven guilty"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-09
The Key to Election Reform.

IT cannot be too strongly impressed
upon the public mind that no election
law can be adopted which will put a stop
TO the traffic in votes and other evils that
have grown up under our present system,
which does not provide for the printing
and distribution of the tickets by the state.
1t might be putting it little too strongly
to say that no law which does not so pro-
vide would be worth the paper it was
written on but it would be entirely within
bounds to say that no such law would be
worth the time and trouble involved in
securing its passage. In point of fact the
printing and distribution of tickets by
partisan committees and candidates affords
at once the temptation TO, and the oppor-
tunity for, much OF the corruption now
practiced at our elections. The simplest,
easiest and most generally practiced
form of bribery is that which
takes the guise of payment for
the peddling and distribution of tickets.
This assertion will hardly be challenged by
anyone familiar with the practical work
ings of our elections 1t is the paid
''ticket-peddlers" who march the floaters
TO the polls in 'blocks of FIVE" and ''see
that none get away" 1t is they who fix
up the tickets for these cattle, and see
that they are deposited in the ballot-box
before they pay the price agreed upon for
their delivery. 1t is they who take adj
vantage of the ignorant and the careless
to foist upon them spurious, split, counter
felt and "doctored" tickets. In fact, the
''ticket-peddler" is the chief agent in the
debauchment OF our electors, and until
he finds his occupation gone, Doodle will
continue to be the controlling power in
our politics, and pure ballot-box will be
only a dream of honest men.
A moments reflection will convince any
intelligent person that state-printed
and distributed tickets constitute
the key to any real reform
in our election system. 1t will avail little
10 shield the citizen from observation
while in the act OF voting II, before he
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-09
The State Library.

We regret to note in the Terre Haute
Gazette a pre-adamic article on the state
library, advocating the abolition of that
institution. Its central thought is that
keeping library is not one of the legiti-
mate functions of a state" This will be
interesting Information to the civilized
states of the world, all of which maintain
libraries, and, it may be added, very much
better libraries than Indiana has or can
have for some time. II state cannot
keep library, of course a city, township
or county cannot. Therefore let us de-
stroy all public Libraries and leave the
money "in the pockets Of the people who
earned it," The same sort of logic will
apply equally we'll to public schools.
If there is any party that ought to favor
public Libraries, the democratic party
ought, or else it should quit talking Of
being the friend of the people. If there
has ever been a democratic leader who
was not friend of public libraries, we
have never heard of him.
We repeat that the condition of the
state and township libraries is disgrace
to Indiana, and add that the abolition of
either would be worse disgrace. If the
democratic party has not enough common
sense and public spirit to improve their
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-09
DUDLEY would be present and speak on
the topic.

THE Journal says that Judge CLAYPooL' s
nomination should not be confirmed.
WILLIAM WADE DUDLEY saws the same
thing. The idea is, you know, to have a
district attorney, after March 4, who will
see to it that every guilty republican
escapes. BENJAMIN HARRISON can, of
course, be depended upon to provide such
district attorney in the interest of his
friend DUDLEY. Should indictments be
returned against the election thieves dur
ing Judge CLAYPooL's ad interim service
as district attorney, they cannot be
brought to trial before March 4, and then
1t will be smooth sailing for DUDLEY and
his gang. This is the program of these
precious rascals, and their organ-which
is also the inspired organ of the presi-
dent-elect-maisesn no effort to disguise it.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-09
A Meritorions Measure.

Col. MATsoN rendered very important
service to pensioners Wednesday, when
he secured the passage by the house OF a
bill prohibiting any agent or attorney
from receiving a fee for securing an in
crease OF pension on account of an in
crease OF the disability for which pen
sion was originally allowed, and further
prohibiting pension agents from accepting
fee for getting pension through con-
gress by special legislation in cases where
the pension might be obtained under the
general pension laws. The bill was in
troduced by Mr., DocKERY of Missouri,
and its object is to protect pensioners
against extort1on and robbery at the
hands of the rapacious and INSCRIPTIONS
creatures who infest Washington and are
called pension attorneys" or pension
agents." The bill was amended so as to
permit the applicant to contract with any
person in the state in which both parties
reside to pay not to exceed three dollars
for services rendered in such case, should
the increase be allowed. The amount
was incorrectly stated at eight dollars in
TIE SENTINEL yesterday.
The bill now goes to the senate, and
the Washington pension sharks will
make desperate efforts to prevent its pas
sage in that body. 1t is estimated that
the enactment OF this measure would
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-09
THE Philadelphia Teleqam. an able an

THE Philadelphia Telegram, an able and
honest republican journal, which sup
ported HARRISON earnestly, says:
OF course the ultra republican partisan
journals denounce the selection of a successor
to U. S. Dist.-Atty. SELLERS at Indianapolis
made by the president, and partisan senators
will only be too quick, doubtless, to oppose its
confirmation; but it is TO be hoped, for the
good repute Of the republican party outside of
Indiana that Mr.. DUDLEY's friends will not
kick too high or too hard over this little mat
ter Mr. BAILEY may have been a very of
fensve partisan" little while ago, and he
may be even more offensive" in the near
future; but as the representative of the federal
government he has a high duty TO perform,
and no amount OF buster and bulldozing is
likely to deter him from it. He is the one
man who is supposed to know all about the
bribery scandal, and with ability and fidelity
to aid him. be therefore is just the man for the
work which another has so strangely turned
his back upon. Let this vile business in In
diana be probed to the bottom. Let no guilty
man escape.