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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-06
THE DAKOTA FIRES.
The Awful Suffering of the People-Many
Lives Lost.

Lives Lost.
CHICAGO, April 5th.-Dakota dispatches
say At George Hunts place the family
had just seated themselves at the dinner
table when Mrs Hunt saw sparks flying in
through crack in the kitchen. SEEING a
blanket apiece the people in the house
threw them over their heads and started
from the building. By good fortune all
succeeded in reaching place of safety.
For twenty feet their path was through
a sheet or flames twenty feet high.
Many of the other farms in Rapid valley
barely escaped the wild flames, which sped
across the ground like flash of lightning.
The wind was blowing at the rate of sixty
miles an hour. Had the velocity of the
wind been less, more damage would un-
doubtedly have resulted. Thousands of
dollars worth of property were destroyed
within ten miles of Freeman. Thirty
two families lost their homes.
only escaping partly clothed. Machinery,
grain hay and large amount of stock
were burned. The unfortunate farmers are
entirely destitute. and without food or
shelter. In Douglas county the fire was
the worst ever known. Many farmers lost
everything, and are homeless and destitute.
The house of William Cline was burned,
Mrs. Cline perishing in the flames.
CHICAGO, April 5th.-A DAILY Nesos st.
Paul, Minn., special: The list of losses by
the prairie fires in Dakota increases, and
the descriptions OF hair breadth escapes are
very thrilling. In Yankton county alone
the damage is placed at $15O,O0O. Near
Rapid City, Prot G. E. Bailey's ranch was
destroyed. When a party of neighbors
drove through the binding smoke to the
rear of the house an appalling sight met
their gaze. Standing in little
hollow below the ruins of the house
was Eloise Madison, blistered and
scorched and burned, without hardly a
shred of clothing upon her. She was ter
ribly burned. Mrs. G. f. Bailey, in whose
employ the young girl was, and William
Ashton, the hired man, had very narrow
escape, and as it was suffered painful but
not dangerous injuries. Mrs. Bailey says
when the fiie caught III the dwell
ing-house it blazed up like tinder and
allowed them no alternative but to run
for their lives. This they did, Mr.. Ashton
taking each of the women by an arm and
darting with them through the smoke and
flames. They had gone but a short dis
tance when Miss Madison fell The
smoke was so thick when they stopped to
look for her that she could not be seen,
and thinking she had gone in another di-
rectlon, they resumed their efforts
to escape. After severe struggle
they succeeded in getting to the wind.
ward of the fire and made their way to q
neighboring ranch.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-06
A SHORT HONEYMOON.
Tired of Matrimony in One Day Pre-
fers Picking Hops.

STOCKTON, April 5th-F. Maskrop and
bride of yesterday, arrived here from
Brighton last night and put up at hotel
While out walking this morning she gave
him the slip, went to the police headquar-
ters, said she did not like her husband and
wanted protection. She was put under
charge of conductor and sent to Sacra-
mento.
The husband took the matter philosophi-
cally. remarkipg that "there were plenty of
fish left in the sea" and went on the same
train, but did not speak to her
She is good-looking blonde, whose
maiden name was Mamie Payne. Her
father has hop ranch near Sacramento.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-06
Henry 1rving,s sympathy for Booth.

LONDON, April 5th.-When Mr. Irving
had read the first announcement of Mr.
Booths stroke of paralysis, he expressed
great concern, and he Immediately sent a
cablegram of sympathy. Later news of q
more favorable character came to Irving
and was received with great pleasure.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-06
WASHINGTON.
AN INAUGURAL CELEBRATION
PROCLAMATION.
j. o. Coleman TO Succeed r. ID.
Stephens as Postmaster at
Sacramento
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RrcORD-usos.l
THE sAcRAMENro POSTMASTER
j. o. Coleman to be r.. d. Ste phens' Sue
cessor.

WASHINGTON. april 5th-Representative
Mckenna is hustling around the Depart
ments from morning I'll night. trying TO
perform the Impossible task of pleasing all
the office-seekers in his district To-day
he recommended the appointment of J. O.
Coleman as Postmaster at Sacramento, and
W. D. Pennycook as Postmaster at Vallejo.
Senator Stanford united in advising these
appointments. 1t is not expected that any
immediate change in these offices will be
made, as the terms of the present incum-
bents will not expire for several months
Mr.. McKenna has also advised the appoint
ment of W. o. L. Crandall to be Postmaster
at Olema, and ]. r. Baker at Antioch.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-06
A Shirt FACTORY FaIlure.

z New YORK. April 5th.-A complete sur
prise was occasioned among the merchants
engaged in the shirt trade this afternoon by
the announcement of the failure of Downs
& Finch, shirt manufacturers at Al and As
Leonard street, having three large factories
at Jamesburg, Gordontown and Hights-
town, n. ]. The firm was regarded as the
leading one in the manufacture of fancy
shirts in the United States. At the office
of the 6rm no person could be found to
give the slightest information of the cause
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-06

of the failure. The general understanding
was, however, that the firms endeavors to
control the trade had increased its ex-
penses, while the profits diminished and
low prices prevailed. Assignee Miller
learned from Downs that the liabilities
were between 100000 and $4,000, and
that the assets judicious handled would
exceed all Liabilities.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-06
A FINE SHIP.
The Latest Addition to the German Fleet
at Samoa.

at Samoa.
WASHINGTON. April 5th.-The German
corvette Sophie, which sails from Zanzibar
to-day for Samoa, is another fine ship, su-
perior to either the Richmond, Adams or
Alert. which Will institute the American
squadron at Samoa. She is of the COM
posite type, of fourteen knots speed, 2,200
tons burden, and carries eight inch and
two 34-inch rifles and four machine guns
with torpedo outfit. She uses the forced
draft, which engineer experts here think
contributed largely to the escape Of the
English war vessel Calliope, as it enables
vessel to get I'D steam IN : short time
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-06

White House. but that plan met with
manifest disfavor for the President had
promised to take Benny on his first trip
down the river.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-06

Breeze, William Mccormick, P. B. Quin-
Ian, w. T. Gibbs and George NJ. Condee.
The following subcommittee were ap-
pointed: On music-Robert Bell, J. ].
Green and P. B. QuinlaD on printing!.
J. Cullen, J. H. Bre, re and George NJ.
Condee; on athletic games-P. B. Quinlan,
Public Administrator Penny, A. c. Henry,
P. Lyman and c. Padrena.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-06
FOREIGN TOPICS.
B0ULANGER COUNSELS WITH HIS
FRIENDS.
Peruvian Affairs-The English Tur
Sentences Reduced
Parisian Notes.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoED-UNIoN.I
FOREIGN TOPICS.
FRENCH AFFAIRS

ESPECIAL psrArcREs TO THE RsoorD-uSIoS.l
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-06

New YORK. April 6th.-The steamship
Adriatic, with the baseball tourists aboard,
was sighted at o'clock this Saturday
morning
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-07-19
Fire at Freeport.

Guckenhcimer's smallest distillery at
Freeport was burned to the ground on
Saturday evening. 1t is located on the
Butler county side of Buffalo creek. The
firms largest distillery is on the Armstrong
county side about mile distant. To
each establishment there is connected
bonded warehouse. Close beside the
building that was burned is warehouse
containing $500. 900 worth of whisky. 1t
was the imminent danger of this vast res
ervoir of liquor that caused the telegram
to be sent to Acting Chief Jones of the
Allegheny Fire Department, at 7;l5
o'clock, asking for aid. The fire broke
out shortly before T. Chief Jones did re-
markably quick work in leading the Co
lumbia engine and wagon full of hose
upon gondola car at Madison avenue. A
start was made at $50 and Freeport was
reached in exactly 40 minutes 1t is a
distance of 90 miles.
The distillery, which was known as the
Montrose building, was three-story frame
structure 75 feet long and 40 wide. Its
destruction was complete in an hour and a
half. The great fight vas to save the big
government warehouse. Only twenty
foot alley divided it from the distillery.
Robert 0'Brien was the first to come to
the aid of the night watchman. They
quickly broke open the hose house, but it
was full of flame and the hose was already
melted and the chemical fire extinguisher
ruined.
A small line of hose was borrowed from
the railroad and an inch stream was
thrown on the blazing distillery. That of
course was of no consequence. A bucket
brigade formed line down to the creek,
and in this way the front of the warehouse
was kept wet Still its cornices and wood
work were charred. Citizens generally
turned in to prevent such monstrous
confagration as would haye resulted had
the $4,000 barrels of whisky taken fire,
and they were only sure they had accom-
plished it when the engine arrived from
Allegheny.
Loss, $35. 900; insurance, $50, 600.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-07-19
The Kirk Reunion.

Mr.. and Mrs Wesley Monks, of Middle
sex Tp, and their son, Rey. W. A. Monks.
attended the reunion of the Kirk family in
Sharon yesterday. Mrs. Monks maiden
name was Kirk and she is one of the twelve
children of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kirk, of
Sharon, the sem-c centennial of whose land
ing in America was celebrated yesterday
There are 145 members in the family
connection, including those who have be-
come members by marriage. The youngest
is great -grandchild of a few weeks of age,
and the oldest is Mr. Arthur Kirk, of Pitts
burg, the well-known Scotchman. Owing
to illness the golden wedding celebration
of Mr.. and Mrs. Kirk, Sr., could not be
held at the appointed time few years ago.
To make up for the disappointment of the
children and grandchildren the semi-cen-
tennial celebration referred to was planned.
Mrs. Kirk is in her S5th year and Mr.. Kirk
is in his Seth year. They landed in Amer
lea with six children in the year 1889.
They came directly to Pittsburg, and re-
sided there for 10 years. Mr.. Kirk engaged
in the work of warp-making with the Eagle
Mills, and was one of the energetic pion
GERS in Pittsburg's industry.
After retirement from an active mill life,
Mr. Kirk moved to Sharon and has for over
thirty years been identified with the in
terests of that city. He is quite proper
ty-holder, and his own residence is located
in one of the most attractive portions of
the place. One son, Mr.. George Kirk, who
was general manager of the celebration,
makes his home with his aged parents.
There are twelve children, six boys and six
girls, all of whom were present at the re-
union. These are Arthur Kirk, of Pitts
burg Mrs. Ellen Love, Of Sharon; James
Kirk, of Davenport, Ia; David Kirk, of
Bradford; Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, of Nebras-
ka; Mrs. Jane Monks, of Butler county;
Wm. Kirk, of Parkersburg, W. Va; Mrs.
Mary Crowl, of Sharon; DR. Edward Kirk,
of Philadelphia; Mrs. Ann Ashton, of Sha-
ron; Mrs. Margaret Tribby, Of Allegheny,
and George Kirk, of Sharon. Two of the
children, DR.. Edward Kirk, of Philadel-
phia, and Mr. George Kirk, of Sharon, are
unmarried.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-07-19
Tillie Hemphill.

The following was adopted by the 0ai
Grove United Presbyterian Sabbath School
on the death of Miss Tillie Hemphill
ReS0ircd, lSt. That while we bow before
His will, who doeth all things well, we are
broken hearted. well knowing that our loss
is irreparable, and but for the knowledge
that the Lord reigneth and all is we'll
could not be comforted.
ID That this sad Providence is direct
admonition to each one of us of the uncer-
tainty of life, and the certainty of death,
and that soon the place that knows us now
shall know us no more forever
3D. That in her death our Church and
Sabbath School has lost faithful and de-
voted member.
4th. We mourn her early departure, but
we are comforted by the good hope that
her spirit is with the spirits of just men
made perfect and by her cheerful acquies-
ance in the will of God and the the peace
of her last hours tell us that it is we'll with
her.
9th. That we sympathize with her pa
rents, brothers and sisters and friends who
mourn her loss
9th. That these resolutions be engrosSed
in our minutes and that a copy be furnish
ed the family of deceased.
j. d. HARRISON,
EVA Ii. CUNNINGHAM, Com.
JENNIE NORRIS
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-07-19
DEATHS.

GIESS-At his home in Zelienople, July
=, 1889, Mr.. George Geiss, aged I6 years
and 10 months.
HEMPHILL--FIiday July Il, 1889, Miss
Tillie Hcmphill, daughter of Stephen
Hemphill, of Clinton township, in the
23rd year of her age.
RH0DES-0n Thursday, July 4th, 1889,
Miss Nettie, daughter of Mr.. ard Mrs.
A. B. Rhodes, of Cleveland, o., in her
10Th year.
Miss Nettie visited frields at her old
home, in Sunbury, Butler county, Pa, and
attended Commencement of the Academy
held there recently. She was not feeling
well the morning she left for home and
died on the date above given.-IelephORe
McJUNKIN-At the residence of Mr.. Jno.
Mitchell in Butler, Saturday, July Ii,
1889, Mrs. Priscilla McJunkin, aged SO
years and months.
She was a daughter of Andrew Christie,
deed, formerly of Concord twp, and was
married to Col. Wm. McJunkin in 1927.
Five children-Mrs Enoch Varnum, Mrs.
Washington Bovard, Mrs. Jno. Mitchell,
Mrs Samuel Kerr, d. D., and j. ID. Nc
Junkin, Esq.-Survive her; also twenty
one grand children, and twenty nine great
grand children.
SHANER-At Enon Valley, Pa, S. 7.
Shaner, on Wednesday, July IL, 1889, at
10 o'clock \. NJ.
BROWN-Near Harrisville, on June 25,
1889, in the 10Th year OF her age, Mrs.
Margaret Brown, wife of Elder Alexan-
der Brown, and mother of Rev. n. E.
Brown, Evansburg, Crawford county,
Pa.
GRANT-At the home of his son, W. II.
Grant, in Springdale, Butler, Thursday,
July II, 1880 - Grant, aged II years.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-07-19
A Much-Married "Bach."

Engineer Bissell, of the P. & W. R. R.,
who was killed by the late accident near
Akron, Ohio, formerly boarded in Zelieno-
pie, and was well known there He pass
ed himself off as ''bach," but it seems
that he had two wives and was engaged to
an Allegheny, Pa, woman at the time of
the accident.
The Cleveland Press of Friday says
''Bissell had wife in Milton, Pa, to
whom he had been married in 1866, Just
after coming out of the war, and had two
children, boy and girl, nearly grown
The body was taken from Akron Monday
evening by Mrs. Dissell, of Newton Falls,
also wife Of the dead engineer. She was
accompanied by her step-father, whose
name is Carlisle, and her brother from
over to her She said she had been mar
ried to him six years, and that they had
one child, a cripple, aged five. When
Coroner Sargeant's party reached Newton
Falls, Wednesday, the funeral procession
was Just coming ont Of the cemetery.
Going into the home of Bissell they We're
introduced to the mourners and soon be-
gan to break the details of their errand.
1t seems that an Allegheny friend of the
Bissell family in Milton had been tele-
graphed, Monday, to ge on and take
charge of the body. After coming here
and finding it gone he went to Newton
Falls and on Tuesday went to the Carlisle
Bissell residence and demanded the re-
mains. He let out the secret of dual
domestic equipment, but being somewhat
in liquor his demands were not given any
attention, especially since he showed no
papers He left Newton Falls before the
coroners party had arrived, but he had
prepared the family for something. II
always said there was something wrong
about John" said Mrs. Bisselrs brother-in
law to Coroner Sargent. II told her that
I thought he was playing her false, but
she never would listen to me, and finally
quit talking about it." The coroner
showed his papers and Maxwell presented
the certificate of marriage to the Milton
wife and showed letters written to the Mil
ton family All were conclusive. The
The Newton Falls Mrs. Bissell, without
much ado, gave her consent to have the
body dug up, and it was soon on the train
coming back to Akron with Coroner Sar-
gent and Maxwell Parks.
:. ''The cap sheaf of all the sensations
came Wednesday at the funeral, when an
Allegheny widow turned up as mourner,
saying that Bissell, who boarded at her
house when he stopped in Allegheny, was
to marry her next Friday. She seemed
quite heart broken when she found one
widow already, and left on the train on
which the coroner and his party came to
Newton Falls. Had not his death sudden
cut him short in his marrying career, Bis
sell would have had, on Friday, three in
teresting and trusting wives, with no tell
ing where his marrying exploits would
have ended When Mrs. Bissell, she Of
Newton Falls, was here Monday, after the
body, the fact was mentioned to her that
the train men on Bissell's train thought
him single. Eyes, that's SO" she replied,
''few railroad men knew that John was
married, for he'd been bachelor so long
when he married me-" The poor woman
didn't know what a Lothario like. bachelor
hood it had been"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-07-19

THE county commissioners of the State
who met in convention last summer at
Erie will assemble again on September %
in Allentown. Their meeting last sum
mer was for the purpose of discussing fl
nancial matters pertaining to the duties of
their Office and to draft revenue bill pro-
viding for new system of of taxation.
The bill drawn up by them was carefully
considered instrument embodying all the
most approved ideas throughout the
Union. As contrastcd with our present
rattle-trap laws it was perfection itself
Yet it received but slight attention from
our Legislature, and another patch was
put upon the old system. If the commits
sioners will resolve themselves into com
mittee of the whole to secure careful con
sideration Of their bill by the thoughtful
minds of the State, and secure influential
advocates, they will be turning their eff
forts to good aecount.-WilkesBa Rec
ord
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-07-19
Public Sale
OF REAL ESTATE.


The undersigned, pursuant to his appoint
ment and commission from the Auditor Gen.
er al of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
as Deputy Escheator of the escheated estate
of Richard Gibson and Mary Z. Gibson
late of Middlesex Township, Butler Co.,
Pa, deceased, and by virtue of the
power and authority therein given. author
izing him so to do, and according to the Act
of Assembly in such case made and provided,
will expose to public sale. at the Court House
in Butler, on
Friday, August 80, 1889,
at o'clock p. NJ, all that certain tract oi
land, situate in Middlesex Tp., Butler Co.
Pa. bounded on the north by lands OF John
Mcbride, on the east by lands of James
Whiteside, south by lands of c. Truber, and
on the west by lands of John Ferguson, and
containing sixty acres, more or less; with log
house thereon, and partly timbered. The
property will be sold to the highest bidder
subject nevertheless to any reyersion, re.
mainder, lease rent, mortgage, or other profit
issuing out of the same, to which il may
have been subject before the finding of the
inquisition escheating said estate to the
Commonwealth.
TERMS OF SALE.
One half the purchase money on delivery
of the deed. and balance in one year there
from, secured by bond and mortgage. Pos.
session to be given on or before the first day
of April, 1890. Any growing crops thereon
reserved.
LEV. MCQUIsTIoN,
Deputy Escheator.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-07-19
He Lived to Tell the Tale.

NEW YORK, July 16.-The reference as
to whether the new method of execution
by electricity is a cruel and unconstitu-
tional one, was continued to-day. DR..
Frederick Patterson, who claimed to be a
specialist of nervous diseases, testified
that in some cases, when he had cut the
dogs open after they had been experiment
cd upon by Expert Brown, the heart beat
for Sc minutes This, he said was no in
dioation Of life. In these experiments some
of the dogs seemed to suffer pain. This
was not noticeable with those performed
on in Edison's laboratory. He was conf
dent that the actual resistance could be
measured at any moment
j. IL. Noble, an expert connected with
the Westinghouse Electric Company, was
recalled He related his experience with a
dynamo generating force of 1,050 volts,
the same as that on the State execution
machine One day, while tending the
machine. he aceidently fell and his hands
came in contact with the two poles. The
result was that he received severe shock.
His hands were burned and the skin came
of, leaving them sore for weeks.
The only physical effect discerned
was extreme nervousness for several
hours after. In the opinion of Mr.. Noble,
the Westinghouse machine might be in
creased with safety 200 or 800 volts Be
yond that it would be dangerous. lie did
not know of any electrical current that
could be considered absolutely fatal Mr.
Noble said that, from experiments he had
tried, instead of the resistance lowerin Q
with a series of measurements it increased.
+. W. Jones, General Manager of the
Postal Telegraph Company, described a
number of experiments which he had
made. the result of which was to show that
the effect of an electric shock upon the hu-
man body cannot be estimated in ad vance
with any certainty.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-07-19

0sE Of our State Legislators, Ii. p.
Grown, of Beaver, has successfully ap-
pealed for protection to the clause Of our
constitution which cxempts legislator
from civil process while on his way to or
from session of the General Assembly.
He had, at the opening of the last session.
contracted for board during the session
with parties in Harrisburg. Not finding it
satisfactory after few weeks, he paid up
and went to another hotel. Suit was
brought for boarding during the time con
tracted for, and Brown was served with the
papers as he was leaving Harrisburg for
his home. Claiming the constitutional
privilege, the court sustains him and the
original proceedings are declared void.