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The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01
.FTER EIGHTEEN YEARS
"A Convict at Chester Confesses to an Old
Murder.

Murder.
Penitentiary Commissioner j. j. Brown,
of Vandslin, ILL.,, while on a recent visit to
the southern Illinois peDitentiary, at Chess
ter, came in possession of the following
Chester penitentiary by the name Of Davis.
sentenced for ten years, from White
county. Davis vas the cell mate
of one Charles Henderson, y former
resident of this (Fayette) county.
and we'll remem cred by the people Of
Nandalia. Henderson is now serving .
ten years sentsnce from Christian county
for an inhuman crime. Some time ago he
Was taken sick in prison, aud thinking he
was going to die sought to release his cou-
science by relating TO his cell mates the
shocking details of q murder, most foul,
committed in this county eighteen years
ago, aud confessing that he and his
brothers were the murderers. The crime is
we'll remembered, the victim being Frank
Little, q young farmer residing in the
northern part of this county.
Little and his two sisters lived together.
md were known to be among the very best
people of the neighborhood. Tue night Of
the murder Little was seated ut an organ
playing aud singing, accompanied by his
sisters, who stood by his side. A shot WAS
fred through a window, and Little fell to
the floor dead. Immediate steps we're taken
by the people of the neighborhood and oti-
GERS to hunt dow the murderer, but little
or no clue could be obtained. Years
passed, and still nothing developed which
could possibly lead to the identification of
the assassin, and as time fed .hs horrible
event almost faded from the memories Of
our people.
Now, the circumstances of the occur
renee are suddenly and unexpectedly re-
vived under peculiar aud surprising condi.
tions, and there is yet q probability that
the perpetrators may, after all, be brought
to punishment for the crime of eighteen
years ago. A barn of Campbell Nave, an
uncle of the murdered man, living in the
same neighborhood, was burned o short
time after the murder, and Henderson also
admits that he and his brother were guilty
of tlis crime. His brother, he says, 10
now in Name.
Charles Henderson has a uniformly Dad
record and is perfectly capable of such .
crime as he confesses to. He is now ssrv-
ing his second term in the p%enitentiary.
The first was for implication IN the theft
of a carload of cattle from j. M. Parke, Of
Vera, this county, which was brought to
Vandal,a and shipped to Chicago. His
present sentence for ten years is for q
crime committed at Taylorvil!e during the
campaign of. 1888. A big political fight
was in progress at that place, when Hen.
derson, was located there Us q veterinary
surgeon, sneaked around after dark and
poisoned thirty or forty horses, from the
effects of which several valuable animals
died. He was arrested for the deed, and
in a few days confessed to it.
The convict, Davis, to whom the CON.
fession was made, and who impaired thu
SANE to Warden Dowell, Is q kentuckian.
an intelligent man, and bears the reputs
tion among piison officials Of being truth.
full.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01
AwFUL

An Thurman Milwaukee Couple Burns In
fants Alive.
Dr.. Thomas Hatchard was found guilty
Of murder in Milwaukee and after n several
hours session, the jury has
found a similar verdict against
his wife. for criminal practice
upon young girls in a delicate condition.
This is the result Of the startling exposure
made several weeks ago by the Ne,rs, which
secured evidence that the Hatchards had
not only been carrying On illegal practices,
but that they were accustomed to burning
alive newborn babies. coming into their
hands through this ~nefarious work.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

CHINESE students are by no means
models of decorum. At a recent ex.
animation at Hangchow, the young men
were SO %boisterous, climbing on the ex-
aminer's table aud fighting tooth and
nail for each others essays, that the
high provincial authorities ordered the
examiner to stop proceedings and close
the hall. On another occasion the
students crowded around a district
magistrate who was taking down their
names as they entered the provincial
capital for examination. Those who
had got behind him linked his official
robes and singed his peacock's feather.
The hien "a just turning around to
shout at them, when his form was
pulled from under him and he found
himself suddenly seated on the ground,
while the students dispersed with Q
shout Of derisive laughter.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01
LIKE A CAT.
John +. fl"nnn.er win Probably Land or
His Feet All Right.

John +. f%lWlMnler Will Probably Land On
His Feet All Right.
There has been considerable comment in
New York about the mysterious absence Of
John T.. Plammer, prominent in republi-
can politics during the last presidential
campaign. and who failed recently with liza
bilities Of about u million. 1t is
now learned that he has gone to
Tacoma in the Interests of John ID. Rocke-
Teller of the Standard Oil company, and
may remain there some years. Rockefeller
has large business connections in Tacoma.
Precisely what is not known, but they are
involved in some way with the Northern
Pacific. 1t is SAID, if well managed by
Plummer. it will he likely to put him on
his feet again.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

INTENSE bitterness prevails at Trieste
against the American Government, in
consequence of the latter's determine
ton to put an end to the immunities
and privileges which the ancient city of
Tergeste, founded by the Roman En-
peror Vespasian, has enjoyed since the
year A. d. 1919, when it was first de-.
clared an Imperial Free Port, and ex-
empt from the payment of national
taxes. On June 20, 1891 Trieste will
be reduced to the level Of an ordinary
seaport city of the Empire. and its COM
mercial prosperity will receive u blow
that will probably prove mortal. The
action of the Austrian Government in
the matter is mainly due to the infu-
ence of Hungary, which has spent vast
sums in the construction of the quays
and docks at Fiume, and which is
naturally jealous of the extraordinary
privileges enjoyed by her rival.
Hitherto Trieste has monopolized al
most the entire shipping trade of the
dual Empire, its annual imports and
exports exceeding $3.50, 900, 900. I'm
fortunately, however, it has for many
years past had the reputation of being
the most disloyal city in the Empire.
l~rrendentism prevails among all classes
of its inhabitants, who lose no oppor-
tunity of manifesting their ardent love
for everything italian and their deep
rooted aversion for Austria. This,
doubtless, has greatly contributed to
bring about the Governments decision
to rescind its ancient charter.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

DIR. CARL LuMnoIrz, a Norwegian
scientist who was sent out to Australia
several years ago by the University OF
Christiana for purposes of exploration,
stated recently in a lecture in San Fran
cisco that there We're, by estimate, fully
two hundred thousand natives in Aus
tralia when the whites first settled
there, but now there are not over thirty
thousand. and they r fast disappear
ing before the whitening blast of civil
ization. They are the most degraded
aud primitive people on earth.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

DEPUTY JA1LER JOHN BURNS, form
erly one of the wealthiest lumbermen
neal Ashland, Wis, dropped dead in a
chair just as he opened the Jail door to
take out u squad of prisoners. The
prisoners, many of them held for seri-
GUS offenses, thought Burns was retire
ing, and made no effort to escape.
When the 1ailer entered half an hour
later the dead deputy was still guard
ing the prisoners.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

AMONG all the virtues humility is
pre-eminent. It is the safest because
it is always an anchor; and that man
may be truly said to live the most con-
tented in his calling who strives to live
within the compass Of il.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01
TERRIFIC BATTLE.
II Results In Serious Consequences for n,
MullIi.

It Results In Serious Consequences for the
Malltli.
Dispatches received via Cairo report that
q desperat, battle has occurred between
the Djoalins and the Ba: garas, in the pro-
vince of Ds,fur. The former we're victo.
Eious, but the loss on each side wa very
heavy. At last advices the hostile forces
were still in battle array, and another con-
fict was imminent. The defeat of the
Bsggaras in Darfur is q serious blow for
the mahdi. Should they sustain another
disaster from the hands Of the Djoalins,
who head the rebellion in the Soudan, his
power will be gone and the consequences
will be most important.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

THERE are ruins near Gallup, CAL,
the foundation walls of which can be
traced for two miles, indicating the ex-
istence OF q large town in the locality in
bygone times.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

SOME little time ago a writer sent an
article to u magazine with the following
explanatory note: Il know that you
probably have several thousand articles
on hand, many of them by well-known
writer's, while 1 am entirely unknown.
But I venture to hope that you will
look ut my article at once. first, because
it is on q fresh topic, and is concisely
put; secondly, because it is not folded
but sent to You between two pieces of
pasteboard; and thirdly, because it is
typewriter" The article was promptly
accepted, and appeared in two months.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

600. II will be OF handsome design,
the exterior being a series Of square
columns and beautifully polished stone.
The carving will be ornate. All parts
of the building will be made of the pro.
ducta of Colorsdo's mines, the owners
in all the counties of the State having
sent in their choicest and richest speci-
mems. In the interior will be seen
every variety of mineral production
from stone and coal to pure gold, the
value OF which will be at least $3.50, 900.
1t is intended to be q permanent ex-
hibit. open every day the year round,
and its originators dosire to have the
choicest specimens of mineral wealth
from every State in the Union repre-
sented side by side with the resources
of Colorado. Building-stone, marble,
and granite are also desired. The
building will be lighted by 5000 incan-
descent electric lights. It is the inten-
ton to reproduce this in duplicate of
design and brilliancy of decoration anS
display, but somewhat reduced in size,
as the Colorado mineral exhibit for the
Worlds Fair in Chicago, in 1892.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

PROF. BURT WILDER, of Cornell, is
making q collection of brains. He
wants brains, other peoples. He is
~esnecially DESTROYS that editors should
leave their brains to him when they GO
into the obituary department. Great
splendid brains are what Prof. Wilder
is after now, hence this appeal to the
od:kov,
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

In New zealsnda Mormon conven.
ton has just closed its sittings, at which
1t was officially reported that there are
5000 Mormons in that colony, and that
900 converts were made during the past
year.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

WILLIAM srnAauE. the famous ex-
United States Senator, the famous boy
statesman the famous War Governor,
the famous husband of Kate Chase
Sprague, is now Chief of Police at
NarraRapsett Pier.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

THE discoveries made by Stanley
show that the Nile is the longest river
in the world, being at least 400 miles
in length. Were the Mississippi re-
garded merely as a tributary to the
Missouri, as some geographers contend,
the latter stream would surpass the
African INTERCOURSE, having u length
of 800 miles.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

ONE Of Horace Greeley's nephews is
q barber in a little town in Warren
County, Pennsylvania. Inpcrsonal APP
pearance lie is not unlike his distin-
guished uncle. He thinks Horace
might also have become a great barber
if he had not got switched off in an
other direction when lie was young and
Immature
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

THERE is said to be q growing de.
mand among the working classes of
Liverpool for books of technology. The
report of the Lyccum Library shows
that fiction is still far in the lead in
popular favor. The number of works
of this class circulated last year was
4O,566, while the classics found only
25l readers, and books relating to lam
guages 23O. Works on the drama
found no more than 3O5 readers. Poetry
is nearly three times as popular. for
there were S54 readers in the section.
The larger figures after fiction are
magazines l0,0S3, history 4,2Ol, travels
3.7S6, antiquities 1862 and theology
1923.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

A 9-MpNTHs-oLp child of John Chap
man, of Delmar, Tioga County, Pa,
died recently under peculiarly distress
ing circumstances. The little II was
having o very troublesome time in cut
ting its teeth. The father, thinking to
relieve its sufferings, attempted to lance
the child's gums. He used u common
iack-knife and performed a very bun
Cling operation, cutting deeply into the
gums. He was unable to stop tue flow
Of blood and summoned a physician.
He, too, was powerless to stop the flow
of the life current, and the child
breathed its last three days later.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01
AN ARMY OF

Will Re Affected by the Railway strike
I'm England.
The Amalgamated Society Of Railway
Servants has ordered the employees of the
Tatfrale, Rhyney Il Barry railway to out
work within n fortnight. unless granted
sixt! hours work u we K. The dir.ctors
have refused this demand and a ceneru
strike il threatened. About 1900 meu
will b. all, cted.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

TEE American schooner, William Rice.
hes been lost at sea. The whole crew.
sonst1 ting Of sixteen persons, persisted.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01
Preventing an Explosion.

Picatinny Powder Depot near lover,
n. j., which cost nearly $500, 600, is
the chief deposit of Uncle Sans war
powder. The ceilings are low, of cor
rugated iron, laid on wrought iron
trusses, forming low attics above. The
interiors-tioors, walls, ceilings, iron
door-frames and supporting iron pillars
are all sheathed with yellow pine.
All the magazines are protected from
lightning in q most thorough manner,
by can of a net work of conductors
or lofty poles carrying cables and form
ing a continuous circuit above and
around the entire building. No human
being IS permitted to enter the build
ing unless barefooted OR with rubber
over his boots or shoes. The barrels of
powder are taken into the magazine on
ruEber-covered skids or on trucks with
rubber-tired wheels. About 1850, 600
pounds of powder, chiefly of an expert.
mental variety, and 5000, 900 of the to-
tai of 5000, o00pounds of inter now pos
sessed by the United States, are stored
in this magnificent depot for the Attain
tic seaboard. And yet there is but one
keeper and three OF four laborers to
protect these, under certain conditions,
priceless properties. The depot should
be made a regular army post, and no
person except under proper authority,
should he allowed to enter the place.
AS it is at present, some rampant
socialist or luminous crank could blow
up the whole affair.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

sTHE only way to prevent what's
past" said Mrs. Muldoon, sis to put .
stop to ii before it happens.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

IT is calculated that there is property
valued at $50. OOO, 900 at the bottom Of
the Atlantic.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01

The mineral palacenow being erected
n Pueblo. Col, will cost about $780,
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
4 Choice Selection Of Inter.
esting Items.

THE salary Of the infant King of
Spain is 81, 25O, 900 q year.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01


His First Visit, Don't You Know.
A Chicago lawyer, who recently re-
turned from q voyage Gro the At
lantic, tells this:
Gone of the voyagers back was q
young man from one of the universities
of England. He was the most thor
oughly book-posted young man 1 ever
saw. And he knew his own country as
we'll. He was a delightful companion
SO long as lie confined himself to his
books and his country. But about
everything else he was so remarkably
verdant that he was as interesting as
he was in his conversations about those
which he did know. AS we neared
New York Harbor there was the usual
anxiety on the part of Americans on
board and the usual curiosity on the
part of those who were coming over for
the first time. I was walking the deck
IL morning waiting to get a glimpse
Of my W country. The young Briton
joined me, and in the most serious
manner said:
who is this man I hear them talk
ing So much about for the last few
hours-Sandy Hook, 4 think, they call
him? He must be q great man in
America, yet from his name 1 should
say he was a Scotchman.'" Chicago
T1.iL2lno
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-01
LOSS OF THE EGYPT.

'l.ScroS. Jul. ss-speoial Correspondence.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10
THEIR POSITION DEFINED.
The Georgia Alliance Men Show How
They stand.

The Georgia Alliance Men Show How
They stand.
The executive committee of the Geor-
gia Farmers Alliance has propounded a
series of questions to which every
candidate for Office must to obtain Al
lance support, subscribe. The points
covered are: Revision of public school
system looking to an increase of facil-
tiles for common education, abolition
of the convict lease system; reduc-
ton of State and National taxes to a
''for-revenue-only" basis; in the re-
vision of the protective tariff, burdens
now resting on agricultural and labor
ing classes be lessened to greatest pos
sible extent; representatives in the Ma
tional Legislature must advocate the
passage of such laws as will prevent
speculation and combines that seek to
interfere with prices of prime necessi-
ties and productions; they must pledge
themselves to an abolition Of the
National banking system and sub
stitute legal treasury notes in
lieu of National bank notes, and in
sufficient volume in conjunction with
gold and silver to do business on cash
basis; they, further, must indorse the
Alliance sub-treasury plan, or some
better system for the relief Of the strug-
Cling masses"
Every Alliance man is urged to see to
il that candidates who receive their
votes stand squarely on the Alliance
platform.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10
SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE.
The Wise Conclusion Two Soldiers Came
to In the swamp.

The Wise Conclusion Two Soldiers Came
to In the swamp.
Acknowledgement Mullen was in a
reminiscent mood yesterday. This con-
dition was superinduced by the recitals
of civil war incidents by an old soldier
who had dropped in for chat. And
General Mullen is never reminiscent
without being entertaining.
81 will tell you little experience 1
had down in Louisiana in 1862, he said,
after listening to other stories for a
time. Il was a member of the Thir-
teenth Connecticut Volunteers. The
opposing armies had come into pretty
close quarters and Confederate out-pick-
cts, stragglers and skirmishers were
around us and doing considerable mis-
chief. Three companies of our regiment
were ordered out on skirmish duty. We
marched down five PAGES apart, accord
ing to regulations, into perfect morass.
The water was waist deep everywhere.
l wasn't very tall and found it neces-
sary to hold up my cartridge-belt to
keep it from getting saturated. The
Confederates were scattered through
this swamp, and we took a number of
prisoners without opening fire. Well,
met with misfortune. My foot caught
between couple of parallel branches
beneath the water, and | was securely
pinioned. My companions continued on
their way, while l struggled hard to ex-
tricate myself from my unpleasant pre-
dicament. l finally pulled my foot out
with desperate effort, but my shoe was
left behind. / could only secure it by
plunging my head beneath the surface
of Shiny, noxious, muddy waite, but it
had to be done. had no sooner got the
shoe tied on again than rebel came in
sight from behind some bushes. Intui-
lively our muskets were simultaneously
raised.
Surrender, Yankr Numbered the
rebel.
Surrender YOURSELF / returned at
the top of my lungs.
Then we stood and eyed each other.
Each had his gun cooked and leyeled at
the other; but neither pulled trigger.
Why we hesitated is more than can ex-
plain. By delaying, you see, each was
practically placing himself at the mercy
of the other, or so it would seem. Sud-
denly the rebels gun dropped, and
brought mine down also.
"'See here, Yank, he began in a much
milder tone, if shoot you my side won't
gain much. And, again, if you should
shoot me your side wouldn't gain much.
Now, I've got wife and two babies over
yonder, and if you dropped me they
wouldn't have nobody to take care of
'em. Now, it's a mean man what won't
split the difference. I'll let you go if
you'll let me go, and we'll call the thing
square. What do you say?'
''Well, what should say? walked
over half way, and we met and shook
hands and parted. About year later
a letter came to our camp addressed to
Little Yankee that split the difference
l had told him my regiment, you see. but
not my name. The letter was cordial
invitation to visit the fellow at his home
in Louisiana. He wanted me to see the
wife and babies whose memory had
prompted him to propose to split the diff
ference, and l have always regretted
that was unable to accept the invita-
tion."-St Paul Pioneer Press
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-04-10
HOT COFFEE HERE


Is fact l can not gainssy; but do de-
clare that Kate herself stood a little
while later ready for customers, with
her face close to the window pane and
eager eyes brilliant as stars
She was shrewd little girl, as have
already limited, and knew that the house
she and her mother lived in was a good
hungry" distance from town; and she
felt that did any traveller to and from
the city chance to read her modest little
announcements they would only too
gladly avail themselves of the nectar
she had been taught to make so well.
Away along the smooth, white road a
black spot suddenly showed itself. 1t
grew in size as time passed, and, as its
bulk increased, silvery bells, in high
and merry trebles, sent sound waves
sbesd Qt il