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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-23


The Republican State convention
meets tomorrow. The first and best
thing the delegates could do, would be
to give the Minneapolis attempt to drag
local differences into state politics the
blacklist kind Of a black eye. The
easiest way to do it is to give the pres
ent administration the heartiest kind Of
an endorsement.
The Farmers Alliance district con-
vention nominated Gen. j IA. Baker, of
Blue Earth County for Congress against
John Lind. The character and history
of this man have already been outlined
in the Review. We have called him a
humbug, and we will continue to call
him that, because we do not know of
any other appellation that fits near so
we'll.
The silver bill, as agreed upon by
the conference committee Of both hous-
es, has passed, and has received the
presidents signature. This makes it a
law. It provides for the purchase each
month of 100000 ounces of silver at
its market value, provided that it is not
higher than 81 for 371.25 grains of pure
silver. This bullion is not to be coined,
but it is to be paid out in silver certi6-
Gates whose value will rest upon the
bulk silver which will be deposited in
the vaults. These certificates are made
legal tender for all debts both public
and private, and are redeemable in coin,
the Treasurer using either gold or sill.
yer for their redemption at his option.
Whatever else may be said Of Don
nelly, no one can accuse him Of not |
being funny and original. Having /
picked Shakespeare to pieces and de-
Quoted cipher by which new, if not |
lasting, fame was added to the name of |
Bacon; having lowered oyer legislatures
aud labor unions and having done
divers other wonderful things, he
has now undertaken to beat the all |
powerful elements at their own game.
. study of the recent storm has led the
orainy sage to think that the cyclone,
which he claims is only an electrical
storm, can be coaxed from the clouds !
oy hosting balloon into the air in ev-
Try county, anchoring it to the ground
with metallic ropes. Through these
The electricity, with which the clouds
are evercharged, could be gently con-
Quoted into some lake or river; and al !
lowed to gradually spend its force with
out causing destruction and disaster.
This Donnelly thinks would prevent all |
further storms. Whether it would or !
would not matters little. The idea is |
original and distinctively Donnelly's. |
If it don't succeed in making cyclones
a thing of the past, it will at least adj |
vertise Donnelly a little, and that pro-
badly is all it was brought out for.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-23

The kind references that James G..
Blaine is receiving just at present from
the Democratic press, over his recipro-
city IDEAS and his opposition to certain
features of the Mckinley bill and the
actions of Tom Reed, would come
mighty handy should Blaine ever again
seek to risk his chances on the presi-
dency. Instead of maligning him as
they did six years ago, when he was
pitted against Cleveland, these demo.
cratic sheets are now almost setting
the Flumed Knight up as q Democra-
tic idol
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-23

To-day at Mankato will decide wheth.
er the opposition to Lind, which mag
mary political gossips would have us
believe is strong enough to defeat hima
really exists or not. The indications
are that it does not, as there are enough
and more than enough delegates in
structed for him, to make his nomipa-
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-23

The Farmers Alliance held their con-
vention at St. Paul last week and nomi-
mated S. M. Owen, of the Farm, Stock
and Home, of Minneapolis, for COVER
nor, J. o. Barrett, of Traverse County,
for the second place on the ticket, M.
Weisenberg, of st. Louis County, for
Secretary OF State, P. III. Rahilly, of
Wabasha, for auditor, Eric Matteson, of
Lac qui Parle, for treasurer, j. M. Bur
lingame, of Steele County, for attorney
general, and Frank ". Kohlars, of lie
Sueur, for clerk Of supreme court. The
ticket is one that includes all manner
and conditions Of men. 1t embraces
Republicans, Democrats, Prohibitions
lists. 1t gives berth to The Irlsh, to
the Swedes, to the Americans and to
the Germans, and is excellently divided
as to nationality. 1t takes men from
every corner of the state and from var
ious professions. It bears the names Of
two editors, and of a lawyer, and is on
II lacking in that it does not represent
in any shape or manner the gcaces Of
the Donnelly faction. In this last re-
spect, it is perhaps stronger than in any
other. The Alliance members seem in
clined to give the ticket their hearty
support. The organization is yet a new
one and it is hard to say what it will
accomplish.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-23
Wednesday, July 80, 1890.
Blaine is being accused Of contribut-

Blaine is being accused of contribut-
ing anonymous communications to the
North American Review, denouncing
Speaker Reeds recent action in the
house. This is another political lie, for
Blaine would not be guilty Of such an
act. It is not his style. If he disap-
proved of Reeds rulings, he would not
be the coward to criticise them without
using his name.
In recent interview on the tariff
Colonel Robert Ingersoll said: 81 be-
lieve in protecting what are called in
FAINT industries, but after these infants
get to be six feet high and wear number
twelve boots it is about time to stop
rocking the cradle, especially when the
infant tells you that, if you stop rock
ing, he will get out Of the cradle and
kick your head of. y
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-23

Darwin Hall has been renominated
for Congress in the Third district. Hall
has never succeeded in making a very
brilliant spectacle of himself while at
Washington and has made no attempt
at parade of abilities or qualifications.
Quiet and unassuming, he does not
strike the average voter as being of
much account at the national capital,
but for all that we are honestly of the
opinion that he has done more in his
quiet way for his constituents, than
many, who have made great show OF
service but have failed to secure tang
IDLE results. The Third district should
return him, not to private life but 10
Congress.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-23

The four ballots taken at the Farmers
Convention last week showed clearly
how little the delegates present knew
Of what they really did want. On the
first, Knute Nelson was ahead; on the
second, Ignatius Donnelly; on the third
T. J, Hall; and on the last, s, NJ.
owen. Here are four men as different
in their views and principles as four men
very well could be, but still each was
the choice Of the majority at one tine or
another,
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-23

w. w. Erwin gets $500 ard even
many times that amount for arguing a
single case. Ignatius Donnelly gets
$50 a night and expenses for a two
hours lecture on the authorship of the
Shakespeare plays. The former is a
kld-gloved lawyer. The latteris we'll
dressed orator. Have neither of these
gentlemen no further interest in state
conventions than that which comes from
q pure love of the farmer? Does it seem
probable that they are honest?
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-23

STATE OF MIsSNES OTA. County Of Brown Sss
I'm Probate Court, Special Term, July Sth, 1890
In the matter OF the estate of Caroline PAUL.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-27

While executions in Turkey are commonly
conducted by the sword-except in military
circles, where the gun is used as in England
and this Countrywide bowstring is not
neglected. This is an institution peculiarly
Turkish, and although often talked and
written about. comparatively few outside
the Moslem dominions know anything at
all about it. The executioners with the
bowstrings are generally mutes. They
work in pairs and are very expert. Many
of them are dwarfs, ugly, mis-shapen
people, creatures who seem to have been
formed by nature expressly for their
hideous work. The condemned man
or woman sits on diyan, while
the two mutes approach behind, bearing
with them a stout bow. One of them bends
the bow almost double with his strong
snewy arms while the other with a dex-
ferrous motion of the wrist, casts the loop
of the bowstring around the victims neck.
which has been considerably barred for the
occasion. 1t settles across the larynx; the
bow is released and the u,utes each grasp a
hand of the victim now struggling in the
throes of strangulation. Motion ceases in a
few seconds and a moment or two later the
spasInodc actions of the muscles tells that
the life has gone out.
The bowstring finds fitting companion,
as far as refined oriental cruelty is con-
cerned, in death by strangulation, and the
sack, which is yet practised in some parts OF
Turkey, Persia. and SYRIA, and which was
a common method of punishment in an
Gent Greece and Rome. The victim, half
or wholly dead, is sewed up in a sack,
weighted, and cast into the river.
Among the Moors capital punishment is
administered with the sword. The culprit
is taken to the steps of the hall of justice
and made to kneel on the top, facing the
populace. a couple of guards stand near.
The executioner "a brawny Moor-dis-
patches him with blow, and the head rolls
down the steps, followed by a stream of
gore, at sight of which a chorus of "Ahs!n
and applications to Allah ascend from the
crowd. The swordsman coolly wipes the
weapon on his skirt and justice is avenged
There is very little red tape or waste of
time on condemned criminals in Morocco,
and new trials aud appeals are unheard Of
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-27

1t is among the older nations that the
highest refinement of cruelty must be
sought. The present Persian method OF
Furnishing the condemned is by burying
them alive with the head exposed, or by a
speedier dispatch with the sword. But
what more fiendish death could be conceived
than that devised by Persian shah who
gave to the world what was known as the
illuminated BodyW A condemned crimi-
nal, preferably traitor, was stripped
naked and, after being bound hand and foot,
was laid upon a marble slab. Holes were
drilled all over his body, care being taken
not todHill him in the process. These were
filled with oil and fiue tapers
we're set in each, after which
all were lighted and the room being dark
ened otherwise, the monarch and his coun-
cillors gloated over the sufferings of the
offender who, when, the lights had burned
low, expired In the greatest agony. Such
devices were doubtless prompted by i'm
pulses of revenge rather than a desire for
justice.
One of the most impressive methods of
execution IN Europe at one time was the
"passer par les armes," used both in France
and Germany. 1t was reserved for soldiers
OF rank and was, noble death. The con-
demned was placed in the center of a group
of spearmen, where he stood with folded
arms. At the blast of trumpet, the spear
men fell back some distance and formed a
circle. Again the trumpe. sounded, and this
time they faced toward the prisoner and ad-
vanced, their spears levelled straight at his
breast and the circle gradually narrowing
TIL he was transfixed. Among the Ho:ten-
tots to-day somewhat similar custom pre-
walls. The condemned is taken outside the
kraal or village and surrounded by circle
of warriors. All save the victim are
armed with clubs. The circle begins to
wheel, the warriors singing as they go.
Nearer and nearer they come I'M
til they are almost within
arms length of the victim. Then they raise
their clubs and, no longer trotting, but
running at full speed, strike him as they
run. each blow being accompanied by a
savage shout. 1t need but few minutes
to beat the wretch to the ground but they
do not leave him until the life has departed
and the body is o mere shapeless mass.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-27
MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY APRIL %, 1ssOTwEIvE

present Of silken cord, which is a polite
invitation TO self-iestruction. Tue invita-
ton is rarely disobeyed. The unlucky
victim of royal dlsfavor goes to
his chamber and adjusting ths cord
about his neck, two of his attendants pull
at it till he is black in the face. The other
method Is the Hari-kari, or Happy dis
patch" which high officials are invited to
give themselves when they get into the bad
books OF the monorch. With that fearless
ness, which Is a strong trait of oriental
natures, the official prepares for death
He summons his household and his near
relatives, and informs them Of his dis
grace. He attempts no justification nor
do they try to disSuade him from his
purpose, which is only too apparent.
Finally all is explained, and the adieus are
spoken. With a single twist of his hand,
the doc ned statesman, raising his silken
garments, pluuges the short sword like knife
into his bowels aud drops expiring to the
floor. Such death is considered highly
honorable aud laudab.e on the part of the
victim.
In Japan, also, the sword is the ma
tioaal weapon of execution. There is
something picturesque about a Japanese
execution. The condemned is taken
from prison, where he has probably
been half starving and neglected for days,
and placed on horseback. On either side
rides an Official. bearing pIacard, one an
nouncing the crime and the other the name
and nativity of the culprit he is tied Sc
curely to his horse, his arms are pinioned
and about his waist is rope, the end of
which is held by man who walks along
SIDE He rides bravely and shows no fear
whatever. On reaching the ground, he eats
a hearty meal with wine. the last half hour
Of his life being devoted to the feast,
which he enjoys kesnly after his
fast. Then he is summoned to die.
He is made to kneel, sitting on his heels,
and if he takes the trouble to glance be-
hind him he will see the fateful pit where
his body will shortly lie. The judges sit IN
front. Now his hands are pinioned aud a
cloth is drawn over his eyes. Still his lips
are free. and he raises his head and with a
last long cry of ''Syonara! Syonara! Good
byl Good-bvD he receives the blow of the
headsman's keen sword. The head is picked
up, washed aud placed where it can be seen
by the people, while the body is inferred
where it fell,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-27

themselves of such people The culprir is
taken from the rude native prison, and his
head is covered with basket, which is
fastened around his neck, but not So as
to impede breathing. DE is conducted
to grove where Ihe exscutioners have
young tree has been. bent low to the
ground, and is held there either by the
united efforts of a number of men or by
ropes tied to larger trees. rope IS fas-
tened to the basket about the prisoners
head and also to the endof the Bonded
limb. He is thea ordered 70 stand with
body erect and neck slightly bent. In this
attitude the blow is given with a sword in
the hands of the native headsman. and at
the same instant the ropes that confine the
limb of the tree are severed and it springs
back to its original position, bearing on its
point the BASKET containing the dripping
head. Hundreds off, trees are adorned
with this hideous human fruit along
the Aruwimi In Java and Borneo, also,
the head is exposed as terror TO other evil
doors, the mode OF execution being by
sword and dagger. IN Sian the prevalent
mode is implement, Although the sword is
not infrequently used. The criminal is
striped and made 10 lie fat with his face
downward, when a wooden stake Is driven
through the body till it comes out between
the shoulders. Hesis then raised and the
end of the stake is driven into the earth,
where it is left until the body is cold. OF
course life is extinct long before the brutal
vivlsection is accomplished. Still another
Siamese way of disposing Of surplus
criminals is to crush them under
the feet of elephants. Sometimes
al many as dozen malefactors have been
thus dealt with in single day at Bangkok,
the capital city; but missionary influences
have somewhat mitigated the frequency of
these horrible scenes, although the ''ele-
plant DEATH is still employed and counts
probably as many victims as the sword. In
some of the East India islands a horrible
custom was in use until very recent
period, condemned men being suspended by
a hook Of iron or a sharp-pointed wooden
beam penetrating under the shoulder or
the breast bone. They hung, enduring
nameIess torture, and assaied by insects,
burned by the tropical sun and naddened
by hunger and thirst, until death came TO
their relief. This is as pear an approach to
the old form of cruciixion, that gentle
device employed for the punishment Of the
Jews, and by which Vespasian's soldiers put
hundreds of Jews TO death, as can well be
imagined. Strangely enough, the inven-
ton of the cross is attributed to a woman,
Queen Semiramis. 1t was abolished in Eu-
rope by the Emperor Constantine, and has
now taken its place in the dark limbo
of barbarities, side by side with burn
ing at the stake, as practiced in England
and Spain; the "red death, )" in which some
times half hundred human beings were
packed in a huge wicker basket and the
whole placed on woodpile and set afire,
the shrielSs and cries of the victims rending
the air. and the "Pao-Lo" of China, where
the victim was placed within brass cylinder
with CRATE beneath, the fire lighted and the
man or woman inside reduced to ashes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-27

Roman origin. 1t was used very early in
the history Of that nation for the dispatch
of malefactors. a nobler death being re-
served for the soldier. There are many
forms Of the gallows. The English gibbet
consists of Two uprights and a cross beam,
from which a rope depends. Before
the days of platforms and drops ct
public hangings, the custom was to
drive the criminal up to the gibbet in a
cart. On reaching it, the moose was ad-
justed, and the cart moved forward, leay-
ing the man dangling in the air. Another
style of gallows is in the shape of 1T.
and it is made to do the duty of double
hangings. Still another, more commonly
used, is the braced upright, from which ex-
tends an arm a. the end of which hangs the
rope. The modern gallows is a very slight
improvement on the old-fashioned one, the
main difference being the drop, which is
regulated by weights, and is calculated
to break the neck of the criminal and
shorten his sufferings. Physicians estimate
that the average execution on the gallows
occupies fifteen minutes from the time the
trap is sprung until life is extinct. The
Immediate cause of death is cerebral
apoplexy, resulting from suffocation; the
nerves and vessels are compressed; the
odontoii process is dislocated; the trachea
and larynx lacecated, the ligaments of the
neck are ruptured, and asphyxia precedes
dissolution.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-27

There are nine crimes Oh the Chinese cal
endar calling for capital punishment, and
as consequence executions are far from
being infrequent. On the fatal day, the
condemned are Toasted at the expense of
the governor of the district and given an
abundant supply of wine The revel gen.
orally lasts several hours, and as the crimi-
nails know well what is to follow, they gen.
orally make the most Of their remaining
time and do not stint themselves The
Chinese have no fear of death. Drunk or
sober they are, hike the fatalisJ Turk ever
ready TO meet their fate When the summons
comes from the executioner, they march
with him in a half-drunken stupor. At
the door of their cells they are disrobed
and their hands and feet are bound with
ropes, while they are gagged and lifted into
bamboo baskets ard trundled off like so
much merchandise, to the scene of execu-
ton. On the way they are escorted by the
troops ana by the headsmen with drawn
swords, while man with a solemn-toned
gong sbrings up the rear. Somewhere on
the outskirts the execution takes place. The
condemned beings taken from their baskets
are placed in front of those ominous cavi-
ties that will soon receive their bodies.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-27


Next to the electrical chair, the most per-
tect penal instrument for taking human
lie is the guillotine 1t is the mothod most
popular among the civilized peoples to-day.
Its inventor, Joseph Ignace Guillotin,
physician of Lyons, is said to have become
50 mortified at the notorious use to which 1t
was put that he died of vexation. and not as
unveracious chroniclers assert, as victim
oI his own device. The guillotine, with It's
Two upright posts, its couperet, or ak, de-
peholng from a cross-beam, and its lunette
Ior steadying the head of the victim till the
ak is released by a rachel spring, is, next
70 the electric chair, the most expeditions
VI moGern instruments, the swiftly de-
GE0enaing steel severing the head instantly.
Turing the reign of terror, when Marat.
Da9ahlton, Robespierre, and Fouquier-
nnienville were filing Paris with blood, one
esulioelne has been known to destroy sixty
Smo VIcUlms IN forty-five minutes. 1t is
G Town under various names. Among the
Uermans 1t is the "Panke," in Scotland,
h haere IL was used to decapitate the nobility
c ceiDre ard ara during the Jacobite wars. it was
vallea The Maiden" and its cold kiss
eos iata. Foets even sang Its praises; in
ND srss OF France it was baptized mile
me- hlchelieu was the last to make
sae VI IL IN an administrative way for the
.ooapilation OF noble victims In Italy 1t
i7eo uSeu Tor similar purpose as late as
''OO' 1t has long been a mooted question
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-27

among physicians whether sensibilitv re-
mans after the blow Of the guillotiDe has
fallen and the head is released from tha
trunk, but all agree that this death is al
most, II not absolutely. free from pain.
Death oy the sword, which in Prussia
turkey and Japan is held to be an honora-
ole method Of extinction. is in China re-
garded as disgrace. Among the Monrols
II Is terrible indignity to have the head
separated from the body and the remains
not Consigned to the grave intact. Vet the
sword Is the most universal
weapon OF execution in the celestial empire.
Toward the close of the great Tapping re-
oeilIon, Yeh, the famous war governor. d.
capltated the rebels in gangs of 100 at a
time. The culprits were brought out
TO the military execution ground and
made to stand IN two lines, facing each
other. Then, having heard their sentences
read, they were forced TO kneel in front of
the holes dug in the earth to receive their
bodies. The headsman, a powerful man
with great two handled sword. at a signal
from the governor, began mis- work of de-
capltaiion. He moved between the lines.
and, selling each victim by the queue as he
passed him, with a sweep of the blade made
him shorter by a head. This frightfuI
butchery was kept up until the whole line
had been hewn down, after which the bodies
were hurriedly inferred and the heads ex-
posed as warning to other traitors.