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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-10-25

Two miners employed at the Mastodon
mine, named respectively Harry Dale
and Dan. Bradley. had their faces badly
powder burned Wednesday. They had
charged "A hole, using three-fourths al ~
can of black powder, the remaining quar-
ter WAS placed on the cnge and the signal
given To hoist. One Of the men had ~
desire 70 know how much Of the powder
was left in the can and stopped TO aratiiy
his curiosity A drop Of blazing oil from
his lamp fell into the can and an explo-
sion Immediately followed. The accident
il not necessarily dangerous but will
materially alter their compilations.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-10-25
POOR LITTLE MATILDA.
A CASE THAT NEEDS AND SHOULD HAVE M
MEDIATE ATTENTION.
Communicated.

Communicated.
An Appeal.-During the entire summer
there has been "A certain party, ~ wo-
man, tramping up and down the railroad
tracks between Iron Mountain, Crystal
Falls and Iron River. She has not only
been guilty Of this offence alone. hut has
dragged after her a little girl Of six sum
mers; bright, smart and pretty; just
such girl that had she proper training
coupled with a lady's love and influence
would bless any home.
There IL nothing materially bad about
the woman, unless il IL that she Is par
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-10-25
WAS 1T SUICIDE?
A MAN is FOUND DEAD IN A POOL
OF BLOOD SUNDAY.

HOW THE BODY WAS DIscovERED-wHEN
TAKEN ToTowN AND BURIED--rHE DOC
TORS ExAMINATIoN-rHE JURY BRINGS
INA VERDICT OF sUIcIDE-THREE SHOTS
FIRED-wHAT A DRILL REPORTER HAS
TO sAY-HIs VERDICT DiFFERESr-AD-
vIsEs AN AUToPsY-THE MANS AGE,
NATIVE COUNTRY, AND coNTENTEDNEss.
HAS EXPRESSED A FEAR OF BEING DONE
AWAY wITH-wAs TO BE A WITNESS IN A
LAND CASE.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-13
additional Butte ne,rs riH be .fonn,
on the sirth page.
BUTTE CURRENT NOTES.

Nf,yor Walton loft for pinestone SDrinps
last nigb, m he gone n week.
Miss Sara Van wormer is visiting her
,.;nnJ NJ "a raIJnrhead
iriehu nirs'
n hoVee Oh loca.'ph wns ~ u $1,000
U ~ ~ . so - go.
D, A. PARSONS was hhc1 ~ amu oNs,
III the police cour' ses'er"as y" 'o'"s
gun.
The pulpit of the Presbyterian church
will be filled both morning ana evening
10y the kev. Mr.. Johnson OF
,P;J. Murphy assaulted Dan Murphy
Friday night. For this he paid 80 u
costs yesterday.
For fighting and raisinyC Cain generally,
Dan Murphy was mulcted i'm the sum of
IS and costs by Judge Newkirk yesterday.
There are unclaimed messages at the
Rocky Mountain office for n. A. Dean, II.
j. Rogers, A, w. Ticket and Robert Viii
son
d. uwou and his ,ra;,o1 doos
$3.50 80 ,;,nba,I III -,
nj theC Columbia gardens and will give an
exhibition this afternoon,
,xy,,,.-.- w, .x.., V.;l., o..
MLiia'h Marrem, nhas"n, II,,,hIna :.
ppuiIEEiars, vi n,n.oJ o,anna,om
nrh yest an an maa on.n,i,.ad
-
- iam, p.aa su ~ hn,;na ;nJ,,tac,I
IN mn nIain unnrnanec,taI 'ir,nk In Jc.
aant, ~ =, anI nns,a bn uas Committed
-
Marshai Daufh mas ~hauRurateu war on
the dlr,y aleys. ne negan opera.io,s
yesterday " iorciDiy clean,hg out the
one IN the ear OF the L'zz'e DOCK.
There will be an excursion to Lake
wilder to-day, .le traih ieavilg az 1 pm,
a parry from Anaco,lua VIII plrh!e tnere
ana Tue wives OF tic meripers oi the gun
rluD VIII SHOOT. there VIII DC music
uahcihg ana poating'
Alex Gibson, under sheriff of jefferson
county, visited the city yesterday. He said
that }. +. Coss. who stabbed Albert John
son of Meaderville in a drunken row at
Woodville the night of the ID had been
indicted and would be tried next week.
Mrs. =. p. Clark left Yesterday for Salt
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-13
PURELY A FAMILY AFFAIR.
The ~stenbergs Discharged Oscars Re
markable Family.

Special Correspondence Of the standard.
BUTTE, July 12.-The preliminary exam
ination of Mrs. Stenbcrg and her son,
August, for assault with intent To kill,
made upon Oscar S%tenberg took place this
afternoon before Judge Newkirk. Stem
berg told a very sensational story of how
he was assaulted by his wife and son. the
former using a knife and the latter a cof-
fee mug with which they bclaborcd him
in a n as startling as il was I'M
pleasant To himself. He farther testified
that they had him on the floor. both sit
ting on his PROSTATE form, and that hut
for the timely interference of his other
son, Frank, he would certainly have been
killed.
Mrs. Stenberg. crying and presenting
anything but a bewitcning appearance,
told a story entirely different. She made
oscarappcart the aggressor and said he had
assaulted her with "A large stew pan filled
with a scalding mixture of glue, lime and
other harmless ingredients that lac was
boiling on the kitchen stove. The pan
was introduced in evidence, but was not
called upon 10 relate what particular part
II played in the domestic drama. The
two boys s~ubstantiated their mothers tale
of woe n made their papa appear "A
bold, bad man with rimlcss spectacles
and a fondness for using language that is
not usually heard in family circles. They
also said he had a long knife with which
he threatened to u them into pieces. and
that, too, without cause or ~provocation.
Stenberg admitted he had IA knife and
showing IL To the court declared his hank
fulness for its possession, saying that il
had proven highly needful 10 his prescr-
walton OF life and limb yesterday and, in
an undertone, was sorry that 1t had not
been a pistol. He further minated that
II was occasionally absolutely necessary
Tor the proper management OF his peculiar
household 10 nave weapons of that kind
handy.
The case was submitted without argu.
ment and after stating that il was purely
"A family quarrel, the court dismissed the
defendants and charged the costs up Ia
the prosecuting witness.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-13
EMPLOYMENT AGENTS AGAIN.


complaints sontihutt o ~ VI from wen
who seek Work.
BY the Standards Special Wire.
BUTTE, July l2.-Complaints still con-
time To pour in against many of the en-
ployment agencies of the city. and the
number of workingmen who claim 10 have
been taken in" is fully as large rs il was
prior to to the time the city council under
took To regulate aifaiars. To-day Henley a
English, owner of one of these agencies,
were tried before Judge Ncwkirk for OBJ
tanning money under false pretcnse. The
complaining witness was Thomas Blythe,
who alleges that he, with four other men,
had been sent by Henley a English To a
point beyond Missoula, where ID was rep
RESENTED to them they could secure
employment from Woods, Larson x Co
as tunnel men al $50 per day on contract
work for the Norshern Pacific railroad
company.
Blight testified that when ne aud his
companions arrived in Missoula they
were told 10y the agent To go to "~headquars
ters," where they would he assigned To
places IL any men were required. When
they arrived ut headquarters" the end
of the track. witness said he was informed
by Mr.. Woods that no unnel men were
required and that no person had any au-
thority to employ uch class of labor for
his firm. The witness and his compan-
ions then returned To Butte and made de-
NAM for the Mount they had paid the
employment agency for obtaining work.
The demand was refused and criminal
proceedings were instituted as already
mentioned.
Henley, the senior member of the firm,
testified that he had been requested by
Mr.. McCaig, agent of the Northern Pa
ciiic, Ia forward 100 men for Woods, Lar
son x Co. for construction work., and
having been informed that a tunnel was
being built took il for granted that tunnel
men were required, and on the strength
of this supposition had sent out the com
planning witness and his companions.
As evidence of his authority To for
ward men he submitted a copy
of "a dispatch Mr.. Mct'aig had re-
ceived from the contractors, and
which in turn had been given To him. The
dispatch called for loo men but made no
reference to tunnel men or any other par
ticular kind of labor.
After the testimony had been heard the
attorneys ON both sides, Mr.. Cottcr for
the prosecution and Mr.. Corbett for the
defense. submitted the case without argtI-
ment and the court announced that deci-
sion would he withheld until next Monday
afternoon.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-13
A VERY NOVEL SALOON
One Exceedingly Exclusive Place Where
Beer Will Be Sold.
There Are Scores of Different Kinds
of Saloons In Butte But One
Is to Be Started For
Ladies' Only.
Special correspondence of the standard.

Special Correspondence Of the standard.
BCI-rE, July Eff there is anything
on earth of which Butte appears Ia have
an abundance IL is saloons. saloons big
n little. Saloons that are heightened
and saloons that are lowly. saloons with
and without concert alta chmcnts. Sa-
looms where the ilrcry tarantuia juice is
sold out of old-fash Toned glasses at :
cents n slug, and saloons where about the
same quality OF liquor Is dishcd out in
thin little glasses over mahogany top
at25 cents a suifocator. Saloons
that are conducted by men representing
every nationality on earth from the negro
and Findlandcr up To the Georgia colonel.
'be jove sah!"
With this almost endless variety il
would seem impossible that any person
could he found who, after making a sur
vey of the field, could trnthfully say he
bad found an opportunity to fill "a long
felt want" Ia Use an entirely original cx-
preston. Yet. after all. just such a per-
sou has appeared. The person referred
Ia is not IA bcwhiskcrcd, bectlc-browed
specimen Of the male persuasion, hut a
dainty and trim little lady. Her name is
Mrs. NJ. Howell, and she secured a IL
cense to-day To conduct a saloon at No.
22S South Montana street.
In her vcrba prospectus submitted tn
the city clerk Mrs. Howell stated that she
intended Ia conduct a saloon for the cx-
elusive benefit II persons If her own sex.
Noina need apply for they would have
10 leave as thirsty as they came. She
didn't propose la have her boudoir saloon
deiiled by coarse, vulgar men who would
scent her lace curtains with the odor of
stale tobacco smoke and discolor her floor
with their approximations of essence
of navy" or ''double thick Tin tag"
Sl. h.l. -. IL.
kind Of "A house. Her patrons would all
be ladies, who occasionally feeling the
need OF "A little "suthin bracin'" aud
their innate molesiy preventing them
from p~atronizing am ordinary saloon,
could quietly drop in AT her place aud
order il straight or with soda on the side,
just as inclination prompted them. For
the benefit of d laboriug womcn an en-
ployment agency will also he conducted
in connection with the saloon.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-13
TIM o SENT UP.
lie Stole McGrath's Watch and Was SEN
fenced to Jail for IIs Days.

ny tnt otstnudfu = Nutclii WIZ.
BUTTE, July i2.-Tuesday or Wednes-
day Tim Lyons was arrested for stealing
a watch from Mike Duggan. He was tried
for the offense in Judge Newkirk's court
and decision was reserved until to-day.
This afternoon Lyons vas brought into
court and dismissed, the judge holding
the evidence insufficient for conviction.
Just as Timothy was about TO pick up his
hat and saunter forth into the open air he
was arrested on a warrant charging him
with watch stealing. The complaining
witness I'm this ease was Thomas Nc
Grath. whom Lyons kindly assisted one
night last week To carmine the munich
pality "A particularly bright hue. When
McGrath awoke the next day his watch
was gone. Last night he found il at "A
pawn shop, where Lyons had hypothe-
Gated il.
The evidence of Timothy's guilt 81 the
oirense was so conclusive that his honor
sentenced him TO lis days in the county
Jail. which term Of Imprisonment cover
the original sentence, costs and all.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-13

Smokers Of the celebrated and original
''Cuban Blossoms will in future find
every cigar and every box branded al.
Lillis." All Others are counterfeit. L..
Hills, l.2a2 Second avenue, New York.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-13
sal. of UncIaIm.d cood..

The sale Of unclaimed packages by the
Pacific Express company will take place
AZ the corner of Main aud Granite streets,
Centennial lot. Wednesday, July Is.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30
From WASHINGTON.

THE report that Mexicans had flowed
the towns along the border with coUEi-
terfeit American dollars was denied on
the Dist
A STATEMENT was issued by the Comp
troller Of the Currency on the 21st
showing that on DE cember IL last there
were s, $50 National banks in the United
States with a capital of S617, $40, 1874 and
a surplus fund of sI9S, sos. 794.
THERE were 100, 140, 9I7 pieces of coin
executed at the minis of the United
Stated during the calendar year of 1889
having a total value of SIS. 1874, 022.
The President on the Esd approved the
act increasing the pay of supervisors of
the census from $500 to 81, 900.
RECEIPTS from internal revenue the
first six months of the fiscal year end
ing June so, 1890. were $50, 077, $50, be-
ing -, 100. 200 greater than during the
corresponding period of the previous ifs
cal year.
IN the United States there were $50
business failures during the seven days
ended on the cath, against 800 the pre-
viOus seven days. The total of failures
in the United States January to date
is 1872. against 1,312 in 1889.
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 25th aggregated
81, 1O1. 927, 943, against S1,14O, s9O.6s the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week of 1889 the increase
amounted to 80.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30
WEST AND SOUTH.

ANTHONY y. NELSON, farmer living
in Abbeyville County. ;. C., was shot
dead by his wife on the 22d in quarrel,
and she afterward shot herself fatally.
Is South Dakota and Southwestern
Minnesota railway trains were aban-
doned on the 22d owing to a snow block
ade.
on she esd an express train on the
Chicago & Northwestern road ran into a
carriage in funeral procession at Rose
Hill Cemetery gate in Chicago. killing
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Payne, who
were burying their infant child, Mrs.
RepreCel. friend, and Simon Anderson.
the driver
The convention Of non-partisan lady
temperance workers in session on the
Esd at Cleveland. o., decided that the
organization should be known as The
National Crusaders Mrs. Ellen j.
Phinney. OF Cleveland, was elected pres
ident
Ina fit of jealousy Nicholas Meyer.
Of Chicago. shot and killed his wife on
the Esd and then committed suicide
Is Wilkes County. \. C., an explosion
OF powder on the 23d KILLED Eve men and
injured taiFtsea otheFs
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30
MANY SAILORS DROWNED.
Unprecedented Severity of Hurricanes in
Great Britain.

LONDON, Jan. 27.-The gales con-
tinued with increasing strength and
velosity in the southern portion of En-
gland and in Wales Sunday. Menai
strait, in Wales, is rendered impassa-
BILE by the fury of the gale.
Many sailors have been swept
overheard and drowned. The
parade at Sand Gate is partially de-
stroyed. The ship Irex, bound from
Greenock for Rio Janeiro, was wrecked
off the Needles. Several of the
crew we're drowned. The surviv-
ors chung to the rigging all
day Saturday and part of Sun
day. 1t was impossible TO send a
hfe-boat TO the rescue, as no boat could
live in the turbulent sea, but a lifeline
was finally shot across the vessel by
means of a rocket, and in this way the
men were safely landed.
The bark Janst Crown has returned to
Plymouth. She reports that two of
her crew were washed overheard and
drowned, and that many were injured.
The steamer Yorkshire at Liver
pool, from Baltimore, was flooded,
and her bridges destroyed and sus-
tanned other damages. Three seamen
were blown from the rigging and two
others were drowned. Damage to prop
erty by the storm is general. Number
less houses have been unroofed. The
river Shannon in Ireland and a number
of rivers in Wales have overfiowed their
banks, flooding the adjacent country.
QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 27.--The westerly
hurricane now prevailing is of unprece-
dented severity. The sea has caused
much damage to the town. A number
of small crafts have been swamped
Outward-bound line steamers report
fearful weather in the Irish channel
The bark Sidlaw, from Pasay, encoun-
tered hurricanes for ten days and lost
her first mate by drowning.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30
.FoReIliN INTELLIGENCE.

A Kd$sIAN Government schooner and
the poasiaing schooner Rosig Yokohama,
which she had captured, were on the
21st reporzs d as wrecked off the coast of
Japan. and she thirty or forty men on
the two vessels persisted.
JOHN GoT:sEY's hoeIse at st. Johns,
n. f.. was burned on the 21st, and Mr..
Gorley and his three children persisted
in the flames.
on the 21st cholera was raging with
frighttul virufence in MesopOtamia,
Asiatic Turkey, and there had been
three thousand deaths from the disease.
The steamer Erin, of the National
Line, Captain Tyson, from New York
for London, was on the 22d given up as
lost. She carried no passengers, but
had crew of sixty or seventy men and
about fifteen cattlenlen.
THE firm of A. w. Morris & Co., of
Montreal, proprietos of the Dominion
cordage works, failed on the I'D for
1863, 900. 1t was tho largest failure ever
recorded in Canada
A JOURNALIST at Vienna named Pal
kowitz shot the popular actress Ster-
icher on the 22d and then killed him
self. Jealousy was the motive.
IL Southern England on the Esd there
was a great storm of wind and RAIN, and
enormously high tides as a consequence,
causing immense damage.
DISPATCHES of the oath say that the
German steamer Savonia, valued at
$3.50, 600, with a cargo of $50 900 worth of
corn and 100000 worth of cotton, was
abandoned at SEA in sinking condition
on January IS. All hands were saved.
THE firm of Repetto. Paepaglioni &
Co, of Buenos Ayres dealers in hard
ware and provisions, failed on the oath
for So 900, CO.,
AT Rio Janeiro a capital of 500, 000,-
900 for the great national banking in
stitution 70 be known as the National
Bank of the United States of Brazil was
subscribed within four hours on the
oath.
A BILL granting the rights of suffrage
to all male persons of Spanish birth
of and over the age of % years, was
passed in the Chamber of Deputies on
the cath.
ZANZIBAR advices of the cath say that
DIR. Eeters, the explorer, who was said
to have been killed by natives some
time ago. was safe, and that he had ar
rived at Subalxi.
A FIRE destroyed the linen ware
house of G. MacLeish at Belfast,
Ireland, on the 25th. Loss, 81, 500, 900.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30
HE EAST.

FLAMES in the undergrad of j. T.
Paul. in Boston, on the ed caused loss
of $3.50, 600.
THREE more bodies of the victims of
the COnemaugh valley flood were found
at CoOpersdale, Pa. on the ed, but none
of them could be identified.
Mrs. POLLY OsGoOD, of Ames bury,
Mass, died of the grip on the 22d- She
was 100 years and IL days old.
OK the odd ice formed on the Hudson
river for the first time this winter.
o. the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne &
Chicago railway a train ran down two
little girls named Walker at Werner
Station, Pa, on the Esd, killing them
both.
AT Newark, Conn, on the esd Mr.. and
Mrs George Comstock, an aged couple,
were returning from the funeral of a
relative when they we're run down at
railway crossing and both fatally in
jured.
THE death of Adam Forepaugh. the
veteran circus proprietor occurred at
his home in Philadelphia on the 2Sd OF
pneumonia, brought on by influenza.
He was 6s years old.
FLAMES on the Esd destroyed the old
Unitarian church at West Roxbury,
Mass. occupied by the First Congrega-
tiOnal parish. 1t was built in 1913.
THIRTEEN houses and Hardy's mills al
North Troy, VT, were destroyed by fire
on the esd.
On the cath George Lounsbury. cash
Ter in the New York post-ofice, COM
mitted suicide in his home at Hacken-
sack, \. ]. His accounts were short
about SIS, 600.
OK the goth the new Brazilian flag
came into New York harbor for the first
time at the masthead of bark
THE Governor Of Rhode Island in bis
message to the Legislature on she 2Ist
suggested that the new ballot reform
law be applied to all elections
A LARGE barn belonging to the Du
Pont Powder Company at Wilmington,
Del. was burned on the 2lst and nine
teen heifers and ten colts were Gre
mated.
Oh the 2Ist the American Tobacco
Company. supposed to be the consolida-
ton Of a number of firms, was incor-
porated at Trenton, n. j.. with CAPT
tai of SIS. 600. 900.
AT 4:15 o'clock on the afternoon of the
25th Nellie BLY, arrived in New York,
thus completing her tour around the
world in seventy-two days. six hours
and eleven minutes. The correct name
of the lady is Elizabeth Cochrane-
on the 25th Herr Most was placed in
Jail in New York 10 serve a term of one
wear for seditious utterances in 1857.
DAVID ALEXANDER, a crazy man, fired
a bullet from pistol at Bishop Whit
taker in ST. Johns Episcopal Church at
Philadelphia on the evening of the Goth,
I but the shot did no harm.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
KuHNI PLEADS GUILTY.

The Dane County Murderer Sentenced to
State Prison for Life.
John Kuhni, charged with the murder
of William Christian, in the town of
Primrose, December IL, 1883, was ar
raigned in the circuit court at Madison
the other morning, pleaded guilty and
was Immediately sentenced TO impris-
onment for life in the States prison al
Waupun. He received his sentence un-
moved.
United in Dane County. and at the time at
tracted widespread attention Christian was
cheesemaker ard with him lived
80 1883 two boys. while fishing on
found sack in the water. They opened IL and
found therein portions of human body. Chris
tian and Kunhi were missing and
evidences of murder were found in the
factory 1t was found that Christian had
been killed, his body cut in small pieces. part
OF the remains burned, a part placed in
sack and thrown in the creek, and others
packed in valise and carried away by the
murderer. Kuhni was traced to Philadelphia,
whence he had sailed for Europe cable
gram to Queenstown resulted in his
arrest, and after a long struggle with
English law he was brought back
for trial. He has since been in Jail In his
confession. which was made some time ago. but
kept secret until Thursday. Kuhni says that he
killed Christian because he ridiculed his re-
ligion and laughed at him for reading the
Biblel