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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-02-14
STUFF AND
WHERE hot retorts are plentiful

WHERE hot retoftS are plentllul-lI
a gas house.
The small boy with a bad cold is
very likely to be up to snuff.
YOU have heard of punk in wood.
have you ever heard Of punk in pies?
SOME girls are SO devoted to temper.
ance principles that they won't wear
tight sleeves.
sAucY girls make the best type
writer's, because it is only the saucy
girls that can hope to become expert.
Mr.. ENTHUSIASTICALLY dear, this
new clock of ours gives the whole room
tone. Mrs. MISUNDERSTANDING
it's the only striking thing in it.
YABsLEY--I would rather talk to a
good, sensible girl any time than dance.
Wickwire-Well, why don't you do so,
then? Yabsley (sorrowfully)--Ihey
won't listen to me.
"MR DIR. JAY, whenever l see you,
you remind me Of" "Somethingpleas-
ant, l hope" Not exactly. You make
me think of the adage 'man'sa vapor.
"Vapor is gas, you know"
PoL1rIc1AN-Were you ever up for
anything out West? Returned Boomer
oh, yes; [ was up twice. Politician
What for? Returned Boomer
DEMONSTRATING and arson.
"CAN you give me any information
about the game laws?" said the gentle
man in the white hat. Certainly, sir.
You may shoot that hat as soon as you
choose-the sooner the better"
He (after tif)-So you persist in
breaking the engagement? Mature
Fiance-C Certainly; what do you take
me for? He-About 40. Better think
it over; it may be your last chance.
MoTHER-You don't seem very tired,
Jennie, for ayoung lady who attended
a dancing party last night? Jennie
1t was q plumbers ball, you know, and
everything went so slowly that one could
not get tired.
Miss LIMA (making a call OH hel
INSTRUMENTATION look depressed to-
day, Mrs. O'Grady; what is the matter?
Mrs. O'Grady-Shure, an the ould man
sold the pig lasht noight whin I was
out calm, and divil the frind hev I left
in the wur-ruld.
MAMMA Go Teddy, who is growing
about his food)-Just think, Teddy, OF
the many poor little children tonight
who arc going to bed hungry, without
any supper at all. Teddy-Yes; but
you see I'm thinking OF Willie Simp-
kins, who said he was going to have
sponge cake and custard.
ICHLY DESERVED DEATH.
Over the pave-on to the grave,
Rattles the hearse; no one is mourning.
On to the tomb, shrouded in gloom.
No flower or emblem adjoining.
Vale! Requicscatl Pace! And so on;
Stay not the cortege! Haste; let it go on.
Wherefore? Now let the world continue tc
He was springing "McGinty." and was killed TO,
the gag.
"WHoop! Look out there, Johnny
shouted the old man, as he stuck his
head out from behind the woodpile.
you better not go into the house.
"Who's after you?" asked Johnny
"Ma?' "Yes. Somebody tangled al
the zephyr that she was using to work {
God Bless Our Home motto, and she
has been out Of temper ever since"
In Italy-American Traveler--Tm il
a sad fix, Hendrix. For heavens sake
help me out? Friend-Whats the
matter? American Traveler-The
brigands Yesterday carried off my wife
and pug dog. Friend-Well, but isn't
that your wife over on the hotel steps:
American Traveler-Yes; they released
her, but they are holding the pug dog
for ransom.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-02-14

PARTISAN ladies nave very odd and dainty
fancies concerning underwear, upon viii Oh
they spend fabulous sums of money. One
lady who wears nothing but silk underwear
of the first quality, trimmed with frills of
delicate lace and always in the most out
of-the-way colors, like willow green, gobe-
lin blue, vieux rose and other equally aes-
thetic shades. Another lady recently Or
dered q set of night dresses made exactly
like a baby's first slips.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-02-14

A HUNDRED models were submitted in
competition for the statue to Gen. Stark,
at Concord, N. H, and that made by
Charles Conrad, Of Hartford, Conn.,, for
the New England Granite company, was
selected. Stark is in continentals3with q
three ~cornered chapeau on his left arm and
the right hand thrust into the bosom of
his coat. The statue is to be ready by
October. and $4,000 is the sum appro-
priated for it by the legislature of New
Hampshire.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-02-14
A Very Nice Kind OF n Wife.

A certain young man. married and
living III this city. sat down to a convi-
vial game OF cards with some friends at
their hotel, and before he knew it, the
hour was early in the small figures.
What should he do? He had never
stayed out so late, or rather SO early,
since he was married, and he dreaded
meeting his wife and explaining the mat
ter to her.
Ring up the ambulance" he said to
oneo of his friends, "and take me home
and tell my wife that I fell down the Of
flee stairs and have just recovered con
sciousness."
But his friend, who had been in the
same fix, braced him up and told him
to go home and have it out like a man.
So he went home whistling noisily to
keep up his courage and found the
front door unlocked for him. So far so
good.
Then he went up stairs and peeped
into his wife's room.
"B-r-r-r-r, b-r-r-r-r, b-r-r-r-r-"
His wife was fast asleep and snoring
like a steam engine.
He Slipped out Of his coat into a
dressing gown, drew off his boots and
turned UP the lamp. Then he took up
the evening paper and began to read.
In a few moments his wife wakened.
Are you never coming to bed,
Charlie?' she askedin a sleepy voice.
AS 500 as | finish this article, dar-
ling" he answered in a thankful voice.
That was six months ago. Charlie
has never repeated his late hours, but
he has wondered ever since if his wife
wise really asleep, or if
she was only shamming.- Washington
Capital.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-02-14
Florence, Ala.

The personally conducted excursions tc
this rapidly growing city have been 50 sue
cessful that the Chicago q Eastern Illinois
Railroad Evansville Route) will run one or
each of the following dates: Feb. 4, II, Il
md %. For copy of Alabama as 1t Is" ant
further Information, send to William Hill
Gen. Pass. Agent, Chicago, Ill.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-02-14
An ENrERpRIs1SG CORPORATE,
Has Agents Everwhers."

The Pbeni1 of Brooklyn is n of III.
wonders of fire insurance, and one of III.
famous companies of the world. Its ran;a
rise in popular favor is without parallel
The familiar sign, "The Phenix of Brook.
Ign Has Agents Everywhere, while apps,.
emily exaggerative, is almost LITERAL,
true, so far as the United States is con
cerned. Should the reader, no matte,
whom or where, wonder whether the com
pany is represented in his place, he has
only to make an inquiry downtown" to
be convinced. Its agents are workers. Tn.
Phenix moves, and this in part explain,
it's success. Another explanation is that
it is as prompt and active in the settle.
ment of losses as in the pursuit OF
premiums.
The headquarters of the compan7',
Western and Southern department are 10.
Gated in it's own building at Chicago. In
the West and South it does a business Al,
large as, if not larger than, that of anv
other company. In farm insurance i
leads. Last year. it's premium receipts
in this territory were over 50, 400, 900.
Nothing succeeds like success" Dur.
ing 1889, this company materially
strengthened its assets and net surplus,
its funds now aggregating owe 81, $50, 600.
The company was the first to pay q loss
resulting from the Chicago fire. It paid
1926, 900 to sufferers from that disaster
and $3.50, 900 to Boston the year follow.
ing.
Since its organization in 1853, the
Phenix has paid losses representing
nearly thirty-eight times its present cash
capital, the tot,l paymen 8 being $751;.
720, Cpl. 60. The relief afforded by the re-
distribution of this vast amount among
the people cannot be accurately deter.
mined. 1t has supplemented credit, pro.
noted trade, and fostered all industries.
Great numbers of commercial establish.
meuts have thus been enabled to substi.
tute the new for the old, while q still
greater number of private homes have
been restored from .heiy Nshes and ruins.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-02-14

The everyday cares and duties
which men call drudgery, are the
weights and counter-poiscs of the clock
of time, giving its pendulum a true vi
bration, and its hands a regular mo-
ton.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-02-14

THE commissioners Of the state reserva.
ton at Niagara, in their annual report,
oppose all projects looking to utilizing the
falls for manufacturing purposes. In SO
doing they doubtless reflect public senti-
ment. Last year an attempt was made to
get a bill through the legislature giving a
business corporation certain rights in con-
nection with the falls, but it fell dead as
soon as the peoples attention was called
10 a
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-02-14
HANKS BITTER LESSON.
BY wM. ALEXANDER BOWEN.
LIN G
~through the great

iS ~ IL - ~ ~
through the great
pine regions of
East Texas one,
summer Satur-
day afte on
found me on one
of those deep sand
roads, severa l
miles from the
nearest town. [
knew that all
business was sus-
pended in those
country towns on
Sunday, and that
the entire popu-
lation a t t e n d
church in The
and
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-02-14

GREEN corn now tickles the palates o
San Franciscans.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-12
TAKE ALL, Or NONE.
Continued from First Page.
the vastly increased output ofcoal following
the building OF the improvements.

the vastly increased output focal following
the building OF the Improvements.
ONE OF THE FEATURES.
Coal lands which had previous to that
time been worth only $50 an acre had gone
up since to $500 and $500. This was in re-
ply to the statement in the memorial pre-
sented by Mr.. John bravo to the effect that
the coal mining and shipping interests on
the Monongahela were seriously crippled by
the existence of the Improvements. He de-
clared that the tolls of the company were
the lowest of any similar company in the
country.
But, if the proposition to purchase the
property is acceded to by Congress, these
coal men will find their lands which they
bought at 500 per acre worth $500 per acre,
and he thought it was a rapid way to
make money by mere legislative act. He
believed they would make double as much
as these works were worth.
"They say they are not making money
now," be continued. 81 would like you to
ask who the coal 5arons of Pittsburg are.
The coal business was bad in 1889 for the
reason that the demand was not so great as
in previous years, and also on account Of
the strikes. For this reason our receipts
were S63, 900 less than in 1885, The dullness
III tHC SoaA tiauc ~. uO"CNCIy
charged in Mr.. Dravo's memorial to the
fact of the existence of the Improvements of
this company, whereas the real truth is that
there would be no commerce at all to speak
of were it not for their existence"
VALID FRANCHISE.
Mr.. Carnahan then went on to cite numer-
Gus instances in which the Supreme Court
had always held that franchise for bridges,
locks and dams granted by State is valid
until Congress- interiered and declared the
rivers public highways. In answer to some
questions from members of the committee,
he stated that the Navigation Company was
chartered in 1889. From that time until
1853 not one cent was paid in dividends. The
work was at first unsuccessful. Many of
stockholders gave up their holdings, and it
was not until General Moorehead took
charge that the property was placed in good
condition. From 1858 to 1876 it paid small
dividends.
After 1876 it paid 12 per cent, but since
1884 that dividend has been paid by stock.
About S., 600, 900 has been paid out by the
company for construction and repairs. The
par value of the stock is $50 per share and
it is now selling at S85. From the nature of
the company the stock cannot be watered.
Mr.. Carnahan then closed his argument
and the committee adjourned. Messrs.
Shiras and Carnahan lett for home tonight.
LIGHTNER.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-12
OLD JOE PRIDDY DEAD.
Tho Aged Sport Expires Suddenly Mt His
Home in Charters.

Home in CHARTERS.
Old Joe Priddy is dead, was the announce
ment made last night by dozens of persons IN
the lower part of the city. The word was
passed around from mouth to mouth and many
murmur of regret at the aged sports death
was heard.
Mr. Priddy died suddenly at his home in
CHARTERS, where he owned considerable prop
erty. He was one of the best known sporting
men, not only in this city, but all over the State
He was in good health and was on the streets a
few days ago. For some time he had been suf-
fering from muscular disease which caused
his death.
Mr. Priddy was born in the district of Merthyr
Tydvil, Wales in 1882 At the age of 20 years
he went 70 Lancashire. where he worked in the
mines. He took to boxing as amusement,
and his skill soon attracted the. attention of
professionals. He was engaged in a number of
encounters with noted men Of that day and
champion domino player, and showed consider
able science and skill in the game. At the age
of 2l years he married a mill lass as they were
called then in the old country, IN the town of
Wigan. His wife was a woman of energetic
ability. and they soon owned one OF the old
fashioned public houses.
In 1861 they came to this county and located
at Coal Bluff on the Mononganela river near
Monongahela City. He worked in the mines
at that place until he earned considerable
money and came to this city in 1867. He opened
public house in the Diamond square, where
he lived until within the past few years.
He was great admirer of Joe Goss and sup
ported him in his contest with Paddy Ryan.
He also backed Tom Walling in his encounter
with Campbell at Fayette City in 1882 when
MIR. Priddy lost considerable money. He was
also great lover of aquatic sports, and always
backed the English champions. His son Pete
took to the water, but Mr.. Priddy lost corsid-
Peter. Joseph, John. William, Thomas and
Harry. He had also one daughter, Matte.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-12
Strong IanaunEe.
From the Des Moines, Iowa, Mail and Time

From the Des MONIES, Iowa, Mail ana T1mes.1
J. B. Loughran, ex-mayor of North Des
Moines, and the Locust street manufacturer
of steam engines and boilers, said recently to
a Mail and Times reporter, 81 have just
recovered from severe attack of la grippe.
1 was laid up for three weeks. 1 used
Chamberlain's cough remedy, and applied
Chamberlain's pain balm to my breast.
These remedies were just the thing in my
case. Ny child had Group some years ago,
and we used Chamberlain's cough remedy
with perfect success, since then we have
never been without these medicines in our
house. had a cousin who was printer
and was employed in a job Office In
circulars for Chamberlain. He had deep
setting up the copy he made up bis mind to
buy bottle. 1t cured his cough, and that
was the first time 1 ever knew anything of
Chamberlain's remedies. have been strong
ly in their favor ever since. My own expert
cnce and thar of my family convinces me
that these remedies are the best in the world.
That may be strong language, but it is what
think.
For sale by E. G. Stucky, 1701 and 24O1
Penn ave-; E. G. Stucky & Co.. cor. Wylie
ave. and Fulton ST.; Markell Bros, cor.
Penn and Frankstown aves.; Jas. L. Nc
Connell s. Co., 455 Fifth ave.; Theo. E.
Ihrig, 3610 Fifth ave.; Carl Hartwig. 4016
Butler ST.; John c. Smith, cor. Penn ave.
and Main St, Pittsburg, and in Allegheny
by E. E. Heck, 72 and 1874 Federal ST.; Thos.
r. Morris cor. Hanover and Preble aves.;
L. H. Eggers, 172 Chic st., and F. H.
Eggers s. Son, 199 Ohio st. and IL Smith
field st. wThsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-12
LOCAL ITEMS, LIMITED.
Incidents of Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.

Incidents of Day in Two Cities Condensed
for Ready Reading.
LOUIS VAN KIRK, whose home is in Eliza.
beth. was yesterday. shortly after noon,
knocked down the shaft of the elevator of the
Allegheny Light Company, on Virgin alley, and
badly injured. He was conveyed to the
Homeopathic Hospital.
AT the regular weekly meeting of the HUI
name Society yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Ellen
NJ. Hill was elected to active membership and
Mrs. M. B. Jamison was elected to honorary
membership.
PHILIP KELLER and wife. of the Twelfth
ward of Allegheny. have become reconciled
and are trying to recover the little girl put by
Mayor Pearson in charge of the Anti-Cruelty
Society
. WALTER JOHNSTON 12year-old boy living
on Soho street. was taken to Morganza yester-
day by Officer Mclaughlin. His parents stated
that he was incorrigible and ran on repeatedly
THE regular monthly meeting of Pittsburg
and Allegheny Auxiliary of the National In
dian Association will be held tomorrow after
noon at 8, at 40 Stockton avenue, Allegheny.
THE Westinghouse Electric Company yes
terday placed an order with the Armstr ong
mines in the Second Monongahela Pool for
the Tesla mining motor.
THE report for February of Chief Evans of
the Fire Bureau. shows 26 alarms answered. Of
these seven were still. The total loss is esti-
mated at 6,025.
THE Board of Viewers yesterday held meet
ing to receive claims for damages by the grad
ing of Boggs avenue from Williams street to
the city line.
SECRETARY DoRENTE, of the Anti-Cruelty
Society, has appointed agents for New Castle,
Scottdale and Johnstown.
AN overheated flue caused small fire in W.
W. Franklin's house on Butler street yesterday
afternoon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-12
Snoring Notes.


PETE Mccoy is willing to fight Johnny
Reagan for 81, 900 a side.
WELL, we have the Brotherhood schedule,
and it is certain that everybody will not be
pleased with it.
THE death of Joe Priddy, ST., takes another
link from the chain that holds the past with
the present in local sporting affairs. Poor "old
Joe" was game sport. He was known from
Maine to California
READER-The time you name is the record
for pacing. Peter Priddy ran at Philadelphia
twice. Your third question had better be sent
TO our talented society authority. Society
Editor is the requisite address.
MANAGER SHARsIG has arranged for the
following spring exhibition games for the Ath-
letic club: March 20. with Yale; March 81,
with Harrisburg; April i, Pennsylvania Uni
versity; April 2 Princeton; April 3. at Will
mington; April 4, Newark; April s. Z, s, Phila-
delphia League club; April 8, Wilmington or
New Haven; April TO- T. A. Is, l6. with Phila-
delphia League club, and April II. at Harris
burg.
A TELEGRAM from Indianapolis SAYS: 1t is
positively stated tonight, In base circles,
that negotiations are shaping rapidly to the
consolidation of Pittsburg and Cleveland into
one club, and the dropping out of Washington.
President Brush refuses to deny or confirm the
statement. He says that all that the League
managers care to talk about has been made
public and discussed. The statement causes
much comment and interest.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-12
TRI-STATE BREVITIES.
Telegrnphic Dispatches Boiled Down Int,
Small Paragraphs.

Telegrnphic Dispatches Boiled Down Into
Small Paragraphs.
THE citizens of Reynoldton will hold public
meeting this evening for the purpose of or
ganizing volunteer fire department. something
badly needed.
THE officials of the Mahoning and Shenango
Valley Fair Association will offer purses for
trotting, pacing and running races on Septem-
ber 1-5, amounting to S5,O00.
THE building trades strike at Wheeling
seems no nearer a solution than it did week
ago. Both sides are holding aloof, and there
are no conferences or suggestion offered from
either side.
CODY B. ROBINSON an ex-Lieutenant of the
Salvation Army, who pleaded guilty to forgery
was yesterday afternoon at Youngstown SEN
fenced by Judge Johnston to one year at hard
labor in the penltentlary.
DIP. HARR, one of the Oldest passenger con-
ductors on the Pennsylvania Railroad, died at
his home in Latrobe at 1925 A. M. yesterday
morning. He had been on The road for more
than "a years. He was nearly 50 years of age.
On Monday night robbers broke into T. D.
Buddinger's store. at Snowshoe, Pa, and ran
sacked the place. They blew open the safe and
took over S4OO in checks, and also took the
small inside of the safe, which contained
larger sum of money.
UNKNOWN parties placed loaded cartridges
In the coal of Richard Raision. of Newark.
The coal was used and the result was fearful
explosion, demolishing the stove and frighten-
ing the members of the family. They had left
the room shortly before and thus escaped
injury. The perpetrator is not known.
A No1LE prosequi has been entered In the
Circuit Court IN the case of Frank Dickson.
who was accused of misplacing the switch on
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, at P orter's
Ferry, opposite Charleston, w. Va. which re-
suited in the destruction of passenger train
and the horrible deaths Of Conductor Neither.
land and Fireman Elkins.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-12


WILKEsBARRE. March lie Goodby,
Jennie, 1 must leave you. Do the best you
can with the children" So spake John B.
Pettibone to his wife this evening, and, kiss
ing her as he spoke, he placed a pistol
to his head and scattered his brains
on the carpet at her feet. 1t was
the closing act in struggle of some months
against a want of work, inability to provide
for his family, dependency, and despair.
He died without one cent in the world,
without home. without even a stick of
furniture or anything but the clothes he
stood in.
Yet his immediate relatives, his father
and others, are very rich people. John B.
Pettibone was the son of Stephen
Pettibone and nephew of the
late Paine Pettibone, of Wyoming,
a family among the wealthiest in Luzerne
county. At his death, year and half
nago, Paine Pettibone left an estate valued
Z at nearly 81, 900, 900, but John B. Pettibone
had become estranged from his relatives.
REGARDED AS A BLACK SHEEP.
"Why do you not apply to your father"
his wife asked him but day or two before
he fired the fatal shot. He replied: "No.
I will not go to him. I have always been
the black sheep, and he would not help me-"
He has lived in this city for many years,
earning living as teamster. Something
over four months ago he lost his situation,
and though he exerted every effort he conld
obtain no steady work hereabouts. After
waiting month or more he resolved to 60 to
Pittsburg and look for work. He went to
Pittsburg and at first seemed to have good
fortune. He wrote to his wife that he had
work and hoped that it would be steady, and
that soon he would be able to have her join
him..
At last she got letter saying that he had
secured home, that she should sell the
little furniture they had, and get ready to
come to him. She did so.
Even the day of her departure was
fixed and her trunks were packed and
ready to go when bad news came. Pettibone
had lost his situation and knew not where
to find another.
GROWING HoPELEssNEsS.
This was about month ago, and almost
every day she received letters from her
husband, but all told the same tale
of inability to find work, and
of growing hopelessness and dependency.
Finally, on Saturday, he came home to find
his wife and children In two small rooms
without a cent of money, and every
thing reminded him of his lost home.
Pettibone had many friends here who
were ignorant of his poverty and ill-luck.
If the circumstances had been fully known
some way of assisting him would have
been founed. But he was proud as we'll as
poor. The suicide will cause great sensa-
tion here.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-12
THE WEATHER.

For, Hestern Penn
syluania and West Vir-
giniu, rain, aoarmer
Wednesday morning,
JoHo,oed by northwest
erly ,cinds, and colder
Thursday n,orning;;f fair
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