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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

compared with its condition in 1870; also
full information as to the impending e--
t%inction of the sea otter industry. Upon,
the announcement by the vice-president Of
his intended absence for sevetal days Sem
ator Ingalls, was elected to fill the chair and
took his seat. Tbs SENATE bill appropriate
ing $775, 900 for a public building at Aurora,
ILL.,, passed. After executive session adj
tournament was taken.
In the house on the Sd on motion Of Mr.,
Hit, Of Illinois, from the committee on
foreign affairs, the senate concurrent reso-
luton was agreed to, requesting the presi-
dent to invite from time to time, as seemed
tit, negotiations with every government
with which the United States may lave
diplomatic relations, to the end that any
difference Or disputes arising between the
governments which cannot be adjusted by
diplomacy may be referred to arbitration.
The bill was passed amending the arti-
cles of war so as to provide that when pun-
lshment on q conviction for a military Of
fehse is left with a court martial the pun
ishment in time of peace shall not be in
excess OF the limit prescribed by the presi-
dent. Also the senate bill amending the
articles of war SO as to provide that
no person shall be tried or punished
by court martial for desertion in time
OF peace committed more than two years
before arrangement, unless the person shall
In the meantime have absented himself
from the United States. The house re-
sumed consideration OF the Idaho admis-
sion bill. After discussion, the bull ,ecur-.
ring on the passage of the bill, the demo-
Gratis refrained from voting. One of the
reading clerks was buslly engaged in
noting down the names of demo-
Gratis present and refusing to vote. The
democrats say they intend to make this a
test case and have the courts pass upon
the constitutionality of the rules allowing
the speaker to count a quorum. 1t had
been intended to make one of the con-
tested election cases a test case; but as this
could be done only by a suit for salary
brought in the court of claims, this course
was abandoned and the present action de-
cided upon. The bill p~assed-yeas, 1873;
nays, l (Mr. Buckalew), the speaker count
ing a quorum. Adjourned.
The senate was not ir session on the
18th.
After the reading of the journal the
house on the 4th proceeded to considera-
ton of the various private pension bills.
Private pension bills to the number Of five
were then passed. The house then ven
into committee of the whole on the private
calendar, after which it adjourned until
evening. At the evening session thirty
private pension bills were passed. Ad.
journed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
He Escaped the Mob.

The lawyer had been badgering the
witness for some time, and finally
asked:
"Was any member Of your family ever
hanged?"
"les, sir"
"Ah, all! I thought as much. Now,
sir. who was it,"
Myself"
yourself? Do you mean to say that
you have been hanged and are alive to
tell of it?"
eyes, Sir"
"Come, now, no trihing. Tell the jury
what you We're hanged for, and how you
happen to be alive to-day"
"Well, sir, a man was killed, and 1
was suspected of having committed the
crime. A mob took me out, put a rope
around my neck, and had just hauled
me up to the limb Of a tree, when some
one in the crowd shouted that the MUIR
dered man had been a lawyer. They
couldn't cut me down quick enough! I
was filled with the best whisky the
place afforded and given a banquet, as
the greatest public benefactor in the
history Of the town."-St. Louis Life.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
AGAINST SENATOR INGALLS,.

A Majority of the Kansas Farmers Ali
ance Declares Against His Reelection.
The Farmers alliance delegates in ses-
sion at Topeka held q secret meeting and
forty out of fifty in attendance voted
against the reelection of John J. ingalls,
to the United States senate. An effort was
made to keep the proceedings secret, but
it all came out. One resolution against
Ingalls, when introduced was greeted with
cheers. Along discussion followed, the
friends of the unpopular statesman urging
upon the delegates that to adopt such a
resolution would do great harm to the re-
publican party, to which most of them be-
longed. This consideration seemed to
have little weight with the delegates.
however, one of them remarking caus-
tically that he had in the past shown a
great deal more regard for the party named
than it had ever shown for him. He had
voted the republican ticket for many years,
but was beginning to think it was high time
to vote for his own interests now, aud he
meant to do so. 1t was in vain that the
friends Of Senator ingalls, entreated, and
even threatened. The resolution was put
upon its passage and agreed to. 1t is as
follows:
notwithstanding the fact that John u. Ingalls,.
has represented Kansas for nineteen years in
for his constituents to point to IL single neas-
ure he has ever championed in the interest of
the great agricultural and laboring element OF
Kansas, and we will not sui Port, by our vote or
influence. any candidate forGhe legislature who
favors his reelection to the United States sen.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

Indications of CONSIDERABLE Troub1 at a,
Early Day.

Indications of Considerable Tr0uble at an
Early Day.
The indications favor more than ever
considerable trouble with organized labor
in Chicago this spring. In addition to the
carpenters demands, the journaymen
plumbers are to the front with q request
for a general increase in salary and q half
holiday on Saturday. The master plumbers
say this is simply out of the question, and
IN all probability they will refuse the con-
c~essions asked. The Journeymen Plumb
ers' association, which includes about one
half the plumbers in Chicago, has fixed
upon April l as the day for final action.
II their demand is not complied with they
have concluded to go OUT on a strike.
A monster organization that embraces
the men employed in the packing houses
at the stock yards was effected Sunday
afternoon. The question has been agitated
among the men for q long time. and the
necessity for organization has long been
felt. The packers formerly belonged to
the knights of Labor, but after the disas-
trous ending of the strike of 1887 the
packing house unions disintegrated. The
union which was formed on Sunday starts
with fully 500 members. The mem
bership can be increased until it
reaches between $4,000 and 10000 men.
This number will include the
cattle and hog butchers and the laborers
employed about the stock yards and pack
lighthouses. The cause of dissatisfactions
are the low wages and izregularity of the
work. 1t is alleged by the men that the
owners of the packing houses do not
run during the early part of the week so
as to force down the prices of cattle and
hogs. Afayorite plan of the boss packers
is said to be to buy live stock on Saturday,
the owner not wishing to bear the
expense of holding his stock over Sum
day. This plan involves the labor Of the
employees on Sunday, which is very dis
tasteful to them. This plan of operation
gives the employees but three or four days
work of ten hours each. The laborers get
but III cents an hour, and not ~infrequent-
ly have but two hours work a day. The
butchers nave but $12 to ST. per week.
The union. will demand eight hours for q
days work and an increase of wages.
The carpenters, who are preparing to
demand eight hours for a days workat 40
cents an hour, the demand to be made on
April Z, are daily increasing the strength
of their unions. The membership has
now reached 1000.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
Water Didn't Hurt Her Complexion.

V0lC1 DANA u
The Hughes-Hallet contr oversy re-
wives many "reminiscences of the time
when Mrs. lHallet-Emily. Schomberg-
was the most famous society woman OF
her day. Her beauty was of u striking
order, but her manifold accomplish
ments made her even more distln-
guished. Cosmetics were by no means
so generally used in those days as now,
but so marvellously perfect was Miss
Schomberg's complexion that a whisper
went around to the effect that she had
been emamelled, q process which ire
uueltly deties criticism, although it
makes washing or dampening the face
difficult.
knowing this, a party of young PEG
pie who were going to a Seventh hegl-
ment ball at Cape May contrived to give
Miss Schomberg a seat where the en-
ders flew freely, that they might DECIDE
for themselves whether she was Wiling
to battle her face before arriving at Cape
May. To the surprise and perhaps dis
comfiture of some present, Miss schom-
berg calmly took out her cologne bottle
and generously applied the contents TO
her brow and cheeks, after which there
was no further question in her coterle
as to the genuineness OF her oloonl'--
EDOcl.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

Eup city OF Atlanta has solved the
|ostion of provision for tiremen by
inc ont accident policies which will
|, Zach member of the force $40 a
Isk if disabled by accident, and $1,000
III, family in case of death. The
h TO the city ISL, 400 annually. The
smple is a good one for larger places
h. Atlanta to initiate.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

h NEW crime has developed at Man
c,ter. II is called "scuttling," and
Insists in a party of young men and
[s living in wait for obnoxious fellow
|rkmen or for "scabs," and hustling,
Lptins and kicking them upon the
|blic streets. 1t has got so common
hi the magistrate has inflicted Sc
Re sentences upon several girls and
k,ns men for the purpose Of breaking
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

kiEy. SHERMAN says That Russians
Ire the first settlers of California. His
khority is a Russian officer, who gave
h facts to substantiate the statement.
(e Russian said his countrymen
settled on the present site of San
|%ancisco twenty years before the gold
Ter. At that time they We're engaged
hunting furs in Alaska, and the San
ancisco village was a supply depot for
! Arctic hunters.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

In SANKEY'S report of the British
Government in regard to his expedition
for the relief of Emin Pasna, he speaks
as follows Of the discovery of an inn
mense forest: Eve a prove that east
and north and northeast of the Congo
there exists an immense area OF about
100000 square miles which is covered
by one unbroken, compact and verita-
bic forest. Through the core
Of this forest we travelled for thirteen
months, and in its gloomy shades many
cores Of our dark followers persisted.
Our progress through the dense under
growth OF bush and ambitious young
trees which grew beneath the impervi-
Gus shades of the forest giants, and
which was matted by arums, phrynia
and amoma, meshed by endless lines Of
calamus, and complicated by great
cablelike convolvuli, was often only at
the rate of 200 yards an hour. Through
such distractions as these we had to
tunnel a way for the column to pass.
The Amazon Valley cannot boast q more
impervious or a more outrageous for
est, nor one which has more truly q
tropical character, than this vast Upper
Congo forest, nourished as it is by
eleven months Of tropical showers"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

Az Of the largest forests in the
11s.snds Oh ice. Tits situated be-
~ +la Ural and the Okhotsk Sea.
~, was recently dug in the region
-, !. was found that at a depth of
,,.,ta~s the ground was still frozen.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

IHE Government Of New South
ales has withdrawn it's offer of a re-
brl of S125, 600 for a sure cure for the
|bbit plague with which the colony is
Ficted. Some 1900 suggestions were
|ade to tae rabbit commission, many
which We're tried, among others Pas
|urs suggestion of feeding the rabbits
18th stuff that had been impresnated
nth the mierobe of some deadly dis
lse, and all failed. 1t is now sug-
Psted that the rabbits might be profit
PT captured alive and shipped to En-
and for the market.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

AN Italian pays New York $4,000 2
year for the privilege of picking over
the clty's dirt. A few years ago, three
or four men We're hired at a dollar and
a half a day to trim" the city's dirt.
Finally it occurred to the superintend-
n OF street cleaning that a smart man
could find enough in it to afford to pay
the trimmers himself, and, sure enough.
such a man was found. Then an offer
OF s75 a week for the privilege was
made and accepted, and gradually the
price rose by successive bids to 5000 q
week. By successive %gradations the
sums of 500 two years ago, eleven hun
dred dollars last year and eleven hun
dred and fifty-two dollars per week this
year have been made, and the CITY now
has its work done for it and is paid $780,
200 a year for the privilege. Dickens
was not an exaggerator when he created
a fortune out of the dust heaps which
seemed a mere i~ncumbrance on the face
of the earth.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

FIGHTING has occurred at Kotonou, in
Dahomey, on the coast of the Bigh. Of
Benin, between the French forces and their
native allies. Three men were killed and
twelve wounded.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

-, seath of Charles Edward Lester
H. the fact that he wrote twenty
looks anG horsewhippea the elder
>. .Lree times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

THE Austrian sculptor, Friedrich
|cr, in Paris, has discovered a process
! making marble fluid and molding it
broze is nodded. The name of the
(rble thus treated is beryt. The
E product costs little more than
(ster, and is especially we'll adapted
the ornamentation of houses and the
kstr1ction of floors, baths and small
Jars. A stock company has been or
lRel to place beryt on the market.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

GEORGE W, Fox, of Redwood City.
b., has in his possession one Of the
Iost remarkable curiosities ever found
the Pacific coast-nothing more nor
s than an abalone shell. in the in
F'or OF which, firmly incased in the
arly shell secretion, there are a baby's
oe and stocking. The shape is per-
y IN every particular, and the size
1'cates that the owner of these pedal
'eslhss was a very young child. The
eol the shoe and the toe, badly
PSa and red from water soaking, can
PLAINLY seen where the secretion has
entirely enveloped them.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

The American ship Glendon, from New
York for Yokohama and Hiogo, before re-
ported ashore near Yokohama, is G. total
Wreck. No lives were Lost.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

A CONTEMPORARY reports that kissing
matches are popular in various parts O.
the country. This may be true, >pue II
smacks of improbability.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

WHEN q man is under q cloud he ap-
preciates the advantages Of a silver linz
ing.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

GROCER at Lynchburg, Va, who
!, noan in business thirteen years
Sou, making a cent couldn't figure
how Il was until his head clerk was
an sie... thought lie was going to
and owned up to having embez-
4 aDo.. $1,000.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
6070s OF THE TINES.
c,,o;oe Selection Of Inter-
esting Items

|, ~ vein of lead ore has been
FL Al Narshalltown, Pa.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

49,. Kansas State Board of Agricul-
NJ ..,,orts that the population of that
{ nas daclined Sc, 63S the past year.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
THE GALL AND PERsIsTENCY OF
THE HAN WITH A "CLAIM."

the Cultivation of Beet Sugar
improving American Ortllography-
The National Farmers Alliance-SenatOr
Pettigrew's P~luck-Senator Blair Still
Hopeful,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

04i WILLIAM GULL, the eminent
s'''A physician, who died recently,
/ - asked his opinion on women doc
expressed himself as follows: "Per-
ne said, smiling, Il should
4 We TOO pleased to be called in con-
sion with one Of my fair c%onfreres,
s0en has not often been my fate"
| i. more seriously, he added: Il
oNe ought always to help women
s''1s medicine in every possible
-, nave the greatest respect for
',ss now practicing in London,
,'si sure that they must fill far
satisfactorily than the average
'' man could pretend to do GER
Posts Ayoung child at first would
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

f1 London, England, and Bremen,
[ussla' the longest day has sixteen
! a halt hours. At Stockholm, Swe-
f. II has eighteen and a half hours in
Ps1h. At Hamburg in Germany and
[n'zSc in Prussia, the longest day has
(enseen hours. At st. Petersburg,
FSs'a' and Tobolsk, Siberia, the long
IS nineteen hours and the shortest
hours. At Tornea, Finland, June
'S11gs a day nearly twenty-five hours
lsosth, At Wardbury, Norway, the
sess day lasts from May q to July
Without interruption; and in Spitz.
zen the longest day is three and a
months. At st. Louis the longest
!, ID somewhat less than fifteen hours,
III Montreal, Canada, it is sixteen.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
nnaa rather be attended and operated
upon oy a woman than by q man.
$50 ,nes get Wonderfully soon &C.
customed to "the DOCTOR az

a VERY %considerate and humane mr.
pose is that of the Letter Guild IN R;r.
m'ngham, recently started o tho
factory girls. The guild is
OF both working girls and ladies Of 1ei.
sure with a desire to afford help and on.
enlargement to the former in the drt;as
pleasures, trials. and troubles Of life
os .he advice, sympathy and friendship
Oh the latter conveyed by means of let.
'ers. Each lady who joins pledges her-
sell to write one letter each month 10
The girl assigned to her, in q plain and
simple style, on subjects likely to inter
est girls, as, for instance, work, friend
snip, home life, worries, rainy davs
etc The girls are persuaded to answer
these letters. and so popular has the
society become that the number of oirl
members far exceeds the lady writer's
Inc postage and stationery bill is met
by the dues of the club members.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

Ii would be hard to cite a nobler
story than that of the career of Marie
Therese, the French Sister of Mercy,
who has just received the Cross of the
Legion of Honor at the hands of the
Governor of Tonquin. This devoted
woman was only 20 years of age when
she received her first wound in the
trenches of Balaklava. She was wounded
again at the battle of Magenta. Later,
with undaunted energy and courage,
she pursued her chosen mission under
her country's flag in Syria, China, and
Mexico. From the battlefield of
Worth she was carried away suffering
from serious injuries, and before she
had recovered she was again perform
ing her duties. On one occasion a
grenade fell into her ambulance; she
seized and ran with it for a hundred
yards, and her patients lives were
saved, though she herself was severely
injured by the bursting of the missile.
The French troops who were called out
to witness the unusual scene OF the be-
stowal Of this honor upon o woman, pre-
scented arms to the heroine of the cere-
mony.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.1
WASHINETnN u q AnriI

The country will very soon be treated
with another long and wearisome debate
on the tariff. The Republican members
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-11

UodlA VI 4eOPAOoOuSoSAVO ILL 0do Aus
nounced, and the house adjourned.
In the senate on the I'd the conference
report on the urgent deficiency bill was
proceeded to consideration of the Montana
election cases. Senator Hoar stated the
case on the part of the majority
of the committee, the whole matter
turning upon the question whether the
one set of delegates who voted with the
twenty-five republican delegates for Saun-
ders and Powers were legally elected from
Silver Bow county, or whether the other
set (who voted with the twenty-four demo-
Gratis for Clark and Maginnisj were legally
elected delegates. Senator Gray, repre-
senting the minority Of the committee,
made a statement in support of the claim
that Clark and Maginnis We're entitled to
seats. Without action the senate, after
receiving the announcement of the death
Of Representative WILDER, adjourned.
In the house on the I'd the bill passed
amending the act to aid vessels wrecked or
disabled on waters coterminous to the
United States and the Dominion of Can
ada. The bill authorizing the construc-
tion of a bridge and approaches at New
York CITY across the Hudson river, to resu-
la'e over such bridge between
the states of New York and New Jersey
and to establish such bridge as a military
and post road, passed. The Idaho admis-
sion bill was taken up. This was dis
cussed at length and without action went
over. Adjourned.
In the senate on the Sd Senator Blair, at
his own request, was excused from further
service OIL the committee on public lands,
and Senator Pettigrew was appointed
in mis- place. The senate bill
passed to enable the secretary of
the treasury to gather authentic
information as to the present condition and
preservation of the fur sealing interests of
the government IN the region of Alaska as