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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-22

Mr.. ii. Burson, who for two months has
been attending to some business matters
in Colorado, returned yesterday. lie says
they may call it boom and business rust
ling up in the mountains, but he is salts
fed with Wichita and Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-22

In response to the suggestion in the local
columns of yesterday that some of the
business men have an idea that the paved
streets do not need sprinkling, the sugges-
ton comes from other business men that
there can't be found business street in
any CITY OF the United States that is not
regularly sprinkled, in most cities both
sprinkied and swept, which is doubtless
true. OF course this is more than an ordin-
arily windy country and a street would have
TO be swept very thorough 10 avoid dust.
Paved resident streets get along very well
without sprinkling, but the majority Of
merchants would not like TO have sprink-
lInu cease
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-22

Meetings have been held at Olivet
Congregational church four evenings each
week for the past two weeks. More than
twenty persons have expressed desire TO
be saved ande numbers have been con-
verted. The pastor has been assisted by
Rev. j. Marsh. his father, and Rev. w. j.
Marsh, of Mayflower Congregational
church, this city, his brother. The state
evangelist, Rev. w. {. Veazie, is expected
about the first Of December, TO remain
some days, aud Rev c. n. SeverwelI, of
Hutchinson, will assist for a week or two
later in the month This church has
trebled its membership in the last year.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-22

$50 yards wool Tricot at IS cents. This
is special bargain.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-22

Don't make mistake by missing
Special Sales.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-22

Have received 5000 yards Stella
which we will sell at 5 cents yard.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02

as sportsman, knew the place well.
When he hunted in this swamp there
was access to the lake, but during his
absence in England fire had burned
out the spongy, peaty, surface of the
ground, causing the small cedars, of
which the swamp is composed to fall or
lean so that access to the lake was
prevented. The position of the
body when found was such as to
indicate that when shot the man
was looking over the trunks of two
trees which had fallen, completely bar
ring the way to the lake. The theory
that Birchall intended to throw his vic
tim into the lake, where the undercur-
rent would tend to draw him beneath
the Doggy surface or shore of the lake,
is completely in keeping with the rest OF
the story.
The court was presided over by Judge
Mcmahon, one Of the best men on the
Canadian bench. On the SIDE of the
crown the lead was taken by B. B. Os-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02

rangements in England TO take an In
terest in q horse ranch or farm which
Bircha'l claimed be owned in Canada.
According TO Pelly, Birchal had repre-
sented this farm to be a mile and q half
from Niagara Falls, the stables lighted
with electricity and the place generally
in frst-clasS shape. Benwell'S father, a
retired British Colonel, was to pay $500
for an interest in this farm as
soon us his son should write from
Canada that he was satisfied with
his bargain Young Pelly also had paid
Birchal a large sum on condition that
he was to have employment on the farm,
with small share in the profits. Pelly
explained how the party had gone
through from New York to Buffalo,
thence to Niagara Falls, and how on
Monday, Feb. IT, Benwell and Birchall
had taken the Grand Trunk Southern
Division train to go to the alleged stock
farm. That night Birchall returned
alone. explaining that Benwell had gone
on further. probably intending to call at
London, Ont, upon a Mr.. Helmuth,
lawyer who had been one of their fellow
passengers on the Britannia. Pelly told
with blanched face how Birchall subse-
quently took him about Niagara Falls,
while his (Pelly's) suspicious of his com
paniOn grew stronger. In private co1-
versation the young follow declared that
he believed Birchall meant to tip him in
to the river just below the falls, or
otherwise to make away with him, and
it was quite evident that he believed he
had had an exceedingly narrow escape.
Everything pointed to Birchall as the
guilty man. Had the victim been shot
in a quarrel or by tramp, as was at one
time suggested, the marks on the cloth
ing would not have been cut out. That
was evidently the work of a man who
believed that if he could prevent the
corpse from proclaiming it's own identity
it would fill d nameless grave and in
quiry would soon die out. Birchall and
Pelly were the only men who could have
known that the man was all entire STRAIN
ger in the country. Birchall was
the last person seen with BenWell,
that is sure. He left Niagara
Falls with him, and credible witnesses
sWore to having seen the man whom
they knew as Brchall or Somerset in
company with a young Englishman whose
description answered to that OF the VIC
tim. They were seen to get off at East
wood Station and go across the fields III
d ulfecJIOn WHICH WOulu Cdh0 CdcIH w
the swamp. Birchall was subsequently
seen to return alone. He spoke to
Miss Smith at Eastwood Station or his
return and stated to her that he was
going East, but would be back in a few
days. He did not buy return ticket,
but d single ticket, however. He stated
when he went to identify the body that
he had never seen Benwell in the clothes
in which the corpse was dressed. All
the testimony went to prove that on the
train Birchall's companion wore the very
clothes in which the corpse was found.
The swamp is ON the edge of one of
those strange ponds, of which there are
several in this country, which have nc
visible inlet or outlet and which seem to
extend under the swampy land by which
their surface is surrounded. Birchall,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02

in England with whom he claimed to be
acquainted or connected. He signed
himself Birchall or Burchell, but spoke
of himself as the possessor or heir
apparent to the title of Lord Som
erset. Many people in Oxford County
knew him only as Somerset He had
an inOrdinatc passion for sports. A
horse and q gun were the twin objects Of
his first affection. AS a sportsman he
sought game far and near and became
more intimately acquainted with the
country than many a person who has
spent lifetime in it. He spent money
freely. There did not seem TO be ally
thing vicious about him, but he was
simply bent on having a good time. His
wife seemed to second BIN in what he
did and was known everywhere as LADY
Somerset" These two disappeared in
the fall as quickly as they had come,
leaving certain unpaid bills. When a
man was arrested in February for the
murder Of the stranger whose body was
found in the swamp near Princeton the
people were made aware for the first
time that Lord Somerset, or BirChall,
had returned.
There had been great difficulty in
identifying the body. for the pockets
ntbu Dc0u upUlCu VI biI UIG OIC Vi lWO
unimportant articles, and the name had
been cut out of all the marked clothing.
But cigar-casc was found having the
name of "F. C. Benwell" on it. When
this announcement was made in the pa
perS, Birchall came on from Niagara
Falls to Princeton and identified the
body as that of fellow-passenge of his
on the steamship Britannia, which had
landed in New York but a couple of
weeks before. 1t appeared from Birchall's
own statement that BenWell had been in
his company buta few days before the
BODY was found. so he was arrested on SuS-
picon. and his wife, also, was taken into
custody on a charge OF aiding and albeit
ting in the murder There had been a
good deal of excitement about the dis
cOvery of the body in the swamp, but when
it was known that Lord Somerset" had
been arrested for the murder, and that
the case, if proven, would be shown to
be one of almost unheard of atrOcity, the
whole country was wild with curiosity
and indignation. There was only one
person who remained cool, collected and
smiling, and that was Birchall. He man
ifested no brayado. but he simply kept
quiet, said nothing except to his lawyer,
and seemed to be rather amused at the
course events had taken. But against
Birchall there were scraps of evidence
which, while not making a complete
case, were all consistent one with the
other and together we're certainly very
strong. The principal witness was q
young Englishman named Douglas r.
Pelly, who had come out on the Britain
mic with Mr.. and Mrs. Birchall and Ben
well. Pelly and Benwell had made ar
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02
Pithv Paragraphs.

AN editor of Georgia newspaper has
been presented with skip 'und potato.
IN Yokohama, with a population Of
70, 900, the number of electors is under
three hundred.
IN Buenos Ayres the police alone have
the right of whistling on the streets.
Any other person whistling is at once
arrested.
ITALY has ordered the study of English
to be added to the curriculum of all
italian universities, and has endowed
the necessary professorships for the
purpose.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02
Outrageous.

Railroad employees are sometimes
surly in their ways, but it is not to be
denied that they have to endure much
stupid questioning. A stout man.
with large bag and distressed
countenance, came to the ticket-sell
er's window one day, and said, ex-
citedly:
Tell me what time the $3.50 train
leaves ?"
The ticket-se1ler looked at him with
a fixed and solemn gaze moment, and
then answered:
TT leaves at ten minutes of 4"
"Ten minutes of AZ exclaimed the
stout gentleman. What fraud these
railroads are Actually misleading
people five minutes in their time
tables just for the fun of seeing them
get left!'
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02

clergyman who lived in the north of En-
gland, and now deceased. Birchall was
a student at Oxford, and was known as
a harum-scarum fellow, a good-natured
spendthrift with pleasure as his princi-
pal ambition in life. He is now about %
years old. He got married a few years
ago, and about the same time financial
troubles eliminated and he was forced
to leave England He came to Canada
early III the summer of 1882 to become
farmer, but, finding the work harder and
the pay smaller than he had been led to
expect, he staid in Woodstock. Birchall
talked a great deal about aristocrats
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02
Pertinent Paragraph :.

MAD dogs are very numerous in
Georgia
NEVADA Indians predict mild, short
winter on the Pacific coast.
IMPROVEMENT societies are being
formed in nearly every town in Georgia.
THERE is more shipping now in the
port at Charleston than at any time for
the last five years.
GERMANY produced in 1889 ?. 372, Alb tons
of wheat. 1868, 426 tons of rye. 1898, 419
tons of barley, and 4,197, 124 tons of
oats.
AUSTRIAN insane asylums arc now the
subject of a special governmental in
spection, provoked by the numerous
scandals in them.
LATE advices from Labrador says that
the fishing is excellent. Every craft
heard from is loaded, and the catch this
season Will be the best for twenty years
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02
HISTORY OF THE CASE.
rwooDsrocK (oNr.) CORRESPONDENTS. ]

Birchall was tried on an Indictment
charging him with the murder of Fred
erick G.. Benwell, whose dead body was
found in wild and unfrequented swamp
in oxford County, Ont, in February last.
The evidence upon which the jury found
the murderer guilty, was purely circum-
stantial.
There are many conflicting and frag-
mentary accounts of Birchall's Identity
but those who ought to know best say
that he is the son of an English Church
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02

THIN the memory
of man no Canadian
criminal case has at
tracted the attention
or created the inter
est that has been
manifested in the trial
of j. Reginald Birch
all, which was brought
to a conclusion at
Woodstock, Ontario,
on the goth of Sep
TENDER. The trial
consumed ten days
and resulted in the
conviction of the ac-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02

cused When asked by the Judge if he
had anything to say why sentence should
not be passed upon him, Birchall re-
piled simply: 81 am not guilty of muir
der" He was thereupon sentenced to
be hanged on Friday, Nov. IA.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02
A CELEBRATED TRIAL.
THE MOST SENSATIONAL CASE
IN CANADA'S HISTORY.

Trial and Conviction of y. Reginald Biz
chaIl for the Murder o. f. e. Benweli,
His Travelling Comprehension Cir
Gums stances Surrounding the Affair.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02

Ter, Queens Counsel, the leader of the
criminal bar, and he was opposed chiefly
by George Z. Blackstock, Queens Coun-
sci, a rising man, young and eloquent.
The courtroom was crowded to suffoca-
ton every day Of the trial from the
opening to the close.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-10-02
WISCONSIN BRIEFLETS.
TENS GATHERED FROM VAR3-
Gus SOURCES.

What Our Neighbors Are Doing-HIattersl
of General and Local Observation-Disclosures
and Deaths-Accidents and Crimes-Per-
sonaI Pointers.
THE Census Office at Washington has
issued the following bulletin of the Sec
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-26

a pretty child, just about able to talk,
was coaXing Il beribboned stray poodle on
Staten Island ferryboat with mice dog
gle, Nice doggie! | like oo," when the
child's nurse suddenly glanced up from a
novel that she was reading, and exclaimed
sharply: Don't do that, Alice, he'll bite
you. Go away, you nasty dog" The child
Immediately drew away from the dainty
and harmless dog with an expression of
fear y few minutes afterward her keen
eyes espied II canary bird in pretty cage.
She toddled over to it, and again her baby
prattle was heard: mice birdiel Nice
birdiel"
Again the nurse raised her eyes from her
novel, and, stretching out her hand, she
drew the child back into its seat with the
stereotyped admonition Don't, Alce the
bird will bite you. Go away, naughty
bird" During the rest of the ride the child
sat still, with shade of perpleXity on her
pretty, innocent face Doubtless she was
wondering if every little playful creature
that crossed her path would bite her
New York Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-26
SHOT A DEER WHILE HOLDING
ANOTHER.

From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.I
A typical West Virginlan, tall, straight
as AN arrow and muscular, with SLOUGH
hat and good-humored face, was being
piloted about the attractive parts of the
city yesterday by Al Heron of the Her.
ron Hill gun club. The gentleman was
George a. johnson and he was chuck
full of hunting stories. He told one,
that he vouches for as being absolute
truth and Al Heron backed him up in
it. He started with the astonishing
statement that an old hunter in his To-
cality had one time shot a deer while
holding another. 'This man." said Mr..
Johnson, twas watching a runway
early one morning, when fawn ran be-
tween his legs. He pressed his knees
tightly together and held it imprisoned
there. He was about to kill it, when a
yearling buck made his appearance about
70 yards away. Holding the fawn be-
tween his legs he shot and killed the
yearling, and then allowing the fawn to
escape, shot it. The man who did this
feat, however, has told it so often that
it has grown considerably. He now
says he held buck by the horns with
his left hand while he shot another with
his right. Every body don't believe
that"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-26
1871.
HaYper's Weekly.
ILLUSTRATED

HARPER's WEEKLY has never tailed to
Justify its title rs Il journal of Civilian
ton" and ii has done so with constant re.
gard to enlarged possibilities of usefulness
and higher standard OF artistic and liter
AIRY excellence. 1t leaves untouched no i'm
portant phase of the worlds progress, and
presents IA record equally trustworthy. and
OF the notable events, persons
and achievements of our time.
special supplements will be continued in
1891 They will be literary, scientific, artis-
tic, historical, critical, Typographical or
descriptive, as occasion may demand, and
Will continue to deserve the hearty common.
dation which has been bestowed on past
issues by the press and the public. As Il
family Journal HARPERs WEEKLY will, as
heretofore, be edited with II strict regard
for the qualities that make safe and wei
come visitor to every home.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-26
Firing Great Guns.

On TIC assumption that the rapid heat
ing of the interior shell, while the outer
shell is comparatively cool, is the chief
cause of the bursting of great guns, an in
ventor proposes to cool the gun after each
discharge by the rapid introduction OF
liquefed carbonic acid gas He claims
that his special mode of doing this, used in
connection with a peculiar arrangement II
the powder chamber, by which it is much
contracted in area at the front end, can be
utilized in discharging high explosives
His theory is that the released gas goes
out between the projectile and the bore,
and keeps the former from heating What
ever may be the merit of this theory, there
seems to be no authentic record of its hav-
ms been put into practice,-New York
Commercial Advertiser
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-26
Nearest the North Pole,

The most northern point ever attained by
man was reached by Lieut.. James B. Lock
wood, a member of the American Lady
Franklin bay expedition, who on May 10,
1882, stood under So. 2SS n. He was ac-
companied by Sergt. Brainard, who in his
field notes says: I'VE have reached a higher
latitude than ever before reached by NOR
tai man, and on land farther north than
was supposed by many to exist. We I'M
furled the glorious Stars and Stripes to the
exhilarating northern breezes with an ex-
ultation impossible to describe" For three
centuries England had held the honors Of
the farthest north.-Spare Moments.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-26

y man OF middle age, with coquetish,
silky side whiskers and an air of marked
self satisfaction, sut in Sixth avenue ele-
vated car going north about o'clock.
There were only two women in the car, and
they were pretty typewriters, who sat OPP
posite to the man with the whiskers, and
he was evidently posing for their benefit.
The car was full. At Franklin street an
ugly, shabby little woman with red nose
and crying baby came in. No one offered
her seat, and after looking around with
disgust for moment she clutched strap
and tried to hush the baby. Then the man
with the silky whiskers tried to be funny.
Cross, amt hep he remarked.
Nav" she snapped. He's slammed"
ashamed" said the man with the
whiskers. whats he ashamed OFF"
Ashamed of being seen riding in cattle
car" the woman replied with a voice like
a steel trap and II look that meant volumes.
The two typewritcrs giggled, two dudes
tried to hide behind their capes, a gray
haired old man got up and gave the red
nosed mother his seat, the other passengers
smiled, and the man with the silky side
Vhiskers went ont on the platform and
rode clear up to Twenty-third street with
out even looking at the typewriters again.
New York Letter
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-26
CrystalliZed Pictures,

What a wonderful thing is crystalliza-
ton! You hang lump of zinc in solu-
ton of acetate of lead, and straightway
the latter divorces itself from the salt with
which it is united, and becomes attached
to the suspended nugget in tussocks and
garlands of metallic MOSES, ferns and
lichens
The combinations of artificial crystals
produced by some of the processes of the
laboratory are marvelously beautiful and
picturesG ne, but none of them is half as
marvellous us the witcheries wrought by the
chemistry of the frost. The woods, after
an ice storm, chandeliered with diamonds
and radiant with prismatic light; the rocks
among the fighting waters bearded with
frozen spray; the white fringes and festoons
of vapor lace that beautify the dead sedges
by the silenced torrents side, and the cabi
net pictures in neutral tint and silver which
adOrn ones chamber windows after bit
ter winter night, are each and all more
wondrous than any of the forms of crys
tallizaAon achieved by chemic art.-New
York Ledger.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-26
WASN'T DEAD AFTER ALL.


The Singular Confession of Two Brothers
to Save Their Sec,ts.
One of the most remarkable cases that
has ever come to my notice, said Judge
Baldwin was that of the two DOorns, VINO
were convicted years ago in the supreme
court of Vermont, in Bennington county,
of the murder of Russell Colvin. 1t APP
pears that COvin, who was Il brother-in-
law of the prisoners, was a person of weak
mind, and was considered burdensome to
the family OF the prisoners, who were
obliged to support him. that at the time of
his disappearance he was in distant field
where the prisoners were at work, that a
violent quarrel had broken out between
them, and that one of them had struck him
a severe blow on the back of the head with
club, which felled him to the ground. Some
suspicious arose at the time that he was
murdered, and these suspicious were in
creased by the finding of his hat in the
same field n few months afterward. These
suspicious in process of time subsidized, but
later, one of the neigh bors, having repeat
eddy dreamed of the murder with great
minuteness of circumstance, both in regard
to the missing mans death and the CON
cealment of his remains, the Boorns were
vehemently accused and generally believed
guilty of the murder. After a close search
the pocket knife of Colvin and button off
his clothes were found in an old open cellar
in the same field in which he had last been
seen, and in hollow stump not many rods
from it were discovered two nails and a
number of bones, believed to be those of a
man.
just prior to their trial friends of the
Boorns far about them said that the evi
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-26
Nutritive Properties of Cream.

The fact is not so we'll known as it de-
serves to be that cream constitutes an ad-
mirable nutriment for invalids. 1t is SUI
pcr;or TO butter, containing more volatile
oils. Persons predisposed to consumption,
aged persons, or those inclined to cold ex-
tremities and feeble digestion are especial
ly benefited by liberal use of sweet cream.
1t is far better than cod liver oil, and be-
sides being excellent for medicinal proper.
ties it is ii highly nutritious food.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-26

Two pretty stories are told about Won
Moltke. One is that on taking out his
purse to pay "A cabman after rather long
ride the cabman started his horse, cried
out, "No, no; it has been Il great honor for
me, Herr Feldmarschall," and drove Off, to
receive next day the counts photograph.
with the words, ITO his cab driver" And
the other is that an American lady, with
a young daughter, staying at the hotel
where the great soldier was attending a
regimental banquet, sent him photo
graph of himself which she asked him to
sign, and so give more pleasure to the girl
on her seventeenth birthday than all her
presents hnd done. In reply mother and
daughter were invited to the supper room.
were treated by Won Moltke withth he kind
est hospitality and received the photo
graph, on which was written, Il have been
young, and now | am old, but | have not
seen the righteous forsaken. Harper s
Bazaar