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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25

its way to the hospital. The parents are
well off, and no explanation of their in
human conduct has been forthcoming.
The mother Of the boy was sent back to
her dwelling, where she tried to jump
out of a window during the day, but was
prevented from carrying out her suicidal
intention.
A RAT got caught by the leg in a
store and squealed loudly for mercy, says
a Maine exchange. The proprietor of
the store watched the rat, which con
tinued to squeal. Finally another rat
crept cautiously out and walked up to
his unfortunate companion and evident
ly took the situation in, for they seemed
to talk with each other and arrived at
the conclusion that the captured rats
chances were desperate, for the second
one began to gnaw the unfortunate rats
leg of, allowing it to escape, which it
did, on three legs, the other leg
remaining in the trap. II almost seemed
as if they had deliberated V e the case,
and had reached the only possible means
of escape.
THE Rev. John A. Mulcahy, of Water
bury, Conn.,, who is travelling abroad, in
a recent letter home, says of the people
of Munich that ''they have a great fear
of being buried alive, aud for that reason
when a person dies the body is placed in
a receiving vault, where it is kept for
four days, and, under the method now
used, q sponge is placed in one of the
dead persons hands, which is connected
by 8 copper wire with a battery and
alarm signal; the hand is fastened tightly
around the sponge, and at the least sigu
Of returning animation the alarm is
sounded, and the sentries, some of whom
are always on duty, respond at once.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25
Albatross Skin.

The most valuable part of the albatross,
however, is its plumage, says Forest and
Stream. The neck, breast and body are
snow white, shading delicately into gray
and dusky brown at the sides and back,
and the feathers are so curled and elastic
that the skin with the plnmage on it is
an inch or an inch and a half thick. No
finer material can be had for mutfs, cuffs,
collarettes, capes or the trimming or lin
ing of cloaks and robes. 1t is very
light, vet exceedingly warm, while for
appearance its dovelike s%moothness and
purity cannot be excelled.
1t has the advantage, too, of being very
durable, the natural oil of the bird pre-
serving the skin and feathers for many
years, while the characteristic musky
odor is easily overcome by camphor. 1t
is a wonder that some enterprising fur
rier or modiste does not set the fashion
Of wearing albatross plumage, and send
to Antipodes or the Crozets for a seasons
supply. There would be money in it,
not only by its novelty, but by its use.
fulness. At the same time | hope it will
not be done, because if once the skin OF
the albatross acquired commercial value,
and the ruthless hand Of fashion were
laid on its smooth white neck, the poor
bird would soon be driven from its Sc
Guided haunts, and might even be in
danger Of determination.
May the day be far distant when the
trader shall invade the home of the al
batross or the pot-hunter disturb its
ancient, solitary reign.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25
Ben Franklin's Corn. stalk.

Broom-corn is a native of India. Mr..
r. A. Traver, a broom-corn broker of
Nation, H., says that Ben Franklin is
the father of the broom-corn business in
this country. Ben picked a seed from an
imported broom once upon a time,
planted it, and raised a stalk. This stalk
was the father of all the broom-corn in
the country. 1t was first cultivated in
large quantities in the Connecticut val
ley, and the first brooms from native corn
were made at Hadley, Mass. The broom
corn centre travelled west, along with the
fight of empire. 1t came from Connecti-
cut to the Mohawk valley, in New York,
thence to central Ohio, and now central
Illinois produces the finest brush.-[Chi-
cago News.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25
AQUATIC LoAFERs.
Tho 1dlest Social Group in the
World.

On one of the most charming OF the
many wonderfully picturesque nttie
beaches on the Pacific coast, neal Mon
terey. Cal, is the idlest If not The most
disagreeable social group IN the world.
Inst off the shore, further than a stones
throw. lies a mass of broken rock. Inc
surf comes leaping and laughing IN, send
ino M. above the curving green breakers
and crests Of foam, jets and spifals OF
water which flash like silver fountains IN
the sunlight. These islets OF rock are the
home of the sea lion. This loafer OF the
coast co~norerates here by the thousand.
Sometimes the rocks are quite covered,
the smooth rounded surface OF the larger
one presenting the appearance at q as
tance of a knoll dotted with dirty sheep.
There is generally a select knot OF a doz-
on floating about in the still water under
the lee Of the rock, bobbing up their tails
and Aippcrs very much as black drift
wood might heave about in the tlde.
During certain parts of the day members
of this community are off fishing In deep
water; but what they like best to do lsto
crawl up on the rocks and grunt and bel.
low. or 90 to sleep in the sun. Some OF
them lie half in water, their tails floating
and their ungainly heads wagglng. Inese
uneasy ones are always wriggllng out OF
plunging in. Some crawl to the tops OF
the rocks and lie like gunny Tags stuffed
with meal, or they repose on the broken
surfaces like masses Of Jelly. When they
are all at home the rocks have not room
for them, and they crawl on and over
each other, and lie ikepileso Of undressed
pork. In the water they are black,
but when they are dry IN the sun
the skin becomes a dirty light
brown. Many of them are huge
fellows, with a body as big as an OK. In
the water they are repulsiyely graceful
on the rocks they are as ungainly as bone
less cows, or hogs that have lost their
shape in prosperity. Summer and win
ter land it is almost always summer on
this coastl these beasts, which are well
lifted for neither land nor water, spend
their time in absolute Incidence, except
when they are Obliged to cruise around
in deep water for food. They are OF no
use to anybody, either for their skin or
for their flesh. Nothing could be more
thoroughly ulSBustihS ahA uhS
they are, and yet nothing more fasclnat-
ing. One can watch them-the IRE
sponsible, formless Jumps Of intelligent
fesh-for hours without firing. l
scarcely know what the fascination is. A
small seal playing by himself near the
ahore, floating on and diving d
breakers is not so very disagreeable, es-
p~ecially IL he comes so near that you can
sec his pathetic eyes; but these brutes in
this perpetual summer resort are disgust
ingly attractive. Nearly everything
about them, including their voice, is re-
pulsive. Perhaps it is the absolute idle
ness of the community that makes it so
interesting. To fish, to swim, to snooze
on the rocks, that is all, forever and ever.
No past. no future. A society that lives
for the LATEST sort Of pleasure. If theT
were rich, what more could they havef
Is not this the ideal OF a watering-place
lifel-lHarper's Magazine.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25
The Heather.

Prince Bismarck's fondness for heath
or, is not a new fancy. With him the
heather is, more truly than the primrose
was to Lord Beaconsield, his favorite
flower" Nearly thirty years ago, when
minister to Paris, he made a trip to the
south of France, visiting among other
places Chambord. Writing to his wife
from Bordeaux, under date July 81, 1862,
Bismarck says: "From inclosed speci-
mems of heather you will no longer be
able to see how purple this plant l am so
fond of blooms there, the only flower
in the royal garden, and swallows almost
the only living creatures in the garden
For sparrows it is too lovely."-lPrairie
Farmer.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25
II wa. Contagious.

The marriage wasn't a month old,
and the young bride and her visiting
mother sat watching the clock work
toward midnight. what is that heavy,
broken, uncertain footstep coming up
the stairs" said the mother-in-law,
sternly.
Il guess it's George, mamma. You
know he always suffered, and here Of
late it seems to have got somehow into
his walk."-Philddelphid Times.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-25

NAPOLEON was always talking about
~the peace of Europe" But he wasn't
satisfied with 3 piece Of Europe; be
wanted the whole of i.
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j. n. SON
WEST RANDOLPH, w.

ard see il aud get a list of persons using u
this town. Ask them about it and you vi
buy no other stove. j. II. Lamson also Keep
the largest stock Of Parior and Coal sis'a
Tinware, Hardware, etc, etc, in this plia
the state aud will not be unders0ld.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-08
THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS.
Hon. Tom Patterson Purchases a Controlling
Interest and Will Assume Editorial Charge.

DENVER, Aug. For some time there
have been various rumors in circulation re-
garding the sale of the Rocky Mountain Nelrs
to a Republican syndicate of this city COM
posed of Senator Woicott, his brother,
Henry Wolcott, Governor Cooper. w. H.
Griffith and Hon. j. S. Clarkson, of Iowa.
The syndicate paid $4,000 on the option
which expired at midnight last night and
as the remaining S390,000 was not forth
coming, Colonel John Atkins, president of
the Nelcs company, called the deal off and
this morning published the following edi-
torial:
"Mr. Thomas M. Patterson has pur-
chased the whole of Mr.. James M. Bur-
nelrs stock in the Rocky Mountain Ne,Us
printing company, which was full one
half, and also enough of the stock owned
by Mr. John Atkins to give him
a majority of the | stock'' and
the control of this paper.
Mr.. Patterson has determained to retire
from the practice of the law after the
closing up of all his present business in
the courts by trial or otherwise, and then
to assume editorial management of the
NelCs, although, because OF his pressing en-
gagement, he cannot now give his personal
attention to the paper, ne will hold him
self responsible for its editorial utterances
henceforth. Mr.. Atkins will continue as
heretofore the president and manager OF
the company. Mr.. Patterson is well known
as he is the leading Democratic politician
and criminal lawyer of Colorado He was
candidate for governor two years age
and was defeated by Job A. Cooper. He
was territorial Delegate to Congress in the
sessions of 1875 and 1876 and made no
tional reputation for himselfin his speech
seconding the nomination of Mr.. Cleve.
land at the st. Louis convention.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-08
The Patriarchs Militant.

CHICAGO, Aug. This was the most
important and imposing day in the Patri-
archs Militant cantonment, it being set
apart for the grand parade. The first ex-
ercises of the day were exemplification of
subordinate degree work in battery ID
armory for prizes by the North Star lodge,
of Minneapolis, and lodges from White
water, Wis, and Bloomington, la.
At IL o'clock the handsome and imposing
dress parade and inspection took place
on Lake Front grounds, with about
forty cantons in the line. The
great stretch of green sward was ahlaze
with the black, red, purple and gold of the
knightly uniforms ard glitter of FURNISHED
stell. In the afternoon the great parade
took place, which was witnessed by crowds
Of people. Tonight there is another park
spectacular demonstration at Lake Front
with military formation, comforting OF
decoration of chivalry for members of the
Rebelah degree and a grand exhibition Of
pyrotechnics.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-08
A CONVICT UPRISING.
The Inmates of the Prison at
Charleston, Mass, Rebel.
CRUZ IS DENOUNCED AS A LIAR
By Jose Diez Bonilla for the FaIsehoods
Told by Him About Telegraphic Com
munications with Guatemala.

BosToN, Aug. For some time past
trouble has been brewing at the Charles
ton state prison, having its origin in the
objection OF the inmates to submit to the
enforcement of the Bertilion system OF
measurement. This afternoon the convicts
In the shoe shop refused to obey orders and
as II by some pre-arranged signal, ali set
up terrible yell and missiles of every de-
scriptio1 were sent flying 10 all directions,
the windows on the north and west sides
being entirely demolished. They made
dash for the yard and mob Of over
fifty infuriated .convicts rushed for
the various walls. Instantly the sentries
began firing. The other officers of the
Institution were quickly at hand, and with
drawn revolvers soon massed the gang in
groups, after hard gght in which clubs
were freely used and many cOnvicts heads
were badly crushed Word was quickly
sent to police headquarters and in short
time 200 policemen reached the prison in
patrol wagons. 1t is not thought any of
the prisoners were seriously wounded. but
as the excitement has net fully subsidized it
is impossible to say what the result of the
shooting was. The gu,rl on the walls has
been trebled and large number of police
are massed in the yard and corridors.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-08
Ezeta Issues a Manifesto.

Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Cable1
SAN SALVADOR, Aug. Z. = Provisional
President Ezeta has just issued mani
festo naming the 18th of September next
as the day wherein the election for new
members of congress will take place to sub
stitute those whose term of Office has ex-
pired. General Ezeta has been named as a
candidate for the presidency. Congress
will elect a new constitutional president
October l next. General Ezeta has also
issued another manifesto in which he JUS
titles his action in assuming command of
the troops and government of Salvador at
the time when President Menendez was
assassinated, and recapitulates the cause,
conduct and result of the war; General
Ezeta concludes his manifesto by saying
that as long as he has the life and power he
will accept no terms of peace with Guate-
mala that do not assure complete vindi-
cation of Salvador's injured honor and dig
nifty as an independent nation President
Ezetas army, under comm and of General
Antonio Ezeta, numbering 10000 men, is
now in Guatemala territory, and is advanc-
ing rapidly towards the capital of that re-
public
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-08
Disease in Governor Cooper's herds,

DENVER, Cole, Aug. Especial tele-
gram to The HERALD. Reports have
reached here from Morgan county that
some disease has broken out among the
herds owned by Governor Cooper. Several
have already died and others are sick and
the contagion is rapidly spreading Cover
nor Cooper says his foreman reports that
the sick animals die quickly and he be-
heyes the disease is Texas fever. He sent
DIR. Lamb, Of the state veterinary board, to
his ranch, which is only five miles from
Brush station, but Lamb has made no re-
port yet Governor Cooper thinks the
disease has just made its appearance as his
manager can communicate with him readily
and he says his cattle have not been off the
range this season and he don't know how
the disease was communicated to them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-08
A BATCH OF LIES.
Associated Press Reports from
Salt Lake City.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. PRIMARIES
The Bulls Case Dismissed-A Cold Blooded
Murder-Suicide at Pocatelle-A Very
Young Couple Elope.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Especial tele-
gram to The HERALD. The following dis
patches relative to the election last Mon
day, sent from Salt Lake by the agent of
the Associated Press and published in the
eastern papers, viii be interesting reading
to the people Of Utah:
''SktT LAKE, Utah, Aug. 4.-To-day oc-
ours the Salt Lake county election. The
contest will be between the gentiles and
Mormons, with the third party in the field,
called the 'Workineman's ticket With
two exceptions the latter ticket is the PEG
pies or Mormon ticket The result of the
campaign is watched with much interest.
If the Liberals carry the day, the next
Representative in Congress, to be elected
in November, viii be an anti-Mormon. If
the Mormons win, John t. Game, the pres
ent Delegate, will be returned. Salt Lake
county and city hold the balance of power
in the territory"
''SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 5.-Tne
election yesterday resulted in the Liberals
electing their entire ticket by majorities
ranging from 400 to GOO. The city gives
995 Liberal majority over the combined
Mormon and Labor tickets, the Mormons
are badly broken up, as the result means
their everlasting defeat as BODY
''SALT LAKE, Utah, Aug, THE Liberal:
have carried Salt Lake county, with tn,
exception of sheriff and recorder, an(
through irregularities in the Mormon pre-
cincts they may be counted out as then
majorities are very small. The Liberal:
carried Salt Lake, Box Elder and Weber
counties which are in fact the territory a.
they contain eight-tenths of the popu
lation.n
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-08
A Cold BIooded Murder.

GARRISON, Mont, Aug. Especial tele-
gram to The HERALD. One of the most
cold blooded murders in the history Of
Montana was committed here to-day.
Three tramps were driven from a box car
this morning, and after buying bottle of
whisky proceeded to take the town. They
took breakfast at the O'Neil restaurant and
gave Lew Turner but one dollar. In going
out he demanded another fifty cents, which
was refused. The three tramps walking
away, Turner followed to the door. when
one of the toughs turned and shot him
through the breast above the heart. Tur-
her advanced until the second shot was
fired when he fell and his murderer fled
across the river. The entire town turned
out in pursuit and soon had the desperate
in chains. Feeling ran SO high that a
crowd formed IN few minutes to lynch
the murderous tramp, but the officers hur-
ried him unobserved into switch engine
ard rushed him to the county jail in Deer
Lodge. Turner was taken to the hospital.
but the physicians say he cannot live until
morning
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-08
HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE!
Says Electrician Barrett About
kemmler's Execution.
NEW YORK PRESS COMMENTS.
Some Condemn the New Mode of Killing and
Some Don't-What Man who has Seen
Many Hangings Says.

Especial to THE Examiner Dispatch. ]
CHICAGO, Aug. 7.-"Horrible! horrible -
was the exclamation of City Electrician
Barrett when ne had finished reading the
account of Kemmler's execution
"Do you think the man was uncon-
scious2" was asked.
"No, do not"
she must have suffered them"
Suffered! Why, that man must have
suffered the tortures of the damned. It was
the most barbarous thing l ever read OF
heard Off
.'What reasons have you for believing
that Kemmler was conscious:"
1.-THE best reason in the world. L know
how it is from experience. II all the
medical experts in the world We're to tel
me that that man did not realize anything
l would not believe them. l had occasion
at one time to close line that was opened
by tightening. In attempting to do so
received a severe shock. In an instant al
power of motion was taken away from me
l was as helpless as babe and remained
so for an hour till help came. Now, while
/ was unable to move a muscle, was a:
conscious as am at this moment
do you think il possible to make eXecu'
tion by electricity a success."
Certainly, so far as the killing goes.
While think it an outrage to use for that
purpose one of the greatest elements fol
human good God has given US, still 1t i:
possible to make it successful. In this CASE
those who had it in charge simply made {
| horrible botch of the whole business
| What they ought to have done is this
measured his resistance so they could have
told just how much 1t would take to xii
him.
''Is it possible to do that with any degree
of acauracyr'
cit is, and had they understood theil
business, that is what would have beer
donen
1.-The reporter says that the volt mete
varied between 500 and L 800 volts"
Don't you believe it. That would hav
been sufficient to have killed 700 men an
to have burned them to crisp. Their
must have been some disarrangement o
the wires.n
"What effect do you think it will hav
on the adoption or rejection of this mode O
execution!''
81 think the law will ultimately be re
pealed. There is not an electrician in tn
country who is not opposed to it. The
there are 100 many ways of taking life
run the chances of causing such a horribl
and barbarous spectacle of butchery."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-08

has been refutei, the first trial was of
necessity an experiment and 1t was not con
Quoted with that care and calnlness that
were requisite to insure success. But 1t
was made clear that with current that
had been recommended for the purpose,
with appliances free from defect in con-
struction and operation, and with firm
and confident application of the process,
there could hardly be any question of in
slant and painless death. It would be
absurd to talk of abandoning the law and
going back to the harbarism of hanging,
and it would bepuerile to propose to abolish
capital punishment because the new mode
OF execution was butchered in its first
application
From The HERALD: Had the execution
been properly and efficiently managed it
would have proven the success of the new
system beyond all dispute. An electric
light concern should not be allowed to take
advantage of this failure to further its own
private interests while yesterdays HERALD
says the experiment was failure it does
not show that this mode OF infiicting the
death penalty is not success. The failure
was due not to the system, but the bung
| ling and inefficient way in which the ex-
ecution was managed The fault was with
the doctors and electricians, To dBy's
| (Thursdays) Press says: Unless the adj
vocates of electrical execution can manage
! to change the burden OF proof thrown on
them by yesterdays developments at the
Kemmler execution and show that the ap-
aratus was manipulated by the corporation
that have fought so hard to prevent the use
of alternating currents as mode of intiict-
ing the death penalty, the present mode
will be repealed at the next session of the
! legislature in response TO the ovt rwhelining
demand of an enlightened public opinion.
Such executions as that of Kemmler would
promote murder, they would prove tenfold
more sensational than any hanging and
would make silly women send ten times as
many flowers and It'd bits to bloody-handed
brut9s as they do now. The possibility OF
such q horrible death turns the worst of
ruffians into hero aud a martyr The age
of burning at the stake is past; the age OF
burning at wire will pass also
The World says: The result of the first
experiment strongly condemns this method
of putting criminals to death as cruel and
shocking The theory of Inconsistencies
from the moment is at best mere assump-
ton. 1t was not sustained in Kemmler's
case by the outward indications. AID
parently, the man died in agony by slow
torture. The electric execution law ought
now to be repealed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-08
Republican Primaries i'll Ketchum, Idaho.

KETcHuM. Ida.Aug. r. Especial telegram
TO The HERALD. l-Over two hundred and
fifty excursionists. made up at Shoshone,
Bellevue and Haley, had grand time to-
DAY at the Geyser hot springs, near this
place.
The Republicans are holding primary
election for delegates to the county conven-
tion to-day. Two tickets are in the field,
with strong indications that the slate made
by few mushroom politicians will be
broken.
News received today from Philadelphia
states that the machinery for the new hoist
ing works for the noted Silver King mine
at Sawtooth, has been shipped and willar-
rive about the 10th instant. The resump-
tion of work by the Silver King company
will infuse new life in the old Granite