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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29
SHOT TWO.
Girls Fickleness Causes a Double
Tragedy in Nebraska.


ALLIANCE, Neb., Special Telegram, Oct.
27.-Charles NJ. Thorlton, young farmer
living twelve miles north ofhere yesterday
killed Fe d Robinson and fatally shot his
sweetheart, Myrtle Kerr.
The girl and Thorlton were engaged to be
married, but when Thornton called to see
her yesterday she told him that she had
decided to marry another man named
Foreman to please her parents. Thorlton
expostulated with her, and she was about
to get into the wagon with him, when her
father, Enos Kerr, rushing out OF
the house, seized and attempted to
take her away. Robinson. who was in the
house calling on Miss Kerr's sister, rushed
out with pistol in his hand. ThorHon,
who was at the time irving to cover Kerr
with revolver. shot Robinson dead, and
when his sweetheart attempted to disarm
him she was shotin the side. Thorlton is
under arrest.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29

THE railway mileage of Kansas,
according to the State board of AS
SCISSORS, consists of S,762 miles OF
of main lines, which are assessed at
from $4,000 to $500 per mile, the
aggregate value of all railway prop
erty in the State being fixed for as
sessment purposes at $57,S66,232.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29

THROUGH celebrating the coming
of the ''harvest mo on" by i'm billing
their own booze the stills OF four Ar
kansas moonshiners were discovered
and raided.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29
A Little Cold Water.

. ROME, Oct. Pit is reported that Cardi-
mol Simeoni. by order OF the pope, has for
hidden the bishops OF the American hier-
archy to give any official or overt approval
to the Irish Nationalist campaign OF Messrs
Dillen and O Brien in America.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29

The cotton gin down south ap-
pears to be as treacherous as the
buzz-saw up north. The Atlanta pa
pers of the last few days contain fire.
quent accounts of mangled hands
and arms due to these members be.
ing drawn between cogwheels.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29

Mrs. SMART. of Texas, had four
husbands killed in the rebel army.
She would probably have made fur
Their demonstration of patriotism il
the war had lasted longer, as she had
five martial partners since the war.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29

The explosion OF a blast of 35, 900
pounds of powder success ully tore
away 65, 900 tons Of rocks at the en-
trance to Port Crescent harbor, on
Puget Sound. d..
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29

A CHICAGO man wants divorce be-
cause his wife is quarrelsome and is
a womnn Of "large physical proper
tions and great muscular develop
ment."
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29
Burned Ills Buildings.

ATLANTA, Ca. Oct e7.-FAteen armed
men burned down the buildings of j. b.
Varnes in Coffee county last night, because
of his supposed participation in the late
riot. Coy. Gordon has called out the mil
.itia
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29

PROF. ORION, while urging the i'm
perative necessity of taking action
to restrict the wasteful use of natu-
raj gas, admits that even the strict.
est regulations cannot prevent the
exhaustion of the supply in a few
years. ...... n.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29

ELECTRICITY applied to lomcomo-
tive headlights is among the safe
guards proposed for railway travel,
and a recent simpIified apparatus is
Thought to be the most satisfactory
SO far introduced.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29

AT Union, Iowa, Charles Rever and
Miss Minnie Flagg have just been
married. Over the parlor door OF
the BRIDES house was hung the words:
"a union Of hearts, a union of hands,
and the Flagg of union for Rever."
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29
"A BILL. to forbid and punish the
making Of caricatures has been in
troduced in the Vermont Legislature.

BABIES are now very scarce in
France. One may pass a hundred
houses without finding a cradle in it.
Such a country is doomed.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29

THE Australian tailor who Travelled
in a trunk from Vienna to Paris has
made the trip from Paris to London
in the same manner.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29
NEWS SETTINGS.
Criminal, Personal, Foreign
and Other Interesting
News Items.
WASHINGTON.

Mayor Grant O New York has sent q letter
to Secretary Noble asking or recount.
Secretary Blaine has been informed by the
minister fthe United States at ST. Peters
burg hat the various reports Of the alleged
persecution by the Russian government Of
the Hebrews living in that country are false.
Ex-Pres!dent Cleveland arrived in Wash
ington to attend to business before the
United States supreme court He is appar.
entity in good health, and had occasion to
deny rumor that he had dropped dead.
PERSONAL.
Bishop Whipple of Minnesota arrived in
Chicago from St. Paul and took q train for
New York from which city he sails for a
'yist to Europe.
Marshall Field, Jr., son Of the head OF tn
great dry goods firm of Marshall Field & Co.,
and Miss Albertine Huck, daughter of Louis
c. Huck, the millionaire brewer were mar
ried in Chicago by Archbishop Feehan.
1t the meeting ofthe Cornell university
trustees at Ithaca, N. Y, Henry W. Sage
added 5000, 900 to his previous gift of $50.
600 for the establishment Of q department. of
philosophy. Mr.. Sage's gifts to the univer-
slty now aggregate more than million
dollars.
Charles c. Kinswater. Of the Second United
States infantry. onrecuiting service, dropped
dead in the recruiting office at Dubuque,
Iowa. He was thirty-two years old and had
been in the service twelve years His death
was caused by heart disease. He was in ap-
parent good health aud was the evening be-
forc engaged in drilling the Governors
Grays, of that city. He was u member of
Company A, Second United States infantry,
stationed at Omaha l. n
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29
lsM. FRANK. JOHN BENTz1N.
Cottonwood Mills.

Custom grinding solicited. Wills
grind wheat for ] Gone eighty or ex-
change "a TBS. -four. lbs. shorts and g.
lbs bran for one bushel of wheat. Flour
and feed sold at low rates and delivered
a New Ulm free of expense.
FRANK g. BENTzIN.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-31
FARM AND GARDEN.
INSECTICIDES.
something About Their Value and the
Best Means OF Applying.

Something About Their Value and the
Best Means OF Applying.
The Western Rural gives the various
insecticides in use ana recommended
more or less earnestly. The Michigan
experiment. station is responsible for
;he estimates of value that are given 60
she insecticides named. 1t has issued
bulletin in which it gives its estimate
Of the arsenites, carbolized plaster, kerr
)sene emulsion, buhach or pyrethrum,
kerosene ointment and carbolic acid
emulsion. Prof Cook says that as
London purple is much cheaper than
Paris green, costing only fifteen cents
per pound, and is just as effective In
practical use, it should always be used
when it can be had, unless on very ten
Ter foliage, like that of the peach, when
only Paris green should be made use Of
1t is still question II the arsenites
should be used on the peach. London
purple may be used either dry, mixed
with land plaster-one pound of the
poison to eighty or one hundred of the
plaster-or mixed with water-one
pound to two hundred gallons of water.
1t is not the strength of mixture, but
the force and thoroughness with which
it is applied that secures success. The
water mixture, which will usually be
most satisfactory, should be kept we'll
stirred, that the heavy mineral poison
may not settle; should never be applied
TO fruit trees till the blossoms fall from
the trees.
1t should be applied to the apple trees
but once, except in ca Sc of very heavy
rains, when it should be repeated two
or three weeks after the first applica-
ton; should be used two or three times
at intervals of ten days or two weeks
on the plums, and after every heavy
rain; may be used to defend against the
potato beetle, and all leaf or bud -eating
insects that defoliate our fruit trees
early in the season, and on our shade
trees for such insects at any time.
Force pumps are excellent to apply the
water mixture to potato vines and to
frrit and shade trees. BY use of bar
rel or tank mounted high on a wagon,
we can treat potato vines and low
shrubs, etc, by aid of gravity very east
ly and cheaply. 1t is too bad that our
fruit trees are so high that we can not
treat them in the same way. In the
apple orchard the use of London pur-
Pile is so valuable that no one can afford
to neglect its practice. Used just after
the blossoms of the latest blooming
varieties, like the Northern Spy, have
fallen, this substance destroys the cod
ling moth, tent caterpillar, canker worm
and several minute leaf rollers; all of
which are serious pests, and often do
great damage. Here, then, is a case
where the orchardists can kill several
birds with single stone.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-31
WORKING THE CABLE.
How Messages to and from Europe Are
Sent and Received.

How Messages to and from Europe Are
sent and Received.
Although an ocean cable is in fact a
telegraph line, it is so differently con-
structed that the rules for working land
lines are almost entirely dissimilar.
With the first long cable, great diff
culties were encountered in sending
through them a current of electricity of
sufficient power to record the messages
rapidly. The methods for overcoming
these difficulties, and in use at present,
are described as follows:
Keys which, when depressed, trans
NIT positive and negative currents, are
employed at the sending station in con-
nection with the regulation battery.
The current of the battery does not pass
directly into the cable, but into con-
denser, which passes it into the sub
marine line.
This greatly increases the force of
the current used and serves to cut off
interfering ground currents.
The instrument first employed in re-
ceising eablegrams was a rejecting
galvanometer. Upon the magnet of
this instrument is carried small
curved mirror. A lamp is placed before
the mirror and behind a screen in
which there is vertical slit Flashes
of light moving across this slit as the
needles moved from left to right, in
dicated to the trained eyes of the
operator the letters in the message be-
ing transmitted.
But this method of recording mes
sages was found to tax the eyesight of
the operator severely, a few years
work often rendering them almost
if not totally, blind. Recognizing
the fact that there must be something
wrong with such a system. inventors
set about repairing the defect. which
resulted in perfecting the syphon gal
yanometer, which has all but super
seeded all other receiving devices.
In the syphon receiver the move
ments of the needle are recorded by
means of ink spurted from a fine tube.
This tube is attached to coil suspend
ed between two fixed magnets, which
swings to the right or left as the pulsa-
tions pass through it The syphon gal
vanometer is a great improvement is
not hard on the eyes, and enables the
operator TO receive much more rapidly
than with the old flash receiver
Golden DAYS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-31

The use Of tobacco smoke in closed
rooms like forcing houses and conserva-
tories is too well-known, says the West
ern Rural, to need remark. That a de-
coction is also very valuable is perhaps
not so well-known. For this purpose
even the stems, or refuse powder which
can be got very oheaply in tobacco
factories, will answer well. pound
of the tobacco to two or three gallons of
water makes very effective decoction.
Turn the boiling water onto the tobacco,
and when cool strain out the tobacco,
and the decoction is ready for use. Last
summer Prof Cook found this very eff
fective against the striped flea beetle,
and the cucumber flea beetle, both of
which insects are often very trouble
some to. the gardener. If further use
confirms this property of the tobacco
decoction, we have in 1t very valuable
insecticide, and may hope by further
experiment to greatly extend its USE
This too, is the best substance to use in
the destruction of lice on cattle, horses,
and for ticks on lambs. True, the kerr
osene emulsion will kill such lice, but
it does not destroy the lice so entirely,
and does not leave the hair of the
animal looking so we'll. In cold weather
after thoroughly washing the animal to
be treated, it should be warmly blank
eted, and kept in warm place until
6ru
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-31
ABOUT HALF WAY ACROSS.

called a rafting fresheL The elephant
had got about half way across the
stream, trumpeting sayagely and
deluging himself and all around him
with showers 81 water, when suddenly
a raft hove in sight above the ford Il
bore Immediately down with its unsus-
pecting crew toward TippO Sahib and
his mounted escort The ugly brute
saw the strengthening object APP
preaching and he stopped and gazed at
il with angry surprise. TippO had
travelled a bit in his day and seen a
great many curious things, but he had
never seen a raft before lie was in a
fighting mood and seemed 20 think that
a raft Of logs was about the thing for
him 20 tackle Just then Waving his
trunk and giving a trumpet blast that
made the hills around there more than
echo. he turned his enormous front up
stream and awaited the charge Of the
raft TippO's keeper was in = canoe.
which a local oarsmau was plotting
across for him. and he sank his prod IN
the big beast with all his might and at
every vulnerable spot he could reach in
efforts 20 start the belligerent elephant
ahead and out Of the rafting channel
The only result was % increase Old
Tips fury, if that were possible, and TO
fix him in his determination % have a
round with the audaciOuS raft
Before the men on the raft diScOv-
cred and understood the situation the
raft had made half the distance between
the bridge and the ford. AS soon as the
nature of this most unusual obstruction
In the channel became apparent 70
them they were terror stricken. There
wasn't man among them. from all ac-
counts, who hadn't had more than one
hsnd-tO-hand ight with bear in the lum-
Der woods, and looked upon thatas child's
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-31

biggest and Ugliest elephants ever eX-
hibited in this county. At the time
speak OF this elephant was travelling
with the Van Amburgh show, which was
a celebrated one fifteen or twenty wears
ago. Old Tip. as we called him, was
chronic kicker. and stood no fOoling
from any one. His trainer had to be
constantly on hisguard. for the elephant
had disposed OF one or two gentlemen
whose confidence in their pluck and
ability TO handle TippO had led them TO
take charge of him. and he was plainly
keeping his eye out for an opportunity
to add another one to his score Old
Tip never passed day without doing
something to keep up his record as
pachyderm OF strong individuality of
character, and the incident ] am going
to relate was one ST fiicient in itself
alone 10 mark this ele phaIt as a beast
with ideas Of his own and a viii mighty
enough TO carry them into execution, no
matter what the consequences might be
10 himself OF TO others
1--WE had been giving a day and
nights show at Port Jervis. and the
next day were 10 astOnish the natives
of Pike County, Pa, by pitching our
tents at Milford. the county seat seven
miles below Port Jervis. To get To Mil
ford we had to cross the Delaware river
at Port Jervis At that time the bridge
across the stream there was rerorted To
be in decidedly shaky and dangerous
condition; in fact, il fell down two or
three days after we were in Port Jervis.
and the managers of the show concluded
not 10 trust uOnderOus Old Tip on the
structure The river vas fOrdable a
quarter Of a mile or 50 below the bridge.
and the elc phant was taken TO that spot
TO wade across. The time was early in
the morning. and when Tippo Sahib got
TO the river bank he made the grand
kick of his life and refused 10 90 any
further. He swung his trunk around
vicIOusly and threateningly tapped his
big ears, kinAed his tail and roared and
worked himself into a first-class rage.
His keeper coaxed and prOdded and prod
ded and coaxed the old man killer for
more than an hour without succeeding
in inducing him 70 advance step, and
then concluded TO risk the bridge Tip
DO seemed 70 divine his keepers inten-
tiOn. and then his contrary spirit came
upperu 1st. lie Immediately made a
rush for the river and started for the
Penns VI gania shore at such a rate
that ne almost drowned the keeper with
the water he splaShod upon him. lie
was mad all through. The bottom Of
the river was rough and stony and
the uncertain footing added 10 Old
Tips fury. The river was at what they
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-31
BAMBOO EISH-POLES.
Manufacturers Unable to Meet the CT

I Manufacturers Unable to Meet the Grow
ing Demand for Them.
The manufacturers of fishing-rods are
in a state of mind over the fact that the
stock of Calcutta bamboo poles from
which the rods are made has given out,
and it is impossible to secure another
stock of these poles until it will be toe
late for this seasons trade.
Such a state of affairs never existed
before in the history of fishermen's sup
plies. 1t shows that the anglers are in
creasing faster than the rod dealers ever
imagined they would, and the dealers
are totally unprepared to meet their de
mands.
Split bamboo rods will therefore go VI
in price during the rest of the season.
These bamboo poles are imported il
bundles of fifty, and usually bring abou
SIS per bundle. To-day one Of these
bundles could not be bought for love Oh
money. This particular bamboo i:
sought after and used in preference t.
others owing to the strength of it,
enamel. Its life as a rod is twice as
long as that of rod made of Japanese
bamboo, for instance.
The Japanese bamboo is almost a,
tough as the Calcutta variety, but the
joints are so close together that 1t is diff
fcult to cut it up to any advantage. The
action of the Japanese is perfect, but
/ the tip is fatally weak and can not be
used as a substitute for the Calcutt;
tip.
1t is not generally known that Amer
lea makes the best fishing rods in the
world. They last longer and the work
manship is far superior even to those
produced by the best English Makers
| n. Y. Evening Sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-31

play; but they drew the line at ele-
plants, and each man bent himself TO
his oar and pulled as he had never pulled
before to steer the raft away from its
direct course in the channel. and avoid
the dreaded collision that was other
wise inevitable. But il was too late,
and all their work was in vain. When
the crew saw that they were sure TO
bring up against the big, mad, roaring
elephant, every one of them, from the
pilot down, gave up the ship, jumped
into the river. and struck out in wild
and helter-skelter race for the New
York shore. The deserted raft rushed
helpiessly on. Old Tip never moved
from his tracks. His fury was a sight
to see.
'-The raft was made of hemlock logs.
and was at least one hundred feet long
and forty wide The water was swift,
and so deep where Tip stood that it
reached above his belly. Although it
was early IN the morning, crowds of
people had gathered on both sides of
the river 10 witness the novel sight of
an elephant fording the stream. When
they saw Old Tip stop in the deepest
part and wait for the raft, and resist all
efforts TO get him out of the way. the
people grew wild with excitement.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-31
Ill tie year ,vanza, you may

I'LL tie year ,0nnd, you may
rely upon DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery to purify
the blood and invigorate the
system. It's not like the
sarsaparillas, that are said to
be good for the blood in
March, April and May. The
"Golden Medical Discovery
works equally well at all
times, and in all cases of
blood : taints, or humors, no
matter what their name or
nature.
It's the cheapest blood-puri-
fer, sold through druggists,
because you only pay for tile
good you get.
Your money is returned if
it doesn't benefit or cure you.
Can you ask more?
"Golden Medical Discov-
cry" contains no alcohol to
inebriate, and no syrup or
sugar to derange digestion.
It's a concentrated vegeta-
bic extract; put up in large
bottles; pleasant to the taste,
and equally good for adults or
children.
The Discovery" cures all
Skin, Scalp and Scrofulous
affections, as Eczema, letter,
Salt-rheum, Fever-sores, White
Swellings, Hip joint disease
and kindred ailments.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-31
ABOUT INTERVIEWING.
The Experience of an English Politician
i'm the United states.


i'm the United states.
This method of acquainting the pub
lie with the private thoughts and affairs
of men is legitimate enough if it is only
carried on in accord with the first prin-
ciples of honesty. If a person knows
he is talking to tho public, and is then
correctly reported, here is no reason
why he should not be interviewed. 1t
is usually when one of these conditions
is not complied with that trouble en-
sues. The following artless description
of the custom in our country is thus
given by an English Member of Parlia-
ment in the English Illustrated Maya
zine:
whenever a stranger of the smallest
claim to public position arrives at a
place he is interviewed. / had the
pleasure OF being interviewed several
times. If l met with a good reporter
he gave a fair resume of our converse
ton, whereas in other cases he accom-
modated my observations to the partic-
ular views of the paper he represented,
or to the particular ideas of the town in
which he lived. In one case l was asked
and when my observations were pub
lished | found to my surprise the report
er had thought it right to write about
the dock-yards, which made all | said
utter nonsense. In another case the re-
porter was good enough to call upon me
two or three times, and on each occasion
/ happened to be out He grew tired of
his efforts. and published his paragraph
without seeing me. 1t began in this
way: AT last we have got a live En-
glish Lord. Sir Julian Goldsmid has
arrived in our city | was sorry for
him as his hopes in this respect we're
not realized. In one city my inter-
viewer was young Englishman who
was fond of a rowing life. and had come
there for a few months during which he
had found an occupation on the princi-
pal paper of the place. In another
hit upon a man of unusual ability, and
he gave me more information than
gave him. On the whole | found the
newspaper representatives an intel
ligent and most polite set of men,"