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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

COmpllSheQ In CHI
cago by Paul Alexander Johnstone.
Mind-reader tombstone drove blindfolded
through the crowded streets of the city
from the Auditorium to the Grand
Pacific Hotel, and, still with a handker-
chief tightly bandaged over his eyes,
picked out of an old register a name that
had been selected for the test by COM
mittee of disinterested citizens. 1t was
a similar feat which killed Bishop and it
nearly killed tombstone. A doctor
worked over him for three hours to drag
him out of an attack of congestion of
the brain into which he had been thrown
by his adventure. The doctor saved him,
but he will never attempt the feat again.
He has had enough
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon q score of
people comprising representatives of the
press and a special committee sat in the
south parlor of the Auditorium Hotel
and watched with considerable interest
the nervous antics of pale-faced young
man in closely buttoned Prince Albert
coat. who was about to undertake what
Is conceded the most difficult accomplish
ment in mind-reading.
The committee selected to supervise
the undertaking and see that it did not
partake of the appearance of a 'fake"
consisted of DR.. G. F. Butler, B. A.
johnson, editor of the Lumber Trade
Journal, Charles Lederer, the artist, w.
G. Wright, and Thaddeus Dean. These
gentlemen sat together in one end of the
room and listened with some incredulity
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
a FLAG EPISODE.
Death Of Man Who in Rome Did Not
Think as the Romans Thoueht.

Death Of Man Who in Rome Did Not
Think as tho Romans Thought.
NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 9.-The death of r.
P. Wheeler here on Saturday night. was In
directly due to resolution offered by him
at the Grand Army convention at Peters,
burg, last spring, rejecting on the confed-
crate flag. Up to that time he was doing 8
good business, and was very popular with the
people of Norfolk. The resolution he Of.
fered was in the shape of a petition to con-,
grcss to stop the manufacture of the con-
federate flag, which Wheeler termed con-
temptible rag. His action aroused the peo-
pie here and affected Wheeler's business to
such an extent that after some weeks he
publicly denied being responsible for the
resolution. He even went so far as to an,
pear in u parade at the head Of detach-
ment of Grand Army men at the time of a
confederate celebration. 1t was subse-
quently proven, however, that he was the
author of the resolution, and then the feel
ing against him became intensified. His
business continued to go down, and he
sought relief in drink. To an over-indul-
gence is attributed his death. Wheeler was
an eX-union soldier and q native OF New
VnpE
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
CANADIAN RECIPROCITY.
Attorney General Langley, of Halifa,
Gives Inside History.

Attorney General Langley, of Halifax,
Gives Inside History.
HALIFAX, N. s., Sept. 11.-Attorney- GEN
eral Langley has arrived ut his home. He
describes his important trip to the United
| States. In an interview he says:
II had no more thought OF visiting WASH
| ington than of going to Australia, but while
was in New York Mr.. Wiman suggested
the Importance of making some special ef-
fort to induce the American congress to in
clude Canada in the scheme of reciprocity.
| Mr.. Blaine has already declared in favor OF
reciprocity with the states of South
America, and his idea has been embodied
| in proposed amendments to the Mckinley
| bill in the senate.
sRecognizing the Importance of the mat
ter, consented to accompany Mr.. Wimnn
to Washington. although confess had no
| very great confidence that anything could
be accomplished in this late stage
of the session. 1 found leading men in tho
senate and house, of both political
partie, most friendly and predisposed
rather than otherwise to extend the prin-
ciple of reciprocity to Canada. There are
some senators from the New England states
who seem to be opposed to it in Difference
to the prejudice Of some portion Of their
constituents.
among prominent men with whom had
he pl easure of discussing this question
was Senator Sherman, Of Ohio. To my de-
light at the next sitting of the senate,
heard Senator Sherman propose the resolu-
tion which has now become so we'll known
throughout Canada. and which, il adopted,
will certainly revolutionize the policy of
this country, Prominent men on both sides
of the house assured me that it was en-
tremely likely that Senator Sherman's REQ
luton would be adopted by the senate,
though meeting with considerable opposi-
ton. If it gets through the senate it will
be adopted by the house, and i'll that case
it becomes incorporated as part OF the Nc
Kiley bill and viii always be available as
standing offer to Canada"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
DINED ON KINGsHEAD.
STORY OF A WEST AFRICAN
HOoDoo MAHDl.

He Sits Down to His First Royal Dinner
Will, the Head of II Monarch Before Him
Pork Packing Statistics Show u Falling
OFF Over the Preceding Week Crop Re-
ports, Etc.
LONDON, Sept. 11.-Much Indignation is
expressed i'll France over the fact that
.Samudoo. the so-called West African Mahdi,
Who recently made u treaty of friendship
with the English, followed up the treaty by
purchasing from the British Il large quantity
OIL guns and cartridges. and thereupon pro-
ceeded to attack the French. Notwth-
standing his guns. he got the worst of the
light, his favorite commaHder, Savos Pasha,
being killed in q hand to hand encounter
with French lieutenant of senegales
troops. Samudoo is now ENGAGED in raising
the people of western soudan for attack On
the French. He is said to be as peculiar
an individual as the original Mahdi who
caused SO much trouble to the Brit
ish in Egypt. Born in the king
dom of Bornu, his mother was the
Nubian slave of an Arab trader. His
father took good cure of him. and as he
grew up he became imbued with the idea
that 1T was his mission to restore supremacy
OF the prophet in Western Africa. The
King OF Bornu, noticing that the young
man was ambitious ordered him to be de-
capitated, as q lesson to other ambitious
youths. Samudoo was warned by friend,
said to have been one Of the sultanas, and
fed to Senegal. There he curbed his fanat-
icism under Christian protection until dis
turbances in Bornu tempted him to return.
The dissatisfied element accepted him as
O leader and he made himself master of the
country, displaying no little military abil-
ity. The king of Bornu was one of his pris-
oners and Samudoo sat down to his first
dinner in the royal palace with the mon
arch's head on plate before him. He is
now the master of q considerable share of
West Africa, and the British have been glad
to purchase his friendship
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

turning from Michigan avenue to Adams
instead of Monroe. When informed of
his mistake he asked Mr.. Dean to fix his
mind on the proper direction to take.
Mr.. Dean apparently selected the right
direction, for moment later the veneer
able gentleman was being violently
pulled along the pavement toward the
Grand Pacific. A jostling crowd fell in
behind. Turning into the entrance, the
mind-reader hurried to the exact spot
where Mr.. Lederer had been left with
the register. Here his strength appeared
to desert him, and he would have faint
ed had not a glass of liquor been put to
his lips. He was allowed few mo-
ments' rest in a private room and then
was led behind the desk in the rotunda,
with the book before him and the mem
bers of the committee standing about.
Taking Mr.. Lederer by the hand, the
blindfolded man began rapidly turning
the leaves. When he reached the
proper place he exclaimed:
"That's it, Aug. 25! Is that right?
Tell me, quick, is that right?"
eyes, that is the right page" said DIR.
Butler. At this point the young man
again came very near going into ner-
vous collapse, and it was several minutes
before he could proceed.
"Now, gentlemen" said he, stink in
tently Of the appearance of this sigma
ture."
He leaned over the page, beat it with
his hands, passed his palms nervously
es;15'se .tl,o foreheads of those about him
and then asked tAaG d coat be thrown
over his head. This was done, and after
further lightning maneuvers suddenly
called out: "a paper and pencil, quick. I"
They were handed him, and leaning on
the book he wrote an almost correct fac
smile of the signature before him, 81.
G. Butler, Jr." AS if doubling the cor
RICHNESS of this, he again called for a
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
A Terrible Exnerience.

New York, Sept 9.-The steamship Or
inoco, which got mixed up with the edge,yof
q cyclone in the last two days of August,
arrived Sunday from Bermuda. The cy-
clone met her about 200 miles from Ber-
muda about 10 o'clock on the night of Aug.
80. The engines were slowed down when
tho preliminary blast struck her and
stopped altogether when the wind began
flying at a seventy-mile rate. The vessel
pitched and rolled frightfully and big seas
toppled over her bows. The wheel frame of
the steam steering gear forward broke just
after midnight and the ship drifted into the
trough of the sea. The crew were ordered
aft in a hurry to clear the hand-steerfng
machinery, around which were piled
10000 box frames in bundles. While
they were pitching the box frames
overheard, the giant waves were smashing
things on deck and making life
extremely uncomfortable for the fifteen
cabin passengers. Twenty-Five sheep of a
flock of sixty-five and eight cattle were
killed. The compass lamps and binacle
were smashed, one Of the starboard life
boats was STAYED into kindling wood and
another was washed from its davits into the
sea. The sea flooded the saloon and in
vadcd the staterooms. Twenty feet of the
ships starboard rail was carried away, and
the stanchions were twisted like wire. Tho
hand steering gear was cleared, and the
ships head put to the seas at last. Tho
ship got into Hamilton, Bermuda, early last
Monday morning, and after being repaired
sailed for this port. The steamship Mount
Tobor, from Manila, ran afoulof the cy-
cloae that knocked out the little Blue Nose
schooner Lion on Aug. 81, and had her fore
castle mashed in. her chartroom windows
broken and her cabin flooded by seas.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
CROP CONDITIONS.

Government Report for September-Corn
and Wheat Both Show Less Favorable
Results.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE national
crop report for September shows that the
injury to the corn crop reported last month
was intensified by the continuance of the
drouth in August until rains came to its re-
lief, but were too late for full recovery.
The average is 70.1, against 1913 last month.
1t is the lowest average since 1881. The de-
cline occurred in New York, Ohio and IL
linois and in the northwestern states, and in
some others of less Importance. The crop is
late in the eastern states, requiring matur-
ing weather throughout September. The
Ohio valley and Missouri valley report
protracted drouth and poor condition.
While the rains Of the last two weeks Of
August have been beneficial nearly
everywhere they have not always, re-
stored the losses of the first half of the
month. The best condition is in Kansas,
though some of the western counties make
good returns. The Dakotas and Nebraska
are IL little higher.
Returns of the condition OF winter wheat
at the time of harvesting are less favorable
than those of the LIST of July. So far as
thrashing has progressed results are gen.
orally disappointing. The July average
was T6.2, and the present average is 1875
Tho general average. OF spring wheat rs also
reduced from 1872 to 70.s The average for
wheat of both kinds is 7s.5. In 1886 the
September average for wheat was n, and
was 70 in 1881. The yield OF spring wheat is
unusually variable in the Dakotas, ranging
from high yields to bushels and less per
acre. The progress Of thrashing will de-
velop the extent of these differences.
Rye yields less than was expected. The
condition as reported is reduced to 1874.
The September condition of oats is the
lowest ever reported, having fallen from
TO.1 in August to 64.4. The rate of yield
will be the smallest in twenty years.
The condition of barley is not very seri-
ously lower-from S2.S to 1876.
Buckwheat is fully maintained, its Au-
gust condition average being COS against
COL.
Figures for potatoes have fallen since
Aug. from VA to 65.7, the lowest average
yield ever reported, that OF 1887 being 67.3.
The reported percentage for fattening
swine is 81 per cent, and their condition
90
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
Woman Vowed to Wear trousers.

Mrs. Kreiger has lived on ranch on
the San Pablo, CAL, road for over fifteen
years, and during that time she has not
worn the ordinary apparel of woman. So
accustomed have the people of that
vicinity become to her and her strange
dress that they no longer notice 1t.
Up to fifteen years ago Mr.. Kreigcr
wore skirts and dresses like any other
of her sex. Indeed, it appears that she
had more of them, and that they were of
more varied forms, textures and colors
than are usually possessed by farmers
wives.
1t was shortly before the change in
her manner of dressing that she married
William Kreiger,a thrifty German farmer
and a widower, and went to live on the
ranch.
For time they got along we'll, but
when he charged her with extravaganza
in dress, she hung up her pretty gowns
and donned male attire.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
.Q@a,><41z
pencil and wrote the name second
THE NAME ON THE REGISTER.

pencil and wrote the name a second
time.
sAm right?" nervously shouted john
stone.
"You are, shouted the committee, and
the big crowd cheered the accomplish
ment of q wonderful effort.
tombstone burst into tears when he
heard the shout, and he was carried
away sobbing. His temperature and
pulse were remarkably high, and his
heartbeat was as rapid as the humping
of car-wheels on the joints Of short
rallied track. Nearly rybody else who
saw the torture he endured while he was
trying to find the name felt about as bad,
and the committee looked like ghosts in
plug hats. When tombstone came down
from his room he reeled between his at
PENDANTS. He was driven home and
there he had the attack which nearly
ended him. He fell over onto q lounge,
his face became purple, his jaw dropped,
and his eyes lost all their natural light
and seemed about to pop from his head.
"This ends him." said his manager,
but there was life in the boy when DR..
j. H. Law came. The Doctor labored
over him and brought him to conscious
ness.
II will never try it again." he NUT
tered, and then became delirious. In his
rawlings he went over the afternoons ad-
ventures and three men fought hard to
keep him from jumping through Win
dow. The Doctor said the strain had
produced congestion of the brain.
But he had successfully accomplished
the marvellous feat, and not one of the
committee was in any doubt as to the
exhibition being genuine case of mind
reading, self-induced hypnotism, or
something else just as wonderful.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

was . .,, action. The tariff hin
h h", .hen taken up. the nnes, n,,,
allnwSod On Its passage, six hours bc;na
which 1ho 10 ,,c close the discussion. after
Hear " r .ne vote is to he taken. Senator
ton, said e he Ea 70 the reciprocity PROPOSE
' M'1h some hesitation and should y YES .
!" ,Ha so n he thought the scheme comtainod
tn go c,,n amendment was all that was likely
snn ro.ae out OF entering on that nolicy
I I1naa hoar was followed by se r
. I,,neock, Turpie, Gibson. Vest, Vance and
ta aen' . VI =. Nevada The vote was then
29-as follows. Ss"s' 4V' nays
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

The National Swedish Mission union, in
session at Galesburg, ILL.,, has postponed
action for two years on resolution looking
to closer relations with Congregationalists.
The next annual meeting will be held at
Phelps Center, Neb.
AT Scottdale, Pa, fire is raging in tho
Charlotte mines, and work has been sus-
pended. II the flames are not soon extin-
guished great loss will be incurred.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

TH E perform
ances of the
~ late Washing
ton Irving Bishop
pale before the ac-
complishments of a
new psychological
wonder. The feat
of mind-reading, in
the attempt of which
Bishop lost his life
in New York a year
and a half ago, has
been successfully ac-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
warrant Sworn Out.

CHICAGO, Sept. ia warrant was sworn RI,
ont for Ioring r. Loomis, the young STOCK
hroker who disappeared, and it is alleged
h.s taken ss5, 900 of his customers money.
To &c the son of the president OF the flfs'
National bank of Manchester, la.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
Quiet Reicnsin switzerland.

BERNE, Sept. 13.-Quietness prevA11s IN
tho Canton of Ficino The federal author
itics who were taken prisoners by the in
s,,roents are still held in custody. The
federal council hope to compromise with
,ha leaders of the Instruction by arranging
tn coualize legislative representation.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
e,-,-1 .,,,,I K;,,e.l.

CHICAGO, Sept, I'D. Nj. avery. I"'ei
detective of the Lake Shore y M'ehisan
southern road, was stabbed ana kliie, WIS
morning by Louis Dychman. Inc i'''o'
was fighting drunk.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
Sentenced to I'm prlsonment.

BERLIN, Sept. 13.-siXteen soldiers OF INC
seventy-eighth regiment have been sent
enced to several years imprisonment III
fortress for refusing to obey the orders OF
their captain. All of the. malcontents are
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19
HOW is IT EXPLAINED?
PAUL JoHNSToNE,s pER,lous
UNDERTAKING. FEAT.

He Drives Embodied Through Crowded
streets in Chicago and Picks Out u Naine
on u Hotel Rcgister-Hfs Dream of a Col
Ilslon Comes Partly True.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

AN Adrian, Mich. man was llheo 49,. :
the other day for swearing ae d 'lc's"
hOr.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

He Sits Down to His First Royal Dinner
With the Head of u Monarch Before Him
Pork Packing Statistics Show Falling
Off over the Preceding Week Crop Re-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-19

ESPECIAL CHICAGO CORREspoNpENcE,1
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-12-30
RAILWAY eREVITIEs.

There is mile of railroad in the
United States for every 40405 inhabit-
ants.
Three locomotives have been shipped
from America to Palestine for the new
railroad between Jerusalem and Joppa
When the railway across Siberia is
completed it is estimated that the tour
of the world in fifty days will be feast
BILE.
The total length of all the railroads Of
the world in 1888 was 57i III kilometers
America, s04, COS; Europe, 214,252; Asia
9e.415. Africa, $500; Australia, 1890.
Surveys are nearly completed for an
extension Of the Florida Central and
Peninsula railroad of 2s5 miles from
Quincy, Fla, 10 a connection with the
railroads eentering at Birmingham. Ala.
private car has just been completed
for the President of the Mexican Cen,
trial road which is said 10 DO the most
perfect Ia its appointments Of any
private ear yet constructed IL weighs
$4,000 pounds
Two hundred and twenty-five trains
arrive at. and the same number depart
from. the Broad Street station Of the
Pennsylvania read N Philadelphia every
week day one hundred aud fifteen AZ.
Etgs aud depart every sunday.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-12-30
ONLY TEN YeAaa


Only tcu years Of Joys and tears
II seems not very hong
Only ton years Of hopes and fears
That to my memory thrung,
And rs you nye standing again at my side,
So fnir and so Young, my bonny bride
Now brcalts from my heart this song;
Only ten years Of Joys and tcars,
OF merry and cloudy weather.
Have blended our lives together, my love,
Have welded our hearts together
So wen dream once again Of the happy days
when
We timdly stood in the morning
with hearts full Of love, with the blue skies
nboye,
And roses our garden adjoining.
And now you are standing again at my side,
80 fair and so young, my bonny bride
With roses our pathway adjoining
Only ten years Of joys and tears
And the tears into pearls are turning;
Only ten years Of hopes and fears,
And now a sweet incense is burning
On tho altar Of Love whose diadem
Now shimmers and glisteus with many gem
or sanctihed sorrow and yearning.
Only ten years of joys and tears,
OF merry and cloudy weather,
Have blended our lives together, my love,
Have welded our hearts together.
Only ten years of hopes and fearsi
Their passing was feet,
But their living was sweet
In merry and cloudy weather, my love,
As we've journeyed along together.
Boston Globe
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-12-30
Tho Ball Player.

Bobby-Do you like your new house?
Little Johnnie-Yes. 1t has vacant
lot next door Epoch.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-09-05

CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADK.
Wednesdays quotations,