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Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-12-16
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A red Short Horn heifcr, in fair or
der. VIII give a Sewing Machine fer
anv information leading to her recoy-
cry, ar will reward in Cash,
C.E. WEST,
The Sewing Machine Man.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-12-16
Broken collar aone.

Mr.. Geo. Thacker's ten-year-old
son, Glennie, while playing leap-frog
Saturday evening, foil and broke his
collar bone. DIR. Seargent was called
in and attended to his injury and at
last accounts the paticnt was getting
aloag pretty we'll.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-12-16
Didn't Vote 10 Suil Hint.

Monroe Chapel, col, has been ar
rested charged with assault jim
Gibson, a very Old colored man, sworo
out tho warrant, which charges him
with having assaulted him by butting
him in the face, cutting his lips and
striking him stunning blow on the
head with largo stick. Gibson
Claims that tho trouble originated in
consequence Of his having voted for
tbe Democratic nominee in the 18th
ward Saturday. The trial comes
up this morning,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-12-16
iiis a Mislnks

-;s;;..sser Page to Mary Torian,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-12-16

Mr.. W. q. Fox, of Deavcr is in the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
The Farm Workshop.

A convenient and well-equipped
workshop is one of the essentials of the
farm. 1t need not be large nor expen-
sive, but it should be ample to afford
shelter and a comfortable place to work
on rainy days or in the stormy months
of winter. A good plan is to provide
room for the workshop at one end of
the house or shed which the thrifty
farmer builds for the storage of his
farm-maehinery. The shop should
have a workbench, wise, saw-horses,
and the necessary tools for the work of
construction or repair. And it would
be well to add a cheap forge and anvil
for use at times when it is not convent
ent to go to the neighborhood black
smiths.
And the farmers boys should not only
be permitted but should be encouraged
to use the tools, and learn how to keep
them in order. The average boy pos
sesses some genius for construction, as
well as a bent toward destruction, and
the former should be developed and
directed to useful ends. Many a boy
will acquire skill in mechanic arts if
given half chance. Give the boys a
chance and humor their genius where
in it shows the least trend in the direc-
ton of industry and utility.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20

of the plant itself, just as much as a
Bates would an ideal type in cattle. 1t
is a grievous fault that in selecting
seed for corn we do it in the barn. No
seed is or can be well selected that is
not selected in the field and after in
spection of the plant that bore the ear.
Is not the stem and leaf of the corn
plant a part of the plant itself, and is
not its character of consequence If
so. how? The seed of the whole plant
will, of course, reproduce not only the
form of ear, but of stem and leaf as
well. Now we do not want plant
that falls over from weakness of stem.
This is especially true of the west,
where husking in winter is frequent
sight. If the stalk falls over into the
soil below it may be frozen in the
ground, and in any event will husk
harder. We do not wish for a large
amount of stalk and little of cara
plant that runs to foliage. We do not
wish for a tall stalk, but rather a short
stalk, not too heavy at the butt, nor
coarse. We desire one of large leaf
development. of rich color and vigor-
Gus look. and free from disease. We
want to note what part of the plant the
ear grows on, and whether it gives
single or twin ears. We desire to know
at what time the ear natures. Very
little of these important matters can
we know unless we 90 into the field
and select our corn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
Earn Wells.

The wells on the farm are q great
source from which come many diseases
Some wells are never cleaned. When
dug they are carefully boarded over,
the pump made tight and snug, with
the ground sloping away on all sides
so as to allow the surface-water TO flow
from the opening. There is no well
water that is pure. Something depends
on the character of the soil If sandy,
and the water viii disappear quickly
from the surface after rain, the well
will drain the soil for a long distance
around 1t, and the consequence will be
that a large portion of the filth of the
soil will find its way into the well,
although the water may appear spark
ling and bright. 1t is contended that
the soil removes all the impurities from
the water, but this depends upon
whether the soil, by long-continued
absorption, be not already so thorough
" saturated with impurities as to re-
fuse to take up more. That the soil
does not remove all the impurities,
even from new ground where a well
has been recently dug, has been Demon
strated by saturating the surface earth
at distance from the we'll with kero-
sene oil, which gradually found its way
to the well (having been washed down
by the rains) and impaired its odor to
the water
If the soil be of heavy clay the dam
ger will be lessened, but on all porous
soil the liability of pollution of the
water is great. No manure heaps,
privies, sinks or other receptacle for
filth or refuse of any kind, should be
within $50 feet of the well-the further
off the better. No matter how tight
the well may be, the toad will some
times contriye to get in. Many wells
contain toads that die. and are swallow
ed in the drinking water unknowingly,
under the supposition that the well is
tight and toad proof" Wells should
be cleaned at least once a year, and
especially in the fall. For a distance
of ten feet around the we'll the surface
should be cemented, and the pump it
self should be cleaned occasionally.
loads, flies, bugs, worms, and even
gnats will get in the water, while even
a few drops of a solution from a filthy
drain or sink, finding its way into the
well, carry bacteria enough rapidly to
multiply and contaminate all of the
water. Roots of trees and vines also
serve as drains into the wells, as they
loosen the soil, and for that reason they
should never be planted near the
source of drinking Notwithstanding
NelOS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
Views Taken on the Report of the ParneII-
Times Commission.

LONDON, Feb. 14-The Star. I. P.
0Connors paper, asserts that the report
Of the Parnell commission Is a triumphant
acquittal of all the accused Parnellite mem
bers of the commons.
The Pail Mall Gazette saws that the re-
port of the special commission is a more
complete vindication of the Parnellites
and more sweeping condemnation of the
Times than the most sanguine of home
rulers ventured to hope for.
The St. James Gazette SAYS it will be a
m0nstrous perversion of the report to de-
duce therefrom a general verdict of not
guilty. Parnell and his associates were
found guilty of criminal conspiracy
maintained by indictments from which
crime directly ensued. Parliament would
not go beyond its right If 1t expelled them.
as though they were actually convicted.
The Globe says the report will hence
forth be the supreme authority ON the his
tory of the land league. It cannot be APP
pealed to for one purpose and not for an
other. Therefore, those quoting from it
to prove the acquittal of the Parnellites of
certain charges, will logically be compelled
to admit that they were guilty of Grim
inal conspiracy.
DUBLIN, Feb. 14.-The Freeman Jour-
nal says the Parnellite members of the
commons are acquitted all along the line.
The report, it says, is virtually a verdict
against their accusers.
The Express says that the report indi-
Gates that the work of the land league was
connected with the increase of crime in
Ireland
LONDON. Feb. 14.-Amid cheers of the
opposition III the commons today Parnell
asked what action the government pro-
posed to take upon the report of the COM
mission.
Smith, the no-government leader, re-
piled that the ministers had not had time
to decide upon a course.
Debate on the address was resumed.
Mr.. Parnell moved an amendment ask
ing the repeal of the coercion act. He at
tackled the pettiness of the prosecutions
which the government daily inflicted upon
many persons and the coercion act under
Balfour. Almost every act of Balfour,
Parnell said, appealed directly toward
drivied the people of Ireland to crime.
The league today, Mr. Parnell declared.
differed widely from the land league of 80,
and Balfour could not plead as an excuse
that: crime was being revived. On
the contrary. the people, quiesent
in expectation of soon obtaining their
rights. The action of the government
tended to its own defeat and could not sue
coed in turning the tide of the aspirations
of the Irish people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
Cooperative Slaughter Houses.

1t must be apparent by this time TO
well informed butchers. says the IOOG
Homestead, that the old method of
slaughtering cattle will have to be
abandoned. Butchers are like a good
many other classes of men engaged in
a retail trade. They have failed to
comprehend the full scope Of the indus
trial spirit of the age. They have been
buying cattle at very low prices and
selling beef at high prices, and COM
plain because even then they are max
ing no money. The reason is they have
failed to adapt their business to the
demand of the age. They each one
have slaughter house and kill on the
old time methods, and with the old
time waste, and then complain that the
dressed-beef combine forces them out
of business. Now, whatever may be
said about the greed and seltishness OF
the dressed-beef combine, this must in
canCor and honesty be conceded, that
they have adopted the most approved
methods of economical slaughtering Of
animals. Not only is the work done in
the most economical manner, but the
waste, from the tip of the horn to the
brush on the end of the tail, is fully
utilized. The remedy for this in all
the cities of the West is cooperative
slaughter. This will of itself. build
up factories for the utilization of the
waste. and if the Interstate commerce
law does its work in striking out the
abuses of refrigerator cars, the Chicago
concerns can not compete with these
local slaughtering establishments.
1t would be an immense advantage
to the farming interests if the butchers
could be led to see the wisdom of
movement like this. The farmers in
their move against the combine have
been greatly hindered by the neglect
of the butchers to get their business on
a business basis. In fact, the fight
against the combine has been regarded
by the public largely as the fight OF one
set of butchers against another, and that
either would fleece the intoxicating
public with equal satisfaction.
Consumers have welcomed the
dressed beef because it promised them
better beef at lower prices. 1t has not
kept the promise, it is true, but we do
not blame a consumer that can buy
from the butchers nothing but tough
and stringy beef, at the price OF good,
for wanting a change.
If butchers wish to be anything bet
ter than the agents of the dressed-beef
combine they must adopt the improved
methods and get their business on a
business basis. Let them build refrig-
orators and give the old Noah's-ark
cows a chance to hang in the ice-house
a week or so, and it may be they will
become sufficiently tender for Chris
tan to eat without being tempted to
internal profanity
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
THE OLD MAN A GOOD SHOT
Unsuccessful Attempt of Two Burglars
to Rob an Aged Man.
Held to the Floor by One But Draws a
Bead on the Other.
His Aim is Sure and He Bags Both
His Men.

CREsTLINE, OHIO, Feb. 17.-Farmer
John Frengel was called to his door last
night by two men who claimed to have a
telegram for him. Frengel was suspicious
and before opening the door put revolver
IN his pocket. When the door was opened
the men sprang in and grabbed Frengel
and demanded his money. Mrs, Frengel
came to her husbands assistance
when one of the burglars seized
her, while the other forced Frengel to
the floor. The farmer finding it impossible
to.use the revolver on his man. took aim at
the one holding his wife and fired. The
robber gave a cry of pain, and both men
ran hastily from the house Frengel fred
several shots after them, then locked the
house and went to bed. This morning the
dead body of one burglar was found in the
front yard, and a trail of bloom followed
up disclosed the other one in the woods
badly wounded. Both men are strangers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
MAY LEAD TO HIS DISCOVERY.
Another Clue in the SawteIIe Murder
Mystery.

DOVER, N. H., Feb. 17.-What will
doubtless prove an important develop
ment In the Sawtelle murder mystery has
been furnished by Mrs. Charles Richmond
who, upon taking up a Boston Sunday
paper this morning saw the picture of
DIR. " Blood, who is strongly supposed to
have been implicated in the taking off of
Hiram Sawtelle. why | know that
man, she said. He called here week
ago today. 1t was in the afternoon. He
asked for room. | told him | had one.
but when looked at his face refused to
give him one. He had two bundles: one
done up in wrapping paper; should say it
might have contained clothes. The other
was done up in a newspaper, about the
size of a mans head He looked Just like
the picture of DR.. Blood. [ sent him to
Mr.. Halls Later the picture was shown
to Mr.. Hall, who recognized it as that of
a man who engaged rooms of him last
Monday, but Gidn t come back. Hall also
saw him on the street last night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
FIRES In WISCONSIN TOWNS
Village of Omro Suffers Seriously by
the Flames.
Loss to Property From Fire and Water
Aggregate $4,000.
Hurley Suffers by the Fire to the
Tune of $4,000.

OMRo, Wis, Feb 17-At about two
o'clock yesterday morning the fire alarm
called out the inhabitants of this place to
witness one of the most destructive con-
fagations that has occurred here since the
fire in the spring of 1880, when nearly one
quarter of the business portion of the vii
lage was consumed The flames ragged
over two hours before being
brought under control, leav-
ing a path of destruction from
Wilson 5 block to Lamphier's corner, on
the main street of the business portion of
the town.
The cause of the fire is a mystery, but
the prevailing idea is that it was the re-
suit of a drunken carousal, carried on by
a lot of drinking and gambling hood
lums that have infested this place for sew
eral months past, and whose blaspnemies
and orgies outrivaled the savage, after
sacking the burning saloon. The loss will
reach $4,000, while the insurance is light.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
ONE MANS IDEAS.
An Episcopal Bishops Conception of CatI
Iocism Given to His Clergy.

IOClSIn OIFen 10 Ills clergy.
BALTIMORE. Feb. 12.-The Right Rev.
VIM. Parel, bishop of Maryland, delivered
a charge yesterday to the Protestant-Epis-
copal clergymen of the diocese. He said:
This city is the central point of Roman
Catholicism In this country. Here resides
its highest prelate, and here it puts forth
its greatest effort It is using
political and social influence to
obtain religious control of this
nation God forbid that | should blame
the Catholics for any honest effort made
by them toward this end The issue, how
ever, is greater than ever before, and they
are now concentrating all their hopes and
plans in this land. Three fourths of their
members were born in Europe and nearly
all the remainder are children of foreign
born parents. The foreign spirit in the
church is remarkably powerful. It's mem
bers become Americanized slowly and are
not being assimilated rapidly Our rights as
citizens and churchmen are menanced by
this power. The laws of naturalization
are abused and an immigrant often be-
comes a voter before he has caught our
tongue. We have been neglectful
In calling the attention of
our parishioners to the encroachment
on the Roman Catholic church. l do not
advise you to preach course of sermons
attacking their doctrines, but when any
movement is made by them detrimental to
our political or social institutions don't be
silent, but speak out bold and clear on the
Suhiect >
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
TRICKS OF A TREPPER.
In Which He Was Very Ably Assisted By
His Mule

There were thirty of us in camp on
a spur of the Black Hills mining for
gold, says a writer in the n. Y. Sun,
when one afternoon we looked down
upon the level plain and saw four
mounted redskins chasing a white
man on mule. He was making for
US, but they were rapidly overhauling
him, and it was plain enough that we
could render no assistance. The fore
most Indian fired a shot, and man and
mule fell in a heap. The Indians
pressed forward. yelling and exulting,
but the faint reports of a revolver
reached our ears, and we saw redskins
and ponies tumbling over at every re-
port. Some of our men slid down the
steep mountainside to take hand in,
but it WAS not needed. When they
reached the man he sat on the ground
laughing as if he would split.
TO think!' he shouted. as soon as
he could control his voice, that these
ere Sioux, who are rated sharp as
razors, could be fooled by that old
trick -ha! ha! har' And he laughed
until he had to wipe away the tears.
On the ground near by were three
dead Indians and another about to die,
while two of the ponies were dead and
the other two badly wounded. 1t had
all been done with an old-fashioned
Colts revolver, loaded with powder
and ball and carrying percussion cap,
but the work had been rapid and sure,
The Indians had closed in on him, sup
posing him to be dead or badly wound
ed, while neither man nor mule had
been touched. After a bit the man,
who was an old trapper, went over to
the wounded warrior and said to him
in the Sioux dialect, and chuckling be-
tween the words:
Say, did any Of you fellers ever see
a white man before?"
Many of them," gasped the war
rior
Didn't you ever hear of that old
trick before?"
Isn't the white man wounded?"
Not by dozen, Nancy Jane. That
bullet didn't come within rod of me.
gave my old mule the signal to squat,
and down we tumbled to draw you on.
The other three are dead, and you are
about to 90. Say, l don't want to hurt
dyin' injun's feelings, but-ha, ha,
ha-but it was huff to kill fellow TO
see how you four opened your-ha, ha,
eyes when L began to pop. Funniest
thing have seen in year. Durn it,
l won't need any qui'neen for month.
I'm just sweating the chills off with
laughing"
The Indian gazed at him in trou-
bled way for a moment, seemed TO
realize that he had been duped, and
he closed his eyes and died without
eyer raising the lids again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
Undertakings.

Underdrainage is the general and
absolute corrective for alkali, says
Professor Hilgard, of the California
Experiment station. ITO flood the
land until underdrains laid reasonable
distances apart shall have run for some
time, will end the trouble, not only for
the time being, but for centuries; pro-
vided only that solid beds of the alkai
salts do not underlie, as unfortunately
seems to be the case in some of the
lower lands of the upper Tulare basin.
How to deal with that state of things
need not now be discussed, as it is the
rare exception. In the porous soils of
the Fresno neighborhood where until
lately alkali was unknown, its rise has
clearly been brought about by the rise
of the water-table, resulting from the
establishment of highlying bitches; and
its abatement can be brought about by
the same means that have been used
for lowering the water itself, that
threatened to swamp the very plains
that fifteen years ago showed no moist
ure at the depth or forty of more feet,
but where a few years ago water was
within two or three feet of the surface,
drowning out both vines and trees.
The establishment of drainage bitches
has put an end to this danger wherever
it has been promptly carried out and
with it the alkali trouble can also be
terminated, by thorough flooding of the
surface until the bitches shall have car
ried away the teachings into the country
drainacen
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
The Iowa Dilema.

Dies MONIES, Feb. 13.--In the house i'm
mediately after reading the journal the
clerk read letter from Secretary Tracy
acknowledging the receipt of resolutions
of sympathy and thanking the members
for the same.
The governors message was received
and placed on file. It is a very length
document.
A communication was also read from the
state auditor saying that he would not is
sue warrants to pay mileage to members or
salaries to employees ON the certificate of a
temporary speaker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Doings at the Capital-Measures Before
Congress.
THE FREE DELIVERY SYSTEM.

THE FREE DELIVERY SYSTEM.
Postmaster General Wanamaker in re-
Spouse to the senate resolution, to-day
transmitted to the senate an estimate of
the increased cost required to extend the
free delivery system to all cities and towns
of not less than 5000 inhabitants and also
for those of not less than 5000 There are
664 of the former towns and the extension
of the system to them would cost the
government 81, 317 ,040 and 204 of the lat
ter, requiring 1878, 225 to extend the sys-
tenn to them.
LONG AND SHORT HAUL CLAUSE.
The senate committee on Interstate
commerce Wednesday will arrange the in
vestigation called for by Paddock resolu-
ton to inquire into the working of the
long and short haul clause of the inter
state commerce act, and report whether or
not it is responsible In any degree for the
present depressed condition of the agricul-
tural interests of the west. Senator
Paddock today said he wants to find out
whether the clause is working to the dis
advantage of farmers. In case inquiry de-
velopes the fact that it is, and its repeal
cannot be secured, he will then introduce
a bill constituting the section of an act con-
tanning long and short haul clause to
authorize the Interstate commerce COM
missionerS to so regulate tariffs on roads
SO as to secure to the producer of food
stutfs, reasonable price for his products
y MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS.
Representative Buchanan, of New Jer-
sey. to-day introduced bill to establish
a memorial to Christopher Columbus in
this city. The memorial is to consist pri-
marty of the works of American artists
and artisans, and is to display the progress
of the arts, sciences and manufactures;
and, secondly, of such displays from other
countries as can be obtained The bill
proposes to appropriate S1,000,000 the
first year and 100000 during the two
succeeding years.
ESTIMATES FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS
Among the estimates laid before the
house today were the following:
$1,000 for the construction of buildings
for military post in the Yellowstone
park.
$4,000 for the expense of opening land
offices at Pierre and Chamberlin. S. D.
s17,962 deficiency appropriation for the
prevention of depredations of the public
lands.
s19,500 for the expense of protecting the
public lands.