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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-07
IN GEN RAL..

of 81 900, 900 to develop immense salt beds
recently discovered near Cleveland, OHIO.
While digging in the ruins of his burned
dwelling Luther Limerick of Falmouth, Va,
found large tin bucket filed with gold
and silver, amounting to several thousand
dollars, supposed to have been buried by .
hermit.
Local saloon men were made happy at
Huron, S. D., by the grand jury presenting 9
report in open court to the effect that be-
cause of the wide difference Of opinion as to
the legality of the liquor law and the uIcer.
tainty of convictions, they had decided tore
turn no indictments for violations, although
they believed intoxicating liquors we're sold
in saloons in this city.
Four large raccoone were killed in the vault
ut Lakeveiw cemetery at Hastings. Mimi, by
George Magic and P. Peterson, two parties
who went into the vault to transfer q corpse
from it to the grave. The vault is built on
a side hill and the animals had burrowed
their way into the hill. loosened rock about
five feet from the floor, and jumping into the
vault found exit Impossible. They were
mammoth specimens, q, were killed by the
workmen with spades.
Another important change from thesystem
OF doing business which Land Commissioner
Sparks put into effect during the last admin
istration will soon be ordered by the secretary
of the interior. 1t will come in the shape of
an order suspending and revoking the Sparks
orders which required special inspectors to
report on surveys before they we're accepted
by the government. 1t will allow the report
of the surveyor general OF public lands to
stand accepted as proof that the work is done
and the surveyors entitled to pay.
sensation was created in Philadelphia by
the rumor that the out going state treasurer,
Col. W. L. Hemingway, had not settled in
full with the new state treasurer. Attention
was called to the matter on the floor of the
senate and the statement made that the
amount not yet paid over was $25O,OOO. A
committee was appointed to investigate the
matter and report Us soon as practicable.
Hemingway had beeen treasurer for fourteen
years, and no man in the state has enjoyed
to greater extent the confidence of the
whole people.
Ed Nicland, an employe of Swift & Co. OF
Chicago. who ore packing ice in Fond du Lac,
Wis, became suddenly insane and attacked
some of his fellow boarders. The boarders,
six in number, lost control of themselves and
in their fear beat Nieland with chairs and q
poker and Daniel Hurley, foreman of the ice
cutters, shot at him twice. one bullet making
slight wound. Neland was then allowed
to run out of the house, thinly clad and bare
footed. He was found several hours later
PROSTATE and helpless on the ice in the river
near where he had been employed the day
before. When taken to Jail it was found
that the man had sustained twenty. three
scalp wounds, all of which laid the skull bare
ranging in length from one to four inches.
His feet were also very badly frozen. Nieland
is in very precarious condition.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-07
Died OF FIEND,
He Murders His Wife, Mother-in-
law ana Two Children.

law ara Two Children.
QUns1c Special Rodolphe Dubois, who
murdered his vita, mother-in-law and two
children Sunday ii the village of st. Alban,
has been captured. Dubois was beggar
BY pso1snion and for more success in this
prolesIion he associated himself with his
brstheflin-law, Thibault, who is blind.
Dubois b Of kreat stature and exceedingly
ffuCaous Dubois, after having quarreled
with his wife, went TO the rear Of the house
and eot - chopping ak. He then
entered the house and assailed his
wife and lnother-in-law, whom he
soon batcA6red. Next he coolly
murdered his two boys and threw the tour
bodies into the cellar, whence they were
brought up ~ Thibault, the blind beggar,
who appean = have been present at the on
slangtit. The murderer at first showed
fight but be cdoled at the sight ola heavy
revolver. he decl4res that he did not know
Whit he was abonf when he murdered his
victinls Several parishioners OF St Alban
are0f the opinion that Dubois is idiotic.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-07
THE MARKETS.
The Latest Quotations from West
ern Markets.

The Latest Quotations from West
ern Markets.
CHICAGO.
WHEAr-No. 2, Spring, 76Ac.; No 3Spring
63@68c.; No. 2 red, 76Ac.
CoRN-No. 2, 2SM@2SAc.
OArs-No. 2. 19A@19Mc.
RYE-No. 2, 43c.
BARLEY-No. 2, 55@57c.
FLAX SEED-$1.39.
BuTTER-Quiet and unchanged.
EGGs-Quiet at lac.
ST. PAUL.
WBEAT-No. hard, 76@77c.: No. I North
ern, 75@76c.; No: 2 northern; 72@74c.
CoRN-No. 8, 25@26c.
OArs-No. mixed, 20c.; No. white, 21c..
No. 3, 1910.
BARLEy-No. 2. 45@5oc.; No. 8. 3s@42c
RYE-No. 2, 34c.
GROUND FEED-No. 1, $10.o0@10.5o
BRAN-Bulk, $7.75@S.5O. -
HAy-Upland prairie, $e@e.75; No. l.,
EGGs-Fresh. 81. s0@5.
BUTTER-Extra creamery, &c.,; dairy 100
15c; roll and print, S@1Oc.
WHEAr-No. hard 7sc; No. Northern,
77@771sc: No. 2 Northern, 73@74c;
FLoUR-Patents, sacks to local dealers,
"a. 6O@4. 65; patents to ship, sacks, car lots,
$4.15@4 so; in barrels 81. 1904. so; bakers
here, $3@3. 40; superfne, $1.7O@2.25; red
dog sacks, $1@1.2O; red dog barrels, 1925
@1.5O.
CoRN-Samples, 25@26c;
OArs-Mixed, 19@20hc; white 22@23c; No.
2, 21h@22c.
BARLEY-23@35c.
HAY-Upland prairie, $3.50; common wild,
$5@6.5O.
BurrER-Fai to fancy creamery, 14@2Oc
Der ID; diaries, medium to fancy, 1O@12c.;
grease and packing stock, 4@51ac.
MILWAUKEE.
wHEAr-No. 2 spring. 72@73c; No.
Northern. SOC.
CoRN-No.3, 27c.
OATs-No. 2 white, 22hc.
RYE-No. l. 44c.
BAR1Ey-No. 2, 4213c.
EGGs-Fresh, 14c.
BuTTER-Dairy, 9@91ac.
CHEEsE-Cheddars. 9@9h.c
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-07
Will Fight It Out,

ASHLAND, Wis, Special Telegram,
Three members of the Salvation Army
were arrested to-day on the charge of vio-
lating the Sunday ordinance. They were
taken before the municipal court and the
case adjourned till Saturday. under bonds
to Jail. They will fight it out and think
they have good case.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-07
PERSONAL MENTION.

The president sent the following nominal
ton to the senate: Alfred F. PRICE. United
States marshal, district of North Dakota.
Samuel Bayliss, who wenttwenty.one days
without food or liquids, owing to his inabili-
ty to swallow, expired at Fort Wayne, Ind.
Thomas Lowry closes a 100000 con-
tract for equipping the st. Paul and Mime
apolis electric street car systems.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-07
A Family's Amiction

HASTINGS. Special Telegram.-The family
Of William Peterson are afflicted with diph-
liberia, and son, aged four years, has died.
Mrs. Peterson and the remaining children,
two little girls, are at present ill with this
disease. There have been a few other cases
of diphtheria in the city recently
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-07

the wheat IS cleaned the better the seed re-
sulting. and the better the crop-particu-
lazay in yield; no wheat should be seeded
that has not been tested as regards its gluten
and percentage of termination.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-07
NETWORK OPINION,

the Outcome Of the Fight,
NEW YORK, Specialize Herald says
editorially:
We extend to the city Of Chicago our hearty
concentrations without thorny point in them.
New York has been showed under, but we will
not wag our tongue in censure. On
the contrary, we take our medicine
through smiling lips. and, with large good
national good will Perhaps we may be allowed
to say, however, without seeming too Iuassar
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-07
extracted the bullet from the lung Of JoA1
Mack and he will probably live.
FOREIGN CULLIN0s,

TOUES~HkN OO66iNOSs
Emperor William contemplates a reorgani-
cation of the educational system and the
introduction ola completesystem of physical
culture in addition to mental training.
Russia has demanded of the government of
Bulgaria the payment Of 8, 900. 900 roubles,
arrears of money due on account of the Rus
sion occupation during 1873 and 1879.
Russia has never pressed this debt. but has
demanded the arrears now apparently under
a sense of irritation.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-18
Cutting Oats.
Prairie Farmer.

With many farmers oats are raised al
most entirely for feed, and it is desirable
to use them in a way so as to derive the
largest amount of benefit. Cut at the right
stage the straw contains considerable nutri-
ment. The difficulty in feeding unthresh-
ed oats is that they will eat the heads and
waste the straw. This may be obviated
to some extent by cutting. curing and
slowing away the same as hay. Yet even
then there is a considerable waste that it is
desirable to avoid For this reason it
would be best to use the cutting box, run
ming the oats through it before feeding.
In this way all will be eaten up clean, and
the saving in waste will pay for the cut
ting cost, while the value of the feed is in
creased because a better opportunity Is at
forded or making combinations.
1t is necessary. if the best quality of feed
Is secured, to cut at the proper stage. II
cut TOO green there Is a loss In the grain,
while if delayed until the seed has matur-
ed the straw will loose much of its value,
turning to wood. Cutting just after the
seed has fully formed; and before the
grains have hardened, is the best stage
and the nearer they can be cut to this
stage the better the quality for feed.
= Oats like clover should If possible be cut
and cured without getting wet. They
need to be thoroughly cured before they
are stored away, as they will mold if put
into the barn or stack damp. With the
mower. rake, hay-fork and carrier they
can be put away at low cost, or if stacked
in the field the mower, gatherer and
stacker can be used They must lay and
cure longer than hay, and thus the princi-
pal objection to this plan is that shower
will seriously damage it. If cut and bound
they must be carefully shocked up and
capped and let stand three or four days so
as to cure it well before hauling in. Then
if run throug cutting-box and fed in tight
managers, they make very cheap food and
are of good quality.
1t is best to prepare ahead, get the cut
tiers and arrange a time in which to start.
Where a considerable number of stock is
to be fed the power cutters will be
found the must economical, but a
heavy hand-cutter can be used. and can be
made profitable. Mere profit can be secur-
ed from oats in this way than to thresh
and feed the grain and let the stock eat
what they will of the straw.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-18

tons to the general rules governing the
sallmonldR. The whale Is said to live up
to 800 years, a certain bone structure Civ
ing possible clew 10 lis age, but this
does not rest on the besl authority.
As to the birds, certain kinds do live
very long. There are a great many par
rots, as well known in families as the men
or women composing them, who have
lived fifty years and over and then been
killed by an accident. There seems to be
a good reason to believe that parrot in
the south of France came to MarseilleS
when he was full grown during the first
empire, and Is as hale and hearty and gar
rulous to-day as when he was contem-
poraneous with the Emperor Napoleon
Bonaparte
A chicken will live from ten to twelve
years. A story some time ago went the
rounds Of 100-year-old goose. Though
swans of seventy-fve years old have been
been known, it is not likely that the geese
outlive them.
As to tbs eagle. he is known to be long
lived, and sixty, seventy and even one hun
dred years may be found in the books as
the limit of his life.
The present bird shot in Lapland if
the story is to be believed. had been cap
tured years before. As he might have
been of a certain age when taken, the ac-
count would make us believe he was one
hundred.
remarkable longevity for an eagle is
possible, but on the other hand. it is quite
certain that the tin box around this par
tlcular bird S neck would have rusted and
gone to pieces In ten years.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-18
Art in busting.

1t makes one feel pleasant at once to
go into a cheerful tidy room. No matter
what the furniture is, no matter if the
carpet is DID and faded, if the room is
nicely busted and the air fresh, it makes
one feel good.
First and last d large soft cloth is ntc-
essary in busting. Begin at some corner
and work all around to where you began.
taking every chair, table picture and all
woodwork In the path. The windows
should be wiped off also. 1t is not neces-
sary to sweep before dusting but we
should not dust every dly. A feather
buster is not nearly so good as a soft cloth,
for by flirting the dust into the air 1t set
ties right back. and the room Is no fTesher
tnan it was before busting.
The windows should be opened every
day. and fresh air allowed to just fill the
room. While busting it is very easy to
put chairs IN their proper places, pin tides
straight, put tie books in order. VII e off
the table. spread and shake TIE rugs. The
whole will not take more than five or ten
minutes. and the result will pay one for
the slight troubles and exertlon.
If cloth furniture is wiped off with a
slightly dampened cloth 1t will be much
freshened thereby There Is lots of dust
on furniture that one would not notice.
Everything should be wiped off just the
same as though We could see the dust
thick. Because we can't see. 1t l. no rea-
son it Is not there. Besides all this the
dust can be smelIeI. and it fills one, lungs
by being breathed. and in the end Is very
bad. 4 child can be taught to dust well,
and II Is quite help to the mother TO have
the sitting room or parior attended to each
day. and not having TO think IF 1t herself
once heard a lady say Of little girl.
~She is the best buster | ever saw. so !
noticed one day, and soon knew the rea-
son. She went over everything in the
room and left nothing.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-18
THE AGE OF ANIMALS.
Remarkable Longevity of an Eagle-ONen
Camels are Short Lived.

A German paper states that IN Lapiand
an eagle was Shot and around its neck it
had brass chain, to which a tin box
was fastened The tin box contained a
slip of paper on which was written In Dan
ish: Caught and set free again in 1892. -
The study of the longevity of animals Is
wanting in accuracy, but it seems quite
certain. according to London id-bits,
that the span of life of some of the lower
creatures Is much more extended than that
of man.
The Hindoos believe that an elephant
lives to he 800, aud there seems TO be sew
eral authentic cases noted by Europeans
of these animals having arrived at the
mature age of 40. Camels are short
lived, the ordinary breed living forey
years Recent biologists state that the
swifter race of camels are shorter lived. 4
horse at twenty Is considered an old
animal indeed, but he has been known
to do some service even when he was thir
ty-fve.
Oxen are short lived. twenty years being
considered as about their limit of life.
Dogs rarely live beyond their fifteenth
year The stories about FISH must be tax
en- with great deal Of discrimination.
That of the lives OF carp extending over
hundreds of years rests on very poor au-
thority.
1t is quite certain that numerous species
Of fish, especially the salmon, are not long
lived. When we hear of trout 80 years
old We might think that there were excep-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-18

Among the nSmcleSS heroes, none are
more worthy of martyrdom than he who
rode down the valley of the Couemaugh,
warning the people ahead of the Johns
town flood. Mounted on powerful
horse. faster and faster went the rider,
but the flood was swiftly gaining, until
il caught the uulucky horSeman and
swspt on, grinding, crushing, annihila-
tiny bath weak and strong.
In the same way is disease lurking
near, like unto the sword OF pamocleS,
ready to fall, without warning, on III
victim. who allows his system TO be-
come clogged up. and his blood poi
Soued, and thereby his health eudan-
qnred To eradicate these poiSons from
tue system, no matter what their name
CT nalure, and save yourself spell of
malarial, typhoid or bilious fever, or
rrup,iouS, -ellinGS, tumorS aud kim
drcd Disbursements, keep the liver and
kidneys healthy and vigorous, by the
use of DR.. pierce'S Golden Medical Dis
covery. Its the only plood-puritier sold
on trial Your money is returned if it
doesn't 10 exactly as recommended. \
concentrated vegetable extract. Sold
by druggists, in large bottles, at Sl.oo
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-18
FARM NOTES.

A dead limb is an incumbrance to a
tree and should be removed.
Whenever you see rat-hcle pour little
tar in it. The rat will not come near it
again.
To secure a growth of white clover on
grass plot use plenty of wood ashes as a
top dressing.
Late potatoes will do well on piece of
land from which crop of clover hay has
been cut.
During the warm days of summer fat
hog suffers severely. Avoid grain and feed
on grass or succulent food of any kind.
The best breeds of cattle are now on
this side of the Atlantic, and we sell more
of our choice animals to foreigners than
we buy.
If the land for the turnip crop is now
ready, there is no time to lose. 1t should
De well worked and made fine. As soon
as the new crop or seed comes in is the
tine to sow.
In case of depredations by squashvine
root borers, one remedy has been found in
covering some of the vine joints with earth
in a manner to induce throwing of the
borer would be preferable, If 1t Is pos
sible.
Smut on oats is now easily destroyed in
a very simple manner. The Department of
Agriculture. in its journal ofMycOlOgy,
states that if the seed be treated with
scaIding water, which is poured over the
seed, and the seed immersed in the hot
water for few minutes, no injury will he
done the seed, while TIE spores from which
the fungus is propagated are destroyed.
Many persons keep over what vegetlhle
and flower seeds are not sown one spring
for use in the next. While many seeds
will grow the second and even the third
year, it can not be denied that tn, re is
some deterioration as the months 60 by.
Seeds of coniferous trees, which are almost
lmperishable, nevertheless lose something
every year. There is a great deal of salts
faction in knowing that you are han ling
new seeds.
The importance of washing or curryng
| the COW for the purpose of preventing dis
ease may be shown by The fact that while
COW may discharge 20 pounds of water
through the kidneys she may drink 1OC
| pounds. the 80 pounds passing off through
! the skin, carrying with it matter that
should be eliminated from the body. I'm
| less the water passes off freely the milk
will be more or less contaminated. Wash
the COW, curry or brush her, and remove
the dried matter and scurf on the skin III
order to promote free perspiration.
Scatter newly sIaked lime in the her
house as often as you wish, as it will alb
sorb moisture and dry the apartment Dc
not scatter it on the droppings that have
accumulated, however, as it will cause loss
of ammonia, hut dust it on the floor, on
the walls and over the nests, as well as
over the yards. 1t will greatly prevent
disease, and also destroy all lice that il
touches No hen house that is frequently
busted with lime will be affected with lice
if they have not secured foothold. Lime
purifes the quarters and dries them; as il
Is cheap and plentiful, it should be used
often and plentifully.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-18
Pleasure in Toll.
HgrDpr' = Royar

There Is no true craftsman, as Ruskin
has more than once said, who does not
find his work a pleasure That Is, he
finds il a pleasure if the conditions are
fairly favorably; and all the schemes of the
social reformers, from Fourier to Belalny,
are brought to bear on just this point, not
to save men the necessity of labor, but to
give them labor so Congenial and so rea-
sonable that it shall be a delight. A
young American carpenter once told me
that he should be content to work on
hOuse-buitdmg for the rest of his life if it
could only be on the terms on which he
was working good materials to
work on, so that he felt some pride in his
labor; and paid by the day, so that he was
not tempted to scamp" his work, he
said, for the sake of his family. Does not
Edison enjoy his toll, did not Ericsson en-
JOY his, apart from all reference to the
money or fame it might yield2 The art
list Hayden in his journal has a noble
description of the JOY with which he pac-
ed his silent studio after midnight, with
a preat picture lifted on a gigantic easel,
and seen by the trembling light of a soil
tary candle, The moment | touch a
great canvas. he says. Il think see my
Creator smiling on all my efforts. The
moment do mean things for subsistence
| feel as if He had turned His back, and
what's more. | believe it. Even thus
felt Gibbon, though with less of pious
ejaculation. when the great canvas of the
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
had unrolled itself in his studio and he
was at work; and so many a humber man
has felt. Exchange the canvases; set Glib
bon to doing Hayden S work or Hayden to
doing Gibbon' s, and doubtless each would
be miserable. There are many such I'M
fortunate combinations in the world, and
the evil does not lie in the work, only in
the misft