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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-09
with the cauta,n ..a T.. Ne,

Down With the Captain and Ten Men.
LONDON, Jan. S.-The steamer Cheswick,
bound from Cardiff to st. Nazaire with a
cargo of coal, struck a sand bank off the
Scilly island Thursday and sank. The can
tain and ten seamen were drowned.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-09

MAJOR Wtaamhn HIS Fight on Hand.
ZANZIBAR, Feb. SIT il reported here that
Major Wissman In fighting the natives of
Nasinda, near Kilimanjaro.
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DEATHS RICH HARVEST.
Millionafrcs J. n. Mccullough and John
McKeOwn Gone

PrrTsBuRo, Feb. s.-J. N. Mccullough,
first vice-president OF the Psnnsylvania
lines west Of Pittsburg. and central figure
in railroad management for thirty years,
died at his residence in Allegheny City
this morning, of general debility. His
estate il said to be worth over $40, ,OGUUO.
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I OMAHA, Feb. ga heavy snow storm oc-
Cured here to-day nearly blockading street
car traffic. Reports from all portions Of
the state show tho storm to be very severe.
In the northwestern part the blizzard has
been raging twelve hours and the people
dare not venture away from their homes.
In the southern part the snow drifted from
four to ten feet deep.
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PIERRE, 8. D., Feb. S.-The worst blizzard
since 1888 has been raging here since last
night. with little prospect Of cessation. The
Thermometer went to twenty degrees below
zero this morning, and it has been freezing
all day. II is doubtful il trains will be able
to get through.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-06-25
A Matter OF Great Interest.

KANSAS CITY, No, June 19.-The national
Interstate commerce commission is in ses-
sion here for the hearing of complaints of
the Hutchinson and Anthony salt producers
against five railroad companies for main
tanning unjust and unreasonable rates The
salt men have strong case. Ali the evil
dence on both sides, heard here by the COM
mission, will be taken under advisement. A
decision. will probably be rendered IN a
couple OF meaths. If Kansas gets the ad-
justment of rates they ask for, Kansas will
control the salt industry of America. Rep
resentatives of salt producers ana of all the
defendant railroad companies appeared be-
fore the commission
The output of salt for Kansas last year was
1000, coo barrels. ana the capacity Is double
that amount. The salt men have five COM
plants Hutchinson has three, one against
the Rock Island. one against the Santa Ee,
and one against the Union Pacific. Anthony
has two cases, one against the Missouri Pa
cific and one against the Frisco.
The injustice of the rates by printed tariffs
is quite apparent. From Hutchinson, Kansas.
to Fort Worth, Texas, a distance of 437
miles, the rate on salt Is 3715 cents per 100
pounds in car load lots, or 16 mills per ton
per mile. The rate on salt from Fort Madi-
miles, is 38116 cents per 100 pounds, or 8 mills
City. Mich, to Fort Worth, a distance OF
1,O67 miles, is az cents per 100 pounds, OF
mills per ton per mile.
The Union Stock Yards company of Wich-
ita has complaint filed, alleging that as
much is charged to bring Texas cattle to that
city as is charged to bring them to Kansas
City from the same point
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peoember and June.

KEoKUK, IA, June 20.-General John Soho
field, commander-in-chlef of the Uuited
States army, has become husband and Miss
George Kilbourne has become bride. The
ceremony that marked the capitulation of
the white haired warrior of three-score and
ten to the damsel of twenty six was solemn
lied at high noon in the Episcopal church
of st. Paul's, the officiating divine being
Rev. r. c. Melvin, rector of the parish.
Although no cards had been issued the
sacred edihce was filled Outside there was
a big crowd. and the desire of the general,
that the wedding should be quiet one, was
not altogether Rrahfed. There were no
bridesmaids.
The bride was escorted up the aisle to the
altar by her father, her mother. her sister
and her brother-in-law, Mrs. Hiram and
General Barney of New York, and her broth
er, Wells KilbOurne, of Cleveland, Ohio. At
the altar the bride was met by the happy
groom, who was in full uniform and attended
by his brother, Captain SchOfield, and Lieu
tenants Bliss and Andrews, of his staff.
1t took but a few minutes to bind the
couple together for life, and as the newly
made bride and bridegroom passed down
the aisle while the congregation rose to ITS
feet and the organ pealed forth the strains
of .Mendelsshon's wedding march, the tall
broad-shouldered warrior was erect and dig
nified, while smile beamed like the sunlight
on the face of the fragile bride.
A reception followed at the residence of
the brides parents, and the general was ten
dered a reception by TOrenitt Post of the
Grand Army of the Republic at the Hotel
keokuk.
The bridal costume was eff white satin, de-
collette, and en- train, and profusely adorned
with old lace and orange blossoms. The
happy couple left shortly for their honey
moon trip. The destination is the Pacific
coast, where the general has business for the
government.
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article, and copied after an iIlumina-
ton IN Latin manuscript of the thir-
teenth century, was constructed to
throw a barrel of the combustibIe COM
pound. The beam was drawn back by
means of a rope wound round the cap
stan. Its elasticity, after being brought
into state of great tension, was then
suddenly released. when the end of the
beam, carrying the barrel of combus-
tibles previously set on fire, was thrown
violently forward and the barrel hurled
from the sling, all in flames, into the
works of the enemy. A batteIing en-
CINE Is represented standing by the
side of the sling.
In naval warfare a species of vessel
was used covered with roof sufficient
to protect the navigators from spears
and arrows, and provided with a point
ed prov to act as ram, and projecting
beams bearing barrels charged with
materials for producing Greek fire.
The fire was also used by fort soldiers
IN armor or by men on horseback or in
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-06-25

COLUMBUS. O.-Ths second day Of the
OHIO republican convention to nominate a
state ticket. chose General Asa Bushnell as
permanent chairman.
Governor Foraker placed Mckinley in
nomination. seconded by Robert Harlan, the
colored orator of Cincinnati
The nomination was made by reclamation
amid Wild shouting.
Major Mckinley, in accepting the nomina-
ton for governor, said: Il accept the nom
nation you have rendered me, sensible Of
the honor and responsibility It implies. The
election this year is of the utmost Importance
involving the administration of the state for
the next two years and the election Of leg
isleture which will elect a United States SEN
ator ana have the power to rs-distriet the
state for representatives in congress under
the new census
Happily we present party without a
division IN its ranks The platform you
have adopted meets my approval
at announces with clearness and courage
the cardinal doctrines of the republican
party. It approves the administration of
President Harrison, which has been clean,
able. conservative and patriotic.
''lt has been wise in domestic policy and
thoroughly American in its foreign. The
party Is in favor of a regulated immigration,
of liberal pensions to our soldiers and sailors.
!
paper money based upon coin. The public
credit and sound finances must be preserved
and every scheme to destroy 1t must be re-
PEELED. The platform endorses a protective
tariff. So long as foreign products can be
found to tax, which compete with our own
in our market, We propose to tax them rather
than our own
Reflect for a moment, there is no section
of the country which is not seeking by every
manner of indncement to get manufactures
established in their midst.
They are giving donations in some COM
munIties. They are taxing themselves and
burdeninR their property for the sake OF Sc
curing Industries which will employ labor
and enlarge their nelghboring market In
the south, the great center of free trade, they
are offering freedom from taxation for ten
and twenty years to those who will bring
| their capital and invest it in productive en-
terprises, and this by authority of state law.
''In regard to the omplaints of the free
| traders about the increased duties under the
new law, 33H per cent. of them are for the
/ better protection of the American farmer:
/ twenty-eight are upon VINE and spirits, which
will hardly burden the farmers; five are upon
tobacco and agricultural products. No like
| recognition of the agricultural interests can
| be found in any previous tariff legislation.
/ ket by increased protection, the reciprocity
clause is intended to extend his foreign mar
/ ket, and upon terms more favorable than
| those accorded TO competing agricultural
countries.
sit is significant fact that the articles
/ which the farmer most frequently buys bears
a less tariff than under the law of 1888 and
/ the products which he sells bear a higher
duty than ever before"
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riers viii drag boat, two men and the
mail from twenty-five to seventy-five
miles day, and that, too, against the
stream, which, however, has not much
power on its shallow margin. The re-
lief dogs are harnessed up when those
pulling the boat show signs of giving
out. Then they are released and run
along the rocky shore as a novel
method of resting until their next turn
of duty comes. The traveller who tells
of this and who drew the picture had
two English dogs with him-a bulldog
and fox terrier-and he says that the
native dogs regarked these rangers
with undisguised curiosity and no little
wonder The native animals are of q
very quarrelsome nature and were dis
posed to be very impoite in their re-
ception of their English cousins until
the bulldog gave them a point or two
on the noble art of self-defense, after
which they left him and his small
friend entirely alone.
This odd method Of postal navigA-
ton is so difficult that the mail only
goes once q month
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TO be FIrst rested In the Courts.


TOPEKA, June LIT Is said that arrange
ments have been made to make a test case
uLder the eight hour law so as to get de-
cision in time to prevent the necessity of an
extra session of the legislature; should tho
decision be on that side of the question.
Attorney General Ives has written to War
den Case, of the penitentiarys asking him to
comply with the letter of the law. Case, it
is said, Will refuse to do so, and the matter
be thus brought to the courts.
There are about sixty-five guards and OH
cers in the employ of the state at the peni-
Tertiary and Hon. VIM. Martindale, presi-
dent of the board of directors, said. They
are on duty about u hours per day and the
convicts work about 10 hours. If the law is
enforced we will simply have to put the con-
victs on shorter time and they can work but
about hours per day.
Governor Humphrey said: Nothing will
De done in the matter of an extra session
until the law Is tested in the courts.
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MAIL CARRYING IN SIBERIA.

Dogs Employed to Haul sledges or Tow
EOats on the XeniseI River.
There are some curious modes of
navigation to be found in out-of the
way parts of the world, and such a one
is described by traveller who was re-
Gently in Siberia. The Yenisei River,
which for long distance Is navigable
by small steamboats,, becomes impass-
able after the town of Turuchansk is
reached and thence on to Yeniseisk, a
distance of more than three hundred
and thirty miles, the mail bags of the
Russian government have to depend on
dog power.
In the winter, when the river is ice
bound, the good old game of sledging
with dogs is INDUCED in by the post
man, but when the ice in the river dis
appears the sledging is for the time
abandoned.
1t is during the glow period of the
year that the dogs are utilized, as
shown in the picture, and while the
/ going must be very fatiguing, owing
to the effort of running in the shallow
water. a good outfit of these hardy car
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Herr Most sentanoed.

NEW YORK, June 22.-John Most, the an
archist, appeared in court for re-sentence,
his appeal to the courts for new trial being
denied. He was sentenced to one year in
the penitentiary. He took his sentence sto-
ically,
Most. about three years ago was sentenced
to year in the penitentiary for holding an
unlawful assembly ana using incendiary
language in commenting upon the execution
of the Chicago anarchists. Most kept very
quiet after his conviction, and SO his appeal
to the supreme court was allowed to lie un-
acted upon for about a year. When it was
finally disposed of, the decision was adverse,
and the subsequent appeal to the court of
than another year. In the meantime Most
has been out on bail.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-06-25

PEORIA. III, June ga terrible rain
storm swept through the Illinois river valley,
doing great damage to crops, gardens and
fences.
Peoria, houses were washed from their
foundations and the inhabitants fed, scantily
clad, TO the railroad grades and hills.
The water raised in houses at Farmdaie,
seven miles east. to a depth OF three feet
and many people narrowly escaped drown
ing. Herds of COWS, horses and sheer were
swept away and crops utterly ruined.
In Copperas creek valley the father of a
started to the hills. when floating log struck
Gray and stunned him, and the rushing
waters drowned the boys. The father had a
narrow escape. His wife climbed to the roof
of the house and was rescued.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-06-25
Western Iowa Gets Wet.

CORSIso, Ia, June ia cloud burst &C
Cured on Plum creek near this place. What
is usually but 4 small stream became n
roaring torrent all at once. A mile west of
Corning a passenger train passed over the
bridge which spans Plum creek. Seven
minutes latter a freight train followed. The
creek IN the meantime had BWollen to a tor
rent and washed away the bridge, and En-
gineer Powers had but a moment to act.
Grasping the throttle he reversed the engine
and called for brakes. The train slacken-
ed its speed, but not enough to prevent par
tial wreck, and he was forced to jump for
his life. In the tWinklinR of an eye he made
the leap. just as the big locomotive and three
cars fell with terrible crash into ths chRsrn.
The rest of the train held the track. EnRi-
neer Powers IN jumping landed Ia twelve
feet of water. but after thrilling struggle
ke ESCAPED.
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chariots in war. The torch borne by
the foot soldier, or by the horseman,
was used often for the purpose of set
ting fire to the wooden works of the
enemy, or to heaps of combustibles
previously piled up before a gate OF
other point assailed. There are ac-
counts, also, of large bodies of men
being thus armed to operate against q
hostile force in array upon the open
field. But this method of warfare
could not be employed with advantage
except when there was a strong wind
blowing from the position of the assail-
ant toward that of the assaulted. In this
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supported by ring open at the top,
fixed upon the horses head, and the
horse as well as the man was covered
with an iron armor, in order to protect
them from any sparks or tiecks of flame
which might be driven against them
by the rapidity of the onward motion,
Notwithstanding the precautions taken
in respect to the direction of the wind.
Shells were also so constructed that
when thrown from a height into the
water, their buoyancy raised them TO
had been previously kindled continued
to burn and scatter ruin around.
Water added to the flame merely Gre
ated steam whose explosive force scat
tered the burning materials far and
near
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The Coon River Accident.

BOoSE, Ia. June 19.-The wreck was caused
by some person placing tie upon the trestle-
work just before reaching the bridge over
Coon river. At the point where the forward
trucks of the engine left the track the tres
tleWork Is about forty feet high. The bag
gage car, chair car, smoker and one sleeper
fell from the trestle, a distance of forty feet,
and the baggage and smoking cars turned
upside down in the descent, and the chair
car and the forward Pullman fell on their
sides. The passengers who were not hurt
scrambled out best they could, and as
soon as the citizens of this place learned of
the accident they fastened to the spot and
worked in the pouring rain, rescuing those
who were unable to get out.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-06-25
The Flour Production.

MINSEAPoLIs, MINI, June 2O.-Tne North
western Miller says: There was something
of gain in the quantity of flour ground last
week. The aggregate output was 133, 49,
barrels, against lis, 448 barrels the previous
week, and IS, eco barrels for the correspond
ing week in 1880. About 900 barrels less
daily capacity is now making than a week
ago. The flour market remains depressed,
as il has been for three weeks past, though
there is quite a following of millers who
think it would not take much to start the
buying of -four at a lively rate. Quotations
of -four are to 10 cents per barrel lower
than q week ago.
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oaoraetown. Penn. washed AWAY.

GEORGETOWN PENN Washed away.
PIrrsPURG, PA, June PA cloud bIrst
at Georgetown and rain fell in torrents.
Georgetown is a place of 30 inhabitants,
with houses on either side of Anderson's run.
The water poured down the run in huge
waves, carrying everything before 1t. En-
teen dwellings, many other buildings, stables
fences. ETC., were carried away and were
TANNED against the railroad bridge at
the foot of the run, which, being unable to
stand the pressure, gave way; Ihe occu-
pants of the houses fed to the hills and es-
caped. John Frank was on the bridge when
it went down and was fatally injured. The
damage to property Is very heavy.
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Indians and Whisky.

PAu1's VALLEY, L T., June 22.-The sixty
Chickasaw militia, who left here in charge
of Governor Byrd and United States Agent
Bennett, to meet the United States troops
west of here, to eject 5000 white citizens,
who are living in the country without PER
rnits, have a barrel of LIQUOR in the commits
sary wagon and gallon jugs on each saddle.
Some of them went into farmers yard
and shot down a horse and killed q goose.
They halted a white farmer and abused him
and threatened to shoot MIN.
This much whisky mixed up with sixty In
dIans, who are clothed with some authority,
is liable to cause the loss of several lives, as
when they are drunk their only desire Is to
shoot and kill.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-06-25

CHICAGO, June 22.-Every state and terri
tory in the union was given space at Jackson
park for building at the worlds fair.
Thirty acres, lying in the improved part of
Jackson park, bstWesn Fifty and Fifty
eighth streets, will he devoted to these state
buildings. In some cases less than half an
acre has been given for the buildings while
In others the amount is much greater. This
assignment of space to the states Is final.
The buildings of foreign governments will
spread over seventeen acres to the north.
Generally speaking, the states have been
grouped with references to their geographical
positions. In tbs grouping the eastern states
have been put t0Rsther, and so also have the
ssuthsER, lniddlS, WESTERN aad Pacific states.
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The Wornn of '85.

TOPEKA, June 2o.-The wheat worm which
is doing so much damage in central and
western Kansas. is also at work in this part
of the state.
Several fields near Rossville have been al
most destroyed by this worm, and letter to
Secretary Mohler from a Jefferson county
farmer says it is doing q great deal of dam
age near Oskaloosa-
Prof. Snow. who after examining the
worm, writes that it is the same wheat pest
which played havoc in 1885, and since then
in Indiana and Illinois.
The worm is a short, green grub and Sc
crotes itself in the first joint below the head.
worm takes il.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo-. June 20.-Kansas is
sending great many reports of crop dam
age of one sort or another. They are all con-
corning damage which has occurred within
q few days. From the southern part of the
state and the extreme northeast nothing but
good reports come, excepting the anxiety re-
gardIng the rains But all through the cen
trail, western and northwestern part of the
state farmers and grain dealers are COM
planning of damage done by bugs, worms,
black rust and heavy rains. These causes,
one correspondent says. have damaged the
wheat in the area west of Newton and north
of the Santa Fe main line 20 per cent.
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Evarvhodv HIssa1.

LoNDoS, June 19.-The popular crusade
against the Prince of Wales showns no signs
of abating in strength or bitterness. After
the lecture delivered by Henry Nj. Stanley at
Caravan, Wales, the band played 'God
Bless the Prince of Wales" The Welshmen
no sooner heard the f rst strains of the famil-
lar air than they raised a storm of hlsses
which almost drowned the sound of the band.
At seven religious meetings held in various
parts of the country, the prince was roundly
denounced for the part he took in the bacca-
uyauuas
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Sioux ArIstocracX.

NEW YORK, June Ca wedding of more
than ordinary interest was celebrated at the
Church of the Ascension. The bride was
Miss Elaine Goodale, the well known author
ess, who is the government inspector of In
dian schools in North and South Dakota
and the bridegroom was DIR. Charles Alex
ander Eastman, an Indian of the Sioux tribe.
DIR. Eastman Is the government physician al
Pine Ridge agency. He was educated al
Beloit, Mich, and at Dartmouth college,
from which he graduated with honors, being
class orator IN the class of 1887. He studied
medicine in Boston, and was this year ap-
pointed phYsIclan at Pine Ridge.
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Detroit PreparInR.

DETROIT, MICH, June ga meeting of
citizens was held here. Hon. Don NJ. Dick
inson presiding, to take action relative to the
failure of the legislature to make an appro-
priation for the entertainment of the ma
tional q. A. R. at its anniversary in this city
in August next. The meeting was largely
closed one-half of the sum hoped for from
the state was subscribed and the balance
pledged. This assures fund fully equal to
thJt at Boston one year ago, and Detroit will
give the visitors a welcome second to none.
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case the advancing line would be pre-
coded by a cloud of smoke consisting of
the most poisonous and suffocatlng
vapors, before which no human being
could stand. The lances used IN these
cases were formed with an iron recep-
tacle for the fire at the end. This re-
ceptacle terminated in points at the
extremity, which formed a very eff
Gent weapon after the fire was ex-
hausted, or even perhaps while it con-
tinued to burn. In the case OF the
horseman the shank of the lance was