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Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04
oAKEs COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1891

and Fifth street. Mr.. Hyer called the
officer III about twenty minutes after
8 O'Clock and asked him to arrest the
colored man for disorderly conduct.
Noah resisted arrest and while Mr..
Hyer went in search OF another officer,
stabbed the policeman in the throat,
killing him instantly. The murderer
then attemped suicide by stabbing
himself III the neck, but inflicted only
a slight injury. He was arrested and
locked up in the One Hundredth street
station.
1t seems that the servant had come
to the flat drunk and became insult
ing and resisted when his master tried
to put HIM out. Thereupon Hyer cal,
led in Policeman Sherman, who had
been on duty only ten minutes. The
officer found the negro in the kitchen,
and in the struggle OF trying to put
him under arrest, dragged the man to
the front door. Here it was Noah
drew the razor and slashed the untor-
tunate officers throat with fearful
cash that completely severed the wind
pipe. The clutch OF the unfortunate
mans hand on the prisoner relaxed.
he staggered toward the front window
in the vain attempt to summon as.
sistence, and fell dead in his tracks.
Meanwhile Officer Leggett was sum-
moned to arrest the murderer, who by
that time, perhaps realizing the enor.
NIFTY Of his crime, had hacked his own
throat with the blade. He was not
seriously hurt, and was taken to the
station house, followed by q mob OF
angry citizens.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04
Slaughter Of American Cattle in Can.
ada.

{ !, - ~ D.
In the house of commons, at Otta.
wa, Ont, Mr.. Carling, minister OF agrl-
culture, said that the announcement
made by Premier Abbott in the SEN
ate that there would be permitted at
an early date the importation of live
American cattle to be slaughtered at
certain designated points within the
dominion where meat packing con-
Germs win be established. more espec-
ially at Three Rivers, where the BEN
der Dead Meat company will, start a
large blishment, had no reference
to any contemplated tariff change in
that respect.
"The cattle will be brought into Can.
ada," he said, ssin vestibnled cattle
cars, and will have to pass q Canadian
inspector at the border, in whose
charge they will be until they.
reach the point at which
they are to be slaughtered,
from which they will issue only IN the
manufactured article. The regulations
which Mr.. Abbot spoke Of as having
been submitted to the imperial, priyy
council, and approved by il, are SIM
ply quarantine regulations to guard
against any possibility ofinfection.
ExpoRTERs OPPOSE THE MOVE. q
The proposal to slaughter American
cattle at Three Rivers iorc cAnnine put.
poses Is TO be vigorously opposed.
The exporters have held ! msstIng 81
Toronto consider themAttsr. 0pfn.
Ions we're unanimous that thu echanie
would most injuFiously s6ect tha ~,
tle trade Ql the dOmIplop, And 3 de1o-
gate VA dispatched to Ottawa to l&5f
che vIews ol tbs meeting eAe0Se ~
govsSpu>eat. 9he Mont 2eKp or6n1n'
nse expect.d 70 insks : slmilaf elpro|
msdlAtely, !|| l'. & &
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04
Only Another Suicide

A very sud case of self-testruction
was recently reported from New York.
1t is one of those which would natur-
ally appeal to Prof. Max Adler and
the other students of the ethical as.
pect OF suicide as to the moral justifi.
cation which might be found for the
act. au at t.lts..t- !sIeG
One julius Rosenthal, says the St.
Paul Dispatch, professional nurse,
out OF employment, and, it may be
said, a chronic invalid, was the VIC
tim OF his own fatal act. He lett no
one dependent on him. He operated
on himself by injecting the poison by
podermically, and his entire money
possessions Mt the time OF his death
amounted to u, SO. }alj ta1Yi{f,
The career oi hosenthal was s0me.
what evantful, and ~ least ono episode
In that career shows him to have been
u brave and humane man, He was
horn In Berlin some AZ years AGO, and
had lived In tho United States Tor 26
years. During the epidemic oi yellow
lever In tho South some years Ago 10
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04
Butcherel By a Negress.

OKLAHOMA, Okla, Sept. Last
evening Mrs. Mar Ryan, who is an in.
valids and her little 7-year. old
daughter we're attached in q most
savage and brutal manner by u ne
gress, Mary Hewitt, who occupied a
tent in Mrs. Ryan's yard. The ne
gress became enraged at the child and
commenced to beat her with a broom.
The sick mother got out of bed and
attempted to protect her child, when
the negress seized a hatchet and at
tackled Mrs. Ryan, breaking both arms
in several places and cutting two deep
gashes in her back. The child was q
mass OF bruises. II is probable that
both will die, The negress was ar
rested, and with difficulty taken to
jail. A large mob surrounded the
prisoner and were determined to lynch
her, but the prompt arrival of the
troops prevented this.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04
Will Be Exiled.

Julio Foster agent OF the Congress
sionalist party, was brim full OF ofexcite-
ment and exultation when seen by a
reporter in Washington on the 30th
and was willing to talk freely.
"What will the congressional GOV.
ernment do with Balmaceda, now that
it has defeated himY" he was asked.
"I.et him co." replied Mr.. Foster.
"What! You will not shoot or exc.
cute him?"
"The worst punishment that can be
given him will be to make him ON out.
cast, an excile, u wanderer on the iace
OF the earth, branded Ike Cain. Nal,
maceda IL IN intensely proud man,
He believes he is batter capable TO
conduct n government than any eps
else. Hs waited TO prove that and
has Jailed, We know all this, and
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04
After Thirty.six Years.

Your reporter has been informed of
another Enoch Arden, Levi Hertzell,
one OF the early citizens OF Hastings
and also OF Prescott, Mimi, who mys-
teriousIy disappeared from the latter
place about thirty.six years ago. Mr..
Hertzell at that time was one OF the
richest merchants in the West and
Kept a large grocery and dry goods
store in Point Douglas. His stock of
goods getting rather low, he started
for New York one spring to order new
goods for the spring trade, taking
about $4,000 with him. This was
about the last ever heard OF Hertzell,
and it WAS supposed that while on yha
road or In New York lie had been ioully
dealt with. He left q wife and three
children living In Point Douglas, who,
for many years, struggled through nd.
verse cirgumstances, but managed to
live, Alice, the Oldest, married and
went to California. Frank thsyoung-
eRt, also went to California some years
later, and Theodore, the old.
Oldest boy, married at Maid,
en- Rock and went TO Washington
territory, and now lives Mt Cbs,wasla,
hjs mother living with him, Theodore,
eyer since he WAS small boy, has been
trying TO hear something Of hlsfathsr
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04

Public Examiner Wallace has issued
: a second call for reports of the con.
dltion OF all banks organized under
the state law at the close OF business
Aug. Is. There are 81 banks now in
operation in the state under the law.
First statements show that q large
amount of banking capital had been
invested in the state and that the
banks were generally IN a flourishing
condition, and were evidently dis:
posed to comply with the require.
ments of the law.
Nels K. Fore, a prosperous farmer
living four miles north of Mayville,
committed suicide on the 2sth by tax.
ing dose OF strychnine His body
was found in q clump Of bushes in d
field south OF town.
A trottipg meeting and stock ex-
hibit will be held at Grand Forks Oct.
z, 8, 8 and 10. Thirty.fve hundred
dollars in purses will be given. 1t is q
continuation of the circuit at Hamline,
Fergus Falls, st. Cloud and Fargo.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04
NUMBER 36.

] volunteered his services. He was in
! Memphis for four months while the
scourge was at its height and labored
nignt and day. He was at last found
! delirious at his post after acontinuous
period of service without rest. He
never recovered from thefever himself,
| but was ever afterwards q physical
wreck, and his devotion appears never
to have won him any compensation
except that OF being mentioned III
terms OF unreserved praise by the
Southern papers. ..,..=.s, ii,..
In a. letter addressed to Seligman &
Co., the bankers, Suicide Rosenthal
tells the reasons which impelled him
to end his life as follows: 7.,..t,
am tired of living a nd have taken
poison hypodermlcally. Sick and suit
fering for long time, only able to take
liquid food, not able to find a physi-
clan, nothing left to support me in the
future, much neglected. by former
friends, not able to find q natural
death, have taken my own life. To
Mr.. and Mrs. Ignatz stelnhart ofSan
Francisco, CAL; to Mr.. Juilus Botne,
in Exchange place, and to DR.. Henry
Schweig, OF 26 East Twentieth street,
send, for their noble kindness during
my misery, my last farewell, and may
the blessings of the good Lord in lieav-
en- be and remain with them forever.
| would prefer to leave this world q
poor gentleman rather than to bear
this life as q beggar or thief. The
grave OF the pauper has no terrors for
me. Ii the good lord desires me He
will find ma in opv ,,1oro
Society will hold itself wholly alb
solved ofresponsib,lity for this suicide.
Yet the man had many of theelements
OF heroism in his makeup. He was
high spirited and self-sacrifcing, ap-
parently affectionate, over flowing with
gratitude and deeply religious. But,
OF course. after all he was a moral
coward in having committed suicide,
and the memory Of him must pass
away stained by his own crime. Our
Christian theology teaches us that he
must fill an unhallowed grave.
His neral guilt unless our pn1-
losophy is utterly topsy. .turvy-
and no good member of society will so
admits just the same as that OF the
late Lord Palmerst on, who, having
cut his country's throat, then, logical.
ly enough. proceeded to cut his own.
He was but q, professional nurse, and
there are more OF that occupation at
present than the world needs. His
mission to Memphis was both foolish
and hazardous, looking at it from the
worlds standpoint, and his Deing
stricken and permanently disabled
by the yellow fever was more of his
misfortune than it was anybody's
fault. Has he friends, and do they
mourn him7 aef.
why, let the stricken deer go weep, "3
The hart ungalled play; .--
For some must watch, while some must
sleep; 7
Thus runs the world away"
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04
VOLUME VIII.
NORTH DAKOTA.
His Church Exhonrates Him.

Rev. S. N. Griffith, of Larimore, has
been acquitted by. the eccleslastical
committee appointed to investigate
his case and is in full and regular
standing. The charge preferred was
the same as in the complaint in the
civil action, viz, assault with intent
to commit rape on the person of Sus-
an Morgan, the 9-yearold daughter of
Newell Morgan, q farmer living near
Arvilla. Presiding Elder A. T. Foster,
presided during the hearing. Rev A.
McGregor, OF Grand Forks, acted as
counsel for the church, and Rev. Grif-
fiths, OF Crystal, as counsel for the &C.
Cused. The committee consisted of
seven clergymen, Revs. VIM. Love, of
st. Thomas; w. B. Turner, OF May
vile; c. F. Green, of Lakota; D. G. Ir-
win. Langdon; j. R. Yost, Mimic; R.
M. Hardman, Bathgate, and @. A.
Macnamara. President F'radenburg.
of the Wahpeton university, in which
institution Mr.. Griffith is professor.
elect Of mathematics, also attended
the trial as an auditor.
The evidence presented WAS subst an
italy the same on both sides as in the
preliminary examination before JUS
tice Quits. Mr.. Griffith made a favor
able appear ance on the witness stand
and convinced the committee that the
charges were untrue. Two points in
his favor strongly brought out were,
the bitterness OF the Morgan family
against him previous to the accusa-
ton, and the fact that practically
there was only one witness against
HIM. the evidence of the family aside
from the llttlegirl practically amount
ing to nothing. 1t was also shown
that thelittle girl had for several weeks
talked the matter over with older sis
ters before mentioning it to her moth
er. Mr.. Griffith is away on his vacation,
his pulpit meanwhile being otherwise
supplied, land he will not resume preach
ing until after the trial of the civil &C.
ton. 1t is not known what action
the Wahpeton university will take.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04
Siezing Farmers Teams.

Special Inspector Day of the United
States customs service stationed at Ne.
che, has, within thelast week, seized the
teams OF a few farmers, accusing them
OF smuggling and not reporting at the
custom house. One had half a pint OF
whisky on his person, and the charges
not being sufficient to make a good
case the team was Immediately releas-
ed by the deputy collector at Neche.
The second victim went to Gretna on
business and while there purchased q
small quantity OF whisky-not a
quart-and attempted to report on
his arrival at Neche, but the customs
house was closed. A few days later
Mr.. Day siezed the team in the har-
vest field leaving the farmer without
his team to cut his crop. As it is the
opinion of the chief officers ofcustoms
that the siezure was unwarranted and
that there was no intention to violate
the revenue laws, the farmer will prob
ably get his team on the recommen-
dation of the collector to the secre-
tary OF the treasury.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04
FARMS GO UP IN FLAMES.
A Tale of Ruin In South Dakota, A
Path so Miles Swept Over.

w '-~.~SS wv ~ VIVA
Ruin stares many q farmer in Faulk
county, South Dakota in theface, and
it is feared much suffering will be the
result. Worse than the severest hail
or the most blighting frost is the fire
fiend, who swept with his lighted torch
over O. portion of that county on the
20th, inst. reducing scores Of homes
to ashes and converting prosperous
farms into charred and blackened
fields. The sight ls truly a pitiable ore.
The burnt district lies about fortv
miles west OF Aberdeen, and the par
tlculars come in very slowly.
Lovalton citizens fought the fire for
eight hours, finally succeeding in saw.
ing the town. No dwellings, were burn
ed around that point, but large guam
titles OF grain and hay were destroyed.
One party reports riding over twen-
tty miles along the edge OF the burnt
district, and he saw many people
standing around on the prairie desti-
tute, having lost their entire posses-
sions by fire. The loss falls heavily,
coming at the close OF the bouptifuj
harvest, the best for many years...
Large quantities OF grain has been
destroyed, as q strong wind swept the
fire across even bare fielde, aided by
tumble weeds, which rolled like fire
balls across uhe prairie and fields, set.
ting fire to everything they touched. 30
far no loss Of life is reported.
Not less than twenty townships
have been made desolate by this terri.
bic IRE. the worst for years.
sol Peck, u poor farmer living near
Fanlkvop, lost everything In thssh
OF grain, and his house is now smok.
ING ashes. Henry Hausslman IL also
IN the same boat, and farmers farther
distant are ruined by the eseores. Men
with their families ars walking about
looking ut what y few hours ago were
prstty farm houses and farms filed
with gFain stacks, gor " space OF
twenty miles not y foot et grass for
Stock even Ia jeft, and tho damage TO
the county and people IL aamsIsss,
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04
Strung Up a Bank Robber.

KANSAS CITY, Sept. lone of the
desperadoes who robbed the Corder,
Mo-, bank yesterday afternoon, was
captured late last night about twenty
miles from Corder, and about half OF
the stolen money was found in his DOS.
session. Hegave his name as Andrew
Murrell. It is reported that Deputy
Sheriff. Jackson and City Marshal
Dean who had the robber in charge
and were taking him to Lexington, the
county seat, were met by q mob OF
enraged citizens. who overpowered
them, took their prlsoder andlynched
him, The other robber Is being close.
ly pursued.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04

still having faint hope that he was
yet alive. Not long since he advertis.
ed in the New York World for Levi
Hertzell, his father, and received an
answer stating that he was almost IS
years old, but in good health, and
would start in a short time to go to
see him. Theodors also writes that
his sister Alice, and her husband and
brother, Frank, are on their way to
his place to see the long absent father.
1t will be an unusual reunion for all
the children and father and mother
to meet after an absence of thirty-slx
years. 1t will also be little embar.
RAISING on the part OF the parents,
he, to explain his long absence, and she,
having married and lost her husband.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04
ItalY,s Delhi.

Ol11cAHA sGAGlSGlcs, JusG puDjleheQ
show that the provincial debts of
Italy amount to l4,9o2,OOO,000 lire
($2,98O,500.O0O), ,or 514 6 lire ($l03)
for each lnhabitant, and 513. 3 lire on
eacn hecuare OF land. This is, of
course, in addition to the national
debt, which is upward OF 24.OOO.OCO,-
600 lire, or nearly $5,OOO,OOO,OOO.
1t is stated in financial circles that
a syndicate has been formed in Rome
which is to have at it's disposal 1 ,OOO,-
100000 lire, of which one halg has
been already subscribed, for the pur,
pose OF sustaining the price vi Italian
rents. The resources Of the syndicate
will not be restricted by the amounts
pledged, for many large and strong in.
stitutions and bankers, as we'll as
those not 30 strong, have formed, as
it were, a committee OF defense against
foreign attacks on the rentes.
Emigration from Italy continues on
a vast scale. From Jan. to July 81
the single prefecture of Rovigo issued
5,O46 emigration passports for 16, 1854
individuals. The greaterpart of these
emigrants went to Brazil.
The government will shortly issue a
decree OF amnesty to all who escaped
by emigrating the levies from 1851 to
1871. This amnesty concerns up.
wards of 100000 persons, many Of
whom are now living in the United
States.
1t is reported that Prince Borghese
l. -.
government for 100000 lire. But
the government cannot buy, and no
other purchaser can be found in the
kingdom. The edict which prohibits
the export OF the collection will be
rigidly enforced. We're the prince at
liberty to seek q foreign market, he
could at once relieve himself OF his
embarrassments. The Italian press
thinks 1t q matter for congratulation
that this edict Is In force.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04
MeXicans ut Peace.

ST LOUIS, Sept. 1.-The sensational
news from the City OF Mexico, in rela-
tion to the impending revolution, was
read with more than passing interest
in st. Louis. Mr.. George P. Mill
er, formerly private secretary TO Sam
uel j. Randall when speaker OF the
house at Washington, has an extern
sive acquaintance with prominent
Mexican affairs. He pronounced the
charges against President Diaz the
veriest bosh. Gen. Francisco Ollvar-
es, of the Mexican army, was in St.
Louis in June last, and Mr.. Miller had
quite a lengthy conversation, during
which the general told HIM that Presi-
dent Diaz had not antagonized any
party; that his course has been such
as to win him all political color. Gen.
OEvares is Catholic and he had no
hesitancy in saying that the president
had done nothing to arouse the enmity
OF the clerical party.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04
The Turtle Mountain Park Scheme.

Hon. w. w. Barrett, state commits.
sioner OF forestry, Is circulating petit
tions throughout the state asking gcon-
gress to reserve for nationalpark pur-
poses q tract OF land IN the Turtle
mountains embracing 100000 acres
OF native forest. he tract is agree
ably diversified with streams of run
ming water, and possesses many
features OF natural beauty and pic.
turesqueness, making the whole sus-
ceptible, at tritiing cost OF improve.
ment that will insure an attractive
resort for health and pleasure. Mr..
Barrett has thus far met with marked
success and encouragement, and has
quite thoroughly canvassed Botti-
neau, Towner, Pierce and other coun-
ties adjacent to the emountain district.
His primary object is to save the tim
Der and induce the government to
withhold the reservation from settle.
ment. OF the so called Turtle Noun
tain reservation the Indians located
thereon own only two sections.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1891-09-04

q living death for him. As to
those with him-the leading men
they will fly away for q time, but at
ter q while all will come back and be
forgiven. The congressionallsts are
not blood thirsty. All we want is the
re establishment OF the old constitu-
tional government-not revenge.
am confident that there will not be q
single execution. 1t will be just as it
WIS when the south rebelled against
the United States government. The
North conquered, but there were none
Of the Southern leaders, not even the
chiet one, shot Or executed. You be-
came a band OF brothers again; 80
shall we."
DO you think he is, by the fall of
Valparaiso, utterly crushed?"
"Not utterly just at this time, be
cause he will retreat to the
capital, Santiago. But we have
him like a rat in trap. We will
march on Santiago, but will probably
not attack it. You see, the congress
sionalists own most of the property
there and they will not storm the
town. They will take it in the end
peacefully, because Balmaceda cannot
hold it. The people will rise up and
overpower him. His money is all
gone. for we now have control of the
whole seacoast and will have the Gus
toms receipts, which have been Bama-
ceda's principal source OF revenue
Without this income he cannot carry
on the war. HIS paper money is now
worth nothing. SJill he may hold out
two or three weeks.
"We shall be in no hurry to take
Santiago. 1t will take itself. We will
move the seat governments of from Iqu-
lque to Valparaiso, call an election tor
representatives, the senate holding
over, restore the old judges and as
quietly as possible get things running
as they were before. Balmaceda may
and probably will try to enlist sup
port from some other country, but
that will not avail him. We are the
people and he is an overthrown die,
tator."