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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

In the palmy days of Rome the num-
Der of lions brought from Africa aver
aged 400 per year for nine years, and
with these were leopards, tigers. by
enas, elephants, buffaloes and serpents
almost without number. For several
years there were 5000 men employed
in Africa in trapping wild animals to
make sport for the people Of Rome.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

WHILE a constable at Bayville, N.
Y, was trying to serve subpoena the
other day, the unwilling witness, in
endeavoring to keep away from the
man of the law, jumped through a
window, landing in tub of water.
The constable landed on top of him.
and while both were "wallowing in
their bath" the constable served his
subpoena,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

RosEBERY, the famous jumping
horse, at Toronto, Canada, recently
broke its own high-jump record of
eighty-four five-eighths inches by clear
ing exactly eighty-fve inches.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

The editor of the Toice flung shaft
of satire at "the gnat and camel con-
science" of a contemporary, but it
came out in print great and carnal
conscience"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

A STORY writer has a rattlesnake
strike at man and come so near his
cheek that "drops of poison fell upon
his face" No poison can escape from
the fangs of snake until they enter
the flesh, and the aperture by which
it escapes would not take a human
hair. He might as we'll have had a
frog climbing tree.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

WHEN the Young Mems Christian
Association of Chicago begins to serve
the Lord in fourteen-story building.
prayers for protection from cyclones
will be in order.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

DURING the recent severe weather in
England sea gulls were fed from the
windows of houses on the Marine
Parade. Wild fowl were found on the
beach half frozen and nearly starved.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

CONSUL GENERAL STEWART has dis
covered what is believed to be the
safest body Of water known. The
Dead Sea is nowhere by comparison.
This saltiest of all waters is in Persia,
and is known as the Lake of Urumia.
1t is eighty-four miles long and twenty
four broad, very shallow, yields twenty
two per cent. of salt upon analysis,
and is destructive to all forms of life
with the exception of certain kind of
ielly-fsh,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

INCREASE of land values simply means
that the owners, by virtue OF their an.
preparation OF something that existed
before man was, have the power OF
taking larger share of the wealth
produced by other peoples labor
Social Problems
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

A WRITER makes an ingenious calcu-
lation as to the restoration Of the po-
tato crop, supposing it to be so reduced
that only one tuber were left in exist
ence. On the assumption that this
solitary tuber produced ten sets, their
products the same, and so on, in ten
years the total product would be
10000, 100000, quantity sufficient to
stock the whole world.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

The greater quantity of hair from
which wigs are made for England's
Judges, lawyers and clergymen comes
from China, where it is cut from the
heads of beggars, criminals and the
dead.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

DURING the past six years Mime
sofa has paid $7s,s34 for wolf bounties.
During certain months of the year the
bounty is only So per scalp, while dur
ing other months it is IS. It is alleged
that in certain counties some persons
have been in the habit of farming
wolves, and also of keeping wolf cubs
in captivity during the months when
their scalps were worth only So until
the S. months came around. 1t is
also alleged that wolf scalps have been
imported from other States, and that.
generally speaking, the bounty system
has been grossly abused.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

Two HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS a
year are spent by the London School
Board in enforcing the attendance of
children. They are advised to try the
French plan of getting children to
school by good lunches.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

The item going the rounds that
Blind Tom, the colored pianist, was in
a poor-house is denied. He is not only
not in poor-house, but still giving
exhibitions and adding to the store of
wealth which will enable him to live
bountifully in his old age.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

IT is said that the wife of William
Morris, the well-known poet, artist and
socialist, is the most beautiful woman
in London. Her portrait is soon to be
placed in one of the great art galleries
of the English capital.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

The spot in Rome where Nero COM
mitted suicides said to have been. dis
covered. 1t is on the Pincian Hill and
was identified by the discovery of a
stone with an inscription fixing the To-
cation of the villa where it is known
the deed was done.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

WHATEVER other causes there NAV be
in existence, it is indisputable that the
general system of taxation which pre-
walls in this country and which has pre-
vailed for hundred years, is such as to
take very much more largely from the
pockets of the poor than it does from
the pockets of the rich.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

RESIDENT of Antelope Valley, New,
reports thousands of wild horses
ranging on the mountain plateau near
his home. It is impossible to raise a
band of tame horses in that section
because they join the wild herd.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

AN Iowa man jumped off moving
freight train to save walking mile.
He turned over in the air, shot out to
the ditch, and came down head first in
a puddle of mud and water, and was
found dead with only his legs sticking
out. Even a railroad ditch can't be
fooled with,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

AN old colored woman living at
Atchison used to prepare herself every
night for death by dressing in a blue
gown, and she was always surprised
to find herself alive the next morning.
She kept this up until she wore out
three or four blue gowns, and then
she quit,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

The fall of Detroit and Chicago in
August, 1872, threw the American
frontier back to the line of the Wabash
and the Maumee, and threatened to
throw it still farther back to the In
dian boundary itself. The Miami OF
Maninel River was defended by Fort
Wayne, the Wabash had no other de-
tense than the little fort or block
house, which Harrison built during
the Tippecanoe campaign, and named
after himself. Fort Harrison stood
near the later city Of Terre Haute
close to the border of Illinois. Fort
Wayne stood within twenty miles o.
the Ohio border The width of In.
diana lay between the two.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

BUTTER starts in Washington at 20
cents per pound. That is hotel butter.
1t then ranges at 25, 80, IS, As, SO, SO,
rs, and 81 per pound. This last
is for the families that have sold gas
wells or struck plumbago mine and
want to run through their cash as fast
as possible.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

For many years Gottfried Heller, a
New York tailor, had been accustomed
to bite off the ends of threads and
swallow the remnants. He died a
short time ago at the age of 46, and
the doctors say that death was caused
by poisonous dyes used in the threads
he had swallowed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

CHARLEY JOHNSON, of Amber Town
ship, Mason County, Mich, is only 16
years old, and yet he weighs 80
pounds.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

The majority Of military officials
favor common gunpowder in war, as it
is believed that the smoke of battle
saves thousands of lives, and it fur
nishes cover for troops to change posi-
ton without being slaughtered. The
better way is to favor peace and nc
powder at all.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

A NEWCOMER is trying to make
contracts with all the giants in this
country, and thereby secure his own
terms from side-shows and museums.
1t is said that giants haven't beer so
scarce in the market for twenty five
years, and there is talk Of importing
half a dozen from foreign countries.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

NEAR Tanga, in German east Africa,
an important series Of stalactite cav
ems has been lately discovered. They
are in system of Jurassic limestone,
and it is said the caverns surpass any
similar ones in Europe, both in extent
and size. Millions of bats seem to be
the only present occupants of the inter
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

BELIEVE rather than doubt; hope
rather than despair; and hold fast to
infinite trust in an Infinite Love.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

IT is very wrong to rob anybody, but
if you feel that you must rob, and are
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27
By BLANK l. BLANK.

SILVER was made legal tender b,
act of Congress on Feb. 81, 1878.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

The only successful attempt, ever
made in the world. to manufacture
wrought iron cannon was that of Will
lam Deming, of Neville. Pennsyl-
vania. He completed two of them
in the time Of the revolution at Middle
sex, in that State, and commenced q
still larger one at Mount Holly, but
could get no one to assist him, on &C
count Of the intense heat. which was so
great as to melt the buttons on his
clothes. This unfinished piece few
years ago was still lying at Carlisle
barracks, The British Government
offered large sum and an annuity if
he would instruct them how to manu-
facture the article, but he periodically
refused, and lived in poverty and OBJ
security. Another evidence of the in-
gratitude Of republics.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

In Hawkes. Bay. New Zealand, there
are 2.95o,000 acres of land, of which
1900, 600 are occupied-that is, owned.
OF the occupied land, LIS. 900 acres be-
long to forty-seven people. The land
question is coming to the front out
there. Hawkes. Bay is one of the
places where the Single Tax agitation
in the Antipodes was first vigorously
pushed Mr. Arthur j. Desmond was a
leading and active worker for the cause
in that region back in 1854.
One of the great evils of our methods
of raising taxes to-day is that they tax
conscience. that they make men lie and
perjure and bride and corrupt.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

ACCORDING to the division of class of
1889, the first which has been raised
under the new military law in France,
he forces of the republic since the
first of 1890 have been as follows
The active army and its reserves, L.
$3.50: territorial army, 1914, 6l5; re-
serve of territorial army, 1866, 800; Of
ficers, $4,000; gendarmes, officers and
troop, $4,000. This will give to the
French republic in case Of war 4,00O,-
600 men. Heretofore the relation Of
the effective army, according to the
number of inhabitants in each nation,
has been about l per cent. in time of
peace and per cent. in time Of war.
To-day the per cent. will be five times
this at the moment of mobilization.
At no period in her history has France
had an assemblage Of military forces to
compare with this.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-09

THE SHIP Still {
No Truth in the Reported Sinking
Of the Baltimore at
Valparaiso.
Chill Shows q Disposition to Be
q Little Less Stiff
Necked.
Activity In tho Navy Yards at brooklyn
and Mare Island--San Francisco
IL Excited.

New YonK, Nov. 8.-The Herald Valpa-
raiso cable says Captain Schley and
other officers Of the Baltimore are indig-
has been no semblancs Of truth in tho
rumor, which they know has caused great
uneasiness to their families and
people generally in the United
states. The utmost quiet prevails in the
city this morning and in the harbor the
Baltimore is lying as peacefully as IL she
were in homo waters. Her stewards for
several days past have gone ashore to do
necessary marketing under the protection
of q police guard furnished by
the intendente. The captain will
tonight grant the officers leave to
land. Although as q matter of fact no
threats have been made nor any signs given
that violence would be attempted should
the American officers appear again on the
streets Of Valparaiso. Capt. schley, in order
dence, had stopped night leave until to- day.
Capt. schley has received letter asking
him to allow the victims of the recent riot
to appear before court of inquiry and tell
the judge what they know of the out
rageous assault upon them. Capt. Schle y
replied that he was willing to allow them
to teatify upon one condition,
that the injured men would
first have to be entirely re-
covered in health and the officers of the
Baltimore must be permitted to be present
whom their men are testifying. He also
agrees to give the court q cory of the in
formation sent the United States govern
ment regarding the assault.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-09
A TYRANNICAL JUDGE.
He Incarcerates Leading Lawyer In the
"SweAt. BOx.n

He Incarcerates Leading Lawyer In the
"Sweat. Box"
MEMPHIS. Tenn, Nov. 8-Judge julius
]. Dubose, of the criminal court. reached
the climax of a course of tyrannical pro-
ceedings in court yesterday when he or
dered the sheriff to place in the 'sweat-
box" Colonel George CAN'T, one Of the
ablest and most respected members of the
Memphis bar. Colonel CAN'T was defend
ing II negro porter of the Pullman Gar COM
pany, who was accused of stealing blankets
belonging to the company. The jury had
convicted his client, and Colonel Gants
rose to make q motion in the case. The
court overruled the motion at once. Colonel
CAN'T attempted to say something more,
when the court stopped him with
threat of the 'sweat-box." The colonel
persisted in being heard in tho interest OF
his client, when the Judge ordered counsel
to tho ''sweat-box." Col. CAN'T was ac-
cordingly taken there and remained half
an hour. He was then released on petition
of member of the bar, but still refused to
make any apology to the court, saying that
Nevertheless he was let go. When silenced
by the Judge he was irving to cite su-
preme court decision showing his motion
to be admissible. The affair has created
the utmost indignation among members of
the bar, who have frequently suffered from
Judge Dubose's arbitrary rulings. At q
meeting of the bar committee was ap-
pointed to report to u subsequent meeting,
when it is believed that action will be taken
looking to an impeachment Of Judge Du-
bose.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-09
EXTOLLED AS MARTYRS.

Chicago Anarchists Do Honor to Those
Who Died by the Law.
CHICAGO, Nov. Sin spite of drizzling
ram. fully two thousand people participated
in tho demonstration to-day in memory of
Parsons, Spies, Engle, Fisher and Lining,
the anarchists, who suffered death four
years ago. There was street parade with
thered flag furled and draped in mourning.
followed by speech making over the graves
of tho dead anarchists. Addresses were
made by Henry Wiesseman, editor of the
New York Bakers Journal; Morris
Sehlobee. editor of the Arbeiter Zeitung,
and H. Mikolander, and they were
all most reverent in their character. The
dead men were extolled as martyrs of the
labor cause. Eighteen societies were rep
resented and each brought floral offering
One of these was scaffold in roses, with
the legend in German, Though dead they
still live. Long live anarchy" Mrs. Lucy
Parsons house was decorated with crepe.
Early in the day the red flag foated over
the roof, but the police took it down.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-09
SAN FRANCISCO MOVING.
The Golden Gate Wants the National
Conventions Hold There.

The Golden Gate Wants tho National
Conventions Hold There.
SAN Francisco, Nov. 8.-The second meet
ing of citizens to endeRvor to secure the
holding Of next years national conven-
tions in San Francisco took place last
night. The finance committee reported
nearly $4,000 subscribed already and a
promised large increase in a few days. The
transportation committee reported thar the
Southern Pacific company and agreed to
guarantee round trip rate of $50 from
Chicago and equidistant points to San
Francisco during the convention. M. II.
do Young, the California member Of the
republican national committee, stated that
he believed san Francisco could secure the
convontions by offering to pay the trans-
portation Of delegates, not including alter
nates. He thought the money for this
could be raised easily. The chair ap-
pointed Joseph Redding. II. +. Hammond
and John G. Quinn committee to acoom-
pany mir. De Young to Washington TO push
the claims on the republican COMMITTEES
which meets there in two weeks to hx the
place for holding the republican oonyeA-
ton, EfWl
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-09
EXPLORING In ALASKA.
The Discoveries Made by A. j. Glave an
Friend in That Country.

The Discoveries Made by A. j. Glave and
u Friend in That Country.
VICTORIA, B. c., Nov. 8.-A. j. Glave,
formerly of Stanloy's expedition, who has
been in Alaska for the past seven years,
arrived last evening from the trip on which
he tried to reach the head waters of Alaska
river. He located tho source about eleven
miles northeast of Mount st. Elias. He
took and brought back four horses in per-
feet condition, although previously nothing
but mon on foot have been in the country
traverssd. He explored and took photo
graphic views of the whole country lying
between the north Yukon and the base of
the st. Elias Alps, finding it more suitable
for traffic than was imagined before. Glave
proceeded direct to Washington to ask the
government for an appropriation to enable
him to open up the trails next season. His
party is composed of himself and friend
named Dalton, being the smallest party
that ever traversed the region. They dis
covered an enormously rich copper mine.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-09
For the Sake of Gain.

New York, Nov. S.-Hira Lal Clrumar, of
Calcutta, spoke on the opium traffic in In
dia, in the Madison Avenue Episcopal
church tonight. He charged the English
government with encouraging the con-
sumption of opium among it's subjects in
India for the sake of the revenue, and in
order to encourage and stimulate the culti
walton of the poppy plant. Upwards of
100000 acres Of the best land in India. lie
said, Is devoted to it's cultivation. and the
annual average production is 10000, 900
and Burmah. Opium smoking. he declared,
was increasing to an alarming extent in
India. Concluding, he said that merely
for the greed of gain the people of the
united Kingdom have sacrificed every prin-
ciple of morality. The unmitignted misery
and distress produced by the spread of the
opium habit tells heavily on the people Of
India.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-09
THEY FEARED ARREST.


Cause OF tho Suicide Of tfie Bankers Sum-
Inerfeid mt Berlin.
BgnLrN, Nov. 8.--The SUNNI erfelds, father
and son, who tried to commit suicide yes
terday, opened the veins in their arms boz
sidos shooting themselves with revolver.
When found both were bathed in blood.
Felix expired Saturday evening. Sigmond
still lives, and although the bullet is i'm
bedded in his brain there il bare chance
Of his recovery. Sigmond's wife recently
and Felix married heiresses. FELIX'S wife
Is the daughter of millionaire Vinkus. All
Felix was an epcare and Wrote
cookery articles for the Bousen Courier.
Many creditors and small capitalists we're
offered on deposits. The cause Of the rash
act was the fear of arrest. Herr Vinkers
offered them loan TO prevent disaster, but
the Intervention Of the police made assist
nnce useless. 1t is rumored other firms
have been denounced to tho police for ir-
regular dealings, and that their books will
be examined. Banker Leipsiger has also
been arrested. A stockbroker named OFF,
who has Just committed suicide with poison,
Is supposed to be involved in the failure.
Business on the bourse yesterday was
notable for numerous forced sales begin
ming early and increasing toward the close
on the collapse of the Sommerfeld bank
and rumors of other failures imminent.
The Boersen Courier states that the liabili-
ties of the Sommerfelds amount TO several
million marks and the assets are small.
A general panic and a run on
deposit banks appear inevitable. The
banks acting in common opened to-day
and the clerks we're attending to applica
tions for Dash. Some accounts were closed
by scared depositors. To-morrow's devel-
opments are less anxiously awaited. The
Frankfort bourse was open to-day, but the
general tendency shown was only toward o
fractional decline.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-09
GETTING THE NAVY IN SHAPE.
Still There Is No Truth In the Reported
Baltimore Affair.

still There Is No Truth In the Reported
Baltimore Affair.
NEW York, Nov. 8.-The Brooklyn navy
yard presented an appearance OF activity
to-day, Witnessed for the first time since
the exciting times of the rebellion. The
hum and din of workmen on the war ves-
sells Miantonomah and Atlanta, disturbed
the Sabbath stiffness as body Of 400 blue
jackets marched across the yard to divine
services. Wofkmen have been busy day
and night for the past week in preparing
the two vessels for speedy service at sea.
To-day the word of preparation continued
it being the first Sunday since the late war
| when such a thing has happened. There
are eighty mon at work on the two
vessels ana all expedition will be used
until they are ready for service.
The navy yard officials denied the ru-
mored sinking of tho Baltimore at VAL
paraiso. 1t was said the officers and crew
of the Baltimore exercise the same vigi-
lance as in war times and the torpedo nets
about the vessel would save her from sud
den attack. The unusual hustle and activ-
ity Mt the yard is said not to be due to the
reported to sinking of the Baltimore. but
it is conceded that the strained relations
between this country and Chill has caused
the government anxiety to get all the war
vessels ready for any possible contingency.