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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-09-17
The Sly Granger.
HE WANTED TO GET HOME WITHOUT WALK
ING THERE.

HE WANTED TO GET HOME WITHOUT WALK
ING THERE.
Detroit Free Press
'Tickets, please" said the conductor of
train on line running out east of
Detroit, as he entered the car.
There was very general response in the
shape of pasteboard until he came to a
farmer, who was very earnestly looking
out of the window.
Tickets, please" said the conductor.
The man paid no attention.
IN take your ticket, If you please"
Tie man looked up at HIM.
"Han't got any," he answered, slowly.
We'll the money then. Where are YOU
going?"
"Hant got any money"
We'll then, what are you here for? If
don't get either money or ticket | must
put you of the train.
You wouldn't stop an express train Just
to put one man Off would your"
''W ouldnt |: You'll soon see whether
will or not. Now | want your ticket or
the cash without any more fuss"
Marry one"
The conductor paused for moment or
two. and then called the brakeman
Now, are you going to get Of without
fuss, or will We have to throw YOU off?'
The man sighed. and said he would 20
of quietly. When they got out on the
platform and the conductor had his hand
on the hell-rope the passenger cast his eye
over the flying landscape and said;
"Ant there no way we can fix this
up'"
"Certainly. Ticket or money"
After smother look the man shook his
head
Let her 90, CAPTAIN"
The conductor pulled the rope. The
| airhrakes scrunched and the train came
to stop. The man stepped Of, and then
handing the conductor bit of pasteboard,
said
Il don't cheat no railway company,
Captain. Here ye are
why in thunder didn't you give me
this before: You can ride i've mile,
/ further on this ticket Step aboard lively,
/ now"
"Never mind, captain, l would have
TO walk five miles back If did. live
over youder. So long Cap
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-09-17

NOTE-The foregoing is from the Ulster County
Gazette of Jan. I, leo, a copy Of which was fur
nished us by Henry l.. Moor, Esq, from the pa
pers left by his father the late Hon. John L. noor
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-09-17
Amerieau.

waakL} LOCAL AND POLITICAL JOURNAL
rral SHE'D EVERY THURSDAY BY THE
H'"ssfN County Publishing Conpan,
j. c. Chilcott, Editor.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-09-17

WIZ E,A E>.4srxl>t. n. i-.->econ: ana faur;A
Murl4NH.
L.snk Lopez. No s-.-fyrry fsttAy.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-29
THE WASTING FAMINE.
Dispatches from the Interior of Russia
Are Alarming.

Dispatches from the Interior of Russia
Are Alarming.
LONDON, Sept. 28.-The Teleeraph's st.
Petersburg correspondent says that dis
patches from the interior are more alarm
ing. August frosts destroyed the barley
crop, the staple feed in Archangel. In the
extreme north crops have been spoiled by
rains. Straw from thatched roofs is util-
ized for fodder. Cattle are dying by whole-
sale on roadsides. Various ministers have
issued conflicting orders, resulting in utter
chaos. Grants of seed corn have been
stopped. Immense tracts of land are lying
waste, and scarcity of COIN is threatened in
1892 The cattle plague has broken out in
many places. Peasants in Sogowsky at
tackled some veterinary surgeons who had
been sent to destroy infected cattle,
and several we're wounded in the skirmish.
Clergvmen are becoming beggars. Women
are selling themselves to support their chill
dren. No work can be procured by starv-
ing persons, even on the Volga. Shares of
the steam navigation company have fallen
heavily. The new loan will only be drop in
the ocean. A large budget deficit is certain,
to make matters worse the million loads
of rye promised by the governor of another
neighborinR province, and on which the
ministry had relied, do not exist. This dis
covery has caused consternation. The
famine is expected to reach its acme in
No vember. The peasants threaten revolu-
tlon unless the cznr gives them relief from
private sources. Partial uprisings are al
ready reported. ..
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-29
FIRE AT MILES CITY.
A Destructive Blaze Starts at 1880 Last
Night.


A Destructive Blaze Starts at 1890 Last
Night.
MILES CITY. Sept. o. Special. Fire
broke out at about 1890 Tonight on Park
street, in the block between Bridge street
and the Macqueen house, on the East side.
The Astle stable and corral were totally
consumed. The horses and vehicles were
saved. Besides the stable French's saloon,
n vacant building and barbershop were
burned to the ground. All were frame
buildings. The stable was insured for
$4,000, the other buildings for $4,000. The
rate of insurance is SO high that property
owners preferred to carry the greater
part of their own insurance. The
fire was stopped BY brick
building occupied as a restaurant, which
saved frame saloon on the corner and the
block between Bridge street and Main. 1t
looked at one time as if this block. i'll
which is the stockgrowersJo Journal building,
would go. as the wind blew straight toward
it, and great burning brands were blown
on the roof. The fremen did good and
effective work and il is due to their efforts
and those of tho superintendent of the
waterworks that the business portion of
Miles City, containing the banks and some
of the best buildings in Miles, are not a
thing of the past: At this writing, 1880 a.
m., the fire is under control.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-29
BLACKS AND WHITES.
Origin of the Trouble Between Them in
Arkansas.

Origin of the Trouble Between Thorn in
Arkansas.
MARIANA, Ark, Sept. 28.-Bands of riot
ous negroes have almost taken possession n
of Lee county Arkansas. The killing of
Tom Miller, a white man and agent of j.
+. Frank by the rioters has precipitated
serious affairs. Indications for some time,
indeed SINCE the reduction of the price of
picking cotton was inauRurated, have been
that there would be trouble be-
tween the blacks and whites. Cotton
picking has been suspended in Lee
county for several days. Saturday an armed
tion along the road leading to Franks
plantation. The agent of Frank, Iom
Miller, was met by the infuriated negroes.
He tried to dissunde them from their riot
GUS Intentions, but they shot him down
without a moments warning. They pro-
ceeded on their wny, cursing and abusing
every white they met and threatening all
property with destruction.
When they reached the plantation known
as Park Place." the gin houses of Bond a.
Terrell were set on fire and burned to the
ground and afterwards several others in
the neighborhood met a similar fate. The
demonstration on the part of the blacks has
aroused the entire country and the sheriff
and Bond, with a posse Of fifty men, are in
pursuit OF them. Il seems that the rioting
negroes we're baited with barbecue in II
cane brake near the Hodges place and the
whites surrounded them in the cane last
night. No casualties are reported, except
shat two of tho negroes who effected an
escape through the cane and attempted to
GROSS the river were shot and wounded.
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Lee Mantle Testifies as to the Exact
Time When W. j. Penrose
Was Shot.
Whereabouts OF the Suspects at
l1:65, Fourteen Minutes Be-
fore the Murder.
Rose Perkins gquarely Contradicts John
KroneThe Energetic Thug Is still
Abroad In Anaconda. We

BUTTE. Sept. 28.-[Special. loving TO
the illness OF Attorney Haldorn, for the
prosecution, Deeney was not recalled for
cross examination to-day and the defense
in tho Penrose murder case announced that
they would rest. The prosecution then be-
gan to introduce testimony in rebuttal.
Rose Perkins was recalled and she testified
that the man John Krone, who swore that
he had bought the black cloth from her o
few days p.ior to Penrose's death. was not
the man who purchased the cloth. She
said Krone bore no resemblance whatever
to the man who made the purchase. The
latter was tall and comparatively stout and
had a blonde moustache. in all of which
particulars he differed from Krone. Wit
ness had several times seen the purchaser
of the cloth in company with Penrose and
the last time only three or four days be-
fore Penrose was killed. Lee Mantle
was called next. On the night of the
| murder he was at the corner of Montana
and Broadway and heard shot fred and
looked at the town clock, which pointed at
1900. 1t was about one minute after the
shot was fred that he looked at the clock,
because when he heard the shot he was in a
position where he could not see the clock
and had to walk short distance up Mon.
tana street toward Granite. The object Of
Mantle's testimony was to show that tho
accused men had had time to leave the
Mccormick & hughes saloon and reach the
corner Of Galena and Montana streets,
where Penrose was killed, from the time
they were last seen and the time when
Mantle heard the shot. In their attempts
to establish an alibi the defense proved the
presence of the accused up to five minutes
to 12 o'clock. This, the prosecution con-
tended, left fourteen minutes unaccounted
| for. .sE
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-29
Custody of Indian Children.

WASHINGTON, Sept. %. - The commits
sioner of Indian affairs has received copy
of the recent opinion of Judge Green, Of
the district court of the territory Of Okla
homa, directing the restoration to his par
ents of an Indian boy placed in the govern
ment Indian school at Chilocco by officials.
Judge Green held that as the Indian Office
had not issued, as required BY the act. rules
and regulations to compel the attendance
of Indian children at schools provided for
them, the retention of the boy contrary to
the will of his parents was illegal. The
effect of this decision is regarded by the
commissioner of Indian affairs as likely to
prove preiudicial to the schools, and It is
his intention to carry the case to the higher
court. The judge in his opinion took the
ground that the right of a parent to the
custody of his children belonged to the
Indian aa we'll as to the white man.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-29
FOOD FOR FLAMES.
An OIL Warehouse and Other Infiammabls
DuildlnRS.

An OIL Warehouse and Other Inhammable
buildings
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 28,--Shortly after
two O'clock this afternoon fire broke out in
the oil warehouse OF Phillips IL Cunning
ham, l86 North Delaware avenne. The
flames soon gained Roadway. and several
alarms were turned in. Tho fire swept
through the innammable stock Of the
building, and the structure was ablaze from
cellar to roof twenty minutes after the
flames first broke out. Despite the utmost
efforts of the Aremen. the flames spread
west to Water street and to the rag ware
house Of Jessup & Moore, adjoining the
burning oil store on the north. In short
timc the warehouses at 127, 131 and 133
Water street were ablaze. Philipand Chas.
Porter, of Engine company No. %, were
injured by exploding oil while fighting hre
in the oil store, and Frank Lowrey, OF
Truck D, was hurt by fall from the ladder.
While the fire was at its height the walls of
JsAsup d. Moore's warehouse fell in, bury
ing several fremen. The buried men were
gotten out as quickly as possible and, 80
far as known, none were killed. At four
o'clock the firemen succeeded in getting the
fire practically under control. The loss ia
roughly estimated at $500, 900.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-29
Did not Prevent the Lynching.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 2S.-The president has
passed upon the record of the court mar
tial in the case of Col. Compton, Of tho
Fourth cavalry. who was charged with
failure, while in command of the military
post at Walla Walla, to take steps to pre-
vent the lynching Of gambler named
Hunt, under arrest for killing one of the
soldiers under him. The court found him
guilty and sentenced him to suspension
from rank and command for three years on
half pay and to be confined to tho limits Of
the military post. The president approved
of the proceedings of tho court, but miti-
gated the sentence to suspension from rank
and command on half pny for two years.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-29
Menaced by Reds.

SPOKANE FALLS, Wash., Sept. 2s.--Set-
tiers in the Calispel valley, in northern
Idaho, are alarmed over the menacing atti-
tude Of the Indians in that section. Marsela,
chief of the Calispels, it is reported. has or
dered all white settlers out of the country
and Indians are running off settlers stock
and otherwise annoying whites. General
Carlin, in command of the Fourth infantry
now in camp in Spokane, has been urged
to take measures of precaution. lie has
sent for the Indian agent, Hal Cole.
who will arrive here in the morning. Troops
of cavalry under command of Gen. Carlin
are ready for marching orders and may
start tomorrow for the scene OF disturb
ance. Calispel valley is isolated and oil
supplies have to be sent in by pack train.
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BUNGLING DIPLOMACY.
Probably Responsible for Complications
with Chili-serious Aspect.

with Chi1l-serl0us Aspect.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-For two hours
this morning the president was in consulta-
tion with representatives Of the state and
navy departments. While no official In
formation upon the subject can bo OBJ.
tanned, there is reason to believe the ad-
ministration is confronted with serious
aspect of affairs in Chill. Since last FRI
day cablegrams, In cipher, have been pass
ing between Washington ana Valparaiso,
but the officials refuse to mako their con
tents public. 1t is gathered, however, that
they relate to affairs in Chill ard that seri-
GUS complications have arisen between tho
junta and the United Slater representatives
in that country. AT present the United
States naval force in Chilli consists Of ono
vessel. the Baltimore. The San Francisco
touched at Callao. Peru, last week on hor
way northward. An effort was made by
the, navy department to communicate With
her. but she had sailed for Acapulco. Mex
| leo, before the cablegram reached her.
There are no other modern vessels on the
| Pacific side that could be dispatched TO
Chill.
ttIt is conjectured here that the matters
/, under consideration we're statements from
Minister Eean and Capt. Schley Of recent
occurrences in Chill, which are also con-
jectured to accord with special dispatches
from Valparaiso, printed in tho New York
Herald tn1S morning. Just WAut Cupts
Schley had to communicate to the navy de-
partinent cannot be learned, but 1t ia SUR
missed that it related to the treatment Of
| refugees, or that bitter anti-Americnn
sentiment in Chill, resulting from the seiz.
ure OF the Itata, has revealed itself in hos
tile. unfriendly demonstrations toward the
officers and men OF the Baltimore. How
ever this may be-, it is certain that officials
| OF the state and navy departments are not
! at all alarmed at the situation, and il the
conference was called 20 devise means Of
meeting any emergency it is apparent that
tho persons who participated are satisAed
| tn at this has been done. .
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-29
THE FARMERS MONEY.
Goes to Mako tho Manufacturers Rich
One Instance in Point.

Goes to Mako tho Manufacturers Rich
Ono Instance in Point.
P1TTspuRG, Penn, Sept. 28.--Gov. Camp
BELLS recent reference to the fruit-jar COM
bine and the indignant replies Of the
manufacturers have brought out some in
teresting figures touching the suiect. Will
liam j. Dillon is secretary Of the American
Flint Glass Workers. union, and, being II
democrat, he does not hesitate to give up
figures that may be used against tho
manufacturers. He says tho cost of
making n dozen quart glass fruit jars
is tifty-two cents, making very liberal
allowances for labor, material. clerical
hire, interest on investment. etc. or this
sum labor gets 10 cents dozen. The man
ufacturer sells what coat him $6.24 II gross
for ~ gross. Then the middleman GETS
n slice for handling the goods, and finally,
the retailer sells of the jars for $l32O
gross or $l.10 dozen.
What Mr.. Dillon cannot understand 10
why tho workingman should receive but
$i.20 for his share OF gross, while the
manufacturer gets $2.78 over and above in
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tsrday afternoon the dsspsradOs 10 Wed
themselves and several ahots wefe ex.
changed. The sheriff 10 determined to ef-
feet their capture II he has to staEve them
ont.
An Inoarnate Flen.l.

DURANGO. COL, Sept. 2S.-Ralph Ray, the
twsnty-year old murderer Of his mother.
was. captured Saturday evening and re-
turned to this city to-day. He says that
after he and his mother had eaten break
fast last Wednesday morning he went to
the barn and took two drinks of whisky.
Returning to the house he informed his
mother that he was going to Pennington.
New Mexico, to the fair. Mrs. Ray re-
monstratsd, not desiring to be left alone.
mother for the door, with pan in her
hand, hs struck her terrible blow on the
back of tho head with a hatchet. sinking
the iron into her head to the handle. She
sank to the floor without moan and the
son then PLUNGED knife into her breast s!..
mounted horse and started for Mexico.
The father has gone insane and his life is
despaired of.
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Money for the Navy.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S.-About SIG, 100000
is the sum the navy department will ask
for in its annual estimate for continuing
work on the new navy. This does not in
clude anything for new vessels-it is simply
the amount required for meeting payments
under existing contracts, which will be
due during the fiscal year ending 1898. The
secretary, it is understood, will especially
advocate this year the construction Of q
number Of fast torpedo boats and small
light dlaught cruisers. 1t is considered
desirable to continue the addition of large
ships. but If there is to be only one choice
the navy departments decision will be in
favor Of small ships, such as are now most
urgently needed for service in China and
on the Pacific station,--ships of the pro-
tected cruiser type that can go from ono
port on the Pacific to another to look after
American interests and at the same time be
serviceable in preying on an enemy's com
merce in the event of war.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-29
GRABBED THE GUN.

Nervy Resistance to Footpad by an
Anaconda Gentleman.
ANACONDA, Sept. Especial Hold
ups are getting to be epidemic here. While
going to his nome at 8 o'clock tonight D.
Cohen, ST., wealthy citizen. saw gun
thrust in his face and heard voice order
ing him to hold up his hands. Mr.. Cohen,
in raising them. seized the gun and forced
it up over his head, then he grappled with
the desperate with his other hand, yelling
"Firer' at the top of his voice all the time.
Somebody who heard the cry sent in an
alarm and presently the fire bell was ring
ing and the whole city turned out. The
robber escaped to the foothills and Mr..
Cohen got off with his pockets untouched.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-29

CHICAGO, Sept. 28.-At noon to-day two
gangs of dock laborors. one white and one
colored, got into an alteration on the
Western Transit oompany's docks while
waiting to be paid off. James Kelly, white,
was stabbed to the heart and killed by JAS
per Bales. colorsd. Bales was pursued by
other white colnbatants. who fred number
of shot after him, wounding him in tn EARN.
Two other persons were wounded by bullets.
Bales was captured and looked up. Sandy
Smith, the negro who started the riot, was
terribly beaten by mob and rescued from
lynching BY the police just a. the moose,
was being passed over beam. Kelly'a
right name is Cornelius Sullivan. He re-
GENTLY came from Boston, and bore q good
reputation there.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-29
The winners at Chicago.

CHICAGO, Sept. 28.-Track fast. Five
furlongs-Miss Nelson won. Happy Day
second, Roley Boley third. Time, 102s4.
Six furlonRs-Fan King won. Bankrupt
second, Lake View third. Time, 1:l4M.
Mile and one-eighth-Dead heat between
Martin Russell and Good Bye, Signature
third. Time, 1850: On the run-off Mar
tin Russell won. Time, POL,
Mile and one -sixteenth-Ernest Race
won, VanBuren second. Two starters
Time, 1:48s.
Mile and one-sixteenth- -Forerunner won,
Silverado second, Joe Carter third. Time,
1:5O.
Mile German won, Tom Roach second,
Julius Sax third. Time, 1854.
Five furlongs-E1olusion won. Maggie B.
second, Longbrook third. Time, 1:02.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-29
An Optimistic spesoh.

BERLIN, Sept. 2s.-Upon the occasion Of
the jubilee of the Seventy eighth infantry
regiment at Osnaburg, Hanover, Chancel-
lor Won Caprivi made long optimist speech
upon the political situation in Europe. He
said that the apprehension in some quarters
as to whether the existing state Of Things
will be maintained are not warranted. Not
one of the severe iuns, he added. wished to
disturb peace or provoke war. The internal
affairs to which the emperor WAS devotinG
special attention would, he said, also be
brought to satisfactory issue. though the
process might extend over decade. The
government, the chancellor continued. had
the interests of employed and employers at
heart.
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sNyDER,s DYNAMITE PRoJEcr1LE.
Tests to Be Made Abroad of an American
Invention.


|. Invention.
LONDON, Sept. 2S.-In few days expert
ments are to take place in Wales with an
American invention known as Snyder's
dynamite projectile. Foreign governments
are interested in the tests, and several OF
them will havo experts to watch the results.
f. H. Snyder, of New York. conducted a
series of trials at sandy Hook. and on the
Potomac near Washington several years
ago. A short time ago private exhibition
was made before shareholders. Mr.. SNYDER
says the guns used were six-inoh breech-
loading naval rifles, and seven-inch muzzle-
loading rifles. The highest charges of
powder we're used consisting of one-thlrd
quick burning black powder, with two
thirds brown prismatic, which gave shells
charged with from ten to fifteen pounds OF
nitro gelatine an initial velocity of 5S5
metres per second. The charges were SO
heavy that concrete foundations nine feet
i'll depth under the guns were shattered.
The she'll or projectile is adaptable to any
style of ordnance.
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Stole one Hundred Dollars.

BozEMAN. Sept. 2s.--LSpecial.l Lien
drum & Davies the liverymen from
whose Office 800 were stolen, have
caused the arrest Of negro in
their employ who was the only man work
ing about the premises when the money
was stolen. At noon too day Lendrum made
a pretenoe of going to dinner, but instead
he secreted himself in the nay loft and the
negro went up ostensibly to throw down
some hay, but while up stairs he took u
package out of corner of the loft and
took it down stair where he hid it behind q
chimney in the Office, from which place it
was taken and found to contain $94.60.
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Desperadoe. surrounde cd.

KEoKuK, Ia, Sept. 28.-Great excitement
exists near Bowen, ILL.,. because of numer-
GUS burglaries in that and surrounding
towns. The last one committed was at the
store of J. v. Scott, who got out a search
warrant for the houses OF Frank Jarvis and
Il man named Thresher. A constable went
to the houses, whereupon Jarvis and u
brother commenced shooting at him, one
bullet inhictihg wound in the leg. jar
vis and pals then escaped in corn field,
whore they arc now surrounded by the
sheriff and fifty armed mon. They have
said they would not be taken alive. The
stolen goods had been all boxed up and, IL
10 asserted, were to be shipped TO relatives
Of one Of the men in California. Late yes