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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
Crop Prospects Better.

Agitation looking to the abolition of the
grain duty in Germany is becoming less fer
vent under better weather increased sup
plies and lower prices. Wheat was quoted
q week ago at 232 marks for 1000 kilos
and later the quotation was 231 marks
The prices of rye show a corresponding de-
cline. This difference alone does not affect
the public demand for the abolition of the
duties, but the conviction that the govern
ment has decided to at least reduce the du-
ties when Official inquiry into the subject is
completed, appeases the clamor.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
knights of PythIas in a wreck.

A passenger train on the Union Pacific
was wrecked near Beaver Brooks station
and twenty-six passengers injured, five
probably fatally. The train was late and
running rapidly around sharp curve. The
express car left the track and rolled down u
ffteen-foot embankment, pulling with it
the mail car AID two passenger coaches.
The passengers, many of whom were
Knights Of Pythias, returning from the state
convention at Aspen, Colo.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
A Significant Move.

THE official plats have been received
at the United States land Office at
Chamberlain from the land commits
sioner of 1873 acres of land adjoining that
city and $40 acres on the west side of
the Missouri river. This land, together
with right of way to the Black Hills, is
granted the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST..
Paul railway by the Sioux bill, and as
this company must extend the line and
have it in running order within three
years of the issuance of the presidents
proclamation on February 10, 1890, in
order to secure the title, the filing of
these plats at this time, is believed to
indicate determination on the part of
the company to begin work on this inn
portant extension at an early day.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
Net 80 BAD as Reported.

L. d. HINKLEY, crop inspector of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
company, visited the scene of the recent
Faulk county prairie fire that was re-
ported so disastrous. He reports about
1000 bushels of grain, seventy-fiye tons
of hay and four or FIVE old shacks and
shanties, which were unOccupied, and
one or two barns burned. There is no
distress in the burned district and no
homes Were burned
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
Turning Out Better Than Ever.

THE coal mines on the middle fork of
Hay creek in the Bear Lodge range OF
mountains, now being opened by George
M. Nix & Co., of Dubuque, Iowa, are
showing up better than ever. They
have coal formation of eighteen feet
and working vein of solid coal that
ranges in thickness from nine to
twelve feet. They have twenty-five
coal filings made covering 1850 acres of
land. 1t is rumored that the Illinois
Central railroad company will take the
mine when further developed.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
Republican Convention Called.

The republican central committee of
South Dakota chose Aberdeen as the
place and September 20 as the date for
the republican convention to nominate
a candidate for congress. The basis of
representation is the same as last year,
except in counties where an increased
republican vote appears, such counties
to have proportionately increased repre-
Sentation.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
Democratic Convention Called,

THE democratic state central COM
mittee has named Mitchell as the place
and September 80 as the date for hold
ing the state convention for the purpose
of placing a democratic congressional
nominee in the field this fall.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
The Independents' Convention

HURON is the place and September 80
the date chosen by the independent CEN
trail committee for their congressional
convention, which will have $50 dele
gates.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17

HANNIBAL HAaLIN wore to the very
last the full dress suit of black broad
cloth, with expansive shirt front, that
formed in ante-hellum days the dis.
tinctive attire of public men. 1T was
the style of suit that Webster and CLAW
were always clad In when they adj
dressed the Senate.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
THE NATIONAL GAME.

Games Won and Lost How the Clubs
Now Stand.
Following is u showing of the standing Of
each OF the teams of the different assocla-
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
Quick wit.
enemy.

One of Lord Carmarthen's future
constituents once asked the youthful
candidate his opinion upon some alb
struse question of which he knew
nothing. nLet him alonew cried
another, derisiyely; ''don't you see
he's nothing but baby?" "What
do you think?" reiterated his inquirer,
needless Of the interruption and de-
termtned to have an answer. 1T
think" said Lord Carmarthen,. with
ready wit, 'that it is high time for
all babies to be in bed;" and SO saying
he gathered up his papers and dis
appeared from the platform. Again
and this last anecdote is so well
known as to have become well-nigh
historical-at crowded meeting just
before his election, he was interrupted
by the question: "Does your mother
know you're out?" ''Yes, she does, y
was the instant retort, land by
Tuesday night she will know I'm in. .
His prophecy proved correct and he
headed the poll by large majority.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17

The Queen Regent of the Neither
lands and her daughter declined the
offer of a public reception during their
recent visit to Amsterdam. They re-
quested the city officials to use the
money collected for the reception in
feeding the poor. Consequently more
than 30, 900 poverty stricken creatures
received presents of food and money,
and $4,000 school-children were pro-
vided with a breakfast. Each child
received, also, photograph Of the
young Queen.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
O,Neill's Artegian WeIl.

O'NEML's artesian well Is now ], 275
feet down and projectors expect soon to
strike good flow of water.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
A PROMINENT FARMERS DEED
Gives Bedbug Poison to Three Neighbor.
Instead eff Alcohol,

Gives Bedbug Poison to Three Neighbors
Instead eff Alcohol.
ONE man dead, another with the sands
of life slowly running out, third re-
covering from the awful agonies of a
death from poison and prominent and
wealthy citizen behind prison bars, are
a quartette of factors in the most sem
sational and mysterious poisoning case
in the annals of Nebraska crimes An
drew Olson, one of the three men who
were given a drink of bedbug poison in
stead of alcohol, by a prominent farmer
named OFlaherty near Harrington,
Neb., fingered several days in great
| agony and finally died. Martin Knut-
son, another of the victims of O'Flaher-
tvs criminal careleSSneSs or viciousness,
is lying In very precariouS condition.
OFlaherty is prisoner. charged with
crime that makes strong men Shudder,
and, IL intentional, cannot be parall-
eled in western criminel annals. The
absence OF motive of any kind that
would prompt O'Flaherty to deliberately
poison the three men adds mystery to
the affair that is puZzling those who are
best acquainted with it. He was known
to be sober on the night when he gave
the men the bottle, and yet their hesit-
ancy only caused him to urge them to
drink the liquid. With an honorable
career resting on the foundation of
many years his present difficulty seems
all the more inexpiicable and surprising.
Public indignation at Harrington is re-
ported as having exhausted itself against
OFlaherty IL a growing sympathy, and
there is intense interest in the develop
ment of details of what's an awful crime
or an awful mistake.
Like Four Hundred Threshing Machines.
PHI. j. GIRARDET, Nebraska City
travelling man, while in the western
part of the state, in small town called
Rapids, was awakened in the middle of
the night by feeling an insect crawling
in his ear. There was no doctor in the
town and he had to wait until train
arrived to take him to the next station,
where physician took miller about
an inch long from his ear. He says that
during the eight hours that miller was
in his ear the buzzing and humming of
400 threshing machines wouldn't be a
marker to what he could hear.
Commencing tine worlds Fair Exhibit.
The Nebraska worlds fair commits
sioners held meeting on the state fair
grounds at Lincoln which was attended
by representatives from over forty
counties. 1t was agreed that Nebraska
should commence now and prepare and
arrange its exhibits for the worlds fair,
and II possible secure crop specimens
from every county for two successive
years
ADnfAamx0tiv Shat NNTa sg=t
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
With FeIonious Intent.

The coroner's jury at Harrington
found Dennis O'Flaherty guilty Of adj
ministering poison with felonious in
tent.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17

II IS stated that in England recently
On incandescent electric light was
burned for II, sci hours, ana on being
removed from the holder the filamenf
was found to be still whole and sound.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17

The son of Gen. Isidro Urtecho.
Commander-in-chief of the Nicaraguan
army, is the only foreign cadet at West
Point. He Is q young man Of 20, tall
and active, with sWarthy skin and fash
ing black eyes. He is d nephew oil
Minis ser Guzman, the Nicaraguan rep
.resentatiye at Washington.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17

Accidentally Shot MIA w,,a.

WHILE party of North Platte ladies
and gentlemen were out hunting the
gun of ]. c. Ferguson was accidentally
discharged, killing his wife.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17
Successful Soldiers, Reunion,

THE most successful soldiers reunion
ever held In Nebraska closed at Grand
Island. 81 SIS.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17

RUDyARD KIPLING Is to visit Robert
Louis Stevenson Ia Samoa.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-17

There Is little doubt that the Corn
Palace as an attraction standsout as an
iginal and unique exhibition without
rival. There is nothing with which it
IAN be compared, as there has never
been Corn Palace outside of Sioux
City. The usual excursions from New
England and every other part of the
United States will be augmented by the
great additions this year. The railroads
are interested in the matter, heart and
soul. They will make low rates, popu-
lar excursions and provide every COM
fort and convenience for their patrons.
The Corn Palace of 1891 is bound to
De a world-famed success.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-23
Population Of Africa.

Under the name of the Indepen dent
States of Congo, its government was or
ganizad after the most approved methods
of Belgian administration, and it entered
fully oa'Iipped into the family of nations.
writes Colonel Sanford in the ForUni.
There is within its erea, which is thirty
three times that of Belgium, a popula-
ton of $50 whites, about one-half State
officials and employees, and the estlma-
ted number of natives within its borders
is about forty million; and in the whole
Congo basin is estimated at about fifty
million.
Africa is about three times the area of
Europe, or IL, 600, 900 square miles, and
some writers estimate it to contain about
an equal population--325, 900, 900 souls.
The enormous trade development there
comes mainly from the narrow selvage
which separates tho mountains from the
sea. 1t is q great basin composed of
plateaus, gradually ascending to 1000
feet at some of the central lakes. 1t has
four great river systems: On the west
the Congo, second only to the Amazon
in the volume of its waters, and the Nj
ahestrots,- wfIorf5r w s !, g
through the mountain barriersk nave us,
scepdedby cataracts and @ ions - a.. aa'
ocean. leaving great sy'yr OF rich oe'
posits of wonderful ferf ..
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-23
Deer Getting Scarce In Alaska.

FOR several seasons past the Esouimaux
OIL northwestern Alaska have experienced
great hardships in obtaining a supply of
deer meat for their winter stores. 1t is to
be feared that when the Rear makes her
annua! visit to the Arctic next summer
many Of the villages will be found to have
lost their rasidonts from Starvation. Tho
latest sdvices from the Arctic report a
failure not only in the autumn deer hunt.
out In the entire catch of whales, walrus
and seals.
Naturally Of timid. disposition the
deer have learned that the natives with
oreech- loading arms are far more formid :
able foes than when bows, arrows and
spears were employed in the chase. Again
the Esquimaux spare neither young or
old when herd is found, and little suck
ling fawns as we'll as does carrying young.
fall victims to his gun.
Formerly on the lower Yukon around
St. Michael's, on Norton Sound, and in
the country known IS the Kotzebue
Sound district, numbers of deer made
yearly visits. Now it is rare to find that
the natives living at these points have
seen or tasted deer meat.
The Alaskan deer of the Arctic and
sub-Arctic regions have been confounded
with tho reindeer of other localities,
but while certainly belonging to the
lama 'cM rt,uu' u<ssss->.---4Ls k.-.o lar-o,,
of Lapland and Siberia in being smaller
in body and horns. From July to Septem-
Der the instincts of the deer induce them
TO come from the interior to the sea coast
10 obtain rest and freedom from the tor
lures inflicted by the hordes of mosquitoes
that infcst the inland swamps, and also
TO get saline matter from the herbage and
moss growing in proximity to the ocean.
In September they commence their inland
migration, and from July until the
middle of October they areruthlessly pur-
sued by the natives. Some rest is af-
forded to the animals during the dark
days that prevail in the Arctic zone from
November until January, but as soon after
the early part of February as the weather
permits the food-seekers again take the
field. The does have their young during
April, and by provision of nature the
horns of the female only attain size during
the time sho is sucking the fawn and un-
til it reaches such an age that it can feed
about two months. $685. --''----.-.....-
When it fs considered that O, deer
weighing on an average 1876 pounds is
consumed at a single sitting by tive or six
natives 1t may be readily perceived that
the average returns of successful hunt
ing party must be large to feed a village.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-23
SORT OF NAPOLEON OF FINANCE
Ex-counsellor Crawl Hypnotized a
Cashier and Squanders Thousands.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Jan. ELK -Coun
sellor II. Webster Crawls has succeeded
In making reputation as sort of local
Napoleon Of Finance" by a series Of
ingenious transactions. Mr.. Crawls has
been extensively engaged in land specu-
lations, and failed several months ago,
owing several hundred thousand dollUrs
On Monday afternoon, at meeting Of
the stockholders of the Franklin bank, it
was learned from President Baker that
Crawl had overdrawn his account on that
bank upward of 100000. Further than
this, the bank holds Mr. Crawls paper to
an extent to increase his indebtedness to
the bank to $11 300. President Baker
said Crawl was enabled to overdraw his
account through the incapacity and un-
trustwo orthipess of Cashier Gardner, who
had been dismissed.
MI, Baker. in srsply to q question as TO
swhstbers he Thought Gardner had made
l1nts os& ofsthe Transactions, replied
That he thought not, but he could not ac-
count for the cashiers action except on
the ground that Crawl had hvpnotizcd
him. What Crawl did with the money
he picked up around town is mystery
to those who know him. He borrowed:
right and left, subscribed for stock, CAV,
his note for 1t, and then hypothecatcd il .
mortgaged the same property twice, and.
IN TACT, wherever he could pick up !,
dollar he did so, and that was the last
seen of it. Crawl is in Roanoke, Va.
Gardner was Sunday school superin
tend' mt, and Crawl was pillar of the
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-23
SKILLED LABoR Is WEALTH.

The South in natural products is with
out rival, says the Constitution. All
the world utilities her raw material for
commerce and manufacturers.
But the raw material alone cannot
make any section rich. We have mex
haustible fields of iron, but the crude iron
is comparatively of little value. 1t takes
skilled labor to make it count. A single
iron bar worth S., worked into horse
shoes is worth $10.50; made into needles
il is worth 1855, and made into balance
springs of watches it is worth $3.50, 900 !!
This is an example Of what skilled Ia
Dor can do.
Then we have cotton. A bale is worth
about $50. Skilled Tabor comes along
and turns it into calico worth $3.50, or
into the finest lace worth 10000!
We might 60 on indefinitely on the
line, but these two illustrations show how
the value of crude product is multiplied
when skilled labor takes hold of it.
Here in the South we are Just entering
upon our march of industrial proaross
Our greatest need is to have our labor
properly trained. The chronological
school is Georgia's latest effort in thai
direction. With tho judicious support
of the State it will open for our brainy
and ambitious young men brighter, more
useful and more profitable fields in devel
oping our material resources than any
profession can offer. Money spent OF
this school will be good investment. II
will train up an army of workers who
will turn our iron and cotton and othel
raw material into thousands of useful and
beautiful forms that will make this The
richest spot on the globe.--Alliance Re
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-23
Cut or the Fair Patients Wiz.

There is story told of young physi-
clan Of this city, who was connected at
ono time with the Emergency Hospital.
It has caused many smile at his expense.
He had not been long stationed at the
hospital when woman was brought in
.spffsringa from . severe scalp worya-
Eh9s- EISh9 VAS Was fast dyeing her golden curis o
rusty red, and the doctor was engaged IN
hastily clipping her hair, when ms pa, :,
t;ert excIaimed, "Oh, doctor, don't:
Thinking ne might have hurt her, ne
aid: u6h, never mind; that's all right" "
sNo it's not" responded the lady with
some warmth, "for you are cutting IN,
! wig" And 40 he was, q MasA,'sgtea f,o@
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-23
Poor ministers in England have

Poor ministers in England have a
source of revenue which the Springfield
IMass3 Unron cnar1rauIy ,nupes VIM ~
be accorded to their brethren in this
country. Instead of sailing down their
old sermons in barrels they send them to
the bookseller, who gets as much as $5 a
hundred for them. A London dealer offers
1000 sermons in job lots at this price,
and II they are written in Ga large, bold,
plain hand" they bring more.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-23
S0noma's Seve Moons.

There have been many explanations
offered in times past as to why the name
of Sonoma was given to this valley by
the native tribe of Indians, who, upon
the advent of tho white man over 100
years ago, peopled this section of the
country by thousands. OF course we all
know that Sonoma valley in aboriginee
means "Valley of the Moon," but just
why that name was bestowed upon it is
another question, and one, too, which
We believe has never been satisfactorily
answered. Recently. in talking to an
aged Indian who has resided ON tho vid
Nick Carrigan ranch for mnny years,
and who was an old man when General
Vallejo settled in Sonoma fifty years ago,
and must now be something over 100
years of age, he stated the reason the
valley was called Sonoma was because it
had sheep muchee moon," translated
into good English, many moonD. Fur
ther inquiry developed the fact that be-
tween the town of Sonoma and the Bella
Vista vineyards, distance of four or
five miles, the moon, when it is full, can
be seen by the traveller to rise seven
times in succession over the mountains
in the east, owing to their peculiar for
nation. This phenomenon has been wit.
messed by many old residents in the
early evening at the rising of the full
moon. This, no doubt, has been OBJ.
served by the Indians, and hence th'
name, "Valley Of the Moon. ."-Sonons
| (Cal.) Indsr- Tribune.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-23
An Alliancs Agent Short.

A special from Lawrence, Kas,, says,
\ l.. II. Corsc, alliance exchange agent in
this city is short. II seems the farmers
who had shipped their farm products
co4ss Claims sss HsGSs 2Sssss g See
to the fact that the shipments were made
to unreliable firms. The products were
sold in in Chicago aud Denver, but the
commission merchants failed to remit.
A committee has been appointed by the
alliance to investigate the affairs Of the
exchange.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-23

The Export and Fsnancier, of New
York, is of the opinion that Mexico
offers a new field for enterprising Ameri-
cans, who would be certain to succeed
there If they understood and could speak
the Spanish language,or if they possessed
some useful speciality. Judging from the
: rA-- ~>f that Rannh.
lie, profitable employment can be found
in the Mexican capital and principal
towns for tutors of English, arst-class
mechanics, trained sgriculturists and
drummers for business houses.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-23

Bill Nye, the humorist, is plaintiff in
q lawsuit against the poet, James Whit
comb Riley, his chum for years in the
work of making Americans laugh. Nye
and Riley have been q money-making
combine for years, but Nye charges that
while his own humor was always dry.
Mr.. Rilcy's was too frequedtly wet. In
Louisville, he says, early in the year,
Riley poured out to Bacchus hbations
altogether too copious, aud the result
was that when the hour arrived at which
tho combination should appear to amuse
the public Riley presented avery willowy
form to the audience. Hence Nye'a
aotion. The action, which IL for the re-
oovery Of eso, 900 from Riley, win BE-
tried at Indianapolis.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-23
The Solid 8 SSSuth.

of T regret to be read as /; S E%anctpstroai.
Day celebration at Alekandria, Va. in
which he said: "The ss4nth will cease to
be politically solid whensthe colored vote
is divided, as it will be! when the voters
do their own thinking aud vote accord
ing to their party feelings and principles.
The whites have always been divided,
and pretty evenly divided, upon political
questions when not united in defending
common rights SO Twill the blacks
when freed from outsidb pressure. They
will become members tof the two great
political parties into Which the country
has ever been divided Some will be
Republicans and sonk Democrats. To
neither party are they indebted for their
freedom This wus lcstowed as mill
tary necessity to savqethe Union, aud il
should be used forfhS common good and
preservation of free institutions. As they
stand pracIcssls q az, ss5sssy will
litical eouality with The ,St1ifesS sS5<tP4r
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-23
The North Carolina 1rasons.

RALsIsH, N. C, Especial. i The grand
lodge Of Masons, q North Carolina. met
at Raleigh IL theis i04th annual conyeu-
as =! y IS 8 si,,Sws. sSsss !.
tary, p. W y Avs g.
s The lfty IsIs 6ermany
possess about Z. & 1000 volumes,
against England h about 6,4bo, ,ooo
volumes,