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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-09
THE DEAD SNOWMAN.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, April s.-Deep and
profound sorrow prevails throughout the
City today over the death of P. T. Barnum.
Flags are displayed at half mast and en-
biems of mourning are shown from public
and private buildings generally. Mr.. Bar
mum leaves an estate of over $1,000, 900
which he disposes of by will, largely to his
legal heirs. The bequests are not yet
known.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-09

this country from Russia are not to exceed
$4,000 a year; but of course 1t cannot be
fixed from this side ofthe water. as large
proportion Of the Russian Hebrews who
come here do so on their own account.
without receiving outside assistance or
asking anybody advice.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-09
HESINllIS-

ROME, April s.-The Italio says that the
MARQUIS Di Rudini has renewed 1nstruc-
tions to Italian consuls TO the United
States to counsel calmness on the part OF
Italian residents. and that the premier Is
parture of Baron Fava the federal govern
ment will give Italy the satisfaction that
6 fue
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-09
The KANSAS FISCAL AGENCY.

TOPEKA. Kan, April s.-Secretary Of
State Higgins and Treasurer Slower lett
for New York this morning, TO superin-
tend the transferring OF the funds of the
state to the new fiscal agent Of the state,
the Interstate National bank, at los
Broadway. Hon John Francis, ex-state
treasurer, is the vice president of the new
bank
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-09
TIE COKE STRIKE.

HARRISBURG, Pa, April s.-Major Gen
eral Snowden, division commander, who
is in the coke region, today sent a tele-
gram to Governor Pattison, stating that
everything was quiet and in good shape
The last dispatch from General Wiley says:
ut is expected that this week VIII see the
strike completely broken up and all works
in oneratiOu -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-09
PROGRESS.

It is very important in this age of vast
material progress that a remedy be pleas
ing to the taste and 10 the eye, easily aken,
acceptable to the stomach and healthy in
its nature and effects Possessing these
qualities, Syrup of Figs is the one perfect
laxative and most gentle diuretic known.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-09
A Theory.

Miss St. Fashion, cannot understand
how the delicate and refined Miss Green
dell, the poetess, could marry an Indian.
Miss Brownstone latter refectionp Per
heps re was rich--Cood News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-09

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, April S:-The lesis
lature convened and organized yesterday
The governors message was submitted TO-
day. He recommended vigorous changes
in the law. liberal appropriation for the
worlds fair, and liberal appropriation
for inducing emigration.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-09
kIkCaIO ACQUITTED.

WASHINGTON. April S-The jury in the
csse OF kincaid. the newspaper correspond
eut charged with the murder OF eN-Con-
gressman Taulbee, or kentucky, tonight
brought in verdict of not guilty.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-09
Sp,NoI A AND ROSECRANS.

WASHINGTON, April Seen. Rosecrans
is confined to his room with symptoms OF
pneumonia.
and is reported very i'll today.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-09

All pain quickly yields to the influence
of Salvation Oil. Price % cents a bottle.
"a monument will be erected to the dis
cover of DR.. Bulls Congh Syrup. "-Ex
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-09
THE ORIDA LEGISLATURE

If you feel tired. weak, and out of sorts,
YOU should take Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-09
She WAS Cured

BEEoHAMs PILLS cure bilious and nerv
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-29
? Al N T

Now is the time to paint your house
and if you wish to get the best quality
and fine color use the
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-29
Antiquity of Fishing.

Probably no branch of industry can
lay claim to greater antiquity than that
of fishing. Its origin would seem to be
coeval with the earliest efforts of human
ingenuity, for the oldest monuments of
antiquity show the fisherman in full pos
session of the implements of his calling,
and even those tribes of savages which
have learned neither to keep fiocks nor
to till the fields are skilled in the fabri-
cation of the hook. the fish spear and the
net. The earliest civilization of the
eastern Mediterranean was begun with
fishing Sidon, which means ''the fish
cry" was originally fishing village,
and its enterprising inhabitants devoted
their attention mainly to the collection
of a certain kind of 1nollusks, from which
they prepared the famous Tyrian pur
pie, priced more highly for the richness
and variety of its hues than any other
dye known to the ancients.-Wa ashing-
ton Star
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alove. CANNOT FAIL >

Love cannot fail,'' when joy grows pale,
And Hopes blithe heart forloru;
When Sin makes black the shining track
Below the hills OF morn;
When Faith is weak, and dare not seek
The Souls abiding place;
When Doubt doth lift from Times dark drift,
A wan, bewildered face;
When Pains keen blade deep wounds has
made
From which we vainly shrink;
When Life burns low, with flickering glow,
Above Deaths somber brink;
When Earth;s last light fades into night,
And all is said and done''-
Love cannot fan" and must prevail,
For God and Love are one.
Nv. II. Hayne in Sunday School Times.
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Arc You Right or Left Handed.

Theories as to the origin and cause of
right handedness may be divided as fol-
lows: According to one class of theories,
it rests on an anatomical basis and de-
pends on a physical cause which exerts
its influence in every one of us. Accord
ing to another class, man originally had
no preference for either hand, but be-
came right handed by conventional
usages, which may or may not have had
their origin in some anatomical features.
For any theory of the first class to be
satisfactory it must, first, account for
difference in sensation as well as in force
OF dexterity; second, it must account
for the occasional appearances of left
handedness; and, third, it mnst not be
inconsistent with the fact that most of
those who have their organs transposed
the heart on the right, the liver ON the
left, etc.-are right handed.-Thomas
Dwight, NJ. D., in Scribner'a
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La IN CALIFORNIA IN ,4e.


A State of Society in which Women Had
Little or No Part for a Time.
Life in California was at that time a
wild romance. No words of mine can
describe the scenes that were enacted
during that chaotic period. Thousands
of men, organized in bands or wholly
disorganized, were constantly arriving
from every part of the world and leav-
ing for the diggings. Outlaws and pro-
fessional gamblers opened saloons by
the score at every point where men con-
gregated. Money was scattered every
where as if by the wind Miners who
had realized fortunes in few days
came down to Stockton, Sacramento
and San Francisco to squander them in
night. Scarcely woman was any
where to be seen. All restraining inf1u-
ences of society were absent, and can
not find an expression better suited to
the case than ''Pandemonium on a
frolic.
AS there were no wives there could be
no homes or families. A few stores had
been hastily put up along the shore,
made of rough boards or canvas. and all
of them were doing an enormous bust
ness. The rest of the village consisted
of shanties or tents used for restaurants
and saloons. Human life was a moving
panorama. The whole place was alive
with mass of unkempt men clad in
flannel shirts and heavy boots, who were
inspired with the one desire to hurry on
to the mines
This rough life was not without its
touches of sentiment. One day the town
was electrified by the rumor that an in
voice of women's bonnets had arrived
and could be seen at one of the stores.
The excitement was intense, and there
was rush from every direction to get a
realistic view of even SO insignificant q
substitute for female society. l do not
overstate the truth in saying that the
thoughts of home that were awakened
in the breasts of the rude looking men
at the sight of those bonnets started
tears from eyes which the worst forms
of privation and hardship had failed to
moisten.
The Christian missionary was already
on the ground, and good Parson Will
Jams had managed to find place where
he could preach on Sunday. One of the
! first men who arrived with his family
came to one of these meetings attended
by his wife and baby. During the ser
mon it CHANGED that thebaby cried, and
the mother was about to withdraw
when the preacher addressed her thus:
My good woman, l beg you to re
mains the innocent sound of that in
fanf's voice Is more eloquent than any
words can command. It speaks to the
hearts of men whose wives and children
are far away. looking and praying for
safe return to their own loved ones a.
home" Never shall forget the sob,
and tears which those words evoked
throughout that rough assembly. THAI
infants cry seemed to them the music q
/ angels. G. Fremont in Century.
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seer'' for the French nation. He shall with
proper ceremony, here under the open
heaven and by the flowing Seine, even in
this Field of Mars, across whose sod Roman
emperors have ridden, consecrate all the
eighty-three banners of France
So he goes up the altar steps. and with
proper formula of churchly Latin and
patriotic French begins the service of con
secration. Just then, however. great
cloud swings across the July sky and pours
down with loud thunder squall on all these
three hundred thousand deluge of rain
The incense pans are ominously put out.
All draperies hang dripping. But the
high priest of France completes the conse-
Grafton of the flags The sun bursts out
again. The great Day of Federation, the
memorable Feast of Pixies, is ended with a
religious benediction from the lips OF that
high priest whom careful history writes by
the name of Charles Maurice, prince OF
Perigord. but whom the world calls Idlley
randi JOHN CLARK RIDPATH
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lis here and has come to stay It hopes
to win it's way to public favor by ener-
gy, industry and merit; and to this end
we ask that you give it a fair trial, and
If satisfied with it's course a generous
lSTnnOrt
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Guard Your Speech.

Elmer Young, an Oewego man, felt
funny the other morning, and he said to
Mrs. White. who was going to the gro
Gerry, .sTrot along after your coal oil,
sissy" She had him arrested, and the
court decided that 'ssissy" was slander
and gave her verdict for $50 Detroit
Free Press
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-29

OF 1000 children born in England, II al E
twins; in Scotland, IL; in Ireland, IL II.
general, twins occur once in 90 births II
England there are 8, T36 twins born ever
year, or about 4,s6s double births Th
cases where there are more than two at 3
birth average eight per year.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-29
THE DALLES.

The Gate City Of the Inland Empire is situate
the head Of navigation on the Middle Columbia.
is a thriving, prosperous city
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-29

HE spect;lcles of
the French revolu
tion were as as.
founding in char
acter as the actors
in the drama were
titanic in stature.
In the backward
look of today the
whole thing ap-
pears like n huge
phantasm rravers
ing the sober stage
of history The
peoples of our time
are mora fIicnoSad
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ITS TERRITORY.

Is a prosperous
ITS TERRITORY
It is the SUPPLY city for extensive and rich agr
cultural grazing country, its trade reaching as
far south Summer Lake, distance of over two
hundred miles.
THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET
The rich grazing country along the eastern slope
the the Cascades furnishes pasture thousands
Of sheep the wool from which finds market here
The Dal1es is the largest original wool shipping
point in America, about 100000 pounds being
shipped last year.
ITS PRODUCTS
The salmon fisheries the finest the Columbia
yielding this year of 500, 900 which
and will be more than doubled in the future.
The products the beautiful Klickital valley find
market here and the country south and has this
filed the warehouses and all available storage
places to overhowing with their products
ITS WEALTH
It is the richest city Of its size the coast and
money is scattered and is being to develop
more farming country than is tributary any other
city in Eastern Oregon.
It's situation unsurpassed! It's climate delight
full Its possibilities ncalculable resources
limited! And on these corner stones she stands.
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Her Changed Estat..

are you living now, Bridget
Bridget (hsughilyE EShure, mum, Oh
don't live any where. Dim married
Kate Fields Washington.
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PARIS FEAST OF Pixies.
RiDPATH's ACCOUNT OF THE OATH
FETE IN THE CHAMPS DE MARS.

oecasion of the Great Festival of 1870.
Preparations for the SpectacIe-The
Day and the Ceremony-A Scene In
credible to the People of Our Times.
&Copyright. 1891. by American Press Associa-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-06-19
THE OTTAWA TRAGEDY.

From the St. Peter Iribnpe we learn
further particulars of the tragedy at
OTTAWA, as follows:
"a terrible tragedy occurred at the
home of Leonard Vogt, on the Wen
delschaffer farm near OTTAWA, LeSueur
county, on Monday evening last, be-
tween 2 and 4 o'clock, Leonard Vogt
being the principal in an attempt to
murder his wife, and thinking Ler
dead, procured piece Of clothes line,
and going 20 rods from his house. hung
himself to Sapling and was found by
some neighborS stone dead. For a
long time Vogt has exhibited a jeal-
Gus disposition toward his wife, but
without the least possible reason
therefor. Sunday night, the children
went to bed, also his wife and little
daughter who slept with the parents.
Vogt did not go to bed till late, and
not until his wife begged him to. He
finally yielded and lay down upon the
side of the bed for about half an hour,
when he got up. Some of the chill
6ren then got up and the eldest light
ed lamp. The father Immediately
blew the light out remarking: ''Ineed
no light for my purpose. He asked
them what are you going to do now, 7"
and then handed his money purse to
one of the children telling him to lay
it on the shelf where he could find it,
saying your mamma shall never mar
ry anybody else.,.' He then seized the
Ratchet from under the foot of the
bed and struck his wife a murderous
blow. The only daughter, a little
girl, attempted to stop him, but he
pushed her away, and the deadly blows
from the Ratchet fell thick and fast
upon the poor Woman'S head and
shoulders until thirteen blows had
been struck with the blunt end of the
instrument: the woman unconscious
and bleeding, and he believing he had
accomplished his insane desire to kill
her, he seized a piece of clothes line
and said; II am going to hang myself
now,' and sure enough he did. Going
about 20 rods from the house, he tied
the rope to sapling, arranged slip
moose about his neck, threw his weight
upon it and died from sheer strangula-
tion: his feet, when found by neigh
bofs, were resting upon the ground
and his body reclined against the
tree
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-06-19
First ms. June 10, last July 3
ORDER FOR HEARING ON CLAIMS.

= TATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Blue
y Earth.-ss In Probate Court, Special
Term, June II, 1891.
In the matter of the estate of Nathaniel Stew
ems, Sr., deceased.
Letters of administration on the estate of the
said deceased being this day granted unto
Galloway Z. Stevens of said County.
1t is ordered, that all claims and demands OF
all persons against said estate be presented to
this Court, for examination and allowance, at
the Probate Office in the city of Mankato, in
said Blue Earth County on the following day,
viz: On Tuesday, the 18th day of January, A.
D. 1892. at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day.
1t is Further Ordered, that seven months
from the date hereof be allowed to creditors to
present their claims against said estate, at the
expiration of which time all claims not present
ed to said Court not proven to its satisfaction,
shall be forever barred; unless for cause shown
further time be allowed.
Ordered Further, That notice of the time and
place of the hearing and examination OF said
claims and demands shall be given by publica-
ton, for three successive weeks prior to the day
appointed for such examination, IN the Manka-
to Free Press weekly newspaper printed and
published at Mankato, in said county.
Dated al the city of Mankato the 18th day of
June, A. d. 1891.
r.r BY the Court.
TsEAL1 W. B. T0RREY; Judge of Probate.
LoRIN CRAY elT
ATTORNEY for Administrator.
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LETTER FROM A. j, GREEN.

POMONA, Cal, Ju ne 10. 1891.
Editor Free Press
DEAR SIR thought would write
you few lines to let you know that
we are well and are enjoying very good
health. S. Peet and family arrived
here at our place May 26th and have
rented house not far from US. Their
coming turns my mind back to num-
Der of years ago when / lived near
Mapleton and laid very near deaths
door with a fever. How kind the
neighbors were. often think if they
had not been kind I would not be here
to-day. wish to speak some names
so they will see / haven't forgotten
them and never will. There is j. E.
Brown, he took the lead and said:
Come, boys, land go, 'and they all went
and helped take careof me. There were
VIM. Plymat,J j. Wishart,J. M. Sprague,
wv. III. Tenney, M. E. Berry, d. G.
Western, c. Sanders, and good many
more. Well, / must tell you all about
Sherm and me. We thought we would
look the country over one day, and so
/ hitched up my broncho and took our
dinners with US and struck out, and
by noon we were fifteen miles from
home. We ate our dinner and started
toward home. We went about three
miles after dinner, and getting very
thirsty, concluded we would have
to get a drink; we came to large
school house and there found wind
mill. We got a drink and SO | thought
to give the broncho a~drink also. l
carried her some and as she couldn't
drink with the bits in her mouth, j
slipped them out, and just as / did
that she gave lunge and away she
went with the buggy up the road with
out a bride on. She ran as far as she
could and man caught her and put
her in barn when Sherm and l got
there. She ran four miles and never
broke thing.
There will be lots of fruit here this
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A "HOIy ShekeI."

Such is the name of an ancient jew
ish coin of a certain character, of
which it is said that there are but two
in existence. 1t is over rare on &C
count of its antiquity. Judging from
the Hebrew characters upon either
side, its origin is presumed to date
back to the days of King Solomon,
and it is valued by connoisseurs in
that line at thousands ofdollars, while
its intrinsic value is comparatively
nothing. Many large collections can
be found of coins of various kinds to
which are attached strange histories
and curious designs. In sense, the
''shekels Of to-day" are holy or unholy
but they count just the same for any
of the necessities of life-a sack of
-four, suit of clothes or a trip on the
rail. The Minneapolis & ST. Louis
Railway will accept them for tickets
via its lines, and if any question is
brought up about it, refer the matter
to c. M. Pratt, G. L. Il P. A, Mime
apolis, Mimi. 1t2
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ANYONE who watches the course of
the wheat investigation, now going
on precautionary of the last legislature,
which appropriated SO, 900 to bear the
expense, cannot resist the conviction
that it is assuming something of a
farcial form. 1t may not be exactly
much ado about nothing" but that
there has been much ado with no
practical results is, at present, very
apparent. Half the appropriation is
gone and the halo of mystery about
the whole affair is growing denser all
the time. The final efforts may bring
order out of chaos, however.
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The Long and Short of IT.

Out of the two million Union Sol
diers in the last war, three-fourthS
were Americans by birth. OF the re-
mainder lis, 900 were Germans, 150, 900
Irish, $4,000 English and $4,000 Cana
dians. The average height was feet
81 inches. Out of one million record
ed heights, there were 1000 men over
six feet. The tallest man in the SER
vice was Capt. Van Buskirk of the nth
Indiana, who stood 6 feet 104 inches in
his stockings. The shortest soldier
was member of the 1920 Ohio, whose
stature was only 40 inches. In the
matter of Railroads 1.-THE long and
short of it'' is that the LENGTH of the
Burlington lines is over 1000 miles,
and it is the SHORTEST, quickest and
best route for reaching all the larger
places in ten States west of Chicago.
For tickets by this line apply to any
coupon ticket agent, or for further in
formation write to w. J. G. Kenyon,
Gen: Pass. Agt., G. B. & N. R. R., ST.
Paul, MINI.
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LATEST MARKET Prices.
st. Paul Grain.

st. Paul Grain.
ST. Paul. June ls, 1891
WHEAT-No. hard, i.0s0l:03 MOL north
ern, sl.O: 10 2 northern, 93c.
CORN-No. >, "A SIC,
oATS-No. Z mixed, $50 loc: No. 2 white,
41Q43c: No. white, @44c.
BARLEY-No. 2, 715c; 30. 3, 65 57Oc
RYE-Ne. ?. S0ilS2c.
GROUND FEED-No /. So. O902s. 80. No. ,,
$3.50 1850.
BALED HAY No / upland, $780,
No. : upland, 81 O937 80; No. Wild. S7.5s
No. 2 Wild 16.0Fa6.5G.
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Piles. Piles. Piles.

LOOSES RED CLOVER PILE
Remedy is a positive specific for all
forms of the disease. Blind, Bleeding,
Itching, liberated and Protruding.
Price SOC. For sale by John r. Jones.