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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-06-19
Tobacco Product of Illinois.

WASHINGTON CRY, June 15.-The cen
sus Office has given out the tobacco statis-
ties of Illinois. The total number of
planters in the state during the census
year was 2,449, the total devoted to tobac.
co, 4, 155 acres; the total product 3,042, 93e
pounds; and the value of the crop to the
producer, estimated on basis OF actual
sales $116340
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-06-19
Nine-Hour Day for Printers.

BOSTON, June 15.-The Typographical
Union has adopted resolution favoring
a nine-hour day after Oct. 1. 1t was
voted that all moneys contributed to the
Childs-Drexel fund be placed in the hands
of board of trustees. The decisions of
ex-President Plank during the year were
approved. The convention adjourned to
meet in Philadelphia in June, 1892.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-06-19
Ripped i'm Half by a Saw.

HUDSON, Wis, June 1h-Ole Nelson. an
employee at the Nelson e. Co. large saw
mill at Lakeland, Mimi, was instantly
killed Saturday by falling on one of the
large saws. The saw passed up his body
such manner as to cut him into two
enual narts
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-06-19
Curious Fatal Accident.

BANGOR, Me-, June 15.-Luther Holt,
aged SO, of East Exeter, while walking in
the woods lay down to rest in the shade of
the roots of large overturned tree.
Workmen not knowing of his presence,
chopped the trunk from the roots, which,
when released, flew back, into the place,
imprisoning Holt beneath them. He was
dead before he could be released.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-06-19
THREE PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH.
Fatal Tenement Fire i'm New York
Caught in Their Sleep.

Caught in Their Sleep.
NEW YORK, June 15.-Three persons,
members of one family, were burned to
death early yesterday morning in tene-
ment house fire on upper Third avenue.
Those who lost their. lives were Philip
Brady, aged So; Catherine Brady, his wife,
aged 40, and their 13-year-old son, Philip
Brady. The tenants were asleep on the
fifth floor and from the positions in which
their bodies were found it is evident that
they were not awakened until the fire had
them surrounded. Their bodies were
burned almost beyond recognition. Many
others of the tenants had narrow escapes.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-06-19
Seven Buildings DESTROYED.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis, June 1.-THE bust
ness portion of Mondovi, place of 700 in
habitants, in Buffalo county, was swept
by fire between and o'clock Yesterday
morning. Seven buildings. were de-
stroyed, among which were the bank and
postoffice. Total loss about $50, 200, with
$4,000 insurance.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-06-19
COWARDLY REVENGE ATTEMPTED.
An Illinois Farmer and Family Nearly
Blown Up with Dynamite,

Blown Up with Dynamite,
MARSHALL, Ills, June 13.-Thursday
night a dastardly attempt was made to
kill Ira Travoli, his wife, and five children
by blowing up their house with dynamite.
They slept in the north end of the house,
and all escaped unhurt. The entire south
end was blown to atoms, and the force of
the explosion tore hole in the ground
about four feet in diameter and foot and
half deep. Yesterday a warrant was is
sued for the arrest of John Leggett, whose
farm adjoins Travoli. They have quar-
relied great deal lately, and tracks from
Travoli's house to Leggett's were plainly
visible
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-06-19
NEW COURT ORGANIZED.
United States Court ofAppeals at Chicago
Judges in Robes.

United states Court OF Appeals ut chicago
Judges i'm Robes.
CHICAGO, June 1.-THE new United
States court of appeals, which is expected
to remove an immense weight from the
already crowded supreme court at Wash
.ington City, was formally orga nized in
this district at noon yesterday. At that
hour Justice Harlan and Judges Gresham,
Allen, Woods, Jenkins, and Blodgett en-
tered the court room, the spectators rising
and remaining standing until the judges
were seated.
Clerk and Marshal Appointed.
Justice Harlan said that the court which
was to be organized was authorized by the
act of March 3, 1891. The first business
was the appointment o. l.. Gilman as
marshal and Oliver 7. Morton, of Indiana,
as clerk-both life positions. The justice
said the question of robeshad been de-
cided in the affirmative, and that when in
session the judges would wear the usual
judicial gown worn by the supreme court
judges at Washington City. The court
then adjourned for the day.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-06-19
A un,t.d States ConsuI,. Cr,me.

HALIFAX, \. s., June 15.-Tanner. late
United States consul at Pictou, has been
indicted by the grand jury of that place
for indecent assault. Tanner fed some
months ago, FORGETTING his bail.
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Killed by the Fast Freight.

MAHANoY CITY, Pa, June 1.-Two
Poles named Andrew Kratowskis and
John Maxim were killed by the fast
freight on the Reading railroad, near
Mahanoy Plain, Saturday night.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-06-19
Six workmen severely burned.

LOCK HAVEN, Pa, June 15.-Hipplc's
planning mill, sash, blind and door factory
was burned Saturday. Loss $4,000; in
sured. Six wcrkmen were severely ana q
number of others slightly burned.
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Probably a Happy Release.

VIENNA, June ia barge carrying 500
convicts on the Volga river, in Russia,
the convicts being destined to Siberia,
sank near Novgorod and many were
drowned
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Made an Assignment.

SHAKoPEE. Mimi, June 1b.-The Shake
pee Mill company, composed of c. T.. and
j. G. Buchanan, made an assignment Fri
day. The estimated assets are 5000; Ii
abilities S37. OOO
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Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup Of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptabie to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to AL and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in Soc
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any.
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO..
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK, NV
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-06-19
The Engineer Terribly Hurt

Brave Engineer Con Harrington, resi-
dent of this city, stood at his post, and
when his engine leaped the track and tore
its way through the station he was still at
the throttle. He was drawn unconscious
from the wreck, his right leg broken and
his right arm almost torn from its socket.
His recovery is very doubtful. The other
trainmen escaped with few bruises
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-06-19
STOOD BY THE THROTTLE.

Frightful Accident on a Railway in Mich
igan-Engineer Badly Injured.
MARQUETTE, Mich, June IA fright
full run occurred Thursday on the L'Anse
grade of the D., S. S. and A. railway. The
brakes of a freight train going west failed
to work, and the train plunged down the
steep grade, over mile in length, jumped
the track at the curve in front of L'Anse
Station, and tore through the station
buildings. The occupants of the station,
warned by the shrieking whistle, had es-
capped in time.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-05-14
SILENCE AND SOLITUDE.

Gods ofthe desert! Ye are they
We shun from childhood's earliest breath;
Our passing joys are but your prey;
Ye wait the hours from birth to death.
Over soft lawns where blossoms sleep,
Under warm trees where love was born,
I see your naughty shadows Creep
And wait to meet We there forlorn.
Afar on ancient sands We rest,
Carven in stone, where ancient thought
Wrapped ye in terrors-shapes unblest,
Dreadful, By might Of ages wrought.
But not alone on Egypts shore
Sleeps the great desert; everywhere
Where gladness lived and lives no more,
There is desert of despair.
Strange messengers! Your brows of gloom
Haunt every creature born Of earth;
Ye follow to the dark ened room;
Ye watch the awful hour of birth.
Ye show the lovely wayside rose .-
Whose antique grace is born anew,
To eyes of grief. Grief only knows
How tender is the sunsets hue.
Gods of the DESERT BY your hand
Through the sad waters are we brought
Into a high and peaceful land .'
To drink of fountains else unsought.
Annie Fields
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A Street In Sophia.

Irecall now that vast band of stag
nant dust leading from the station to
the town, separated from it surround
ing monotony by sundry depressions
along the line by the excavated debris
which fringed it's edges; with a double
row OF infant trees marking it's curb
lines, each one of which was shriveled
to crisp by the blistering heat.
Added to this mockery, at regular
intervals stood flower beds in ovals,
and diamonds, and circles, filled with
plants burned to cinder, their very
blossoms, which no man had dared
pluck, dead for months, and still
standing brown and dust begrimed.
Such is the great boulevard leading
from the railway to the palace!
Moreover, these particular adorn-
ments were not made at q season
when it might have been possible to
have justified their existence, but in
the beginning of the hot season and
during the continuance of drought
which lasted four months. Indeed,
many prominent oppositionists did
not hesitate to say, and say openly,
that the haste with which these So
called improvements were carried out
was due as much to the unsettled con-
dition Of public affairs as to any thing
else, and that the old adage ofmaking
hay while the sun shone had double
meaning in this case. -Hopkinson
Smith. in the Century. .sss.
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WISCONSIN,:


Fire at West Superior destroyed the ice
house and barge at the end of the Tower
bay ship docks. Loss was slight.
c. G. Paige's foundry and machine shops
were damaged by fire at Oshkosh to the ex-
tent of $50, 900. The insurance is So, 400
At Found du Lac Thomas Melville, bag
gagemaster for the St. Paul G. Duluth rail
road, fell from fiat car and Had both his
legs crushed by the train. He was brought
to Duluth, and died at, o'clock. He
leaves wife and little child.
William V. Case was fatally kicked by a
mule at Ashland. He was grooming an
animal which belonged to the keystone
Lumber company when it kicked him in
the face, fracturing his skull over both
eyes.
The golden wedding anniversary of Mr..
jacob Walter was celebrated at Eau Claire.
A special train brought family members
from Menasha, Appleton and Sheboygan.
-Four Of the sons are wealthy brewers in
thisstate. Schwahn's hall was engaged for
the celebration.
AT the village election at St. Croix Falls.
James Thompson was elected president;
trustees, T. H. Thompson, B. O'Neal, S, J.
Wall, W. A. Seery, William Patterson;
clerk l.. B. Dresser; treasurer, M. H.
Arnold; assessor, Jacob Berger: supervisor,
Seymour Banding.
Alex Jargansen tailor at Shell Lake,
and two comrades were out sailing when a
squat struck the boat, which was capsized
and the men thrown in the water. Rescu-
ers Immediately started out to their assist
ance, and succeeded in saving two of them,
put Jargansen sank when they were within
five feet of him.
In the circuit court at Madison Doerlan
Mihill, Samuel Manson, E. H. Wilder
and }. E. Ingraham, constituting lum-
Der firm of Madison, obtained Judgment
of $4,000 against the Montreal River Lum-
Der company, Of Douglas County. Mihill
and the others bought Is, 100000 feet OF
lumber from the Montreal company, and
claimed fraud in the execution of the con-
tract to the extent Of $4,000. The case
will go to the supreme court.
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IOWA..

Elmer Shafer, brakeman on the Illinois
Central, was killed at Parkersburg. He
was rs years old and unmarried.
VIM. West, coal miner. at Ottumwa
shot his wife and then put bullet through
his heart. The first shot was not fatal and
his wife will recover. A family quarrel
was the cause
AT Bacon, Peter Peter.Dn was assaulted
by his two brothers-in-law, who broke into
his house. They pounded him so severely
with loaded whip that he will die. It
was the result of a family feud.
The miners ofthe Boone coal fields signed
contracts fixing the price of mining for the
next year at 81 per ton. There are about
.1,OOOmners employed here. No demand
tor an eight-hour day was made. H..
b. +. Foreman, a reputable farmer who
resides at Marshalltown, says one of his
COWS has just dropped three living, healthy
calves, two of them being about ordinary
size, the other somewhat smaller 1t is
considered remarkable freak of nature.
Chef Riot of Eden was locked M at
Ottunwa for disturbing the peace. Early
one morning he made a moose of two
handkerchiefs and attempted suicide. He
was found and cut down lust in time to
save his life. He is insane. 90. f.
Capt. Tom Hill, wealthy retired 81
boat captain, well known up and down the
Mississippi river, who now lives at War
saw, ILL.,, was waylaid and robbed ofseveral
hundred dollars while driving with his
wife FROM Keokuk to Warsaw.
The Dubuque clearing house association
has been organized with P. J. Lee, presi-
dent: Z. w. Duncan, vice president; Jas
Harragan, manager; committee of manage.
ment, 0. f. Guernsey J. X. Deming ]. ..
Allison, Chas. Sass and E. M. Werner, 4
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Piled to a great deal OF machinery as
an economic substitute for steam and
electricity .-Washingto Post.
Good Advice:

hpeople learned to live, eat, sleepanu
clothe themselves intelligently and
reasonably, and to curb their imagin-
atlons, the days of medicine would be
well-nlgh past, or so soon as inherited
defects should be outgrown. Two
thirds OF all the supposed human dis
eases are imaginary. The quack doc
tor, and the quack medical ADVERTISE
ments, in various forms, work upon
the imagination. Long lists of "symp-
toms" are set forth in way to catch
the eye and lead the imagination
astray. A person weak, or weary, or
suffering from effects of improper food
taken in An improperly prepared con-
dltlon or in undue quantity, has dis
ordered imagination, and it is Just
that condition to be caught by these
specious displays OF symptoms"
The medicine is bought and taken. It
stimulates perhaps at first (many of
this class do); the consumer, who
only needed rest to body and stomach
and mind, imagines himself better,
and goes on taking it, all the while in
Jurlng his Or her health. "The posi-
tive cures" announced (where the
cure is not wholly imaginative are
nine cases out of ten falsehoods made
out OF the whole cloth, no matter how
definite, even to the pretended name,
place, street, and number OF "cured'
persons.-Judd Farmer.
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SOUTH DAKOTA.

Samuel B. Milton, editor and proprietor
of the Redtield Observer, has been commits
stoned aide de camp, with the rank of
Colonel, by Gov Mellette ILL. .-.e
A special school election was held at
Aberdeen. Republicans capturing all four
OF the board of education. Thirty women
availed themselves of the opportunity to
vote.
Eliza Rearick was arraign ed at Woon-
socket for the murder of her hus band Last
October. She is now q mother, and the
scene at her indictments was affecting in the
extreme.
Snow and rain has been constantly fall
ing for three days at Blunt. The ground is
now covered with the beautiful, and the
earth is thoroughly soaked, A large acre
age of wheat has been sown, and an inn
mense crop is expected.
The South Dakota university is at present
without an executive, President Grose
having resigned, Who will be Mr.. Crosses
successor isnot yet determined, but the board
will confer with the faculty and decide up
on the man to occupy that most important
position.
The Aberdeen land office is now prepared
W dCCept COlnInulaClOn ClMDer culture proofs
under the act of March 3, 1891. In these
proofs entrymen will be required to show
that they are bona tide residents Of the
state and have complied with the timber
culture law for four years.
Chairman Sessions, ofseed grain commit
tee reports that 40, 600 bushels of seed have
been put out, and that 1898 acres have
been seeded by help thus furnished. Some
farmers in thirty-one out Of the thirty four
organized townships were helped The
seed cost little less than 81 per bushel.
A meeting Of the South Dakota Republic
can league executive committee will be
held in Pierre on May %, in connection
with the annual encampment of the state
Sons of Veterans association, which occurs
the same day. Both meetings will be of
importance in political sense.
d. Livingston superinten dent of the
state insane asylum at Yankton, was re-
moved by the state board of charities
and corrections The reasons cannot
be learned, but it may be disclosed in a
day or two. This is the second investiga-
ton of DR.. Livingston's official course
The other occurred about year & e.
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NORTH DAKOTA

The Cass county, North Dakota teachers
ASSOCIATION met at Fargo for four days'
session.
The governor and militia line officers
met at Bismarck and fixed on Devils lake
as the place for the encampment july Is,
continuing one week.
The seeding has been about finished in
Stark county, and never was the ground in
better condition or more promising to the
tiller of the soil.
At the town election at Forman, FIG.
Bartlett, w. G. Forman and B. K. Rush
were elected trustees, thus giving the Dem
ocrats control Of the town board. The
Democrats are jubliant over their victory.
Ex-Railroad Commissioner Underhill.
who has been in Chicago since March, has
shipped three imported stations for service
among the 60 mares on his Hart river ranch
near antelope station in Stark county.
E. I. P. Staede, the largest dealer in farm
machinery at Devils Lake, assign ed to A.
o. Whipple. Assets, 100000; liabilities
$4,000. Staede went to Mankato few
months ago and is in business there.
Joseph R. Warner, switchman in the
Northern Pacific yards at Fargo, was run
over by freight train. His head was
severed from his body and both arms were
horribly mutilated. It is not known how
the accident occurred.
Cattlemen have been securing the coun-
try for stock, and several thousand head
nave been shipped out of the Red River
valley this spring. A train of twelve cars
or stock started from Mayville one day re-
Gently, destined for St. Paul and Sioux
City.
There is great excitement around Miehi-
gan City caused by land agents from Mani
toba trying land with some success) to in
duce our farmers to go there and take IN
land. Mass meetings have been held and
three quite prominent farmers have been
appointed delegates, and will start soon
1o1 that co untry on tour of inspection.
Maj. F. w. Colman, who has been sue
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ccssful in placing the Hotel Dacot all, GRAND
Forks, in the rank of first class hotels, will
remain permanently in the N orthwest.
Mr. Colman- is a son Of Robert w. Cel,nan,
of Baltimore, long the propri etor Of the
Carrolton, of that city. The stock of the
latter hotel was placedin escro W some time
ago to accomplish certain objects, but will
be released on June l when the property
can be conveyed by clear majority Of all
stock and absolute control secured.
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Items of Interest,

Many names of materials in COM
mon use have queer origins. Nickel
was first obtained as a metal from
Germany over a century ago, but the
ore had been previously known to the
miners as kunfernickel, or old Nick's
copper, because, although it looked
like copper ore, they could obtain no
copper from 1T.
A Louisiana electric light company
is having made for it what is said to
be the largest belt in the world. 1t is
made of two thicknesses of leather,
consisting of the skins of ITS animals,
andis S feet wide and 1859 feet long.
The services of 20 men, for a period
OF two months will be required to
complete it, and it will when finished.
weigh two tons. The entire cost of
the belt will be about $4,000, or
nearly $40 per square foot.
A Kansas editor offers the following
sentence for school teachers to dissect
and is willing to bet quart ofmolas-
ses that some OF them will find moth
ing wrong with it.: A widow woman
who was always noted for truth and
veracity, and who had recently cele-
brated her centennial anniversary.
died OF pneumonia fever Friday even
ing at 8 O'Clock p. M, and her funeral
obsequies were numerously attended
by many people.
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SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.
USEFUL ANDINTERESTlNG Dis
CQVERIES4
How Fishes Bfeathe--Compress
Air as Motor--Mistake Of
PhysicIans--The Omnipres-
emit Microbe. a.
How Fishes Breathe,

The severe frost OF last winter froze
many rivers and lakes i'm England
that are usually open all the year
round, and gentleman who found
small fishes dead wrote to Nature to
ask, GLOW is it with the fish in coun-
tries like Siberia? Do they desert those
parts of the rivers which are frozen
over, Or are the currents more rapid,
so as to transfer air beneath the ice
from unfrozen parts, or, as in some
glacier streams, are fish altogether alb
sent?"
Any one who has caught fish through
ice three feet thick on Maine ponds
will understand that fish live vely
comfortably so long as any part OF
the pond remains liquid. The waters
OF Siberia are likely to be abunda ntly
stocked with fish, which will be found
in the best condition when their h ouse
is sealed with frost.
1t is not necessary to suppose that
air is carried under the ice from open
places in the brooks. There is air
enough in the water at all times to
answer the purposes OF the fish. The
presence of the air is best discovered
by allowing water slowly to become
warm in a. vessel of tin or iron. The
air, whichis held in the water very
much as water is held in a sponge, is
| expanded by the heat and may be
seen gathering LII small bubbles at
tached to, the surface of the vessel.
This must be matter of common OBJ
| servation.
It is this air that supplies the fishes
with breath. It may be thought by
some persons that fishes breathe wa
ter, for the writer has heard this state
ment made; but such a view is not
corre:t> The fish has no power to de-
compose water and get the needed OK
ygen from that source
AS he is constituted he needs very
little air. He is furnished with but
little blood, and this is sufficiently OK
ldized by coming in contact with air
in the water forced through his gills,
which are his breathing apparatus.
The effect of the air is seen when the
fish is taken from the water. The
gllls suddenly redden. This is due to
the rapid oxidation of the blood. The
fish is killed by the excess Of air. In
the water he gets only the proportion
that he needs. Altogether the fish
must be very comfortable under the
Ice during our hard winter.