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The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-30
CRIME.

| A MICHIGAN man experienced religion
and confessed the murder OF his father
for which he had been tried and acauit
| ted
JAMES Tracy, of Baltimore, treasurer
| Of the National s one Mason $ Association
has disappeared with 81 900 belonging y
the society.
JOHN CARSON was found with his throa,
cut from ear 70 ear, at Al Christie street,
New York. Friday. This is the fifth vic
tim of soma mysterious New York Jack
the Ripper"
WIN WEST. who was arrested with a
quantity of lottery tickets in his possess
sion few days ago at Chicago, was fined
sl00 by Justice Glennon Monday.
Mrs. Johnson, a Young Peoria bride
wno was shot through the brain by her
husband early Monday evening, died We'd
nesday morning.
FIVE of the Linwood, Arkansas, riot
ers have been convicted and sentenced TO
the state penitentiary for from two to ten
years each.
Gov. FIFER. of Illinois. has issued IA
requlsitlon on the governor OF Colorado
for Wm. p. Back. who is wanted IN Chi
cago for embezAlement. Buck Is now un.
der arrest at Denver.
The building occupied by Mclean X
Campbell, George Mclean u Co., j. l..
Hunsicker and Leonard Bros, Montreal,
was burned Thursday morning. Loes,
$50, 1000.
WARREN SPRINGER, Of Chicago, who
has been held liable for the death Of sew
eral of his employees byaa. boiler explosion,
was arrested Wednesday on the charge of
nanslaughter. He was released on bond.
In Philadelphia Mrs. Sarah Hobbs, an
aged woman, who, Jan. IA. was brutally
kicked by Thomas Ferguson, prize
fighter, is dead. Ferguson lived with his
victim daughter. and it was his daily
habit to beat both women. He is in
prison.
Mrs. MckEA6UE, farmers wife in
Crawford county, Pa, was found dead in
bed Saturday, with her head almost cut
of and razor lying on the floor. She
had evidently been murdered.
MRs. MARY SIMPSON, of Chicago, com.
mitted suicide while temporarily insane
Saturday evening, by disrobing and lying
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-30

A DECISION interesting to people gener-
ally has just been handed down by the
court of appeals at Montreal. 1t bears on
the contract which telegraph companies
have printed on the blanks which they
furnish. The case was that of Laurence
Va. The Great Northwestera company.
When Lionel Laurence was in New York
one of mis- en,ployes sent him a dispatch
saying: Writing you tonight. The
sentence was made 10 read "Waitin Z
You tonight" Consequently Mr.. Laurence
made an unnecessary trip from New York
to Montreal, and sued the telegraph COM
pany for 5000 damages The court in the
first instance awarded $50, the actual cost
of the trip from New York. Tue COM
pany appealed from this decision.
The proof established the fact that
the error was due to the negligence
of the employees Of the company. but the
appellant set up the plea that dispatches
were sent under contract which declared
that it would not be liable for damages
resulting from errors unless the dispatch
was repeated, and then only to the amount
of fifty times the price paid for the mes
sage. Such contract TIE court declared
to be contrary to public policy, and any
contract hy which party sought to fix
the punishment for his faults was illegal.
The judgment was confirmed. which
means that, like the contrac. on the back
of railway pass exempting the company
from liability in case of accident. the con-
tract on the reverse side of telegraph
blank Is OF no effect The ruling in the
case of the telegraph company where the
service is actually paid for, is unquestion-
ably sound.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-30
FEATAERwEIGHrs FIGHT.
6e"rx" ssid"nA Knocks Out Tom my VIA,
rea at New Orleans.

New ORLEANS. jan. 2l.-Tommy
Wariea and George Siddons, feather.
weights, had FIVE ounce glove contest t.,
night for a purse of 81 500 of which
$500 goes 10 the loser Warren was
seconded by Dutch" Neil.
Charley Porter and Andy Bowen: Sid.
dons by George Queen. Charles Fox,
Tommy Ryan and Jack Burke. Betting
was 800 10 $40 and $50 in Warren's favor.
John Duff; referee
Time was called at 9;5l. Warren had
the best OF the first round, landing sever.
al severe body blows. In the second.
third and fourth Warren landed heavily
on Siddon's stomach and lodged several
of the latters' vicious thrasts.
ln the fourth Siddons received a severe
smash in the face.
In the fifth. sixth and seventh Siddons
began to take the lead, landing several
hard upper cuts and receiving q number
Of body blows.
In the eighth Siddous forced the fight
ing, landing heavy right handler. War.
rem was very weak.
In the ninth, after receiving right aud
left on the face several tunes. Warren
clinched to avoid punishment. Finally a
right handler on the jaw knocked Warren
out.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-30

After all, the luxurious ways will pre-
vail. IL the south would only go into the
business OF raising early lambs the cheap
ness with which Il could be done would
about destroy competitions; but until this
IL done the hot-house system of raising
the lambs in the north will be profitable
and will be pursued. When more money
can be obtained for lamb four months
old than for sheep four years old. there
will not be lacking men who will keep
stoves burning in barn Easements nigh,
and day during the lambing season, main
tanning so high a temperature for the sake
OF the lambs that the eve, will hare to
shorn for comfort It will have TO
De very dry basement tnat will not
sicken both ewes and lambs with its damp.
ness.
Warmth may be secured by lining of
boards and straw or ehaf around the wall,
but this will not insure dryness, which Is
OF vital importance. A ships ventilator
With funnel-shaped mouth, turning al.
ways to the wind, and the hue running
down through the root to the basement
would provide for ventilation and dryness,
and the air might be warmed by passing
the ventiiator flue through the oven Or
drum OF the stove. Dryness must be had
AT all costs, or the basement cannot be
used. The writer has lost so many pigs
aud lambs and had so III my cows diseased
by trying to winter them in barn base
ment that he has n very vivid recollection
II its abomina, ions. A COW will come ont
well if she can be let out and stay in the
fresh air during the daytime, but sheep
will not endure even this; and the shorn
eve cannot be let out Of the heated, COM.
Portable room with impunity. except on
the warmest days. - nerican Sheep
Breeder.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-30
STOCKHOLDERS LIABILITY

The Minnesota supreme court has Just
rendered a decision of momentous interest
not only to corporations doing business in
that state, but to individual creditors
thereof. Virtually the court holds that
stockholders in corporation are liable
for corporate debts to an amount equal to
their subscription, and that in this respect
there is no distinction between unpaid
ana paid-up capital; between stock sub
scriptlons and any other assets of the cor
poration.
The court, however, makes a distinc-
aon between bona tide creditors, becom-
ing such in good faith during the sol.
vency of the corporation, and parties who
may purchase claims against an insolyent
incorporation, for the purposes of spacu.
iation. Here the court holds that where
i credito- asks for relief agaius. a stock.
holder ne must show his own
equities entitle him to such relief
While ii is true that ne may enforc. a
valid claim against the full amount of the
chartered capitalization OF the corporation
sued, at the same time payment can never
be enforced in favor of one VINO became a
creditor after the corporation had become
insolvent and it's affairs placed in the
han is of a receiver. Thus it appears frcm
the decision just rendered that the stock
holders of corporation capitalized for
$1,000, 900, with bu. s25 900 paid in. are
liable to the full amount OF $1,000. 900,
provided the claim is held by one becom-
ing creditor in good faith before in.
solvency of the corporation, and who had
relied W on representations of the corpora
tlon that its capital was actually
81, 900, 900.
The decision will have tendency to
impel u better general knowledge of the
bona tide resources of corporations.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-30
PERSONAL POINTS.

Mrs. Ellsworth Miller, OF Cold Spring,
n. Y, is the mother of two sets of trip
lets, three pairs of twins, and two Other
children. making in all fourteen. the old
est being 8 years.
The Philadelphia Academy Of Natura
Sciences is considering whether a relief
expedition should not be sent out TO,
Lieutenant Peary and wife, who Are some.
where in Greenland.
Mr. Spurgeon mas so far recovered his
health that he is able to revise his ser
mons for weekly publication.
Baron Hirsch has bought fine London
mansion. Bath House by name. When
owned by he first and second Lords and
Ladies' Ashburton il was the resort Of the
most brilliant society Of London.
80
Mrs. Stanley wants her husband te
write his biography and stand for the
house of commons.
Secretary Qoay believes in odd numbers
He introduced twenty-seven bills into the
senate in one day, and then felt frest
enough to play game of sevenup
winfield Scott Chaplin, the new ch ancel
,ur of Washington university, has had 4
note worthy career. He graduated "a
West Point in 1870, second in his class
He .eryed two years. was in railroad en-
y,neering two years, taught in Maine, wa.
nresident of tho military academy o
japan, and was Of the faculties of uniol
college and Harvsrd university.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-30
BAN IL ING.
Nov they do banking and Make Money In
the Upp~r peuinsulu

Ho~ they do Ranking and Make Money In
the Upper Peninsula.
You ought 10 come up into our part
OF she state, said tall countlyman over
the bank counter the other day to the
cashier of OF Grswold street bank.
Where that9' inquired the cashier
up in the Upper Peninsula"
What have you got there that's in
ssresting2"
''Got people that II make more money
in ten minutes doing banking their way
than ,your'l make yoar way IN ten
wears.
how do they do ia"
''Discountin."
we make something in that line our
sslves."
"Yes. s'pose SO: but not like them
BY criminy,' he went on emp haticaly
81 had a note for $3.50 the other day
wanted discounted, and took it to one
of them shayers, and after b. had figur-
ed about ten minutes he said owed him
81 81"
"How did he make that out ?" inquired
the puzzled cashier.
That's what ! said to him, and he
told me that according to his way OF
calculating the discount on note like
that, the whole thing would amount to
Sl5l.3, and he was willing to take the
note il Id pay the .:balance in cash You
amt got any banking ike that in Detroit,
have you?" and the cashier hastened 10
assure him that Detroit bankers dldn' I
do business in that way.-Detroit Free
Press.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards, traveller, au-
thor and Egyptologist, is about to be
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-30

down on her clothing on the ice on Lake
Michigan, fifteen feet from the foot of
Ohio street, where she was found frozen to
death.
A Fort SMITH, dispatch says a report
has just come in of double lynching in
the mountains of northern Arkansas.
Peter Baker was found murdered. Hi,
wife and man named Johnson were taken
by mob 10 tree, lashed back to back and
hlnrcl for the rrlme
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-30
4 RACE WITH WOLVES
a Boys Flight aud Marrow Escape fro
Unnsrv VGnf~~.

Hungry Wolves.
Turn out. TurA out Boy lost! Every.
body turn out in search"
II was just at dusk one win ter's day in
town in northwestern Minnesota that a
man went up and down the streets crying
out us above, while he vigorously rang a
bell to still further attract attention.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-30

CHICAGO will. it il thought, soon fore
close her mortgage on the moon. She
has got everything in sight down here.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-30

MADISON will be between two fires next
June-a republican convention in Mime
apolis and a democratic convention in
Chicago
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-30

Miss Amelia B. Edwards, traveller, au-
thor and Egyptologist, is about to be
awarded civil list pension in England.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-11-18
JUDGE GRESHAM'S VIEWS.
His Declaration for Cleveland EXPLAINED
by His Words in a Former Speech.

His Declaration for Cleveland Explaiped
by His Words in a Former Speech.
The following extract from judge
Gresham's address at the unwilling of
the Grant monument at Chicago affords
satisfactory explanation of the mo-
tlves which induced him to desert the
Republican party:
1t is worse than idle to shut our ewes
to the existence of corrupt methods and
practices in our politics, which threaten
to subvert our free institutions. The
people are often cheated at the polls and
in legislation, and prizes which should
be the reward of honest merit are too
frequently bestowed upon the cunning
and INSCRIPTIONS rich. Real freedom
is not enjoyed by the people unless the
laws are enacted by their honestly
chosen representatives, and their free
dom OF action is as much impaired,
when it is corruptly influenced, as if
controlled by force.
The man who accepts bride of any
sort places his conscience and Judgment
in the vilest bondage. He is no longer
tree. Argument is wasted on him. Con-
slderations of the public veal or woe do
not affect him. Bayonets at the polls
would not control his conduct more eff
fectively.
Their influence upon the country is
corrupt and debasing, and the area Of
political venality constantly enlarges
under 1t. According to their views the
whole interest that any citizen has in
municipal, state or national government
is measured by what he can make out
of it.
And men who contribute money to
buy votes and to bride the peoples rep
resentatlves, as well as those who dis
burse it, are deadly enemies of the re-
public. Their greed and love of power
are greater than their love of country.
They impair popular respect for law,
which is the only safeguard for life and
property, and it will be an evil day for
the nation when its preservation depends
upon their patriotism and courage.
They may masquerade in the garb of
righteousness and address the people in
the language of patriotism, but their
virtues are assumed; they are hypocrites
and assassins of liberty, and would well
come dynasty rather than shed their
blood in defense of popular government
Their shameless and insidious attacks
on free institutions are infinitely more
dangerous than the revolutionary teach
ings and practices of a comparatively
few visionary and misguided men and
women in our large cities.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-11-18
Fighting Labor.

No greater humbug has ever been seen
in this land than the troops of protected
manufacturers flocking to Washington
to ask for high tariff duties under the
plea that they want to help labor by
making wages high.
How much sincerity there is in this
may be seen from list of nonunion roll
ing mills printed in a recent number of
that stanch protection journal, The Iron
Age, of New York. This list contains
the names of 145 establishments in the
iron industry which refuse to recognize
the Amalgamated Association of Iron
Workers, the labor organization of the
iron and steel industry. These 145 mills
employ 10000 men. Confidential data
from 13 other mills, employing 1915
men, and with other establishments
which did not report, The Iron Age esti-
mates the number of men in all the nom
union mills at 100000
1t is interesting to note that of the 145
mills i'll the published list 50 are i'll Penn
sylvania, the great protection strong
hold of modern Republicanism.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-11-18
M'KINLEY PRICES OF GLASSWARE.

The Mckinley High Tariff Builds Up a
Trust Which Raises Prices of Glassware.
The Herald Qnd.) and Journal Rep.)
of Boston are engaged in controversy
about the present price of glassware, The
Herald contending that it has been ad-
vanced since the Mckinley act went
into operation. The following letter
from leading Boston dealers in glass
ware, known to the trade everywhere.
speaks for itself:
To the Editor of The Herald:
You ask for facts concerning the prices of
glassware. The tariff prior to 1890 on table
and lamp glassware was 40 per cent. on COM
mon pressed glass and IS on cut, engraved and
painted glassware, with no duty on packages
BY the Mckinley bill the tariff tax was raised
to 60 per cent, when the duty packages was
added at same rate contents.
Some months ago sixteen of the large glass
factories were pooled into one large corpora
ton, called the United States Glass company
of Pittsburg. They, with the Rochester Tum-
bier company, have advanced the prices of o
number Of their staple wares most used fully
III per cent; the advance has been maintained
and those factories not included In the two
large companies avail themselves Of the adj
vance as far as their product is equal in desir-
ability.
True, they have notified reduction in some
small items, which, in total value bear a very
small comparison to the great item of common
tumblers, goblets, etc. used by the masses;
but the fact exists, nevertheless, that in many
items there has been substantial increase in
both wholesale and retail prices since 1890,
more than any and all reductions made. The
progressive reduction constantly going on by
reason of improved machinery, fuel saving
furnaces, etc, should show cheaper products
and help to increase our exports, which, in
pressed glass, have been increasing for ten
years more.
That many items are sold for less comes
naturally in the accumulation of odd and I'M
desirable patterns in every stock, and are sold
to close out at reduced values but that does
not alter the fact that new and desirable pat
terms of table glassware are fully 10 per cent.
higher than those of equal value were prior to
1880, attribute the cause to what you may.
JONES, MCDUFFEE & STRATToN.
ADRIAN FRENCH COMPANY.
NORCRoSs, MELLEN 81 Co.
RICHARD BRIGGS & Co.
GEORGE r MCF ARTIN
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-11-18

protection. So if the Springer wool bill
becomes a law, instead of that $35 900,
600 worth of imported goods paying $32.
100000 tax, it would have paid $11 ,OOO,-
600 tax, and you would have saved
$21 200, 900 on that and five times $751;
OOO,000 on the home made article, which
would have been 800, 200, 900 more.
We are not in favor of free trade. We
favor free trade in the raw materials.
but not free trade in the goods into
which skilled American labor enters.
There is plenty of protection left to
more than compensate for any real or
supposed differences in the price Of la
Dor, and at the same time there are
more cheap goods for the American
workingmen.
Now let the American workinpman
take it to himself when he goes to the
store and buys a suit of wooden clothes
for $40. He pays about So for the clothes
and about 81 for protection. Now, if
you cut down that protection, as we
have proposed in the Springer bill, when
the workingman buys SO worth of
clothes he will get about $3.50 worth of
clothes and $3.50 worth of protection.
and that is plenty. That is as much as
the workingman needs in cold weather,
when money is scarce and he has clothes
to buy.
Now what else did that same bill do?
1t reduced the tax on wool hats from 50
per cent. to % per cent, and the same
on blankets and wooden underwear, SO
that if the bill had become a law the
wooden underwear for which you now
pay So you could buy for $3.25. The
Democratic idea is to benefit the work
ingman in this way-by imposing Gus
toms duty for revenue purposes and dis
tributing the incidental protection judi
ciously, because it has got to operate
somewhere, and by reducing to the
workingman the price of what he has to
buy.-Speaker Crisp's Speech in Detroit.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-11-18
PROJECTIONS PROFITS.

A Cotton Mill Adding to Its Big Surplus.
How the Tariff Buys Supporters.
The protectionists are forever assert
ing that our high tariff does not give the
protected manufacturers very large prof
it's after all, and Democrats who assert
the contrary are denounced by the high
tariff apologists as enemies of American
industries.
Many individual cases come to light,
however, which are hard for these apol-
ogists to defend satisfactorily. Here is
the case of the Amoskeag Manufacture
ing company, of Massachusetts,. The
treasurer of this large cotton manufac-
turing concern has just handed in his
annual report showing that the company
paid dividend of 10 per cent. for the
past year, besides adding 5000, 900 to its
surplus. No farmer is now earning 10
per cent. clear on his capital, but this
cotton mill does that and lays by $780,
600 extra for rainy day.
The treasurer clearly recognizes the
fact that it is protection which is largely
responsible for helping the company to
IedlIL6 Cucot Id 20 plolIGo' 11O COAAo Ch0
stockholders, Moderate taxation, the
fullest employment of machinery con-
sistent with the health of operatives
and sufficient protection from the COM
petition Of foreign labor are essential to
your continued success"
Taxation indeed! The Amoskeag com
pany is in reality not taxed at all, for the
state and other taxes which it pays are
much more than made good to it by the
extra price which it is enabled through
the tariff to charge Americans for their
cotton goods. Thus instead of paying
taxes it collects taxes from those who
buy its goods.
The former treasurer of the company
evidently valued this beautiful result Of
protection at its true worth. He had
been lifelong Democrat, but four years
ago, when the people began to become
aware that they were paying the manu-
features too much tariff taxes, he saw
that his interests were with the monop-
oily party. He accordingly voted for
Harrison, and has since been rewarded
by Harrison with the appointment of
minister to France. Thus protection
buys up its pets and makes them solid
for the Ct. 0. P. for big dividends and
large additions to their surplus funds