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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-03-26
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! Surgery, Philadelphia, Pa, once rooms IN
the new Hornung building, Mineral Point. WIS.
NITROUS OxIDE administered for the painless eH-
traction Of teeth.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-02-03
LATER NEWS.

CHRISTOPHER PEARsE CRANcH, the we'll
known painter and poet, died at his home in
Cambridge, Mass, aged eighty.
TIE Connecticut Legislature met at Hart
ford; the House adjourned for week.
MRS. FREDERICK OLEsoN and her two
year. babe Fredella were burned to
death at Chicago. ILL.,, In the fire which de-
stroysd their home.
TIM Inauguration Of Governor Horace
Boies Sook place at Des Moines, Iowa.
RorN W. CHRISTIAN was murdered with
with an axe by his insane son. aged twenty
two, In Mcdowell County, Virginia.
SECRETARY and Mrs. Blaine gave a din.
ner party at Washington in honor of Presi-
dent and Mrs. Harrison.
REPRESENTATIVE ROGER Q. MILLS, OF
Texas, has written letter to Speaker Crisp
resigning his position as Chairman Of the
COMMITTEES on Interstate and Foreign Com
merce.
The Legislature of Mendoza, Brazil, has
depossd the Governor Of that province.
TIE United States gunboat Yorktown,
with the refugees on board, has sailed from
Valparaiso for Callao. This is regarded as
an indication that affairs were quiet in
Chile
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D0WD, THE SLASHER.
Police Arrest the Man Whose Razor
Cut Seven Throats.

Cut Seven Throats.
Inspector Byrnes has succeeded at last in
laying hands on the man who has been cut
ting the throats Of drunken people in the
streets of New York City recently. On. his
own partial confession, the man will
be charged also with the muir
der Of John Carson, the broken
down lawyer, found lying in hallway the
other morning with frightful cash In his
throat. The prisoners name is Henry g.
Dowd. He was born in Liverpool forty.one
years ago. and has spent the last fifteen
years Of his life begging in New York City.
He was caught red-handed,. in the very
o'clock in the morning.
The latest victim of the slasher's razor is
Henry Miller, or Mueller, Of No. 1928 Cherry
street, and the slasher himself is Henry r.
Dowd, Of No. 81 New Chambers street.
As far as the police can learn, Dowd be.
gan his career Of homicide on the night Of
the 23th Of last December. Since that time
he has run wild through the Fourth and
Eleventh Precincts in the early hours OF the
morning, and seven victims have fallen
under his murderous razor. s-.
The second cutting case occurred on
January 8, and the police of the Oak and
yinced that man was running through the
lower portion Of the Fourth Ward, bent on
deeds of blood, aud they turned all their
energies to his capture.
Inspector Byrnes was called on to aid In
the hunt, and every night from midnight
until dawn twenty policemen IN citizens
clothes, and twenty detectives from the
Central Office had paraded the district in the
hope Of making just such capture as was
made.
For a week or two their efforts were in
vain, for, although it seemed as II every
street and alley was guarded, the cutting
went on, until the siasher killed Lawyer
John Carson in front OF Chrystie street
stable.
This murder determined the detectives
and the police officials to make every effort
to capture the slasher.
The closest watch was kept on every sus.
picious character, and the man was caught
with his bloody razor in his hand, within
two blocks of where he was seen to cut bis
seventh victim down. .
INSPECTOR Byrnes asked Dowd why he
tried to cut Muller, his seventh victim.
1T was an overpowering influence" re.
sponded the prisoner. II don't know how to
describe it. I liked to see my deeds recorded
in the newspapers Every time I cut q man
the papers would print columns on it. 1t de-
lighted me to feel that the papers were
afraid of me-"
The Inspector asked him why he cut the
man, and he replied: II want to kill Ger.
man" This extraordinary answer staggered
the Inspector, who pressed him for his rsa-
sons. Hereplisd that q good many years ago
a German assaulted his mothor In Brooklyn
while he was in the next room, and that ever
since the mans face had haunted him, and
he had become possessed OF an un'
eontrollabIe desire to kill q German.
The Inspector then asked him,
"Why did you kill Garson' Hs
It because I couldn't help it." but sumedt-
ately afterwards denied that he had killed
him. After this he refused to say anything
mora and was taken back to his cell.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-02-03
TOMATO CULTURE.

A summary of some of the results OF
experiments carried on for several years
at the Cornell University Experiment Sta
ton, at Ithaca, N. Y, is as follows:
Fertilizers-T Tho best tomato fertilizers
are those which produce their effects
early in the season. The intermittent
application of nitrate of soda, when pro-
longed into August, delayed the crop as a
whole, while early applications appear to
produce early results. But larger yields
appear TO follow intermittent application
if it does not extend beyond mid-sum.
mer.
Nitrate of Soda-Nitratc of soda is
an incomplete fertilizer and should not
be used to the exclusion of other fertil-
izers unless the soil is already rich in
potash and phosphoric acid. Upoa poor
soils it is of little advantage when used
alone.
Early and Late setting-The expert
ments OF two years show that tomato
plants which ore early set in the field,
are less injured by inclement weather
than is generally supposed, ,aud that very
early setting on we'll prepared land ap.
pears to be advisable. But the results OF
early setting, especially as regards earli-
ness, probably depend considerably upon
the character of the plants; they should
be strong and stocky.
Few and Many Transplantings-Two
trausplantings gave better results than
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-02-03
FIFTY-sECOND CONGRESS.
In the Senate.

18TH DAY.-Mr. Quay reported favorabiy
bill which in previous Congresses ootalne1
some prominence by reason of President
Cleveland's veto authorizing the purchase OF
site and the erection Of a public building at
Allentown, Penn. - Morning business
utes aud the Senate resumed the considera-
tion Of the bill on the calendar, the first on
the list being bill to aid the State of Colo
RADIO to support school of mines. Passed
The motion of Mr.. Ratabun for Post
master at Elmira, N 2. was recommittsd.
18th DAY.-The Vice-President laid some
departmental communications before the
Senate-Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, reported
favorably the bill fixing the times
of holding the District and Circuit
courts of the District of Iowa. By unani-
nous consent the bill was passed,
Mr.. Faulkner. Of West Virginia, reported
favorably with amendments the Senate
joint resolutions directing the Secretary of
the Treasury to pay to the State of West
Virginia its proportion of the direct tax
refund--La Abra claim was considered.
18TH DAY.-The President sent in report
from the Secretary of State respecting the
awards Of the Mixed Claims Commission
These public building bills were passed, ap-
propriating sl,225, 900; Monmouth Hot
Springs, Yellowstone Park, $40, 900; Tampa,
600; Hastings Neb., s25O.0oO; Mans
field, Ohio, 500 900; Norfolk, Neo., $3.50, 900;
Jacksonville, ILL.,, $4,000, Fergus Falls.
Minn., $1,000 Nashua. N. H., s10O, 900;
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, 800, 0O0-rhe La Aora
claim was discussed nearly all the session,
with an average attendance OF twenty-five
Senators-Several appointments by the
President were confirmed.
10TH DAY.--The Senate spent the morning
hour-betore 2 o'ciock-on the calendar,
adopting a number of minor measures ex-
>lusively for the West-Eight public build
ing bills were epassed---Ths Ia Abra Claim
bill went oyer again.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

MUCH damage has been done by floods in
New York State and New England. Floods
carried away North Weare IN. H. bridge,
over the Merrimac River.
Ex-CoSGREssMAN WALTER A. WooD died
at Hoosick Falls. He was born in Mason,
Hillsboro County, N. H.. on October 70 1918,
and was well known manufacturer OF as-
ricultural machinery.
JOHN CARSON, once a prosperous lawyer
of Baltimore, Md, was found lying dead In
New York City with his throat cut.
FIRE destroyed Van Tasseps grain ware
houses and four other buildings IT new
York City, and caused the death OF three
workmen.
THE Typothetas celebreted the one
hunared and eighty sixth anniversary OF
Benjamin FranElin's birth with dinner at
the Hotel Brunswick, New York City.
A LARGE two.horse country sled, with
dozen young persons in it, went over oVo
foot hill, near Harmony, Penn, and all were
injured, Elizabeth Merton, Miss Long ana
William Berry fatally. The sled was de-
molished, aud the horses killed.
Two children OF Arthur Bisert, OF Ro1-
bury, Mass, died from the effects OF drink
ing from a flask of whisky they found in
closet.
JUDGE EARL was appointed by Governor
Flower, of New York, to succeed tne la1e
Chief Judge Ruger Of the Court or Appeals,
and Deputy Attorney General May nard was
nominated to fill the vacancy caused oy tne
elevation Of Earl
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South and West.

ROBERT I. CHESTER who was positively
the Oldest living Mason in the world. died
few days ago at Jackson, Tenn. Colonel
Chester was born in Carlisle, Penn, July 81,
1885,
THE firstr was driven the other day! in
the United States Cruiser No. at the Union
Iron Works San Francisco, Cal. Captain
Schley and many navy and army omcers
were present.
HENRY CoRBIN, the colored man who mur-
dered Mrs. Georgetta Horner at OXFORD
Ohio, has been lynched. {
Ming How, a Chinaman, was hanged at
Canyon City, Oregon, for the murder OF one
of his countrymen. W.. " harpen was
hanged at Poplar Bluff, Mo. An OLD man
named Smith sold farm to Harden and
took his notes as part payment. Harden
murdered him to get possession Of the notes.
Jess Brown was hanged in Paducah, ky>ror
the murder Of John Larry.
A1ocoMorrvE, eight miles south OF Bir-
minehan, Ala, blew up, instantly Killing
Engineer Joseph Hunt and Fireman Brad
ford The bodies were blown into lrag-
ments
THREE sheepmen were killed and several
COWBOYS badly wounded in light In the
white Mountains Of Apache County, Ar1'
Zona.
THE house Of Judge Brace In Lancaster:
Ohio was blown to pieces by an explosion OF
natural gas, and the Judge was fatally ana
bis two sons and two daughters seriously In
jured.
HARRY HINTON, the colore1 man impli-
Gated by "Bobp Sims as a member or the
gang that participated in the massacre OF
NcMillen,s family, was taken from jail at
Butler, Ala. by mob and hanged.
THE National Convention Of the Prohioi-
tion party. to nominate candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President, will convene In st.
Louis on June 90.
WABASH train ran into sleighing party
Of twenty-one members Of the Clover Leaf
Fishing Club, near Forest Park. Mo. Eight
were Hlled and the rest more or less In
jured.
SENATOR GoRMAN was reelected to the
United States Senate BY the Maryland
Legislature. Senators George and Walt:
hall were also returned by the Mississippi
Legislature.
The Louisiana Republicans met in State
convention at New Orleans and named
ticket headed by A. 81. Leonard for Gov
ernor; they also declared for Harrlson's re-
nomination.
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Washington.

THE Assistant Secretary Of the Interior
has decided that for pension purposes the
Civil War began on March 4. 1851.
SECRETARY TRACY received information
that Balmacedist refugees, after leaving the
Yorktown, would be liable to capture on any
merchant vessel at Chilian port.
THE Church Of the Covenant, Washing
ton. which President Harrison attends,
caught fire. The damage was Sl0 0OO.
President Harrison and President Nor
ton watched the firemen fight the flames.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY NETTLEroN has
informed the Secretary Of the Health Depart
ment of New York City that the Treasury
Department regards Ellis Island, on which
the Immigrant station Is located, as within
the State Of New York. This statement was
In response to an inquiry on the subject, and
crows out of the boundary line'controversy
Between the States of New York and New
Jersey.
JUDGE LINDSEY, Of Kentucky, has de-
clined the appointment Of lnterstate Com
merce Commissioner.
0 TIE American Woman Suffrage Associa.
ton held its annual sessions at Washington.
PRESIDENT AND MRS. HARRISON gave the
Arst state dinner Of the season. According
to long-established etiquette. the dinner was
In honor Of the Cabinet. The Marine Band
played and the White House was never more
beautiful with floral decorations.
A BIG delegation of Tammany braves
visited Washington to ask the Democratic
National Committee to select New York City
as the place for holding the National Con.
vention. .
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In the House.

18th DAY.-Judge Holman's resolution
against subsidies and limiting the House as
to appropriation bills was discussed during
the entire session.
14rH DAY.-The House took up the un-
finished business-the Holman resolutions,
debated the day before. Mr. Holman with
dred his motion to reconsider the vote by
which the previous question was ordered on
his anti-subsidy resolution. The House then
passed the second of Mr.. Holman's resolutions
referring to economical expenditures by a
vote of yeas, l64; nays ninety three
A hot debate took place over the question OF
clerkships to committees--The following
bills were introduced AMI referred: By
Mr.. Newberry to test the method Of spelling
schools and appropriating 500, 900 to estab-
lish spelling school at the Worlds Fair;
placing salt, lumber, nails, cotton ties, bind
ing twine and agricultural implements on
the free list; Mr.. Smith, Of Arizona, for the
admission ct Arizona as State.
18th DAY.--The seventh week Of the ses-
sion began to-day with no rules for the guild
apce of the House, and its presiding officer
still within the grasp Of tie grip. Speaker
pro tenn. Mcmillan therefore called the
House together at NOON. The bill relating
to public building was read and explained.
The House then proceeded to consider the
bill prepared by the Joint Committee on
Printing, regulating the whole subject of
Government printing, introduced by Mr..
Richardson, Of Tennessee. The bill was read
in extenso-The roll OF States was then
called, anda large number Of bills. etc., were
introduced for reference.
10TH DAY.-Chaplain Milburn in his
prayer at the opening took cognizance of the
Chilean situation--A number OF executive
documents were presented and referred
Mr.. Oates, reported bill changing
the methods Of taking depositions
of witnesses in the United States
courts, to conform to the method in vogue
in the State where the case is pending. 1t
was passed-Mr. Oates also reported his
bill to prevent blackmailing in the territory
under the jurisdiction Of the United States.
it provides maximum punishment Of $1,000
fine and one years Imprisonment. Passed.
The bill to regulate the printing and dis
tribution Of public documents was killed.
nth DAY.-Mr. Springer introduced bis
Free Wood bill and it was referred to the
Committee on Ways aud Means--The
Committee on Coinage, Weights and Meas
ures voted to introduce the Bland Free Silver
bill-The House spent an hour and q
quarter in the introduction Of bills and con.
slderation Of inconsequental measures and
then adjourned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-02-03
MUTINY IN BRAZIL.
Prisoners overpower Their Guards
and Seize Two Forts.

Prisoners Overpower Their Guards
and Seize Two Forts.
Two hundred prisoners, confined in the
Fortress of Santa Cruz at the mouth OF the
harbor, Rio Janeiro, Brazil, broke out in
mutiny few nights since,
A number Of them. who were arrested for
misconduct in connection with. the recent
political disturbances. and were mostly par
tisans of the deposed Dictator, General da
Fouseca, appear to have taken the initiative.
They surprised and disarmed the guards
and soldiers at the prison, seized all the
arms and ammunition in the soldiers quar-.
ters which was sufficient to equip them all
for effective service, and then marched upon
and captured Forts Pico and Lage that
guard the harbor.
They then elected as leader the man who
had been foremost in their stroke Tor
liberty. He announced that their object
was the restoration of General de Fonseca
to power, and made formal demand to
that effect upon the authorities.
The latter simply clapped his messenger
in jail and proceeded to gather troops and
notify the navy to attack the forts. The
insurgents began an irregular cannonade
with the artillery in the forts hoping, ap-
parently, to compel the authorities to come
to terms. ....f.
The mntineers refused to surrender and
the eunboats began q heavy bombardmens
of Fort Lage and soon rendered it untenant:.
able. The mutineers seeing no escape, and
being unable to stand the storm OF shells
from the gunboats, threw down their arms.
Fort Pico was carried by storm, but when
the troops reached the walls Of the fortress
they met with slight resistance, the mutt
neers being panic stricken. -.
When the troops entered the fort they
found the leader Of the mutiny dead. he
had taken his own life because he feared the
vengeance of the authorities.
The fortress prison Of Santa Cruz, where
the mutiny began, yielded after half an
hours bombardment. During the time the
forts were in possession OF the mutIneers, the
latter AIRED upon the British steamship Ser.
angi.
The prisoners were placed, after recapture,
under a strong guard, and the surviving
ringleaders were loaded with manacies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-02-03
WARNING POULTRY HOUSES.

If your poultry house is damp and
cold hang up stable lantern at night,
suspended with wire and do not have the
fame too high. It will not only warm
the house come, but dries the air therein.
Do not be afraid of any carbonic acid
gas, or have any terrors about the en-
trance of fresh air, for even one lantern
may not be sufficient to warm the house
on cold night, as more so-called fresh
air (that is cold air) will get in than you
can keep out, even if you try. Another
point-when you build poultry house
have your windows large. Do not be
afraid of plenty of glass. The sunlight
on the floor and walls dries the house,
makes the fowls cheerful and happy, and
renders the interior Of the house as
bright as outside. True, glass radiates
heat at night, but it also permits the
wood to absorb heat during the day.
The heat of the night can be retained
with a hanging lamp, but the glass
should let in the heat during the day
Poultry Keeper.
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EJACULATION FOR HOG CHOLERA.

=
: According to a statement furnished by
DR.. D. E. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau
of Animal Industry, there has been dur
ing the last summer an outbreak of swine
disease in La salle County, H., and the
farmers applied to Secretary Rusk for
relief. At their urgent, request DR..
Schroeder, of the Bureau Of Animal In
dustry, was delegated to make investi-
cations and to give such advice and as.
sistance as was needed.
As further stated by DR.. Salmon under
a later date, fifty-fve hogs hsd been pur-
chased and divided into three lots. OF
these, eighteen had been inoculated by
DR.. Schroeder according to the method
used by the Bureau of Animal Industry,
and eighteen others by another person
according to another method, and nine
teen were not inoculatsd, being kept by
themselves, and were held to determine
whether the animals had been exposed to
disease previous to incubation, and
whether the inoculated animals resisted
disease better than those which had not
been inoculated. According to this last
report the hogs not inoculsted were all
we'll, none Of those inoculated by the
Bureau had died, while four Of these in.
oculated by the other method were
dead.
The subject is chiefly interesting from
the fact that committee Of the farmers
agreed to pay one-half of the expense of
the experiment, thus showing their in
terest in it and their desire for further
light on the question whether any sys-
tenn of inoculation is preventive for hog
cholera. Or. Salmon did not oppose in
oculahon, but he pointed out dangers
connected with it which farmers should
understand before they adopted it. In
the meantime the report Of the commit
tee of farmers experimenting the expeEr
iment made at Ottawa will be looked for
with interest.-New York World.
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BLOWN Up BY POWDER.
Terrific and Fatal Explosion at
Central City, w. Va.
Six Workmen Killed and a Mill
Destroyed.

Dispatches fro m the cities near 'Ceredo,
W. Va, tell the news of terrific explosion
of the Phoenix Powder Mill which was de-
struct1ve to life. The Phoenix mill is stu.
ated at Central City, near Ceredo, and about
half way between Huntington, W Va, and
Catlettsburg, XIV. This is the third ex.
plosion at this mill within three months and
is the most destructive one. How this latest
wreck was brought about will never be
known, because not a soul that was In the
mill is left alive to tell the story.
At half-past 8 o'clock in the morning peo-
ple in Irontor, twenty-five miles away,
heard the terrible deronating roar. In Ceredo,
three miles away, windows were broken and
wares in the stores were shaken from the
shelves. In Catlettsburg, nearly ten miles
away, the earth shook and people were
alarmed. Everybody OWNED the cause and
there was a rush from all directions for the
scene. The local authorities organized and
surrounded the ruins with Gordon Of police
through which none Of the thousands OF
spectators was permitted to pass.
1t has been ascertained that the first e1-
plosion was in the glazing.room. where there
were ten tons of powder. Then, successfully,
the packing-house, the magazine and the
hour-wheel mills. and lastly a car
load of gunpowder went hurting
in fiery fragments through the
air. Not q vestige Of the entire plant
remains, and the country for half mile
around is strewn with fragments of the build
ings and of the bodies Of five men, victims
of the disaster. It is not known definitely,
but at the present writing it is believed that
not less than thirty-fv tons Of powder were
burned in the several explosions. Those
killed are as follows:
Archie Livingston, a Scotchman, who had
been superintendent Of the mills since they
started; only his hand was found.
"Ed Wlnton, the architect and engineer,
who built the works; he was in the magazine
when it exploded and strange to say his
body was little mutilated.
John Benton. q workman; body horribly
mangled.
John Schlosser and Charles Scott, work
men. were both terribly mutilated. .3
All these are either known or supposed to
have been in the buildings when the ex
plosion occurred. Robert Cook, a glazing
mill hand, was approaching the glazing
mill when it blew up. his clothing, hair
and whiskers were burned of. He ran Two
hundred yards to a stream and jumped In.
BE died at midnight.
z. o. Reece, James Esteep and John
Justice, who were in the vicinity when the
explosions occurred, were seriously hurt
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RUSSIANS LIE UNBURIED.

Starved Villagers Take the Sacra-
ment and Then Wait tor Death.
The London Standard has received an ac-
count of the famine from the Government
Of Orenburz, on the Russo-Asiatic frontier.
One instance is mentioned which throws
lurid light upon the situation. The inhabi-
tants Of Cheliabinsk have fed from the dis
trict by hundreds to avoid starvation. Bodies
of men, women AMI children and carcasses
of horses and cattle lie unburied in the houses
and fields.
The few persons who remain subsist on
dry herbs. The traveller from the district
who brings this story says wnen he arrived
there nobody be saw had partaken of any
food for three days. The Inhabitants OF one
village took the last sacrament together in
expectation of death.