davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-05-05
Ferdinand Ward.

Ferdinand Wards First Sunday
out OF prison was a very quiet one.
The night before he said there had
been few days in his life which he had
more thoroughly enjoyed. He spent
the entire day on the farm of his
brother.in-law f. d. Green, g. few
miles from the little village Of Thomp.
son, Conn. His boy Clarence was by
his side the entire day and he seemed
to be happier even than his father.
Ward slept late and when he awoke
said he had enjoyed the first really
comfortable nights rest he had had in
eight years. He discussed his plans
for the future with his 5rother.i1 i'll. law,
but says he has not yet definitely
settled upon anything. The ex finan-
cier still refuses to discuss any OF the
affairs OF the firm OF Grant & Ward.
He frankly admits, however, that six
weeks ago he was preparing to make
a written statement tor publication,
in which he would give facts and
figures, showing, as he alleges, that he
had been made to suffer for the sins
OF Others as we'll as his own. The
reason why he suddenly decided not
to do this he will not tell.
The time when Ward was preparing
to make this statement public was
when it Was reported that as soon as
he was discharged from Sing Sing be
would be- re-arrested on bench war
rant issued by q judge OF the United
States court, and prosecuted under
the indictments found against HIM by
the federal grand Jury. This announce.
nent filled Wards heart with hatred
and dispair. He was then counting
the days TO April 3Oth, and looking
|; forward to his day OF freedom with
much longing.
He sent for gentleman in whom he
had confidence and told him that he
had decided to make written state.
nent giving the entire inside history
OF the doings OF the firm OF Grant &
Ward and added that he did not care
whom it hit. 81 want you," he said,
ITO promise me that the statement
shall be printed just as give it OUT"
The promise Was given and Ward
said he would send word when the
statement was ready. Then, it is said,
influential people began work to
get the indictments against Ward
quashe6. They tailed, but they sue.
ceeded in getting q promise that them.
dictments would not be pushed as
long as Ward kept quiet. In three
years he can move to have the indict.
ments quashed for lack of prosecu.
ton. Accompanying the receipt OF the
news that these indictments would
not be pressed to trial, it is said, was
a notification to Ward that he must
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-05-05
preserved with this endorsement up.
on it, in General Shermap's we'll known
II heartily concur in the recommen.
dation of the quartermaster.general,
but don't know what he says"
Six We're Killed.

The destruction OF the Grand Cen
trail theater at Philadelphia. Pa, a
few days ago proves to have been far
more terrible III its results than was
anticipated. Six members of the "Dev-
IFS Auction" company lie dead be.
! meath the fallen walls OF the building
and nearly Il score OF people are in
/ the hospital suffering from burns. OF
the men and boys in the hospital,
seven are IN such q serious condition
that their recovery IS doubtful. All
We're members of the audience. Be.
sides those who were seriously enough
hurt to remain in the hospitals, fully
fifty others were treated for minor in
juries. The unfortunate members OF
the company who lost their lives are:
Thomas Lorella, Qrotesque, and his
wife, Flora, q ballet dancer; Vincentina
Chltten, premier danseuse, OF the
Chitten sist ers; Miss Fanchon Conyers,
juvenile, residence Chicago; Miss Sarah
Golden, ballet dancer, residence Chi
cago; William l.. Brooks, leading man
OF the company, residence Pnila-
delphia.
The injured in the hospitals who are
likely to die are all suffering from
burns about the face and head and
from having inhaled the flames. Their
names are:
Harry McC!oskey, 16 years old;
James Pigeon, IA years old: Rand
Patterson, 10 years old; Albert
Cleumbacker, is years old; Thomas
Atchison, 81 years old; Ralph Frazer,
16 years old.
in addition to the serious condition
OF the above it is feared that
MANY WILL LOSE EYEsIGHT,
as their burns are mostly about the
face. BY the light OF day the destruc.
ton wrought by the fire was made
more apparent and the desolation OF
the scene more terrible, as it was with
out the accompanying grandeur given
by the columns OF flame shooting sky.
ward above the tallest buildings.
The ruin of the Central theater is com
plete, only the front wall remaining
standing. TIE other walls have fail
en- in and fill the space they formerly
enclosed. Directly back of the theater
but shell remains OF the eighu.story
building occupied by the Times. The
row OF stores to the east of the two
burned structures, facing on Eighth
street and extending on Walnut to
SAMSON street, are almost completely
Quilted by fire and water. The first
estimate placing the loss at $1,O0O,-
600 is about correct.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-05-05
Table Manners.

Probably there is no people in the
world so uncivilized as not to have
among themselves q code OF manners,
more or less strictly defined. Mr.. Bish
op, while on his thousand. mile walk
across South America, was impressed
with this fact. He describes rude
meal which he shared with accompany
OF observation-disclosures savage
gauchos' gin whose company he was
| then travelling.
We encamped near q swamp, and
supped upon sliced pumpkins, boiled
with bits Of meat, and seasoned with
salt. The meal was served in genuine
pampa fashion; one iron spoon and
Two cows horns, split in halves, were
passed around thegroup, the members
OF which squatted upon their launches,
and freely helped themselves from the
kettle.
Even in this most uncivilized form
| OF satisfying hunger there is a peculiar
etiquette, which the most lowly peon
invariably observes. Each member
of the company in turn dips hisspoon,
or horn, into the centre OF the stew,
and draws it in q direct line toward
him, never allowing it to deviate to
the right or the lefs.
By observing this rule, each person
eats without interfering with his
neighbor. Being ignorant OF this
custom, dipped my horn into the
mess at random, and fished about for
some OF the nice bits.
My companions regarded this hor-
rid breach OF politeness with scowls
OF Impotence. They declared, with
some warmth. to the cook that gringos
| did not know how to eat, and, cas-
| they lived upon dogs in their own
distant country, they came to the
great Argentine Republic to get food
and grow fat on the gauchos."
apologized as we'll as ! could, and
endeavored thereafter to eat accord
ing to gaucne etiquette.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-05-05
Jailed the Murderers.

As an outcome OF the murder OF DR..
James H. Hill, of Millington, Md,
Fletcher Williams, Fletcher Coonegis
and Philip Mander, all colored, have
been lodged in Jail on suspicion OF be.
ing concerned in the murder.
Mr.. Marion Dek Smith, state comp.
troller OF the treasury, saye that the
murder OF DR.. Hill is probably the
outcome of the disturbance at Milling
ton on last Christmas night.
Millington is q local option town,
and it is supposed that whisky was
sold On this night in a certain store
there, where q number OF white men
were playing cards. A colored man
entered the place, but was put out. In
leaving he said he would return with a
number OF friends and clean the place
up. He did return with others, but
the inmates had been notified OF their
intention, and as the door was brok.
en- open by the negroes every light was
instantly extinguished and a free fight
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-05-05
The Legislature Can Determine Ele'
vaJur Charges.

"Chapter 1873 OF the North Dakota
session laws OF 1891 considered, and
sections and IL thereof held to bs
constitutional in 80 far as they de.
fine public warehouses, and in so tar
as they prescribe maximum rates OF
charges for elevating and storinggrain
in the publiu warehouses, as they are
defined in section 4 OF the act. Fol
lowing Mum va Budd, lit N. Y, l.,
22 N. e Rep $40; Budd VS.. People,
IL Sup. Ct. Rep. 46s.
"Held further, that the record does
not raise the question OF the adequacy
OF tue rate OF charges fixed by section
IL OF the act and hence the case is not
one which calls for q decision of the
point whether the court would in any
case assume to review rate of charges
established by the legislature where it
was shown that such rate was ruin.
ous.Y small or non compensatory"
Such IS the syllabus prepared by the
court and involves the meat of q de-.
cision handed down q few days ago by
the supreme court OF North Dakota In
a case appealed from the district court
OF Ramsey county, Judge Morgan pre-.
siding, entitled State ex rel. Louis W.
Stoeser vs. Norman Brass. The &C.
ton was brought to test the constitu.
tionality OF what is known as the pub.
lie warehouse law OF 1891, an enact.
ment which defined that all persons
or corporations who operated eleva-
tors, warehouses, ETC., Tor profit were
declared to be peblic warehouses; that
all public warehouses should not
charge more than 2 cents per buehel
tor the usual services rendered by
such institutions.
Shortly after the passage OF the act
a case was brought before Judge Tenn.
pleton, in the Grand Forks district,
to compel the Minneapolis & North.
ern company to comply withs the
statute. Judge Templeton decided in
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-05-05
occurred, in which Campbell was kill.

DR.. Hill was called to examine the
wounds OF the dead man, and in his
evidence said that they did not ap.
pear to be of a character to have caus
ed the mans death. The coroner's
jury WAS dismissed. The colored PEG
pie were very much incensed and want.
ed revenge.
DIR. Hill WAS called out to see a
patient. He WAS found next morn.
ing lying in his wagon, fatally wound
ed, at the door OF the stable, to which
thehorse had returned. He died with
out regaining CONSEQUENCES. Mr..
Smith says the feeling is very bitter
among the people Of the neighbor.
hood, and that he fears there will be
more trouble OF a serious nature.
All the evidence goes to show that
DR.. Hill was driving along the road a
short distance from Millington when
the assasslns came up behind him.
One struck him q terrific blow with
some kind OF q heavy club, the horse
was stopped and q deep cash was cut
In the doctors throat. The throat
wound was evidently made by a long
knife, as it extends clear into the root
OF the tongue. Both wounds were
morta! in their character, and either
would have proven fatal. The body
was then pressed face down into the
bottom OF the cart, the head under
the shaft and one foot doubled under
the body, and the other extending
over the shaft was struck by the
wheel and heel torn away. The horse
evidently was then turned loose and
wandered around for sometime.
Lynching is threatened if the persons
guilty OF the murder should be discov.
cred. The funeral took place on the
Goth. Crowds of people were present
from all parts OF that and adjacent
counties. Business WAS suspended in
town.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-05-05
Another Duel,

There has been another duel rs a
sequel OF the Fox.Borrowe meeting.
Comments in clubs, cafes and public
places generally havenot been restrict.
ed, says a special from Russels, and as
result OF the varied comments duel
took place Wednesday evening between
Harry Vane Milbank and s. French.
man whose name has not been divule.
ed. This much, however, is known:
A duel occurred at d place about two
miles from Ostend. The cause OF the
affair was remark made by the
f'renchman regarding the character
OF the Fox Borrowe meeting. The
Frenchman was wounded in the hip,
and it is OF a very dar gerous charact.
er.
The Weapons used were the reg.
ulation duel pistols aud the duel was
fought at q distance Of twelve PAGES.
The wounded man was taken aboard
q steam yacht lying off Ostend is be
Ing carefully attended by friends. Mr..
Mlibrook escaped without injury.
People in London believe that the
duel between Fox and Borrowe was
no duel at all and the whole affair is
now the Laughing stock OF London.
The story that the tails OF Fox's
Prince Albert coat were Perforated by
Borrowers bullet has not been proved
other than oy the say OF those inter.
ested in getting up the dnellng story;
but how the coat tails could be shot
through without the individual wear.
ing them getting hurt is 81 question
decidedly puzzling. 1t is SAID that the
bullets used were made OF p'umbago,
which is finely diveded black lead. The
explosion reduces bullets OF this kind
to powder aud at q distance OF one or
twelve PAGES they are equally harm
less. Plumbsgo bullets in operabouffe
duels are not unusual, there being q
number OF instances on record in which
they have been used. The reason as.
signed for the "faking" of this duel is
that Borrowe had publicly branded
Fox rs a liar, and Borrowe's courage
was i'll disrepute owing o his failureto
meet Drayton. The pair were being
rldiculed by everyone and felt the
necessity OF doing something to
straighten out their reputation.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-05-05
Unfortunate Fowl.
Shanghai chickens are born

Shanghai chickens are born with an
inordinate pair OF legs, which continue
to grow into regular drumsticks of
the longest dimensions. 1t is said
that although good layers, they are
very fond OF devouring their own eggs.
A farmer who has tried them and
found them wanting, gives the follow
ing account OF their peculiarlties.
Their true name, he says, is "Shank-
high" and he pronounces them rightly
named.
They haye no body at all, and when
the head is cut off The legs come right
apart. don't see how they can set
on their eggs-my jack.knife can set
as we'll as they can.
They don't sit on the roost the
same as other chickens do; not 8 bit
OF it. When they attempt to SIT as
other chickens do, they fall of back
ward
They. sit when they eat, know, for
I've seen 'em do il. And I've seen 'em
try to eat standing, but they couldn't
fetch it,; for when they peck at grain
of corn on the ground, they don't
more'n half reach 1T, but their head
hobs right between their legs and
makes EN- turn q complete somerset.
I'd as soon seen a pair of tongs or
compasses walking about my yard as
these shank.highs.
They crow, too, q long time before
day. when it isn't day. Probably be-
cause their legs are so long that they
can see daylight long before common
chicken can.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-05-05
WAITSTHE MOOSE.
Deemiug, Supposed to Be Jack. the. Rip.
per, Found Guilty and Sentenced
to Death.
The Insanity Dodge Don't Work--The
Audience Laudly Applauds
the Sentence.
Ferdinand Ward, the Elk. Finaucier Who
Caused the Grant Ward Failure
A Few Years Ago.

The trial OF Frederick Baily Deem.
ing for the murder OF his wife, has been
completed.
The first witness called on the last
day of the trial was DR.. springthorp,
who related Deem,ng's explanation Of
how his wives had disappeared. Deem
ing said that while he and his first wife
were living at Rain Hill, near Liver
pool, man named Ben Young had
told him his (Deeming's) wife would
leave him for ESQ. He paid the money
and his wife left him. He supposed
that Young had killed her while he
(Deeming) was coming to Helbourne
with his second wife Miss Mathel) for
whose murder he is now on trial. His
second wife, Deeming said, confessed
that she was already married and she
left him in Melbourne because she was
afraid OF being implicated III the muir.
der OF his first vile.
Deeming is noted Tor being a notori.
GUS liar and the above is a specimen
OF his ability in that line.
/ The fact IS that the Rain Hill muir
der was known to no one save Deem
ing until after it Was known that he
had killed his wife. 1t was the discov-
cry OF the latter crime that led tbepo.
lice there to notify the Liverpool po.
lice OF their suspicion that Deemlng
had murdered his wife and children at
Ram Hill. 1t Will therefore be seen
that his statement relative to his Sec
ond vie leaving him for fear of being
implicated in the Rain Hill murder is
without q single grain OF truth.
After some further testimony by DR..
springthorp that did not in any way
clear the prisoner OF the crime prefer.
red against him, the defense amour
ced that its case WAS closed. The at.
torney for Deeming in summing up
argued that the defendant Was insane.
Nature in her healthy moods, he said,
could not have produced such mon.
ster.
The jury then retired. AS the jury
filed back into the room Deeming
shifted uneasiiy. The foreman deliver
ed to the Judge the verdict OF guilty.
as charged in the Indictment. Deem.
ing turned white and Jrembled as the
Judge turned towards him and passed
upon him the sentence OF death. The
judge said that in all his experience
with criminals he had never before
seen such q consumnate wretch as
the prisoner. He spoke OF Deemine's
shameless effrontery during the trial
and remarked that the jury had right
fully ignored the prisoners clownish
attempts to prove himself lrresponsi-
BILE. AS the Judge pronounced the
words, ''to be hanged by the neck un-
til dead" Deeming gasped and totter-
ed, but recovered himself enough to-
nod with assumed Indifference. He
then sank back in his seat. The au-
dience applauded the verdict and SEN
tence. Deeming WAS then taken back
to prison.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-05-05
Could BE Trusted.

There are heroes OF the late war
less well-known than Grant, Sherman
and Sheridan, whose names are yet
worthy a place in every loyal heart.
One OF them, Qusrtermaster.G General
Montgomery @. Meigs, died not long
ago. OF him it could be said that
from the beginning of his career as q
cadet at West Point, until his simple
military funeral, he had never been
reprimanded, and had never had an
action questioned by his superiors.
Through his hands during the war
passed al immense amount OF govern.
ment funds, but every cent WAS &C.
counted Tor, and he left to his children
the priceless legacy OF a spotless name.
A correspondent Of the Companion
found among her fathers papers, over
which she and her brother were look
ing, O. letter that WAS absolutely unde.
cipherable. Indeed 1t was q question
as to what language it was written in.
After long and iruitless study, they
passed it on to various friends, but
the case was hopeless.
Some weeks after, in Washington,
they were talking with General E. D.
Townsend, aclassmate and dear friend
OF their fathers, and the question OF
handwriting happened to come up.
The general pronounced spinner's
famous chirography "plain as print"
beside that Of General Meigs, especially
when he was in q hurry-then he
himself found it impossible to read it
overnight"
"My brother and looked at each
other" says our correspondent, "and
ran up to my room and brought
down our mysterious letter. 1t was
indeed the hand of my fathers old
friend Meigs. General Townsend
studied it thoughtfully, right side up,
wrong side up; then he said: My dear,
Meigs was in one OF his very worst
hurrys when he wrote this!" The let.
ter is amoung our treasures, but what
| it says man will never know"
During the war, 81 paper from Gen.
eral Meigs passed through the hands
of General Sherman, and is to-day
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-05-05

not do any talking about the effairs
OF the firm OF Grant d Ward. Ward
concluded that the wlsest thing for
him to do was to accept the situation
and he sent word to the gentleman
with whom he had made his arrange.
ments that hehad decided MOTTO make
the statement.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-05-05
Sunday night the 18th about !, 90, o..

Sunday night the 18th about IL ocl ock
an alteration took place in the Rosebud
saloon at Jefferson. Tex, between the bar
tender and Sam Culberson, son OF the Hon.
James Culberson, in which the former lost
his life. The evidence taken before the re-
corder shows that Culberson was acting in
self.defense. The record placed the bond
at 81 900. which was readily given. The
bartender's name was Chippero.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-05-05
HE is HONORED.
The Corner Stone of the Grant Monu.
ment Laid in New York
On the 9th.
Ceremonies Witnessed by Thousands
Upon Thousands of Old yeter.
ans and Citizens.
Magnificent Parade Of G. A. II. and
MILITIA and Naval Displays
on the Water.

The corner stone OF the nations
monument to Gen. Grant IN Riverside
Park was laid on tho 9th with be-
coming ceremonies. The weather was
all that could be desired-a clou9less
sky, bright sunshine, 81 temporary
breeze blowing over the Hudson river.
Long before the time fixed for the dedi-
cation ceremonies the immense erard
stand erected in close proximity to
where the monument will stand, and
partly surrounding the corner stone,
began to ill with those privileged per-
sons who had been invited and mad
tickets. 1t was computed that there
were fully 5000 or 5000 persons on
the stand. The number OF ladies WAS
marked, and bright, snowy spring cos.
tunes frightened the already brilliant
spectacle. The crowded stand, with
the veterans OF the q. A. R., in mum.
Der about 5000, formed in line around
and about the resting place OF their
dead hero, with the charming scenery
along the Hudson river, and the Pals
AIDES in the distance, formed q picture
which has