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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-19
Weather Forecast

Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, March 1S.-Local fore
cast for Texas east of the Tooth meridian
for twenty-four hours ending p. m, March
10: Fair weather; warmer; winds will
shift TO southerly.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-19
Another Chestnut
Special b the Gazette.

CRY OF MEXICO, March 1s.-The report
became current here this morning and was
given wide circulation on the streets all
over the city that a telegram had been re-
ceived at the war department giving notice
of the capture of Catarino Cara in the
state of Tamaulipas. Attempts to learn
the truth or the falsity of the report by re-
peated calls at the department have SO f.
proved futile.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-19

Col. W. L. McGaughey land commits
sioner of the state, was born in Lawrence
county, Ala, February 26, 1887, and was
educated at LAGRANGE military college. He
volunteered as private in the Confederate
army, was promoted under Pat Cleburne in
the Sixteenth Alabama infantry, and sur
rendered at the close of the war, in North
Alabama. He married Miss Aurie Rob
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
Washington, Political, Foreign,
and General Domestic,
Happenings of Note.
Telegraphic News of the World
Condensed for the Benefit
of Busy Readers.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

n census bulletin shows Minnesota
has a population of 1901 $50 people,
Of which s34 40 are native born. The
voting population has increased 1914
per cent in 10 year.
The following consular appoint
ments have been announced by the
state department: Hon c. NJ. Barre,
consular at Valparaiso, TO succeed
McCreary, resigned; Charles II.
Cowan, consul at Manila. PHILIPPINE
Islands.
Acting Secretary Chandler has
ordered the payment of s2O0,OOC
authorized by congress as an
indemnity to the Sioux Indians for
5000 ponies taken by the government
some years ago during one of the
Indian outbreaks in the Northwest.
W. NJ. Stone, acting commissioner
of the public land Office, has furnished
| Secretary Edward Mcpherson, OF
the republican congressional com
mittee, in answer to inquiries from
Kansas and Missouri. with a state.
ment of the public lands that have
been disposed of fr I'M July /, 1862, tO
June 80, 1s92, and with other in
formation relating to this subject,
The cash sale of public lands since
/ : whom the law went into effect
under a republican administration,
amOuntst 10 65, 250, $40 acres, The finaI
entries under the homestead act dur
ing the same period were 55,440, go.
In other words, striking a rough aver
age of 100 acres TO each entry, nearly
SOC, 600, or half a million people, have
been enabled TO take up farms under
the provisions of this law.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
Joke on a Polite Drummer

De Soto County, Fla, Times:
During a recent Methodist revival i'm
Orange county all theconverts wished
to be baptized by immersion. The
banks of the creek were steep and
slippery. The last one to be immersed
was alady in feeble health, and as
the minister landed her up a polite
drummer came forward to assist her.
The minister, thinking that it was
another applicant for baptism,
caught his hand and in the drummer
went. He stammered badly, and
when the least excited can not say
one word. He began popping his
lips, but the minister, with all
solemnity, plunged him under
watch, papers, clothes and all. As
soon as the drummer could get the
water out Of his nose and mouth and
could speak, lie told the minister
that he had made the greatest mis-
take of his life. There was a roar of
laughter when the truth was ascer-
tanned.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
Bold burglars at Sioux Fall

A series of bold robberies occurred
in Sioux Falls during fair week that
were unequaled in the criminal
history of tina. place. At 10 O'Clock
in broad daylight a man entered
L. X. Daniels large dry good store
when 1t was crowded with customers.
walked behind the cashiers desk
while the cashier was waiting on n
customer and took from the drawer
s5oin bills. The money was missed
within three minutes time. enoupb
for the robber to escape. Three safes
were broken open. one in Norton &
Murray's. They got SIS. Nothing
was found in the safes of n. z.
Stringham and II. G. ParmIey. Rut
tue leading event of the robberies
occurred In the hotel, where c. III.
Sheldon, republican candidate for
governor, was stopping. Sheldon had
for his room mate L. f. Conklin. of
Clark. At Ao'clock In the morning
the latter woke up and observed q
roooer going through the prospective
governors pockets. Conklin seized
hold OF his man, a fight ersued.
Sheldon woke UP, helped his friend
and the rob5er was compelled to
disgorge- The fellow was turned Owe
to the police and gave his name as
Cole.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

than l.5Oo couples, and that at least
two-thirds of this number we're run
aways. He also stated that OF the
entire number about one-third mao
come from Dubuque and when about
three miles east of East Dubuque,
he met a young man and a young
woman returning from Fairplay In a
buggy, having been unable TO hhd
the squire. The road was very MUDDY
and as the couple were about to pass
the Young man called to Bob, saving;
"Do YOU know where Bob Allison
liyes?" eyes, was the reply; HE
lives at Fairplay, but he is talking TO
o lust now Then Bob continued;
ssThe roads are very muddy, and as
1 always go prepared for a marriage
at any moment, and as l can see thai
Won two want to be married, I'll
perform the ceremony right here; you
need not leave your seats" And
| then as he subsequently said TO ouI
reporter: Il tied the knot in the
woods. with no witnesses but two big
Jack rabbits, who sat on their
launches and blinked as / pronounced
| them man and wife" The couple
then returned to Dubuque, and are
now residents of this city. He was a
typical backwOods squire, jovial and
always good natured and "eminently
fitted" for the position he occupied,
He was as well known in Dubuque as
he was at his home. Heleayes a wife
and three daughters, Mrs. Williams,
Of Dubuque; Mrs. Emerson Liddle
and Miss Ida, of Fairplay. He always
went by the name of Allison, but his
name was AllinSon.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
POLITICAL.


John L. Mitchell has been renomi-
mated by the democrats of the Fourth
Wisconsin district.
The platform indorses the national
declaration and defends, in detail,
all the alleged partisan legislation.
The New York Herald claims that
the democratic national committee
has made a dicker with the peoples
party by which two of the electoral
votes of South Dakota are to be
given Cleveland. and the remaining
two TO Weaver. This dicker was
completed in New York.
The New Jersey republican state
convention nominated John Kean for
governor and also selected presi-
Dental electors. The platform
indorses the Minneapolis declaration
and denounces the passage by the
last democratic legislature of the
bill tn legalize the combination OF
coal corporations,
ChaunceY L. Wood, of Rapid City,
democratic nominee for congress, has
sent a letter of declination TO Chair
man Peemiller. Wood assigns
professional engagements as the
reason for his refusal TO accept the
nomination. 1t is thought here that
the state committee will make no
attempt to I'll the vacancy. The
popnlists are urging fusion upon
Lardner and Kelley, their candl-
dates.
Massachusetts, republicans nomi-
mated the following ticket:
Governor, William III. Halle:
lieutenant governor, Roger wolcott;
secretary of state, William Olin;
attorney general, Albert E. Pillsbury;
auditor. John w. Kimball; treasurer,
George A. Marden Nathaniel b.
Banks and John d. Long were
unanimously nominated for electors
at large.
The democrats of New Jersey had
a lively time in convention. Judge
Werts and Edward f. c. Young
were placed in nomination foI
governor. During a speech by n OF
the Werts men some sharp comments
from the audience drew forth a bitter
retort and a tremendous uproar
ensued. For some time it seemed a.
| though the convention would break
up, but after a lengthy row the
balloting proceeded and resulted in
the nomination of Werts.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
Seriously Ill.

President Harrison makes no effort
to conceal his anxiety over the
condition of Mrs. Harrison and has
been at her bedside during the entire
week. The whole family share his
deep concern and all are evidently
apprehensive of the continuance of
the present u~nfavorable symptoms.
They are doing their utmost TO cheer
the patient up and have succeeded so
well that she is not fully aware Of
the extreme gravity Of her case
DR.. Dougherty, the New York
specialist, is expected to arrive
at Loon Lake at once. II is expected
an official bulletin will be issued in
regard to her case after a consultation
by the physicians.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

pondents from Paris, Tex, to the
effect that the Dalton brothers had
been captured at Deming. n. NJ. is
denied by Gov. Ross.
One of the society events of the
season at Detroit, Mich, IA the
marriage last week of William E.
Bailey, Of Seattle, Wash, to Miss
Mary Alger, at the residence of the
brides father, Gen. Russell A. Alger.
In Camilla, Ga, a cabin on tEeplace
of Judge ]. IL. Scaif vas destroyed
by fire. Two small children and their
crazy grandmother were in the yard
at the time it caught fire. The old
woman carried the children into the
midst of the flames and there left
them where they burned to death.
The United States government has
been sustained by the Uuited States
court OF appeals in the celebrated
goats hair case. The decision is OF
vast importance, involving many
millions Of dollars and affecting the
rights of manufacturers and
importers all over the country.
The coroner's jury OF Cook county,
H., which for three days has been
sitting in an inquest on the bodies
of Col. james NJ. Brown and officers
John Powell and Henry Mcdowell,
who were killed in a police raid al
the Garfield track, exOnerates the
| police authorities of any criminal
responsibility for the death of Brown
and finds that the officers were killed
by Brown while he was resisting legal
arrest.
Father OfBryan of the Catholic
church of Dunlap, Iowa, Ia:
demonstrated that he is not incapable
of defending himself against cowardly
rufians. A man named Henry
Brewer met the prist, who wa:
walking with a lady, and offered an
insult which was not resented, but
later the two meeting in a secluded
spot and the insult being repeated
and an attack offered, Father O'BryaI
floored the man with his cane anC
administered a sound thrashing.
-Four of the members of the notOriou.
Dalton gang have been captured, viz
Bob Dalton, leader of the gang
Grant Dalton, Amy Dalton, San
WingO aud ''Three-Fingered Jack.
Deputy Marshal Williams has beer
following the trail of the desperadoet
since the last robbery. in July. HI
followed them into Kansas, Colorado
and finally New Mexico, where tn
capture was made. The gang i
nanted in Indian territory, Kansas
New Mexico and California OF
charges of train robbery and tn,
rewards offered aggregate SD. 600.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
STRANGER TO THE WORLD.
4 Young Woman Rescued from the Cruelty
OF Her Parents.


The local humane agents attention
was recently called to the case of a
woman . years old living in the
center of TOrrington, the little town
up in the Naugatuck valley Conn,
who has never during her life been
out of doors, never been to
church or Sunday school, and has
as far as possible, been kept in ignor-
ance of the world about her. The
Kings Daughters and the W. r.. C.
have interested themselves in the
case, and the girl has been provided
with suitable clothing. Recently she
has been taken to Sunday school and
toa picnic. The scenes were strange
and bewildering to her. and her
pleasure was so great that she seemed
about to go wild for joy. The reason
first given by those who had held the
girl in confinement all these years
was that she was too Unlocking to be
seen in public, and that she had no
clothes TO yea As the girl is quite
pretty when she is dressed in suitable
clothing the reason was plainly
a manufactured one. Afterward il
was learned that the real reasen was
that an elder sister OF the girl had
been led astray, and her parents
determined TO save the younger one
from any such fate by keeping her
from the temptations of the world.
The young woman is not ingnorant.
having been fairly well taught by
her parents.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
..Blaine is all Right"

Prof. Robert L. Moore, massage
specialist. has returned to his home
at No. % S 10th St., Philadelphia,
from Bar HarboF, Me-, where he sub
jected ex-Secretary of state James G.
Blaine to rigorous massage treatment.
He was with Mr.. Blaine for two weeks
and speaks of him as an ideal patient.
Mr.. Blaine was always the same,
said the professor, during the course
of treatment. His politeness was re
markable, and his evenness of temper
admirable. He walked two miles a
day when left, and drove ten miles.
Now, if he were sick, he couldn't dc
| that. His heart is all right, and Sc
are his lungs, and you can say that
Mr.. Blaine is a well man. He does
not drink nor smoke, and that is in
his favor. Bar Harbor viii be his
home until after the elections, when
he will proceed to Washington.
James G.. Blaine is all right"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
MAKE THE BEST SOLDIERS.
Boys Under 20 Are More Valuable 70
Fighting Purposes Than Men,

Boys Under 20 Are More Valuable for
Fighting Purposes Than Men,
Fort Dodge Messenger: II is no
uncommon thing to hear these
National Guard troops referred to as
"mere boys" and the idea conveyed
that they would not amount to much
in the event of real fighting. Such
speakers can scarcely be familiar
with the troops who went to the front
from 1861 to 1865. The fact is that
it was such boys as these whOcaptured,
fort Donelson, Vicksburg and Atlanta
and fought the battles Of the wilder
ness. The largest number Of enlist
ments at any one age during the late
war was at the age of is. The next
largest number was at 10, and the
next at 20, and so on. The average
age at enlistment for all the volunteers
was under %, and the average age of
the whole army at the muster out in
1865 was under p. This is why we
have so many pensioners yet and why
the G. 4. Il. is still increasing in
membership, although the war closed
twenty-seyen years ago. The fact is
that boys of IS to % are recognized as
the best material for soldiers. Gen.
Sherman said he would rather have
an army Of 1S-year-Old boys than OF
45-year-Old men. Gov. Carpenter
says that one of the most daring and
brilliant feats of battle that came
under his observation was the
advance of the ~Sixty-sixth Illinois
infantry on KeneSaw mountain, as
skirmishers, and every man in the
regiment was under 20 years old.
Their commander, Gen. Morrill,.
told Gov. Carpenter that if lie could
have his pick for ar army crops he
would like to have every man under
%. So bear in mind that our low
National Guard is the same sort OF
stuff as were the boys who put dOwu
the rebellion, and count On them fol
just as good work as their fathers
ever did, if occasion should rise, and
il we may judge from events of this
summer in eastern states the time
has come when the peace of society
requires an armed military force al
| its command.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Russian forces have evacuated
the Pamirs.
The river Nile is on the rampage
and threatens a disastrous inunda.
ton.
The legislature of Newfoundland
has taken steps to rebuild the
burned districts of st. Johns.
The highest viaduct in the world
has just been erected in Bolivia, over
the River Lea, 9,S33 feet above the
sea level and 4,Oos feet above the
river.
The Canadian trade and labor con-
greSs demands municspal ownership
of all electric light plants, water
works, ferries and street railways.
and governmental control of all tele-
graph, telephone and railway lines.
The Neue Frele Presse of Vienna
reports that a woman named Jane
Armstrong. said TO be of New York.
tw~enty-eight years of age, has
committed suicide with a revolver at
Monaco, where she had lost $780, 600
by gambling in ten days.
The trial of the action for divorce
brought by Edward Parker Deacon
against his wife because of her rela-
tions with NJ. Abielle, for the killing
OF whom Mr.. Deacon is now impris-
oned, was fixed for September %, but
it will be put of until three weeks
later.
Consul General Sutton has cabled
the state department that the time
for free importation of corn has been
extended by the Mexican government
until Nov. b. 1t is important, he
says, that this information be given
wide publicity, especially west of
the Mississippi.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

One of the strangest things about
the planet Mars is the frequent and
sudden changes of color that are
manifest upon its disk. Recently
while Professor Pickering was ex-
amining it through his telescope Just
before sunrise the snowy region
about the planets south pcSe was a
brilliant green color. After sunrise
this part became a bright yellow.
while the rest of the disk changed 10
orange Later the orange suddenly
became a brilliant green. Last yeai
upon one portion Of this mysterious
planet which was green a yellow spot
appeared eleven days before the
spring equinox. The spot enlarged
till it covered a great portion of the
disk. This season. seventeen days
before the spring equinox, the yellow
spot appeared again upon the green
surface
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

After a full year of almost constant
sleep May White, the young school
teacher who has puzzled the medical
fraternity of the state of Michigan,
at last shows signs of returning con-
seriousness. For a month past the
stupor in which she has lain has
grown less profound, and last week
she was able to open her eyes and rec
ognize her parents. Monday for the
first time in twelve months, she sat
up in bed and partOok of solid food.
Hitherto she has suhSisted on liquids
alone. The attending physician be
lieyes she is now on the road to re,
coyery. When first attacked with
her strange malady she weighed rs
pounds. Now she weighs but IS,
otherwise she seems in fair health.
although her senses have grown dull
and her memory is almost a blank,
Her home is hear StOckbridge, Mich
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22

The executive committee of the
South Dakota democratic central
committee met in secret conference
with the candidates on the demo-
cratic state ticket in Yankton 10
formulate plans for the campaign and
to discuss matters OF importance TO
the party in this state. Chief among
the topics discussed was that of fu-
sion with the independents, and to
this subject several hours were de-
voted. 1t was practically decided
that the democrats could not fuse
with the independents unless the
last named party is willing to divide
the state ticket and a committee of
four was appointed to confer with a
similar committee from the indepen-
dents and arrange matters. The let
ter of c. L. Wood, who is the demo-
cratic nominee for congress, declining
to make the race, was taken up and
discussed, but no action was taken
upon it, the understanding being that
if the independents agree TO fuse the
resignation will be accepted and the
independents candidate for congress.
Lardner, of the Black Hills, which is
also in Woods county, will be Endorsed
and his name placed on the demo-
cratic ticket.
A convention of the democratic
clubs OF the state was called for Octo-
Der y in Sioux Falls, the basis of
representation being n delegate for
every fifteen club members. Bartlett
Trip opens the campaign at Water.
town on the 24th Of September, speak
ing at Elkton on the 26th, at Madison
on the 9th and at Canton on the
10Th.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
Pulled Him Straight.

Edward Cowan lies at the CITY
hospital in st. Louis with his body
embedded in a plaster cast. While
sitting at a second story window he
fell to the sidewalk. At the CITY
hospital it vas found the spinal
yertebrae had been dislocated and
his left arm broken. DIR. Marks
performed a new operation in
reducing the dislocation. Formerly
1t was treated by hanging the patient
up by the neck and .armpits, a most
painful and sometimes fatal measure.
In this way the vertebrae was
stretched only one way, but i'm the
new operation the injured man was
placed in bed on his back, all his
Clothes were removed aud blocks of
WOOD put at hips and shoulders. A
folded sheet was passed under his
body and through his armpits until
the ends were over his head. A
strong man took hold OF the ends of
the sheet and began to pull, while
two attendants stood at the feet pull
ing. For five minutes they kept up
the stretching until it was a 7erftabIe
tug of war. Cowan was by this time
suspended two feet above the bed and
stretched at least three inches. DIR.
Marks then threw the dislocated joint
into place. \ plaster jacket was
made and placed over the weak spot
and Cowan rested easy. DR.. Marks
said Cowan would pull through all
right
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-22
THE CHURCH AND THE SCHOOLS.
Illinois Catholics Directed to Oppose COM
pulsory Education.


In all the Catholic churches in Illi-
nois the priests read from the altar
Sunday morning a long pastoral let
ter, signed by the archbishop of Chi
cage and the bishops Of Peoria, Belle
vile and Alton, strongly d~enouncins
the Edwards compulsory education
law and calling upon Catholic voters
TO enforce the demand for its repeal.
The letter is remarkable in many
ways. 1t is the first authorized ut
terance Of the church in this state on
the education matter and il is taken
to mean that the Catholics of Illinois
viii join the Lutherans, as they did
in Wisconsin, in the fight against
state interferences in den0minational
schools. Also il is the first pastoral
ever sent out BY Archbishop Feehat,
and the first pastoral touching po-
litical matters that has been read IN
the churches of Chicago since Bislnp
Duggan denounced the Fenians in
the fall of 1863.
The letter goes on to declare that
the teaching of religion is a necessary
accompaniment Of secular educatioh
in order that the schools may net
turn out AN inferior sort of men
and mere materialists, secularists and
indifferentiSts must always be infer
ior.-
The bishop says: 1T is not right
that we Catholics should have to cor
tribute to the support of both the
public and paroci,ial schools. for
the present, however. there Gems u
be no escape from the double burden
for the law taxes Us for the mainte1-
ance of the secular schools and reasoi
and conscience compel US TO main
tain our own religious schools
The part of the letter discussing
the school question closes With a de-
nunciation of the Edwards law. Ins
final passage of this pastoral is as Tor
lows:
When we consider what we has'
done and are doing 10 educate our
Catholic children while We also con-
tribute to the support of the pubic
schools, tit seems ineSplicable to u
that the legislature of Illinois shouit
have enacted what is known astH'
Edwards law, an insidpous and an h-
just law, which. under pretext OF zeal
for popular education, IS really a sins
lation Of our most 5; cred rights -
men and Citizens