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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07

William r. Griffin Fsrsily Shoots Hs
Unfsithfuf Wife.

ST. Lorls. April s-About II o'cloeh
Tuesday night Mrs. Kate Griffin, ~
years old. was shot and fatally
wounded by her husband William Y.
Griffin. In house Of iii-reputs
on Chestnut street Mrs. Griffin had
left her home on washinrton avenue
early in the evening In response te .
note 10 meet . man NJ the house snsn-
TONED Her hnsbsnd suspected her m
fention and followed her. He found hev
IN a room alone and accused her - belne
unfaithfnl After some words he drew
. revolver and fred. ire buisss sssskise
Mrs. Grimm In the back ~ the peck
and lodginc st the base cf Che skull
The couple we're married 81 Bufsio. n
= seven yssrs ago and came here Las
0rtoper
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
DIXON ANp Johnson.
They VIII Fight a Twenty-Round Con-
test With L IN, Gloves.

NEW YoRK, April 6-Articles were
signed today for a contest between
George Dixon, the champion feather
wslght boxer. ard Fred Johnson, the
EngiIsh champion, before tat Z 4ey
Island Athleuc Gin, au suburban dsv.
The clue gDssants purse OF : 600.
Dixon q n,snsger 80 bets $500 on the
outside. II II pe twenty on d
contest, with fvs-oaace gloves, Al ll6
pouads.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
Four Murdercr. Lvnched.

ALEXANDRIA. La, April 6.-News has
reached here that Patrick Kelly, aged
IS. peddler, was killed on Sunday last
on Little river, near Fishville. by .
gang Of eight negroes. Four of them
were caught and hanged. and men were
in pursuit Of the rest of the gang. The
killing was for the purpose of getting
the peddler's money.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07

ST.. PAUL, Minn., April 6.-At 1890 ..
m. an explosion occurred in a basement
of the St. Paul White Lead and Oil Com
pany's building, located on the levce in
west st. Paul. The building was soon
in flames and in an hour was q total
loss, the walls having fallen in. The
stock was valued at $4,000. machinery
at SIS, 900 and building at $50. 200. The
insurance on the whole was only s40,-
mn !
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
LOST THEIR POSITIONS.
Express Messengers Are Unexpectedly
Discharged from the Service.

ST. Lours. April 6.-Sincc April the
Southern Express Company has DIS
charged about ninety express mes.
sengers for being members OF the
Messengers brotherhood. The movs
was entirely unexpected By the
messengers. who thought ali trouble
between themselves and the company
ended with the settlement of the Jsnu-
airy strike. IL has developed that
for some time past the Pscihs
and the United States companies have
been following the example act
by the Adams company in discharR.
ing the brotherhood men and filing
their places with non union messengers.
The brotherhood men are greatly dis
eoursged. and admit that The promps
apd decisive action of the companies
has robbed the organization Of al po
teucr
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
Decrcase IN the Circulation.

WARRINGTON, April 6.-The circula-
ton of gold and silver coins and certifi-
Gates. United States notes and national
bank notes on April 1 was S242s per
capita for the 65,16s, 900 people esti-
mated to be citizens of this country.
The total circulation is placed at 81 $685.
64l,520, which shows a decrease since
March of S917.372.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
MURDER OR SUICIDE.
A Woman Called Out Of Bed TO Identity
the Body Of Eef Husband.

MrSrAroIrs, April 6 sMrs. Anthony
Fstrasch was called from her bed AZ an
early hour to identify the body Of sdesd
man found lying in her hallway. A
neighbor living in the same building
had stumbled over H. The body
was thst of her husband. who
had left home Monday morning
70 go to work. There was . bullet
hole through the right temple and un-
der the body ~os found n ss-csiiser re.
volver. Mrs Patrssch insisted that
her husband could never have taken
his own life. ss he never carried = re-
voiver. bat she believed that sorne man
With whom he had qusrreled shot hin
for revenge.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
Great Fire I'm Ohio.

PIqUA, o., April e.-The mammoth
furniture concern of Cron, Kills & Co.
burned Tuesday afternoon. The plant
consisted of a magnificent four-story
brick building 80 by 200 and two large
warehouses Of the same size. Five
dwellings were also destroyed before
the fire was controlled. The total loss
will reach 100000, covered by insur-
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
THAYER FINALLY sUBDUED.
The Nebraska Supreme Court Dashe.
His Last Hope to Atoms.

LINCOLN, Neb., April 6.-Ex-Gov-
ernor Thayer's last hope of again oc-
cupyIng the gubernatorial chair was
dashed TO pieces by decision of the
supreme court handed down late this
afternoon. The court holds that the
decision IN Boyd's case was 3 majority
decision; that his citizenship is fully
established and that Thayer had no
equitable ground to contest Boyd's
right TO the title of governor. This
finally disposes Of the case. Thayer
did not have the hacking OF the repub-
lIcap party IN this last &C Ion.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07

CHICAGO. April s.--wheat is reported
in good condition in 40 per cent. Of the
counties of Illinois and fair in 50 per
cent; good in half Of the counties in
Iowa and fair in most Of the others.
GOOD In 20 per cent. of the counties of
wisconsiu and poor IN - per cent.
Spring piowing has been begun.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
seven Persons Cremated.

FoRr MADISON, Ia. April 6.-At 11:ls
Tuesday night the two-story frame
store building of S. v. Kitchen was dis
covered to be on fire, and it, with the
dwelling Of John Knucls, was entirely
consumed. S. v. Kitchen, his wife,
three children, his wife's sister, Miss
Sidney Day, and August Knemeier, a
boarder, were burned to death. Sam
Kitchen and Henry Knemeier were
badlv burned
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07

The p. Of l. Commercial Union now
Located Here.
The state Office of the Commercial
Union has been moved from Lansing TO
tnis city and is located st No. 80 East
Bridge street. Dubois Conxlin, the
state agent. has charge Of the ofioe.
The union a . medium established by
The Patrons OF Industry through which
they onts.n Their goods At wholesale
prices. The orders and cash will be
sent to the Office here and Mr.. Conklin
will forward the goods from the nearest
iohhins vfssces. last yesr the business
done by shis agency amounted 20 ss0.-
00o. tsrsna Rapids vii probably get q
good snare Of the trsds.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
NOT A STRIKE.
Report That the Tower Light TIimmers
Struck Denied.

Superintendent of Construction Mat
thews, of the Grand Rapids Electric
Light and Power company, said last
night that the report in one Of the
evening papers to the effect that
the trinmers employed on the electric
light towers had struck was a gauzy
fake. Two men had become weakened
and were afraid to ascend the towers.
They resigned in consequence and men
with more backbone were put IN their
places.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
H,s r,,fe rhr,atened.

NEw YORK. April 6.-Rev. DR.. Park
hurst's life has been threatened II he
persists In the crusade which he has
pursued with such relentless vigor. He
has been informed of his prospective
fate through anonymous letters. DIR.
Parkhurst is afraid that he viii be
killed on the street at night
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
Young whalen Captured.

Sr. PAUL, Mimi, April 6.--Charles
Whalen the young man charged with
the brutal murder of Gerald Spaulding
at Portage, Wis, Saturday morning.
was captured in box car on the Chica-
go. Milwaukee & St Paul railroad in
West St Paul Tuesday evening. He
was taken at once to the county jail.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
MORTON WILL ACCEPT.
He Announces His Determination Not TO
Scramble for II.

WAsHrSsroS, April 6.-The Star this
afternoon says. For some time past
rumors have been in active circulation
that Morton would not under any
circumstances allow his name 70 be
used in connection WITH q re-nomina-
ton. Within tho past twenty-four
hours Morton assured an intimate
friend and a political leader that he
would accept the honor II tendere d
him. III the COW Etion re-uomnsted
him, he woalsi 20 lsSo the tight with all
his vigOr. but be could not participate
in the scramble for tue nomination.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07

EssTox. Pa, April s.--orders we're
rcceived here tonight from the Read
ius management shutting down ths
Ishigh xsliev sicrs Tor three dsrs 70
efsh week Tnis puts sir nuneres
ruen on hsif t,f1e TIE citv q greatly
sxcsed ever the sfsr.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
Stabbed in an Orgie.

WHEELING. W. Va. April 6.-Melissa
McGiumphrey. proprietress OF a house
of ilI.fsme, stabDed and fatally wound
ed Ida Foster, companion, IN .
drunken orgie today.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07

$4,000. At one time the flames
threatened to wipe out the whole
block which would have sn.ailed loss
of sl 900 900. but by the hard work Of
the rremen they succeeded In getting
he IRE under conuol.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07

Yesterdays nnoathIy rsest,ng Of the
Press elsb ~ss highly plesssnt affair.
~uens forty pefsoas. tise nas1ofIsy 81
rssnbe1s accompanied by thsss ~isss,
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07

wssrfvsfc~. April 4 The Chin~~e
minister hss iefernsei senator shsr-
man thss u TIE Chinese eselss3oH bill
t<eozass lsw chiaz soul5 seeer 81
aiplusa stie relations vita this srsantty
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07

Arrsxv, y. Y. April s--t5ov. Flower
has signed the worlds fair bill. ard
Sled with n rnernoranduu iudorsing
iss provisions and saying that Il pro
vides sufficient money for all purposes.
The bill .ppraprlssss 500 coo.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
MRS. MELIS DEAD.
Reief Comes After Months Of Untold
Suffering.

Suffering.
Mrs.,Alice Melis. wife of Assistant
Postmaster NJ. II. Melis, died yesterday
mornlng at her residence. No. l32 Colt
avenue. Mrs. Melis had been sick for
several months with neuralgia of the
stomach. and had been a great suf-
ferer. Mr.. and Mrs. Melis had been
married twenty-five years and raised q
family of live children. three boys and
two girls. The funeral will be held
Friday afternoon ut 2:30 from the
family residence.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07
VARIETY THEATRE BURNED.
Another Dsssssrou. Fire IN New Orleans
A Block Thrsasened.

Nnw os1nAxs. April s.--rhs = zen
Musee. variety tnesssr On Royal
sreet, was burned sAis evenings loss,
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07

A Desperate Assassin Fast in the Clutches
of an Oficer.

sr. PAUL. April 6.-Detective John
o'Connor arrived here this evening
from So. James, Minn.. with Charles
whaien, the confessed murderer Of
Gerald spauldIng. whom he killed
with = coupling pm on Friday at Por-
lsge, Wis. ding the body Of SIS and
. gold watch.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-07

II . Not Believed that R-vcluson =
impending in Hawzl.

impending IN HAWAII.
wksHrSeToS, April e.--Assstant Sec
retary soley said thls afternoon that
the nsvy department. rad not received
snv sdvices that Indicated "a impend-
ing revolution 10 Hawai-. II Admiral
Brown had sent such information. a.
the press dispstches sad, 4 had not ar
rived
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-03-25

A heavy fall of snow may break the
limbs of evergreens and other trees. It
may be primitive, but there is no better
way Of dislodging the snow than striking
the branches with pole.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-03-25
-%>A
nH!t:0afRX<
>Gal::-. f"G~- ~
THE LARGEST CREAMERY.

Seven Hundred Farmers Supply 1t with
Cream Daily.
Probably the largest creamery in the
world is that at st. Albans, Vt. The
building itself is three stories high, with
5000 feet of floor room. In the cellar is
the boiler, a forty horse power engine,
and the tanks for buttermilk. The first
floor is the factory proper, in which the
cream is received and pumped up to the
story above, where are ten tanks hold
ing 600 gallons each, and where are also
the testing rooms, offices, etc. 1t is re-
turned again to 1.-THE first floor to be
churned, worked ar& packed as butter
into tubs. The third story is used as a
storage room for tubs, salt and other
equipments.
All cream received is tested frequent
ly enough to obtain thorough knowl-
edge of the amount of butter fat in the
average products of the farmers dairy,
and he is credited not only with so
many pounds of cream, but also with its
butter value. The average of butter fat
is less than 4 per cent, but the extremes
are 3.25 and Ats. The milk is not
brought to the creamery, but is received
at forty-four stations located at various
points within twenty-six miles of st.
Adams, and there the cream is separated
and shipped in special cars to the cream
cry.
About 700 farmers with $4,000 COWS
are now supplying the cream for the
factory, and the average daily product
is 10000 pounds, but it is gaining patrons
each month, and they hope to reach
their full capacity of 10000 pounds
daily. They run ten churns, each of
which will churn 500 pounds of butter
at time, and four butter workers, upon
which eighty pounds can be worked and
salted in q very few minutes. 1t takes
a carload of salt every two months, and
the business keeps sixty hands employed.
The proprietors claim that they have a
demand for even more butter than they
will be able to make when running to
the full capacity, and at prices which
are very satisfactory, although they
were organized less than year ago, or
in October, 1890, and commenced bust
ness in vember.-American Guilt
vator.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-03-25
Dairying in the United States.


The men employed in the business
number 100000 and the horses are over
100000. There are over 10000 900
horses all told.
The COWS and horses annually con-
sumo 30,000,000 tons of hay and nearly
$4,000, 900 bushels of cornmeal, about
the same amount of oatmeal, 275, ,OOO, 900
bushels Of oats, 100000 bushel of bran
and 30,000,000 bushels of corn, to say
nothing of the brewery grains, sprouts
and other questionable feed of various
kinds that are used to great extent 1t
costs $3.50, ,000,0 to feed these cows and
horses. The average price paid to the
laborers necessary in the dairy business
is probably twenty dollars month,
amounting to $1S0, 0,000, 600 year.
The average cow yields about 450 gal
Ions of milk a year, which gives total
product of 6,750, 600, 600 gallons. Twelve
cents gallon is a fair price to estimate
the value of milk at, 81 total return to
the dairy farmers of $4,000, 900, if they
sold all the milk as milk. But so per
cent. of their milk is made into cheese
and butter. 1t takes twenty-seven pounds
of milk to make one pound of butter,
and about ten pounds to make one pound
of cheese. There is the same amount of
albuminoids in 81 pounds of milk as
there is in one pound of beef. A fat
steer furnishes so per cent. of boneless
beef, but it would require 24,000,0 900
steers weighing 1,500 pounds each, to
produce the same amount of nutrition as
the annual milk product does.-Amer-
ican Analyst.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-03-25
Consumption Cured.

An old physician. refined from practice.
having had placed iu his hands by an E,s,
India missionary the formula of simple
vegetable remedy for the speedy and per.
manent cure of consumption, bronchitis,
catarrh, asthma and all throat and lung af-
fections, also positive and radical cure for
nervous debility and all nervous complaints,
after having tested its wonderful curative
bowers in thousands of cases, has felt 1t his
luty tJ make it known to his suffering fel.
ows. Actuated by this motive aud desire
so relieve human suffering, ! viii. send free
# charge, to all who desire it, this recipe.
n German, French, or English, with full
directions tor preparing and using Sent
~ mail by addressing with stamp, naming
7hls paper. w. A. MOVES, 800 Powers
Block. Rochester, N. Y.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-03-25
Notes.


How can a COW have the "milk and
beef form?"
It requires Is, ,000, 900 COWS to supply
this United States with milk, cheese and
butter
One Of the best after dinner cheeses is
the strong, rich Edam, which is now
made in America.
The live stock and dairy business, and
even farming, is now carried on by COM
binations of proprietors.
Two billion dollars are invested in the
dairy business of this country. This is
almost twice as much money as is In
vested in manufacturing and commercial
interests.
The dairyman who does not breed his
own cows, but merely buys fresh ones
and sells them when they go dry, buying
other fresh ones in their place, will need
to be good judge of a dairy cow.
The story is going the rounds again
about a large snake which was found
milking cow. What was the cow do
ing while the snake was milking her,
and how did the snake reach the cows
udder? Did it stand upon its tail?
A feeding experiment at the Maine
agricultural station shows that it costs
only eleven dollars year more to feed
200 pound Holstein COW than to feed
a 900 pound Jersey; but this by no
means determines the relative value of
the two animals. Will the Holsteia's
carcass dressed for beef sell for eleven
dollars more than the Jerseys? And
during the year which cows milk and
butter was worth most?
In the province of Ontario a number
of creameries have combined into a
great syndicate, and the result is inn
proved methods of butter and cheese
making. In spite of the opposition to
syndicates they seem to be making their
way into popular favor in the teeth of
all opposition in every line of business.
Certainly, when all the creamery men
work together and at the same time re-
gard the public as their friend, and not
as common prey to be devoured, it will
be far better than when each mans
hand is against his neighbor in the same
occupation,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-03-25
Live Stock Points.

Comparing the eastern horse with the
broncho of the wild west a correspondent
of The Stock Growers Journal writes:
"Our Montana broncho enjoys it when
he sees snow on his back; he runs and
plays, name and tail erect, while the
eastern horse stands all bumped up and
chilled most to DEATH"
The village blacksmith may be poet
ical creature, as Longfellow found him,
but in nine cases out of ten he knows no
more about the true way of shoeing 8
horse than hypocrite knows of tho
road to heaven.
Most of the diseases that affect horses
feet have come from bad shoeing. Let
your horses In the country run barefoot
good part of the year. Man would
never have had corns if he had never
worn shoes. If he could go barefoot
now through the summer his corns
would disappear. As with men, so with
horses.
Live stock standards are advancing
steadily. Keep your eye open constant
ly for improvements or you Will get left
If your corncribs threaten to burst or
topple over with the. weight of corn,
feed some of it to the cattle you are
wintering over.
Cattle, horses, sheep and wool in Mon
tana this year brought into the state
nearly $15,OO0,000 Good for the young
mountain state!
Home bred draft horses are now hav-
ing their day in America. They are de-
scended from the original importations,
but the breeds have adapted themselves
to the United States. This is especially
true of the lighter draft horses.
In feeding pigs here is a good rule to
remember: One bushel of corn is worth
two bushels of oats for fattening. One
bushel of oats is worth two bushels Of
corn for making bone and muscle.
The Illinois legislature set aside $40,-
600 for the encouragement of live stock
interests at the Worlds fair.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-03-25
A Boys Method of Avoiding bad Dreams


A Boys Method of Avoiding Bad Dreams
A friend has told us that during long
period of his childhood he maintained
the habit of praying every night before
going to sleep that no bad dreams might
trouble him, acting in curious, unthink-
ing coincidence with good old Bishop
Ken, who generations ago resorted to
the same expedient. To further his
prayers the little boy, in spirit of phi
losophy beyond his years, would try to
concentrate his ideas ON all the most
humdrum things he could think OF, his
thoughts usually settling ON the figure
of an old Welsh landlord, small man
with brown wig, whom he had oc-
casionally visited with his father, and
who, to his childish fancy, appeared the
very personitication of commonplace
Argosy. -A..--.---
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-03-25
g. r. FARRA, NJ. D.,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON

Special attention given to Obstetrics
and diseases of Women and Children.
Office up stairs in Crawford & Farrs,s
brick. Office hours, to a. m. and
and from tot pm
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-03-25
Pruning in Winter.

Pruning in Winter.
Trees of hardy kinds may be safely
pruned in winter if but moderate
amount is to be cut away. Heavy prun-
ing renders tree tender and more liable
to injury or check in growth if followed
by intense cold, but it rarely happens
that such severe pruning is required. If
the operator always has a distinct and
definite object in view, he need not cut
away a single shoot unless needed. A
bearing tree may have too thick head
and want slight thinning, or small
crooked branch may be in the way, re-
quiring only clipping with pocket
knife. There is a special advantage in
doing the work now-al the branches
and shape of the head may be easily seen
while the leaves are off, When the
owner of an orchard has to give the
business to a hired hand, he may avoid
all danger of having the work wrongly
done by marking with piece of chalk
the place where he wants the pocket
knife or light saw to do the cutting.
Very little cutting need thus be made
and no mutilation.
A modification or improvement may
10 A1oNAO dG tlIlC III Wiut6I II bI6
weather happens to be too cold or hands
scarce for doing the labor till spring.
Take small brush or pencil, with white
paint, pass through the orchard, and
wherever branch is to be pruned mark
with the brush white line where the
cut is to be made Direct the operator
to cut nowhere but on this line. The
chalk would be washed off by rain; the
streak Of white paint will remain for
months. The piece of chalk may be at
tached to the end Of rod or pole and
be used to reach any part of the tree;
and, # desired, the owner may pass
through his orchard on horseback and
rapidly mark as many trees in an hour
as the operator will prune in day
Country Gentleman.
A heavy fall Of snow may break the
limbs of evergreens and other trees. 1t
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-03-25
M RS. CRAHAM'S
Face Bleach.

Cures the worst cases of Freckles, Sunburn, Sal
lowness Moth-patches, Pimples and all skin bemish-
es. Price 81 SO. Harmless and effective. No sample
can be sent Lady agents wanted.
Tho np,,rriof IN this town who first orders
lHo Druggist bill Of my preparations will
have his name added to this advertisement.
My preparations are for sale by wholesale drug
gists ir Chicago and every city west of it.