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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-11-29

To rHs Eorros OF HERsLD: In the
editorial columns - your paper today
tbs following appears:
" omen. especially Swedish women.
are often ths victims q strange and an.
accouutahis authorizations Amanda
SRanson NAV - perfectly sincere In her
h~ii-f that sire wss criminally assaulted.
aad ret it may be founded entirely UPON
Der disordsrsd mag atom The fact
hat a surgical Instrument vas used
locally stree gfhens she suppo@ision that
shs - suffering from an Authorization
iiF bsrth has enjoyed large share u
rnbiir cousdence. and his many noble
traits - pind forbid the belief that he
shouia b. guilty - psrpetfating 20 bold
sal heinobs @ crime az fhsone charged
Nov. M Editor. rlsese give facts Tor
thai especially ~w-,iish women are
sroubiel With haiincinstion. Tell boz
often they are troubled and sho they
are sad bow isrg~ percen,ags n the
Svedish Eomsn are thus affected. state
facts You have mentioned the Swed.
,zb People a. thus sdecf-d and thereby
made an assault upcn that class have
be.n Nof arg exclusively amrrg said
people ~ different states q the anioa
fgr fweaty eight years and a. a pastor
eighteen years bat | can ssg that "a
Tar a. my observation gee your attack
y ut tru~ And 10 references - the
SEeli-h <iri- y Grand Rapids ] o. Say
a. 4 cises u people they ara respected.
lpexn g iroo ne org iist ~ visitors az
ny house hy prominenf ladies' ~ the
eitf asking % - h-lp them n securing
q Swedish gifi AZ she - preferred %
saase thsy a. sacwn ~ BE- honest.
faiihfa' - ruFk and rod sorkers Not
vert at.eut hsi rciration4
! sek yep - visit al eur nstrons IN
thi< cify rhs hsvs engaged Swsdish
girls - surk. sna irqnire Ni,cuf their
frotIes- q hallec5rsf,on fTls, not paas
hs tle ~seissh hcmes. but exaruiae the
isiy q tie hcese slaa Aaa I an con
viaced thar yoo. berg aon~as. ~iii @>on
nnd eut that yen hefs nsde a great
msstake aud iose a great vssnx b.
g'-cd cisss - pecpie Nd urtsI vs,u
either prove war sforeesni staseusrnt o.
rsyeke e Re Seru.sh people eill 80,
sfiter vsHr eerits a. ~ assault nror ia
ehsrset~r NJ t.8iter. ksd the eou
plaeier he~n your ewn 3aDahtes 81 a
dapghtsr n = rtsh teasi,ng family "
snctrtY h thu rity. wouid pen havs
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-11-29

Police Court

JUpGE BURLISGAME - Frederick Al
brecht. admitted 10 citizenship
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-11-29

T.. g.. Clergyman. funeral director. No. IS
Fountain street Telephone loo
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-11-29
Catarrhal Deafness Cured.

Il was troubled with a filling up Of the
nostrils hawking and splitting and other
symptoms common 10 catarrh. Ii had also
* ended 10 the ears, causing them To ring
and roar. and hid partially destroyed my
hearing DIR. Rankin cured me entirely in
two months treatment My hearing is as
good as u ever was.
'G. YOUNG. With Brooks a Co."
esflice will not he open Thanksgiving.
References to five hundred cured patients
in this city alone.
DIR Rankin IL a graduate OF Ann Arbor, ard
has bad years Of exparicnce in his sp,eialties.
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-11-29

To rHK PCBLfsHERs OF THE HFRALD:
Simply For the sake q justice. and as
defense Tor our Swedish people. who had
besn seriously assaulted In tho editorial
columns of TaE HFRkLD Of the 9th
inst. ! sent the accompanying letter 20
the editor Of the paper But instead %
irser'ing % answering tho same. he
wrote November - queer story about
ha.lgc.nat.0n that proved nothing in
the case. bat made the reproach still
worse. A my letter shows. ! expressed
Go % nion about either party. but left
the decision 60 be- made by the court.
Add Al ] asked Vss that the editor
should 10 the same. The following il a
true copy ~ ny letter and I VII ask
you. please. % pabiish the Same IN THE
HFnaIp. H. p ouIST.
Grand Rapids. November =. 1.1I
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-11-29

The finest and latest lot of
Young Turkeys. alive and
dressed. ever brought into this
market. Come and see the
largest market in the state.
Well take good care of you
with the best and save you
money in your purchases for
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
KEYSTONE STATE CUllINGS.
A BRAVE io.YEAR.OLD.

PRANK ARrLEY REscUEs A CHILD FROM
DROWNING WHILE MEN WAITED.
JouNsrowN-The other day Helen Low.
mans hat blew into the Conemaliyh river
ns the child played on its banks She tried
to get 1t, got into the current and was swept
away. Men and women who saw the child
drowning ran about In distraction looking
for ropes or boards Frank Artley, 10 years
years old, heard the girl scream as she lost
her footing. He leaped over the fences and
down IL foot cmbankment, throwing him
self far out In the current without an In.
stants hesitation. The little girl was un.
der water when he reached her, but he
dragged her head out of water, and after 9
gallant struggle, swan to where he could
touch bottom. Eager hands took the half
drowning child and the boy went home
without a word over his exploit. When
admiring people came TO praise his courage
and prompt action, the little fellow said
81 knew she was drowning, and that had
to go quick. | can swim, and l wasn't
afraid. That's all"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
MR.. PIG, 3 81 90.

him to get over the excitement of his
railroad journey. Then he starts on
another journey, and once he starts he
never stops until the end. The Sun
reporter and the able artist who drew
the accompanying pictures selected as
the representative to be specially
watched in this final journey, fine,
brown-haired gentleman pig, fat and
good natured, as will be seen by this
portrait.
He came down the alley from the
pen with forty companions with a
driver armed with sharp stick and
yelling "Ho. ho! Hay, hay, yoH
after them. Mr.. Pig was slow. The
driver poked him and repeated the
slogan. "Ho. no! Hay, hay, yo!'
which means SECT along; hurry up. "
At the end of the alley the whole forty
dashed through little opening to a
very small pen, in which stood man
with an armful of hooks handy. This
was exactly O'Clock 81 minutes and
% seconds. The man grabbed a hook
with remarkable dexterity he had the
chain attached to the off hind leg and
the hook attached to winding chain.
A man who worked the winding chain
pulled the lever. Mr.. Pig emitted a
squeal that was heard across the river.
|. The second picture shows him al
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
BEAT HIM To DEATH.


CLARIoS-The night operator at Roxburg,
on the Allegheny Valley road, was assault
ed last FRIDAY night by a gang of maraud.
ers, who were taking the town" The man
was badly beaten and died from his iniur.
ies Two OF his assailants named Mock and
McCann, were arrested and placed in the
Clarion county iail on a charge Of marder.
CLARE, a ten.year.old son of Jury Com.
missioner W. N. Patterfeld, of Venango
county was riding a harnessed horse to wa
ter Sunday night when the animal became
frightened and threw him off. His feet
caught in the harness and he was killed by
being dragged.
"OurLiNE" fishing Is a favorite snort in
Tioga county. Peter Breming and two
brothers, near Liberty. stretched a line 10
which eighty-four hooks were attached. in a
creek one night, In the morning every hook
but three had a fish, their being II varieties
TIE men at the Henry mine, at Rathmel.
near Du Bois, who were out two weeks on
account Of dissatisfaction with weights Al.
lowed, have returned to work. They were
given check weighman.
Gus FITZPATRICK. aged 10 years, and his
brother James, aged 20, quarreled at their
home in Dunmore over revolver. In the
scufiie the pistol was discharged ana James
received mortal wound.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31

body of the figure is made fheavy tin.
BY reducing gear the engine is made
TO drive the walking mechanism of the
figure Mt reasonable speed.
The engine imparts n swinging to the
whole length of the leg from the hip {;
second swinging motion, from the
knee downward, is accomplished by a
similar system of levers and connec
tions, and, finally a true ankle motion
is given to the foot by the rod running
down through the lower leg. The heels
of the figure are armed with calks or
spurs, which catch ON the surface ON
which il is walking and give it its
power. As exhibited the steam man is
connected to the end of a horizontal
bar about waist high, which is fastened
to vertical standard in the center of
the track. Thus supported, the man
walks round in circle at quite rapid
rate of progress.
For the last eight years the inventor
has been aJ work on II larger steam
man, which he hopes to have in opera.
tion during the present year. The new
OhS IN otbiShto ioi uoC oh thV upon
streets and is to draw wagon contain.
ing band. In the figure We indicate
the method of attachment to the wagon
which has been adopted. By the long
spring at the side of the figure an elias.
tic connection is secured, 30 that the
figure shall always have its weight sup.
ported by the ground. The present
man, which is about six feet high,
when in full operation, cannot, it lie
said, be held back by two men pulling
against it. The larger man, built fol
heavier work, is expected to pull as
many as ten musicians in his wagon.
Our cut shows Che general appearance
of the figure, which is attired in armol
like knight of old, and which appears
to be thoroughly operative. The action
is quite natural, and the hip, knee, and
ankle motion of the human leg have
been very faithfully initiated. The
figure moves at brisk walk and car
cover about four or five miles an hour
Scientific American.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
Mr.. PIC, :23 10.

The next picture shows him there.
Gallons of water from big hose were
squirted into him. He went on foot
further. Another man with knife
scraped him outside and in and sponged
him. He slid on ten feet, and boy
stopped him at point on the track
which was attached to pair of scales.
He waited then just second until the
next victim was ready. Then he was
pushed on ten feet further. His
weight had been registered above. A
man with long iron hook and handle
fastened the hook to the wood and
dragged him out of the building on a
third suspended track to waiting car,
where you see him ut 3 "a 30 at the
end of his journey, as pork. Exactly
three minutes elapsed from the time
his first portrait was taken until the
artist caught his last. That beats Chi
cago, and the work was good deal
better done, for in Chicago they don't
clean the hair from the legs, and the
washing is not as perfect.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31

point floats over it. Then a lever is
pulled and the scoop comes up catch
ing the pig and tossing it over on the
scraping board. Mr.. Pig reached the
scoop in fifty-eight seconds at 8 :23.
Having been tossed out, two men
seized him by the fore and hind legs.
The hot water had made the hair loose,
and they slide their hands down over
the legs and strip them clean, while a
third man fastens another hook into
the hole in the throat made by the
sticker. Another lever is pulled, and
the chain is wound up, pulling the pig
into the official scraper. Mr.. Pig
entered il one second after he left the
water. The official scraper from the
outside looks like high boiler. The
interior is lined all around with spring
cups. The pig as he is pulled up
presses these cups apart, and they
take nearly oil the hair off his body.
Mr.. Pig had gone twenty-five feet to
the top of this official scraper in ex-
actly ten seconds.
At 3 :23 10 he was seen swinging out
and coming down tail first on the end
of the chain. The picture shows him,
and it also shows what happened in the
next few seconds. He was seized by
the scuttlers. They were armed with
hand cups. While boy unfastened
the chain and hook from his throat,
the scuttlers ran their hand cups over
him, taking of what hair there was
left. They were still at it when the
hook was loose, and Mr.. Pig began
sliding down the inclined and slippery
hoardR He aid to sks BARRIERS ol
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
The Steam Man. x-..N&

A number of years ago what pur.
ported to be steam man was widely
advertised and exhibited in this city.
The remains of the individual in ques.
tion were quite recently to be seen in
one of the downtown junk stores.
Within the last two years the project
has been taken up by another inventor,
and practical steam man that actually
walks and exerts considerable tractive
power has been exhibited in actual op.
Grafton in this city and elsewhere. II
was invented and constructed by Pro.
fessor George Moore, native of Can.
ada.
In our illustration we show the gen.
eral view of the steam man. In the
body is the boiler, containing very
large heating surface, and which is
supplied with gasoline fire. Below
the boiler is situated the engine.
While small in size, il is high speed
engine running up to 5000 revolutions
per minute or more, and hence is OF
high power, the combination of boiler
and engine giving about horse power.
From the engine tine exhaust pipe leads
to the nose of the figure, whence the
steam escapes when the machine is in
motion. Through the head the smoke
flue is carried and the products of com.
bustion escape from the top of the
helmet. The steam guage is placed by
the side of the neck. The skirts of the
armor open like doors, so as to give
free access to the engine. The main
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
FIGURES ON INSURANCE.
REPORT or STATE COMMISSIONER LuPER SHOW.
iSG THE BUSINESS DONE LAST YEAR


REPORT or STATE COMMISSIONER LuPER SHOW.
iSG THE BUSINESS DoSg LAST YEAR
is pgSSsYLvANfA.
HAnnrsBuRG-Thc annual report of
George u. Luper. Insurance Commissioners
Of Pennsylvania, shows the following
business done by Pennsylvania stock COM
panies.
Income from fire prem iums els 22S, 2i9
go; income from inland and marine prem
iums, 81, l60,5i7 ga; total premium income,
sl7, 1897, 1876 ss; paid for fire losses s0,65s-
420 % paid for marine and inland losses,
si.656, 39S II; paid the commissions, 81, iOO,'
$50 81; paid for salaries, sl,l39,O0l 90; paid
for taxes $iO6 339 81 paid for miscelan'
eous purposes, sl,O55,779 80; total tl7 1895
257 81; excess of premium income ovei
losses and expenses. s72, ,53D SO.
The following summary shows the busi-
ness Of all companies done in Pennsylvania
last year: Premiums received by stock
companies, so, SO 1872; premiums and as
sessments of mutual companies 81, lis, 2s3
s5; losses paid by stock companies, s6,69i,'
75l 3s; losses paid by mutual companies
siI3i3 81 70
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
ACTIVE WORK THIS SESSION.

ALL CLASSES OF LEGISLATION ARE FURTHER
ADVANCED THAN IN 1891.
HARRIsBuRG-The record OF the house for
this session as compared with last shows
active work. The total number Of house
and senate bills reported from house com.
mittees to date Is 900. as compared with 9l7
up to May 10. 1891. The number passed by
the house and sent TO the senate Is 800
against 292 for the same period last season.
The number sent to the governor this year
Is IS. agains. 7s last session. The governor
has signed or vetoed 81 bills this session.
Last session the executive had acted upon
only 4s bills up to May 10.
This the date of the final adjournment of
the session of 1887, the fl rs, that was held
under the present salary law. There were
not as many bills that session as this, but
the work was pushed along much faster,
though there were large number Of very
important measures considered during that
session.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
TTTTTTTTTT7TTTTTT
MR.. PIG, 20 :02.

the official sticker let go of his ear, and
he started down the track again kicking
and squealing. He travelled thirty feet.
His struggles had been reduced to an
occasional kick.
The next man who touched him was
called the dropper, and he is an expert
on pig death signs. The end of the
track is directly over huge tank OF
scalding water. The dropper stands
there. He loosens the hook in which
the pigs leg is fast the moment the
animal is dead. Mr.. Pig was declared
dead in thirty-eight seconds
At 3 % :02 he took the next step in
final journey. The picture shows him
entering the scalding water. Two men,
armed with long sticks, are on plat
form by the tub, poking in the water
and driving along the bodies to big
open scoop or lift which is at the end
of the tank. This scoop is worked by
machinery. A heavy weight holds il
down in the water until the body of a
pig poked down from the dropping
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31

shavers. n is their business 20 shave
of all the bristles that haven come of
with the hair.
Mr.. Pig didn't stop with them.
They had knives which operated with
incredible swiftness. As he slid by
the knives reached every part of his
body and every bristle was shaved of.
1 Ht The ent- of the inclined plane
stood two men known Is hangers up.
When Mr.. Pig reached them one seized
him about the body and held him
down while the other fastened wood
brace with hook on the end between
his hind legs in such a manner that the
legs were spread wide apart. The
hook and brace were equipped with a
wheel which was on another suspended
track, and as soon as Mr.. Pig was fast
he began another ride of twenty feet
to platform on which stood two men
with knives. He was split and dressed
in three seconds after he reached them,
and Mt 3 "a 10 he had passed the men
and had reached the washer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31

this other pen . whole week before he
was finally driven to death. He had
nothing to eat in the meantime.
The movement of the pork toward
town begins at 10 o'clock in the even
ing. Train load after train load is
dragged into the depot, and then un-
loaded on trucks drawn by four or six
horses, and 30 brought across the
ferry. The meat is on sale in the
markets at o'clock in the morning.
New York Sun. -
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
READING RECEIVERS CUT WAGES.

PorrsvrLLE-In pursuance Of the econom'
ical policy of the Reading receivers, in
connection with President Harris, the first
cut in wages ann ounoed here for years has
been ordered but applies only to those who
do not come under the regular established
81 so basis At Glen Dowr, Taylorsville
and other collieries, the miners engaged in
driving breasts by the yard have been drop
ped so cents per yard, and the drivers
who formally received $40 20 W i'll be re-
duced to sS per week. A number Of the
miners were not satisfied with the reduction
aud left the works.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31

All this was good deal quicker than
il takes to tell it, for at 3 :2l "a, two
seconds after his portrait was taken, he
was opposite the official sticker, who
stood on n raised platform, and, as Mr..
Pig came along, grabbed him by the
ear, twisted him into proper position,
and jabbed the keen-bladed knife into
his throat at just the proper point to
sever the main artery. Mr.. Pig emitted
saueal more terrific than any before,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31

Four hundred pigs are killed every
hour of the twenty-four at this pig
sticking establishment. That is more
than six minute, and only one sticker
works at time. He is champion.
Not the least interesting thing about
the business is the blind stupidity with
which the pigs rush into the fatal pen,
and the quickness with which they dis
cover their mistake aad make vain
efforts to escape. Once in awhile they
get out of the little pen. Once out,
they are not got back in hurry.
There is another pen near the small
one, which is filed with pigs. Itholds
three times as many pigs rs the other,
and into it the escaping pig goes.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
DIED IN A DENTISTS CHAIR,

HARRfsBURG-Mrs. Sarah Radel 40 years
old, Of Waynesville. Dauphin county, di ed
suddenly at the Office Of dentist. this city.
DR.. DIR. A. Dashiell administered vitalized
air to the lady preparatory to having a
number of teeth extracted. A verdict was
rendered by a coroner jury that the un'
fortunate result was purely accidental, as
the lady had taken the air before success
fully and the doctor has been using the
treatment for three years successfully.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31

nj, ana so on, fiabbergastlng HIM by
naming three to his one, and then he
says, well, we have got better res
taurants than You have" You name
seven or eight to his one, and then he
mentions this, that and the other fee
BILE Chicago imitation, until finally he
comes to pig sticking, and then you
take Off your hat, honestly believing
that he has You whipped on that one
thing. But he hasn't, and he never
has had, and he probably never will.
You don't know that he hasn't merely
because there are 80 many more pleas
ant things to look mt than abattoirs in
this neighborhood that you have ne
elected toinform yourself. Pig sticking
places being Chicago's chief amuse-
ment houses, the Chicago man can't
very well help being informed about
the business, and he leaves you in
triumph to convince the next Eastern
man that Chicago excels in Mt least one
thing. This story and the accompany
ing illustrations will fully make mp for
your neglect, and when you have read
it you will be equipped to combat the
Chicago man in all his arguments and
do the triumphant departing yourself,
leaving him disconsolate with the
knowledge that even at pig sticking he
is only n second rater.
All the pigs that we stick, of course,
are Western stock, most of them from
the suburbs of Chicago. They get to
the abattoir, which is on the west bank
of the Hackensack River, by three
railroads. There are thousand or SO
of them in the pens all the time, but
no pig ever stays longer than the time
than it takes him to eat and digest one
square meal. That is long enough for
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
LIGHTNING ROD swISDLERs.

GREESvrLLE,- rod sharpers
have been reaping harvest in Mercer
county for the past few days. Aaron Was
ser of near Greenville was swindled out Of
sl0i, Adam Hof cker Of Perry township
paid $l25, and others have been as effect tual.
" gulled
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
FATAL FREIGHT WRECK,

LANCASTER broken truck on freight
train wrecked several cars on the Pennsyl.
vania railroad, fnear Thorndale. An east.
bound train ran into them and 20 cars in all
wcre wrecked. Engineer C. w. Mann, and
Fireman John McCann, of Harrisburg were
badly injured, the former dying :his after.
noon. The fireman is in a serious condj
ton.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31

8 :21 :23, just one second after his por-
trait was taken. As he went up, the
chain swinging free, he banged against
the side of the building. Perhaps it
stunned him, but it wasn't meant to.
He stopped squealinga moment. At the
top of the hook, which was around his
leg, was another hook, in which there
Aas . metal wheel A. hs oams even
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31

4 Mile in Twenty-Five Seconds.
A new locomotive on the Ontario and
Western railway ran . mile IN % ssconds
on trial trip the other day.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31
PIG STICKING.
QUICK WORK AT AN ABATTOIR
NEAR NEW YORK.
Turning a squeaiing Western Hog
in Three Minutes Into u
a Clean-shaven Candi-
tS date for Market. :,

WRITER in the
New York Sun
says: We can
beat Chicago at
her own speciality
pig st / c k ing.
You know when n
g h icago man
wants to make an
Eastern man feel
small he begins by
saying, "We've got
more big hotels
than New York
has. You men
ton the Waldorf
and the Savoy, the
Plaza. the ImDeri-
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-31

with the man az the lever the upper
hook was fitted to sloping track sus-
pended from the roof, and along this
track Mr.. Pig started head down.