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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16
POLITICAL.

Gov. Boies, of Iowa, had declined
the cabinet position Of secretary of
agriculture.
Virginia politicians have given up
hope Of getting Tucker into the
cabinet of Mr.. Cleveland.
Senator Allen, the newly elected
senator from Nebraska, will assist
the democrats in organizing the
senate.
Senator Casey has withdrawn from
the senatorial contest in North
Dakota for the sake of party
harmony.
A special to. the Chicago Herald
from New York says: Judge Walter
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16

There are some yet living who can
recall the thrilling ShakcSpearcan
recitations of Fanny kcmble. and
these perhaps will be surprised that
she died only lately. SO completely
had she dropped out Of notice in her
last days. She was a month older
than Gladstone. Since Mrs. Siddons
no woman has possessed ler dramatic
greatness. She not only had the
power of expression. but had master
full intellectually Of her own. More
than sixty years ago She began her
stage career in London and won fame
and success at bouud. 70. her
there was no grievous toiling by slow
steps up the hill. She occupies a
place in American social and
dramatic history because she lived
long among US and because Of her
South Carolina husband. Colonel
Pierce Butler, whose home on the
plantation she left because she could
not tolerate slavery. After abandon
ing the regular life Of the actress
she continued giving Sllakespcarean
Rotations till she was sixty years
old: then she followed authorship.
Her last book was published so late
as 1882. This gifted woman had
extraordinary grace of figure and
carriage, which she said was largely
owing to the fact that in her girl
hood her mother had required her to
be drilled in military exercises by the
regular drill master Of one of the
regiments stationed in her native
town in England,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16


Hayes had some distinguished men
in his cabinet during his tetm d the
presidency and was not Jealous u
them. Among them We're William
Nj. EvaltS. secretary of state: Carl
Schurz. secretary Of the interior and
j i'm sherman. secretary OF the
treasury. Carl Schurz supports Mr.
Cleveland now. but he WAS q Stanch
Republican in 1876. John sherman
distinguished himself by the return
To specie payments throughout tile
country Jan. /. 1873. SIX months
before that date he had arcumu-
lated in the United States treasury
slio,oo0.0o0 in the expectation that
there would be a demand tor it in
exchange for legal tender notes. But
there was little or no demand. and
thus. quietly. without shock or
disturbance, United States money
passed from a paper 10 a specie
basis.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16
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For The Juvenile Exhibit.

Miss Anna Gordon, worlds and
national superintendent of juvenile
work for the w. c. Il. IT,, is making
extensive preparations for Il chill
drcns exhibit at the Worlds Column
bian exposition. She requests that
all articles for the sale tables shall be
sent directly to her address at Exams
ton, ILL.,, by March Is. District,
county and local superintendent Of
juvenile work will please ascertain
as far as possible if any children in
the Sunday school, in the Loyal Tenn
perance legion, or outside, having
any of their own handiwork. etchings.
embroidery, toys, tides. quilts. or
dolls furnishings or any kind Of
work they can do which may be sent.
All articles must be plainly marked,
and a duplicate prepared if possible.
BY the rules of the exhibit no article
displayed can be sold, but orders can
be taken for duplicates and also for
those in the exhibit later on.
Pledge cards must be sent to the
same address by April l. DO not
send to state superintendent.
Money for the Willard fountain will
be received at any and all times.
This beautiful fountain will speak of
the children's desire to give cup Of
cold water Gin His Name" to many a
weary and thirsty one in the great
city Of Chicago. Children must earn
the ten cents given for this purpose.
Mrs. ]. Fl. BEST,
State Superintendent of Juvenile
Work, Miner county, S. d.
Mrs. NJ. X. PATTEN,
Secretary, Carthage, Miner county,
South Dakota.
New York city is short Of coal.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16

Robert j. Burdctte says: Remem-
Der my boy. the good things in the
world are always the cheapest.
Spring water costs less than wli>key.
q box OF cigars viii buy two or three
Bibles: state conviction viii COST
more than revival Of religion: yQt.
tan sleep in civ ''', every Sabbath
morning. but nap in a Pullman
cost you TWO dollars every time: the
clrds takes fifty cents and the tlleater
one dolla. but the missionary box is
grateful for even penny: the race
scoops in $1,000 the first day while
the church bazaar lasts week, works
twenty-five or thirty If the best
woman of America TO death. and
come OH $40 in debt.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16

There is one more church-gocr at
Orange, \. y. than there was and il
Is all owing to an athletic rector.
Til" latter had been urging the man
10 attend service and was somewhat
astonished AT his parishioner's prop
asition that they should settle the
question Of his going To church or
staying away by about with the
gloves AT the Orange Athletic club
The rector accepted the challenge
and gave his pari>hioner d handsome
and e'fcctVa! drubbing. On the nex;
Sunday the rector on his way To
cilurcii called for his late antagonist
ana the latter faithfully kept his
work.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16

With the Russian famine. Tile grip
Tor two years. the cholera. typhus
and finally TIN extreme severity of
The present winter, both in Europe
and America, it looks aa IT,. large
proportion Of tie weak and physi-
cally unit members of the |luman
race would be carried ot.. In Ham
burg alone in the past year there
were 10000 death from cholera.
What famine and pe>tilence spared
the frost bids fair To gather. Bat
with In" weeds the flowers are taken
TOO,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16
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Irrigation inCiiina.

The Irrigation Age: In Ningpo
Fo-kien and Shanghai the modes of
irrigation are generally from small
bitches taken from streams or large
canals. AT Ningpo the bitches are
mainly supplied from underground
waters, supplied from springs that
come to the surface in the hills and
valleys. The river water is brackish
and is never used for irrigation. Sup
ply canals are genera ly from two to
three miles in length and fill the
shallow laterals. which are dug at
right angles from 300 to 300 feet apart
and from 10 to 80 feet wide. In the
province of Fo-Kien the rainfall is
quite heavy, but irrigation has be-
come an additional security against
drouth. There are no storage dams,
though the country is well adapted
to their construction.
According to the latest idea of his
torical students the Chinese derive
their methods of irrigation from AS
syria and Babylon. There is an en-
tension of knowledge and interest
manifested by the Chinese in the
study of irrigation. Water is lifted
from main channels, where the tides
do not rise sufficiently for irrigation,
by rude machinery. This consists of
main cog wheel, worked by oxen,
which turns roller at the upper end
of the trough: at the lower end of
which, immersed in the canal there
is another roller, and over these an
endless series Of wooden boxes revolve.
The boxes or boards fitting the trough
elevate the water and pour it into
the fields, over which it is distributed
by open drains. The whole machine
is readily moved from place to place
and the trough can be arranged at
any angle to suit the inclination of
the bank. The chain or rope-pump
process has already been described
in The Age. 1t is operated by either
man or animal power. This is the
oldest method but. is destined to
gradually be supplanted by modern
appliances, of which the most ad-
vanced natives are securing informa-
ton.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16
WASHINGTON MENTION.

| WASHINGTON MENTION.
The coast defense vessel Montere,
has been formally accepted by til,
government.
The president has signed the bill
extending the time Cor completing
the bridge across the Missouri al
Sioux CITY.
The militia forces of the United
States. according to the latest returns
are ll2.49t. Every state and terri.
tory. except tab. has an organized
militia force.
The house committee of interstate
and foreign commerce has ordered a
favorable report on the senate bill
appropriating S250.o00 for the con-
struction Of a ship canal to connect
Lake Union and Washington with
puget sound.
The eldest daughter of Senator
WaShburnc. of Minnesota. has been
invited BY the Cramps. of Phila-
dolphin, to do the christening act at
the launching of the cruiser Mime
apolis. now being built at which will
be ready for the water in MAY She
has accepted.
There is no longer any hope among
the republican employees of the SEN
ate. telegraphS Washington CORE
spondent, that they will he able to
hold their places. The election of a
populist-democrat in Nebraska fc
moves all doubt about the ability Of
the democrats to rcorganiZc the body.
III is now evident that the prcsi-
dent will make no more postoilircS
changes, says Maj. Picker. II
called On h m and he said that mas
much as the necessary bonds and
papers could not be put in shape
before his retirement. he had
determined to change no more post
Offices during the remainder o: his
term
y telegram has been received at
the interior department from the
Inspector at Pine Ridge in which he
states that two Of the Indians CON
ccrncd in the killing of tile cowboys
are still at large, and asks for an
authorization for the increase Of the
Indian police force until they shall
have been captured. The increase
has been ordered till the first of
March.
At the present time the treasury
holds s7,50O,nO0 of free gold, and
arrangements have been effected by
which sS,0Oo,00o legal tenders on
hand can be secured. Some IS. 900. 600
more legal tenders will be available
for this purpose within the few next
days. In the opinion OF treasury
officials, even if the constant drain
continues the treasury, gold can be
kept up to Sls,Oo0,OOO or ST.. 100000
Of free gold.
Immense crowds were drawn to the
capitol by the merely formal cercmon-
les incident to the official counting of
the electoral vote. After the last
certificate had been read and the re-
suits footed up, the vice-president
made the customary announcement
that under the law this was sutfi-
cient declaration that Grover Cleve-
land. of the state Of New York, was
elected president of the United States
and that Adlai f. Stevenson was
elected vicc-presidcnt Of the United
States. The totals announced by the
vice-prcsident we're: Cleveland and
Stevenson, 81: Harrison and Reid,
14o: Weaver and Field, %
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16

If weight OF brain was everything
then Benjamin Butler would have
been greater man than Daniel
Webster. WcbSters brain vas one
of TIL" heaviest on record That of
Raron Cnvier. the naturalist.
exceeded it in weight somewhat.
Rntler,> thinkngapparatuS- however,
weighed four ounces more than that
Of Webster. We have great leads
in America.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16

In Bohemia there are 100 societie
and clubs which have for their object
the advancement OF the cause of
women.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16

New Yory has the greatest number
of newspapers-namely, ], 1858: Nevada
the least-namely, twenty-five.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16

Lowry City, Mo-, claims to have the
biggest steer in the country. Itweighs
3,740 pounds stands over six feet high,
is ten feet two inches long and meas
ures yard through the hips.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16

You can't tell by looking at tur-
Keys pin feathers how he will taste!
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16

Inter State: IL is stated at the gen.
cral land offices that during the last
few months there has been an almost
unprecedented call from the western
and northwestern states for informa-
tion as to the location of unoccupied
government lands, and as to what
steps are necessary to secure them
under the settlement law. This fact
is regarded by the officials as indica-
tive OF growing desire among the
unemployed to secure homes IN the
far west and it is confidently cX-
pcctcd that within the next few years
nearly all of the desirable holdings in
the new states and territories will
have been filed upon as permanent
homes
Pierre Capital: South Dakota is
indeed a mineral state. In intelli-
gence she is second to none. In her
natural products she is astonishing
the world. Our annual cattle crop
So,000,0OO: wheat crop of $4,000, 900
bushels and our gold annual output
of SIS, 100000 are few of the remark
able enterprises of this state. Add
to this our flax, barley, rye, horses,
hogs, corn, wool, and sheep and you
have some idea of the resources of
this state. We employ $1,000 miners
and will soon supply the United
States with tin.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-16

New York city is short Of coal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-06-08
SUNK IN A FOG.
The Steamer Corsica Collides with
an Unknown Schooner.
The sailing Vessel, Cut in Two, Sinks In
stantly. and Her Crew Perishes-The
Corsica, Badly Damaged,
Is Reached.
A LAKE DISASTER.

ALPENA, Mich, June 5.-The steel
steamer Corsica collided with an un-
known schooner u miles off Thunder
Bay island on Lake Huron at daybreak
Friday morning in fog. The schooner
was cut in two and went to the
bottom instantly. Her entire crew
was lost. The Corsica had no
time to wait for the rescue
of any survivors who might be floating
around in the mass of wreckage, as her
bow was stove in and water was pour
ing into her hold. She was run on the
shore in Thunder bay just below Ossi-
neke The bows are all crushed in for
considerable distance and twenty
four big steel plate, are loosened.
STORY OF THE MATE.
Capt, Cumming was asleep at the
time of the collision His mate states
that the Corsica was bound down Lake
Huron with a cargo of iron ore and
had run all night through the fog.
He claims that the Corsica did not run
into the schooner, but that the
schooner ran into the steamer The
moment they struck he states that
the engines were reversed, and that the
schooner disappeared from view in
second. Her disappearance was so sud
den that not even her name, color or
size could be made out by those on
board the steamer He is certain that
the schooner's crew were all lost. On
the steamer more attention was paid
% her condition than to the fate of
those on the schooner, for it was feared
at first that she was going down.
SLIGHT CLEW FOUND.
That the unknown schooner was lost
is made certain by the fish tug Angler,
which has just arrived here She re-
ports having passed the cabin of the
schooner and large amount of wreck
age off Thunder bay. There was
no name on any article seen.
The cabin was about Is feet
long and was about one-third cut
through, which clearly indicates that
| the steamer ran into the schooner In
coat which was picked up among the
wrecixage was letter signed by ooe
Davy, 2l3 Cherry street, Green Bay,
Wis, March so. 1898. There was no en-
velope on the letter nor any other way
of telling to whom it was addressed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-06-08
WAR ON TRUSTS.
Nearly Every state Represented in Con
vention in Chicago.

Nearly livery state Represented In Com
vention in Chicago.
CHICAGO, June 6.-The antitrust con-
vention, which met at Apollo hall yes
terday, was composed of delegates from
nearly every state in the union. Gov.
Nelson, OF Minnesota, presided. The
objects of the convention We're set forth
as follows:
1T is the dgty of this convention 70 create
and difuse q healthy and vigorous moral tone
and purpose The people should be made to
see and feel the enormity OF the evils entailed
upon the community by the means, me thods
and ends of the modern trust II
is not only detrimental and desnruct-
i've TO our material interests our
trade and cur commerce, out, what is of more
serious nature, it deoases and sears the moral
sense and the conscience of our people That
nation which suffers crying insluities 10 go
unQuestioned and unpublished is on the
downward grade. Statutory enaetments are
mere dead and lifeless fulminations unless
there is public spirit and public conscience
hack, Of the law, ready 70 apply and enforce II,
an All needful places and on all needful occa
sions. We must leave no field open for the
communist-and the anarchist The esf must
be cured in the true American way by methods
of law and order
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-06-08
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a TEXAS CYCLONE.
1t Causes the Loss of Four Lives
Great Destruction OF Property.


1t Causes the Loss of Four Lives and
Great Destruction OF Property.
HoUsToN, Tex, June 3. = Spanish
Camp, in Wharton county, 90 miles
from the railroad, was struck by ter
rible cyclone Friday night. Numbers
of houses were unroofed and destroyed.
In the village Josh wilkins house
was blown down and two of his
children killed. For miles square
everything is wrecked Three miles
from town Mrs Simmons was killed
and Wash Jenkins, colored man over
100 years old, was caught beneath the
ruins in his cabin and crushed to death
All the residences and outbouses ON the
Montgomery plantation were blown
away and several persons hurt, but
lone killed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-06-08
Iowa PRoHIeITloNIsTs.
State Convention Meets at Des Moines-
Platform Adopted and Ticket Selected.

State Convention Meets at Des Moines-
Platform Adopted and Ticket Selected.
Dies MONIES, Ia, June 1.-The pro-
hibition state convention adjourned late
Thursday afternoon after putting full
state ticket in the field and adopting
voluminous platform. The ticket is as
follows:
For governor, Il. O. Aylesworth, of Des
Moines; for lieutenant governor, J. c. Reed, OF
Delta for superintendent Of public instruction,
Miss Belle II. Mix, of Danville; for dprene
Judge, ]. A. Harvey, of Polk City for railroad
commissioner, L. II. Gillette, Of Des Mones
The resolutions adopted were, in
brief, as follows:
They reaflrm the Cincinnati platform, de-
clare the liquor issue the paramount one, aver
that the present prohibitory law of Iowa must
be strengthened, and declare tho recent dyna-
mite explosions in Muscatine as due 70 the
highly cuipable example of the governor Of
Iowa.
Taking UP other questions the platform de-
cares in favor OF q passenger railroad rate Of
TWO cents, favors an extension Of suffrage 10
women, for repeal Of the tariff duties on
necessares Of life, and that tariff revenues be
limited to the wants OF the government Re
striction OF immigration is urged a repeal OF
savings banks and postal telegraph, as well as
the reduction Of letter postage to one cent an
ounce.
An additional resolution was adopted de.
nouncing Sunday opening of the worlds fair
and calling on the president To stop tins "sin
against high Heaven and the rebellion against
the government
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-06-08
MORE STRINGENT.
Finance, Manufacturing and General
Trade show Discouraging Conditions.
New YORK, June 3.-The weekly re-

Finance, Manufacturing and General
Trade Show DiscOuraging Conditions.
New YORK, June S.-The weekly re-
view of trade says:
Move dishearteuing conditions have pre-
VAILED during the last week, and those who saw
the beginning Of permanent recovery in the
better tone week ago disap.
pointed. The money markets have been
closer especially in the, interior, ana
manufacturing and trade are more re-
stricted than before. Gold has gone out again
| in large amounts, exports for the week being
about S5,000000. ana the treasury gold reserve
has been drawn down TO about S90000000 IN
nearly all departments of trade uncertainty
about the future has a depressing influence.
which is now clearly perceived in decrease Of
new business, ana while most manufacturing
works are yet employed or full orders as these
run out the number Of works closed increased
General trade has already been cut into,
noticeably in eastern and middle states. to
marked extent in central, northwestern and
western states, but to a more moderate extent
south. Interviews with several hundred
prominent jobbers, manufacturers and bankers
at leading money center indicate a hl5eli-
hood of continued striueency and that
general trade may be restricted still fur
Their Opinions offered are not altogether
gloomy with respect 10 the outlook, but the
banks are calling loans in many directions
and in other ways strengthening reserves, and
generally refusing 10 extend or grant dis
counts to other than regular customers. Eff
forts are making 10 protect certain lines Of
trade, notably grain Money lenders are af-
| fected by the prevalent sense of uncertainty
in the financial world and do not regard the
outlook as encouraging. An influence may be
eXerted as well by the wages contests in iron
and steel industries at the west during the
summer The tendency of prices continues
downward and includes wool, finished iron,
hides, sugar, hogs, wheat, corn and oats, lard
and cotton nominal advances being reported in
tobacco and coal At Chicago wheat is
thirty years. Speculative markets have been
sinking Stocks are nearly 81 per share lower
than week ago. Wheat has declined Ia cents,
corn "a cents and oats ~ cents, with moderate
transactions, few caring TO buy wheat with
| enormous stocks in sight. Lard and hogs are
lower and cotton has declined q sixteenth, with
moderate sales though receipts are small
Exports of products still fan below last
years in value, and there IS much withdrawal
of money loaned in this country on foreign ac-
count The fact that S5,000OO0 of such loans
mature within the next week leads TO the ex-
pectation Of further exports Of gold.
Failures during the last week have been 23s
| in the United States against 255 last year, and
q i'll Canada against 81 last year; but two OF
the United States failures were for more than
81, 600 600 each four others were of firms rated
at over $1,000 each, and forty more Of firms
rated at over 5000 each. Last week the total
| number of failures was 3f3 -
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-06-08
IN ohio Bank rails.

PAULDINe. O. June 3. -Potter's bank,
TIE oldest bank in Paulding county,
and heretofore considered one 81
the safest, has closed its doors.
The bank was established in
1874 and has always done a
large banking business. The bank
has also done large business loaning
money on land in this county Several
township treasurers were caught for
many thousand dollars and the whole
town win suffer from the failnre
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-06-08
Ohio Manufaclories Closed.

CINCINNATI, June Ali of the sew
enty or More furniture manufactures.
except the Robert Mitchell Furniture
company and the Huss Brothers Fur
niture company. shut down Saturday
night Both sides are determined. and
the suspension of business threatens to
continue all this year, il not longer.
The factories employ over 1000 hands,
with a weekly pay roll of sl05, coo The
lockout viii involve 5000 employees