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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
Decision Withheld.

MADISON. Wis.,, March 23.-The ex-
pected decision Of the supreme court on
the motions for q rehearing in the
treasury interest cases against Har-
shaw, McFetridge and Sawyer has not
been handed down. The motions were
based on the ground that it was an
error for the court below to allow in
terest on the amounts found due from
the treasurers from the time of the ex-
piration Of their Office, but that it
should be computed from the time of
the decision by the circuit court.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
] One Kansas Legislator Tells OF
Bargain lie Made Last
Winter.
III Failed of CoDsummation Because
Neither Side Gould Trust
the Other.
Another One Tells How Much It
Took to Elect Douglass for
Speaker.

WASHINGTON. March %. - Supple
menting Kansas dispatches about ell
legged attempts at bribery in the election
of United Statesser q or from that state
Mr.. Burgard, q member of the lower
house of the Kansas Legislature from.
Wyandotte county, who is in this city,
has given to Senator Martin circum-
stantial account OF the efforts made to
control his action by corrupt means
He says a proposition was made to
him to stay away from the Popnlist
crowd, and to get two others 70
do so, for 81 500. and that he was given
come from Mr. Watson. who had come
down from Lawrence and wanted to be
senator, and was said To have brough a
barrel of money. Everybody was ii
ing to get his sharel ia on Watson's
pile.
Was Robbers Game.
Mr.. Bnrgard continues his story as
follows:
ITO tell tie Gol's truth, I made up
my mind to this effect:
You are trying TO rob Watson, so /
will turn in and rob you. That's what
thought. Sol told this man that for
$500 and two more whom named
would stay away and not vote at all.
informed him that / wanted 5000
for myself, and would divide the $2.5U0
between my two associates. He did not
care what division we made, and asked
who should hold the money. Now, OF
course, Intended to stay inside and
vote for Martin right through. So did
the other two. All that we aimed at
was to get the ~, 500 in our pockets and
then let the other whistle. told him
he must give the cash to me, but he
said that some one else must be agreed
upon to hold it until after the vote"
Couldnt Trust Each Other.
He then narrated how he fixed mat
tiers with the stakeholder to bolt when
he got the stakes, but said the other
side declined to entrust him with the
money. He adds:
Just before the senatorial vote the
lobbyists came over to the house of rep
resentatives and called me out. He
said that he had the $1,000 in his
pocket. / told him to turn il over
and and my two men would leave
right there OF course we would not
have done SO, and were bound to stay
and vote for Martin. But the man
would not give mp.
No. he said, the money Is in my
pocket, and if you and your partners
will walk over to the hotel right now,
before they vote. You can haveit,'
81 would not GO, and there it ended. y
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
Am Insurance Dec,sion.

DUBUQUE, Ia.. March 23.--Judge
Woolson has refused to cancel Lumber
man Robinson's sc, 900 insnrancein the
Mutual Benefit Of New Jersey, holding
the medical examiners knowledge of
the falsity OF Robinson's answers con-
corning hemorrhages to be the COM
pany's knowledge and the provision that
the contract shall be construed under
New Jersey law void because the con-
tract was made In Iowa. The case goes
to the federal court of appeals.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
T.rNcoI4Nss TOMB
It Is Said 20 be Fast Falling Into
Decay.

CHICAGO. March 23.-The Evening
Journal prints three-column article
on the condition Of the Lincoln monu-
ment at Springfield, Ills., and the i'll
treatment given to visitors by J. @.
Powers, the custodian OF the mauso-
leum. The Journal says In part:
Abraham Lincoln's tor, at Spring
field has fallen from its high place as
the shrine of q mighty nation. The
spot where rests the earthly tenement
OF one OF the two greatest men in
American history is fast falling into
decay, and the stately monument
erected at the capitol of Illinois to com
memorate the love OF q people is
SCARED and Mufilated
from the attacks Of yandalistic relic
hunters. Els most malignant enemy in
the lost cause could scarcely desire
more indignities heaped upon Honest
Ab8sr grave than now daily fall to its
lot. Thesman whose courage, patriot
ism and invincible faith in the right
enabled him to conquer ths rebsilions
South, to reunite the dismembered
United States and to give freedom to
4, ZOO. 900 slaves, now lies under the tot.
tering wallssof towering mansoleum
whose stately halls are filed with rub
bish, sometimes called .'relics," and
which are exhibited
In True Dime Museum Style
by a custodian at 25 cents head.
Truly a sad commentary upon the
American people, that even one Of tbs
race Lincoln freed cannot pay visit Of
reverence to his grave without tho
price" Napoleon, who enslayed the
French and kept them involved In war
until they were decimated, slumberi
under the massive dome of the Inval
ides. Lincoln. who united his country
and was martyred for his devotion, ha,
his tomb turned into peep show.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
ACCIDENT AT OSHKOSH.

Street Car CoIlides with q Railway
Train.
OSHKOSH, Wis, March ga north
bound freight train of the Northern
Pacific road collided with street cal
in this city few minutes before a. III
The driver and the horses escaped in.
jury. The injured are:
Miss Carrie Swasey. leg cut off and
injured internally.
C. w. Davis, cut and bruised about
the chest.
The accident happened at the Algoms
street crossing. one of the principal
thoroughfares OF the city.
Mr.. Davis is president of the German
American bank, and is well known
throughout Wisconsin.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
NEWS In BRIEF.

Matters OF More or Less Importance
Tersely Touched Upon.
Mr.. Abbey il to be the lessee of the
new Metropolitan opera house of New
York.
The city council Of Chicago has made
Kaiser Williams birthday a holiday in
Chicago.
Immigration during February aggre
gated 1868, great falling off over cor
responding months of previous years.
Justice Brewer of the United States
supreme court has come out in opposi
ton to the Chinese exclusion act.
Joseph French johnson Of Spokan.
Falls, Wash, has been elected profes
sor Of the university Of Pennsylvania.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
KANSAS BRIBERY.
What IL Cost to Elect Douglass
Speaker.

What 1t Cost to Elect Douglass
Speaker.
Topeka, Kan, March 23.--In the
course Of the bribery investigation by
the senate committee James f. Legate
testified to having visited Kansas City
to make deal for daily paper, and
while there he ascertained that the
whisky men and gamblers, for the past
two years, SO they claimed, had beon
compelled to contribute $4,000 q year
to the Republican party of Kansas. He
also told him in detail how Pete Kline.
Kansas City gambler, gave him n. .5Uu
and that he, Legate, used il In the soma
torial campaign. In Legats's judgment
it cost the rsilroads $SOo0sto get ! GER
tain four members tosAgree to vote for
Douglass In the organixstion of the
Legislature.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
Hobbs Found Guilty.

LONDON, March %. james William
Hobbs, of yhe firm of J. w. Hobbs &
Co., limited and Henry Granville
Wright, sol .citor. have been convicted
Of forgery aad frand inconnection with
the Liberator Building society Sen-
tence was deferred
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
stansbury Challenged.

SANFRANcIsco, March %. 3.James S.
Stansbpry, the Australian oarsman, has
received a challenge from John Teemer
to row near ST. Louis May 80. STAINS
bury has accepted the challenge, stipu-
lating that the match be for q. 500.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
WIN Organize q Parity.

GUTHRIE, o. T., March 23-Thirty
leading negro Republicans Of the terri
tory, including some men of national
reputation, have issued call for con-
vention of the negro voters of Oklahoma
in this city, April 10, to organize an in
dependent political party. II is ex-
pected to start here and push the organ
ization among all the negroes of the
Southwest.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
LATEST sIARKET REPORT.
81. Paul Union Stock Yards.

SOUTH Sr. PAUL, March "a. 1893.
HOGS 5aluc lower, following the Eastern
decline; market active. Range Of prices
$7300T.46
CATTLE-Steady: fair run: q good demand
for st0ckers and feeders at steady prices
Prime steers. - a0004.2 .26; good steers, $a5O0A09
prime cows $a501D375; good cows, $2.600300
common to fair cows, ti.s60S2.25; light veal
calves, $S.m0A.50; heavy calves, $2M0350
stockers. xi.75D2.75; feeders. $2.50O3.50: bulls.
$l,5sDa5O
SHEEP-Good sheep steady and In demand
Common weak. Muftons. $a75G5.1G lambs
$AO0G5z5; stockers ami feeders, $8O004.50
Receipts Cattle. 25s hogs. sO0, calves, 80
sheep. 1Ol
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
A Defeat for DR.. Briees-

CINCINNATI, March 22.-A ballot
taken OF the views OF Presbyterian
ministers regarding the Briggs and
Smith herssy cases and the ineracy oi
the Bible showed 229 for the ineracy
out Of 825, and an overwhelming oppo-
sition to Professor Briggs and highsr q
cy.sfifsias,n
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
Mnss Lower Freight Rates.

CTTy OF MExIco. March %. Thsgen-
eral managers Of the several railroads
in this republic interested in the Me1-
can freight pool have received tho ulti-
matum from General Manuel Gonzales
Casco, acting in behalf Of tho govern
rne1it. BY the terms of this u1timatum
the roads rnnst lower thpir freight
rates or have the penalty Of the for
feiture of their concessions imposed by
the government.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
Kerr Gets Two Years.

KANSAS Cry, March %. In the trial
Of Augustus e. Kerr, ths defaulting
bookkeeper Of the Jarvis ContlinS Mort
gage Trust company who embezzlcd
e1A, 900, . verdict of guiltyswas returned
Kerr's sentsnce being hked ct two years
inlthe penitentiary.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
A Death From Cholera.

WASHINGTON, March 23.-The treas
ury department is informed that fatal
case of cholera occurred ON the bark
Helen. which recently sailed from
Grayesend England, and has arrived at
sGuaymas, Mexico.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
Good OntIook FOR Che Driye.

BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis, March 23.
This seasons logging along Black
river 10 nearly completed, and has been
successful one. About 200, ,OO0, 900
feet Of timber have been banked along
the Black and it's tributaries. There is
sufficient ice In the river and snow
along il to insure . fine driving stage OF
water.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
NORTHWESTERN Checsofn = -

MADISON, Wis, March ~. Ths first
annual meeting Of the North 6tevn
Factory Cheesemakers' associatien s. in
session here, The first session beRan IT
2 o'clock but an adjournment was eoon
taken till evening. The association II
be in session three days. There are i
number Of delegates present from Min
nesota. Illinois and Michigan.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
Packing Houses for MEXICO.

CRY or Mexico, March %. Repre-
sentatives Of Chicago capitalists are
here to arrange for an extersive pack
ing house. They expect ID receive con-
cessions from the government Branch
houses win be estabiished ii the prin-
cipal cities of Mexico.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
10 Enforce the Law.

ST. PAUL, March rs. The matter Of
enforcing the Sunday closing ordinance
vas before the city council at its even
ing session. The vote was to l In
favor Of instruoting the mayor to have
the law enforced.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
Goyernor Merriam Returns.

Sr. PAUL, March ~. -Ex- Governor
wv. B. Merxiam ha6 returned from six
weeks sojourn ct Thomasville, Ga.
Mrs. Merriam and family did not &C.
company the ex-governor horne, but
stopped over few days in Washington.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
SALISBURY DEAD.

The Delaware Ex-senator 6uccnsDhs
TO the InevttabIc @
WILMINGTON, Del, March -. In
United States Senator Saulsbnry disd N
1915 p. m. He had been unconscione elur
nearly "a hours. assss "a.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
Appointed state Ceoloeist.

5 vERMIIIlox, s. b.. March % James
Todd, M AL who was appointed ~ the
chair Of geology at the state univerify
here last fall. has been commissioned
state geologist BY the board Of regents.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
Anew Iowa hank.

WASHINGTON, March 23 The First
National bank of Forest City. Ia, CAPT
til 150, 900, has been authorized to BE-
gin business.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
Minneapolis Grain.
MINNEAporrs. Ma

MINNEApoLIs. March "a. 1874
WHEAT--May opened. 6lJ4c: highest, 6418cs
lowest. 641S. closed. r45s July opened 669zc.;
highest, 67c; lowest 6o1sc: closed. 66z6c.
On Track mo. ] hard, G61xc; No. l Northern.
&c; No. Y Northern. &c.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23
Chicago Live stock,
CHICAGO Urrox STOCK Yam

CHICAGO UNION STOCK ARDS,
March 20. 1893.
CATTLE Strong.
7.6b: mixed ana Dsedinm. $7.4017.60 light
S7.26n7.Gl
SHEEP Weak, Bai0c lower.
Receipts: Cattle. 11.OJ6 hogs, 1900 sheep,
12O0a
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23

WHEAT-AIay. 7096c: July. 725Se.
CORN--May. S33lc: July. 1876
OATS May. a22336e: July. &c.
DQRK Nsv. SRA
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-03-23

Our last year wall paper that we adve1
tised some time, ago is moving off rapid,
It's prices that does it.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-02-14
a atislendinr Plnonr.l.

Two colored women in o4e of the
large dry goods stores the other day
stopped in front of the elevator ON
which the sign, This elevator runs
from the first to the fourth floor. n
was conspicuously displayed.
1--WE don't want this, said No. 1.
why notg" questioned her COM
panion.
Because it runs from the first to
the fourth floor, and we want to get
eff at the second. 3"
How do you knowa Z" queried No. 2.
Cant you read the sign9' inpa-
tiently remarked the all knowing
one.
"why, sure nuf," wonderineIy
remarked No. 9; well have to get
one that runs to the second floor or
else go up the stairs" whereupon
they strolled off, and it was as good
as picture to see the look of sur
prise when, having reached the sec
ond floor. they beheld that deceitful
elevator discharge its load of passen-
gers at the very place they wanted
to Philadelphia Times.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-02-14
A story of swedenl org.

A respectable man In Stockholm
bought an estate of another, paid
for it and received an acknowledg-
ment. The purchaser died soon
after, and not long after the seller
demanded payment of the widow,
threatening that noncompliance
would cause him to take possession
again. The widow was terrified, for
she knew her husband had paid, but
after making n most minute search
she was unable to find proof any
where. AS the deceased had been
on kindly terms with the Russian
ambassador she had recourse to him,
who, being well aware what assist
ance Swedenborg had afforded In
such cases, promised the widow that
he would talk over her case with
him.
Some days after Swedenborg came
to the ambassador and bade him tell
the widow that on certain night
her husband would appear to her
and give direct information where
the receipt was secreted. This was
awful to contemplate but, as impend
ing ruin stared her in the face, she
determined to sit up on the night in
question. keeping her maid, how
ever, with hel. Bnt tic lattpr salI
into a deep sleep, and all efforts of
the widow were unavailing to keep
her awake. At midnight the de-
ceased appeared. He looked grave,
as though displeased, and then point
ed out the place where the receipt
lay in little desk in another room
attached to the wall, after which he
disappeared. The widow went the
next morning to the place he had IN
dicated and there found the receipt.
Chicago Mail.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-02-14
A Dafryman,s Prayer.

A college professor recently
dropped into prayer meeting in
the district where dairy interest are
supreme and heard gaunt old
dairyman pray as follows: "Help
us, o Lord, to follow Thee, no mat
ter what John, Mary, Martha, Bill,
Tom and all the rest may say.
Make US through trains for the Lord,
not stopping at every little station
where they happen to see a milk
can put out. Don't let us fire blank
cartridges at the devil, load up
with shot and shell. Help us to
cut off the corns and the bunions
that keep our feet from walking in
the way of the Lord"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-02-14
neas.lng oats as a saerlnoe.

The cat, says Mr.. Mill, in his His
tory of the Crusades,'' was a very
important parsonage in The religious
festivals of the times which he de-
scribes. AT AK, in Provence, on the
festival of Corpus Christi, the finest
tom cat in the canton, wrapped like
child in swaddling clothes, was ex-
hibited in a magnificent shrine to
public admiration. Every knee was
bent, and every hand strewed flow
ers or poured incense, and grimalkin
was treated in all respects as the god
of the day.
But ON the festival of st. John
June % poor Toms fate was re-
versed. A number of cats were put
into wicker basket and thrown
alive into the midst of a large fire,
kndled in the public square, by the
bishop and his clergy. Hymns and
anthems were sung, and professions
were made by the priests and peo-
pie in honor of the sacrifice.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-02-14
Our deeds determine US as much
as we determine our deeds.
Az Estraordlnary colnelaene..

An extraordinary coincidence oc-
CURED in Fleet street. After the
settling" at one of the sporting
clubs gentleman went into a restau
rant, where he had glass of wine
with some friends, and then took n
cab to the Bank of England, thereat
to deposit some money. On count
ing the sum he found that he had
lost a fifty pound note, and at once
sped back to the place of entertain
ment tolook for the missing paper" f"
being ignorant both of the number of
the note and of the hanson which
conveyed him to Threadneedle street.
The search was fruitless, SO he
promptly chartered another cab to
convey him to Scotland Yard. To
his joy and surprise his lost treasure
was lying on the seat 1t was the
same vehicle in which he had been
driven to the hank. This may read
like romance; it is merely matter
of fact.-London Telegraph.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-02-14
Tennrson nnd American.

Tennyson had a great love for
America and the Americans; nothing
pleased him more than the fact that
the Americans appreciate him and
read him largely. 1t was only his
great age that prevented him carry
ing out the wish he had SO often ex-
pressed of seeing with his own eyes
the land that he loved so well, and
for which he often testified his affec-
ton in intercourse with friends. He
was always glad to meet distinguish
ed American men and women of let
ters, and he loved to recall his con
yersations with Longfellow and Low
ell and Oliver Wendell Holmes. 1t
was only few days before his death
that he welcomed Mrs. James T.
Fields and Miss Sarah Orne Jewett
to Aldworth.-Cor. Boston Herald.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-02-14
Telephones for Farms.

A rural farming district In Mich
igan has provided itself with tele-
graph line eight miles In length, con-
Meeting large number of scattered
farms with the village store, the pro-
prietor of which oficiates as tele-
graph operator, express agent, post
master and SO ON. The total cash
expenditure for the outfit is said to
have been only some 900, while the
expense of maintenance, which Is
but triding sum, is assessed equally
upon the owners. The small cost
and enormous convenience of such q
system as this In country districts
ought to lead to a more general
adoption Of the plan. Engineering
Magazine.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1893-02-14
zoIa and the Late Emperor.

NJ. Zola, in The Figaro, in reply to
some critics, insists that the emperor
rouged his cheeks at Sedan. The
emperor's friends, he says, have
talked as if to have done so would
have been humiliating-'.the role of
a bufoon" t'On the contrary, this
seems to me a great mistake. I find
the act superb-worthy of hero of
a Shakespearean play, heightening
the figure of Napoleon III to a tragic
melancholy of an infinite grandeur. u
That is a characteristically French
exaggeration. We presume NJ. Zola
means that it was noble of the en-
peror to take the trouble to conceal
from his troops his desperate phys
ical weakness. But even granted
that it was a prudent thing not to
show cheek of ghastly paIlor, we
fail to see that it was heroic.-Lon-
don Spectator.