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The Irish standard., 1893-08-05
AN AWFUL DEED.
A Wisconsin Man Kills fits Wife
and Three Children.
Partially Insane Through Fear of starvs-
ton William Nonemacher, Living
Near Amigo, Puts Hrs Entire
Family to Death.
AFRAID OF POVERTY.


AMIGO, Wis, Aug. 1.-William None
macher, farmer living miles south
east of Amigo, killed his wife and three
children about 10 o'clock Saturday night
and then made an unsuccessful attempt
to take his own life. The deed was not
discovered until Sunday afternoon at S
o'clock and the news reached here Mon
Gay morning.
THE CRIME DISCOVERED.
Sunday afternoon two sons of Fred
Nonemacher, q brother of William,
went over to their uncles. They could
not find anyone about the house, but
on going inside found the two
boys of William Nonemacher dying,
covered with blood, on the bed.
Frightened at the sight, they ran home
as fast as they could and told their
father of their discovery. He sum-
moned some of the neighbors and went
over to his brothers.
When they opened the door of the
farmhouse horrible stiffness lowered
over all. In the bedroom Mrs None
macher was found lying on her left
side with gaping wound in her
temple. Beside the bed in its cradle
lay the baby, its little skull crushed
in. In the next room lay the two boys.
Joseph, years of age, and William, 4
years. Both of the children had terri
BILE wounds in their heads, which had
evidently been inflicted with an AK.
William Nonemacher, the father. was
nowhere to be found at first. Finally,
- ~
ing the pig sly heard a noise and look
ing in saw Nonemacher' lying on the
board floor unable to move. AS his
back appeared to be broken he was
lifted up and brought to the house
where he was placed on the kitchen
floor.
TO KEEP FROM STARVING.
When asked how his family were
murdered, he promptly replied he did
it to save them from starving. He said
the crops were poor and he was afraid
of starving. His wife's parents were in
Quebec, where they had come all the
way from Germany, and wanted money
and he had none to send. He
had intended to kill his family Friday
night, but he changed his plans to Sat-
urday night. After the family were
asleep, about 10 o'clock, he went out
and got an ak and returned to do the
deed He said he killed his wife first
by three swinging blows on the left
temple He then went into the next
room and killed Joseph and Willie. He
struck both boys on the head twice Re-
turning to the room where his wife lay
he picked up his year-old baby, held
her in one arm and struck her on the
top of the head. He then went to the
barn, climbed on to the roof and
jumped 20 feet to the floor of the pig
stye, sustaining injuries to the spine
and para]yzing his lower extremities.
Nonemacher told the story of the
awful tragedy calmly and without the
slightest sign of sorrow or regret For
all the feeling shown he might have
been describing the killing of a pig.
He has always been known as a kindly
quiet man, but was subject to fits Of
dependency. An inquest was held and
Nonemacher was brought here and
placed in Jail 1t is very doubtful if he
RECEIVERS from his injuries
The Irish standard., 1893-08-05
Five Men Killed.

HOMER, O., Aug. John Kittle,
Norman Sellen, James Bowers, John
Bell and Frank Bell were killed and
four other persons were injured, two
fatally, by the explosion yesterday of
q thrashing engine ct the farm Of Louis
Pierson near here.
The Irish standard., 1893-08-05
Lone ING Endled.

L1scoLs, Ill, July 80. At the Logan
county poor farm near this city Grand
ma Hernon died yesterday at the age of
1O3 wears and months
The Irish standard., 1893-08-05
a SMALL RIOT.
Trouble In Chicago Between Union and
NOu-lJniOn Sailors. N@

CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-There was bloody
riot between union and non-union sail
ors yesterday. About 10 o'clock, w. 2.
Felt, shipping clerk, appeared at slip
No. / of the Illinois Central railroad.
and began negotiations with number
of non-union sailors, with a number Of
non-union sailors, with view of en-
gaging them to ship on vessel getting
ready to sail. A crowd of union sailors
came up and attacked Felt. He was
knocked down with club in the hands
of one of the men, and others set upon
and began kicking him in the head and
body. Felt called for help, but the nom
union men he had been trying to hire
ran away, pursued by humber OF nom
union men. Felt then drew his revo].
yer and fred into the crowd. The first
bullet struck Gustave Oleon in the right
side of the neck, just above the shoul-
der, and he fell to the ground. When
Clean fell his companions fed, and the
police coming up shortly afterwards,
both men were placed under arrest.
Olean was taken to the hospital, where
his wound was pronounced very seri-
GUS, though i, is not considered fatal.
Previous to the attack upon Felt
sortie was made on the schooner Il.
Mixer. The captain met them with
drawn revolver and scared them away.
The Irish standard., 1893-08-05
THE MARKETS.

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 3.-The wheat market
was strong and higher September opened up
At 52Ac and closed at $3.50.
The cash wheat market was active and strong-
with good demand from local miliers. country
millers and shippers No. hard was held at
55H@56c; Go. northern, 541a@55lac; No 2, 520S
63c; No. wheat. 5OM5O'%c.
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rhousa1n -, Are Idle, .

MAacHEsTER, n. H., Ang. 1.-The
Amoskeag mills closed down yesterday,
throwing 5000 persons out Of employ
ment rs 5sss. # rs
The Irish standard., 1893-08-05
Indians on Il Hurrah.

WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, Aug. $50 ag-
gravated have the orgies of Indian
blueberry pickers near She'll Lake and
Spooner become that United States
Marshal Oakley, of Madison, has
started squad Of deputies through the
camps. Somebody is providing the In
dams freely with whisky, and serious
trouble is looked for. Several squaws'
houses and dancing platforms add to
the disgraceful scenes enacted, and the
citizens are really afraid of their lives
The Irish standard., 1893-08-05
Evolution of the Nerlige Shirt.


When the neglige shirt first became
popular, says the philadelphia Record,
it was a flannel or silk shirt with a soft
collar and no cuffs to speak Of. Its
object was to relieve man of wearing
starched bosoms and collars and cuffs
in hot weather, when they are not only
uncomfortable but likely to wilt down
from perspiration and give the wearer
q slovenly appearance. Now, however,
the only difference is found in the
color. The neglige shirt is as stiff as q
board and the collar even sitter: SO
are the cuffs. In fact it isn't neglige
at all. The same thing applies to the
russell shoe. When it first came out
its chief advantage lay In the assertion
that it wasn't necessary TO have it
shined every day or so. Some one,
however, had to invent a patent polish
for the neglige shoe, and it costs more
to shine that than it does regular
black shoe.
The Irish standard., 1893-08-05
VIC Gr.ceful Girl, of Siam.

The Siamese girls are the most
graceful women in the world. Their
joints are very supple, and a part Of
their education is made up of bending
their joints back and forth to make
them so. They are all short haired
and when young they are as plump
as cartridges and as straight as the
palm trees of their own beautiful land.
As they grow older they become
wrinkled and ugly, and the most Of
them ruin their teeth from chewing
the betel Only the fewest of them
are educated, and don t think they
would be happy in our high French
heel shoes, and they would die il
bound IN bvs our corsets and crinoline-
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-15
Outpost Duty In the Russian Army.

In the German army every soldier is
taught to act intelligently on outpost
service and in scouting operations, and
this is not too much to require in coun-
try where every soldier reads and writes
and can readily understand a map and
compass. In Russia, however, where
nine-tenths of the people cannot read or
write and have lost the faculty of think
ing consecutively, the army cannot teach
the soldier much more than to move as
with a machine. In order to have force
of good men for picket work and ad-
vance skirmishing they have adopted
this plan:
Each company sends four of its most
intelligent men to select body called
the scouting corps, and as the Russian
regiment has four battalions, with four
companies each, that gives a regimental
scout force of a.. This service is very
popular, for it is full of variety, and
though the hardship is great the food is
good, for hunting and fishing are in the
programme. The men are practiced in
every kind of woodcraft and are expect
ed to develop as much ingenuity and
self reliance as an Indian scout in our
service. They must sail, row, swim,
climb, find their way by map and COM
pass, slip through the enemy's lines,
procure every variety of information
and escape capture at all Hazards
Poultney Bigelow in Harper's.
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-15
Helping Each Other.

A gentleman who had travelled extern
sively through the south was one even
ing seated in one of those proverbial cor
ner grocery stores in small village talk
ing to the people and commenting III IN
the unstinted hospitality of the peol q.
A tall, cadaverous looking chap, who had
listened to him intently, interrupted:
''tThat's so, stranger. When man
comes among we uns an does what's
right, we uns aip't the people to see him
suffer when he's down on his back an
can't help himself. We're just going to
raise him up"
And they do ''raise him up" If he is
sick, they till his ground, feed his cattle,
cut his wood and in various ways render
him assistance. On the eastern shore of
Maryland and Virginia this custom is
universal, and many sick man has ST.
lently made his grateful prayers, for
blessings on his neighbors for the great
stacks Of chips and split wood that have
been gathered about his yard, and for the
hams and f1ourand other necessaries that
have been placed in his smokehouse,-
Philadelphia Times. ntI
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-15

My friend, James Shamrock, threeyears
ago caught young lark, and it has been
pouring out its song ever since then from
its cage, and very sweet note it is.
Some little while ago, as the afternoon
was sunny, the cage was hung outside in
the garden at the moment another lark
was caroling in the air, and Shanock's
bird rose from the cage, which was only
covered with a fine net, and in which
there must have been rent, and disap-
peared in the direction of the other lark.
My friend, seeing this, at once began to
whistle, holding up the cage to attract
his pet back again, and in very short
time down it came to his feet and waited
patiently while he gently replaced it in
its cage. There were three witnesses.
believe, in this case.
The funniest thing, too, is that about
the same time James Shanock's cat
brought him in little bird quite deli
cately and waited for him to take it
from it's mouth quite uninjured. He is
a great bird lover, and it looks as if the
cat, like everybody else, knew this fact.
London Spectator.
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-15
An sofIice Cat" Worth Having.

A parsonage cat whose favorite seat is
on the study table has found a new use
for himself. He watches his masters
pen and occasionally, when the writer is
tired, takes the holder In his mouth. But
his real usefulness is to act as a paper
weight. When a sheet is finished and
laid aside, the cat walks gravely to it
and takes his seat on the paper. AS soon
as another is laid aside, he leaves the
first and sits down on the second. Some
times, to try him, his master lays down
en- different parts of the table sheets in
rapid succession. But 'Powhatan"-t
cat-remains seated, shrewdly supposing
that to be fun, not business. When work
begins anew, the cat seats himself on the
last paper laid down and waits for an
other. Thus he shows that he watches
his masters work, and perhaps thinks it
his duty to keep the paper from blowing
away.-St. Nicholas.
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-15
THE PRESIDENTS SUMMER HOME.

The house is old fashioned, roomy COM
Portable and large, having a frontage Of
fully 100 feet and containing spacious
music room and dining room large
enough for so people. tits picturesquely
located on knoll in the midst of grove
of fine old oak trees on the south side Of
the Woodley road and some distance back
from it. It has the appearance of being
the work of better artisans than are now
engaged in the building business in the
vicinity of the nations capital, the solid
old brick walls resting on substantial
foundations of stone still looking as if
they would outlast for many years some
of the gimcrackery of more pretentious
modern structures. A carriage way leads
up to the house from the road, winding
under the great oaks, with stretches Of
lawn on both sides.
There are about 80 acres of land in.
cluded in the presidents lease, and there
Is nothing to prevent his indulging any
bucolic fancy that may enter his mind
in the intervals of official business. He
will be even more comfortably situated
than he was at Red Top and probably
much better off than if he occupied the
presidents cottage at the Soldiers
Home, as all the presidents have done
since Buchanan's time r
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-15
TIE METAL PALACE.

aires palace will be a decided innovation
and will afford architects and builders
some new and valuable hints for future
reference. The house, according to the
unique plans of Colonel Nonesuch, is
to be erected in the foothills back Of
Temescal, across the bay from San
Francisco. 1t will cost about 81, $780,
600 and be built of iron, steel, copper,
bronze, brass, aluminium, nickel, plati-
mum and silver, stone, cement and glass.
There will not be bit of wood used
in its construction, and the only stone
used will be sculptured frieze on the ex-
terror and various marbles and onyxes
for stairs, balustrades, bathrooms and
the like. The foundations will be of
concrete, the walls of steel, the roof Of
steel, glass and copper, and the floors Of
cement laid with brass and other metals.
The building will be $50 feet long and
have two towers, the main one lis feet
in height In the smaller tower over
the main entrance will be chime of IA
bells, fitted with electric ringing devices
and keyboard as delicate as a pianos.
The house is to be encircled by broad
moat or artificial lake, which will be
crossed opposite the main entrance by a
drawbridge in the ancient style. The
moat viii be put to practical as well as
ornamental use, for its waters viii be
used to furnish power for the electric
plant which will light the house and
furnish heat for the cooking as well as
for warming the rooms. ~
The grand stairway will be of white
marble and onyx and will lead to cor
ridor running the entire length of the
building, from which will open eight
suites of rooms, each suit containing a
sleeping chamber, a bathroom, a dressing
room and study. The corridor will
lead to gallery on the second floor of
the main tower, which will be devoted
to an art gallery, the ground floor form
ing a circular ballroom 1870 feet in diam
eter. The flooring of the ballroom is to
be Of hammered aluminium, which is said
to furnish the best possible surface for
dancing. The furniture throughout the
house will be Of the most artistic de-
scription, and the entire place will be a
museum of costly curios.
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-15

structure veneered with granite blocks
6 inches in thickness. And yet it cost
$3.50, 900.
The result is that all the east side is
out of line. The granite blocks have SO
far separated that the brick interior can
be seen to be cracked and split. The
pointing between the granite blocks on
that side has come out, and water, filter
ing in and freezing in winter, is helping
on the destruction. Experts declare
that the monument will not fall down,
but that the .sranite will come off here
and there and leave the structure pic
turesque ruin. The stone balustrade
leading to the platform is also falling to
pieces, and the stone steps are separated
by an inch in places. And to see this
fastening ruin The patriotic pilgrim pays
% cents.
So much i'll feeling has been excited
that some skeptical people in Springfield
now give it as their opinion that there
never was any attempt to steal the body
of the great hberator; that the whole af-
fair detailed by the aged custodian, his
own remarkable vigilance included, was
a phantasm of his brain, and that two
men were railroaded to the penitentiary
for year simply on their bad character
and to get up a sensation. This, how
ever, is going quite too far, and their
talk is only mentioned here as symp-
tom Of the prevalent discomfort Some
men will say ANYTHING when angry.
Several bills have been brought into
the legislature recently, and the general
proposition of the Disconnected is that
the state shall expend $25, 900 in repair
ing the monument and $500 a year to
have it cared for; that the fence be re-
moved, and that the monument be like
that of Washington and other heroes,
free to all pilgrims. There are experts,
however, who declare that the whole
monument will have to be taken down
and reconstructed on a better plan and
with a proper foundation. 1t never has
been what its projectors intended or
hoped for, and strictly speaking it is not
yet completed.
Several pieces Of statuary are yet to go
in place and are in fact not yet pur-
chased. The famed sarcophagusis emp
ty, and the remains of Mr.. and Mrs. Lin
coin lie in the ground under it, with, it is
said, six feet CT cement and brick above
them. In the crypt are inches for the
members of the family, one for Robert
Lincoln, still living, and one for his
mother, who, as aforesaid, lies below.
Butniche No. Q holds the remains of Tad
Lincoln and niche No those of Willie
and the infant that died before Mr.. Lin
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-15

with cases or suspected cases on board,
shen their real trouble begins. To the
Night quarantine stations previously in
Use t;aree have been added, the larger
kaes with disinfecting apparatus, elab-
Nrate baths and quarters for suspects"
capable Of accommodating from 400 to
1000 each. And they are very comfort
able places too. The government does
nNt intend to make the Suspect" miser-
able, but it does intend to make him
mighty clean and safe.
In addition to all this, IS vessels have
been designated to serve, if there is need,
as floating quarantine stations, and all
the officials have been granted extraor-
binary powers. OF course the men in
trusted with such powers--powers in
their very nature arbitrary to the verge
Of espotism-should be above suspicion,
and the new appointments have there
fore been most vigilantly scanned. SUI
pervising Surgeon General Wyman's rec
ord and experience are too well known
to need detail. He has recently prepared
an elaborate code of instructions for all
quarantine officials on our own and for
eign coasts, and in consultation with
physicians from various cities is prepar-
ing another for inland application, for
there is to be also an inland quarantine,
mixed state and federal
Ex-Congressman Herman Stump, re-
Gently appointed superintendent of inn
migration, vice William d. Owen, re-
signed, was chairman of the house COM
mittee OH immigration in the last con-
gress and is the author of the bill he is to
administer. He lives at Bel Air, Nd,
and was born in 1887 on Darlington
farm, the ancestral estate on Chesapeake
bay. He was admitted to the bar in
1855, has been president of the state
senate and represented the Second Mary
land district in the Fifty-first and Fifty
second congresses.
DR.. Joseph H. Senner, appointed COM
missioner of immigration at New York
in place Of John R. Weber, resigned, was
born in Moravia, Austria, in 1846, was
graduated from the University of Wen
ma as LII. B., practiced law in Aus
tria seven years, came to the United
States in 1880 and has attained high
standing as German editor, orator and
lawyer. When appointed, he was on the
editorial force of the New York Stats
Zeitung and was recommended for his
present place by Oswald Ottendorfer.
The immigrants landing at New York
average about 1000 day for the year,
though much the greater numbers come
in summer and autumn. In 1879, as
aforesaid, there was sudden and tre-
mendous increase. The number coming
in through registry ports was 669, 431 in
1881 and 1888, 992 in 1S92-the maximum.
For the rest of that decade it only twice
fell below 900, SO the total registered
for the decade exceeded 100000. How
many came in from Canada is not def
nitely known, but there arenow very near
ly1 1000, 900 native Canadians in this coun-
try, and the French from the province of
Quebec are pouring into New England
at q rate which some labor leaders call
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-15
4 fathetic BankruDt.

There are few things in real life mere
pathetic than the speech of Mr.. Munro,
who three years ago was worth $500, 900,
and was prime minister of Victoria. At
a temperance meeting in Melbourne he
is reported to have said: 81 came to Mel
bourne over 80 years ago with hardly a
penny in my pocket. I worked hard as
a workingman, and received every honor
which free state could confer on any
of it's citizens, until at last I had the
highest position in the land. Now
stand before you, 81 years of age, with
out shilling in my pocket. For the
first time in my life, through liabilities
which I undertook, never expecting to
be called upon to meet them I am un-
able to pay 20 shillings in the pound. p
st. James Gazette.
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-15

But when wits.4re sicj< Is tires us
and when we are rot sick. b7st suffering
from nervous exhaustion. this driveling
speech becomes indeed burden. The
tired brain droops undet tie food of su-
perhuous words, climbs YEARLY over the
gaps Of words onittv=;. and STUN bling
blocks of words misplaced. allows for
known peculiarities, illulnines by past
experience, wlnnows the words and picks
out the thought-only to find it some to-
tally irrelevant statement, some mere
overflow of a low banked brain, that
need not have been said at all-Char-
lotte P. Stetson in Kate Fields Wash-
ington.
The Portland daily press., 1893-04-15
MISCELLANEOUS.
II Is The Old Story Over Again.
BETRAYED BYA TRUSTED FRIEND.

BETRA YED BYA TRUSTED FRIEND.
A lady who had suffered for years
with complication Of diseases.
was suddenly and marvelously re.
stored toperfect health. Thinking
that she might make her fortune by
keeping the secret Of her recovery
to herself,sh resolved to do so, but
in an unguarded moment she con
fided it to trusted friend, land now
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