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Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
Bullion to Re Coined,

WASHINGTON, Aag. 2s.-secretars
Carlisle has ordered that the United
States mints at Philadelphia and San
Francisco be fully manned and the full
capacity of both mints be utilized in
the coming Of gold bullion. The treas
ury department possesses from $s5,-
OOO,o coo to s9O,ooo,ooo of gold bullion
which is part of the gold reserve of
800. 900 600. Gold bars cannot be used
as currency, so it has been decided, i'll
hand
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
WRECKED TWO COACHES.
AN Accident U;i al Long Island Raj
road Results In Dcath to Fifteen.

An Accident "n Al Long Island Rail-
road Results In Death to Fifteen.
LONG ISLAND CITY, l.. l., Aug. IS
An acciden; that cost the lives OF 10
people occurred shortly after midnight
in the little village of Berlin, near Cal
vary cemetery in the town o. New
town. The train that left Manhattan
Beach at l:15 O'clock was ovcr,Hken
by the train that left Rockaway Beach
10 minutes earlier In the irightful
collision that cl!sued the two rear cars
Of the five that made UP the Manhattan
Beach train We're demolished and the
middle car was overturned. Hardly
one of the scores OF passengers aboard
these three cars escaped uMhurt.
In addition TO those killed at least 10
others We're seriously injured, several OF
whom will die.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
by ACcLAaIATloN.
| HaWkeue Democrats RcnOmlnate G
Governor ISOiCS.

Hawlcre Democrats Rcnomlnate
Governor B0icS.
DEs MONIES, Aug. .3.-The Demo-
cratic state convention, by rising
vote which was entirely unanimous,
and with cheers which were many
times repeated, for the third time
placed Horace Boies in nomination for
governor. The report Tuesday night
that ne would not refuse was all that
was needed to secure for him the honor
in tho face of his letter of two weeks
ago opposing third terms and express
ing determination to retire to pri-
vatc life.
The ticket was completed as follows:
Lieutenant governor, A. l.. Bestow;
judge of supreme court, John Cligett;
Superintendent of schools. j. B. Knoehar;
railroad commissioner, Thomas Bow
man.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
AT CHARLESTON.
Damage to Property Great hut Loss
of Life Small.

CHARLESTON, S. c., Aug. 3o.-Charles-
ton was subjected TO the full fury of
the Bermuda tornado Sunday night.
Though damage to property has been
great the loss of life has been small,
only three people being reported killed
in the city. All Of these We're young
negroes who We're drowned. The tor
nado has left the city almost in ruins.
Hundreds Of giant trees lie uprooted
across railroads, streets are strung
with debris from buildings ana the
sidewalks are covered with brick and
mortar. The famous Battery is badly
wrecked
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
Sentenced for Life.

MILWAUKEE. Aug. 30 Gustav
Scharff. Jr.. who on Saturday, Aug. 49,,
murdere,, his wife and sterchild, has
been sentenced by Judge WallGer to
life imprisonment in the state penitsu-
tiary at Waurun.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01

WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.-An ami
mated discussion over the rules be-
tween Speaker Crisp and ex-Speaker
Reed enlivened the proceedings of the
house. At times the debate Was some
what personal, and each speaker re-
ceived the plaudits of his party friends.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
Busincss RIochs Rurncd.

DELAvAN, Wis, Aug. so. Two
acres of buildings i'll the business center
of this city We're destroyed by fire dur
ing the night. The town is now with
out Il hotel, IL livery stable or IL post
Office. The loss is estimated ut $40 900;
insurance onc-Lalf.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
Chief Arthur Settles.

TOLEDO O., Aug. 2s.-Judge Riclss
has made an order allowing the re-
ceivcr of the Ann Arbor Railroad COM
pany and Chief Arthur of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, to settle
the $4,000 damage suit brought by
the railroad company against Chief
Arthur during the late trouble. Arthur
agrees to pay $500 ard the costs in
this case and also the costs in the case
of the Ann Arbor against the Pennsyi-
vania and other connecting lines that
were brought into the affair.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01

OPENING PRICES.

OPENING PRICES.
WHEAT-Septcmbcr G:l4c.
CORN-September, 3,4c: october. 3slsc.
OATS September, .3is,; October. .lss D
242ic.
PORk-August. $l..5o: September Sl3.O5.
I.ARD-Octob. .r. $50.
sHORr IBs-September. $50; October
Ssl5.
CLOSING PRICES.
wHEATAusust. ;l5s gG"c: September. Gaa
G2lac.
CORN-August, 31lac; September, 37lsc
October. ia 03S'.
oATS-AuEus., :: s4c; September, .::355sc; o.
tober 2!9sc.
PORk-Septe:..b. $l4,5s October. 1875.
LARD -Se2te y 49,, S7.75; October. $40.
Si:vNr hiBS-Stptember. Ss.621s; Octo
bai, $40.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
Eactnrics Slartinm I'm.

OSHKOSH, Wis. Aug. 30.-The pres
ent industrial conditions in this city
are much improved over those of few
weeks ago Several mills and factories
which have been idle have started up
within the past week and others which
have been runnin. With reduced forces
or on short hours will soon be running
fall 1lnSt
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
Men Wanted for Thr.sb;n.r

FARGO, N. D.. Aug. 30.-The cry now
goes ont for more men for threshing.
Everybody WHO wants work can now
secure it lcrc. Farmers are rushing
1hrcshing and several hundred more
haals could be used in this vicinity.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
Eighteen Pcrished.

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-The fishing
schooners Empire State. with a crew of
10 men. and the Ella NJ. johnson, with
crew of eight men. went down dur.
ing the night off Mai;f> qHan. OH the
Jersey coast, and all or board We're lost.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
NI;nncapoIis Grain.

MISSEAPoLIs. Aug. 30, 1873.
WHEAT-Augu,t close. 5dlac: September
opening. 5624c; highest t1c lowest, IS lsc; close,
b6lac; December opening. 63Ss'; highest. aasc
lowest. Ga3s,; close, 62}4c: On track-No /
hard, GOc: No. / Northern 5sc: No.. , Northern,
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
ESCAPED TO TIE WOODS.
Dozen Convicts From bismarck PEN
itcntiary Break For Liberty.

itcntiary Break For Liberty.
BISMARCK, N. D., Aug. 2S.-Twelve
Of the 20 convicts engaged in Il brick
yard adjoining town, and about two
miles from the penitentiary, while
being conveyed to the prison from work
about p. m., broke away from the
guards and ran in different directions,
most of them to the timber and thick
underbrush south of the city. Six only
have been recaptured. Hundreds Of
armed men have surrounded the tim
ber, and, as it is bright moonlight, it is
believed others will bo captured before
morning
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
Two V. ssels Went Down.

SOUTHAMPTON, L. l., Aug. 25.-About
2 a. IN. two vessels, Il coal large and a
towing vessel, We're wrecked off the
coast at this point. Up to the present
writing six men from the wrecked ves-
sells have been washed ashore. three
alive and three beyond resuscitation.
The Is other men of the crews are be-
lieved to have been drowned, thus
making the total loss of life IS persons.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
No Strike Or;lcreI

LOUISVILLE. Aug. 30.-'The local
Lou svilie and Nashville machinists
deny that any strike has been o.dered.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01

Aug. 30. 1879 i
CATTLE-Market steady.
HOGS-s Steady. Heavy, st951155; mike
and medium. Sj2oGl175 light, S5.4005.S0.
SHEEP-Weak, 2jc lower.
Receipts: Cattle, 170Jj: hogs, 3S,0)): sheep,
l7,GOO.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
MANY LIVES LOST.
Some Results Of the Storm on the
Atlantic Coast.

New YORK, Aug. s5-The West In
dian cyclone which swept over this
part of, the Atlantic coast on its way
to New England, has left its marks
over the whole region around New
York, with sweep of fully 1000 miles.
Stories of loss to life and Shipping are
still coming in. Stephen Cooper Of the
pilot boat Thomas D. Harrison, re-
ported that when 70 miles off the high
lands he picked up man clinging to
the masthead of sunken wreck He
proved to be the only survivor of the
schooner Narragansett, Captain Chase,
bound from Philadelphia fos Waltham,
Mass, coal laden, which foundered
during the hurricane.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01
Chicago Live Stock.

CHICAGO UNION STOCK YARDS. !,
A,,r, M
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1893-09-01

After All the Amendments Had Reen
Defeated by Overwhelming Major.
itics, Mr.. Wilson's Measure Was
Passed by Vote of 2iO to 40.
Those Who Voted Aye on the
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-04-01
THE EAST.

THE democrats of Rhode Island in
convention at Providence nominated
Dav vid :. Baker Jr., for governor.
AT Wakefield, r. l., George A. Ken
yon, well-known and very wealthy
man, was sentenced to fifteen years al
hard labor in prison for shooting John
Mclnnes. laborer in his employ.
THE Rhode Island republicans in
state convention at Providence nom
mated full state ticket headed by
Russell Brown, the present incumbent,
for governor.
CHARLES Is. LORE. of Wilmington.
has been appointed to the vacant chief
justiccshlp of Delaware. The appoint
ment is for life.
The death of Rev. Albert Won Putt
kamer occurred in New York. He was
the first German to be baptized in the
Baptist faith in the United States and
organized the first German Baptist
church in America.
AT the age of IS years Eli Salisbury,
for eighteen years United States sem
ator from Delaware. died at his home
in Dover.
IN New York sole-leather trust
was formed with a capital of $780,
600, 600.
THE sudden death of Col. Elliott
Fitch Shepard, editor of the Mail and
Express, occurred at his home in New
York from the effects of ether taken
that he might undergo surgical oper-
alton. He was 50 years of age. Col
II
Louise Vanderbilt, the oldest daughter
of the late William II. Vanderbilt, and
she and five children survive him. Mr.
Shepard was president of the American
Sabbath union and founded the State
Bar association and was its first presi-
dent
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-04-01
AT CLOSE QUARTERS.
A Sergeant Saved from the Fangs of .
Serpent by n Slip-knot.

Ia Sergeant Saved from the FanEs of .
Serpent by n Slip-knot.
Travellers in the uncivilized regions
| pf South America have to face many
perils from intense heat, poisonous rep
lilies and savage men. NJ. Thouar, who
Explored the Pilcomayo delta for the
Argentine government, describes an ex-
Iperience which prompted him to eter-
nal vigilance in regard to snakes. He
was lying in his hammock; the SER
geant of his guard was asleep under a
tree close by. Suddenly he noticed an
immense serpent coiled around the SER
geant's leg and extending its head
toward his bare chest What should
he do? To wake the man meant GER
snake be killed or driven away without
rousing the sleeping soldier? Then he
recalled a method of capturing the
cobra of India He prepared slip
knot, and by stealthy, almost imper-
ceptible, movements he attracted the
serpents attention. 1t turned its head.
Then NJ. Thouar leaned from the ham,
mock and tickied the snake gently on
the throat 1t raised its head, and as
it did so the moose was drawn tight
around its neck. Just then the SER
geant awoke and almost tainted with
fright. But the danger was past: the
slip-kpoi saved him, and the stroke Of
, .SS ~ I off the serpent's head
Go. ~ Jays
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-04-01
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The worst blizzard known in twelve
years caused great damage in the vicin-
ity of ST. Johns, n. F., and at Sal
monier five men were drowped by the
swamping of skiff.
On the march of n band of convicts
to the prisons of Siberia 2s3 of them
died from hardship and exposure.
Among those lost were Mn;c Lazarov,
six other women and four children
On the Thames at London the Ok
ford crew won by two lengths its TWEEN
ty-seventh victory over Cambridge.
Time. Is minutes a. seconds. 1t was
the fifticth race between the two
crews.
REyOLUTIOSIsTs entered the town of
Allegretta, Chill, which they sacked.
The residents resisted the ravages, and
in the fight which followed forty per-
sons were killed.
THE arbitration court appointed to
adjust the difficulties between the
United States and Great Britain in re-
gard to the seal fisheries in Behring
sea met in Paris.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-04-01

The last quarterly report of the
treasury bureau of statistics contains
table, prepared by the director of the
mint from the latest data obtainabl
in 1892. showing the amount of cur
-ency in the principal countries of the
world. 1t shows total gold circula-
tion of $3.50, 935, 600: silver, full legal
tender, S., 4Ol. 100, 900; silver, limited
legal tender. S543, GOO. .OO): uncovered
paper, s., 2,es1, 793. 900 The estimated
per capita circulation of the four prin-
cipal commercial countries is as fol-
lows: France, s43 IL; United States.
s25.62; United Kingdom, $3.50; Germa-
nv, SIG 40
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-04-01
FROM WASHINGTON.

By request Alfred Dodge resigned his
position as agricultural statistician,
and Henry a. Robinson, of Detroit,
was appointed to fill the position.
Vouchers have been signed by Sec
retary Carlisle to the amount of $3.50.
100 in favor of the worlds fair COM
mission. which is payable in souvenir
half dollars The commission up to
this time has received 81, 92O, 100 of the
$500. 900 appropriation by congress
payab BILE in souvenir half dollars
AT the leading clearing houses in
the nitcd States the exchanges dur
ing the week ended on the cath aggre-
gated 81, 227, ,22i,Ils against 81, ,231, 45i, =
629 the previous week. The increase
as compared with the corresponding
week of 1892 was 6.5.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the oath numbered 243, against 2aO the
preceding week and 23i for the cor
responding time last year
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-04-01

| klRE destroyed the Morgan, fash
iouable apartment house in Cleveland,
O., and Mrs. Mary Z. Abbey. Mrs.
Jesse Hunt and her daughter, Mrs.
Emma Somers and Mrs. 2. q. Somers
| perished in the flames
DoBBiNs & DAILY, cotton dealers at
! Nashville. Tenn, with branch houses
! in Memphis, New Orleans, Little Rock,
Montgomery. Mobile and other cities,
| failed for $500. ZOO
| AT Sedalia. Mo-, J. c. Davis, a grocer,
| who was in love with Miss Mary, the
lT-year-old daughter of NJ. A. Miller, a
prominent real estate dealer, shot her
| dead because she refused his attentions
and then killed himself.
AT Mexico, Mo, the sale of negro
was stopped by proceedings instituted
by George Robertson, leading attor-
| ney, who will test the constitutionality
OF the vagrant law of the state:
THE town of Kelly, Miss, was wiped
off the face of the earth by 4 cyclone.
not soul being left to tell the tale.
Great damage was also done at Tunica
and Cleveland, in the same state, and
twenty-five persons were killed.
FLAMES swept away large portion
of the town of Pauhuska, Oklahoma,
and five lives were lost
BY the issue of zoo. 900 copies the
Chicago Inter Ocean celebrated the
twenty-first anniversary of its birth.
Each copy of the paper consists of
sixty pages
The tornado that passed over In
dianapolis wrecked fifty houses, caus-
ing loss of over 100000, and several
persons were seriously injured.
IS the register of deeds office at New.
ton, Kan, the vault was broker open
and the county records destroyed The
loss cannot be made good for less than
500, 0J0.
BY the capsizing of a skiff George
W. Selby and his brother Oscar were
drowned at Peoria, Ill.
ADvICEs say that the damage done
by the recent cyclone in the Mississippi
valley would reach $4,000. 600 One-half
of the state penitentiary at Nashville,
which cosers eighty acres of ground,
was torn TO pieces, entailing an euor-
nous loss.
HuBERT and John Dix and Edward
Wescott were drowned by the upset
ting of skiff in Bigtee river near
Mount Sterling, Ala
ATEDenvcr, Col, Anton Wood, the
I1-yeu-cld murderer of Joseph Smith,
was found guilty and sentenced to life
imprisonment
AT tie age of 95 years Rev. John
Souder, Methodist minister, died at
his home in Tifin, o. He had lived
there seventy years and had been in
the ministry for ffty-one years.
IS an angry fit James Cosgrove shot
and killed his wife Mt Butte. Mont,
and then committed suicide.
Fox participating in the murder Of
Robertsd1ssand his daughter in August,
1891, Louis Michael was hanged at St
Martinsville, La. 1t was the first legal
execution which had taken place there
IN forty years.
IT is proposed by the Woodstock
guards. Il military company at Annis-
ton, Ala, to cover the distance on
foot from their home to the worlds
fair grounds in Chicago, about 500
miles.
A FIRE destroyed the Weber building
in Chicago, causing a loss of $3.50. 900 to
the various firms that occupied it.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-04-01
a WINDFAIL
For the Descendants OF Joe Meek. Ore
Pnn.s Eamnna Trapper Statesman.

For the Descendants OF Joe Meek. Ore
gon's Famous Trapper Statesman.
PORTLAND, Ore, March 27.-There
are a few persons who have read the his
tory of the northwest that are not ia.
miliar with the story of Joe Meek, Ore
gon's famous hunter and trapper states
man, who made the trip across the
plains to Washington at the time when
the whole nation was excited over the
attempt Of England to obtain posses
sion of the northwest corner of the
United States. of which sturdy pioneers
and their sons have since carved four
states; but few persons outside the
state of Oregon know that Meeks
widow still lives on Tualatin plains.
in Washington county, and is full
blooded Nez Perces-
When lands were allotted in Idaho
Mrs. Meek and her sons, Courtney,
Joseph and Stephen, and her daughters,
Mrs. Oliver Riley and Mrs. Jennie New
hard, were allotted eighty acres each OF
farming land. and. Mrs. Meeks' grand
children come in Eor like amount.
The entire tracts consists OF $50 acres
of fine land. There is soon to be dis
tribution of farming implements. etc,
and of this the Meek family will also
come in for n share.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-04-01
WEST AND SOUTH.

An explosion followed by fire de
stroyed the Planet mill at Litchfield,
ILL.,, owned by Kehlor Bros, of St.
Louis, the largest steam winter wheat
mill in the United States, the loss be-
ing 500, 900. John Carr, the head mill
wright, was burned to death and six
other persons were injured.
PHTNEAs HASUCAH. who claimed to
be the son of a wealthy Persian fam
lily, was arrested in Chicago on charges
of having swindled wealthy Jews all
over the country out of $500. 900 while
pretending to collect funds for the re-
lief of needy Russian coreligionists
NEAR Fairland, Ill, s II. Bell, a
farmer, lost three of his children from
diphtheria, and the fourth and last fell
into a well and was drowned.
ONE of the most prominent business
men in Kalamazoo, Mich, Louis Schil
ling, aged 60, was found murdered in
his office. William White, a negro, was
suspected of the crime.
THE Big Four yard strike at Spring
field, O., after six weeks fighting was
declared off. the strikers failing to gain
a single point
JoHS TERRY and Ben McCary (ne-
groes) were hanged in Copiah county,
Miss, for the murder of J. C. Davis.
IN Pullman sleeper Miss b. NJ. Doo-
little left Chicago to travel via Port
land, Ore, San Francisco. El Paso.
City of Mexico, New York and Boston
back to Chicago without putting her
foot upon the ground English railway
officials made a wager with American
railway officers that such a journey
could not be made.
Mrs. NANCY MARVIN, aged 1OS years,
died at Moravia, Ind.
A MINER named William Frazier,
whose wife left him on account of his
drunkenness, went to Hiteman, Ia,
where she was staying, and killed her
and her sister, Mrs. Smith, and then
cut off the leg of his baby. An infuri-
ated mob of miners took Frazier from
the officers and hung him.
In Oklahoma prairie fires swept
whole townships and hundreds of
cattle perished.
IL a fit Of jealousy Mrs. Caroline
Ragan. wife of Charles Hagan, a mem.
Der Of the FIRE department at Dayton,
O.. put her husbands eyes out with
vitriol
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-04-01
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
g.. S. SENATE IN EXTRA SESSION.

U. S. SENATE IN EXTRA SESSION.
MoNDAr. March 20. - The president
sent the following nominations 10
the senate: James Il. Eustis, OF
Louisiana, to be minister to France;
Theodore Runyon, of New Jersey, to
be minister to Germany; John E.
Eisley, Of New York, to be minister to
Denmark: Ernest T. Baldwin, of Mary
land, to be first auditor of TIE treasury;
Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, to
be commissioner of railroads; James
G. Jenkins, of Wisconsin, to be United
States circuit Judge for the Seventh
judicial circuit
TUESDAY, March Ex-senator Butler
introduced a bill in the senate which
proposes that with the exception of
the legislative, pension. deficiency
and sundry civil bills the appropria-
ton bills shall be considered by the
committees which have charge of the
affairs to hich the appropriation re-
fers- No action was taken in the mat
ter.
WEDNESDAY, March 22.-Mr. Mander-
son resigned his position as president
pro tenn. OF the senate and MIR. Har-
ris, of Tennessee, was elected in his
place. The following nominations were
received from the president: John S.
Seymour, of Connecticut to be COM
missioner of patents; Silas W. Lamo-
rcux, of Wisconsin, to be commissioner
of the general land office; Horace II.
Lurton, of Tennessee, to be United
States circuit judge for the Sixth ju-
dicial circuit, and Max Judd, of Mis-
United States at Vienna.
THURSDAY, March 23 The senate
confirmed the nominations for public
positions previously sent in by the
president No dher business was
transacted and an adjournment was
taken until the eth.