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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-11-28

Sioux Falls Press, %: According to
figures compiled by State Auditor Hip
pie, which represent returns from
all but Charles Mix and Walworth
counties doth of which are republican,
The republicans cast 2o,662 votes, demo-
Gratis 1884, and populists l2,729, giving
the republicans a plurality of 1888, and
a majority OF 2T9.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-11-28
His SON.

Marion, o., Nov. 27.-Charies Brun-
dige, q prominent farmer of Southern
Marion county, murdered his ~24-yearold
son, James Brundige, by shooting him
with q shotgun. The unfortunate affair
is said to have resulted from a quarrel.
Only Friday the venerable father Of the
murderer was laid in his grave.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-11-28

A couple in Lincoln county, Peter j..
Nelson and Mrs. Beret NJ. Nelson, who
had raised q family, quarelled and were
divorced at Canton a few days ago; and
within an hour thereafter, made up and
arr1e3 again,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-11-28
He Held Up Women.

CHICAGO, Nov. 27.-Oficers of the
Cottage Grove venue police station are
elated oyer the arrest of a highwayman
who for the last week has been holding
up women in that district and robbing
them at a point Of a revolver. The
prisoner gave the name of Norris j.
Earl, but letters found on him show that
he is John Chicott, of 1871 High street,
Brooklyn, N. Y. He says he is 90 years
old, but he does not look to be more
| than IL.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-11-28
Cleared . Train wrecker.

LYNDON, Kan, Nov. 27.-The jury in
the case of Bedford Tucker, charged
with murder, in causing the death of
four persons by wrecking a Santa Fe
train at Barclay Aug. 81, 1891, brought
in q verdict of not guilty. The jury, it
Is said, was of the opinion that Tucker
had nothing to do with the wreck, hut
the evidence, 1t is claimed, showed that
the wreck was intentional.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-11-28

The commissioners of Sanborn county
resused to put the extra 2 mill tax levy
on the books until Attorney general
Crawford got On order from Judge
Haney compelling them to do SO.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-11-28
EDITOR sUICIDED.
Prominent St. Paul Man Jumped In Front
of a Train,

of . Train.
ST. PAUL, Nov. 26.-About II a.. N.
Albert Wolf of 900 Prescott street, West
Side, was killed in the Union depot, be-
ing horribly mangled by a Kansas City
transfer train. From what could be OBJ
served of the mans actions around the
depot and prior to his death it was q
case of suicide and was attempted twice
before it was accomplished. He was
formerly editor of The Volkzeitung, and
was quite prominent in politics.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-11-28
PROSECUTE
Leaders "f the Ottumwa Mob Likely TO
BE Punished.

OTTUMwA,. Ia, Nov. 27.-Another sem
sation in the lynching a has devel-
oped. A number Of citizens, with the
aid of prominent attorneys, declare they
will prosecute the leaders of the recent
mob. They say that while the man
probably deserved his fate, the men who
administered justice are not such blame
less characters as to take the law into
their own hands. The grand jury will
be compelled to take action.
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TUESDAY EVE, NOV. IS, 1898.
on SUBSCRIPTIONS.
TO ADVERTISERS.

THE DAILY LEADER makes a special feature OF
furnishlnv ormat concerning the advantages
and resourcee of the city of Madison and OF the
state at large emitting it to the patronage OF adj
j. IF. STAHL, Proprietor.
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they can be had on the
FAVORABLE TERMS
now offered, and you will then have
them when you. need them
and have a better selection
also than you will have later on, as
well as the adyantage.of the present
Low PRICES.
Ii you have been renting a
house in the city, stop a moment
and think how much you have
paid out in rent, and if you have
been renting long you will soon
figure out that you have paid out
enough for rent to build as good
or a better house than you are rent
ing, and still you have no home OF
your own. Why not put this
money into a
HOUSE OF YOUR OWN,
in which you will feel a natural
pride, and have a permanent and
pleasant home for yourself and
family in your declining years. A
little energy on your part will do
it. Start at once by
BUYING A LOT.
If you are renting a farm figure
a moment what you r paying out
annually for rent and how soon
this rental would buy a farm here.
What you pay out in rent in two
or three years in Iowa or Illinois
would buy equally as good a farm
in South Dakota Stop renting
and come out and buy q farm of
your own and feel the independ-
ence Of
OWNING A HOME.
Don't delay this until next year, as
very much advanced prices for
South Dakota real estate, which is
sure to come, will soon prevent you
from buying, and your opportuni-
ty of a lifetime will be gone.
But many will say, Il have not
sufficient money on hand with
which to buy vel a lot Sup
pose you have not - and there are
many of this Glasgow can pay
small amount down, and we viii
give you all the time You need OF
!, the balance. You can pay a ixet
amount each month, or make pay
ments any other way to suit you
convenience, saving a little for tin
purpose from your other expendi
lures, and before you know it you
/ lot is
! PAID FOR
and YOU have not missed the mon
ey, the amount of each paymen
being SO small. Had you not save
( and expended these small amount
in this way, the chances are tina
this same money would have bee
extended i'm some trivial way an
you would have nothing to sho'
for it. Surely there is no
SAVINGS BANK
equal to a piece of real estate, an
: especially if that real estate
r sometime to be your Home.
'e It will surprise you when yo
look over our list, to see how
# LITTLE READY MONEY
d it will take to secure a fine res
dence or business lot In this cit
re or a beautiful farm in this count
st We own and control nearly all ii
8, real estate which we handle, hem
be can give exceptionally low pric
of and easy terms of payment.
n. you only have a few dollars
r. spare now, come in or write US, al
,h we will fit you out with a good L
D or more than one il you want, al
nd arrange payments satisfactorily
bv you. If you have only a few hu
dred dollars to spare, and want
farm, come and e us, or wri
W. and we feel positive we can arran
he, a deal to your satisfaction.
Madison, with her college, exc
lent public schools, churches, Cha
;tv tauqua assembly, and other lit
ary and social advantages, has
ou wide reputation for being a
nc CITY OF HOMES;
" and Lake county with her exc
lopt lands a county in which
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Every dollar deposited in a city
lot or a farm will be there for you
when needed for your own use, anc
will earn many more dollars by
INCREASE IN VALUE.
The foundation of many a
fortune has been lain by
the purchase of a city lot. Ii you
have a family, then by all means
you want a home. If you wish to
live in the city, buy a lot, or more
than one if you feel able, and com.
mence at once to improve it BY
planting trees on it it nothing
more, and building on it as soor
as practicable. You can make
loan for the purpose of building ]
you own your lot. If you are
farmer and expect to retire sooi
and rent your farm, or come to tn
lefty for the purpose OF educating
you. children, then you certainl.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-06
NEW YoRK's POST OFFICE.
Thirty Million Foreign letters Game Ett,
 Cur Country Last Tear.

Thirty Million Foreign letters Game Ett.
 Cur Country Last Tear.
 The most interesting details wI.i can be told of the New York post cl relate to the amount of busircss tr acted in each division, for only in t- manner can true idea Of the n4p IT tance of this office be obtained, sa Harper's Young People. have aIrea@. given the grand totals. but these q made up of many interesting itc-1 For instance, the international mon orders received and certified to Eur in 1891 numbered nearly a million, and aggregated nearly sixteen and a half millions of dollars. The European coun- try with which the New York post office had the largest transactions through it's money order department was Great Britain, the items amounting to nearly half million. The Bahamas were at the foot of the list with only ffty-eight items. The total number of items in the registry department was S,273, ,G59. Nearly three hundred million items Of mail matter were handled by carriers; and the sale of postage stamps, stamped envelopes, etc., amounted to sG,3O8,- O12.96.
 Nearly 3O.OOO,OOO letters were for warded to and nearly 24,O00, eco received from foreign countries-the New York post office easily handling over three fourths of our foreign mail. We should lose faith in the intelligence of the human race on learning that in this one office coz. .398 nisdirected and insufIi- ciently addressed letters were received, did we not learn at the same time that 505, ,074 of these letters were corrected and forwarded by other members of the human race. The items of ma 1 matter handled averaged for each day 930, TOT, and the number Of pouches, 10,12G; the aggregate for the year being 428,- 97S, $50 letters, and 3,770, ,450 pouches.
 The postmaster receives a salary of S6,0O0 @ year-a very small sum when the business of the office is considered. But then he doesn't have to receive. face, postmarl,, sort and distribute every letter himself. Tn fact, he doesn't even drive mail wagon. For he spent S1, ,252, ,934.92 in 1891 for clerk hire. and an express company does the carting 17T2der contract
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-06
eoLp M!NEs iN THE souTH.
They Were Worked Quite Regularly Be-
 fore the Var.

They Were Worked Quite Regularly Be-
 fore the War.
 Few persons have any idea of the quantity of gold that exists in the western part of Georgia, South Caro- lima and North Carolina. The majori- ity of these mines were known forty or fifty years ago, but have been aban- doned. In almost every instance very significant amount of ore taken from them has been used. A short time ago Mr. C. B. Warrand, of this city, visited one Of the most interesting and valua- ble of these gold-bearing qua 'tz dis tricts at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains on the banks of the Broad river, in York county, s. C., near Smiths ford, and he gives an interest ing account of his visit, says the Savan- nah News.
 Forty-fve years ago and up to the war, he says, the mines there were worked regularly with slave labor. A shaft was sunk on the veins, which vary from three to five feet in thick ness and which are almost perpendieu- lar. The quartz ere was roasted on the spot to make 1t more friable and was then cartcd often for miles to Some water power, where 1t was run through primitive stamp-mill. With slave labor these mines paid well, though less than one-half of the gold was recovered, probably twenty-five per cent. of the free gold being lost; the pyrites or gold sulphurets were en- tirely thrown away, being considered worthless. Still, with cheap labor it paid, and thousands of dollars of gold were sent to the United States hints annually. Since the war number of spasInodic efforts have been made to work the mines, which invariably end ed in a failure. As rule the capital employed was entirely too small and labOr-saving devices were either be- yond the means of the operators or were unknown at the time. Lately this state of affairs has changed and the brilliant success made at the Hale Eine in Kershaw county, s. C., in working up daily hundreds of tons of ore containing only two dollars and fifty cents of gold at a cost of forty cents per ton, and recovering ninety five per cent. of the gold by the coro- nation process, seems to have demon strated that with proper skill and mod ern mechanical appliances and suffi- cient capital many low-grade ores can be profitably mined. Such a substan- tial proof as surplus of fifty thousand dollars accumulated in one year by the Hale mine is certainly 8 very convinc- ing argument.
 The time is near at hand, MT. War rand believes, when the value of our southern gold mines will be recognized, giving employment to thsusands and adding daily to southern wealth. Gold mining in the south never will be in the nature of a bonanza, but if it is carried on like any other business, with only moderate expectations in proportion to the capital invested, and with the hGlp of all improved methods and machinery, it will be found safer and more remunerative than the major ity of ventures.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-06
NAPOLEON,S DREAM.
How the Emperor Proposed to Invad
 England.

How the Emperor Proposed to Invade
 England.
 Napoleon frequently spoke of the in- vasion of England; that he never in- tended to attempt it without su- periority of fleet to protect the hotilla This superiority would have been at tained for a few days by leading ours out to the West Indies and suddenly re- turning. If the French fleet arrived in the channel three or four days before ours it would be sufficient. The fotilla would immediately push out, accom- panied by the fleet, and the landing might take place on any part of the coast, as he would march direct to Lon don. He preferred, says the Century, the coast of Kent, but that must have depended on wind and weather He would have placed himself at the dis posal of naval officers and pilots to land the troops wherever they thought they could do so with the greatest se- curity and in the least time He had one million men. and each of the flotilla had boats to land them. Artillery and cavalry would soon have followed. and the whole could have reached London in three days. He armed the fotilla merely to lead us to suppose that he in tended it to fight its way across the channel 1t was only to deceive us.
 It was observed that we expected to be treated with great severity in case of his succeeding, and he was asked what he would have done had he arrived in London. He said it was a difficult question to answer, for people with spirit and energy like the English were not to be subdued even by taking the capital. He would certainly have sep arated Ireland from Great Britain, and the occupying Of the capital would have been a death blow to our funds. credit and commerce. He asked me to sSy frankly whether we were not alarmed at his preparations for invad ing England.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-06
THE UBIQUITOUS SMITHS.
How the Name Spread in ProfusiOn Over
 the Entire Country.

How the Name Spread il ProfusiOn Over
 the Entire Country.
 There is hardly state in the union that has not post office with the name of Smith in it somewhere, says the Bos- ton Advertiser; and there are fifteen hundred poStmastcrs and post office employees named Smith. Illinois kas, for instance, Q Smithfeld, Smithdalc, q Snithboro, Snithshire, a Smithson and a Smithville. Then there are Smiths creeks, Smiths lords, Smiths ferrys, Smiths mills, Smiths groves, Smiths valleys, Smiths cross roads, Smiths lakes, Smiths landings. Smiths corners, Smith rivers, Smiths flats, Smiths ranches. Smithburgs, Smiths basins, Smithtowns, Smiths branches, Smiths roads, Smiths forks, Smiths points, and down in South Carolina, Smiths Turnout-all post offices, too, from Maine to California, and the Lord only knows how many Smith places there are that are not post oflic9s.
 In Michigan there is a Smith in St. Clair county and one in Saginaw; a Smith Corners in Sanilac and Oceana counties; then there are Smiths creek, two Smiths crossings, Smiths siding and Smithville, four of them post offices. Two Smiths in Michigan are postmasters, and among business men there are about one hundred in Detroit in business, twenty-five in Grand Rap ids, twenty-two in the two Saginaws, to only seven in the two Bay Citys. Lansing has four, Kalamazoo eight, Ypsilanti six, Adrian seven, and on down to Adair, small town of sixty or sew enty-five people, where there is one.
 These are the figures of two years ago, and of course they have increased, because the Smiths are prolific and pro- gressive. We are entirely safe in say ing there are upward of fifteen thou sand Smiths in the state of Michigan alone. Tn other states they are prCpor- tionately numerous. In the national capital, city of two hundred and fifty thousand people, there are over twelve hundred Smiths. a smith ratio of one to two hundred and fifty, not counting the children, and the children are features of the Smith family.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-06
Too NIuch for fhe Parsnn.

A Scotch clergyman, much addicted to snuff, resolved to abandon the habit and preached a sermon against it. Some little time afterward, during the course of a sermon on another subject, one of the elders sitting immediately under the pulpit and within reach of the preacher, took a comfortable piach, which so sOrely tried the minister's self denial that he stretched out his hand and, seizing the box. thus ad- dressed the astonished elder: After the sermon that l so lately preached against the vice of snufing, how can you venture, sir, to do this (tapp:ng the hd), and this (opening the box), and this (tal1ing a copious pinch), " and then handed the box back to it's owner.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-06
LOSING HER ATHLETIC LEAD.
England Finds Her Gallic Neighbors For
 midable Competitors.

England Finds Her Gallic Neighbors For
 midable Competitors.
 Now that the French people are culti- vating athletics of all kinds the per formances of the French amateurs and professionals are attracting con- siderable attention in England The victory of the French oarsmen on the Seine was great blow to our boating men, says an English contemporary, and NJ. Te1Tont's feat of riding some thing like three hundred and ninety two miles on bicycle in twenty-four hours is causing considerable appre- hension in cycle circles over here. Only a couple of years ago, when Mills won the Bordeaux-Paris race, it was considered inevitable that the winner would be an Englishman and, as matter of fact, the first Frenchman to arrive was hours later than the last Englishman. Things, however, are very different at the present moment. Terront's ride of three hundred and ninety-two miles in twenty-four hours has been beaten here by only one rider, Shorthand, who did four hundred and thirteen miles in the same time. A writer in Bicycling News, however, comforts it's readers by pointing out that the difference between the two men was probably greater than it ap- pears. At the Herne hill track, where Shorland rode, the measurement is from the inside edge, whereas at the Palais des Machines in Paris the meas urement is from distance of rather more than a yard toward the center. This would make a difference of, say, yard lap, so that Shorland's per formance is really better than Ter ront's by about twenty-twO and half miles,
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-06
Bass Cheeks.

Bass checks is the very latest gas- tronomical novelty. They do not figure on cafe menus yet and are found only at the most gorgeous and extrava- gant private dinners. The dish comes very high because it takes about ton of bass to furnish a small dish of cheeks. The cheek of a bass is tiny nugget of the tenderest and most deli cately favored meat, found in the lower part of the head on either side This is lifted out and the remainder of the bass is tossed away. One Philadelphia hotel man has achieved a reputation in that city and New York by his prepara- tion of bass cheeks, and every time he receives big order, he creates a corner in the bass market.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-06
STUDENTS IN GERMANY.
The Scholar There Holds Higher Place
 Than He Docs ia America.

Than He Docs ia America.
 ''In Germans life at German uni versity," says writer in the Boston Commonwealth, q incline to think university work is a more important factor than in the life of student here with us; that is to say, if he does any work at all He gives it more prominent position in his social life than is the custom with us; he chooses his friends often from among his CO., workers in Q way that is rare with us; he discourses on his studies in leisure moments as few Americans would do at home; 8 good deal of his social life may be based upon his interest in this or that branch of science. This seems strange to us; but it is to great eX- tent to German in a German universi- ty, and it is apt to be dOubly so to an American. For the American cannot diversion that attract the attention of the German, and often he would not desire to do so if he could, through lack of interest or lack of time. He has come to Germany for a limited time and he wishes to make the most of it. But it is not merely that it is practically convenient for an American to keep his work constantly before his eyes.
 There is another cause which goes to account in measure for the schol arly atmosphere. 1 think it will be al lowed by all who have studied in Ger many or lived there for time that university work holds there a far more important place, in more ways than one, than it does with us. With a student in America, in his undergrad uate days at least, college work is pretty well jostled and even put to the wall by athletics, society or hundred other things. So it is in Germany with a certain class of students. But with the majority the university takes the place of the professional school with us, and here, even with us, work is generally given the first place. With the German student university work need not fear athletics as rival, nor indeed much of anything except the corps or other student society, and with these corporations it is perfectly understood that each is to take it's turn. For two or three years the corps has full swing; then the university.
 Ut is hardly worth while to go fur ther in the matter to point out the com parative positions which scholarship holds in German civilization and in American. I am, on the whole, of opinion that in Germany the scholar is regarded with greater respect in every way than with us, and it seems to me very natural that this should be so for very many reasons. Recognizing it as fact, one can very easily see how shop should be far more constant factor in social intercourse in Ger many than here at home, and especial ly with an American. He himself re- gards his own work - and, by cour- tesy, that of his fellows-as most in- portant thing. In the society to which he finds admittance he sees that it is also most important, or at least highly honorable. A man is thus put into an attitude with respect to his work that is of great value to him.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-07-06
Oneer Iotterr Prizes.

A letter from Cairo says that Egypt has decided to make a gift of the mum mics found in upper Egypt, and now in the Ghiseh museum, to the different museums in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg and Rome. The mumInies are to be divided into six lots and drawn for by lots. This is the first time that E1umInies have been used as prizes in a lottery. and 1t is difficult to see how puritanic England can recon cilc itself to such Q gambling deal as this. although, 10 doubt. sooner than lose the gcab, she vii find some means to 'ch1se the devil around the stump" ," The other countries, Of course, will have TO hes:ta Sion in accepting Eg!pt's nla,r,1A;cert rift