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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-03-25
Found the Bodies
SAILED FOR HONOLULU.
Ex-COngressman BlOunt Takes Pas
sage on the Revenue Cutter Rush.

Ex-COngressman BlOunt Takes Pas
sage on the Revenue Cutter Rush.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 2l.-EX-C
gresham James H. Blount, commits
sioner to Hawaii. accompanied by Mrs.
Blount and Ellis Mills, stenographer of
the state department as secretary, ar
rived from Washington during the
morning and shortly after noon started
for Honolulu on the United States reve-
nue. cutter Rush. Commissioner Blount
was seen for few minutes before
boarding the Rush and upon being re-
quested to say something about his mis-
sion, replied:
My mission, 50 far as instructions connected
with it are concerned, Is secret one. In re-
gard to those instructions am absolutely un-
able at present TO prepare any information for
the public. ! would like to do so but cannot
When asked if he had any idea as to
how long he would be away, he said:
imagine that may be absent about three
months. The Rush will probably. according
to what hear, remain at the islands as long
as am there and sha'l very likely remain In
Honolulu.
Captain c. Hooper, who commands
the Rush. expects to make the trip in
| about eight days.
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A COMBINE EXISTS.
DAMAGING EVIDENCE SECURED
BY THE COMMITTEE.

Seized Books Show That the People
Are at the Mercy of a Combine.
Pennsylvania Dealers Threaten to
Shut on the Supply of Hard Coal.
ST. PAUL. March 1S.-Matters are
coming to focus with great speed in
the fight of the Minnesota legislature
against the coal combine. Nearly fifty
letters from the letter book of John J.
Rhodes, manager of the Minnesota
bureau of coal statistics were given out
by the joint committee during the aft
ernoon showing that the coal combine
required every wholesale coal dealer in
Minnesota to pay $1,000 to John J.
Rhodes; that every retail dealer had to
pay him 500; that all had to swear to
maintain the prices fixed by the COM
bine. and that all persons attempting to
sell coal without joining the combine
had their supply cut off and they were
thus
Forced Out of Business.
All the damaging letters given are
signed by John j. Rhodes. One of these
dated Sept. l., 1892, and addressed to
K. H. Wilson. Minneapolis, says that
Wilson is furnishing coal to w. Estee,
retail coal dealer in New Boston Mr..
Estee is not n subscriber to the bureau
and Mr.. Rhodes orders Mr.. Wilson not
to sell him coal.
II. w. Armstrong & Co. of Mime
apolis. under date of Oct. 81, 1892. are
instructed not to continue furnishing
coal to T. E. Smith of New Boston, for
the reason that Smith is not sub.
scriber to the bureau. Rhodes closes
this letter by saying that if Smith
wishes to remain in the coal business
he must come into the combine. Thus
the letters run all through.
DOnnelly Springs a Sensation.
One of the sensations of the day was
the announcement by Senator Donnelly
of the receipt of threatening letter
from Pennsylvania. Regarding tn,
matter he said:
Yes. received Il letter from a coal baron
in Pennsy lvania notifying me that the Goa
dealers in that state have heard Of til,
Legislative investigation now under way
and give us timely warning hat unles.
we stop it this entire state viii
be shut out from the hard Goa
market of the season of 1854. have no
yet answered the letter, but when ! do
think | shall be able to satisfy the gentle
man that we in Minnesota are not nc
customed to being scared by threats lik
that.
The books of the combine, with TIN
exception of the letter book. have beei
returned to John J. Rhodes. The lette
book will be turned over to the CRANE
jury by the legislature with a reques
that it bring in indictments for Grim
inal conspiracy under chapter 10 of th
General Laws of 1891, the penalty fo
which is fine of from 500 to s., 900
In the meantime. John j. Rhodes ha
brought snit for $1,000 damages agains
the officers of the senate and house TO
keeping his books.
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REPUBLICAN CHAIRMANSHIPS
The Places On the Committee Filled
by the Caucus.

The Places On the Committee Filled
by the Caucus.
WASHINGTON, March 15.-The Repub-
lican caucus to fill minority places on
the senate committees did not finish its
labors at the morning session. After
the noon recess there was debate of
some length on the subject OF the re-
moval of Mr.. Stewart of Nevada from
the appropriations committee. as he
had been the recipient of chairman
ship at the hands of the majority. He
was removed and Mr.. Teller of Colorado
was substituted. So far as finally
agreed upon the II minority chairman
ships will be filled as follows:
Mr.. Sherman of Ohio was awarded the
conference committee; engrossed bills, Mr..
Allison of Iowa; epidemic diseases, Mr.. Jones
of Nevada; phosphate land claims, Mr.. Hale of
Maine; committee TO investigate condition of
the Potomac river front of Washington, Mr..
Frye of Maine; woman suffrage, Mr.. Hoar of
Massachusetts; additional accommodations
for the library of congress, Mr.. Morrill, OF Ner-
mont; five civilized tribes of Indians. Mr..
Teller of Colorado; transportation and sale OF
meat products, Mr.. Platt of Connecticut; cor
pOrations in the district of Columbia, Mr..
Aldrich of Rhode Island revolutionary claims,
Mr.. Cameron of Pennsylvania; claims of citi-
zens of the United States against the govern
ment of Nicaragua, Mr.. Hawley, Connecticut
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NJ. JULES FERRY. ne was ava. hou
by Aubertin in 1878. He was seized
with spasms early in the morning and
despite every effort made by the ply
sicians who were hastily summoned
the commissions grew in violence until
o'clock in the evening he expired in
terribly severe spasm.
The news Of NJ. Ferry's death as
founded the city. None since Gam
betta's death has made such an impress
sion. A few evenings ago he was at
the OPERA and Thursday he presided
over the senate. Hundreds of politi-
clans called at the house during the
evening and inscribed their names in
the visitors book. Last week M. Ferry
resigned the presidency of The Esta-
fette newspaper, and the presidency OF
the National Republican association,
that he might devote himself entirely
| to his duties in the senate.
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SOMEOF THE PLUMS
BIG BATCH OF NOMINATIONS
SENT TO THE SENATE

Theodore Runyon Goes to Germany
and ex-senator Eustis to France.
Judge Jenkins of Wisconsin Given
q Circuit Judgeship-Nomin
Confirmed.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-The presi-
dent has sent the following nomina-
tions to the senate:
James b. Eustis of Louisiana, to be envoy
extraordinary and minister plenlpotentiary or
the United States to France.
Theodore Runyon, of New Jersey, TO be en-
vOy extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary of the United States to Germany.
John f. Risey, of New York. to be envoy
extraordinary and minister plcnipotentiary of
the United States to Denmark.
Justice G. J. Jenkins, of Wisconsin, to be
United States circuit judge for the Seventh
judicial circuit.
Walter D. Abney. of Virginia, to be solicitor
for the department of the state.
Charles B. Stuart, of Texas, to be judge OF
the United States court for Indian territory.
To Be Marshals of the United States-David
7. Guyton of, Mississippi, for the Northern
district of Mississippi.
William H. Hawkins, of Indiana, for the
district of Indiana.
Abner Galnes OF Arkansas, Ior tne Eastern
district of Arkansas.
James w. McAlister, Of Indian Territory
for the United States court for Indian Terri
| tory.
To Be Attorneys of the United States Clif
| ford l.. Jackson, of the Indian Territory, To bt
| attorney of the United States court for tht
| Indian Territory.
| Joseph w. House, of Arkansas, for the East
| e1n district of Arkansas.
Treasury Ernest p. Baldwin, of Maryland
| tn be first auditor of the treasury.
| Thomas w. Holcomb, of Delaware, to bt
| fifth auditor of the treasury.
| Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, to bt
| commissioner of railroads.
Postmasters Wisconsin, Frank Warning
| Florence; Paul J. Millard, Amigo; De Witt 5
| ] ,hnsOn, Rhinelandrr.
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CAUSED A CALAMITY.
Four Persons Killed and Two Injured
by the Ignorance Of a Workman.

LocKERlDGE, Ia, March 2l.-A ter
rible accident occurred at sawmill on
the Skunk river. three miles north of
here, on Sunday afternoon. whereby
four men lost their lives and several
We're injured seriously. The engineer
had allowed one of the boilers of the
engine to run ont of water. A work
man noticed the danger and thinking
to avoid calamity sealed his own
doom and that of his feliow-workmen
by injecting cold water into the boiler,
causing it to explode with fearful re-
port. tearing the building to pieces and
blowing him to atoms. The dead are:
JoHN ADAMS. saw tender.
GATES. engineer.
BAIDOSsE, assistant engineer.
EsHfIMAN, boy.
Among the injured are:
Michael O'fiern, owner of the mill, fatally.
Theodore Lillybade fatally.
The remains of the dead men We're all
horribly mangled and in some cases only
recognizable by their clothing.
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SATURDAY., March fS.

President Cleveland was IS years of
age Saturday.
There will be cowboy race from
Chadron. Neb., TO the worlds fair
grounds in Chicago in May
DR.. Virchow. son of the German scien-
tist, has arrived in New York and states
that America has little cause to fear
cholera from Germany,
The liabilities Of the Beaupre Mercan-
tile company, which failed at st. Paul
last week, foot up to $5l7,sSS Cred
itors will not get more than % cents on
the dollar.
Bishop Brown, of the African Metho-
dist Episcopal church, died at Washing.
ton Thursday, aged IS. Bishop Brown
was eminent in the church and was
greatly respected and esteemed.
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LABORS COMPLETED.
Democrats Announce Their Selection
OF Senate Committees.

Democrats Announce Their Selection
OF Senate Committees.
WASHINGTON. March l5.-The Demo-
cratic caucus has finished its labors so
far as the reorganization of the commit
tees of the senate is concerned. The
Democratic and Alliance chairmen are
as follows:
Agriculture, George: Appropriations, Cock
rell; Contingent Expenses, White Q.a); Cen
sus, Turpie; Civil Service, Call; Claims, Pasco;
Coast Defense, Gordon; Commerce, Ransom;
District of Columbia, Harris; Education ana
Labor Kyle; Enrolled Bills, Catfery; TO Exam
inc the Civil Service. PETER; Finance, Voor-
hees; Fisheries, Coke; Foreign Relations, Nor
gan; immigration, Hill; Improvement of
Mississippi, Bate; Indian Affairs, Jones (Ark.);
Interstate Commerce, Butler Irrigation,
White (Cal.); judiciary, Pugh; Library, Mills;
Manufactures, Gibson; Military Affairs, Wal
thall; Mines, Stewart; Naval Affairs, McPher-
son; Patents, Gray: Pensions, Palmer; Post
offices, Co quit; Printing, Gorman; Privileges
and Elec lions, Vance: Public Lands, Berry;
Railroads, Camden; Relations with Canada,
Murphy; Revision of Laws, Daniel; Rules,
Blackburn; Territories, Faulkner; Transpor-
tatiOn Routes to the SeabOard, Irby; Pacific
Railroad, Brice; Indian Depredations, Lindsay;
University of the United States, HuntOn;
Quadro-C Centennial, Villas; Geological Surveys,
Martin; National Banks, Mitchell: Forest Res
ervatiOns, Allen (Neb.); TO Investigate Tres
passers on Indian Lands Roach.
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A FALLING WALL.
Three Buildings at Toledo Wrecked.
Several Persons Missing.


TOLEDO, March 2l.--Duriny heavy
gale of wind the west wall OF the burned
Wheeler Opera House, which was left
standing after last Friday mornings
fire, was blown down. completely wreck
ing the building recently occupied by
Peter Sateler, harnessmaller, and l.. ID.
Parker, groceries, and tearing the east
side out OF 3-story building owned by
w. A. Gilhouse, -four and feed ,ner-
chant. Parker sold out his business
during the morning to George II. Davis
and it is thought that Davis and two
others have been buried in the ruins.
An explosion otgas or oil followed the
falling of the wall and in few min
ntes flames shot mp from the ruins. An
alarm of fire brought two companies to
the scene and in short time the blaze
was under control. The ruins are in
such shape that it will be impossible tc
make any examination Of them before
morning. The loss on the three build
ings will be about $l2O,00O
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THRlN HAS CONFESSED
The Insurance Swindler Gives HIS
Version of the Noted Case.

The Insurance Swindler Gives His
Version of the Noted Case.
CHICAGO. March 20-W. J. Thrun
has made a written confession of the
details of the now celebrated insurance
swindle of Romeo, Wis. 1t is in pos
session of the detectives in charge of
the case and duplicates the general
assistant special claim agent of the
Wisconsin Central as chief conspirator.
Hansen was arrested by William Beck,
special agent of the New York Mutual
Life Insurance company, at the Wis
consin Central Office in this city. He
was Immediately turned over to the
sheriff of Romeo, who left for his home
last night. Thrun declares that Hansen
planned the swindle and
Furnished the Money
for carrying it out. Hansen had been
suspected by the detectives who have
been working on the case before Thrun's
confession was secured. The detectives
in the case think that Hansen has been
in communication with Mrs. Thrun
ever since her husbands disappearance
and if what Thrun says in his confes-
sion be true, has directed her move
ments in getting insurance. His con-
nection with the Wisconsin Central
gave him plenty of opportunity of Wis
iting Romeo without attracting atten.
ton, and he therefore does not have to
use the mails. The detectives say that
Hansen acted uneasy when Thrun was
arrested ana did away with all the pa
pers he may have had bearing on the
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THE LAWMAKERS WIN.

The Minnesota Coal Combine Given
Black Eye by Judge Egan.
ST. PAUL. March 2O.--The Minnesota
bureau of coal statistics, known to the
general puolic as the hard coal combine,
received Il back eye at every turn yes
terday. There was wild scene in the
district court at II a. m. Representa-
tive Richard A. Walsh, in possession of
the letter books of John j. Rhodes, gen
eral manager of the combine, had just
been placed on the stand when Assist
ant Sergeant-a.-Arms Wells of the
house of representatives appeared and
demanded the body of Mr.. Walsh. Sew
eral deputy sherffs and other officers of
the court moved forward and
A Conflict Seemed Certain,
when Judge Egan dismissed Mr.. Walsh
and told him he could go to the capitol
if he desired Sergeant Wells had just
come from the capitol with an order
from the house for Walsh The house
had been in a frenzy Tor an hour, and
had just begun preparing impeachment
proceedings when Nj. Walsh appeared
on the scene. In the senate sensational
speeches were being made. Senator
Sanborn introduced resolution refer
ring the controversy over the letter
books to the six judges Of Ramsey
county sitting Ell banc. This excited
the ire of Senator Donnelly who said:
The legislature is supreme. II does not hav.
to look to the little circuit court Of Ramse,
county for decision We sent for papers
| seized them. as the resolution instructs, and
| cannot understand why these quibbles should
| he raised in defense of an iniquitous gang
| of thieves and marauder-. The state II
| aroused and we must act II would take very
| little to arouse the people Of Minnesota and
cause the members of this iniquitous combine
! TO dangle from lamp posts.
The Sanborn resolution was defeated
Judge Egan's Decision.
At the afternoon session Of the dis
trict court Judge Egan made the legis
lature's victory complete by deciding
members or officers of the Legislature
and could not compel them to give NJ
the books of the combine in their pos
session.
The latest sensational turn of the cas-
was taken in the evening, when Johl
j. Rhodes, general manager Of the Goa
bureau, brought suit in the district cour
for $50, 900 damages against the join
legislative committee and its officers
alleging that they have kept him from
his property and ruined his business.
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APPOINTED SENATOR'S.

They Will Probably BE Seated Not
withst standing a Constitutional Strain.
WASHINGTON, March 21.-The ap-
pointed senators who have been waiting
for admission will probably, after the
usual long -winded speeches in the SEN
ate, be admitted and sworn in. This
has been practically agreed upon by a
large number of senators. although they
believe the constitutional limits will be
crowded by their admission. The fact
that Senator Allen of Washington has
been member of the club gives him a
pull in the matter. and his return is an
earnest plea for admission of the gov
ernor's appointees.
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Thursday, March 16.

The street cars in Minneapolis last
year carried an aggregats of 25,00O.000
passengers.
Citizens of Fan-Tu, China, attacked
band of pirates numbering so and put
them all to death.
Three fremen were buried under
falling walls at Minneapolis Wednesday
evening One is seriously injured.
Numerous Austrian, Swiss and Ger
man Catholics have petitioned the pope
that he call an international conference
to take steps to abolish gambling at
Monte Carlo.
A special general assembly of the
Presbyterian church in Ireland, con-
vened in Belfast, has passed unani-
mously resolutions condemning the
home rule bill.
Baron Du Casse is dead at Paris. He
was born i'll 1888. In 1864 he was made
chief of squadron. In 1855 he became
an officer in the Legion of Honor. His
principal military writings concern the
last campaigns Of Napoleon.
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DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
A Milwaukee Man shoots His Fiance
and Suicides.

A Milwaukee Man Shoots His Fiance
and Suicides.
PASS CHRISTIAN. Miss, March ia
most startling discovery was made here
during the day of the bodies of Miss
Alma Nuncmacher, daughter of Mr..
Herman Nunemacher, prominent
merchant of Milwaukee, and w. B. Mil
Ter, also of Milwaukee, both of whom
had been shot through the head. Miss
Nunemacher had been spending the
winter with her parents here and last
week Mr.. Miller, to whom she was en-
gagged, arrived here. Her parents Op-
posed the match and on Friday last she
left the house and as night came on
and she did not appear, Mr.. Miller also
disappeared. 1t was supposed they had
gone off together. On Sunday the pa
rents left, hoping to find their daughter
in New Orleans. Thursday afternoon
young boy
Found the Bodies
in pine thicket on the north side of
the railroad about 200 yards from the
depot. From the position in which
they were lying the supposition is that
the young man must have first shot his
companion through the left temple and
then shot himself behind the right ear
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Judge Egan's Decision.
Was Utterly InsOlvcnt.

OMAHA, March 2l.-Evidence taken
by the committee of the legislature
which inquired into the condition of the
state funds on deposit in the defunct
Capital National bank has been filed.
1t shows the bank to be utterly in
solvent. Bank Examiner Griffith test
fled that at no time within year could
the Capital National have paid the
money ON deposit.
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Eight Miners Killed,

LONDON. March 2i.-A horrible affair
occurred during the morning in coal
pit near Chesterfield, Derbyshire. While
the cage was descending, loaded with
miners going to their days work. the
cage, owing to some accident to the ap-
paratus, suddenly fell to the bottom Of
the shaft and eight Of the miners were
killed.
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THE WEEKS NEWS.
Wednesday, March 10.

Free gold is increasingin the treasury.
More than $1,000. 900 is now on hand.
President Diaz has decreed the free
importation of maize and beans for an
indefinite period.
Lady Mowatt, wife of Sir Oliver
Mowatt, premier of Ontarior, died at
Toronto, Monday, aged G8.
There is a rumor at Washington that
General Bragg of Wisconsin will sue
ceed G. A. Pierce as minister to
Portugal.
Dates for examinations have been
Cancelled by the civil service commission
because congress failed to provide
money enough to pay the travelling ex-
penses of the examiners.
Mr.. Hepburn, the comptroller of the
currency, has called for a report of the
condition of national banks at the close
of business Monday, March 8, 1898.
Louis Nettlehorst, the well known
German and ex-president of the Chi
cago board Of education, died suddenly
in that city Tuesday of Bright's disease,
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Monday, March 20.

The Sarnia, the long overdue steamer,
has arrived at Halifax.
Fire at Milwaukee Saturday caused
loss of nearly $300,0Oo.
fremont Temple, Boston, was burned
for the third time Sunday.
Captain Jacob Vanderbilt, brother of
the late Commodore Vanderbilt. died at
New Brighton Sunday.
Two dynamite bombs were discovered
on the vessel Cyrus Wakefield. while
she was being loaded at New York.
Princess Kauilani declares herself
well satisfied with the turn Hawaiian
affairs have taken. She will sail for
England Wednesday.
Montana's silver statue of Justice for
the worlds fair was successfully cast at
Chicago Saturday. Sixteen hundred
pounds of silver We're used.
Krupp's 124-ton cannon for the worlds
fair has arrived at Baltimore. The
calibre of the gun is 10 1-2 inches. The
projectiles fired from it weigh 1900
pounds, and are four feet long. About
700 pounds of powder are used at a sim
gle shot, and the projectile is hurled
with such terrific force that it will go
through plate of steel 90 inches thick
at distance of nine miles.
Tuesday. March ri.
Applicants for West Point will be ex-
amined in st. Paul next week.
A deserted infant was found on the
doorstep of E. N. Winslow's residence
at st. Paul.
Samuel Sutton and Louise Sochley,
both murderers, died natural deaths in
Jail at Trenton, N. j.
All the workingmes ip Belgium
threaten 70 strike if parliament does not
vote universal suffrage.
The Republican members of the
United States senate resolve to fight the
Democratic organization of that body
| at the extra session.
This Phoenix Athletic club of st. Paul
has asked moral support of the chamber
of commerce in making bid for the
Corbett- Mitchell fight.
| Dean Millard has suspended the senior
class of the medical department of the
Minnesota State university as the cul
mination of trouble which has existed
| for some time. =
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PERISHED IN THE FIRE.
Three Lives Lost by the Burning of a
Factory at KenOsha, Wis.

KENosHA, Wis. March 2l.-Chris
Arentzen, maker of fireworks. his
father and a boy who lived with Aren't
zen, We're killed during the afternoon
by an explosion of fireworks. and the
building in which Arentzen lived and
in which he had his workshop We're
burned. Neigbors saw flames coming
out of the Arentzen house and an alarm
was turned in. Those nearby rushed
over to save what they could. When
the firemen had subdued the flames
they began to search the interior of the
house, where they stumbled over the
bodies of the two men and boy. From
their position it was hard to say
whether they had been burned to death
by an explosion of the material with
which they were working or had been
suffocated by the smoke.
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Friday, March II.

Charley Mitchell, the pugilist, viii
sail for England Wednesday.
Mr.. McCarthy's resolution calling for
IA reform of the tariff was defeated in
the Ottawa house by vote of "a yeas
to ll6 nays.
1t is reported that William J. Scan
Ian. the well known Irish comedian who
is now an inmate of the Bloomingdale
insane asylum, suffering. from paresis.
will not live more than q week.
A cablegram has been received at The
Police Gazette Office from London say
ing that Bill Goode of Battersea, has
Greggains for 800 pounds a side and the
largest purse offered in America.