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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
The Governors Coup"

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, March -.
In an unofficial way information
from the governors Office, says
that his exceIlency is meditating a sort
of a "coup" upon the throng OF Office
seekers who have been haunting the
capitol throughout the winter. 1t is
said he is now preparing a list Of ap-
pointments of labor commissioner,
state insurance commissioner, three
members of the board of managers of
the reform school for boys at Boon
vile, one member of the board of
managers of the reform school for girls
at Chillicothe, two police commission
ers and excise commissioners for st.
Louis, and that he will send the list to
the senate during the closing hours of
the session.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
The Ann Aarbor Trial.

TOLEDO, OHIO, March, ,23.-This
morning the lake shore engineers were
on the stand US witnesses for the de.
Tense in the Ann ArbOr trial. 1t was
the intention OF their attorneys to
show that when they refusedto handle
Ann Arbor cars they were not Lake
Shore employees, having previously
resigned.
The engineers all testified to the
same thing that they knew nothing of
the courts orders and were not aware
that there were any Ann Arbor can
in the train they were asked to haul.
On several occasions during the
morning the cour:: broke into applause
when the witnesses stated that they
would not become scabs. Judge
Kicks a number of times threatened
to eject any one making such demons
trations.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
SET OF FURs WORTH $4,000.
Value Of Sable. slvsr-Fex, Tiger and Sea-
Otter Skins.

Value Of Sable. Silvsr-Fox, Tlgsr and Sea-
Otter Skins.
A skin of the sea-otter has been sold
for as much as SITS. Sable skins. little
bigger than q mans hand. have been
sold for 500 each. which isproportion-
stely more expensive than the skin of
the sea-otter. A mantle of this valua-
bic sable fur was gift to the present
empress of Russia on her ce-onation,
by the town of vitoutsk. in that couu-
try. 1t weighed sixteen ounces and is
valued at s.iO, 600.
The skin of an elephant. when
tanned is very expensive. the tanning
taking abouts ix months. Articles
made from elephant hides are costly
luxuricS.
The skin of a silver fox, otherwise
called black fox varies ia price from
$50 to $500. The whole number OBJ
tanned annually amounts to only 1000.
Of which about 1000 are imported into
England. La Hontan states that in
his time skin of the silver fox was
worth its weight in gold. and an I'M
usually fine skin has been sold in the
London market for $50.
OF the species of the marten which
Is distinguished as the Russian sable
the darkest skins command $50 each.
Inferior skins of the same animal fetch
- little as from 81 TO 81.
A skin Of the tiger of North China,
which has hair from two to three
inches long. and frequently measures
from ten to fourteen feet in length. is
valued ut from $50 to 500.
Among expensive furs Ma Mackay
owns set Of black fox which cost
tl4,e0a
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
BURGARD'S BRIBERY. 2
He Tells the Story in Detail oil
How Martins Election was
to Be Controlled.

WASHINGTON, March 22.-Supple
menting Kansas dispatches about the
alleged attempts at bribery in the
election of United States senator in
that state, Mr.. Burgard a member Of
the lower house of the Kansas legis
lature from WyandOtte county, who
is in this city, has given TO Senate,
Martin circumstantial account OF
the efforts made to control his election
by corrupt means
He says proposition was made to
him to stay away from the populist
crowd and to get two others to do 50
for 81, 800 and that he was given to
understand the money would come
from Mr.. Watson who had come
down from Lawrence and who was
said to have brought a barrel of mon
ey. Everybody was trying to get his
shovel in Mr.. Watson's pile. Mr..
Burgard continued his story as follows:
ITO tell the Gods truth | made up
my mind to this effect you are try
ing to rob Watson so | will turn in
and rob YOU. That's what thought,
50 told this man that for the 81, 500
l and two more whom ! named would
stay away and not vote at all. l in
formed them that ! wanted 5000
for myself and would divide the 81, 500
between myself and associates. He
did not care what division We made
and asked who should hold the money
Now of course intended to stay in
side and vote for Martin right through
80 did the other two. All that we
aimed at was to get the 81 800 in our
pockets and then let the other crowd
whistle. OF course We would not
have done 10 and We were bound to
stay and vote for Martin. But the
men would not give up. Nc. he said,
the money is in my pocket and if you
and yonr partners will walk over to
the hotel right now before they vote
YOU ON have it. would not go and
there 1t ended. told him he must
give the cash to me but he said some
one must be agreed upon to hold it He
then narrated how he fixed matters
with the stakeholder to bolt when he
got the stakes but says the other side
declined to eptrust him with the
money.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
FOUR WOMEN MEETDEATH
BY a Terrible Fire in an Apart.
ment House at Cleveland,
Ohio.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 23.-
Shortly besore IL o'clock to-day fire
broke out in the Morgan, fashion.
able apartment house on Prospect
street near Granger. The engines re.
sponded quickly, but before help ar.
rived the building was envelOped in
flames and smoke and a terrible panic
ensued.
All that can be learned at this
writing is that four women and a
baby were burned to death and sew
eral others more or less injured by in
haling smoke.
The house was handsome one, of
three stories. A central hall runs
through the building with the rooms
on either side. The only escape was
by way of the front stairs. Those in
the third story had no time to gather
their goods together and before they
were aware of any fire they were sur
rounded with flames and smoke.
The iremen worked heroically.
+ A second alarm was given and
every effort made to rescue those still
in the burning building.
The body of the first woman found
was that OF Mrs. SOmmers, a blind
lady who had CROPPED her way to the
stairs only to die.
The three other women with the
little child, whose names have not yet
been learned were all found lying on
the floor of the second story front hall
dead, suifocated by the smoke. The
fire started, no one knows how, in the
basement, and the building is a total
loss
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28

explosion. During the night another
bomb was found on the stair case in
the Via Dulle Quatro fontane. A
lighted fuse was attached to the bomb
and it was discovered in time to pre-
venttheexplosion thatinall probability
would have resulted seriously to the
building and its occupants. Every
possible effort is being made to detect
the guilty parties and prevent repe-
tition of the outrage.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
a Disabled Shin.

New YORK, March 23.-The Allan
steamer, Pommeranian, which left,
this port March 18th for Glasgow, is
disabled at sea. The news was
brought te this city by the Red Star
line steamer Belgenland, Captsin
Ehoff, from Antwerp. Captain Ehoff
says that he met the Pommeranian at
2:3O a. m. on the 2lst in lat. ALSO,
log. 81. The latter hoisted three red
lights Indicating 81 am not under con-
troll" The "Pommeranian followed
up her original signals with the infor-
nation ''have smashed piston" and
the query, twill you stand by and
tow me-" To the latter the Belgen-
land replied that she could not take
her in tow. 1t was blowing a fierce
northeasterly gale at the time and
there was an ugly toss to the sea.
Captain Ehoff saws that his reason for
not towing the disabled vessel was that
the rulesof the company forbid it. His
statement is ridiculed in shipping cir
cles.
A dispatch from Halifax received
this afternoon announces that the
Pommeranian has arrived there under
sail with all on board well.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
IT MAKES THE DEAF HEAR.
Success Of a Novel instrument
The Mysterious Restoration
From Deafness by an Un-
seen Oevice-OId Thee.
ries Successfully
Applied.

During the past few years there
have been many rumors of the restora-
ton, in some mysterious way, of the
hearing of those who were known to
have been deaf for many years. This
led to an investigation by those inter
ested, and it has been found that this
happy change has been made by the
use of most simple, yet ingenious de-
vice, which was invented by a gentle
man in Bridgeport, Conn, named H.
S. Wales. This device is the same
to the ears as glasses to the eyes, and
is simply a soft rubber disc, arranged
on a rubber spring, and so shaped
that when inserted in the ear it will
focus the waves Of sound on the natu-
raj drum, thus increasing the vibra-
ton of the latter.
The possibilities of a device of this
nature have long been known, but the
many attempts to use this knowledge
have been such utter failures that it
was considered beyond our present
knowledge Of the ear to make .prac-
teal instrument of the kind. Conse-
guently when this device was first IN
vented, not much attention was given
the same, as it was thought to be
merely an old remedy in a new dress !;
but gradually this slight prejudice was
dispelled, until, at the present time,
most physicians and aurists look kindly
upon the instr Iment, and seem pleased
at the success it is meeting.
At a recent interview, Mr.. Wales
made the remarkable statement that,
to his knowledge, the device which he
calls Sound Disc, had never failed
where relief was afterward obtained
by any medical, surgical or mechani-
cal means, excepting powerful ear
trumpet, which he says is more power
full than his device. 1t would seem to
be an ideal device for the deaf, as it is
worn in the ear, out of sight, for
months at a time, and, as far as we
can learn, is pronounced safe and
comfortable for the patient. Many
times it has proven itself to be an ad-
vancement in the science of acoustics
by relieving the most obstinate cases
which had defied medical treatment
for years.
What may be the ultimate result Of
the use Of this device-whether the
results thus far obtained will warrant
its use in such variety of cases that
it will stop the progress of deafness in
the future to such an extent that il
will avoid the use of ear trumpets We
cannot say; but the desirability Of q
device Of this nature, Is regards it,
safety, its benefit, and general com
fort to the user, none will fail to i'd
NIT.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
DYNAMITE.
Bomb Explosions Cause the
Livliest Kind of a Scare in
the Papal City.

ROME, March 21.-A short time
after the explosion last night of a
bomb at the Marignoli palace in the
suburbs of Rome another explosion Oc
Cured in the city, being the second
outrage of the kind within the city
proper in less than week, the first
having occurred on Friday last at the
Ancient Mattel palace, the residence
Of Hon. William Potter, the United
States minister.
Last nights outrage was perpetra-
ted at the residence of the marquis
Sachetti, grand marshall of the papal
court and has caused feeling of great
anxiety
IN VATICAN CIRCLES
In view of the fact that the efforts OF
the dynamiters seem in a measure to
he directed against the attaches of the
pope's court.
On Saturday morning last an at.
tempt was made to blow up with q
bomb the Palazzo Altiri, the head
quarters of the Papal Guardia Nobili,
but was fortunately frustrated by a
bov who discovered the bomb with
burning fuse attached. on the steps Of
the palace.
The bomb which exploded last night
had been within the entrance of the
Marquis Sachetti's residence and the
noise of the explosion
WAS HEARD A GREAT DISTANCE.
Fortunately, the only material dam
age done was the smashing of many
windows in the palace though the
walls in some places bore evidences o.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
After e09O A. D.. Then What:

The earth Is now pcopled by not
less than ]. los. 900. 900 of human be-
ings, and her utmost capacity is
5000, 900, 600. The population is now
increasing at the rate Of about eight
per cent each decade. At this rate
the limit of the number of people
which our globe can comfortably sup
port will be reached in the year 2O90.
or in about 1873 years from the pres
ent time. The calculation is based
on the fact that the habitable land of
the globe amounts to only about
46. 900. 900 square miles. and only .
little over one-half of this, %, DOC, 900
square miles, is capable Of sustain
ing human life were the inhabitants
forced to depend on their immediate
surroundings for food and raiment.
The best statisticians tell US that
20. 600. 900 square miles Of land is
capable Of maintaining 207 persons to
the square mile, the whole being
based ON the fact that the soil In
japan now sustsins 264 to the square
nile and that Of China 2e5. On and
after 500 twenty-acre farms in the
Mississippi and Missouri valleys will
- at . premium.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
No Extra Session.

New YORK, March 22.-According
to a Washington special, Representa-
tive Holman, who called at the White
House to-day, is authority for the
statement that the president does not
now intend to call on extra session of
congress. He will only call one under
Il stress of circumstances and that does
not now exist.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
No Longer the Official Organ.

Topeka, Kansas. March 23.-J.
X. Hudson, whose paper, the Capital
has been official state paper for the
publication of the decisions of supreme
court and of the laws enacted by the
legislature has addressed letter to the
executive council resigning the po-
sition. The cause given was that
Hudson believed that the laws passed
by the legislature should be published
as soon as possible, and that it was
the evident purpose Of the populists
to not publish them IN the Capital.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
TERRIBLE DISASTER.
The Largest FIGURING Mills in
the World Destroyed at
Litchfield, Illinois.
Every Business House in the
Town Wrecked and the
People Panic
Stricken.

LTTCHFIELD, ILL.,. March 22.-An
explosion resemb!in. an earthquake
and destroying nearly million dol.
lars worth OF property occurred here
this morning. The loss of several
lives and the injury of a number Of
people resulted in the catastrophe.
Practically every business structure in
Litchfeld was wrecked and scores of
dwellings rendered inhabitable. Panic
reigned for hours and details of the
terrible affair were obtained with the
utmost difficulty. About 3:15 a. m.
an alarm of fire was turned in and
upon investigation. it developed that
the LitchfeId Planet mills located in
the southwest part Of the city and said
to be one of the largest if not the
largest single fiour-making establish
meut in the world was in flames.
Before the firemen arrived upon the
scene the fire had gained great head
way. The hose and hook and ladder
companies had hardly succeeded in
getting their apparatus in working
order when an
EXPLOSION APPALLING
in its violence was caused by the
flames sudden contact with pent up
mill dust. The explosion shook the
earth over singularly wide area
while the atmospheric conclusion was
felt as far as. Decatur, a distance of
fifty miles.
The firemen battled with the flames
for three long hours finally subduing
them to such an extent that the adj
joining property was saved. The ex-
pIosion broke large plate glass win
dows in a majority of the stores in
the city. shook houses loose from their
foundations and Jared the machinery
in the Litchfeld car and machinery
company to such an extent that work
had to be suspended.
The head mill-wright Mr.. John
Carve of Waterloo in making an eff
fort to secure his tools from the burn
ing building was stunned by the ex-
plosion and endeavoring to escape
was Pinned against the smoke stack
and burned to death.
The large elevator standing inn
mediately west and full of wheat was
burned to the ground.
Ten or twelve cars of wheat stand
ing on the house track were reduced
to ashes.
The Western Union telegraph wires
are down, and a number of serious
but not necessarily.
FATAL ACCIDENTS
are reported. Mrs. V. Hoffman had
leg broken and Mrs. E. Richeloth,
senior. head mashed. The mill was
the property of Kepler Bros. of st.
Louis.
General Manager A. L. Smith
stated that the amount of insurance
carried ON the mill, elevator and con-
tents was about $3.50, 900, while the
loss will run up into almost million
dollars. Excursion trains from all
the neighboring towns are bringing in
hundreds of visitors.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
PcrsonafinS Students.

Turf Muggs-Gee. Here comes Dc
cop, an it's too late to run!
Baryl Howes-Hol' on! I'll fix I'm.
By gosh! Hog wash, Some sloshl
Ham fat! Ding bat! Raw! Hoo! Rawi
And the innocent policeman merely
murmured: Them is about the
toughest loOkin' stugents / ever Sea-
and passed on.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-03-28
LORE OF THE LANGUAGES.

Statistics rs to the Tongues spoken BY
the Human Race.
Some interesting statistics have
been compiled by a Frenchman and
reproduced in the Courier-JOurnal re-
speeding the different languages
spoken in various parts of the world.
He states that the language in which
Shakespeare and Milton wrote was
then that of less than 5000. 900 human
beings. French was the mother
tongue of at least $4,000, 900 people
at time when English was spoken
by less than 100000 and 10000
600 of French speaking people were
living when the revolution broke out
in 1889. Between forty and fifty
years the English language equalled
the German in number Of those who
spoke it, and now the latter is left far
behind. German is now spoken by
100000 persons in the Anstro-
Hungarian empire. by $4,000. 900
in the German empire. by
10000 in Belgium and by
about 1900. 900 persons in Switzer-
land. German is also spoken by
about 1000, 900 persons in the United
States and Canada. giving a total Of
about 60. 900, 600 who use the German
language. French is spoken by the
IS, 100000 inhabitants of France, by
2.500.0O0 people in Belgium.
by 100000 in Alsace-LOrraine
by 600. 900 In Switzerland. by l,5V0.-
900 in the United States and Canada,
by 100000 in Hayti and by 100000
in Algiers. India. the West Indies and
African all about 45,000,Oo0. En-
glish is spoken by $4,000, 900 persons
in the British Isles. by probably ST.
100000 of the 60,000.00U inhabitants
of the United States. by 1000, 900
persons in Canada. by 5000, 900 in
Australia, by 100000 West Indians
and by 1000. 900 in India and other
British colonies. bringing the total Of
the English-speaking race to over
100, 900. 600.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-06-28
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-06-28
MEN AND WOMEN.

Ex-Congressman John A. Bing
ham of Ohio, who took leading
part in the impeachment proceed
ings against Andrew Johnson, re.
sides at Cadiz, Ohio, and at the
age of seventy-seven is in full pos
session of his mental and physical
faculties.
Not only have Generals Schofield
and Miles received medals from
Congress for gallantry, General
Stanley was honored for bravery at
Franklin, Tenn, and General o.
o. Howard received a medal for
his bravery at Fair Oaks, where he
lost his arm.
Colonel r. /. Fleming of Wash
ington has bought the former coun-
try residence of President Cleve-
land and about two acres of
ground. The price, it is under
stood, was $4,000. Mr.. Cleveland
paid about $500 an acre for the
property in 1886, or $21 800 for the
twenty-six acres.
The oldest clergyman of Chica-
go, the Rev. DR.. Robert w. Patter-
SON, and Mrs. Patterson recently
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of their marriage. They made
their wedding journey to Chicago
from Alton, ILL.,, by boat and stage
when Chicago had population of
about 5000.
Sister Rose Gertrude, who went
out to nurse the Hawaiian lepers
after the death of Father Damien,
but was obliged to leave her
charges on account of some diff
culties with the native officials,
is now living at Sac Paulo, Brazil.
With her husband, DR.. Lutz, she is
engaged in medical work.
Princess May, the interesting
young woman who may be queen
of England some day, is the eldest |
child and only daughter of the
Duke of Teck and Princess Mary
of Cambridge, who are both con-
nected with nearly every sovereign
in Europe. She was born in Ken
sington Palace on the 26th of May,
1867. The Duke of York is the
surviving son of the Prince of
Wales, and by inheritance stands
next but one to the throne Of Eng |
land. Their wedding is set for
July 9Th. |
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-01-13
Asking Too Much

Monopolists complain that work.
ingmer are asking too much. This
is the cry of the coal barons when
the miners ask for small advance.
How can it be that workingmen are
asking too much when they only ask
for part of what they create? How
is it that the coal miners are asking
too much when they ask to be paid
so cents for producing a ton of coal
that brings 81 on the market 1t
seems to US that workingmep can
never be unreasonable in their de-
mands SO long as they only ask for a
part OF what they create. The vast
difference between the condition OF
the employe and employer is conclu.
sive proof that the employe does not
ask nor receive too much for his la
bor for the former grows poorer and
poorer each year. while the latter
grows richer and richer. Thiss is
true too in the face of the fact that
the class that grows poorer each year
produces the very wealth upon which
the other class grows richer each
year. No labor can never be I'M
reasonable in its demand SO long as
1T only asks for part of the wealth
It creates. An equal division. even
between labor and capital would not
b unjust journal Of the Z. Of I. =