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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-03

hent. Secretary Welles had been prei
udiced against him because his wife
was known to have o large circle Of
southern friends and was even said *
sympathize with the Confederate cause
herself. Lieutenant Skerre.t went to the
secretary and said that If he was mot as.
signed to some duty he would resign
from the navy, go back to Ohio and en-.
ter an artillery regiment and get some
fighting anyhow.
Welles admired the lieutenant's spirit
and assigned him TO important ordnance
duty at the Washington navy yard, tell.
ing him il he said anything more about
resigning he would be placed under ar.
rest. He was afterward assigned to .du.
ty on various blockading squadrons, but
it was not till 1864 that he succeeded
in getting into an engagement. In June
of that year he successfully attacked the
Notifications at the mouth OF the Bra
EOS river. After the war he was placed
in command of the apprentice ship
Portsmouth and in conjunction with
Commander Upsher framed the regula-
hons of the apprentice system, then first
introduced into the navy. After that he
was stationed for four years at the naval
academy at Annapolis.
In June, 1874, having been promoted
captain, he was again placed In com
mand of the Portsmouth, in which the
following winter he began his famous
surveying trip down the Atlantic coast,
around the Horn and mp the Pacific.
Admiral Skerrett was born in Chilli
Gothic, O., in 1888. He is now in service
ON the China station, where he is likely
to remain in command until his retire
ment in January next.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-03


The Mitchell Republican Of the 1st
referring to the man Hamilton who rails
cd a draft of Sl8 on a Sioux City bank Ia
$500 and had it honored by q bank in
Huron. says: This same smooth swind.
Ter attempted TO work his game on Che
First National bank OF Sioux City or
Monday, with an sl8 draft bought from
the Security bank Of this town, bui
the paying teller OF the former institu.
tion headed him on without really hav-
ing any suspicion that he was crooked
The fellow had raised the draft, which
was signed by I. r.. Alice, assistant
cashier. to $500, and had forged Mr.
Atlee's name AZ an endorsement. He
presented it to the Sioux City bank and
as the amount wa 90 large the teller
whila satisfied with the endorsement
requested the holder 10 futher ideatif,
himself. This be started out to do Blu,
DC course failed TO coms back, and nov
ths First National psople IRE cnngratu
Iating themselves on their good luck.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-03

Sioux Falls Press, 2: d. P, Ward re,
turned from the Sioux reservation yes.
terday. On Sunday he organized a Sun
day school twenty-five miles west of
Chamberlain, making seven schools he
organized in April, and he travelled 1,725
miles in the same month. He reports
the country west of the river much bet
ter than he expected, and land is being
rapidly taken up by settlers. The out
look for south Dakota was never so
bright as to-day, he says.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-03

Huronite, IS: The Gray Bros. have
sued the city of Brookings for $1,000 for
an artesian well that they attempted to
put down there. The city council is
called upon to put up $3.50 now for ex,
pense Of defense. Artesian we'll con
tracts should be made with first class
men, and drawn IN first class manner.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-03

Rev. +. e. Holp, a fantastieal preacher
formerly OF Sioux Falls, Watertown and
other points in South Dakota, has &C
copied a call to a p~astorate in Waseca,
Mimi.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-03
LOST IN ALASKAN WlLDS.

An Explorers Disregard Of His Compan-
Ions Advice Costs Him His Life.
Death from either starvation or xpo-
surein the biting winter weather of south
western Alaska OF perhaps suicide as the
only means of avoiding the horrible fate
in store for himself-such is the fate of
M. Gross, a Canadian vey
Gross, with four companions, left Fort
Wrangle on the goth of January, the
party intending to hunt, fish and perhaps
do some prospecting. When they got to
Portage bay, they made permanent camp.
1t was early morning, and Gross told his
companions that he intended to dive a
little into the interior and would be back
before night.
He was cautioned against going out
alone, as it was known that he was not
familiar with the surrounding country,
and it was feared that he might get lost
in the woods. He disregarded the ad-
vice of his companions, however, and at
o o'clock the same evening the other
members of the party heard a shot in the
brush some few miles distant. They
hailed and by other signs tried to guide
Gross back to camp, but were not sue
cessful. The whole of the next day was
spent in the search. which had TO be final
ly given up.
Gross is said to have been from Vic
toria. He was last year a member OF
the Canadian survey party sent up to
Alaska to officially determine the terri.
tory's boundary line.-Seattle Press.
Times.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-03
THE DAILY LEADER
THURSDAY EVE, MAY 8, 1894
TURNS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
tn ADyERTTSFRs,

THE DAILY LgAnER makes . special feature oil
furnishing information concerning the advantages
and resources Of the city Of Madison and Of the
state % large emitting q 10 the patronage of sd
y~ertisers of every class.
j. +. STAHL. Proprietor.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-03

The Train Ran Five Miles without Steam.
A marvellous race, up grade and down,
in which momentum was the motive
power, took place ON the Consolidated
road Saturday. Five miles below Siam
ford the cylinder head Of the big engine,
No. PAT, blew ont while the train was
making express time. Instead Of stop
ping and getting stalled, Engineer SEQ
field let the machine have It's head and
pulled into Stamford station on time,
and not sven the conductor knew that
anything was the matter until the en-
gineer called for another engine and No.
IA was put on and pulled the train. to
this city. The 1--WE miles were run with.
out . pound OF steam and solely on the
momentum the train was under when
the mishap took place.-New Haven Pal
ladium.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-05-03

United States district court, Judge
Edgerton presiding, i now In session at
Aberdeen. or one . on trial the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01

paper, will make its appearance in June.
Joseph Aud, manager of the Free Press,
is at the head of the project.
AT the Democratic caucus at st. Johns
bury Tuesday Fred G. Bundy was nomi-
mated for postmaster to succeed Mr.. Ran
dali, the present incumbent, who failed of
confirmation. Bundy had 211 votes to %
for II. G. Bond.
Alfred Bilado and George Mussey, of
Rutland, were fishing for frogs with large
three-pronged hooks, near the double
bridges at Clarendon Flats last Friday, and
caught swapping turtle, weighing 80
pounds.
Levi Clough, aged % years, deaf old
man living in the southeast part of Wash
ington, was robbed of several hundred dol
lars one night recently by somebody enter
ing the house and breaking into his trunk
under the bed.
The bodies of Chester Fleming, of Man
chester, and George Spaulding, of Farm
ham, p. O., who were drowned in Missis-
quot bay, near Swanton, a week ago last
Sunday, were recovered last Monday. The
body of young Syms, who was with them,
has not been found.
The dedication of the adj ministration de-
partment of the Vermont state asylum at
Waterbury took place yesterday. Hon.
George w. Wing of the board of trustees
delivered the keys to Superintendent Gid
dings. Remarks were made by Gov. Full
Ter, eX-Gov. Dillingham; and others.
Miss Fannie Nichols, niece of President
Nichols of the National Fire Insurance COM
pany of Hartford, Conn, died at her home
in Orlando, Ind, Saturday of typhoid fever.
She was sent with other nurses from Hart
ford to Windsor, during the typhoid fever
epidemic and contracted the disease there.
The barns of Mrs. John Scales of Lu-
nenburgh were burned last week Wednes-
day with all the contents, including 10
cows. The fire was of incendiary origin
or was accidentally set by tramp, as a
man was seen to run from it after the
flames were discovered.
Luther Knapp of Mortified, serving a
sentence in the state prison for robbery,
has been moved to the Soldiers Home at
Bennington. A petition was presented to
Gov. Fuller recently, asking for Knapp's
pardon because of i'll health. At the home
he will receive the treatment he needs In
case he leaves the home he will be subject
to arrest as an escaped convict.
A house occupied by Louis and Albert
Haggett, owned by Oscar Vail, two miles
north of Montpelier, was burned Sunday
night with all the contents. The fire is
supposed to have caught from spark from
a chimney. Haggett's family narrowly es
capped with their lives. The house was
partially insured in the Vermont Mutual.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Great Coal Strike.

10000 Miners Idle---Vast Business
Territories Involved.
The great btuminous coal strike which
began on April Fl has reached that STAGE
where vast business interests in MANY
states are crippled seriously. Fully 49,
OOO miners are idle in ii states and two
territories. About $4,000 miners are at
work. Not only have the miners begun to
suffer privation, provoking them to riot in
several states, chiefly Illinois, Pennsyl-
Vanla and Alabama, but railroads, mills, and
even office buildings have been so affected
by the failure of the coal supply that thous-
ands OF other men are without work, and
the business world, especially in the CEN
trail West, sees before it an immediate
struggle for existence. In very many cases
the stock of bituminous coal is exhausted, or
is on the point of exhaustion. On some
western roads freight trains have been
abandoned and what little coal is left is re-
served for passenger and mail trains.
Where wood is available it is being substi-
tuted for coal
A great proportion of the striking miners
are Slavs and Huns-a foreign element of
the lowest type. The direct cause of the
strike was low wages in Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Ohio, central and southern
Illinois, and parts of Kentucky and Ten
nessee, and threatened reductions in other
fields to make wages correspond with those
in which reductions had been made early
in the year. Another cause was the eff
fort to enforce general instead of local or
district settlements. 1t is doubtful if this
country has ever experienced strike so
large and so disastrous. The miners will
not yield, they say, until uniform rate of
70 cents a ton is established throughout
the country. Many and perhaps major
ity of the operators are willing to give this
but they have not been able to come to
such an agreement, although numerous
conferences have been held.
Violence in Illinois and Alabama has
been of such a character that state troops
have been ordered out and are in active
service. Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania
has addressed mass meeting at one place
and cautioned them against violence, so
that he may not be compelled to order
out the troops. The spirit of riot is still
rampant, and fear of serious trouble has
! not yet been dissipated.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
A sure-enough Duel i'm Boston.

Two Boston men-Delos f. Goldsmith,
a local newspaper man, and John Crowley,
a well-known lawyer, settled "a point OF
honor with swords at midnight Saturday.
The lawyer received two wounds on the
right arm, one on the right leg just above
the knee, and fourth in the left thigh.
His injuries are not fatal, though serious.
His opponent came out of the duel with
two slight cuts in the right arm and
scratch on his forehead. The men met IN
a lonely spot between the Mount Hope and
Forest Hills cemeteries. The duel was the
result of a quarrel about the manner in
which the lawyer treated witness in
case in which he appeared. This witness,
a young woman, is friend of the literary
man, and the quarrel is of long standing
Allowing the other fellow to be in the
right the lawyer appears to have got about
what he deserved,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
THE VERMONT NEWS.
Removed from Office.

Gross Frauds Alleged Against John e..
Moore and John ID. SpeIlmRn, Special
Prosecutors of Rutland.
John b. Moore and John d. Spellman,
special prosecutors in Rutland under the
prohibitory liquor law, have been removed
from office by Gov. Fuller, as a result of
exposures of their operations in office,
published by the Rutland Herald in April.
There were limitations of Matchmaking
saloon keepers and other crookedness, but
the grossest offence plainly proved was
running the machinery of the law to get
costs without harming the liquor dealers,
whereby the state was plundered of thous-
ands of dollars every year. The method
followed was for the dealers TO appeal all
their cases from the lower courts, with
such manipulation that they were necessa-
rily dismissed in the upper courts, so that
the state was left with costs to pay in many
suits. Moore resigned his Office at the first
summons, but Spellman refused to do so,
even after a peremptory demand, and his
appointment was revoked.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
is IT THE LIVER?
Can Liver Pills Cure the Evils
of Indigestion!

For a hundred years doctors have disagreed
about the liver Only yesterday, figurativey
speaking, they woke up to its real uses in the di-
gestion and absorption of food.
Biliousness is not Indigestion. Liver pills
stimulate the secretons, but do not stimulate the
storage powers of the liver or aid digestion. If
you cannot digest starch food your liver cannot
store up a reserve. You are always hungry but
food does you no good.
1t is not the liver Pills wont help you, 1t is
partly the stomach, but medicine wont help it,
What you need is Paskola, a food that is already
digested Paskola is made Of grains and fruits,
artihcially transformed into the actual products
of digestion. When swallowed it is at once alb
sorbed without further digestion, and part of it
is stored up in the liver. There is waste about
unlike most concentrated foods. which are usual
ly indigestible it causes the stomach to work
because it is already digested Paskola helps the
stomach to digest other food, 1t is the food fol
all people who suffer from indigestion.
Mr.. Charles E, Isaacs, Alb Main street, Worces
ter, Mass, says: II have tried many doctors anC
countless patent medicines-an were Of no avai
till l took Paskola' To eat meal now is
pleasure-hcretofore it has been a torture"
Descriptive pamphlet free on application t
The Pre- Digested Food Co., 30 Reade street, NeV
York
- For sale by Geo, E, Greene, BrattleborC
VT.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
Millions of LOcusts.
The Pests Have Already Appeared in
Great Numbers.

Millions of locusts, said to be of the ii or
17-year family, have appeared in Decatur,
Ill. They crawl upon posts and fences
and climb into trees. There seems to be
no end to the pests. Farmers report the
locusts thick in the country. They will
certainly do great damage to fruit and
shade trees, grass and shrubbery. In some
quarters the locusts appear in the cellars.
In northern New Jersey the trees are in
some instances covered with the shells of
the pests. Not only the trunks of The
trees, but the leaves as well are painted an
unnatural color by the locust shells. A
tree was observed in South Orange Sunday
that was literally covered with the locusts.
They have also begun to attack foliage and
flowers in the yards there and an active
crusade has begun against them. Those
who remember the last appearance of the
locusts predict that this years "crop" will
far outnumber that of 1877.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
Taking Down the Ferris wheel.

Immense stagings have been erected and
other preparations made, and the work OF
taking down the Ferris wheel will begin
next week. 1t will take 10 weeks to take
the wheel to pieces. The steel car that
was used for carrying the Krupp gun will
he used for carrying the 70-ton axle. The
material will be taken in five trains OF 81
cars each to New York city. The expense
of taking down, moving and rebuilding
the wheel will be $4,000. In New
York it is to be placed at Thirty-seventh
street and Broadway. Old Vienna will be
reproduced around it. During the fair the
wheel went around 10000 times and car
ried 100000 passengers. 1t was one OF
the bonanza investments of the grea'
show,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
A Co1eyite Talks Revolution.

Coxey's unknown, with several aliases,
addressed a meeting of populists and others
on the South side at Pttsburg Sunday.
After revolutionary advice to his hearers
he said he wanted an army of 100000 to
go to Washington, inundate the capitol
and sink into oblivion the law makers
trust, the greatest of all trusts. There is,
he said, a terrible crisis at hand, and if
the right kind of men are not sent to
Congress this year, the people will have to
fight, so he advised workingmen to organ
ize for ballots and bullets.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01

D. H. Cheney, 90, died recently at Wells
River from the effects of falling upon a
hot stove.
Ex-senator Edmunds has leased the cot
tage of Rear Admiral Worden at Newport,
r. l., for the season.
The 44th annual meeting of the Vermont
Homeopathic Medical society will be held
at Montpelier, June 6 AMI 7.
The Mansion House at Alburgh Springs,
owned by George Cruller, was burned Mon
day morning. 1t was built in 1888.
The annual meeting of the Shropshire
and Cotswold Sheep association of Yer
mont will be held at Morrisville, June 3.
A movement for building hotel at
Wells River has been started. Stock to
the amount of nearly $1,000 has been sub
/ scribed
The nomination of Emory S. Harris O
Bennington to be United States marsha
for the district of Vermont was announced
Friday.
The Burlington Daily News, an evening
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
The End of the small POx Epidemic In
Boston.

For the first time during seven months
Boston is now free from smallpox. There
have been 1O4 cases of the disease and
twenty-five deaths, the fatal cases having
all been among those who were unprotected
by vaccination. 1t is interesting to compare
these figures with those of the last small
box epidemic in Boston in 1928. In that
epidemic there were 1867 cases and 1O4O
deaths. The conditions of the outbreak OF
last october were similar to those of 1872,
hut Boston was then without smallpox
hospital, without board of health and the
laws relating to vaccination were not pro-
perly enforced. The contrast between the
methods then pursued and those of today
is marked and is highly creditable to health
authorities.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
windsor Accepts Mr.. Evart.'s Spring.

The Windsor village corporation has
voted to accept the gift of Hon. William
NJ. Evarts of the use of water from Run
nymede Spring. This water is pure, and
labor will be begun soon upon new water
works. They will be constructed accord
ing to the plans of Engineer Coffin for
pumping by steam, subtituting for steam
power windmill power, REINFORCED by cleo
trio power for emergencies. The old
aqueduct will be used for fire purposes,
motors, and at the depot for engines. The
fever epidemic has passed away, no new
cases having developed for some time.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
The ProhIbItionists Nominate IA state
Ticket.

The Vermont State Prohibition conven-
ton was held at Middlebury last week
Wednesday. The candidates nominated
are, for governor, Il. c. Whittemore, of st.
Adams; acknowledgements, DR.. l.. w.
Hanson, of Barre; treasurer, j. +. Leon
ard, of Burlington; secretary of state, II.
r. Mack, of Hardwick; auditor, F. W.
Wheeler of Richford. A state executive
committee also was elected, consisting of
T. II. Sephard, chairman; c. w. Wy
man, of Brattleboro, vice chairman; G. l..
Story, secretary; A. o. Ferguson, treas
urer; w. II. Sargent, auditor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
The French Republic Sues the Worlds
Fair.

The French republic has begun suit in
49, Tinted States circuit court for $780,
600 SI1 ogainst the Worlds Columbian Expo
oitjon The suit arises from the fire which
S,vs the peristyle last December
I Port Of the roof of the manufacturers
h" "i was burned, and goods belonging
20 French exhibitors which had not been
remoyed, were damaged, The exposition
company refused to pay the exhibitors,
and Col Davis and President Palmer are
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
From Norway to the Great Lakes.

After a voyage lasting So days the steam
er Craggs from Bergen, Norway, arrived at
Milwaukee, Wis, Sunday night and steam
ed up the river, amid hearty welcome
from every craft in the harbor. A large
number of Scandinavian residents went
out in the bay and boarded the Craggs.
The little steamer is the first vessel of the
European merchant marine to visit Mil
waukee. She brought a load of herring, a
part of which she will discharge at Chi
cage.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
The Kind of Sport the spaniNrds Like

At the end of a bull fight in Madrid last
SUNDAY the matador Espartero was about
to plunge his sword into the neck OF the
LniI when the brute made an unexpected
movement, threw him down, and gored
him 50 that he died few minutes later.
He had a national reputation as bull
figbter. Priests who were in the audience
fastened to Espartero's side Immediately
afrer he fell and administered extreme
nnction. while the other matadors, in theu
gorgeous attire, knelt in the background
After the sacrament the fights were re
enmed Fifteen horses were killed anC
two matadors were wounded in the subse
quent fights.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
Another Post Office Robbed.

The Morrisville post-ofiice was robbed
early Saturday morning The safe was
drilled completely through the centre from
the top. The door was blown across the
room and S27 in cash and about $50 in
stamps taken. Three registered letters We're
overlooked. Residents in the vicinity of
the post-ofiice heard the explosion.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
a Burglar who Had Entered One Store
II Times.

Sheriff Reeves of Burlington has arrested
Hollis c. Woodwork, So for burglarizing
Henry Il Co.'S store at Underhill. Wood
IA different times. The articles stolen in
cluded flour, hardware and general mer-
chandise. In searching Woodworth's house
Sheriff Reeves found many articles which
had been missed from the store. Wood
worth was formerly prominent in town af-
fairs and has been justice of the peace.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
The Growth OF the Relief Corps and its
Work.

There are in Vermont at the present
time "A Woman's Relief corps, with an ag-
gregate membership of over 300. Letters
received at department headquarters indi-
cate constant accession of membership.
The corps in this state during the past
year expended S2190.GS for relief, so far as
reported, assisted the families of about 200
soldiers, paid SO toward the National Re
lief corps home, and at its annual conven-
ton voted 500 additional for that purpose
and S52 in aid of the fund toward expense
of procuring the passage of the Grand
Army nurse pension act.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-06-01
Certain PIensnres Vnnish

when the teeth decay, viz The pleasure derived
from eating, the pleasure arising from the con
seriousness of possessing a sweet breath, and the
pleasure of knowing that a smile m parting the
ROSY lips reveals new beauties behind them. Rem
der those beauties perpetual by the regular Il {
of SoZOdont