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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
Their LAeoRs ENDED.
Summary of Work Done by the New York
Constitutional Convention.

ALBANY, n. Y, Oct. L. The con-
stitutional convention after adopting
the new constitution issued a long
manifesto to the people, going over in
detail the whole of the constitutional
convention. The address summarizes
the work as follows:
J. We renew the commentator OF the oon-
vention In 1867 providing for progress IN agri-
culture by requiring general laws giving the
right OF drainage across adjoining lands.
2 We seek TO separate IN the larger cities
municipal elections from state and national
elections.
5 We have provided further safeguards
against abuses IN legislative procedure.
4 We have removed the prohibition against
the sale OF Onondago salt springs, which are a
source Of annual loss to the state.
B. We have removed from the constitution
all mention Of the Office of coroner so that the
legislature may deal freely with that branch
OF the public service now in such an unsatis-
factory condition
g. We have extended the prohibition against
lotteries so as TO include all pool selling book
making and other forms Of gambling.
:. We have abolished the statutory provision
limiting the right Of recovery for injuries caus
ing death to IS coo
s We have sought to throw greater safe
guards around the elective franchise by pre-
scriblng ninety instead OF ten days or cltlzeD-
ship before the right can be exercised.
8. We have provided for a new apportion-
ment of senate and assembly districts.
TO- We have declared IN tho constitution fol
principles OF civil service reform
H. In addition 70 the provision for the i'm
provement Of the state prisons administration
we have prohibited the contract system O
convict labor
u We have authorized the legislature K
provide for the improvement OF the canals.
! IS. We have required the legislature TO pro
vide for free public schools, IN which all the
i children Of the state may be educated, and W.
1 have prohibited absolutely the use Of publ,
| money In aid OF sectarian schools.
IL The revision OF the Judiciary article is de
signed to remedy the existing evils arising
/ from the overcrowdine of the trial calendars.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
Firebug Burns a Town.

W1LL1AMsTowE, KY, Oct NEARLY
all the little village of Jonesville, IS
miles west of here, was wiped out by
fire Sunday night. The largest losses
are: The Star Mercantile company,
about S2s, 900, insured; Stewards drug
store and John CALENDARS residence.
George Miller, the suspected incendi-
arv. was caught.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
OVER A MILLION.
Wind and Wave Cause Heavy
Loss on the Florida Coast.
wharves and Piers Washed Away and
Houses Wrecked Steamers Driven
Ashore Orange Growers
Lose Heavily.
GREAT DAMAGE DONE.

JACKSONVILLE Fla, sept. 29.-Com-
munications with southern Florida is
being restored and dispatches are
pouring in relating to the Gamage
done by the West Indian cyclone
which rdged in the tate tuesday and
Wednesday They ai toll the same
story at bonuses WrecEcd DIP crops de-
stroyed. but 80 loss 81 lie is reported
Buildings yserae,
AT Tampa several .arge vIgag tao
tories were wrecked The three story
brick factory o. Heidelberg & Co.
and the factory Of c. A. Joyce were
demolished, as were also tho fac
tories of Yabor & Manarara The
odore Perez & Co., and 0Halloran
The First Presbyterian church and the
palatial hotel, Tampa Bay were bad
" damaged Several smaller struc-
lures were also demolished. The loss
on buildings at Tampa is estimated et
$4,000.
steamers suffer
During the storm at Fernandjna the
British steamships Boston City and
Elnville collided and were badly
tldlldEtAis 4 AAH NAtdlliCl
was sunk between PalaAa and
Picolata She was valued at
$4,000. The steamer Edith was driven
ashore The steamer Debarey was
driven against the drawbridge and
wrecked The steam yacht Maude was
sunk near Crescent City.
81. Augustine tIoohed.
Advices were received from St. Au-
CUISINE which had been cut off since
Tuesday. No lives were lost, but sew
eral houses were wrecked and the losses
viii run far into the thousands
Nearly all the windows in the city
were blown in and the houses
flooded with water The Ponce de
Leon hotel was damaged in this way.
The loss on the hotels furniture is
heavy The waves dashed over the
sea wall and made rivers Of the streets.
Many wharves were blown away.
Orange Growers Lose.
Between Green Cove spring and
PaIatka. on The St Johns. twelve
whartes have disappeared Between
Jacksonville ana st Augustine not a
telegraph pole was left standing The
damage to the orange growers is in
calculab BILE In the large groves the
ground is completely covered with
green oranges The loss is fully 20
| per cent
on the East Coast.
The east coast is still cut off from
| communication below St Augustine
and Palatka. Every effort is being
made to hear from Jupiter and Key
West, which are supposed to have been
/ in the storm center The storm was
as severe in the interior OF the state as
1 m the cnaaN
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
Sentenced to Solitary Confinement

WHKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct. l. John
McColich convicted of murder in the
second degree, on Thursday last, was
sentenced Saturday morning to eight
cen years, solitary confinement in the
Eastern penitentiary. McCoHch, it
will be remembered, killed a child in
the arms of its mother during riot at
Mill Creek in March last.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
TWO HUNDRED DROWNED.

Houses Washed Away by Overlooked
8:vers-suGar crop Damaged.
HAVANA. Oct. lowing TO the ex-
cessive rains the rivers Sagua, Yabu,
Yabusito and Mayaneia have flooded
the surrounding country and mum
dated the towns of Sagua, Creuces,
La Jas. Sitiesito and San Do
mingo. At sagua the water is
from is to As feet deep, and 5000
families are homeless and the inhab-
itants have sought safety on the roofs
OF two-story buildings which alone
are not under water. The loss of
life is estimated at 200, while the dam
age to property will reach 100000 Oo.
The sugar crop is seriously damaged.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
Grade of Post Offices RAISED.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-Thirty three
post Offices which have been in the
fourth-class list will become presi-
dental offices October !. The follow
ing are among the new presidential
offices, with the salaries that viii be
paid after October /.
Illinois Eldorado, 81 90; Paramount. a1,100
Staunton. 100. Neoga, $1,000, lowu-Adair,
81 .00O Hull 81 600: Mystic 4I0o0, Michigan
birmingham 81 900 Friar Point SllO0. Ohio
Mount Sterling, S1.100 SaDina, 81 00l Wis
consin-Lodi 81 go, New Lisbon $1,000, South
Milwaukee, IL ,20)
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04

CHICAGO, Oct John Shea quar-
relied over a seventy-five cent laundry
bin in Sing Lees laundry at 27l West
Madison street BEFORE the quarrel
was over bullet was fred into his
breast, which caused instant death.
His body was taken to the morgue and
Sing Lee was locked up at the Des-
LANES street station. 49,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04

Yictory for Union Labor.

BosToN, Oct 2 The executive coun-
Gil 0. several unions of clothing
makers decided that the strike was
virtually ended, as nearly all the con-
tractors had signed the union agree
ment, which provides for increased
wages and establishes the nine-hour
dav for workers The Contractors as
ISOLATION has practically ceased to
avisf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
CIaimed "a BE $50 Years old

KERRvILLE, Tex, Sept, ga Next
can named Modericos died at Ingram,
near this city, Friday. His relatives
and intimate friends assert most posi-
lively that he was $50 years old. He
had been married Eve times, marrying
his first wife 100 years ago. He had
three grown sons In the war Of 1912.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
A Successful Fair.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Oct. 1.-The state
fair terminated Saturday after the
most successful week ever experienced.
The attendance for the week aggre-
gated 1870, 900. The gate receipts for
the week were S35, 900 and the total re-
ceipts $50, 000-several thousand dollars
in excess of the receipts of any former
year and several thousand over all ex-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
SEVEN DROWNED.
Terrible Ending OF Drunken Mans
Freak in Minnesota.

Freak in Minnesota.
ST PAUL, Mimi, Oct I. Seven per-
sons were drowned at Chaska, Mimi.
Saturday evening. Louis Scharf and
family, who had attended the fair,
started home at O'Clock. Scharf was
intoxicated and was driving fast. When
within block of the river he was
stopped by j. Kunz of Minneapolis,
who told him to drive slower. Scharf
promised to do SO. but no sooner was
he released than he whipped his horses
and furiously dashed down the river
bank, over the ferry and into the
river. His wife, five children and
Miss Mary Roskus, Mrs. Scharfs sis
ter, were drowned, as were the horses.
Scharf chung to the wagon box and
was rescued. The bodies of Mrs.
Scharf and two of the children were
recovered
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
Train sarad ~ 4 Girl.

DUBUQUE, Ia, sept ga passenger
train on the Great Western was saved
Friday by a girl 8 years old She
found Bridge burning around a curve
west OF Dyersville and waved her red
apron for the engineer to atop.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04

SAC CITY, la. Oct IA shocking
double tragedy occurred here. Viii
liam Tole, a laborer attacked his wife
with an ak and killed her with blow
on the head. He then called a neigh
Dor to witness his crime and cut his
own throat Jealousy is thought to
have heen the ennae
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04

New YORK, Sept. 29-Once more
the Lucania breaks the record 1t
made the passage from Queenstown to
Sandy Hook in 5 days hours and IS
minutes, beating its best previous REQ
ord of the last voyage by so minutes.
Among the passengers were Mrs W..
(. Vanderbilt and her three children.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
Mckinley at st. louis.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. While Senator
Vest was opening the democratic cam
paign in Missouri at Kansas City Mon
day night, Gov Mckinley, facing a
crowd in a large hall here, made the
opening address of the republican cam
paign. 1t was the third state cam
paign which he has opened within a
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
"Dryo sunday IN New York.

NEW YORK, Oct Lit was an excep-
tionally dry Sunday in New York. Sa-
looms in every portion Of the city were
tightly closed. The total number of
arrests for violation OF the excise law
for the twenty-four hours ended at
midnight was 80, by far the largest
ever made in single day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
saloon Blown to Pieces

SPRINGFIELD, o., Oct AT the vii
lage OF Gordon, o.. north Of here, the
only saloon in the township, owned By
Milf Trotwell, was blown up with dy-
Mantle Sunday night, as a result Of a
three years effort to get rid Of the re-
sort
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
STAGE ROUTES.

LANCASTER & PLATTEVILLE STAGE
(Dany)
LKAvEs Lancaster 81 ? y. N. ana Arrives al
Platteville at p. m.
LEAvEs Platteville 81 g. m. and Arrives az Ian.
IS caster st 1890 p. m.
GDEEN. s ABRAMS Props.
LANCASTER & SPECHT'S FERRY STAGE.
(DsilyD
LEAVES Lancaster at g q. n. and Arrives Ct
PCtosi at II N,
LEAVES Potosi st ~ n an0 arrives ~
A''4 : " TfH0S. HYMER. Propr
LANCASTER, BEETOwN x BLOOMINGTON
STAGE
fDaiIy.l
LEAv Lancaster At : N and Arrives 81 Bloom
ington ST JIG m.
LEAVES Bloomington al 1880 ?. n. and Arrives
ST Lancaster al $50 p. m
J6E. SMITH. Prop.
laNCA>r 81 = srRTaN STAGE.
.. = Sur 3r s,-a "a. Sd 4ertve- i laLeas-
Lancaster atl:o 4ta arrives d Boron
- 500 p.
JNo sTRICKLAN, Prop
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
Mant Moonshiners Arrested.

LOUISVILLE, KY. Oct within
three mouths thirty-seven stills have
been destroyed and l25 moonshiners
captured By the United States officers
IL the Big Sandy valley in this state.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
William. College

wuIIANsTows. Mass, Sept 29.-Wil-
Jams college entered upon It's 10@d
wear Thursday with a freshman class
Of IL
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
Church Directory.

GERMAN PREsBYTERIAN 1 HURCH. Rev j, A.
Rngold Pastor. Services e cry other sunday:
sabbath School every sabbath OF II a. n N'cial
Meeting Thursday evenings u "a 2'c.ock
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04

GERMAS T4yASeELIcAL CHl'N9H. Nati~o -,
ndsy Scao0l 9 4. Vi. Serv c. }-.suA = lug
is school ?.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
LANCASTE "a.

Abstract Cfice-JoHN CARTHEw. (succes-
-or 10 Book Il SchrelLeD. Real Estate. Abstracts
Title. and Insurance. Lancaster, Wis.
ST.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04
HERMAN BUCRNER.

Attorney a Law.
Prac ices in all state Couts. Loans, Collec
items, and Settlement of Estates.
Pendleton Block,-Lancaster. Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-10-04

z The HERALD and
) the n. Y. Tribune
ONE YEAR, Sits
) = q 2
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-11-28
PORT ARTHUR FALLS.
CAPTURE OF AN IMPORTANT
CHINESE STRONGHOLD.
Brilliant Generalship Displayed by the
Japanese Commander in Leading His
Army of 10000 Soldiers to Victory
After Eighteen Hours of Fighting.

CHEZ Foo, Nov. 24.-D:spatches
have been received here stating tn at
the Japanese captured Port Arthur
on Wednesday last, after eighteen
hours fighting.
The second Japanese army, under
the command of Field Marshal Count
Oyama, minister of war, consisted of
about 10000 men,. and when this
force arrived off the Regents Sword
promontoryr it was divided into two
detachments.- one of which, aided by
part OF the. Japanese. fleet operated
against Talienwan, while the other
directed its movements against Kin
Chow, on the western side of the
promontory, some mil es north of
Port Arthur Talienwan and Kin
Chow were both captured, after which
the army again combined and the
march on Port Arthur was COM
menced. Several engagements of
minor Importance took place along
the route, but according to the re-
ports the Japanese were invariably
successful. The roads leading north-
ward from Port Arthur were sup
posed to have been mined by the
Chinese and the Japanese commander
therefore declined to take the risk of
marching his troops along them
Consequently, they were compelled
to cut roads through the forests to
allow the passage of their artillery,
ammunition trains, etc. The march
was thus necessarily slow
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-11-28
'y the National Reform Press Association.


for him larger and more commodious
dwelling, lounge somewhere in idle
ness"
What is true thus of the farmers is
true in every vocation. With intense
competition in every line of industry
and the uncertainties existing as to the
future in finance, and especially be-
cause of high interest, the enterprise
does not go forward and workmen do
not get employment.
With lack of work comes nearly all
the evils that afflict society.
How readily and completely all this
would be changed were the govern
ment to own and operate the banks.
What boon to the great common peo-
pie who now have no safe place to put
money The government need not in
vest dollar in the banking business
1t would only be necessary to open the
room, invite the people to bring for
ward their money, guarantee them
against loss and give them, say per
cent on their long time deposits How
rapidly the bank would then fill with
money-good money, peoples money.
1t would then be in order to loan this
money on security worth always twice
the amount which was borrowed at a
uniform rate of per cent per annum
interest. And whatever the amount
which was loaned it would be always
deposited at once in the bank and
people would do business with checks.
Thus there never would be any de-
crease in the volume of money in the
banks. Money would always be acces-
sible and could always be borrowed by
the person having the security at
per cent interest whether the borrower
be resident of Massachusetts or a
farmer in Dakota. The short time de-
posit in the bank would draw no in
terest, but all borrowers would pay 4
per cent Thus ten persons, each bor-
rowing and depositing during the day,
would give 40 per cent clear profit to
the government. But better than all
would be the increased revival of bust
ness through the vast accumulation of
money in the hands of the common
people, through their savings in inter
est and the freedom from the payment
of high interest. Consider for little
time the far reaching and beneficial in
tiuence resulting from government
ownership of banks.
THos. L. HILL.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-11-28
BAD TIMES IN OTTAWA.
A Young Man Shot Dead and Under
takers Fight Over the BODY.

OTTAWA, Kan, Nov. 23.-Shortly
before midnight last night, Charles
and Ham Lathrop. brothers, went to
the house of Mrs. Sherman and de-
manded admission, at the same time
trying to force an entrance. Ben
Sherman, the womans son, threaten
ed to shoot them if they did not
leave. but they did not obey and he
fred several shots, one of which en-
tered Charles Lathrop's left breast.
killing him instantly. and another
inflicted an'ugly though not danger
Gus wound npon Ham Lathrop's right
breast fe
Charles Lathrop's body was taken
to the undertaking shop of Clark &
Session, by order of DR. W. NJ Ewing,
coroner, who was in charge, to allow
no one to touch the body until the in
quest, Meantime Mrs. Lathrop had
sent instructions to Miller & 7Chal-
mers::a rival us aertaiSers..s to take
charge of the body Miller early this
morning demanded the body from
Seasons, but was refused. A fight en-
sued, in which Miller inflicted seri-
Gus cash upon Sessions abdomen.
Miller has been arrested.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-11-28
Bequeathed His Pension

Said B. c. Rains. a special pension
agent: Il had a peculiar case in Wash
ington county. Tenn. a man named
Adams drew pension for total dis
ability, and l was instructed to call
and see if the disability was still total.
When l reached the house, 4 young
man came to the door. l asked: .
lis this where John Adams lives?'
&" It's whar he did live, stranger
Where does he live now?'
"'He don't live. He's been dead for
goin' On five var. I'm his son..
Then explained my mission, and
he said:
's'Oh, thet's all right. Walk right
in an take cheer. Pap could write,
an he made will. The pension war
the only thing he had to leave, but it's
cum in mighty handy
''He produced the will. and, sure
enough the pension had been devised
to him. | didn't have the heart to tell
him that it was not valid. but he re-
ceives no more pension. Cincinnati
ENQUIRER
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-11-28
MEDICINE LODGE. KANSAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER % 1884
For Modern COOKING.

AS a matter of useful information IL
may be stated that whenever a cooking
receipt calls for baking powder the
Royal should be used The receipt
will be found to work better and surer,
and the bread, biscuit. rolls, cakes,
dumplings, crusts, puddings, crullers
or whatever made, will be produced
sweeter, lighter, finer favored, more
dainty palatable and wholesome
Besides, the Royal will go further
or has greater leavening power, and is
therefore more economical than any
other powder.
Many receipts as published still call
for cream-of-tartar and soda, the old
fashioned way of raising. Modern
cooking and expert cooks do not sane
tion this old way. In all such receipts
the Royal Baking Powder should be
substituted without fail.
The greatest adopts in the culinary
art are particular to use the Royal
only, and the authors of the most pop
ular cook books and the teachers of
the successful cooking schools, with
whom the best results are imperative,
are careful to impress their readers and
pupils with the Importance of its ex-
elusive employment.
The Royal Baking Powder is the
greatest help of modern times to per-
feet cooking, and every receipt requir-
ing quick-raising ingredient should
embOdy it
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-11-28
SOME POLITICAL HASH
SERVED HOT AND COLD SUIT
OUR READERS.
What Is Being Said and Done, Here,
There and Everywhere-The Truths
of the POpulist Party Will Serve
Through Other Campaigns.

1t is real refreshing to ''us gentiles"
to occasionally see minister rise up
to the level of Christianity and initiate
the Savior when he drove the money
changers from the temple. In a re-
cent sermon delivered in Brooklyn by
Rev. Cortland Myers, that distin-
guished divine got after that prince of
hypocrites, George NJ. Pullman, in the
following very plain language: ''It is
possible for Cain to become a Christ to
his fellow man and for George Pull
man to become what he has tried to
make the world believe lee was-to stop
playing 'Jekyll and Hyde'-mostly
Hyde. The United States labor COM
mission has now revealed that hypo-
crisy to the people He has said:
Listen and you will hear the testi-
mony, as my heart beats, keeping per-
feet time with the heart throbs of the
poor laborers." We now listen and
hear only fearful discord and the ap-
plause in hell when a heartless corpor-
alton places its cruel iron heel upon the
neck of man. There is a Pullman
company which hires the men and
pays them. There is a town companv
which rents the houses, etc One low
ers the wages, but that company has
nothing TO do with anything else, it
says, and the expenses of the men re-
10 nNI
reserve fund of $50, O0O, 900, capital of
S36, 900, 600, and an per cent dividend
being paid, while the wages of child
was taken from her to pay her fathers
rent because he was sick
The leader of this heartless. multi
headed business can no longer pose as
a philanthropist and a lover os his fell
low men. To love man and to advance
the kingdom of God is to take the
crown from the brow of self and place
1T upon the royal head of sacrifice.
The coming of the kingdom DESTROYS
all business of that kind and all
political corruption and all social dis
tinction. Its law is the law of love
Statute law is often not worth the
paper it is written on because it is not
hrst written in the breasts of man.
kind. 1t is often the rA4re plaSthing
of politicians. A divine righteo usness
is needed instead of state righteous
ness"
We commend the above extract to
'the prayerful consideration of Sir
George and suggest that he mieht ease
any pangs of conscience which it NAV
produce by generous and judicious
distribution of some more sleeping car
masses