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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-25
Kansas Has an OIL Boom.

Fort Scott, Kan, April 22.-The oil
excitement in the east has renewed the
oil boom in southeast Kansas, not
withstanding the fact that the small oil
companies here have millions of gallons
of unrefined oil in their tanks at Neo-
desha and other towns. The Kansas
oil will not be handled by the larger
companies who control the markets
During last week the eastern compa-
MES renewed the work of leasing farm
lands in the southeast corner of the
state for prospecting. They have
agents scattered throughout this sec
ton securing leases. and there is great
rivalry among the different companie,
for oil privileges.
Judge Seaman in th- Jnited STATE
court at Milwaukee awarded $500 In
the salvage suit OF the owners of the
steamer City of Venice, the McGraw
Transportation Company, against the
owners Of the steamer Spokane.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-25
FOREIGN.

Five thousand employees of the Paris
omnibus companies are on strike.
A mural tablet in honor of the chem
list Pasteur was unveiled at the CEN
tenary celebration of the Ecole Nor
male, the chief college of France.
In the bye-e' ection for the German
Reichstag at Eisenach, Herr Cassel-
man Social DEMOCRACY defeated his
agrarfan opponent by a large majority
Messrs. Croker and Dwyer have ac-
cepted an invitation to run horses at
the WhitsuntiGc meeting at Bdldovic,
near Dublin. Jockey Simms and
Trainer Campbell will accompany them
The treaty of peace between China
and Japan is unfavorably criticized in
leading political circles. and the send
ing of two additional German war
ships-the Kaiser and the Princess Will
helhelm-to the east is generally APP
proved.
The dispute between Great Britain
and Nicaragua is being watched in
Europe and the opinion of those COM
petent to pronounce upon the matter
is decidedly against allowing Nicara
qua to get off too cheaply.
Nothing is known in London of the
report in circulation in the United
States that the Prince of Wales will
visit the United States in the autumn
in order to be present at the races Cor
the Americas cup.
Senior Thedim has been appointed
Portuguese Minister at Washington.
The elections for members Of the Serv-
ian Skuptschina passed off quietly. The
government scored victory, a large
majority of it's candidates being re-
turned
The dispute in the British boot and
shoe trade which commenced in the
middle of March, growing out of the in
PRODUCTION of American machinery, etc.
has been settled by compromise.
There has been another violent earth
quake shock at Laibach.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-25
ADVENTURES OF a EEL
In Church steeple. Buried ia. River,
Now in Mormondon.

Now In Mormondon.
There is a bell now hanging over
private schoolhouse of a Mormon
prophet in Salt Lake City which has a
curious and somewhat amusing history.
1t was the first church bell that ever
rang out over the plains of Iowa. hav-
ing been erected in the tower of the
First Presbyterian church of Iowa City.
A few years after it's installation trou-
bic arose between the pastor and the
people over the question of salary,
which resulted in the formers making
an attempt to capture and carry away
the bell to square accounts" The good
man bad gone so far as to secure lad
der and ascend to the roof of the
church, when the church officials got
wind of the affair and rushed to the
rescue of their property. They permit
ted the bell to be lowered to the ground
but then seized upon it, loaded it in a
wagon and drove away The ladder was
also simultaneously removed. leaving
the enraged parson wildly gesticulating
from his pulpit in the tower. This ex-
citing event in the early days Of Iowa
City was promptly embalmed in verse
by locs poet. The subsequent history
of this same bell has a touch of romance
about it. The pillars" of the church
who took away the prize in the wagon
carried it, as afterward appeared, to a
river near at hand ana buried it in the
channel. AS it happened, one of the citi-
zens concerned in the business after
ward developed a sympathy with the
Mormons. He impaired information
concerning the bell to another of like
sympathies, and through them its re-
moval was effected. 1t was conveyed Sc
cretly to the vicinity of Bloomington
now MuScatine-on the banks of the
Mississippi river, and there deposited in
the channel of a stream known as Dew
IFS creek. Thence it was carried to a
point near Montrose, ILL.,, where it re-
manned for some years buried in the
sand. 1t was then exhumed and carried
b. some Mormons to Kanesville, in the
neighborhood of Council Bluffs, from
which point it was conveyed by them on
their journey across the plains to its
present resting place. 1t was not until
twenty years after that the original pos
SCISSORS of the bell found out where it
had gone. Upon the completion of the
Pacific railway some parties from Iowa
City, on their journey across the conti-
nent, stopped off at Salt Lake City.
There they discovered an old bell sur
mounting a private schoolhouse. and
upon its margin the familiar words:
First Presbyterian church Of Iowa
City, 1886" Notice of the fact was
promptly communicated to the officers
of the Iowa City church. Correspond
ence was opened with the Mormon au
thorities, but so high was the value
placed upon it as a spoil taken from the
gentiles. that, strangely enough it was
decided to let the old bell remain
voiceless trophy in the far-off land of
its captivity.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-25
TORTURED BY THE SIOUX.
A Scout Tells How He Was Initiated
Into Sitting Bulls Tribe.

Frank Grouard the Indian scout,
who is now living in st. Joseph, Mo-,
has recovered from the surgical opera
tor in which an arrow head was re-
moved from his groin after having been
imbedded there for nearly a dozen
years. He was captured, says the ST.
Louis Globe Democrat, by Sitting Bull
and a small band of followers when 10
years old, and remained with the In
dams during the next six years, a great
er portion of the time in the camp of
Sitting Bull, through whose influence
he was saved from torture and death.
From the time of my capture and up
to 1872" he said the other day, Il was
not required to undergo any of the self
inflicted fortunes of the Sioux but after
l became one of them, to all intents and
purposes, knew what to expect. While
we were camped where Glendive, Mont,
now stands, the whole tribe gathered
one day about and l was informed that
] was to be put to the test All the In
dams gathered around. taking positions
where they could watch my face Sit
ting Bull, No Neck. Gall. Four Horns
Little Assiniboine and other head men
of the tribe sat near me smoking their
pipes. Four warriors squatted on each
the flesh between the shoulder and the
elbow on each arm and cut out pieces
the size Of a pea, taking 480 pieces out
of each arm. The skin and flesh were
taken off in five rows on each arm 1t
was not painful at first. but before they
were through there was a stream of
agony pouring from my arms to my
heart that was almost unbearable. did
not open my lips or make a sound while
they We're torturing me. although the
operation lasted four hours. The next
time l was tortured all my eyebrows
and eyelashes were pulled out. After
that l went through the tostures as sto-
ically as the Indians themselves, even
including the fortunes Of the sun dance.
where horseha1r ropes We're tied in the
muscles of the breast and back and
torn out by sheer force.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-25
LABOR NOTES.

Employees of the David Bradley Man
ufacturing Company visited Kankakee.
Ill, where the new site of the factory
is located.
Fifty Austrian miners were disarmed
at Cincinnati, Iowa, and none of the
miners were allowed to enter the town.
Miners at Dubois. Pa, demanded a
restoration of rates, and the operators
are asked to reply by May q
Miners Of the Pittsburg district viii
hold a convention to reaffirm their de-
mand for SO cents ton.
The keystone iron works strike at
Kansas City has been settled. The
men secure their demand for ten hours
a day.
Sixty mines We're represented at a con-
vention at Pittsburg. Pa. 1t was voted
to continue the strike for the 69-cent
rate pending the action of a conference
with the railroad operators.
The weavers in the Westerly. r. j..
Wooden company's mills will return to
work. An increase of wages and steady
work have been granted.
The plate-glass syndicate held a CON
ference at Ellwood. Ind. 1t is said
operations will be resumed at the ELI
wood plant May l with an Increased
force of 1000 men.
The strikers of the Linwood mill IF
North Adams, Mass, have returned to
work after having been out three
weeks. The old schedule of wages de-
manded by the strikers was granted.
The Philadelphia Press in comment
ing on the contemplated closing down
of the Coleraine colliery. says the in
dividual anthracite operators have for
some time been seriously thinking Of
shutting down all their collieries, but no
one was willing to take the initiative
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-25
CASUALTIES.

L. H. Key. 60. a prominent railroad
official, was instantly killed by being
run over by an engine at Elkhart, Ind.
The burned body of an unknown man,
supposed to have been a tramp. was
found in the ashes Of straw stack at
Elwood, Ind.
William Neuman. 35, was killed while
working in Hersheys sawmill at Still
water, Mimi, by silver which pierced
his head.
Miss Nillitta Camburn IS years old,
Of Upton, Mich. was fatally burned.
Her clothing caught IRE while she was
burning the rakings OF her dooryard.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-25
MIscELLANEous.g


a new case Of smallpox has appeared
at Spring Valley, III, and seventy
houses have been quarantined.
Clarence Sampson was appointed re-
ceiver for the dry goods house of
Schmeelea & Fitzpatrick at st. Joseph,
Mo- The indebtedness is $50. 900.
summer conference will be held
at Iowa college, Grinnell, June 26 to
July ), to consider the question Can
we Have Political Revival of Chris
tianity?"
Snow fell all day Sunday in Colo
RADIO.
The Tacoma sealing schooner Ber-
ing Sea, reportea lost with all on board,
is safe.
Delegates to the Young womens
Christian association meeting at Pitts
burg, Pa, held prayer meetings and
spoke from several points.
Patrick Murphy. an inmate of the
Soldiers home at Los Angeles, Cal.
claims to be a nephew of Judge Hand
ley. of Scranton. Pa. who left an es-
tate of S2,000,O0O to charities.
-Four troops of the First Cavalry,
with Col. Arnold and Maj Viele, now
at Fort Grant, Ore. have been ordered
to exchange places with four troops of
the Seventh Cavalry, Col. Sumner and
Maj, Baldwin. now at Fort Riley, Kas
All through and local passenger trains of
the NJ, Is. x r. H. system now arrive and
depart from the Union Station at St.
Louis, Mo.
Richard Croker is so pleased with the
turf conditions in England he intends
TO nave eighteen yearlings there in the
fall.
The Kansas State Live stock SAM
tary commission has quarantined 2,1O0
OF Mexican cattle at Summit, Cowly
county.
lamp chimney factory employing
z1u hands will be established at Elwood,
Ind, in connection with the McBeth
company which will soon leave Pitts
burg for Elwood
Smallpox is under control at Shaw
neetown, III. There have been eighteen
cases and seven deaths. The quare A.
tine has been raised
G. r. Reeves, a photographer of An
derson, Ind, has been appointed re-
ceiver of public money at Dodge City,
Kan, with salary of $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bradley will cele-
brate their golden wedding next Tues
day at Auburn. Neb. Archbishop Sa-
toll has sent them a congratulatory
message.
At meeting of the directors OF the
Quincy Mining company at Boston an
extra dividend of 81 per share was de-
clared
Insurance men, at a meeting with
Mayor Koch and police and fire COM
missioners of Milwaukee. said they had
no charges to make against Fire Chief
Foley.
The executive committee Of the State
Republican League of Clubs met at
Parkersburg. w. Va. and selected
twenty six delegates to the National
League convention to be held in Cleve-
land, Ohio.
jury at Philadelphia, Pa gave Mrs
Katherine A. Smith a verdict against
the Mutual Accident Insurance assoc
citation Of New York for $40 165 or an
accident policy held by her husband
The University Peace Union cele-
brated Peace day In America" at Phil
adelphia. Resolutions were adopted
that April IS be regarded as an annual
Peace day for America and that greet
ings be sent to other republics.
The San Francisco Fruit Exchange
has protested against the decision Of
the New York board of general ap-
praisers admitting all currants. save
Zante product. free of duty. 1t is said
the treasury win appeal TO the courts
from the decision.
Gil Marker Inactive.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-25
OUR NEW GRlST MILL

At the depot is filled with
machinery of the very latest
and best make. Fine flour
and feed always on hand.
Grist work promptly done.
Our Perfection brand of -four
cannot be surpassed in quality
or for baking purposes. Pat
ronize home industries. Try
our PERFECTION and be
happy.
LANCASTER MILLING COMPANY.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-25

ReprSsen,.,e4 Cusswell of Massa-
ehusetts has Leen seriously i'll. but is
improving.
rive hundred garmentmakers are on
strike at st. Louis against the sweat
ing system
Gov. AltgeId has appointed Philip
Goethe Of Chicago and Eugene Acker-
man OF Carmi fish wardens.
Ihe Minnesota senate passed the gem
eral appropriations bill. 1t amounts to
1897. 600
hentucky's republican state central
committee will change the date of meet
ing so that it viii not occur on Decora-
ton day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-25
Big VIII. Rssnme work.

Fall River, Mass, April % The mills
have resumed operations under the
scale Of wages in operation previous to
Aug. 20. 1894. Twenty-four thousand
workers are benefited. There is every
prospect OF a fair trade during the com
ing summer, as the mills are now fairly
wall snld ahead
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-25
SPORTING NOTES.

Huret, TIE French bicycle racins
man, believes he can ride 100 miles O
the track in four hours.
Kennedy Child, See etary Ii
brit net H. n I. Of ~, ic.
Of Trade Of Cycle - alla, 81. ,,..
now an alderman in Hartford. Conn
The worlds championships for I8s
will take place al Cologne under thu
auspices Of the Deutsches Radfahrer
Bund German Cyclists Union). Al >.
II. IS and 10 There will be three con
secutive DAYS Of racing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-25
OBITUARY..

Kathleen. the eldest daughter of Mr..
Michael Davitt, the Irish leader. IS dead
Mr. Davitt has Just arrived in Australia
from England.
The Rev. G. w Winn, Methodist
minister for fifty years and one of Gen.
Morgan's faVorite scouts during the
war died at Nashville. Tenn. aged 76
Years
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-25
Kmsa Els wife and Himself.

St Louis, NO, April PA telegram!
from Paris, Tex, says that at Covenal.
/. T., George Parsons at $3.50 yester-
day afternoon shot his wife and then
killed himself. Neighbors heard the
shooting and broke in the doors. which
had been locked and found Parsons
and his wife lying dead IN the same
room 20 r = on ar ne crime
exceDi i. u'. 80 his
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-04-25

Pittsburg. Pa, April 22.-The IF
seems to have gone out of the oil mar
ket. oil opened this morning at sl.9-
bid and was offered at 1888, down /.
$l96 without any sales Only . .000 bar
rels we're sold on the Oil City exchange
up to 1920 O'Clock. The Standard again
made a reduction in the price for credit
balances of Is cents to $40
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-02
THE NET SOUTH.

A great awakening in business enter prise Is apparent in the new South. That portion of our fair land so popu-
 larly known as "Dixie's Land" appears
 to have a brighter future before it.
 There is In some parts of the Hand of cotton" very notable awakening from
 what has been a. long lethargic sleep. The South to-day as whole Is no long CT the country it was "befo de wa" Northern capital and push and North ern brains have their important share
 in the awakening but all credit to the
 southerners who grasp the situation and are laboring hand in hand, in many cases, with northern men in developing
 the great natural resources of the coun-
 try. The vast iron, oil, coal and other
 deposits that the earth so generously
 affords are to be utilized. Cotton mills
 are to be started and with fair chance
 of successful competition with those of renown in the north in some of the de-
 partments of the business. The grow
 ing of cotton is not hereafter to be the sole excuse of the cotton states for liv- ing. A new generation has succeeded that which controlled affairs at the close of the great war. New ambitions, new fields of industry, new departments of industrial activity, have developed. The old lethargic state of affairs, when cot ton was king and slavery had sway, are passing away. There is yet room for vast improvement in the South, there are knotty race problems to be settled old prejudices to be eradicated. There Is plenty of room for more of the good results attained in New England and in the eastern and middle states as well, by means of the little red school houses" and those more pretentious; in other words, the rising generation in the South needs more schooling than is obtained in most of the southern states. A New Havener recently returned from Florida was amazed to find during a ! recent three months sojourn in that state so little attention given to "school- | ing" the children. School teachers were | regarded as almost an unnecessary ex- pense, and their salaries were of the most meagre kind. The children got three months a year of schooling, but the parents had no eager aspirations for their ''o1ive branches" in this direc- tion,
 But the South has new and brighter future before it. It is yet almost soIidIy democratics but signs of a break .jn tha.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-02
HAVEN COURIER THURSDAY

head and lifted up his voice in prayers for him.
 After little he asked: DO not fa- tigue your majesty?" to which the em- peror replied: No; continue, l beg of you. It does me good and calms me, After a moments silence the emperor added! You are a holy man and just, and 1t is for that that the people love you so much, Father John replied: Yes, your majesty. your people love me- The emperor then prayed Father John to rest himself a little and to re- turn in a short time. During all this time the empress was kneeling at the left of the emperor holding his hands, which were commencing to grow cold,
 At this moment the physicians en- tered in order to lightly massage his limbs. A little before his end the empe- TOT said to Dr. Veliaminoff: Behold messleurs, the professors have departed because they can do nothing more; you alone, Nicholas Alexandroyitch, yet have hope During his last hours the emperor kissed the empress often, and at the moment when his end came he said to her (spealSing in French: T can kiss thee no more He breathed with great difficulty, His children and relatives were kneeling about him. The emperor asked them to be seated, fearing that they might become fla tigued.
 The Grand Duke Michael Alexandro- witch caressed the hand of his father, who, gazing tenderly at him, said; 'Douchkap Dear little soulD But a moment later he groaned; I feel i'll, very illp A little before the end Fath- CT John returned and resumed his pray CTS. The action of the sick mans heart became feebler and feebler and his res pirations slower and slower, Father John continued to pray At a quarter past two the emperor's spirit passed softly and almost imperceptibly away"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-02
JUST WHAT 4 LETTER ES.
An Official Definition From the Post Of-
 flee Department,

flee Department,
 tErom the Boston Evening TranscriptI
 A ruling was recently made by Post- master Coveney upon the question as to what constitutes letter "ln it's usu- al and ordinary form," and 1t has just l been confirmed by a. communication from Washington.
 The ruling and it's confirmation were the outcome of a complaint recently made to the postmaster by a gentleman who desired to send through the mails q sealed roll properly stamped and di- rected to the Commissioner of Patents at Ottawa He said that the roll con- tained plans and drawings relative to patent He had offered this roll to the clerk at the foreign window and, following out the rules of the office, the clerk refused to receive it. When asked for reasons he was referred to the postmaster. Colonel Coveney gave a decision to the effect that the term letter is to be construed to mean and embrace sealed packages consisting of an envelope of any size. but flat as is the usual letter. The objector did not think that this ruling and definition of q letter was correct, and gave his opin- lon that letter was a package con- taining personal matter of no value"
 In the communication from Washing ton, N M. Brooks, the superintendent of foreign mails, says that the Canada office and this department concur in the opinion that the term letter in its usu- al and ordinary form is to be construed to embrace sealed packages consisting of an envelope of any size, but of the usual letter shape, and it's contents; but that rolls, or a package not enclosed in an envelope, as the word envelope Is generally used, cannot be considered to be a letter in it's usual and ordinary form A sealed package fin the form of roll is therefore not entitled to trans mission in the mails exchanged between the United States and Canada, and your office was correct in declining to re- ceive the sealed roll mentioned"
 Complaints of the kind made by the gentleman who wished to forward the sealed roll have been numerous. but this is the first time in the history of the department that it has been called upon to decide what constituted a let
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-02

drugstore license costs only $1 and a saloon license $1,5OO, ,"-Boston Tran script.
 Outlawed, Mrs. Midlage - After you've been married a year or more, my dear you'll know better than to tell your husband that he owes you a lifetime of devotion. Mrs. Younglove- And why, pray2 Mrs. lage-Because he'll be sure to plead the statute of limitation. n.--TTarlem Life.
 She Had Her Own Way.-Haye you heard from your daughter since she started on her wedding tour? Is she happy?" Every much so. Only think in Venice she commenced to have her own way in everything, and ever since they left Rome she has carried the purse!"-Tagliche Rundschau.
 i've heard your preachdr half-a- dozen times" saId the boy who was whiting a stick. You people pay him S9,0OO a year, He ain't a bit bet ter than our preacher, and all we pay our'n is $900." "Yes, but our preacher says eyether and nyether, and your'n don't" replied the boy who was sharp ening his knife on his shoe.-Chicago TPibuna
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-02
NOT CAST DOWN.

The State Law and Order League has no reason to feel dlsmayed over the fate of the proposed appropriation in it's behalf in the legislature, the measure having passed the House by a big majority and having been only barely defeated In the Senate. The League has shown itself a power for good in the state and the $5,000 appro- proprlation asked for in the bill is only one-half the usual expense of the Leagues work, which has hitherto been furnished from private benevo- lence. The Leagues work is as it pur- ports to be in the interests of law and order The League has demonstrated its usefulness and that it has a special field and the amount of the appropriation which the state was asked for, is only one-ffth the amount that has been paid into various town treasuries as the result of prosecutions the League has instituted for the enforcement of law