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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-04-18
FREE SILVER IN ILLINOIS.
Ex-Judge Mcdonnell, IA Prominently Dem
ocrat, Favors 1t.

Ex-Judge Mcdonnell, Prominent.Dem-
ocrat, Favors 1t.
CHICAGO, April 1.-THE uncertainty
OF The Democratic party of illinois on
the silver question was further en- pha-
sized to-day by the action OF exJudqe
Samuel P. Mcconnell in coming out In
an extended interview as an out-and-
GUS advocate Of the free coinage of
ailver.
The usteranoe of Mr.. Mcconnell ia
particularly significant. owing to the
TACT thas he holds prominent position
In the councils of his party locally. was
mentioned ae a candidate for mayor, is
president OF the Iroquois Club, and is
said to have his eye on the gubernato-
rial nomination.
Judge Mcconnell g rstraight out talk
startled the party leaders not little.
Ex-Prestdent A. Il. Ewing of the Iro-
quois Club, joins issue with Judge Me-
Connell. Mr.. Ewing declares that Mr..
MoConnells utterances do not exnress
the sentiment of the club.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-04-18

We Are Going the Rounds "
For those who have requested
us to examine their roofs, gut.
tere. etc, and would be pleased
to SERVE YOU while In
your neighborhood.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-07-13
The McLeans Ahead.

The following is an amusing instance
of the tenacity with which the High.
landers hold to the honors and an.
tiquity Of their kindred. A dispute
arose between Campbell and Mclean
upon the never-ending subject. Nc
Lean would not allow that the Camp.
bells had any right to rank with the
McLeans in antiquity, who, he insisted,
were in existence as a clan from the
beginning Of the world. Campbell has
a little more Biblical lore than his an.
tagonist, and asked him if the Clan
Mclean lived before the flood. Flood
What food?" said Mclean.
'"The flood that you know drowned
all the world but Noah and his family
and his focks,'' said Campbell. ~
Pooh! you and your flood" said Nc.
Lean; "my clan was before the food. u
Il have not read in my Bible,'' OBJ,
served Campbell. "of the name Of Nc.
Lean going into Noah's ark"
'Noahs ark" retorted Mclean in
contempt, who ever heard Of a Mo.
Lean that had not a boat Of his own :,
Household words. T. -
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-07-13
A HYMENEAL MISHAP.

The Bride Went Through the Cere-
mony Under Difficulties.
All wedding ceremonies do not go
off as smoothly as that of Miss Mae
W. Clemmons and Ezra Twitchell
Shedd, who were married night before
last at Mr.. Shedds residence, 3233
Forest avenue, and apropos of this
fact, in the course of the evening the
Rev. Simon J. Mcpherson, who Off
ciated, tells Of 4 brides affliction in
the following amusing story:
''It was very swell wedding. Just
as the bride had reached the altar
she felt that something connected
with the waistband Of her skirts had
given away. 1t was an appalling mo-
ment. In anticipation cf departing
for the East Immediately after the
ceremony she had doEned two warm
under petticoats, a.silk one and little
flannel one. Which Of these two had
given way she was at a loss to con-
ceive, In an agony Of apprehension
she lowered her head as she stood to
hide the color which rushed to her
face, and while she extended one
hand to receive the ring which was to
change her, as at the touch Of an en-
chanter's wand, from Miss to Mrs,
she pressed the other tightly against
her waist in hopes to avert the ex-
pected catastrophe. Thus, holding
her hand in the same position, she
proceeded down the aisle beside her
husband, experiencing, as she told an
intimate friend, the tortures Of the
damned. By the time she had
reached her carriage she had lost con-
troll Of the petticoat. She stepped in
and it fell at her feet. She kicked it
under the seat and burst into tears
(which petticoat was it!' asked an
interested lady auditor.
ut was the little flannel one."-Chi-
cago Dispatch. ,s. }...
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-07-13

where it does exist the present day
punishment Of the Scat inflicted with
an instrument that carries no knots
and seldom more than fifteen or twen-
ty strokes, is not to be compared with
the savage foggings of the past.
GThe Russian "knout," however, is a
much more terrible instrument of tor
ture than the "cat," as will be seen
from the accompanying Illustration
And, unfortunately, one never knows
for certain how much Of the knout is
left in modern Russia. The telegraph
wire still at times carries the horrid
whizz of it from remote Siberia, and
only the other day came the news
from st. Petersburg of new imperial
ukase ''abolishing the use of the knout
for the punishment of offenses COM
mitted by the peasantry, who have
hitherto been completely at the mercy
of the local judges in this respect, be-
cause statistics were submitted to the
| 3czar, showing that in ten years 5000
tlpersons, mostly guilty of thefts Of
tlproduce, had died after punishment
with the knout"
FS} Granted the 1infiction Of the-knout,
| the 5000 deaths are easily believed !;
| the instrument itself (supposing this
| report to be true) evidently dies harder
than it's victims. But even in Russia,
where the rod and it's equivalents have
| had more extended and bloody exist
| ence than in any other European state,
the humaner spirit of the age has been
/ felt, and one is disposed to regard
as exaggerated the statements just
| quoted. Certainly it had been gen.
orally supposed that the knout was
abolished for all but the gravest Of
fenses, as long ago as 1866. But Rus
sia has never been governed wholly
by it's written laws, and there are
regions of that empire where ukase
may be slow to reach the local
iudgeS.''
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-07-13
THE MAGNETIC STROMSTADTS,
They Drank Iron Water and Were
Magnetized by Lightning.

They Drank Iron Water and Were
Magnetized by Lightning.
A remarkable story comes from the
upper Yakima. Two years ago Mr..
Peter Stromstadt located on a piece
of land near what is now known as
Barox Springs, his family consisting
of his wife and two children. A few
days after his settlement Mr.. @Strom-
stadt discovered a spring close to the
shack he had erected, the water Of
which was strongly impregnated with
iron, but was not unpalatabl ble. Mr..
Stromstadt dug out and deepened the
spring, and since July, 1893, the fam
lily have used the -~-ater for all domes-
tic purposes. ..!:.!: - -:
On the night of April heavy elec-
trical storm passed over the Cascades,
accompanied by vivid displays Of
lightning. The following morning Mrs.
Stromstadt, while kindllng the fire in
the stove, found it almost impossible
to separate the stove litter from her
hand. Her husband, hearing her CALL
ran to her assistance, when, to his sur
prise, he found that he too, expert
enced great difficulty in detaching any
article of iron with which his hands
came in contact. Breakfast was finally
prepared and the family sat down to
the meal The children, two girls of
five and seven years, drank their milk
from tin cups, and upon raising their
cups to their lips found themselves
unable to detach the cups from their
mouths. Mr.. Stormstadt, who is an
Intelligent immigrant from Sweden,
was nonplussed, and while unable to
account for the wonderful occurrences,
nevertheless laughed at his wife's ex-
cited declarations that the family
were Dewiched. Mr. Stromstadt has
written friend in town. He says
that the small bed on which the chill
dren sleep is upon roller casters and
that in the morning the bed invariably
pointed north and south, the bed be-
ing little to the east of north.
The case in one of the most renlarka-
BILE on record. A member of the
Academy Of Sciences, to whom the cir
cumstances were related, states that
the Stromstadt family have become
saturated with iron, which was rem
dered magnetic by the passage of elec-
trlclty from the clouds to the earth
during the storm on the night of April
2; and they are actual human magnets,
Tacoma Daily News.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-07-13
The Dog Understood.

Sir Walter Scott tells of the remark-
able comprehension of human Ian
guage evinced by his bulldog terrier,
named Camp. He understood so many
words that Sir Walter felt sure an in
tercourse with dumb animals might
be enlarged. Camp once bit the baker,
for which Sir Walter thrashed him
and explained the wickedness Of his
act. To the last moment Of his life
this brilliant dog understood every
aIusion to the circumstances, and
would, when it was mentioned. get up
and retire into the darkest corner Of
the room, with the appearance of great
Distress If Sir Walter said the "ba-
ker was not hurt" Camp came for
ward, barked, capered and rejoiced;
if, however it was said that the baker
died or was very Ill Camp would re-
main sorrowful for long time in his
retreat.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-07-13
HYPNOTIZED BY HIS NERVE.
Young Man Who stopped IL Street
Car to Strike His Match On.

Car to Strike His Match On.
One evening not long ago a yellow
car was jolting along West Ninth
street, and just as it had bumped over
the mule car tracks on Broadway a
well-dressed young man stepped off
the curb and hailed it. The gripman
threw his levers this way and that
and brought the car to a standstiH
opposite the young man.
Between the young mans lips was
an unlighted cigar, and in his fingers
a match. When the car had fully
stopped the young man carefully
scratched his match on tie side of it
and slowly lighted his cigar. The
gripman was looking at him in a fas-
cinated way. When the cigar was
lighted and drawing freely the young
man waved the car along, nodding his
thanks to the gripman, and stepped
back to the sidewalk. 1t happened so
quickly so naturally, and so altogether
as matter of course, that all the
gripman could say was: "Wcll, I be
damn" The passengers gazed stupid
ly at the young man, who was walk
ing slowly away, hypnotized by his
nerve.-kansas City Star.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-07-13
SOME LUCKY FINDINGS.
Apparently Worthless Objects for
Which Collectors Pay Large


''Lucky finds Of curios that have
brought goodly sums of money to
their discoverers happen frequently"
said a stamp collector. "Every col
1ector Of postage stamps has had ex-
periences in this line or knows of the
finds of friends.
''Some time ago it was chronicled
that the original plate for printing the
stamps issued by the postmaster of
Providence, R. l., back in the '4Os,
had been discovered. It was sold by
the finder for neat sum in four
figures.
"A schoolbOy not long ago, in a
small stamp collection he had pur-
chased, found 3O-cent United States
stamp of the issue of 1859, in two
colors, with portion of the design
printed in one of the colors, inverted,
| or upside down, instead Of normal
The collection had cost him So. The
same stamp has since been sold for
$3.50.
"Some of the revenue stamps which
which used to come on match boxes
and patent medicine bottles are now
very rare. Collectors who, years ago,
took certain varieties off the original
boxes and bottles, have since sold
them for $50 or $1OO. They cost their
possessors nothing but the trouble Of
soaking them from their resting
places.
''Finds Of rare coins are not so
common as discoveries of rare
stamps, but occasionally some one
runs across rarity in plowing in
the fields or in tearing down an old
house.
"The dollar Of 1904 is, perhaps. the
rarest of United States coins, in value
running from $4,000 up. 1t is said
that some of these have been found
by accident.
was sold in England for 300 guineas,
Whlch originally was bought for IF
from a French fisherman. 1t is
thought that some eggs of this extinct
bird may yet be hanging undiscovered
among strings of eggs in the fishing
novels Of the New England, Nova
Sctia or British coast.
Luck finds also include the dis
covery of meteoric stones. Such
stones have brought big sums to their
d1scoverers. An expert recognizes
them by their fused skin-like cover
ings, but farmers, no doubt, have
plowed many of them up and thrown
them aside as pebbles.
"a few years ago a small meteoric
stone. worth 500, was lost by George
r. Kunz, the gem expert Of Tiffany Il
Co., the jewelers., in an elevated rail-
road train. It*did not turn up in the
lost property room. Tnough q reward
was offered, nothing was ever heard
of it, and its ultimate resting place
was. doubtless, the ash-bin."- New
York Evening Sun.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-07-13
AnecdOte of Lessinx.

Observation-Disclosures has been fre-
quently a characteristic Of men Of
fame. 1t is to be supposed, no doubt,
that their minds have been so wholly
absorbed by great matters that the
smaller, more trivial things of life
have been considered unworthy Of
their attention. Among men Of this
stamp who have suffered in this way
was Lessing, q famous German wri-
ter of plays and books OF criticism.
Lessing discovered at one period Of
his life that he was being robbed Of
his ready money by some person in
his home, and, unable to determine
who the culprit was, he put the SER
wants Of his household to test by
leaving a handful of gold upon his
breakfast table one morning
Meeting friend he told him what
he had done.
THAT was risky" said his friend.
"How much did you leave thereT'
Dear me-! cried Leasing. ar quite
forgot to count" ."-Harper's Round
Table. :! +
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-07-13
The &ybarlteS.

In the south Of Italy there was once
a f1ourishing Greek colony called Sy-
baris. The town was we'll situated
for commerce, the surrounding country
was very fertile, the climate was the
finest in the world and for centuries
the Sybarites were Industrious and en-
terprising, carrying on a profitable
trade with other countries and heap
Ing up immense wealth. But too much
good fortune finally proved their ruin.
Little by little they lost their habits
of labor and thrift, and instead gave
themselves up to pleasure. Finally,
leaving all kinds of necessary work to
their slaves, they laid aside the cares
Of life, and spent their days in eating
and drinking, in dancing and in list
ening to fine music, or in attending
the circus and watching the feats Of
acrobats or performing animals.-
James Baldwin in st. Nicholas.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-07-13
Training for a Pirate.

An item concerning Washington
Irving, for the truth Of which we can
not vouch, although it contains a deal
OF good advice for certain youngsters
Of the present time, has lately come to
our notice. It is to this intent:
Washington Irving, in lis youth,
had longing to so to sea and be
piarate. He determined to make the
attempt, but wisely decided to prepare
himself for it by preliminary expert
ence. He began by eating salt pork.
That made him sick. He then sleEt
for a night or so on hard boards.
Ihat made him sore. That was
enough. He had no more desire to 90
away. Other boys who want to cap
ture men-of-war or who desire to 20
scouting and scalp Indians, would do
Well to Initiate young Irving's eE
ample.-Harper's Round Table.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-07-13
these cruel Indians gA you away
down In Missouri

"'Wel&, to make a long story short,
Doe, about three weeks ago one even
ing was standing on the veranda Of
my fathers house when Buffalo Bill
and about twenty scouts rode by. One
of the men turned and came in the
yard. He asked me for a drink.
went into the house and got him a
glass of water. When I handed it to
him he pointed a six-shooter at me
and said: If you utter a word you
are dead He grabbed me and swung
me on the saddle and rode away on a
breakneck speed. After riding q few
hours we came to a camp. Here the
man took camping outfit and drove
for three weeks, when we arrived at
the Niobrara river. It was about sun
down when we got there. We were
there but few minutes when we saw
band of Indians riding toward U.S.
He knew if he would stay that he
would be killed, so he mounted his
best horse and rode in the opposite d.
rection from the way the Indians were
coming. The Indians took me and
told me that they were going to take
me before the man Of war, and that I
would soon be killed. 1t was two
days. riding. When we arrived at
White river, or the Man of Wars
camp, it was about half an hour be-
fore you came
"'Do you know the name of the man
that stole you away from home? I
asked
Eyes. He told me his name was
Dave Tutt'
"'Oh, yes, I know him well: but
when we meet it will either be Dave
Tutt or Doc Middleton. But we must
lose no more time here, as it is yet
twenty miles to Fort Sheridan, and
we must be there by dawn
II mounted Jaronamou and took the
girl in my arms, and we arrived at
Fort Sheridan at 5 o'clock. Here we
were met by Helen's father, Mr.. Ray
mond. The meeting was indeed hap
py one. Mr.. Raymond had tracked
Dave Tut to the Niobrara river. There
he lost the trail and accidentally came
to Fort Sheridan.
''Mr. Raymond handed me a roll Of
bills, but told him did not care for
the money, as such things as that
often happened in the West. A few
days ago when was in st. Louis I
met Miss Raymond and she is now the
wife Of wealthy banker at St.. Louis.
"Sitting Bun was the Man of War
of the great Sioux tribe ever since he
was eighteen years of age, and his
daily prayer to the Messiah was to
meet his companions in the happy
hunting grounds. and since his death
in the Wounded Knee battle the great
Sioux tribe have been unable to find
a man as brave as Sitting Bull, and
they meet every full moon and pray
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-07-13

The statistics show that there is
used in the manufacture of the Royal
Baking Powder more than half Of the
cream of tartar consumed in the
United States for all purposes. The
wonderful sale thus indicated for the
Royal Baking Powder greater than
that Of all other baking powders COM
bined-is perhaps the highest evidence
of the superiority Of this article, and
of it's indispensa bleness to modern
cookery.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-07-13

Thirty Pounds of Stone Broken
by One Pound of Wood.
At Bangalore, in Southern India, the
quarrying Of granite slabs by means
of wood fire has been brought to such
perfection that an account of the
method is interesting. The rock forms
solid masses uninterrupted by cracks
for several hundred feet, and when
quarried over an area is treated as
follows: A narrow line of wood fire,
perhaps seven feet long, is gradually
elongated, and at the same time
even surface of solid rCck The line
of the general splitting Of the rock.
light wood, which have been left
burning in their position until strokes
with a hammer Indicate that the rock
in front Of the fire has become de-
tached from the main mass under
meath. The burning wood is then
pushed forward a few inches, and left
until the hammer again indicates that
the slit has extended.
Thus the fire is moved on, and at
the same time the length of the line
of fire is increased and made to be
convex on the side of the fresh rock,
the maximum length of the arc
amounting to about twenty-five feet
1t is only on this advancing line of
fire that any heating takes place, the
portion which has been traversed be-
ing left to itself. This latter portion
is covered with the ashes left by tho
wood, and with tnin splipters which
have been burst off. These splinters
are only about one eighth of an inch
in thickness and few inches across.
They are quite Independent of the
general splitting Of the rcck, which is
all the time going on at depth of
about five inches from the surface.
The burning lasts eight hours, and the
line of fire advances at the average
rate of nearly six feet an hour. The
area actually passed over by the line
of fire is 460 square, feet, but as the
crack extends about three feet Oh
either side beyond the fire, the area of
the entire slab which is set free
measures about 74O square feet. All
this is done with, maybe, about Is
cWt. of wood. Taking the average
thickness Of the stone at five inches,
and its specific gravity at 2.62, the re-
suit is 80 pounds of stone. quarrieI
with one pound of wood.-Nature.
: > l.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1895-07-13
Il Grasped Her by the Arm and
Raised her to the Saddle,

II Grasped Her by the Arm and
Raised her to the Saddle"
twenty years ago when was working
on the Half Diamond E ranch in the
White river valley. About five miles
below the ranch was the camp of old
Sitting Bull, the famous Sioux warrior,
who was killed in the Wounded Knee
battle in $780, His camp was in the
brush about two yards from the trail,
and the weary traveller could not see
it until he stood before it.
1T was in June, and the night was
dark and cloudy. I was on my way
home from the roundup, and as was
riding slowly through the woods l
heard a peculiar cry that came in the
direction Of Sitting Bulls camp. I
stopped and listened for a moment,
and then I plainly heard the voice of
a woman, Help! Help" knew what
was up, but I was yet six miles from
the camp, and unless I could be there
in very short time it would be too
late. spurred Jaronamou (my horse),
and on, on flew like the wind. When
I came to the Woods and ever q little
hill, could see the camp fire of Sit
ting Bull and heard the war cry of
a thousand Sioux warriors, as it
sounded to me.
81 gave rein to Jarnamou and spur
red him once more, and in few min
utes I stood within twenty yards Of
the warriors. Before me were several
thousand Indians dressed in war paint,
all sitting in a circle. I stopped and
watched them for a moment Sioux
chiefs were holding a consultation,
while the warriors, two thousand
braves, were awaiting instructions
from the man Of war.
''1n the center of the circle there
was large bonfire, and beside the
bonfire sat beautiful young damsel.
She had perhaps seen eighteen sum-
mers. I had stood there but a few
minutes when she saw me. I gave
her a signal that I would save her.
Just then Sitting Bull arose and said
to his fellow warriors: oh, We war
riors brave, the Messiah has sent word
to you and I to roast this pale-faced
devil before the dawn Of day
II did not wait to hear more, as
there was no time to lose in order to
save the life Of the fair young maiden,
and as they thought the Messiah was
near them it would be the best chance
to save the girl. I gave rein to my
horse and spurred him in the fanks,
and in a second was rushing madly
toward the girl. I grasped her by the
arm and raised her to the saddle. Be-
fore the Sioux's 1000 braves overcame
their amazement I was riding swiftly
over the prairie with the fair young
maiden in my arms.
'I kept up this gait until I thought
it would be safe to rest for little
while. I rode about ten yards away
from the road and dismounted. was
there but few mizutes when heard
the tramping Of horses hofs and the
war cries of the Sioux, but I was in
the ambush, and knew could not
be seen by them. In minute more
they were dashing madly by u.s.
'After they had dashed by us the
young maiden said, in q voice SO meek
and mild, Doc, are we safe?'
eyes, darling, we are safe said I,
but how came you to know my
name?"
"'Well, Doc, don't you remember the