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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-05-22

PIrrsBURG. May 22.--All the mines
on the Wheeling division of the Baltl-
more and Ohio railroad are i'll opera
tion in tull. This is a great victory
for the operators, as this district was
made the battle-ground III the miners
strike The ope ,ators claim they have
all the men they want at 60 cents. 1t
is generally believed that the strike Is
ON it's last legs and that before the
week closes most of the mines will be
in Oneratinn
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No Truth In the Report.

SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 22.-There
is no truth in the report that ex-Presi-
dent Harrison will attend the golden
jubilee of the University of Notre
Dame, June II, l2 and 13. 1t is Off
cially denied by President Morrissey,
who says Mr. Harrison refused the in
vitation. President Morrissey goes to
Indianapolis this week and will try tc
get Mr.. Harrison to reconsider, how
ever
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Q|CD0N9LD Bros,
Leading hardware Merchants
and plumbers.
IA Prices cream Lak,r2 luwct-~
Most Perfect Made
NEWS BRIEFLY REPORTED

Medical men o. st. Paul have decided
that John Barri>on Il Of hydrophoba.
Pat Jenson, Il Iaborer, OF Oakland,
Cal, has just received information that
he is heir to a vast estate in England
The Norwegiai ship f. J. Ed, coal
laden from Grimsbey for San Diego,
Cal, now 2lS days out, has been given
up by shipping men of that port
According to advices received from
the island OF Madagascar, fever is raw
aging the French troops composing the
expeditionary force operating against
the Hovas.
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CHICAGO, May 22.-A meeting of the
eyecutlya comm mittee OF the Western
Lines Passenger association has been
called for May 2S. Local associations
will be by that time running in Kansas
City and ST. Louis and 1t Is thought
their organization viii by the end OF
the N opth ear away the obstacles that
have up te the present time prevented
the reorganization of the general asso-
citation.
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Iron Hall Claims.

INDIANAPOLIS, May 22.-An order of
large Importance to the Iron Hall
claims all over the country was issued
by Judge Masters of the supreme
court. Upon the application of Re-
ceiver Failey the court directed that
June 10 be fixed as the final date, OH Or
before which all branches of the order
must complete their accountings with
the receiver.
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PORTAGE, Wis. May 22.-The 18th
annual reunion of the Thirty-second
regiment of Wisconsin volunteer infan-
try survivors viii be held i'll this city
June 4, 5 and g. On the 9TH the veter-
ans will have an excursion to the dalies
at kilbourn. 1t is expected that fully
100 members will attend.
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THAI NORTHERN PACIFIC DEAL.
some of the Committee Opposed to the
Berlin Plan.

some of the Committee Opposed to the
Berlin Plan.
New YoRK,, May 22.-The indications
are tssSft the road to reorganization Of
the Northern Pacific property will not
prove a primrose path, but rather a
steep and thorny way, before the
company be put on sound and sub
stantial basis.
1t leaked out that the reorganization
committee have just had secret meet
ing to discuss the plan telegraphed
from Berlin, and that it does not find
favor with all the members. Further
than this, there is reason to believe that
Brayton Ives, the president of the
Northern Pacific, will lead the stock
holders in fight to save as much from
the wreck as possible.
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Receivers Appointed.

MILWAUKEE, May 22.-The Central
Trust and North American companies
made application to the United States
court for the appointment of receivers
for the Milwaukee Street Railway
company and Judge jenkins appointed
Henry c. Payne of this city, who is
vice president of the company and
George r. Sheldon Of New York, who
represents the Central Trust company.
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Mr.. Olney After Infor nation.

Sioux FALLS, s. D., May 2l.-Judge
Edgerton has received a letter from At
torney General Olney asking him to
explain why United States commits
sioners in South Dakota are issuing
warrants for the arrest OF Indians for
bigamy, when the United States law
does not recognize su~h ap offans4
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CHILD LABOR IN WISCONSIN.
Law Is Being Violated and Prosecution
VIII Follow.

Will Follow.
MILWAUKEE, May 22.-Labor Com
missioner Erickson, through his fac
tory inspectors, is gathering statistics
as to the number of children under IA
years OF age employed in factories in
Wisconsin. Inspector Fisher has can
passed about one third of the factories
OF Milwaukee, and has found enough
cases to make it certain that several
hundred children under the legal age
ara employed. At Oshkosh also many
children are found working mainly in
the furniture factories. Prosecutions
will follow in a number of cases.
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Eiebt With Tramns.

CREsToN, Ia. May 2l.-Officers at
tempted to arrest gang of tramps at
Charlton. A battle ensued, i'll which
Constable Boylan was probably fatally,
and Marshal Hixson slightly injured
by a bullet. The tramDs escaped.
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st. Paul Union stock Yards.
SOUTH ST. PAUL, Nav 81, lS9'

SOUTH ST. PAUL, MAY 81, lS9b
HOGSAMarket 5@l0c higher; quality
fair to good. Range of prices, s4.3@
GAO.
CATTLE-Market strong and active;
good demand for fat cattle and good quail
ity feeders .-
Prime steers. $4,000 80; GOOD steers,
s.. 5o@4.oo: prime cows, $2.75@3.75 good
cows, ~ 25G2.75; common to fair cows,
81 5O@2 25; light veal calves, s3OO@4. 90;
heavy calves, 81 OO@3.OJ; stockers. 81. 75(G
$50; feeders, $2.2j@3.OO.
SHEEP-Market steady.
Muttons, S3 COCA 25; lambs, s., 3,75@4. IS,
common, $2.25G250.
Receipts: Hogs, 500; cattle, so.
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WAsHINGroS, May 22.-Miss May
Dodge, better known as Gan hamilton,
is III very precar Gus cond uun, AID
practically all hopes OK r. oyery have
been abandoned. Sne is sinking s,e..L-y.
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Prove to he Bank Robbers.

PAMA, Ills, May %. The men Civ
ing their names as Lawrence Sullivan,
William Munroe and Robert e. Law
renee, tramps arrested at Taylorsville.
prove to be the burglars who robbed
the bank of Orion, Ind. of "a, 500 in
coin and currency. Locks found in
their possession have been fitted to the
robbed hank
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THE PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.
Pittsburg Convention Gets Down to Rou
.r.-.~.-, tine Work.

Pittsburg Convention Gets Down TO Kou-
.~.-.~r~. tine Work.
PlTTsBURG, May 22.:-The fifth days
session of the Presbyterian assembly
was opened by devotional service led
by Judge Hibbard Of Chicago. The
chair was occupied by Governor Beaver,
the vice moderator.
DR.. George Norcross of Carlisle, Pa,
presented the subject of home missions,
which was the first regular order to be
reached by the assembly, on account of
the long delay caused by the seminary
question. The report showed that in
the quarter century since the reunion
of the two branches of the church, the
annual receipts had grown from $685.
43O to the sum of 1884, 529.
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LATEST MARKET REPORT
Milwaukee Grain.

Milwaukee Grain.
MILWAUKEE, May 81 1895
FLOUR-Steady
WHEAT-No. , spring, 7I24c; No.
Northern, 76c: July, 72Ac,
CORN-No. 3, SIC.
OATS-No. 2 white, 321!c; No. 3 white,
32@32Ac.
BARLEY-No >, 4SXc: sample 49l4@
49Lc.
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WAS HIS OPPONENT FOR OFFICE
Attorney General Haskell Of Montans
VIII Marry Miss Knowles.

Attorney General Haskell Of Montana
VIII Marry Miss knowles.
PORTLAND. Or. May :2.-Attorney
General Haskell of Montana passed
through P.rtland on his way to San
Francisco to marry Miss Knowles. The
lady was his competitor in the last
election in Montana There was also
another candidate, and when Miss
Knowles with.Cew from the race it be-
came all open secret that she had made
q proposition to one of them to marry
him on condition that she withdrew
from the contest. 1t was not known
which of the candidates entered into
the deal with her until General Has
kell reached this city and his friends
learned of his mission to San Francisco.
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DULUTH May II. 1895.
WHEAT Cash, MAY. No. hard,
754c; No. Northern. 7lAc; July, No. |
Northern, 1514c; September, No. North
ern, 12A.
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Chicago Union stock Yards.

CHICAGO, May 2l, 1895.
HOGS-Market rather slow and easy at
early advance.
Sales ranged at S4.35@l7O for light;
SA45(0475 for mixed; 81 30 G4.s 80 for heavy
packing and shipping lots 81. 4.3O94.5O for
rough.
CATTLE-Market quiet and steady.
Dressed beef and shipping steers. 81 $50
So; cows and bulls, $2.0095.0O; Texans,
S2. 5O(G5.O0.
SHEEP Market active at lO1l5c
higher.
sheep 5000.
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Minneapolis Grain.
MINNEAPOLIS, May q. lS

WHEAT - May, 7415c: June, 1412c;
July. 7419;; Sc ..., 1OH; On
Track-No | hard, e; No. | Northern,
75c: No. . Northern. ~ l..
The herald., 1895-12-22

coveries concerning evasions of the
law for which the foundation was
then laid have led to ell the subse-
quent legislstions and very numerous
rulings of the treasury department
and decisions of the supreme court of
the United States which have since
gone on record. These we're compare
lively few who were familiar with these
facts. or the two judges who sat re-
spectively in the United States circuit
and district courts, neither survives;
and it is very singular fact that dur
ing the height Of the excitement
and during the period Of some
months while Chinese habeas
corpus cases or cases in which
Chinese appeared as petitioners
for the writ of habeas corpus, were
common and numerous, few white peo-
pie were in attendance. 1t was very
uncommon to see over half dozen
white persons in either of the court
rooms who we're not called there by
their duties as court officials, attor-
neys, or reporters for the daily news
papers. Bot there has been nothing
like it in the history Of jurisprudence
az regards the number of persons
claiming to be unlawfully restrained
Of their liberty; nothing like it in
many features, one being the daily ap-
pearance in court of the highlander
with his ever ready pistol and knife
resolutely determined upon blackmail.
Copyright 1895, by r. Garner Cprran.
The herald., 1895-12-22

so az to smuggle them in free of duty.
The Chinese friends Of the applicants
pointed out that this apparel was proof
of their wealth, that it evidenced suf-
f1cient resource to entitle them to be
considered not laborers, but some one
Of the privileged characters who we're
exempted from the restriction laws.
All the noted highbinders of China
town were there. Slim young Chinese
girls with jade stone rings or bracelets
around their wrists and around their
ankles, but with feet large enough to
indicate that they were not merchants
wives or daughters, were on the inner
enclosure, facing the judge from two
sides of the room. Their hair was
plastered with some adhesive substance
30 that it was as rigid as the laws of
the Medes and Persians. Their cheeks
fiared with fast color bountifully put
on, as red as the flush of an Arctic
sunrise. They looked at nothing par
ticularly; they we're not mo est; they
we're Indifferent. They came in with
the calm docility of animals led to the
shambles. Under what circumstances
they had left China, it ia still difficult
to determine. They we're worth q
market price in San Francisco and the
law concerning wines, making age bring
more value, was overturned in this
case, for the younger they were the
more they would bring. They we're
articles of merchandise. In their al
mond-shaped eyes was no manifesto
ton of guile. They might have been
gazelles or some other shy animal If
outward appearance could be relied
upon to determine their character
istics.
Not far from the front row, back of
the stout oak railing, were subjects
who would have excited the humor of
the gentlemen, who, in America, get
existence out of "misfit parlors," gawky
Chinese boys with coarse hands, with
startled, hunted expression, having
undoubtedly in their mind that on the
issue of this, to them Incompetent
sible proceeding, was freedom from all
the poverty which, had they remained
in China, would have been their in
evitable lot. The highbinders we're in
court as arbitors and their pistols and
knives, hid up in their capacious
sleeves, were the final arguments which
they might be expected to employ
The point of controversy between them
was how blackmail could be extorted for
furnishing sufficient testimony to land
The herald., 1895-12-22

to the department OF state OF the gov
eminent of the United States. The
consul-general at New York and the
consul at San Francisco communicated
continually and there was shibbOleth
in the air of consular certificates, Can
ton certificates, merchants certificates,
laborers' certificates. Hundreds of
persons arrived at the port of San
Francisco on single steamer who were
detained on shipboard on the allega-
ton of the collector Of the port Of San
Francisco, that they were not entitled
to enter the United States. Impaseive
as the grest majority Of their race in
the presence Of temporary difficulties,
they sat in picturesque groups around
the deck of the steamers Of the Pacific
Mail and the Oriental and Occi-
dental Steamship company smoking
opium, eating rice, ruminat-
ing. Runners between Chinatown
and the steamers sped back and forth
between the mail dock and the center
Of Chinese population in this city,
carrying messages. One Chinese
scholar who had the scholarly reputa-
ton of being able to read aud write
all Chinese dialects fuently, who,
moreover, was imbued with interna-
tionsl patriotism, devised a newspaper
in one of Chinatown's alleys, printed
part in Chinese and part in English,
The herald., 1895-12-22
EVILS OF COFFEE DRINKING

Excessive use of alcoholic drinks is
not the only way to develop delirium
tremens," said physician yesterday.
II noticed an item in a daily paper a
few days ago to the effect that woman
near Fort Dodge. Iowa, had died of de-
lirium trsmens brought on by the ex-
cessive use of strong coffee, and know
Of case developed here some time ago
by the same means. The Fort
Dodge woman drank from ten
to twelve cups Of strong coffee
at every meal, and in the case
refer to here the man drank as much
of the strongest coffee to be had. I
have read of number of cases of this
kind of late. remember when I was
called to look after the case refer to
here and ascertained, after had dis
covered that it was a case of delirium
tremens that the man had never
used strong drink, I could hard
ly believe it. of course
knew that the effect of too much coffee
WAS bad, but did not know that any.
one found drinking coffee to excess a
habit worth following. The seemingly
increasing number Of such cases
perhaps deserves more than pass
ing attention, and we may be steadily
developing another evil worse in its
effects than the use of alcoholic drinks
to excess. But, while coffee drinking
may become general bad habit, dc
not think that it will ever develop into
anything like the evil that the exces.
sive use of alcoholic drinks has proved
to be-"
Proprietors of cafes and restaurants
are of the opinion that the use of coffee
is increasing, and there are several
cafes in Milwaukee that find the sale
of coffee alone very profitable.-Mil-
waukee Sentinel.
The herald., 1895-12-22

story, went with Macpherson to Chris
ties hill, carried the body away, dug a
grave in dry ground and there buried
the remains. To all his own share in
the business Farquharson swore posi-
lively and emphatically expressed his
belief that Macpherson had told moth
ing but the truth. The only other
person to whom Macpherson confided
the story was John Gre ar of Dali
hownie, who deposed that Macpherson,
under strict promise of secrecy. told
him few days after the apparition
had appeared for the second time how
he, in obedience to its commands, had,
with the assistance of Donald Farqu-
harson, buried the body.
But there was still stronger corrob-
grafton of Macpherson's strange story
in the evidence given by Isabel Ma
charlie of Inverey, who deposed that
on the night on which Macpherson de-
clared that he saw the apparition for
the second time, she sleeping at the
the other end of the shealing, in the
portion set apart for the women, most
distinctly saw 'something naked come
in at the door and go straight to Mac
pherson's bed, which frightened her so
much that she drew the clothes over
her head; that when it appeared il
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came in bowling posture, but she
could not tell what it WAS; that next
morning she asked Macpherson what
it wes that had troubled him the night
before, and that he had answered she
might be easy, for it would trouble
them no more"
The counsel for the prisoners WAS
one of the most eminent advocates In
Scotland, Alexander Lockhart. He was
a notorious Jacobite, and had gained
for himself much celebrity by defend
ing the prisoners captured after the
rising of AS. AS in duty bound he
threw ridicule upon this story of the
ghost, and he made his great point
when, in cross-examination of Mac
pherson, who could speak nothing but
Gaelic, and whose evidence had to be
interpreted to the court, he said to tho
witness: "What language did the
ghost speak in?"
TO which Macpherson promptly re-
piled: "As good Gaelic as ever I heard
in Lochaber."
"Pretty good for the ghost of an
English sergeant" said Lockhart, and
there was general laughter in court.
His case was won. The jury's verdict
| was mot guilty."-Chicago Times
Herald.
The herald., 1895-12-22
Up.
"When?"
Bout seven years ago."
"Huh!"
A CHAMPION HARD.LUCK STORY

"Talk about hard-luck stories," said
a western gambler. II think can dis
count anything you ever heard. It
was in the early days in Leadville, just
about this time of the year, and I tell
you it does get cold up in the hills
along about now. Well, I was broke,
didn't have copper, and had strolled
into gambling house to get warm.
There we're several games going on,
and when l had thawed out little I
walked over to the faro layout where
went broke the night before. As
said. it was very cold night. The
snow had sifted through the cracks,
and I could feel the wind blowing
in on my feet. happened to glance
down at the floor, where, by the
eide of my right foot was
lying what 1 thought was a
quarter. I had been watching the
game closely, making imaginary plays.
'I'll play 25 cents open on the ace,' I
said to the dealer, and in a moment
more it won. The dealer handed me
two white chips. played again and
again won, and before the end of the
deal had a nice stack of chips. It
seemed to me I could't lose bet, and
in half an hour had a couple of hum
dred dollars worth of chips before me.
I concluded to cash in and stacked my
chips, pushing them toward the dealer
He counted them and, looking up at
me, said: Where's that quarter you
made your first bet onT had for
gotten all about it. I looked on the
floor; the quarter was gone. I lit q
match and saw that what I had sup
posed to be silver quarter was simply
q wet spot. 1t was originally bit OF
ice, but the heat from my foot had
melted it. OF course the dealer proper
ly refused to cash my chips."
The herald., 1895-12-22

and having on the first page the
American and dragon flags lovingly
INTERVENING, was one of the interpre-
ters. He WAS Christianized Chinaman
and his characteristics since that event
full time have been very warmly dis
cussed in and out of Chinatown. He
showed to the government officials
many things Of which they were in
ignorance. The Chinese cried out in
Chinese: "Blackmailerl" The gov
ernmeht officials and newspapers
patted him on the back and said:
Honest man." He roomed on Sac
ramento street with his wife and two
or three small mahogany-colored chill
dren. He was thin, gray, wrinkled,
ipsinuating. He was diplomat with
out title; but, all the same, when the
Ming Yung society, or some other
society (the recollection of the writer
being that it was the Ming Yung,) de-
termined to investigate Fong Sing,
there Was a Chinese "Donny brook"
fair on Sacramento street. Fong Sing
entered hall in answer to summons.
A crowd of angry Chinese filed the
street, gesticulating, throwing missiles
at this old man, for he was we'll adj
vanced in years. He succeeded in leav-
ing the place only with the assistance
of the police force of San Francisco.
He fled from Chinatown and sought
refuge in the western part of the city;
sent plaintive appeals to the custom
house, to those whom he had been
faithfully serving, for succor, and was
ignored. He was for a time in danger
of his life. His Chinese American
newspaper ceased to exist. His family
and himself sought safer quarters.
Months after, when the excitement had
partly subsidized, he found his way
back to Chinatown; polished up his
knowledge as Chinese fortune-teller
and started to the eastern states, where
he told many fortunes and coined much
money. and gracefully returned to
Hong Kong.
There was one night when the excite
nent over these cases reached its
height. Mr.. McAllister, he who was
afterwards district judge for the terri
tory of ALASKA, WAS assistant district
attorney, and took part in the prose-
cution Of these cases, and there were
so man applicants for relief on the
habeas corpus that the day sessions of
the court were insufficient to transact
all the business. So, when a night
session was held, out from Chinatown,
on a dark autumn night, swarmed
hundreds of Chinese, all having the
same destination and that the place
where the United States district court,
presided over by Judge Hoffman, dis
pensed justice. The room was divided
into three parts, one being that &C.
cupied by the Judge, who had raised
dias, on which also was seated the clerk
of the court. Then there WAS a large
open space customarily occupied by
witnesses and lawyers, newspaper men
and privileged persons generally. Then
there WAS stout oak railing stained
to initiate black walnut, three feet
high, and an enclosed area which ex-
tended the entire width of the court
room and was perhs 9 Is or 20 feet
deep with rows Of iron chairs, the seat
ing capacity being 200 or 300. Into the
courtroom, which was brilliantly
lighted, trooped this array from China
town. It was like dress parade of
Mongolians. Every applicant vas
attired in silk. The customs officer
saidsthat they wore these silk garments