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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-03-21
DID NAPOLEON PROPOSE?
The Strange Letter lie Wrote to Mmt
permou.

In the March Century Prof. Sloane'>
Life of Napoleon reaches the stage
of Bonaparte'S first entry into Partisan
society. at the time just preceding his
marriage with Josephine Ir"i.
Sloane says:
When Gen. Buonararte reached
Paris. ana went to dwell in the mean
and shabby lodgings which his lean
purse compelled him 70 choose, Il"
found the city strangely metamor
phos,pl. Animated by a settled par-
pose hot to accept the n"> ton as
signed to him in the army If the
west. and, If necessary to defy as
superiorS his humor put him
,ut III all sympathy with the prevalent
-airty Bitter experience had taught
him tia, Ill civil war the Consequences
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-03-21
FROST IN CALIFORNIA
Nprirot~ and Fruits Practically Ru,
ined IN Some Sections

san Francisco March l. AayiceS
ara Is the effect that frost has prac-
tlelllv ruined the apricot crap in north
crn California Almonds prunf@
grapes aud peaches are al>o injured
III the neighhorh,od of Nacayille the
1nss i estimated ut S25aoao. about
san lose. 100000
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-03-21
MISS STEVENSON TO WE'D.
Vice Presidents Daughter Engaged
to a Theological Student

Danvilc. Ky, March a. The en-
gagemeut of Miss Julia Stevenson.
Of Wee President steven
son. and Martin Hardin. is announced.
He is son of Attorney General llar-
dim and is now student in the theo-
logical seminary here.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-03-21
BECAME SUDDENLY BLIND.


Easton Pa. March l7.-Miss LIZZIE
Schupp aged Il, became suddenly
blind last night, the optic nerves being
paralyzed She was amusing the CHI.
dren In the absence Of the parents ara
put on eye glasses. An instant after
ward she cried she could Tot see, and
although physicians have constantly
attended her since there i no improve
neut in her condition. and Il i feared
the blindness viii be permanent
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-03-21
Madison. March Is.

Madison, March Is.
Saturday. $40 p. ~, Henry Z. Thorn
chairman. of the republican state cen
trail committee, brcalhrd MS last at
his home in Wingra park suburb. The
event was not unexpected. For many
days it has been known that recovery
was not possible-that the once power
full constitution was fatally impreE-
mated with disease. For nearly week
past the patient has nOyered between
life and death. showing slight signs Of
hupr Vrment at times but being nearer
tine end after each Of these seeming
reviyalS.
The almost endless eXactonS of last
fans campo IN wore terribly on Chair
man Thorn and. combined with press
urc from those seeking office after
ward did much 10 Shattrr his nervous
system. A grave Kidney ruhle fol
lowed, the physical powers W}1e grad
ually wasted, and opened the WAY for
paralysis, which was succeeded 10y
blood poisoning. This soon stpped
what little strength remained. Death
was sudden and painless, and family
and friends We're with tar ltient
when the sad end came.
Mr. Thorn was chairman ~ the re-
publican state central conmi,te dur
ing the last campaign. and had been
for many years prominent III his par
ty. especially since his appointment by
Governor Hoard As dairy and food
commissioner in 1889. Before that
time he had been most successful
lecturer and conductor IN connection
with farmers institutes. For the past
five years he was manager &c the -Four
Lakes Light and Power company. of
Madison, and. at the last cOnveM ion
of the State Electrical association in
Milwaukee, he was made president Of
that organization. He has also been
prominent as an educator, having been
principal of the fourth ward school of
Oshkosh and superintendent of educa
ton in Rock county.
Mr. Thorn was born March 3. 1886,
at Clinton. was educated at the high
school OF that town and ut the state
normal school in Oshkosh. He mar.
ried Miss Julia Scott a daughter OF
Winfield Scott. of Oshkosh, and leaves
four children; two boys and two girls
Governor Upham said last night:
In the death of Mr.. III. G. Thorn his
family have lost model husband and
father. Their loss is irrepIrable. The
state has lost noble citizen. and as
chairman of the republican party he
dignitied the position he so ably filled
by his uprightness and purity of char
acter. The people regardless of party
will mourn his loss +"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-03-21
END COMES AT LAST
CHAIRMAN THOM'S WEARY
STRUGGLE DER.
FAMILY AND FRIENDS Al THE
STRICKEN HOME

The Sad Finale FOregone Conclusion
For Many Days-Brief Sketch OF
the Lamented Dead-Governor Up
ham Pays a Sorrowful Tribute to
His Departed Friend.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-03-21

Otis Russell johnson. 4 miIlinna r
lumherman and prominent IN Nicr.
igan industries, died al Racine. ac.-i
50 years
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-01-11
France Encourages Electrical Progress

France has for some time past been
specially active in the application of
electric power to canals, a fact due
probably to the Importance and extent
of her canal system. The latest sue
cessful trial reported is one on the
canal boats of the Havre-P PARISH Lyons
compaignie, in which transferable
electric motor and rudder combination
is used, while the motor has been driven
by current from storage batteries.
The canal boat, having a length of
thirty eight meters and carrying: one
hundred and eighty tons, is driven at
a speed of eighty-fve centimeters' per
second, an increase of forty per cent
over the speed with two horses, while
the electrical energy consumed was
about four and six-tenths horsepower.
At times aspeedof one meter three feet
three iinches) per second was obtained.
1t is now proposed to employ also a
trolley system, as on the Bourgogne
canal, and to let the feed water that
maintains the levels at the. proper
height4.operate. dynamos generating
the necessary current. France has al
ways been foremost in the application
.of cleo tricity to navigation.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-01-11
BULLET-PROOF CAR.
A Fort on Wheels for the Protection of
Valuable Shipments.

A Fort on Wheels for the Protection of
Valuable Shipments.
Invention is now at work to circum-
vent the daring train robbers in. the
west, the latest step in this direction
being a bullet-proof car.
1t is supplied, says the Boston Her
aid, with cages designed to be opened
only from the outside, by station
master, which are provided for the safe
and the more valuable parcels, and the
arrangement is such that if the rob-
bers succeed in entering the car they
will be exposed to the fire of the mes
senger from a bullet-proof compart-
ment in each end of the car, the mes
senger being also able to shoot along
the sides of the car to protect the en-
gineer or to prevent burglars and rob-
bers from making an entry.
The car has double floor and double
roof, and at each end is a messengers
compartment, from which he may shoot
along the side of the car from out
MISUNDERSTANDING sections provided with
portfolios, or through portfolios in its
end. At opposite sides of the car, adj
joining each messengers compartment,
are strongly-formed barred compart-
ments or cages, for the reception of
safes, ETC., each cage being reached by
a door opening into the body portion of
the car, and passageway is left on
one side of each cage from the mes
senger's room to the central portion of
the car. This passageway is designed
to be closed at each end by doors car
ried on the ends of a platform pivoted
between the floors, the doors thus be-
ing simultaneously opened and closed,
and the arrangement being such that
robber gaining access to the center of
the car is liable to be shut in there or
in the passageway by the messenger,
the latter taking refuge in one of the
end compartments, where he may fire
through the portfolios in the doors
upon the robber thus imprisoned. The
passageway is also closed by an inter
mediate door having lock on the side
next to the messengers room. The
construction is designed to be very
simple and substantial, and yet not
very expensive.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-01-11

1.-THE Bad Lnnds," said Horatio Gar
rett, one of the most earnest rock del-
gers of the party from Princeton COZ
lege that recently visited the Bad
Lands of North Dakota and Montana
to collect fossils, to northwest maga-
zine representative, fare q strange
combination of dcsolation, horror and
incomprehensible freaks of the prime
val world. Thereare lofty peaks, bare
and brown-balSed into spires of burn
ing rock by the hot suns of millions of
years. The valleys between are white
deserts, covered with bitter, dusty and
binding alkali that has made all that
country desert worse than Sahara
ever was said to be.
'The rivers run wide or turbid
ter, and are dry and dusty channels in
the summer. The peaks, tho valleys,
and every featute of the whole region,
in fact, seems to be thrown down upon
the earth in natures angriest mood--a
hideous conglomeration, in which even
the geological strata are displaced and
entangled. This strange region was
once the salt-washed bottom of a sea,
and the traces of the reeeding waves
are visible on every hand. The fossils,
which were now our main pursuit, are
mostly aquatic animals Few birds,
and those mostly of the semi-reptilian
are found among them,
while innumerable bones of gigantic
saurians dot the shale and sandstone of
the valleys. Mingled with them are
remains of bear, antelope and buffalo,
and relics of an intermediate age, the
bones of the mastodons and elephants
not mammoths--and of three-toed
equine, one of the ancestors of the
present horse.
''Somc of the sauriars of the eocene
and miocene periods were indescriba-
bly, hideous. Looking upon the rem
nants of these monsters and gazing on
the awful scenery of the country, a bit
of hades upturned to view, one might
SAYS it any wonder that the Indians
Stunned the Bad Lands and said they
were the haunts of ghosts and the
home of evil demons"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-01-11
~ he New Year.

Finds Hoods arsaparilla leading
everything in the way of medicine
in three important particulars, name
ly: Hoods Sersaparlla has
l. The largest sale in the world.
1t accompllshes
2. The gratest cure in the world.
II has
3. The largest Laboratory in the
world.
What more can be said? Foods
Sarsapariila has merit is p Gu lar
to itself and most of all Ho DIS
Sarsaparills cures. If you ar ick
1T is the medicine for you to take.
Old papers Tor sale at this Office:
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-01-11

For further information, address
II. @. McRDUR, a, G. p. A.
or Louisville, Ky
!. W. l.. MILLS, 20 ftf- =
Greensboro, KY.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-10-10
RING BELLS AND EAT sNAlLs.
Two Characteristic Features of . Roma,
Featal NIRht.

On the night before st. Johns day the
whole city of Rome gives itself up to feast
ing and fan; feasting certainly and fun
-as the Romans choose to take IL.
The two characteristic features of the
night, to the stranger at least, were the
bells and snails. Long before the square
was reached there had been heard, through
the other sounds, a faint tinkling, which
grew louder, hut at no time became disa-
greeable. That same tinkling continued
throughout the night. 1t was made hr
hundreds of little bells, which had bccn
nodded roughly from clay, baked to crys-
talline hardness and sold at q soldO each
Toward morning they were offered two for
a soldo. They were heaped on tables and
were carried through the crowd In big
wicker baskets.
Every one bought bell and added his
little tinklc to the keeping away OF the
witches Promenaders tinkled them In
one another's faces The sound was so
small anssoothing that such audacity be-
came rather d compliment, at any rate
the pretty girls who had the bells runR in
front of them seemed rather complimented
Snails were served in all the booths in
the square. The snails are to st. Johns
what turkey is TO Thanksgiving. The
Roman who doesn't eat his two dozen on
this night has neglected his duty.
Rome had been crawling with snails for
awoek beforehand. They had been brought
to market by bushels, and the small boys
had been principally engaged in herding
them-picking them up and dropping them
back into the baskets as soon rs they had
crawlod out. The sight of these uneasy
masses Of shell and soft, twining flesh had
not given the visitors an appetite for snails.
"You say you don't like them"' asked
the Roman guide as he led the way to u
small cloth covered booth "How do you
know You have never tasted them"
"No"
"But you can eat oystersH'
"Oystcrs don't crawl around the stumps
Of old trees"
Nonsense! That's all imagination.
Watch me"
With that he ordered n great platterful,
hot from the kettle, and began devourlng
them, digging out each small, meaty por-
tion with tOothpick provided for that
purpose. He smacked his lips with such
evident satisfaction and made so light Of
his performance that the only thing to be
done was to follow his example.
A snail isn't bad eating. There is very
little to It, and as 1t is comparatively taste
less the beginner is safe so long as he can
keep his thoughts away from the small boy
and the basket. Chicago Record
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-10-10
STARVING
In the Midst of Plenty.

That's what people with poor digestion
are doing every day. They have no appe-
tite or II they do have an Appetite and eat
what they require Il does them no good
because the stomach does not digest It
and the fermenting mass Of food becomes
source of disease, of headaches, sleep
lessness, languor and the thousand and
one symptoms resulting from disordered
digestion. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
promptly relieve and cure all forms of In
digestion. They have done It in thousands
Of cases and will do IL in yours The req
son Is simple. Because they digest the
food whether the stomach works or not
That's the whole secret and the only
secret about Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets,
for we tell you plainly just what they
contain because we believe that every
man and woman ought to know what they
are putting into their stomaohs.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets contain the
freshest purost pepsin, free from animal
impurities, combined with bismuth and
the most valuable vegetable essences and
fruit salts, making 1t not only the surest
cure for stomach troubles, but perfectly
safe, reliable preparation. Sold every
where by druggists at 30 cents per pack
age, or sent direct by mail by Stuart Co.,
Marshall, Mich.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-10-10
Knowing Old Rats.

There are evidently some knowing old
rats in the building occupied by the Hart
ford Courant, "the oldest paper in North
America" To get rid of a colony of the
rodents somebody connected printing
offlce brass galley" with a live wire, con
veying $50 volts, after hanging above it a
piece Of cheese in such a position that the
rat, to get at 1t, must stand on the galley.
The oldest paper etc, solemnly publishes
this statement about one old rat
"They ran up to the galley, looked at
the cheese, shifted at it standing up on
their hind legs and seemed perplexed. One
old fellow, as large as a good sized kitten
could almost reach 1t without standing on
the galley, but when he found that he
must stand on the brass plate to get 1t he
shook his grizzled head and retired"
That, however, was only one part of the
story One rash young rat, driven by "all
the fire of youth, " jumped upon the galley
and
"The electricity got in its work, and in
stantly the rat flew in the air about six
inches, the thought of the cheese being
driven from his mind and fell in confu-
sion on the floor"
AS to electricity, the rest Of the rats have
voted unanimously mot to have any in
theirs. "-Hartford Times.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-10-10
CRUSHED THE SNEERER.
An American Traveller who Crowded Italy
Into n Corner of Texas.

An American lrhVeler " no NrOWueu italy
Into n Corner of Texas.
An Italian gentleman whom met while
travelling disclosed o most dCpraved in ap.
probation Of the wonderful vastness of the
United States.
He spoke English very well, for ho had
been many years in London, and as we
were enjoying the seacOast view between
Pisa and Via Reggie he asked politely
whether | was not an American from 1.-THE
States. On learning that l was he beg
gcd me to tell him something Of our gov
ernmcnt.
"You have a president Of the country,
the whole States, is 1t notY' he inquired
earnestly.
nodded assent.
ava bene If man kills-murders,
you Understandable tries him, the feder-
al or state courtsY
"Thc state courts, Iropled, "unless it
Is o case Of treason"
"If he is convicted, who can pardon
himr-the president, Of oourse2" he asked,
with calm assurance, and slight empha-
sis on the "of course"
"No indeed The murderer is tried in
the state courts. He can DO pardoned only
by the state board of pardons, II there is
one, or by the states chief officer-tho
governor. The president has nothing to do
with it,
"Well!' flashed my companion sarcas-
tloally, 'in Italy the governor Of little
petty province has not the pardoning pow
er."
"Sir!" l thundered, now thoroughly an
CRY, Italy will go twice into the petty
province of Texas"
1t was very naughty to get angry, and
especially with such politely sarcastic
little Italian. know IT, But who could
sit still and hear the sheer, unapproacha-
ble-nay glorious-immensity Of our coun-
try assailed without getting angry? No
one except the audacious fop, who every
now and then annoys us with II brazen as,
sertion that bigness is, after all, not such
a virtue -SCribner's
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-10-10
A REMARKABLE CURE.
A Case Of Piles Of Eighteen Years
Standing
Cured by the Pyramid Pile Cure.

There are plenty of pile cures which
give relief and sometimes cure mild
nase Of niles, but there is only one which
can be depended upon with certainty 10
cure obstinate, long standing cases, ana
that IL the Pyramid Pile Cure.
Endorsements and testimonials are re
ceiyed daily from men and women whose
integrity ad reliability are above question
and in this connection q letter received
from the Rev. jas. II. Wesbrook, of
Bovine. Mich, may be of interest to pile
sufferers who have sought IN VAIN ior
cure. He says:
have used the Pyramid Pile Cure and
I know that It is all that is claimed for It,
l had been troubled with piles more or
less for shout eighteen years and had
tried other remedies, but the piles grew
worse until about ten months ago used
the Pyramid Pile Cure 1t gave almost
instant relief and have been free from
niles ever since Rev. JAS II. Wesbrook
The remedy seems to act equally well
In every form Of piles, Elind, bleeding
protruding or itching. 1t stops all pain
almost Immediately, allays irritation and
removes constipation, and any one who
has suffered the annoyance and pain oil
a rectal trouble will appreciate the excel
lent results which invariably follow the
first application Of the Pyramid.
The pyramid PILE Cure is prepared by
the Pyramid Drug Co, of Albion, Mich,
and for sale by druggists everywhete.
Two si1 yes, 80 cents and 81. Sold by all
druggists.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-10-10
SLOW RESCUE WORK.
Firedamp Seals the Doom of
Wilkesbarre Mine Victims.
EIGHTDEAD FROM EXPLODING GAS
Five Men Badly Burned Rescued - One
Was Slowly Roa ting to Death when
Aid Came-Compsnion Lay Near Help
less with Broken A rms.

wLKEsBARRB, Pa, Oct. S.-The res.
cuers have made very little headway
In their efforts TO reach the victims Of
the gas explosion In the Dorrance mine.
Firedamp has made Its appearance
and IL has been necessary to do consid.
cradle brattioe work, which proceeds
very slowly. There is strong sus.
pioion also that the explosion caused q
heavy fall in the old workings, and
that this will further retard the work
of the rescuers. II is now admitted by
the mine officials that there is no hope
Of finding the engineer corps alive.
They all perished in the explosion, and
II they were not killed outright they
were suffocated by the fredamp The
superintendent Is Of the opinion that
they were killed by the force of the ex-
plosion and their bodies probably
bnrned to crisp. All but eight miners
and laborers have now been accounted
for. Superintendent Chase thinks,
however, that the list Of dead will not
number more than seven or eight.
They may be put down as follows:
William l.. Jones, mining engineer,
aged 81, of Wilkesbarre; William Ca.
hill, mining engineer, aged 20, Wilkes
barre; Llewellyn Owens, mining en-
gineer, aged "a, Pittston; Daniel Davis,
fire boss, aged 8S; three unknown men,
probably Hungarian laborers.
Five men, all badly burned, have
been brought to the surface. They are
Robert Blanchard, aged 10; William
Miller, aged 81; Michael Moss, George
Lafly and Joseph Murphy.
The first two are members of the en-.
gineer corps. Moss and Lafy are
laborers and Murphy is a driver.
Miller and Blanchard are 80 badly
burned that they cannot live.
Miller and Blanchard are resting
easily, but little hope is entertained for
their recovery.
Blanchard gave his version of the
explosion to a reporter as he lay on
cot in the hospital. He said that the
engineer corps decided to make sur.
vey Of the old abandoned workings,
known as the Baltimore section. The
party, which was in charge Of Fireboss
Daniel Reese, who is an expert on mine
gases, consisted of William Jones, Will.
lam Cahill and Llewellyn Owens.
Blanchard and Miller were left behind
to finish some work that had been
started. About IL minutes after the
party had left Miller and Blanchard the
explosion occurred. Both Miller and
Blanchard were knocked down by its
force. Flying timbers also struck Mil.
Ter, breaking both his arms.
After being knocked down Miller and
Blanchard remembered nothing until
they were revived at the hospital.
Blanchard thinks some of the engineers
or probably the freboss set fire to a
body Of gas in the old workings, and
that all Of the party must have been
instantly killed. When Blanchard was
found he was being slowly roasted to
death.
Miller. with his broken arms, could
render him no assistance.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-10-10
puRRAN7s WEAK DEFENSE.
His Attorneys Have Strengthened TIL
Prosecution.

SAN Francisco, Oct. 5.-If the man.
ner in which the attorneys for the de-
Tense in the trial of Theodore Durrant
are handling their case is any indica'
ton of the strength Of their position,
the prosecution believes present devel-
opments leave little doubt of the pris-
oner's conviction. To the surprise OF
everybody, the defense has begun the
calling of witnesses to show the
previous good character of the young
Sundayschool superintendent.
BY the prosecution this step is inter
preted to mean that the defense had
introduced all the evidence that it has
to refute the mass of testimony piled
up by the people. III this be true, the
verdict of the jury is foregone con-
clusion. Not only has the defense
failed to establish an alibi for Durrant,
but it has actually strengthened the
case against the prisoner.
Miss Cunningham, the newspaper re
! porter, who was threatened with inn
! prisonment because she would not an
swer question propounded to her by
the defense, was called to the stand
again TO give her another opportunity
to answer the question She refused
! to diyulge the source of her informG-
tion with regard to the nature Of Mrs.
Leake's testimony, but instead of send
ing her to prison the court took the
matter under adyisement until next
Tuesday.
Rev j. George Gibson pastor of the
Emanuel church. was called by the de-
fense for the purpose of identifying
specimens of his handwriting. The
witness refused positively TO identify
any Of the specimens handed to him
He said the writing looked like hi
own. but as the document had not beer
in his possession for some time, II a
writing. He wrote several specimens
which were introduced In evidence.
HIhe overdue inner Paris arrived saisl