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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-05-21
ESTATE. -HEISRIcH GERLAcH.

STATE OF WISCONSIN. j
COUNTY COURT OF GRANT gss. In Probate.
COUNTY.
Notice is hereby given. that at the special
term of the county court to be held in and
for said county, at the court house in the CITY
of Lancaster, in said county, on the third
Tuesday of June. A. D., 1896, being the 18th
day of June 1896 at the honr of one O'Clock in
the afternoon. the following matter will be
heard and considered:
The application of Herman Buchner to adj
nit to probate an Instrument in writing pur-
porting to be the last will of Heinrich Ger
ZACH late of the city of Lancaster, in said
county, deceased.
BY order of the court
GEO. b. CARTER, County Judge
Dated May 10th 1896. 15w-3
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
WILL OLD BILL BE GOOD?
The Famous Criminal the Subject of aI
 Experiment.

The Famous Criminal the Subject of an
 Experiment..
 A novel experiment is to be tried with old Bill Vosburg, the former bank thief and general crook, who was discharged by Recorder Golf the other day in New York under suspended sentence. Friends of the old criminal have raised a sum of money which will be placed so that the interest on it will be sufficient to keep Vosburg for the rest of his life. Civil Justice Wauhope Lynn will be the custodian of the trust.
 "The experiment, said Justice Lynn, lis to try to reform old Bill. For years he has been a criminal and has spent the greater part of his life in prison. He never knew what the elements of kind ness and clemency were, no pity being shown to him. He has reached such an age that he cannot live more than cou- pie of years. During the rest of his life will look after him and see that he en- gages in no more crime. The money raised by his friends, together with what he will be able to earn in serving summonses for me and a number of friends of mine, will be sufficient to keep him above want. Iexplained this to Re- corder Golf, and that is why he suspend ed sentence. New York World.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
A Big FIywheeI of Wire.

Among the most recent and novel ap- plications of wire, perhaps none has greater interest to the mechanical world than that presented by the wire iywheel lately erected at the Mannesmann Tube company's works, Germany. Heavy fly wheels, driven at high velocities, ob- viously present dangers of breaking asunder from the great centrifugal force developed. The wheel at the factory mentioned consists of cast iron hub or boss, to which two steel plate disks or checks, about 20 feet in diameter, are bolted. The peripheral space between the disks is filled in with some 20 tons of No. 5 steel wire, completely wound round the hub, and the tensile resistance thus obtained is far superior to any cast ing.
 This huge f1ywheel is driven at a speed of 240 revolutions per minute, or 6 peripheral velocity of about 2.8 miles per minute (250 feet per second ap- proximately), which is nearly three times the average speed of any express train in the world. The length of wire upon such constructed fywheel would be about 250 miles. The use of paper is also regarded with favor as a face for large fywheels, the tensile strength of paper being enormous, and it is quite possible that some of the new big fly wheels will be built up with a paper rim.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
DEATH IN A BOOT LEG.
It Contained Rattlesnake's Fang anG
 Caused Two Deaths.

It Contained Rattlesnake's Fang and
 Caused Two Deaths.
 One day last summer Thomas Horton of Binghamton, N. Y., was passing through piece of cleared land when he was bitten by rattlesnake. The reptile was shedding its skin and therefore in its most venomous condition. The ser pent's fangs had penetrated the cowhide boot, and it was easily killed.
 Horton took off his boots, and his wife gave them to Napoleon Meeker, ne- gro who worked on an adjoining farm. He wore them and died. Archibald Hooker, nephew of the dead man, wore them 48 hours, and he also died in great agony. The boots next passed into the possession of an old trapper. The second day he wore them he was attacked with a pain in his leg. His experience told him it was the result of rattlesnake poi soning. He applied a remedy ill time and recovered.
 On examining the bootleg he found a small point of piece of bone embedded in the hide. It was the fang of the rat tlesnake, placed in such way that on drawing out the foot the fang, which curved upward, would not injure it, but on putting the boot on, it would be all most impossible to escape a slight scratch from the poison covered tooth. St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
His s4 Bill Not Redeemed.

The other forenoon man appeared at the subtreasury in St. Louis and present. ed $4 bill of the old continental cur rency" for redemption. He hit Bert Farrar, the paying teller, and nearly paralyzed that person by asking $10,000 in liquidation of the ancient obligation. He obtained this result by figuring com pound interest from the date of issue, 1777, and was displeased when MT. Farrar suggested that ''1O cents per 100 pounds" was about the probable value of such stuff Finding that neither $1O,- 900 nor any other sum was forthcom- ing, he gathered up his precious posses sion and sorrowfully departed. St. Louis Globe Democrat
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
A Humorist In the Commons.

MT. Radcliffe Cooke, who is pushing the cider of his native county of Here fordshire with an energy which Chi ego drummer might envy, is one of the quaintest and most original humor ;sts in the house of commons. He is a small man with a big head, which he puts on one side in a birdlike fashion when he addresses the house that is ir resistibly droll He was returned for Newington in 1885 and again on the Unionist wave in 1886. But he lacked the infinite capacity of attending smok- ing concerts and writing checks which is essential to popularity in a metropol- itan constituency, and so he was turned out in 1892. When MT. W. H. Grenfell retired from the next parliament on the question of bimetallism, MT. Radcliffe Cooke was returned at the byelection for Hereford city, near which he farms a small property; hence the cider agita- tion. n.-Saturday Review.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
The Eophone.

A new device for enabling navigators to hear and correctly locate fog signals is the "eophone, concerning which the following is gleaned from the New York Herald: The inventor, Mir. De La Torre. has been at work on the eophone for quarter of century. The need of some means by which the navigator in fog can determine just where the fog signals, for which he listens so anxious y, lie, and just how to steer to take ad vantage of their warning, is as old as fog signals themselves.
 Professor Henry of the Smithsonian institution and Admiral Walker 20 years ago investigated the nature and cause of the 'ghost spaces" or curious areas in which fog signals cannot be heard They agreed that the distance of the signal bell or whistle from the ship was not factor. The direction of the wind and the varying density of alternating strata of air or fog were found to exer- else the most positive influences.
 A special test of the eophone was re- gently made, under the direction of the United States lighthouse board. Ac- cording to Admiral Walker, it is a de- vice which concentrates and intensifies sound, so that it can be heard at a greater distance than with the naked ear and its source located quickly and more exactly. It gathers sound into a sort of funnel and brings it directly to the ears
 The funnel, about IS inches in diam eter at the mouth, is the sound gatherer and is directed toward any point in the arc of probable sound or danger by the man who operates the eophone. He sits in the hold of the vessel, shut off from every noise, and thus isolated gathers uninterruptedly and judges without prejudice whatever sounds are brought to him through two rubber tubes, each terminating in an ear piece fastened at the sides of his head. This man is seat ed, and immediately in front of him is an apparatus, like steering gear, either @ wheel or two levers, as may be de- cided on, by which he may at will change the direction of the funnel on deck above him.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
WILL CUT HIM OPEN.
REMARKABLE FEATURE OF A MURDER
 TRIAL AT COLUMBUS, o.

To Decide Whether Carl Doh Received an
 old Scar From a Bullet or a Sword
 Cut-His Plea Is That of Insanity-An
 Extraordinary Case.
 The surgeons knife was never called upon to play more extraordinary part than it is to take in the case of Carl Doh, on trial at Columbus, O.. for the murder last June of Charles Boekcher, fellow workman in a tailoring shop. The two men quarreled over the location of a certain city in the fatherland. The dispute was so trivial that Boekcher thought nothing of it when they parted to go to dinner. In the afternoon Doh returned and shot Boekcher dead. The defense entered plea of insanity, and in support of it presented testimony showing that Doh attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself on his moth er's grave.
 The defendant exhibited to the court a scar in his abdomen where a bullet had entered and extended upward, frac- turing small bones. This was the mark of the wound it was claimed which Doh inflicted in attempting to kill himself Testimony was introduced to show that he had no motive whatever for the act, and that he was prompted to it simply by an uncomfortable desire to take his life. He testified that he was neither sad nor i'll when he fired the shot in such tragic manner.
 The state ascertained that Doh had been wounded years ago by sword stab while serving in the German army and has set up the counter claim that the scar in question was left by that injury instead of a bullet. Some strong evi dence has been presented ill support of the state's claim, and in the event of the suicidal story being proved false one of the strongest points in the plea of insan ity would be destroyed.
 For the purpose of demonstrating that Doh's wound was inflicted by bullet and not a sword ex-Chief Justice $. N. Owen, one of his attorneys, proposes to have him placed on an operating table and cut open. In the event of the bones having been broken by bullet the abra- sion will of course show that such is the case, and in the event of their having been struck with the point of the sword the appearance of the place where it en- tered will demonstrate as much. Judge Owen has engaged Dr. J. F. Baldwin, one of the most prominent physicians n the city, to participate in the operation, and several other physicians are to be asked to take part. The prisoner is will ing to undergo the ordeal, and arrange ments are being made to have the opera tion performed. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28

sHARD OF POTTERY FROM SHELL HEAP. heaps were larger than those found in the river at the present day. Mir. Moore devoted careful attention to this mat ter. and exhumed far larger shells from the heaps than occur in the water.
 One peculiarity of the Florida shell heaps is that in some no pottery can be found, in others fragments are very nu- merous and in certain ones it only is discovered at given depth.
 The pottery presents great variety, both in material of which it is com posed and in decoration. From Mulberry mound came shard with an attempt at delineation of human figure. No simi- lar drawing has been found by Mir. Moore or others, and, considering that the discovery was made at depth of ten feet, the specimen is unique and in feresting
 Quite variety of design is presented in the Florida pottery; in fact, while no beautiful vases, bowls, jars and dishes seem to have been in use Cones as fine as those of Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee) the attempts at decoration are very numerous. Lines, dots, etc., crudely scratched with the point of some sharp instrument upon the vessel when the clay was fresh, consti- tute the ornamentation.
 Human bones, broken, as were those of lower animals, some exhibiting traces of fire, were found scattered through the heap on Enconlockhatchee creek. Finds like this have led some arch@ologists to ask, Were not the Florida aborigines cannibals?',
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
What Keely Will Do.

Mrs. Bloomfield Moore says that. ow- ing to the position taken by the mana gers of the old Keely Motor company at the annual meeting and the delay of the stockholders in accepting his propo- sition for reorganization, Keely has decided to take out no patents on his in- ventions and would adopt royalty system" in dealing with his discoveries commercially. To cover the system Mrs. Moore says at least 30 patents would be required to prepare, which would take long time and cost a great deal of money, which could be used better in developing the system.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
Al Christmas Gift to Pittsbure.

The citizens of Pittsburg have re- ceiyed $100,000 as a Christmas gift from c. L. Magee and his associates in the Fort Pitt Street Railway company. The money is to be used in the establish ment of a geological garden at Highland park. Highland park is one of the pret- tiest in the city, and this handsome gift for zoo will make it the more attract i've. The money will be turned over to the manager and director of public works, who will see that it is used to the best possible advantage.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
cArHAR1NE cLEMMoNs.

nod, and Towards generally jaunty and self satisfied manner gives deep meaning to his flippant words.
 The love of the Goulds for the stage is pronounced and we'll known.
 George selected the lovely Miss King don to share the family millions. Anna was once engaged to young actor be- fore Boni Castellane's bonny looks won her big dot, and now along comes How ard making undoubted sheep's eyes at pretty Miss Clemmons.
 I suppose it will be match, and a very suitable one, too, according to the general trend of the Gould ambitions Cholly Knickerbocker in New York Re- corder.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
A WoMAN's S25o,ooo GIFT.
She Lives In Illinois, and the Chicago Uni
 versity Gets It.

Versity Gets It.
 The University of Chicago is again the recipient of a gift, this time of $250,00O And again the donor is a woman. She is Mrs. F. A. w. Simmer, principal owner of the Mount Carroll Female seminary at Mount Carroll, Ills.
 Mrs. Simmer gives the seminary prop erty, valued at $100,00O, together with s15O,0OO for endowment purposes, to become a preparatory school for the uni versity. Mrs. Simmer, who is Baptist, has conducted the Mount Carroll semi nary for 42 years. She is now advanced in years, suffering from i'll health, and is anxious to secure the perpetuation of her school.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
STARTED A MILL BY WIRE
Young Woman 2,3OO Miles Away Sets 800
 Persons to Work.

The Dwight Manufacturing company of Chicopee, Mass, started it's southern mill at Gadsden, Ala, the other day, by electricity. A young woman at Winona, Minn., touched the button that started the machinery at o'clock. She chris tened the 15,000 horse power engine Maybienne The Western Union Tele- graph company arranged the electrical apparatus by straight circuit of 2,S00 miles. It is of SO,O00 spindle capacity and IS the largest in Alabama.
 The electrical arrangement was fixed so as to break bottle of champagne over the engine at the moment of chris tening. The mill employs 800 people, and 250 cottages are now being complet- ed by the Dwight company. New York World
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
.Tbe World Is Mine.n .n

What's the matter?' asked the po- iceman; "haven t you any place to go?'
 "Any place ter go?" replied Mean dering Mike, with contempt "I've got the whole United States before me. I've got so many places ter go ter dat it's worryin me dizzy makin up me mind which way ter start. Washington Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
SCIENCE AND PROGRESS.
ArcheOlOgists Ask, "Were Not the Florida
 Ab0rigfnes Cannfbals?"

Mr. 0. B. Moore has said that the fresh water shell heaps of the St. Johns river have been sadly neglected, and he undertook their exploration Beginning at Whetstone point, nine miles north ot Palatka, he examined that territory, which by water is 300 miles in extent. These heaps are simply refuse piles, and vary in size from to % feet. Popular Science News, in presenting these and other facts about the shell heaps, says: Professor Wyman, who did the first work upon the river, noted that the pal udin@ and ampullari@ of the refuse
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
A Powerful FieldElass.

The Jumelle hyperdioptrique is field and opera glass which, according to Cassell's Magazine, has the cleazness and definition of the long collapsing marine telescope. This result is obtain ed by an arrangement of the lenses in which the ordinary single object glass
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
ARRANGEMENT OF LENSES.

ARRANGEMENT OF LENSES. is replaced by two convergent lenses, A O. B and A o B. The eyeglass, or ocular, O'', is simple divergent lens, as in ordinary fieldglasses.
 This combination enables the ocular to have short focus, without producing alteration of the light and blurring of the view. It is due to Captain Dau- bresse of the French artillery.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
White Canning Up to Date.

"I understand that the citizens gave Jones six hours to leave town?"
 "They did '
 "What was the trouble?"
 "All of them were owing him "-Atlanta Constitution
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
THEY LOVE ACTRESSES.
Howard Gould Said to Be In Love With
 Miss CIemmons.

Miss ClemmOns.
 In the bright lexicon of youth it is duly set forth that when chappie gets up early in the morning and meets pretty girl at an incoming steamer he means business.
 Of course can't say whether How ard Gould is engaged to Miss Catharine Clemmons or not
 He can't say himself He does say, Suppose you see the young ladyAerself and see what she says
 No one has seen her yet on this busi- ness, but wink is ofttimes as good as a
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
Cheaper.

Minnie-Dear mel It costs $31, ,000 to kill a man in battle nowadays.
 Mamie-I wonder why they don t use
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28
Ont of Place.

Some business men are hard to please. A Vermont undertaken berates his town because it's dcod Adams Freeman.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-03-28

To Decide Whether Carl Doh Received an old Scar From . Bullet or a Sword Cut-His Plea Is That of Insanity-An Extraordinary Case.
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-26
Gloucester Fish Market.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING Sept. %, 1895.
Last sales of Mackerel S14@14 rs % Dbl in
trip lots and rs for hullseyes.
Last sales of fresh halibut at &c {9fb for white
and &C for gray.
Last sales OF Georges Cod from vessel So W
for large and $1s4 for medium; Bank do $40
ST.
Outside sales Georges cod Ss1a for large and
$1ss ior medium; cusk 1925.
We quote prime Georges Goldfish new SIS 90
3 25@4 90 for large and SzA 0$21a for small
Dry Bank at rs and 50 10; Shore So 90 and
$3L4 for large and small. Newfoundland :.
We quote cured cusk at S3% @$4 " qtl; hake
at S l 81; haddock at s 90; heavy sailed pollock
81 50@S1 75tbatl land English cured do $24s 4
qtl.
Best handlne homeless Geoges cod &c for me-
dunn to 71ac large: middes 5O@$9: homeless
Shoreldo 5@7c Grand Bank do 6db1 Ia ;cusk,
5A @o1ac; haddock 3sA @4s4 make at 29a@4;
fancy brands of entirely boned cod IL to 15c
y ID; Smoked Halibut. straight strips at loo
chunks l1@12c.
Large Shore Mackerel, new catch, $17@S1S
~ Ebl; medium $lA 30: small at SIP; bullseyes
7s6O: Bay Mackerel at $40.
Smoked salmon 1Sc y fb: Med herring 9012c
box; tucks 1oc: lengthwise Sc; No Is at SC;
Bloatrers socas1. shore do at 1 10: canned
Trout 81 80 fresh halibut So 20; salmon ! 80;
lobtsers go CLANS SOC. American sardines,
quarter OILS So 70; half oils, So 30; three-ouar-
ter mustards 1924 spiced. So.
Large Newfoundland herring 81 90 bbl Nova
Scotia large split So 80; mediumiS3 large round
shore So ;choice layer packed do S31a@$3 TO;
Extra large split Labrador 81 0O@f 90.
Picked Goldfish $3@3 90; paddock %: hall
but heads SIS: sound SO; tongues and sounds
So,
Newfoundland cod oil csc ~ gal ;strong oil at
5c:blacktish do 45c; menhaden do, northern
cured 23c.
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-26

NEW HAvEN-Ar 23d, sch Douglas Haynes.
blalsdell Augusta for New York.
PORT ROYAL, sc-Cld Oath. sch George L
Drake, Skolheld, Simons:
PORT ROYAL. Sc CID Esd, barque Bruce
Hawkins, Quincy, Boston.
| PHILADELPHIA-Cld Gath, barque Lapland
Gates, Cork.
Belle O'Neil, Norwood: do.
Ar 25th, schs Sarah Wood GAINESVILLE; Geo E
Wallcntt. Vinalhaven; Loring G Ballard, Bath
Belle ONeiI. Kennebec; City of Augusta, do;
Colin Baker, Pigeon Cove.
| Sid 23d. steamer Reading, for Portland. with
parges in tow.
PROVIDENCE Sid Oath, sch Georgietta,
bleek 81 New York.
PLYMOUTH Ar oath, sch ID S Lawrence,
Bowden. Ellsworth.
Sid oath, sch Lavinia Bell, Reed. Bangor
ROCKLAND = Ar 23d, sch Nevada. Nor
S4n, Machlas, leaking; Hattie Lorlng, Rice, i'm
,RoCKPoRT-sld oath. sch silas McLoon,
| SAN FRANCISOC-Ar Esd, ship Louisiana,
sALEM-Ar 24th, schs John Cadwallader,
Lewis. Gardiner for New, York; John Croker.
90 Tor do; Annie Reuben. Black Island for
90; Sea Bird. Kennebec for do,
| VINEYARD-HAVEN-A Ar oath. schs Red
Jacket Providence for Rockland; Chanticleer.
New Bedford for Lincolnyille; Harry W Haynes
Bennett Cove for New York: Ingraham,
Augusta for New Haven.
Sailed, schs V Wellington, Abbie E Willard
Celia F, Cnas A Hunt, Myra W Spear, and Nat
Meader.
Ar 25th, schs Veto, FIN New York for Boston;
Sarah, Albany for Plymouth; Commerce. New
Yark for Rockland; RAG Whelden, I'm Greens
Landing for New Bedford; Helen q King from
Calais for Providence.
>, Sid 25th, schs Mary Chaplin, Red Jacket, Fred
Tyler. Chanticleer. Harry w Haynes, Lucy. D
Ingraham Elias Ross, Commerce, Sarah, Veto,
G Whelden and Helen G King.
WASHINGTON-Ar Esd, sch John w Lin
nell Handy. Kennebec.
Cid Esd, sch John Hanson. Oliver. Boston.
Foreign Iorta.
Ar at Montevideo Aug 49, sch Nimbus. Bry-
ant. New York.
Sid Aug IS. barque Ethel V Boynton, Boyn-
ton, New York, (since spo en-
Sid I'm Bahia prev to Sept Is, barque Daisy
Reed, Mitchell, Sabine Pass
Sid I'm Rio Janero Sept 81, barque Grace
Lynwood GikeS, from Rosario for Barbados.
Ar at Montevdeo Sept 81. sch Sadie Sum-
ner. Sumner Boston.
6, CID at aillsboroo. NIB, Sept %, sch Mark Gray,
Spoken.
! Sept 8, lat Al, Ion 53, brig Havillah, Richard
son, from New York for Belfast
The Portland daily press., 1896-09-26
Chicago Live stock Market.
By Telegraph,

Chicago. Sept. %. 1896.-Cattle - receipts
$500; frmer. 10 higher; commmo extra steers
at 254b 10; stockers and feeders 6OG3 90;
cows and bulls 1908 10; calves 8 OOG6 10 ,
Texans 2 4O@3 90; Western rangers at 10
"a so.
Hogs-recelpts 24,ooo: frm.5c higher ;heayy
packing and shipping lots at s5@3 So; CONF
sorted at 35@s 40; light at 96@S As; pigs
l 60ld3 35.
Sheep-receipts $4,000: steady; inferior to
choice 50@3 20; lambs at oO@4 rs.