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cLAsPDD HANDS AND DIED.
Rival Lovers Kill One Another Neal
Madison, Fla.

Madison, Fla, Aug. 25.-George Page
and Will Morgan, young men who live
near here. fought last night one of the
most remarkable duels on record. For
six months Page and Morgan have been
rivals for the affections of a pretty
young lady. The girl distributed her
favors impartfally between the young
men, and this served to increase the
bitterness Of their rivalry. Last night
Page and Morgan attended a dance, at
which the young lady was present. She
was in a more coquetbish mood than
usual, and her conduct soon drove the
rivals to desperation. Finally Page in
vited Morgan to accompany him for a
walk. Morgan consented, and as soon
as they were outside Page proposed
that as each was armed iphey take each
other by the left hand and shoot out
the quarrel, the survivor Ito take the
girl. Morgan agreed, and then with
left hands clasped they drew their PTS
tots and began firing. The pistol shots
ATTRACTED the attention Of the merry
makers and they rushed Quit to find
both men on the ground weltering in
blood. Morgan was dead and Page
was dying. Each man had fired five
shots, and each of the Shots had taken
effect. The young lady for whom the
duel was fought viewed the bodies
with seeming composure. and heard
the dying Page relate the story of the
tragedy. 1t transpires that the
girl was afianced to another while re-
ceiving the attentions OF Page and
Morgan.
, 1896-08-26

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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-07-31
THE NATIONAL LAW.

The last clause of the last coinage
act passed bycongress reads very much
like the republican financial plank
its meaning is the same. It is now the
law, and the republican party will see
to it that such a policy is fully carried
out. Here is the law:
"And it is hereby declared to be the
policy of the United States to continue
the use of both gold and silver as stan
dard money, and to coin both gold and
silver into money of equal intrinsic
and eXchangeable value, such equality
to be secured through international
agreement, or by such safeguards of
legislation as will insure the mainte-
nance of the parity of value of the
coins of the two metals. and the equal
power of every dollar at all times in
the markets and in the payment of
debts. And it is hereby further de-
c!ared that the efforts of the govern
ment should besteadily directed to the
establishment of such Il safe system of
bimetallism as will maintain at all
times the equal power of every dollar
coined or issued by the United States
in the markets and in the payment of
debts"
That is republicanism.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-07-31

General Daniel Il. Sickles is a demo-
crat the soundness of whose democracy
will not be questioned. He was a
union soldier who made a splendid re-
cord. Writing recently to a comrade
he said: "lou and land our comrades
are not accustomed to use blank cart
ridges in presence of an enemy; there
fore don't propose to throw away my
vote on any third candidate. Nor are
we in the habit of Withholding our fire
when assailed: therefore | don't mean
to stay home and not vote at all. l
shall give Il patriotic vote for my com
rade. Major Mckinley. believing that
in SO doing | am repeating what | did
i'll ga. when. as Il war democrat, i voted
for Lincoln and the union" This
merits the consideration ofevery demo
cratic union veteran. says the Omaha
Bee. 1t should appeal to his patriot
ism, because the integrity and honor
of his country is at stake and it is lust
as important to preserve these as it
was to preserve the government. 1t
should appeal to his concern for the
welfare of all his comrades and the
widows and orphans of union soldiers
who are drawing pensions. because the
policy of the Bryan platform and party
would cut down the value of the money
they receive one-half. The wise and
patriotic counsel of the veteran Sickles,
who has never been found wanting
when the welfare of his comrades was
at stake, should be needed by all of
them.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-07-31
TO BRYAN.

In II of his free trade speeches in
congress. while discussing the wool in-
dustry, Mir. Bryan made use of these
reparks:
Wool. for instance, is the chief raw
material in the WOODEN industry, and it
has been placed upon the free list.
Whether the tariff on wool has raised
the price of wool to the sheep grower
above the point it would have reached
without a tariff, is Il question which
has been discussed rather than settled.
Speaking for myself, it is immaterial,
in my judgment, whether the sheep
growers receives any benefit from the
tariff or not?
There are a good many sheep and
wool growers in this part of the coun-
try upon whose ears Bryan's statement
will be rasping indeed. We have more
wool in Fall River county, and in the
Black Hills, than we have silver.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-07-31

Senator Shoup, of Idaho, who is a
firm adherent to the free silver cause,
has no faith in the democratic party,
and will therefore not trust them. He
will stay with the republican party and
trust it to do what is best for the coun-
try. He says:
"What assurance have we that aban.
donment of the republican party will
contribute anything towardthe desired
result? Only this: A naked demo-
cratic promise made in face of the fact
that but recently, though democracy
was in full control of every branch of
government, it made no effort in that
direction. Shall we repudiate the wis
dom and integrity of the republican
party because democracy, sinkingunder
The weight of it's own mistakes, grasps
wildly at silver while still %clinging to
its oft-eNploded free-trade policy"
This appeal addresses itself to every
intelligent republican who is tempted
to abandon his party with the hope OF
accomplishing one representation
ing all other principles for which they
have ever contended ard gulp down
the whole democratic party and plat
form.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-07-31
GHERIEF'SSALE

and under the seal Of the circuit court In and
for the county of Fall River, and state of
South Dakota. upon q Judgment rendered
on the 9Th day of June. A.. d.. 1896. in an nc
ton wherein Loomis S. Gull is plaintiff and
Mutual Loan and Trust II corpora
ton. and Charles X. Collins. are defendants,
in favor of the said plaintiff and against the
and fifty and 45-lN ($250.4a) dollars, which ea-
%eciltion was directed and delivered to me as
sheriff in and for snid county of Fall River. Z
have this I'd day, of July, A. d.. 1886. levied
upon all the right, title and interest of the
saiddefendants. Mutual Loan and Trust com
pany, II corporation and Charles X. Collins.
in and to the following described real estate
and property. to-wit:
The northeast quarter of the northeast
and the east half of the southeast quarter te
y se..a) and the southeast quarter of the
northeast quarter Use Il ne "a of section
twent.-seven tgD in towlsip nine (D south of
range seven 20 east Ii H NJ in Fall River
county, South Dakota.
Also the south huff of the southwest quar-
ter ls's sw Ia and the west half of the. south
east quarter wi. Sc ~ of section eleven nl)
~. east BH in FAN River comntS Somv ont
Dakota. ''
Notice is hereby given, that 1, the under-
signed, rs sheriff us aforesaid. will sell the
above described real property to the highest
front door of the court house in the city of
Hot Springs, IN 1.-THE county of Fall River. and
state OF South Dakota. on Saturday, the Sth
day OF august. A: D, 1896, at 9 O'Clock p. IN.
gether with the interest aud costs thereon.
Dated July End, 1856.
Ed. w. BLAKEY,
Sheriff of FallRiver County.
LOOMS $. Gull, plaintiffs attorney.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-07-31
SILVER CIRCULATION.

Would the free and unlimited coin
age of silver give us a larger volume of
money in this country? Our free sill.
YER friends of course insist that it
would, but where is the proof? 1t GER
tainly does not give the countries
which now do business on the silver
standard a larger circulation per cap
ita as compared with gold standard
countries.
The Des Moines Register complies
the following statistics: France has a
circulation per capita of $500: Eng
land. $40. 7s; Germany, $3.50; Belgium,
sl2.13; while in the silver using II
tries the per capita circulation is as
follows: Japan, 1902: China. 50 Os:
India. 1888: Mexico, about 50; Central
American states, 1896.
Now if silver alone will give Il large
per capita circulation, why do not the
silver standard countries have it? One
is that the silver basis drives
out the gold. All gold-standard coun-
tries use both gold and silver in their
currency, while no silver.standard
country uses any gold in its currency.
The real, Observation-Disclosures is found
i'll the gold-standard countries.-Min-
neapolis Tribune.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-07-31
WATSON n BRYAN.

The populists disliked to hitch up
entirely with democracy all at one
swoop, and so they only endorsed Mr..
Bryan for the presidency. nominating
Tom Watson, of Georgia, for vice-presi-
dent. Unlike MIR. Sewall, the demo-
cratic nominee, Mr.. Watson, has no
barrel to tap, but he has a record. He
was in congress a few years ago. and
like most pops, he talked. When
Bryan was talking free trade in con-
gress Watson ridiculed his arguments,
and as soon as Bryan was nominated
for the presidency Watson proceeded
after the same fashion to get after
Bryan. Watson publishes a paper, and
from quite a lengthy editorial in urg-
ing the populists not to endorse Bryan
we have room only for the two follow
ing paragraphs:
''1f Mr.. Bryan carriedin his hand the
vote of the democratic house and sen
ate, / for II would trust him to carry
out these platform pledges. But he
does not do SO. He can make no more
answer for his colleagues in the public
service now than he could in 1899 or in
1893. He knows, just as we know, that
some of the guiltiest criminals in the
crime of 1892 and 1893 have been re-
nominated by the democratic party
some for the house and some for the
senate. AS now constituted it is Just
simply impossible for the democratic
party to enact a free coinage law"
"Dressing Billy Bryan up in popu-
list raiment makes Billy an attractive
figure to u admiring gaze; but, as
long as he remains mixed in with the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-07-31

What is it that The Inter Ocean
thinks the republican party is going to
do for silver? Does it think it will
open the mints to silver at the ratio of
l6 to l if it should get into power? That
is what the democratic party proposes
to do, and what the populist party de-
clared it would do, at its last national
convention. What more could the re-
publican party do?-Savannah News.
A great deal more. 1t would keep
the silver dollar as now, at par with
gold, and the man who earned a silver
dollar could buy as much as with the
gold dollar. The American silver dol
lar is worth today nearly twice as much
as the Mexican or japanese silver dol
lar, and yet the Mexican dollar has
morepure silverin it. The Inter Ocean
would not have congress do anything
to lessen the purchasing power of the
silver dollar.-Inter Ocean.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-07-31

What folly it is to quote, or rather
to misquote. James G. Blaine as ever
having favored the policy of cutting
the 100-cent dollar in two or of free
coinage at 16 to ]! . James G. Blaine
never favored, but always and vigor-
ously and %vehemently opposed that
policy. In 1S7She strenuously opposed
the Bland bill, and when it's passage
was seen to be inevitable, sought to
amend it by providing that the silver
dollar should contain 4225 grains of
standard silver instead of 1929 grains.
In other words, lie insisted on limited
coinage-not free coinage-of silver at
the ratio of its market value of gold.-
Sioux City Journal.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-07-31
A BRYAN

When MI. Bryan was in congress it
will be remembered that he lead in the
tariff discussion for democracy, adyo-
eating free trade. In his speech de-
livered on March 16, 1892, Mr.. Bryan
made this glowing prediction:
"If it 1.-THE democratic party comes
into power in all the departments of
this governments twill not destroy in
dusty; it will not iniure labor. 1t will
bring prosperity aud joy and happi-
ness not to q few, but to every one.
without regard to station OF condition.
=" st In that day. to use the words of
another, democracy will be king!
Long live the king"
Democracy gained full control of the
government, as everybody we'll knows,
and what did we get? What have the
past four years brought us?
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-07-31
THE BANKS AND SOUND MONEY.

The banks arc the objects of the
fiercest assault and hatred of the free
silver orators, says the Minneapolis
Tribune. The idea is sought to be con-
veyed that the banks own nearly all
the money and are interestedin having
money made as dear as possible. But
the contrary is the case. The banks
belong to the debtor class. The money
they lend, for the most part, belongs to
their depositors and is payable on de-
mand. 1t is probable that most bank
ing corporations could make a big
speculation by paying their depositors
in cheap money; and it is therefore
highly creditable to their stockholders
and managers that they insist on pay
ing their debts in the best money.
The prejudice against banks is fos-
tered by demagogues. Banks are as
essential to commerce as the railroads
and te%legraphs; and it is mistaken
view to suppose that they are hostile
to the interests of the people. They
can only flourish when the mass of the
people are fourishing. tits only when
their customers have money to deposit
and when active industries command
the use of large sums that they can
mako any money in their business. A
condition of monetary stringency and
stagnant business is as hurtful to the
banks as to any other industry.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-07-31

The worlds production of gold in
1873 a s%!6,ooo.ooo. Since 1850 the
production has beenrapidly increasing
until for the present year the total will
be s222o.Ooo,c 600. Since 1890 the worlds
output of gold has doubled. Within
four Yeas il is predicted that the an
nual gold output will be s%30o,oOO.ooo.
Considering the fact that gold which
was i'll circulation in Christ's time is
now i'll the possession of men and that
the output is increasing with wonder
full rapidity. it is hard to convince IA
nan that gold is approaching to any
considerable extent.