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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1896-08-06

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The record-union., 1896-05-28

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The record-union., 1896-05-28
HORRIFYING SPECTACLE.
Awful Scene at an Execution at
Boise, Idaho.

BOISE Odaho), May 27.-James A.
Ellington was hanged to-day for the
murder of Charles Briggs, in Boise, on
December 20, 1894. The drop fell at
9:21 o'clock and he was pronounced
dead in nine minutes just as the drop
fell the black cap was lifted off by the
force of air, and before the rope became
taut the features We're exposed. The
horrifying spectacle caused strong men
to turn away.
Charles Briggs in front of the latters
home in this city. Ellington met his
victim, passed, and then wheeled and
shot him in the back. Briggs fingered
several days, Ellington having been ar
rested and held, awaiting the result of
the act. After Briggs death Ellington
was given an examina ton and bound
over. At the ensuing term of the Dis
trict Court, in January, he was con-
vlcted of murder in the first degree and
sentenced to hang. An appeal acted as
a stay The case was passed on in No
vember by the Supreme Court, and at
the March term of the District Court
he was resentenced to hang on May
9th.
The trouble over which the shooting
occurred arose from business matters.
Ellington had worked for Briggs and
lived at his house. The men came here
from California and Oregon together.
Ellington worked for his victim for
some time, was discharged, and after
ward set up a claim for wages due. Ell
lington was about 40 years of age, and
was born in Georgia. At one time he
gave notice of "a plot to kill Deputy
Sheriff Fulton and effect a Jail delivery.
This is the first legal execution that
has occurred in Idaho since 1885.
The record-union., 1896-05-28
DE AILS Of- TIE DIOAOI Tx.
The Wind Reaches a Velocity of
Eighty Miles an Hour.

ST. LOUIS. May 27.-This city has
not escaped the force of the prevailing
storms. and the losses are being COM
puted.
AT 30 this afternoon the clouds that
had covered the city since noon broke
into a furious storm. Within ten min
utes the wind reached the velocity of
eighty miles an hour, sweeping with it
waves of rain. The highest speed Of
wind previously recorded here was
seventy-two miles an hour, in August,
1878 The screeching of the wind
through the electric wires, the crash of
the debris that swept in every direc-
ton. the electric flashes from the tam
gied wires and the crashing thunder
made a scene indescribaible.
At7p. m. the lowest estimate of fatal
tiles in East St. Louis and this city was
placed at 100. East st. Louis suffered
probably the greatest. Messengers
came at p. m. from there asking for
physicians and nurses. The steamer ID.
X. Pike, with thirty passengers on
board. bound for Peoria, was blown
bottom-side up in the middle of the
river and number of persons killed
The steamer Dauphin, with crew of
six and twenty lady passengers on
board. was blown against bridge pier
and broken in two. The ladies and two
of the crew clung to the bridge stone
work and were rescued.
The steamer Libbie Conger, with only
CAPTAIN Seaman, his wife and three of
a crew went adrift. The wreck of a
boat opposite Carondolet is supposed to
be the steamer Conger.
Ottenend's furniture store, at Broad
way and South Third street, was
wrecked and six men are reported
killed.
A saloon at 6O7 South Seventh street
fell, with nine men in the ruins.
St. Patrick's Church, at Sixth and
Biddle streets, fell, and the debris fills
the streets.
The electric railway line is burned out,
as we'll as electric light plants. Four
teen fire alarms were sounded within
an hour. and three alarms were sent in
from the Poorhouse, which building has
] 200 inmates. The roof Of the Poor
house was blown off and the fatalities
are great.
During the last race at the fair
grounds racetrack the roof of the grand
stand was blown off. The crowd had
gone to the open field for safety, and
but four men were killed.
The Armory at Seventeenth and Pine
streets is being used as a temporary
hospital.
At 7:30 p. m. the rain, which had
ceased for a time, began afresh and fell
in torrents.
At s o'clock the eastern sky was aglow
with the light of fires in East st. Louis.
The metal roof of the Merchants Ex-
change was rolled up like a scroll and
fell into the street. The Louisville and
Nashville east-bound passenger train
had just reached East st. Louis when
the storm struck that city. The train
was overturned, but miraculously only
a few passengers were injured. They
We're taken in the cars by railroad
yardmen.
The Chicago and Alton east-bound
local passenger train which left ST
The record-union., 1896-05-28
THE MICHIGAN CYCLONE.
Property Losses Will Reach Nearly
a Million Dollars.

DETROIT CGch.), May. 21.-Relief
associations have been organizing at
Oxford, Ortonville and Mount Clemens
to relieve the distress caused by Mon
day nights DISASTROUS cyclone. Those
families living in the path of the storm
who escaped with their lives lost nearly
everything they possessed, and are in
actual want. Governor Rich will have
an organization perfected by tomorrow
for the receiving of aid from the people
Of the State generally, and to provide
for it's distribution.
One of the injured, a Mrs. Stewart,
died to-day, and several more deaths
are expected.
1t is said the monetary loss will reach
nearly $1,000,000.
Fifteen of the unfortunate victims, of
the tornado were buried at Ortonville
to-day.
The record-union., 1896-05-28

1872. The principal destruction was
along the water front and in the rail-
road yards. Between sixty and seventy
lives were lost, boats were blown from
their moorings and sunk with all on
board; persons were picked up on the
levee and hurled to their death and
buildings were scattered to the four
winds. Old railroad men recall some
freaks of the storm. A forty-ton Alton
engine was standing in the yards when
the cyclone struck that part of the
city. The mass of iron and steel was
rolled over like a matchbox. In the
freight yards tour tramps were sleeping
under a line of loaded freight cars
when the storm came. The line of cars
We're tipped over and the sleepers killed.
The cyclone happened the same time Of
itation, as well as nearly the same time
of the year.
REPORTTHATA A THOUSAND LIVES
WE'RE LOST.
CHICAGO, May 27.-From reports re-
oeived by the United Press up to 1
O'clock this CThursday) morning from
direction and extent of the appalling
cyclone are shown.
The storm began its work of devas ta-
ton and death near Moberly, in Ran
dolph County, in the northeastern part
of Missouri. 1T then passed southeast
IL Audrey County, where the school
house at Rush Hill and its occupants
We're victims. The ; cyclone moved
slightly north into Pike County, Mo-,
and then jumped the Mississippi River
into Southern Illinois. The Ladies'
Seminary at Drake, in Greene County,
ILL.,, was struck by the tornado, which
then passed south and east, following
the Illinois River until it joined the
Mississippi, the greatest point of de-
struction being reached at St. Louis,
East St. Louis and East Carondolet.
The direction of the windstorm from
that cluster of stricken cities there ap-
pears to have been in a southeasterly
line through Illinois, but no news of de-
struction has been received from Illi-
nCis towns east of the big river.
The cyclone reached the Ohio River
and struck Evansville, in the south
western corner of Indiana
Later reports are that the storm is
tearing a path through the heart of In
diana in southeasterly direction.
The latest reports compiled from the
scenes of destruction in the three States
point to the loss Of ever 700 human
lives, and the probabilities are that
later reports will swell the total death
list to enormous proportions. Accord
ing to reports the death roll is divided
as follows: In St. Louis 300, East st.
Louis So Rush Hill, Ill.,, 10, Renick 10,
Labaddie 10.
The number of injured is estimated
to be in the hundreds.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 27-Railroad
officials say best estimates on the num-
Der killed at st. Louis put it in the
reighborhood of 1000. Nearly all the
steamers ON the river were struck and
sunk. One hospital was wrecked, and
others are filed with dead and dying.
The cyclone was moving rapidly almost
due east
The record-union., 1896-05-28
Williams Lightly Fined.

LONDON, May 27.-The Government
had a surprise to-day in the form of a
telegram from Cape Town, South At
rica, announcing that the case against
Gardner F. Williams, general manager
of the Kimberley diamond mines, had'
been ended in the payment of a fine of
f30
The record-union., 1896-05-28
Treasury Gold Reserve.

WASHINGTON, May 27.-The treas
ury gold reserve at the close of business
to-day stood at $10S. .294,27 The days
Withdrawals were $1,2S4,7 700.
The record-union., 1896-05-28

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The record-union., 1896-05-28

The Esquimau uses the wolf-dog Tor
both drawing sledges and hunting
game.
The morning times., 1896-12-05
CLAIMS OF The PLASTERERS
Investigating Committee Hears the
Evidence of Both Sides
and h. of l.. General Officers
Were Scored.

The investigation of the claims of the
two local plasterers organizations, AS
sembly No. 1914, +. of L.. and Operative
Piasterers' Union, affiliated with tn
American Federation of Labor. conducted
last evening at Typographical Temple by
the grievance committee of Columbia Union
No. 1O1, developed intoa discussion of the
condition of the h. of l.. under its present
officers.
Tue Investigating committee was or
ganiZed with Mr.. Eugene S. Brown, chair
man, and Messrs. +. NJ. Lewis, Z. V. Juno.
and I. b. Hoagland. The Knights OF
Labor plaStererS We're represented by Mr..
Shelby Smith, a member of Columbia
Typographical Union and the Operative
member of Columbia Union.
From the opening the discussion took a
wide latitude.
In the main the testimony of the two
factions was flatly contradictory as to the
causes which led TO the withdrawal of
members from GA, and also as TO the i'm
mediate causes of differences. The most
important witness before the committee
was Mr: Ed. l.. Jordon, one Of the directors
of the Consumers brewery.
great deal of time was consumed in
individual members to contract for jobs,
the members of the two organizations eX-
pressing opposite opinions.
Steve y. Clements, recording secretary
of 1914, and a charter member, submitted
the court records of the assembly to show
that majority of the members Of the
new union mad Deen expelled or were In
bad standing when they left Assembly
1914.
Mr. S. H Bell testified as to the effects
of recognizing the new body. He was
positive that unless for some good cause
the organization of longest standing should
be accepted as the representative body.
Mr. Rodier asked Mr.. Bell If the Knights
of Labor was not now more of a political
body than a labor organization. In re-
ply Mr. Bell said that the present general
Officers were acting very foolishly and
their course was detrimental to the inter
ests Of the order.
The evidence OF the new plasterers was
principally to show that they had not
been treated fairly while members OF the
Knights of Labor, and that the organization
of the new body was a matter OF protec-
ton.
The committee took the matter under
advisement and wifi report their decision
at the next meeting of Columbia Typo
graphical Union.
The morning times., 1896-12-05
REV. l.. l.. SMITH TELLS
HOW HE WAS DEAF
AND NOW HEARS.

Rev. L. L. Smith, 606 9th st. sw.,
clergyman or the Church OF the United
Brethren: Il most heartily recommend
Doctor McCoy's treatment / have expert
enced its wonderful benefits and IL is be-
cause OF personal knowledge that 1 speak
as 1 do.
For eighteen months had suffered from
dull headaches accompanied by ruInbling
noises in MY head and partial deafness.
1 Became SO Hard of Hearing
that | had difficulty in attending To my
every day duties and l could not under
stand ordinary conversation.
Doctor McCoy's treatment has given M
complete relief from the headaches and
from the distressing, unnatural noises and
my hearing has been completely restored.
Il also when l went to Doctor Mccoy had
been troubled with a catarrhal condition
OF the nose and throat which caused me
to hawk and spit continually. In the morn
ing 1 would always have a bad taste in
th,. mouth and a gaeeiug sensation My
sleep was not refreshing and / would wake
in the morning feeling tired and unre-
freshed.
/ Have Been Completely Cured
of all my troubles. l sleep well. have no
more discharge from nose or throat
and feel refreshed and Vigorous in the
morning The improvement in my general
health mas been wonderful as we'll as the
restoration of my hearing"
The morning times., 1896-12-05
SPORTS IN GENERAL.

An interesting football game will be
played this Afternoon ON Georgetown Field
between class teams oil 80 and 1900.
Local sporting men say that Fat Raedy
has his work cut out for him III case his
challenge 20 Dick Moore is acce r'ted
Raedy challenged Moore last evening i'm
mediately after the latter had gained the
decision over Abe Ullnan i'll their fight
before the Eureka Club in Baltimore. I'll
man is very highly thought of here, and
in the opinion of local ring followers man
who can defeat him as easily as Moore did
must be good one.
The football game which was to have
been pla ycd between University of Nir-
ginia and Hampton football tea ms at
Richmond today. mas been canccled by the
university faculty on the grounds that no
games can be played away from the col
lege with other than college teams. The
two teams have played twice this season,
both games resulting in a tie score, and
the question of supremacy will remain
unsettled unless a game can be arranged
OIL the university grounds.
Rinehart, the gigantic guard on the
Lafayette College football team, has been
elected captain for next season.
Dan Creedon has telcgraphed to the
hackers of Frank Craig, the Harlem Coffee
Cooer,' in L ondon, that ne is willing to
meet the culored lad for a finish fight, to
take place in san Francisco within two
months. In view of the FitZSimmons-
Sharkey fiaSco this would seem to be u
rash proposition.
Ralph Treadway, who captained the Yale
crew which went to Henley last summer,
has accepted the position Of athletic di-
rector in the Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium at
Sioux City, Iowa.
The articles for most unique fight have
Just been signed at CatlettsburE, KY.
Thomas Stevens is matched to fight ten
months Old bear cub. Stevens is allow ed
the use of a fCur-inch blade hunting knife
while bruiniS TO use the weapons with which
nature has provided him. 4 purse of $500
has been put up on the fight, which is to
take place liz cage at the Opera House on
Christmas night.
The first Columbia Athletic Club smoker
will take place tonight in the gymnasium
and a most enjoyable time is anticipated
A program OF many excellent features has
been arranged by the amusement com
mittee and refreshments will be in order
at all hours Of the evening.
The Eastern High School football team
Is putting in some hard practice, prepara.
tory to their game next week with Cen
tral, when they hope to make a much
better showing than in their last game.
The morning times., 1896-12-05
THEY ARE ON The WARPATH
Congressman Who Think the Pen
sion Office Worked Against Them.
They Call on Commissioner Murphy
TO Ask About Change in An
swering Calls for Information.

Many Congressman, as they arrive in the
city, make d bee line for the big red barn
like building on Judiciary Square where
pension cases are handled.
They have business 10 transact at once
with Hon. Dominic l. Murphy, Commits
sioner Of Pensions, that admits no delay,
If for no other reason than that they may
relieve their minds. i'-is
1t is noteworthy that nearly all who
come in this way Were on the Mckinley Y
side in the late campaign. Some of them
are gold Democrats and some are Repub-
iicans. All of them get very respectful
hearing now.
Tie disturbing fact upon the minds of
these gentlemen is that they were prac-
tically ignored at til Pension Office,
while the great political contest was in
progress. They believe that the purpose
was to affect unfavorably their interests,
and the prospects of Maj Mckinle Y in the
election. Of course, the delay produced
dissatisfaction against them.
1t is customary when Il pensioner or ap-
plcant for pension wants TO know what
is being done in his case to ask the Rep
resentatiVe IN Congress to make inquiry ut
the Pension Office here. Usually re.
ply comes to the member in a few days
and is forwarded to his constituent.
But this year these indignant Congress
men say they have been unable to secure
any answer to their calls. In several in
stances they have renewed their applica-
tions for information two or three times
In the same case. Representative Curtis
of Kansas had no less than five calls piled
up on the same case and no reply at all.
He sent in the first early in the sum-
mer and repated 1T about once in three
weeks.
It's said that no good reason existed WHY
the cases should not have been attended
to promptly. Since the election they have
been gotten rid of in quick order. Clerks
have even been brought from other divis-
ions to expedite the work.
Comparatively few are now in arrears,
but members want TO find out the cause for
the ch ange in the speed
The morning times., 1896-12-05

A dispatch has been received in New
York stating that w. u. Osgood, the famous
football player, who enlisted in the Cuban
army some time ago, was killed October
8 during the shelling Of the town Of
Guafmaro by the Cuban forces under Gen.
CaliXto Garcia.
Osgood, Who had won the title of major
by gallant service, was ordered by Gen.
Garcia to train the battery under his COM
mand on the town, and it was while dis
charging this order that he was struck in
the forehead by a Mauser bullet and in
stantly killed.
WAS A FAMOUS ATHLETE.
His death was deeply regretted by all
the commanding officers of the Cuban
army, as he had won universal liking and
respect.
osgood was a, famous athlete, both at
Cornell an6 the University Of Pennsyl-
vania. where he won many medals for
boxing, wrestling and bicycle racing.
But his greatest fame was earned on
the football field. Several years ago, when
the style of play allowed more individual
work, Osgood was considered the best half
back who ever dOnned a canvas jacket.
He was immensely strong, quick as a cat,
and a very last sprinter.
Some of his most remarkable playing
was done against Princeton and Harvard
Wniie ne was ON the hefennsylVania teain
HIS COLLEGE LIFE.
When he entered Cornell he was small
and light, and 1t was only by consistent
training that he gained his remarkable
development. While he was at Cornell
plaster cast was taken OF his whole
body, and this is now exhibited at Cornell
as specimen Of perfect physical man
hood.
The news of OsCpods death will be
received with the most sincere regret by
collegians all over the country, as he was
widely known and very popular.
He was son of Major Osgood, of the
United States Army, who was stationed, I'M
til recently, at st. Louis, No.
The morning times., 1896-12-05
HAD BEEN DEAF SIX YEARS,
NOW SHE HEARS.
Mrs. $. G. Rice, 1u16 Fla. ave. me-.

Mrs. y. q. Rice, 1O16 Fla. ave. me-:
Il had been Deaf for sin years. DuTiHg
tie last two years MY Deafness has been
very bad indeed.
i was distressed all the time by noises
III Hy head which almost set me crazy.
When people would talk their voices
would he like confused sounds. Amy one
talEing 10 me IN a TcOm would have TO
speak very loud 10 make me understand
anything. / could not follow d Clergyman
III his sermon. / could only catch word
here and there. AT hnme at the table
would constantly be asking people TO re-
peat.
Il was sent to DR.. Mccoy by a patient
who had been under his treatment He
has restored my hearing ! can now hear
ordinary conversation and watch tick.
Tire distressing noises in my head are gone.
How colld say anything else but that the
treatment Is wonderful IN the restoration
of heaIlng'"
The morning times., 1896-12-05
A DOCTOR TESTIFIES
BOTH AS \ PATIENT
AND AS A DOCTOR.

Doctor C. p. Nc EnhcImer, 402 Sixth
st. NV. room 81, is a Well SHOWN pTac-
titioner of Virginia aud a graduate OF the
University OF Maryland in 1858 In this
remarkable testimony lie speaks OF the
wOuterful value 10 humanity OF DR.. Nc
Coy's treatment from two standDoints-
First, he speaks from his own eSDerIence.
He had been hard OF hearing for ten years;
he took the treatment himself and he Is
now able 10 hear a watch tick and ordinary
conversation
lie speaks as a Patient
These are ms words: Il had been hard
OF nearing for ten years The functions OF
one OF my ears Were entirely gone
The disease OF the membrane in my
case had extended from the throat to the
eral friends OF mine who Were entirely
re;tf had been entirely cured ev Doctor Nc
Coy, and knowing or these remarkable re-
suits, ! placed myself under his care.
remained under his treatment for six
months. Al last to my surprise | found
could hear a watch tick and hear ordinary
conversation without dilflculty. | had
been deprived OF the ability TO continue
conversation for years. The restoration of
my hearing WIS entirely due to Doctor Nc
Coy's treatment
He speaks as a Doctor.
Speaking from a physician standpoint
of thisuarvelouS treatment Dr. MCEnhcimer
SAYS: "One has but TO undergo this treat
ment to appreciate il. 1t reaches every
diseased spot or the membrane from the
nasal passages to the deepest part Of the
lungs and recesses OF the middle ear. IL
soothes the membrane until the soreness in
the eustIChian tubes is all gone The air
is allowed 10 enter and escape from the
throat as may be required. The morbid
condition of the tympanum is relieved and
are all gone. 1t is truly wonderful
Treatment
The morning times., 1896-12-05
DEAF FIFTEEN YEARS.
STONE DEAF IN LEFT EAR,
CURED OF HIS DEAFNESS.

j. R. Pearson, No. 2O1 I st. sP.,
Connected with the ordnance department.
navy yard: Il had been deaf for fifteen
years L was stvne deaf IN my left ear
amu ,i..i my. right wis growing worse all the
mad ringing noises in my ears.
could not hear the clock strike the time
OF DAY. ! could not hear conversation. I
Hau 10 give up going to church or places
OF amusement. because | could mot hear a
single sound. When | went to see Doctor
Mccoy my ears were
Almost Dead to All Sound.
lirst knew that the treatment was
coihg me good by the noises in nay ears
growing less and less. AT last they dis
appeared entirely.
Il can now hear ordinary conversation
and all noises about the house or ON the
street.
."Before taking treatment I could not
near clap OF thunder in my left or, as
called II, my dead ear. Now / can hear
my watch TICK plainly and distinctly in
my lett ear even when held six inches
away"
The morning times., 1896-12-05
RESTRAINING ORDER ASKED.
Two SmOkeless Burner Companies
Engaged in Litigation,

The Columbian Smokeless Furnace Com
pany filed a bill in equity yesterday against
the Milton Smoke Burner Company, and
John j Wilmarth, its secretary.
The plaintiff, by Judge jeremiah N.
Wilson, its solicitor, recites that it is the
owner of certain letters patent which were
issued to Albert F. Kingsley The in
vention Is intended to save the consumption
of coal by steam locomotives. Soon after
securing control OF the device the Column
bian Company negotiated with the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad for the adoption
of the invention and its use by them
The railroad company began experiments
with the patent in May last, and con-
Guided to adopt il for further use. The Co.
lunlbian Company charges that ut this
time Secretary Wilmarth, of the Milton
Company, wrote a letter to the railroad
people saying that the Kingsley patent was
an infringement of certain patent is
sued to John Milton, and il il adopted
the former device suits would be entered
by the Milton Company.
The plaintiff says in the suit that the
E1fendant company's representations as
infringement are wholly false, and
therefore it wants the Milton Company
and Secretary Wilmarth restrained from
further interfering with the adoption by
the Chesapeake Company of the Kingsley
patent.