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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-08-18
Not Enough in New York and
Brooklyn to Attend Sum
days Funerals,
Of Which There Were 46O in
New York and Over 200
in Brooklyn.
Some Remarkable Facts Regard
the Mortality of Last
Week.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1S.-NOtwithstand-
ing largely increased forces OF grave
diggers, working by night as well as by
day, graves could not be supplied to fill
the demand at the cemeteries Sunday.
There was also shortage of hearses
and it was necessary to borrow from
other cities.
There were 400 funerals in New York
during the day and over 200 in Brook
iyn.
Undertakers said the funerals of Sun
dav would be more numerous than these
of any other day Of last week, and that
meant more numerous than any day in
the history of this city. They were
right. Friday, Saturday and Sunday
saw more burials than any seven days
of which the cemetery bookkeepers can
find any record.
Some Notable Facts.
These are startling facts, but these
further facts are as notable. The num-
Der of children among the dead has
never in the hottest week of any year
been so small of last week; neither has
the hottest week of any year seen so
few burials of aged people. The aver
age age of the people inferred in the
principal cemeteries was Al years. There
were nearly twice as many men as
women buried. OF the l,1S0 persons
who died in this city last week, nearly
500 died Thursday night, Friday and
Saturday.
Because of the difficulty Of securing
caskets, hearses and carriages, or even
undertakers' services beyond the sim
piest and most necessary, nearly all
the funerals for that period were de-
layed until Sunday. There were 81
hearses borrowed from adjoining towns
in New Jersey and IL from Philadel-
phia. Several New York undertakers,
whose rush was over, loaned hearses to
Brooklyn friends. Other hearses were
added to Brooklyn's supply from Long
Island towns, as there were nearly one
fourth Of the weeks $40 dead in that
city still unburied. The cost of funerals
advanced about 20 per cent on Friday.
Grave Diggers Worked All Night.
So many graves had been called for
that the force of nearly 300 men at Cal.
vary had been increased by over lOC
diggers, and the entire force worked
night and day. At the Lutheran Gem
etery, the number of diggers had been
nearly doubled, and even then the
number of graves completed was less
than were needed. In consequence
many bodies were placed in receiving
vaults.
All day Father Costello stood in the
tiny chapel at Holy Cross and pro
nounced benedictions for the dead. Tht
funeral trains approached the chapel il
double lines, the hearses massed around
the entrance, where bearers awaited
with their burden and the weeping re
latives until their turn to enter.
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FIFTEEN WERE KILLED.

Destructive Alabama Cyclone Results i'm
Loss Of Life and Property.
SELMA, Ala, Aug. 18.-News was re-
ceived here during the day from Au-
gustine, Perry county, IA miles from a
telegraph station, that terrible and
most destructive cyclone swept over
that place, leveling everything IN its
path. Twelve negroes and three white
people were killed by houses falling in
on them and 10 other persons were
more or less injured. Twenty-four
head of horses and mules were crushed
to death by falling barns. The cyclone
was followed by the heaviest rain that
has fallen in that section in 10 years.
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Fighting the Standard Oil Trust.

BERLIN, Aug. lS.-As result of the
agitation in newspaper circles and
among the business men, growing out
Of the alleged amalgamation of the last
three of the independent oil firms with
the Standard Oil company, and the re-
port that the American company now
controls the petroleum market, it is now
announced that it is possible that the
government will take steps to facilitate
the importation of Galician oil. 1t is
also rumored that all attempt will be
made to impose an almost prohibitive
duty on American oil.
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Working for Kent's Life.

FARGO, N. D., Aug. l8.-Judge Nc
Connell has decided to resentence Myron
r. Kent next Friday. The date of the
execution cannot be less than 80 days,
and will probably be about the middle
of October. In the meantime petitions
continue to be circulated all over the
state, asking executive clemency. The
petitions are generally signed, and there
is a strong sentiment that will be
brought to bear on Governor Allin to
commute the sentence to life imprison-
ment
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BRlE BITS OF NEWS.


Thomas Devaney, the Irish political
prisoner has JecI released from Port
land prison
Three men were killed, 10 or more
injured and several buildings demol.
ished by the explosion of % pounds Of
dynamite at New Holland, Pa.
Rourke Cochran has engaged to speak
in the Democratic gold standard party's
interest in Maine, Michigan, Ohio, Nir
ginia and Illinois, and possibly in Other
Western states
Crackslnen succeeded in blowing opel
the safe in the Beach Side hotel a
Green Farms, Conn, and got away
with about 81. eco ii cash, 5000 check
and a quantity Of jewe.ry, the propert.
of the guest>.
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NINE MET DEATH
And Forty to Fifty Were More
or Less Seriously
Injured.
During a Fire in a Church at
Sandy Hook, Ky.--Details
Meager.
Fifteen Lives Reported Lost in
an Alabama Cyclone.
Casualties.

CINCINNATI, Aug. lS.-The Times
Stars special from Lexington, KY, says
that by a fire in Sandy Hook, the county
seat of Elliott county, nine persons were
killed and forty or fifty were more OF
less injured.
The Baptists were holding an associa-
ton in an old frame church, when it
suddenly took fire, and portion of the
upper floor fell on the struggling cor.
gregation. Nine persons were reported
killed and forty or fifty were trampled
under foot and otherwise injured. De-
tails with names have not been received
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Delaware Single Tax Cases.

WILMINGTON, Del, Aug. ls.-Judge
Wales handed down his decision in the
habeas corpus cases Of the single takers,
James Haggerty and Arthur H. Stephen.
son, who have been in Dover Jail for
failing to pay the fine and the costs for
the violation of the Dover ordinance.
He decided that the committing magis-
trate had the authority to try Haggerty
and remanded him to the custody Of the
sheriff Stephenson's term having ex-
pired, no decision was rendered in his
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NET A HORRIBLE FATE.

Aeronaut Jacobs Dashed to Death ut
Quincy, Ills.
QUINCY, Ills, Aug. 18.-B. Frank
Jacobs, an aeronaut travelling with a
circus, met with horrible death here
in the presence Of his wife and young
child and an assembled throng. He
was having balloon race at Baldwin
park with Professor Dudley, when his
balloon burst 200 feet from the ground.
His parachute failed to open and he
was dashed to the ground, breaking al.
most every bone in his body.
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RECEIVE LII HUNG CHANG.

The President Will Probably Go to New
York for That Purpose.
WASHINGTON, Aug. lS.-The presi-
dent will receive Ii Hung Chang on
the 3lst of this month. Ii will not go
to Gray Gables, nor will the reception
take place in Washington. 1t is prob
able that it will occur in New York.
Arrangements are now making for
the reception of China's premier and
probably will be announced by Private
Secretary Thurber from Gray Gables.
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Detective Held for Perjury.

CINCINNATI, Aug. l5.-John Seward,
a detective, has been brought to New.
port under arrest for subornation of
perjury in the trials of Jackson and
Walling. Seward was indicted for i'll.
PRODUCING William Trustee and Carrie
Evans as witnesses, whom he rehearsed
to prove that Pearl Bryan was found
dead OH the Ohio side of the river
When his witnesses were broken down.
Seward escaped and the officers have
been hunting him for several months.
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Chicago Union Stock Yards.

CHICAGO, Aug. II, 1895
HOGS-Market active and prices gen.
orally 5d1Oc higher.
Sales ranged at s3.ljd 80 for lignt;
S3.OoG 10 for mixed; S.75d3.D for
heavy; and e 1902 95 for rough.
CATTLE-Best grades so 10 higher;
others steady.
Sales ranged at S'.l5N4.Gj for beeves;
81. .25@3S5 tor cows and hciterS; $50 i
375 for Texas steers; S9.1jG93 81 1ol
Western steers; s2.7J>G 90 Tor >stocker>
and feeders.
SHEEP-Market strong To zoe higher
Receipts: Hogs 5000, c"tue, lo.oOo;
sheep, l4,OO.
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The German Ministerial Mud lie.

LONDON. Aug. lS.-A dispatch to The
Times from Berlin attributes the dis
missal Saturday of General Bronsart
Won Schellendorf, minister Of war,
largely to the influence over Emperor
William of General Won Hahnke. tho
aide de camp. The Berlin correspond.
EFT Of The Times adds that it is be.
heved that q crisis in the internal pol.
icy OF the empire has been reached.
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Chicago Grain and Provisions.

-------C CHICAGO. Aug. II, 1871
CLOSING PRICES
WHEAT-August. o4'1c; September
4}ac; December oS9s 5S14c; May, 631sc
CORN-August,.2 - a@-2 &C; September
22h 22Ac; December, 2jbM24c; May
267sc.
OATS-August 1890: September, l6A
October, l6jsc; December, NC; May
1870.
PORK - August, $500; September.
$3.50; Ontober, S6.l5; January. s'l2>s.
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BIG FACTORY TO MOVE.
Wabash Screen Door Works Going Nearer
Its Base Of supply.

Its Base of supply.
WABASH, Ind, Aug. lS.-The Wa
bash screen door works, leading man.
ufacturin9 concern of this city, with a
capacity of 1000 doors day, will re-
move its factory from Wabash to Rhine
lander, Wis, next week. The COM
pany, of which John Bruner Of this
city is president, has large factory at
Rhinelander. and it is the intention to
combine the two near the base of tim
Der supplies, the shipment of rough
lumber here for Manufacture wiping
out profits. An office will be kept open
here. The company vacates large
buildings.
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The N,inona Retreat.

WINoNA, Mimi, Aug. l8.-The an
nual retreat of the Catholic priests of
this diocese has begun and will continue
until Friday morning. Rt. Rev. Father
McGolrick of Duluth will conduct the
programme and deliver the sermon.
Some 20 clergymen are present.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ills, Aug. 18.-The
chemical laboratory building at the
University of Illinois was almost de-
stroyed by fire during the morning, the
result of stroke Of lightning. The
damage to the building is $50, 600 and to
the contents about $50, 600.
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Occupants Had Narrow Escapes.

ROCKFORD, Ills,, Aug. lS.-Fire gut
ted the Woodruff block ON Seventh
street, causing loss Of over 800,
Many poor families living in the second
story of the block lost everything they
possessed, barely escaping with their
lives in their night clothes.
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St. Paul Union Stockyards,

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Aug II, 1895.
HOGS-Market 1Oc higher; quality poor
Range of prices, g. 5e3.25.
CATTLE-Market steady, and active;
good demand.
SHEEP-Market for best sheep and
lambs steady; muttons S?d26o; lambs,
$3.50.
Receipts: Hogs, ESQ; cattle 70J; sheep,
500: calves IL
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DALLAS. Tex, Aug lS.-At 10 a. IN
the mercury reached lC4, at 3 p. IN. it
reached the unprecedented height of
10S degs., the hottest weather on record
for this section.
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Planning Mill Destroyed.

GREEN BAY. Wis, Aug. lS.-The
plant of the Green Bay Planning Mill
company burned during the afternoon.
The cause of the fire is unknown. Loss,
20 nNn
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MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. II, 1895.
WHEAT-August closed 5l1sc; Sep
tember. 51Hc, December, 544s@54Ac.
On Track No hard, 53Hc; No. North.
ern, 52Xc; No. Northern, 5lKc.
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Duluth Grain.

DULUTH, Aug II, 1895.
WHEAT-Cash No. hard, 57Ao; No.
Northern, 55c; No. = Northern, SEQ
53c; No. 3 spring, so lt2:; rejected,
AH@5OHc; to arrive, No hard, 57Kc;
No. Northern, 55Xc; September, No
Northern, b5c
The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-16
FAzeyas F<sxs SALE.

c01 acre farm 81! MICS from Eoanokc, good
improvements. We'll fenced and watercd, plcaiy
of timber, nico young orchard, 81 500-terms
casy. This i. great bargain.
GG-acrc farm close 20 Roanoke, in good c0ndit-
ion ! ! 600 cash.
81 acres or notion land / y miles from Rollins
with $500 br!ci; house, nj the edge OF beautiful
10 aero grove of forest oaks Price 80 per acre
1870 acres near Iolins Institute. rcven miles
from EOnuOkc city, forty acres OF which Is level
fairly good improvements, fine peach ana apple
orchard, land well adapted to trick farming, all
kinds fruit and grapes. Price Si.f50; very chean.
Also great many other bargains in city and
country property, which we would be glad to
show at any time.
II you want to buy or rent, SOL or exchange,
como and sec us.
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Legal. NOTICES.
TRUSTEES SALE.

Whereas, Il certain deed of trust was
executed by Mrs. Pauline w. Sims and
her husband, II. y. Sims, to George Poet,
trustee, bearing date the sixteenth day
of June, 1892, am! recorded in the clerk $
Office nj the hustings court for the city of
Roanoke, Virginia, in deed book sG, page
/, to secure the performance of certain
conditions and payments specified in a
certain bend executed by the said Pauline
W sims with even date with said deed
for the pay l.cnt OF four thousand dollars
GSi,uO to the National Mutual Building
niil Loan y ssocintiou of New York. in
accordance with their articles Of ussocia-
dion md whereas, tile said George j. Pcet
has resigned the said trust and the judge
OF the hustings court foi the city Of
Eoanoke, Va, at the December term,
lS9i, did appoint ,Iunius McGchcc rs
trustee in the place and stead cf George
j. Poet, after legal notice, as provided 10y
statEtc, to ali the parties in interest; anu
whereas, default has been made in the
payment and conditions mentioned in
said bond ANA deed of trust for more than
three months, and after being required
50 to do by the beneficiary the National
Mutual Building and 4.oan Association of
New York | shall bv virtue OF said deed.
and pursuant to the terms thereof. pro-
ceed to sell at public auction to the high
est bidder on WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
18TH 1897, at 3 o'clock p. IN. on the prem
Uses all the property conveyed in said deed
with the Improvements thereon, bounded
and described aS follows, to wit:
Beginning mt II point on the south side
Of Campbell street now Third avenue s.
W. seven hundred and sevcnty.two C.;3
feet and nine o. inches west from Roam.
ok - ir1
running thence south i degrees ~ min
ute east one hundred and eighty three
1S3l feet to an alley, thence with said
alley south 50 degrees 10 minutes west
fortr three (i;0 feet and nine 90 inches 10
Il point, thence north degrees - min
ntes west one hundred and eighty-hvr
$50 feet TO Campbell street, thence with
SAID street north 50 degrees ) minutes
east forty three (l3) feet and nine 90
inches to the place OF beginning, and
known as lots numbers thirty.ciuht CaSl
and thirty-nne (39)aS shown on the man
of y w. Flickwr ct ais
VERMS.-Cash sufficient to pay all
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PACE & B0BBlTY,
NO. 10 Jefferson 81.
SPECIAL BARGAINS
Real state !!

y good 6.room brick dwelling, large lot, in
Southwest koanokc, with plenty of shade, 3l,tUO
Groom dwelling in Northwest Roanoke, @G0n
s5J cash and s. per month. Can be rented :or
more than The monthly payment.
best part or Southwest, with modern improve
ments, rtablc and carriage housc with several
other outbuildings, $.,9lt; $500 cash and SIT per
month
S-room house in good condition, well papcrcd
with modern improvements. stanl and large
lot, $2,GCU; sA0 ct-h and SIS per month.
S-room hoGse in West hnd large lot nice loca
ttOn, 81 ,sN: SOD cash and SIS per month
S-room honsc in The Southwest. moucrn i'm
proscmc to- 81 Gt0 $i,0 cash an1 Slipper month
Good 6 room house in Southeast, near the
shops. 500 $40 cash md 80 per month.
Groom house, large corner lot, southeast
$3.50; $50 casn and $ per month.
7r0or dwelling, with sewer connection, stable
ana other necessary outbu'ldngs, Sl,3t; so
cash, $l2 90 per montn without inlctoet.
Groom house on Henry street II. W. 81 .05o :2S
cash and $40 pr month with no interest. Is
renting nov fof - %.
Two 3loou co tagcs, with basement room,
sewer connection, nlcc gard I'll and good location
est.
;.roam house On Sixth avenue 3. W. nicely
pgpered. Price $1,000; Slj cash and sl5 pea month.
Rents uOw for $iu
G.room house on large lot, nenr Roanoke ana
Southern railroad, newly fenced, house ia good
condition, 81 go; $50 cash and s2 20 per month.
One OF the best residences on Church street Is
ROOMS, larg" lot, best location, cost IS 800 ia
beautiful coEditon inside ard ont. Price $4,000;
1864 cash, $25 per month; is renting now Mt s25
per month Also two other splendid bargains on
Church avenue
One Of the most desirable and best located bus
incss houses in the very beet part OF the business
centre OF the city. Onofourth or tho price cash
and .Nc rent win pay the balance. 1t is renting
now for 81 per cent. or the price asked. There is
no better investment in the city than this We
have several other fine bargains in business
property on Salem avenue and jefferson street.
8 room hOnsn near West End ronnd house, $780,
$50 cash and $40 per month.
Good b-room house, Eighth avenue 8. W., mod
ern Improvements, stable on lot ana shade, 81 ,1C0
easy payments.
Nicely papcred room house on he best part of
Seventh avenue Il. c., $3.50; &3U cash and IS per
month
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hands, and evidently ut his wits end with
dismay. Neutrality-suspicious.. foolish l
was to-to-entcr your room-to--''
And To enter yours. But what is
done is done" said Mabel, checking her
sobs, and speaking with solemn dcspcra-
ton. II am prepared to face the worst,''
The viscoumt w;ls silent for II minute
y sudden idea, born of the circumstances
had flashed across his mind. He had
never thought of Mabel in this light be-
fore. lie would have not done so now
unless ;hc situation had forced it on him:
but as he looked at her pretty, woeful
face, he realizcd that it was not such
an unwecome light in which; to think OF
her after all, In an instant (as Shy men
Wild he had hlurted out his mind, though
rather cnigmGtici,lly
"My-nly-,jcar Miss Mabel. II
might, forull that Lady Slanderson knows
to the contrary, e-havc-acqmired
the right to-to-take -you-slippcrs
to your room.
"i-I-Iihat do You mean, Lord Peters
field:"
"Why, replied his lordship, blushing
and stammering, ''if were wcrc-en-
gagged to be married to YOU, Miss Mabel
it w-would make a-n-dilfcrcnce =
wouldn't it?n
VII Hb, l4oTl ItIcrSIcitt. MOI that
Not that she cried, starting away
Couldn't YOU s-stand me at-at--any
price, them gaspcd the viscount, pain
fully mortified
"Oh, yes lit was not that. | should
I mean | could not let you s-sacriiice
yourself to-tn-savc my reputation
sit wouldn't be much of Il sacrifice, =
said his lordship, with an tdmring glance
at her fresh young face. do YOU know
Lam rather glad now that this--this-
unfortunate situation has opened my eyes
It-it-showS something didn't realize
before. I-l-oh, Mabel, will you?'
These things have way OF happening
suddenly And it now happened suddenly
that Mabel Wcntwarp found herself fold.
ed in Lord pctcrsfied's macintosh cape
He is Il noble man. mamma.n said
the newly engaged girl to her mother II
few hours later. "He-he-says that he
didn't realize that he loved me till this
morning. And ! did not realize that
that loved him. If | had, | would
n-nevcr have played that horrd practical
joke upon him about his-his pumps
But when he-he-sp- spoke to me, | knew
i'll II moment that-tha t-that did love
him;and that it had been cruel-shamefui
of me to carry on the i-ioke this morn
ing simply To cmbarr;lss him You
-will-never tell him that meant
it, originally, fos Il stupid hoax, will you,
mamma ieMs'
i.ady WcntWarp smiled and kissed her.
Don't be afraid of that, Nab Your
OLD mother will not give you away. 1t
Wa risky sort of joke wasn't itg
Though it has had The happiest results,
rs it seems t. have opened both your
eve. 81 Or1on VritL
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ROANOKE TIMES, WEDNESDAY,. DECEMBER Is 1896
LEGAL NOTICES.

cost OF eYcouting this trust, including u
commission to the trustee, ana TO pay off
sl'" bond with arrearages due. thereon
to five thousand one hundred
ana ninty-uine G9-l00 go, 1896 dollars
as OF December the 18th, 1896, subject to
II withdrawal value of eleven hundred
anu forty six Isl, llG) dollars on the day
oil sale, and the balance, if any, in one
anu two equal annual instruments due i'll
twelve ana twenty four months with in
terest thereon from date, the purchaser
executing negotiable notes for the defer
red payments and secured by Il deed of
trust on the property sold.
JUNIS McGEEIEE,
Substituted Trustee
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\ RiCu NIENICAN

One Of the richest men in Mexico is
Ma<imilian Damn, Il German by birth
He lives in IN old monastry in Durango,
and enjoys IN income Of 500, 600 year
from his silver mines in III Promontario.
He began life in Mexico as a clerk. Iii
nally he went into business for himself,
and while he was visiting in Germany his
manager took what was supposed to he II
worthless mine for IL bad debt. 1t is from
this mine which he is now deriving his
great income. RI