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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-16
NEWS FROM HELENA.
United States Grand Jury Sworn in-The
Winters Case May lie Dropped.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Helena, April 15.-The United States
grand jury was sworn in to-day by
Judge Knowles. All the members of
the jury reside In Helena except one.
Others from different parts of the state
were subpoenaed. but were excused
The jury will have under consideration
several cases involving violations of
the postal and other internal revenue
laws. and about the usual number from
Indian reservations. The case against
+. NJ. Cory for impersonating a United
States officer. will come up for trial at
this term.
Thomas McGrath, who confessed that
he was one of the three men who broke
into weinstein's store Saturday, to-day
pleaded guilty In district court to the
charge of burglary in the first degree.
Judge Blake sentenced him to two
years in the penitentiary. Part of the
stolen goods were found to-day by a
young man named William King, a re-
cent arrival from Great Falls. He
found the property in a Montana Cen
trail box car. in which he had spent the
night.
The jury In the case OF George w.
Winters. after being out IS hours, re-
ported that they could not agree and
were discharged. Winters was tried for
forgery. He was interested with United
states Maftnal McDtfmOtt IN "a lease
on the Constance mine. McDermott
gave Winters three checks with which
TO pay the men. Winters forged the
names of the men and collected the
money. He admitted in court that he
forged the checks. but said he had no
intention to defraud the men. intending
TO pay them the money. Winters has
spent 100 days in Jail Proceedings may
be dropepd against him. Winters is a
mining man well known In Butte,
where he lived a long time.
State Land Agent Page to-day filed
with the board OF land commissioners
a list of lands selected by him last
week on the Kootenai river, near Lib
by. There are $50 acres included in
the selections. all being valuable timber
land. The land has been entered I'm the
Missoula land Office, and the state will
receive title as soon as the selections
are approved by the department at
Leonard G. Quinlan and others OBJ
tanned judgment to-day in the district
court against W. 5. Baxter and others.
who defanlted for S2S.333. so The action
was brought on promissory note and
involves acreage property just north OF
the city limits. which was mortgaged
TO secure notes. The property viii be
sold
Sheriff Jurgens left to-day for Taco
ma with Yung Shea. the Dillon China
man. who Is 10 be deported. United
States Marshal McDermott deputized
the sheri ffto take the Chinaman TO the
coast.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-16
IN DENVER.
Democrats for Free siIver-spnator TIL
mans Burning Words APP auded.

Democrats for Free Silver-Spnator Till
mans Burning Words APP auded.
Denver, April 15-The democratic
state convention held here to-day, after
adopting free silver platform and
electing one delegate large, ad-
journed to 1880 o'clock tonight As
Senator Tillman of South Carolina, was
to speak in the same theater in which
the convention was transacting its
business il was impossible to proceed
with further elections until after the
ex governor had finished. The theater
was packed with people anxious to
hear Senator Tillman speak. Seldom
has political leader received such an
ovation in Denver as did Senator Till
man tonight.
Before Tillman began his speech, let
ters and kilograms of a congratulatory
nature were read by the secretary of
the state central committee, from Cow
ernor Stone of Missouri, Senators Vest
of Missouri, Daniel of Virginia and Call
of Florida. Mr.. Tillman prefaced his
speech with a history OF the demo-
cratic and republican parties. He
soon drifted into a sarcastic arraign-
ment Of President Cleveland and the
present administration. He remarked:
who is this man at Washington mas
querading in the clothes of Jefferson
and pretending TO be introducing re-
forms. God, that the name Of demo-
cracy should be disgraced by such a
man as Grover Cleveland" He spoke
in this same strain when referring TO
Senator Sherman, Major Mckinley and
Secretary Carlisle. He concluded: we
are face to'face with crisis. Men are
casting about to find out where the
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-16
\ Damper on Frauds.

Washington. April I5-The house
committee on ways and means to-day
decided 10 report favorably the bin in
troduced by c. W. Stone OF Pennsyl-
Vania TO repeal the section OF the VIII
son act which gives free alcohol for use
in the arts and manufactures. The in
ternal revenue officials acknowledged
their inability 70 carry out the provis-
ions OF the law. Great frauds are said
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-16
TROUBLE AT ONCE.

Nebraska Republicans Meet la Inharmonl-
Gus Convention-Thurs ArrsIgned.
Omaha, April 15.-The state conven-
ton Of Nebraska republicans 10 select
four delegates TO the national conven-
tion convened in Omaha tonight with
] 1.057 delegates present. The session
was by no means harmonious. William
Il. McCreary was made tempOra "
chairman and the temporary organIza-
ton made permanent. Ex-Governor
Crounse, one of Nebraska's pioneer re-
Gcontlnued On Page Threel
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-16
Aame AIairrltl.

She-Did you see the Latin quarter
while in Paris? He-No, but l got several
lead francs passed on me.-Judge.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-04-23
SINECURES FOR D. DIS.
A warm Roast on Them.--ReV. Nc.
Henry at Tracy.

The Mankato Presbytery has elect
ed Rev. E. M. Lumm, of Rushmore,
moderator for the next six months.
Rev. N. H. Bell, pastor-at-large, re-
ported that during the year he had
made visits to over so fields, into
which he had received l57 members,
baptized &c persons, and installed II
ruling elders. Seven churches had
been organized, and five churches and
two manses built in mission fields. A
number of mission stations had been
grouped with older churches so as to
relieve the home mission. Rev. Robt.
Tweed of Morgan was received into
the presbytery as member. The
presbytery will meet in St. Peter next
October.
Rev. Mr.. HcHenry of Delhi, the re-
firing moderator, in his sermon to the
presbytery, warmly scored the secre-
taries of the central church boards
for their ineficiency in the financial
work of their churches. He blamed
the church for having too many
boards and argued that if three or
four of them we're merged into one,
with some good business man at it's
head, far more efficient work could be
done with less expenditure. He made
the startling statement that it seemed
to be for the purpose Of making places
for certain D. DIS and LII. DIS that
so many Presbyterian church boards
we're kept running. The only SQUAD
BILE in the presbytery was over the
election of commissioners to the Sara
toga assembly. Rev. John Sinclair
of Redwood Falls had the highest
number of votes, but he modestly re-
fused to go on account of an unwrit-
ten law Of the presbytery that the
oldest members on the list who had
not been should be one of the mem
bers sent. The somewhat fiery dis
cussion, which lasted for an hour,
ended in the election of McHenry of
Delhi and baltimore of Slayton as
ministers, with Thomas Blair of Win
nebago City and George Brewster Of
Mankato as elders. Rev. John Sin
clair was chairman of the committee
on resolutions.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-04-23
MORTON QUARRIES.

Last Thursday evenings North
western train brought in from Man
kato about thirty laborers bound for
Morton to work in the stone quarries
at that place. They we're met here by
teams from Morton and left at once
for the town between the hills.
1t appears that Mankato gentle
man named George Wydell has Sc
cured the contract for putting in the
face rock of the new dam across the
Mississippi river between Minneapolis
and St. Paul and after investigating
different rock concluded that the Nor
ton quarries furnished the very best
for that purpose. He at once entered
into an agreement with the owners of
the latter, and in Redwood Falls last
Tuesday announced that he would
put rs men at work in the Morton
quarries at once. The stone will be
shipped to the dam site over the ST.
Louis railroad.
New derricks will be placed in at
the quarries and only the latest ma
chinery will be used. 1t is probable
that Mr.. Wydell will, after complet-
ing the work for the dam mentioned
continue the work of getting out rock
for the Minneapolis & st. Louis and
Chicago & Northwestern roads for use
by those two concerns in connection
with repairing bridges, track ballast
ing, etc.
The opening up of the quarries
gives Morton quite boom.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-04-23

vincible McPhail, were there pressing
the case for the State, while for the
defense was the mighty warrior and
lovely physician, Capt. Sigler. Tow
ering above all was that mighty intel
lect, Attorney Garvin, who, as Billy
prettily put it, "Sam. displayed talents
that would entitle him to the office of
path-master in any back woods dis
trict." The case was dismissed.
Billy's remarks about Garvin's abil-
tiles came near prompting another
quarrel. That ended this fun.
1 suppose Mr.. Garvin was the head
of these wild jokes although he had
plenty of help. Col. McPhail was fond
of an innocent joke but he was usually
on hand when a practical joke was on
the taps. I remember one occasion
when one of the local politicians was
being made the subject of joke. 1t
came off in Offerman's hall about the
middle of the afternoon. McPhail
had gone to bed but was notified
about what was going on. And such
was his anxiety to be in at the death
that he attended that meeting bare
footed and in his shirt sleeves. 1t was
a mystery however, how he came to
retire so early.
SAMUEL SICKLE.
C,>,n, P.pptp. Oar MApcu %
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-04-23

Copyright, 1896, by Funk & Wagnalls Com
pany, New York;
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-09-25
oHANeEs bod HALF A oENTURY.
Striking Difference in Conditions Between
GnrmnnN and tho United States.

Striking Difference in Conditions Between
Germany and the United States.
Here is a very curious incident which
places the difference between the home
life of Germany and America in start
ling contrast.
About 80 years ago, when Anton Web
Der was a boy, he secreted in the attic
a pair of pistols. They were valuable
because they had been used by his IA
ther during the NapOleonic wars. The
pistols were in danger of being sold and
so the boy Anton confscated and hid
them. The affair was, of course, for
gotten in the course of time, and Anton
came to America to seek fame and for
tune.
Half century has passed, and a year
ago Anton had a strong desire to visit
his native land and the old home of his
childhood. He found everything un-
changed, the house in good repair and
still occupied by the remnants Of the
family. Recalling the story of the pis-
tolls, he visited the attic one day and
after q good deal of rummaging found
them just where he had hidden them.
He holds them, naturally, as very
sacred relic, and probably money could
not buy them. If they could tell their
story they would have a great deal to
relate that would startle and interest.
But such an incident could not pos
sibly occur in this country. Nobody,
literally nobody, lives where he lived so
years ago. The old residences down
town have changed hands dozen times
or been torn down to make way for
commercial enterprises. The popula-
ton has flowed northward in a sort Of
tidal wave and there Is not a relic left
Of the earlier days. Our restlessness
comes from our prosperity. The peo-
pie have been crowded out of the old
localities in order to make room for
hogsheads ofsugar and bales of woolens.
But in Germany so years In some sec
tons make no perceptible change. The
old house still stands, the family still
reside IN It and when the newcomer of
three score years looks for something
he left In the attic when a boy he finds
it.-N. Y Herald.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-09-25
KIPLING,s SNAKE.
Showing tho Force of an m-Ordsred Ina
aginatiOn.

showing the EoEco OF an AAl-OfoeIeo I'M
aginatiOn.
A writer in McClure's Magazine tells
how he edited paper in India with the
help of Rudyard Kipling, and he mem
tons as a side issue peril from snakes
which Kipling once underwent. The
danger of snakes in Lahore was real
enough, and the place was rich in scor-
pions. The person who tells the story
had been stung by q scorpion in bed one
morning, and Kipling aided him in the
afternoon in a scorpion hunt They
found 20 under the mating in the YER
anda outside the bedroom door, beside
few centipedes, and put the lot into
large tumbler, and filed 1t up with
whisky.
One day, when we were dressing in
the morning, heard Kipling shouting,
and went into his room. His face was
pale with horror, and he. was tightly
clasping one leg above the knee.
There's a snake" he gasped, "inside
my trousers, and think I've got him by
the head. Put your hand up from be
low and drag him out"
Iobserved that Kipling only Thought"
he had it by the head, and that really
its head might be at the other end, in
which case-but before Il had finished,
I saw the horror in his face relax and
give place to a puzzled look succeeded
by fits OF laughter. Endeavoring to as
certain by the sense Of touch whether it
was the head he was grasping, he had
discovered that It did not really feel like
any part Of snake 1T all. In fact 1t had
a buckle, and he realized that his braces
had been dangling inside tho garment
when he put iAOm
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-09-25
sroPPINe TRAINS ON eRADEs.
Useful Continuance In Use in Railway
Yards at Dresden, saxOny.

Useful Continuance In Use in Railway
Yards at Dresden, saxOny.
A number of accounts have recently
appeared in American papers concern
ing a so-called sand track in use at the
railway yard In Dresden for stopping
cars on down-grade track when they
were in danger of getting beyond con-
troll. A German correspondent sends
an account of this novel track, which
shows that the earlier descriptions did
not explain the striking features of the
device. The yard at Dresden is about
q mile and half long, and has a uni
form slope from one end to the other
of one foot in one hundred feet. This
grade enables all the switching of the
cars in making up trains to be done by
gravity, and it appears that the sand
track is used not only in emergencies
but in everyday work for the purpose
of slackening the speed of cars on APP
preaching the switch track to which
they are destined. The construction Of
the track is very simple. Stringers are
spiked to the ties parallel with the rails,
so as TO inclose the latter in a kind OF
trough, which is filled with sand, the
depth Of sand above the top Of the rail
being regulated according to the speed
of the cars to be stopped. The sand
tracks and the regular tracks are inter
laced and the cars are switched from
the second to the first whenever the
hand brakes on them appear insufficient
to stop them at the point needed. On
gravity track of a grade like that in the
Dresden yard cars can easily acquire
considerable momentum when they are
heavily loaded and a strong wind Is
blowing behind them, while light cars
moving In the face of strong head
wind find the grade none too steep to
give gravity motion. The of gravity
for shifting cars in this yard has been
very economical. Formerly the 1000
cars which passed Dresden for other
destinations we've held on an average
Of 21 hours before leaving. Now they
remain but five hours. There are thus
saved by concentration Of switching
work formerly done in four different
places, and by improved methods, 10
hours per car. The saving Is thus prac,
tically equal to adding 16X2, 00O-24, or
1888 ears per day, to the total number
available for trafic.-Railroad Gazette
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-09-25
CAR RUN ONCE A MoNTHA

Novel Street Railway System That War
rensburg MOI Boasts or
In the town of Warrensburg, Mo-, is
q street railway system and nearly
three miles of track over which
street car makes a trip once each month
and not oftener. The road was built
five years ago by M. Fairchild Dowd
0nd Frank Wood, boom-time pro
motors, and was part of their scheme
ito make a great summer resort OF
Electric Springs. They built a big
hotel at the springs and street car
line to and through the principal streets
( of Warrensburg. Then the collapse
came.
The franchise granted TO the street
railway by the town council required
that cars run over the line each month,
$50 to hold the franchise, an old and
rickety bob-tailed car is run out of the
barn once month. and mules are at
ltaehed to it to draw 1t over the line,
and then it is put up in the barn to rest
another month.
The roadbed Of the line has been so
disturbed by frosts and rains that the
rails are twisted and bent, and the car
Jumps the track in going a short dis
lance a great many times. Sometimes
1t takes two days to make the round
trip. When the car makes its regular
monthly round the people turn out to
see It and banter each other about it.
It Is considered rich joke 20 induce
q travelling salesman or any other
stranger to board the earn. Y. Tele-
gram.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-09-25
scHooL AND chuRct,.

Germany has 29,700 university stu
dents this term, the law students out
numbering those studying in any
other faculty.
-Mashonaland being in revolt, its
bishop has concluded to stay in Eng
land till the disturbance is over and
collect money for his diocese.
Public baths are not beneficial on
sunday. says the vestry of Bow, Ion
don; at any rate, not beneficial enough
10 make up for the attendants break
ing the Sabbath by working.
Lord Kelvin, whose jubilee as pro
lessor of natural philosophy in the
University of Glasgow has just been
celebrated, was only % when appoint
cd to that position. Lord Kelvin did
much to accomplish the laying OF the
Atlantic cable.
A Canterbury pilgrimage started
from st. Ethelred's church in Holborn
4 few days ago, passing through the
streets of London and Rochester to
its destination. It was religious pill
grimage of the Guild of Our Lady of
Ransom.
st. Augustine's Benedictine priory
at Ramsgate has been made an abbey
by the pope, being the first English alb
hey of black Bcnedictine friars since
the reformation, The new abbot has
the old title of Abbot of St. Angus
tines, Canterbury.
-Oxford's Ashmoleon museum,
where are kept the archaeological col
lections and the university pictures.
was struck by lightning recently and
set on fire, but the damage was con-
fined to the building, no harm being
done TO the collections.
"A Miss Pottle, who was school
mistress at a place called Ponder's
End, in England, was recently dis
missed for tampering with the school
registers. though it was pretty clearly
shown that the alterations had been
made by the board which dismissed
her.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-09-25
DID IT HURT your
A question often out Of Place and On
necessary.


necessary.
The old HYMN in Sam Taylor's
i"Original Poems" beginning with "Who
Ran to Help Me When 1 Fell2" ought
Ito have a provisional clause added to it.
The person who hastens to help suf-
ferer who has been shocked by fall
should not say q single word. Ol
course, says the Philadelphia Record,
the benevolent bystander is brimful OF
questions: "Where are you hurtY
Have you sprained your ankle2" and
lastly the insane request to know
whether you can fall down flight OF
20 steps on from piazza ten feet above
ground and not be damaged any more
than if you had thrown yourself on a
down pillow only a foot awayl OF
course you are hurt; and the nerve
shock is 50 great that any sort of ques-
ton, even if ''they" shall fetch hot wa.
ter, is an additional blow to the nervous
system. You are suffering perhaps.
too much to speak; yet they pelt you
with questions while every power OF
your body is endeavoring to regain self
control. You ought not to answer.
You would like to scream that ait
hurts" a hundred times more for being
summoned to speak and to diagnose
yourself. All instructions in the line
of First aid to the injured" should
begin with: "Be perfectly silent when
YOU run to lift or help q person who has
fallen and is still partly dazed with the
tremendous shock" Let IL be for the
sufferer to say: "Oh, my headl" OF
"Oh, my leg, or baclSl" He will indicate
as soon as 1t is necessary the injured
part; but meanwhile you are driving
him nearly frantic by asking about it.
These simple yet important directions
do not seem to be impressed upon the
average helpful mind. Tact, of all
things, is as necessary as n knowledge
of a tourniquet made from stick and
n pocket handkerchief. Hot water, of
course, is required for all bruises and
,sprains; but let it be brought without
asking. The relief to the victim of an
accident in having swift and noiseless
helpers about him or her-absolutely ST.
lent, yet knowing exactly what to do
is very great. Anyone who "has been
there" knows 1t all. Yet how quickly
is it forgotten when we run to lift up
somebody else, and begin to pelt him
with: where did It hurt your" "Are
YOU hurt?"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-09-25
MAXINE HAIRPINs.


The Process OF Manufacture-Ciose At
tentiOn Is Necessary.
For ages, says the Chicago Chron-
hcle, the English and French controlled
the manufacture of hairpins, and it is
only within the last 20 years that the
goods have been produced in other
countFies to any extent. The machinery
used is of a delicate and intricate char
acter, as the price at which the pins are
sold necessitates the cheapest and most
rapid progress, which can only be pro-
cured by automatic machines. The wire
Is made expressly for the purpose and
put up in large coils, which are placed
IN a clamp and so carried to the ma
chimes while being Strengthened. This
machine cuts, bends, and, by deli
cate and instantaneous process, sharp
ems the points Running at full speed,
at -wfilt turn out 12O hairpins every min
Lte. To. economic, 1t Is necessary to
keep the engine going day and night.
The difficult part of the work is In the
enameling, which is done by dipping the
pins in preparation and baking in
IN oven. II is here that the most con-
slant and careful attention is required,
as the pins must be absolutely smooth
and the enamel have perfect polish
The slightest particle Of dust causesim-
nerfeefionz and xuughRess,
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-09-25

"The hardest problem the builder has
had to wrestle with" said a well-known
member of the profession, sis the chin
ney. What the heather Chinee is to the
human race, and the left-handed mule
to the animal kingdom, the chimney is
to the various appurtenances that go to
make up human habitation. There is
no safe rule for the construction of
chimneys. You Gun build a chimney
all right in theory, but when it comes
down 10 practice that is another matter.
Build two chimneys side by side in pre-
cisely the same manner. Employ the
best skilled labor, and construct them
exactly on the same principles. One
may draw all right and the other one
smoke like Choctaw. Yes, sir, the
chimney is beyond all understanding,
and any builder will tell you SON. O..
Times-Democrat.