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The true northerner., 1896-04-15
Friday, April 10.

The New York Methodist conference
voted down the proposition TO admit
women as lay delegates to the general con.
ference.
Herman j. Dicks, AZ years old, was
killed by Chicago. Milwaukee and St.
Paul suburban train at Chicago
Schlatter, the healer, after fasting forty
days on ranch near Sorocco, ~ NJ. was
discovered by crowd anxious TO be healed
and Immediately disappeared, travelling
westward on his white horse.
Henrietta Crossman, leading lady for
the Frohmans, has begun suit for divorce
at Youngsto wn, o.. alleging non-support
and drunkenness.
Annie Ross years old, who lived in
the outskirts of Chicago, was run down
and killed by an engine on the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois
Zella Ncolaus Is hunting George Gould
with blood In her eye. She forced her way
into the Missouri Pacific offices at St
Louis. declaring that he had lied about
her and must make retraction. She
said: Il wish could lay hands on him.
He would not look nearly as pretty as he
thinks he does. +"
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
Tickled Ingalls, Neck.

TOPEKA. Kan, April i3-John Curtis
languishes in tho insane asylum here be-
cause he tickled ex-senator Ingalls, on the
back of the neck. Ingalls, was walking
down Atchison street in deep medita.
ton. when Curtis slipped up behind him
and tickled him on the neck. The ex.
senator turned on him in rage and de.
manded to know why he should be sub.
jected to this indignity on the public
thoroughfare. The probate judge took
notice OF the incident, and, after an ex.
animation. decided that Curtis would not
have done such a thing If in his right
mind and sent him 10 the asylum
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
HISTORY OF A WEEK.


The bursting OF y grindstone In Stuart's
foundry at Allegsn. Mich, fatally in
jured Carroll Gay.
A dispatch from Independence. Kan.
says that K w. Black of Elgin. has been
appointed receiver for skinner. Simcock
& Granger. general merchants at Paw.
huska. Usage Nation.
Mr. and Mrs Daniel Schuler OF Wa
bash, Ind. have just celebrated their fif.
tieth wedding anniversary
Jacob Bollig of Creston. Ia. aged 9ti.
was fatally injured He stepped in front
of "a moving engine in the railroad yard
and had both legs cut oh.
Thomas Freong of Decatur. Ind. com.
mitted suicide by taking half an ounce of
strychnine. This is his fourth attempt TO
end his life.
Hiram Maxim has put the tricycle. 20 o
new an important use He has fitted the
machine with two Maxim guns, each
weighing twenty five pounds, and capable
OF firing 6JJ roun s a minute. Each
machine Will carry 1000 pounds of am
munition
The true northerner., 1896-04-15

Noted Newspaper Man Dies suddenly os
Apoplexy In Egypt
NEW YORK. April ia special cable.
gram from Cairo. Egypt says that Colo
mel John A. Cockerill the well-known
newspaper correspondent. died there last
night Of apoplcxy in Shepherds hotel
John A. Cockcrill wa. born at ID ,yton.
o.. IN lS45. When the war broke out the
lad entered the army as a drummer boy.
After the war had ended young Cockeriil
became a printer, and did his first work
on the Scion of Temperance. Afterward
he was appointed clerk Of the senate.
He next became q partner of Clement l..
Vallandigham In the publication of the
Dayton Empire at that time the organ OF
the Montgomery county Democracy.
Later he was reporter In Hamilton,
where he attraced the attention of j. B.
McCullagh. editor Of the Cincinnati En-.
quier. who offered him position on that
paper. He afterward became managing
editor He subsequently edited the Wash.
ington Post Baltimore Gazette, st. Louis
Post. Dispatch, New York World. and
Morning Advertiser. He went TO Japan
year ago as the New York Herald's COR
respondent.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
Saturday, April IL.

United States Senator Elkins Is the
father OF bill to place discriminating q
duty OF 10 per cent. on all goods imported
into this country In vessels not sailing
under the United States flag
Troops b and X. of the Seventh cavalry,
have been ordered transferred from Fort
Sheridan to the department OF Colorado.
Prince Hohenlohe, imperial German
chancellor, has been in Paris incognito
since last Monday. and the foreign CORE.
spondents are all agog
King Menelek. of Abyssinia, is reported
to be negotiating for an alliance with the
dervshes.
In central, and southern Kansas there
is a general movement of tramps toward
the mining districts of Colorado. Nine
out of every ten say they are on their way
to Cripple Creek. Hold-ups are Of almost
nightly occurrence.
Seventy eight Missouri counties have se-
lected delegates to the state convention, to
be held at Sedalia April 10. Every coun'
ty has adopted strong resolutions favor
ing free, unlimited and independent COIN
age of silver and gold at q ratio Of III to !.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
NEW MEXICO A SUFFERER.
Grave Fears for the Safety of n Number of
Hunting Parties.


A special to The Republican from
Ration, n. NJ, says: The worst snow
storm ever known in this vicinity set in
about 3 o'clock yesterday m.,rning. 1t
continued until 3 o'clock last night. with
the wind blowing az a fearful rate all the
time. All the north-bound trains on the
Santa Fe are tied up as the approaches to
the Ration tunnel are drifted full of snow
for distance of several hundred feet.
Under the most favorable circumstances
IL will probably be more than twentv-four
hours before any trains can move over the
all tied up at Trinidad The last train
passing the mountain was the hotelkeep-
ers' excursion ut H. IN. The high wind
has played havoc around town. Several
houses have been unroofed, one building,
"a corner saloon, having the front blown
out
The back wall of the Home Rancho a
two-story brick building, fell in. The
streets are completely blocked with snow.
drifts, some as deep as fifteen feet. Sew
eral hunting parties left here Saturday,
and there are grave fears that all have
perished, as the cold hasbeen intense with
the wind driving the snow in swirls making
il impossible for any one to see more than
three or four feet. Word has just been
received that the cuts on the Santa Fe on
the other side of tunnel are filled to a
depth of six feet and that 1t will take two
days before trains can be moved over the
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
Americans Again Winners.

ATHENS. April AT the Olmpic games
yesterday the American contestants again
covered themselves with honor Thomas
Z. Curtis. of the Boston team, won the
heat in which he competed for the hurdle
race; time. Is seconds. An Englishman,
Goulding, won the other heat in Is 2-3 Sec
onds. Ellery ;. Clark, of the Boston
team won the broad jump with u metres
"a centimeters Thomas H. Burke, of the
Boston team, won the thirdheat of the 400
metres running race in 81 l-5 seconds.
Robert Garrett, of Princeton, won the
shot-put with IL metres, ~ centimetres.
Flack, an Australian, won the first heat
of the mile run in minutes, 33 seconds
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
Monday, April IS.

The Ohio miners convention has ad
journed. NJ. ID. Ratchford. of Massillon.
was reelected president
A collision occurred between two tor
pedo boats which were being tried by the
German governments officials on the river
at Wilhelmshaven, in the vicinity of the
naval station. One of the torpedo boats
S,nk and five persons were drowned.
President Tyler's grandson has been in
dicted at Atlanta, Ga. for embezzlement.
He admits the shortage. but denies that
there Is any crime In the case.
Emperor William of Germany is mt
Venice. where he was received by the
king Of Italy. the two monarchs embrac-
ing and kissing each other and the popu-
lace going wild with enthusiasm.
James Allen, the private at Fort Sheri-
dan. near Chicago, who shot Private Call
without moments warning, killing him,
has been held for murder.
The liabilities Of A. g. K. Lone, leather
merchants of Boston, who have assigned,
are estimated at 1900. 0Oc, assets, un.
known.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
"wednesday April 8.

A report comes from Constantinople
that the porte has issued an trade decree.
ing the expulsion of all Christian mission
aries from Armenia
At the Republican primaries at Louis.
VILE Mckinley men elected sixty-nine
delegates and Bradley men n!nety-eight.
An attempt of the street car employees
union to start a strike on the Buffalo lines
was IA failure.
A snow storm Is raging In New York,
I'm which state there is a foot of "the
beautiful on the ground in some places.
Alien manufacturers residing in the
City of Mexico gave a magnificent ban
quet TO President Diaz last night, Incl
dentally presenting him with gold plate
value at $50 0C0
1t is expected 10000 people will attend
the Christian Endeavor convention at
Washington, which will open Wednesday
evening July \, with twenty-five meet
ings held in twenty-five Of the largest
churches OF the city.
Nine. Francois Tanty is organizing a
party OF Chicagoans To attend the corona
tion ceremonies of Gear Nicholas ii. of
Russia in Moscow next month.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15

Many Prospectors and Hunting Parties
in Great Peril-Inteose Cold Accompanies
the Tornado-One Person Killed I'm the
Ruins OF His Fathers Home-Psrtial De-
tails OF the Damage Done.
DENVER, April l3 "A special TO The
News from Cripple Greek, Colo, says:
The Cripple Greek district was visited by
the severost and most destructive blizzard
ever known yesterday. An immense
amount OF damage has been done and In
all probability some lives have been lost
In the hills, rumors to that effect being In
circulation and general fear entertained
for the prospectors A light snow started
at IL o'clock Saturday night. and about
yesterday morning the storm renewed
and the velocity of the wind. which was
from the northeast. increas ID and con-
tinued TO blow at the rate of sixty miles
an hour oil day. A score or more OF
buildings in this city were blown down,
and tents, signs and loose lumber were
scattered over town.
Fire Comes with the Tornado.
All the telephone wires out of the camp
are down and no trains arrived or de-
parted yesterday afternoon. At l:3O the
Cripple Creek commission three story
building on Carr avenue, near the Mid
land station, fell with crash and caught
on fire from an overturned stove and was
completely destroyed. The building was
isolated, which prevented general con-
f1agration. The Boston cafe building at
Carr and Second streets was partially
wrecked. A large rooming house on
Warren avenue was blown down and sew
eral occupants were injured. The city is
in darkness, as all the electric light wires
are down. Communication is cut off
with all outside points with the exception
of one telegraph wire.
Prospectors Caught by the Storm.
Many store fronts have been blown in
and some of the business houses, as well
as residences, will need repairing Ru-
mors of loss OF life In the outlying dis
trict are in general circulation. In the
hills hundreds of prospectors live in tents
and the majority of them were blown
away. The d ,mage TO property through
out the camp will not fall short of s100, 000
Trains Stuck In the Snow.
The 1:20 p. IN. train over the Florence
and Cripple Creek road was stalled be-
tween here and Anaconda. One of the
suburban trains from Victor is stuck in
the snow at Elkton, on the Midland
terminal and two passenger trains are
blockaded at Gillett A dozen buildings
or more were blown down at Gillett and
a number at Altman, Goldfield AMI Vic
tor. Shaft-houses and surface improve
ment all over the district were badly
damaged.
Worst Storm on the Record.
A special to the News from Palmer
Lake, Col, says: One of the worst snow
storms that has ever visited this town in
the memory Of the oldest inhabitant
started here about 1880 Saturday evening
and has been raging furiously ever since.
The wind blew at the velocity OF seventy
miles an hour. The drifts are from six to
twelve feet high. Pcdostrlanism is i'm
possible and the storm shows no signs of
abatement
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
Card Party Prizes.

Prizes being the accepted necessity for
many sorts of evening diversions, sugges-
tions of these are still in order. At re-
cent card party the BOBBY prizes were, for
the lady, bottle of "ketchup," whose
name was supposed TO contain the proper
advice, while her masculine companion in
misfortune was admonished TO "braoe up"
with a gift of pair of suspenders. An
other semidelicate BOBBY prize is a tin horn
painted dark green and tied with IA green
ribbon. New York Correspondent.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
FORCED TO CONFESS AN ATRoclrY.

The Story Annie Lamborn Now Tells
About Her Fathers Murder.
LEAvENwORTH. Kan. April l3-Detec.
tive Charles 5. Chatter. who Is alleged to
have forced the Lamborn children to con-
fess having planned the murder Of their
father, b. +. Lamborn, and fix the
crime on Thomas Davenport, has disap-
peared. To some people the statement Of
Annie L. Lamborn as to the manner in
which she was forced to write the statement
accusing Davenport of the murder road
like the mere fabrication of her smart
lawyers. She has now, in the presence
of her accused brother. confronted Alfred
e. LambJrn. half brother, and de.
manded TO know why he had forced her
to swear to falsehood
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
Kaiser and Wife at Messina.

MEssINA, Sicily, April l0.-The emperor
and empress of Germany accompanied by
their suites. landed here from the impe-
rial yacht Hohenzollern Thursday and
paid visit to the points OF interest.
Their majesties received a warm welcome.
The inhabitants threw flowers in their
carriage during the drive which they en-
joyed in the neighborhood. They left for
Venice during the afternoon.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
IL Wasn't Her Luck.

so she's eloped with your fathers
ooachmany' queried the one In the big
hat as they got seated in the car.
$50 1 hear"
"And weren't you surprisedT
Eyes, rather, but poor thing"
"How poor thingf"
"why, she just missed delightful
chance Of eloping with my father himselfi
Some girls do have awful luck, don't
theyf"-Detroit Free Press.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
THE DEATH RECORD.

Hon. GUsTAvUs KoERNRR. ex.lieuten.
ant governor Of Illinois. at Belleville.
ROBERT LITTELL. publisher of Littelrs
Living Age. at Boston.
ALEXANDER GRATTAN, highly respected
citizen of Pana. Ills.
Bishop RYAN of the Roman Catholic
diocese of Buffalo N. Y.
PHILIP G. KILLIAN, veteran of the late
war, at Wilkesbarre. Pa
SHELBY SEXTON. prominent g. A. X.
and X. p. man, at North Manchester,
Ind.
Rev. JOHN ID. KEEFR, well.known Meth.
odist minister, at Rockford, Ills.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
ASSASSINATION IN IOWA.
Three Persons Shot from Ambush, One of
Whom, a Girl, Will Die.

NEW HAMPTON, April l3 - Herman
Beak, a stonemason of this city. shot
Mike Bartz and his son and daughter.
Beak is son-in-law of Bartz, who lives
three miles from town. Beak's wife re-
Gently secured a divorce from him. He
laid in wait in the brush for them while
they were on their way home from church
and discharged both barrels of a shotgun
at them at short range The girl will die
and it is thought the boy will. Beak mis-.
took the girl for his wife. He came to the
city and gave himself up Immediately
after the shooting.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
POWDER ExPLoOEs IN A MINE.
six Men Blown Into Eternity While Put
ting In Blast.

ting In n Blast.
BUTTE, Mont, April l3 BY the explo'
sion of goo pounds OF powder in maga-
zine on the /, 100 foot level of the St. Law.
renee mine. six men lost their lives They
are: Con g. Lowney has wife and child
in Michigan; John Quinlan, Ed Shields,
James Dwyer; John McVeigh has a wife
and four children in England; Patrick
O'Rouke.
Lowney and Quinlan were working in
the shaft and had finished putting down
a set of holes and gone TO the magazine
for powder. The other four men were
working in the level by the magazine.
Just when the explosion occurred is not
known, as none is left to tell the tale.
Lowney and Quinlan were killed instant.
ly, and the Others were probably suffo.
Gated by foul air Logging, timbers and
earth were piled in masses distance of
100 feet from the explosion.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
Murder by a Jealous Husband.

KANSAS CITY. April l9.-J A. Jones.
an employe of the Western Union Tele.
graph company. shot and killed George
Franklin. a member of the Salvation
Army, at Jones home. Jones wife Is a
Salvationist, and Franklin had accom-.
panied her TO her home. Jones is still at
large.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
THE MARKETS.
New York Financial.

New YORK, April IL.
Money on call was easy at 31a per cent;
prime mere mtle paper 5I2G3,2 per cent;
sterling exchanges steady VITA actual busi-
ness in bankers bills at 4. s34GAS9 for de-
mand and 4.S74@isS for sixty days; posted
rates. 4S51R GiSJ AMI 4o9Ia GiJJ commercial
bills, 4S7.
Bar silver, 6s1s; Mexican dollars. 54l4.
Uaited States government bonds firm;
new As registered, ~; do coupons, III;
SIS registered. ll5Ia; SIS coupons. li31a; As
registered. 1859: > coupons, lU9l4; rs regis
tered, IS; Pacific 5 of ~, lO3
Chicago Grain and Produce.
CHICAGO. April IL
The following were the quotation, on the
Board of Ira lie today: Wheat-April. opened
66c. closel d57sc: May, opened 66s4c, closed
64ssc: July opened 671sc, closed 851sc Corn
April. nominal. closed 201s;; May,
opened 3)c. closed 29Nc; July. opened 3llsc.
closed 334c Oats-Aprl. nominal. closed
lss4c May opened lJ5sc. closed 1890;
July. opened 2014c closed ls5sc Pork-Aprii,
ss57Ia closed S. 62la Lard-April, opened
IS 021a closed IS 02la; May opened s5.J71s closed
s507a
Produce: Butter-E stra creamery. lSc per
h.: extra dairy Ice; fresh pa,kiny stock
SG9c. Egys-Fresh stock. lV9lJh, per dor
Live Poultry - Turkeys. llIGl2c per ID
chickens. hens. SIaG9c; ROSTERS 5G51ac; ducks,
llGl2c geese si.OJg5 " per doz. Potatoes
Burbanks. 7G2lc per bu.; mixei, l5GlSc
Sweet potatoes s2ONG!5 - per bbl Apples
Fair to- fancy s. 5JtG315 per Dbl. Gran
berries-Jerseys. $5.0Jesd5o per Dbl. Honey
White clover, l3(Gl4c per h.; broken comb.
CGl0c; extracted. 5,d6c.
chicago Live Stock.
CHIcAao. April IL.
Live Stock-Prices ~ the Union Stock
Yards today rangel AS follows Hogs-Esti.
mated receipts for the day. 1900; sales
ranged at s3O0G40J Pigs, 36j94OJ light,
sJ45G3 % rough pacSins. IS 6jgdS mixed,
and IS 6J(938j heavy packing and shipping
lots.
Cattle-Estimatel receipt, for the day.
400; quotations ranged at AOJ@A6 choice
to extra shipping steers $3.yJGllo gooi to
choice do. IS 81 9l ~ fair to goJi So &0C03.J
common to medium do. So 2JG3 ~ butchers
steers. s. 5JoGID stockers 325@3S) feeders
81 5OCe3.7J cows. - 40G375 hefers. $20EDS55
veal calves
Sheep and Lambs-Estimated receipts for
the day, 20OJ; sales ranged at $2.s0GasJ west
erns. 81 i0d3.S5 Texans. 81. 50g40o natives and
s325G4 IS lambs
Milwaukee Grain.
MILWAUKEE. April II.
Wheat-No. spring, 64l4 &C: No. l northern,
66s4c; May, 6434c. Corn-No 3, 3Oc Oats
No white 2J34c: No do. 2Oc. Bar
ley-No. q 81; samples. 2618G3lI6c Rye
No. l. 39c
st. Louis Grain.
ST LOUIS, April IL.
Wheat - No. red cash. nominal; on
track. 73lsc; No. 2 hard ,6Oc; May $3.50; July.
6lc. Corn-Cash. 26ssc; May. 28s<c; July, 27Sz
oats-Cash. ls,zc; May. 1880; July. 100. Rye
Quiet. SIC.
Detroit Grain.
DETROIT April IL.
Wheat-Cash white. 73c; cash red. 725<c,
May. 1850 bid. 72,zc asked; July. 6S1fo.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
Thursday, April o.

Governor Altgeld has restored the rights
Of citizenship to John Miller, of Kewaunee
and John Wilson, of Chicago.
John Driski, IL years DID, was held TO
the criminal court at Chicago on a charge
OF burglary.
George Hall. formerly an instructor Of
the Chicago Y M. G. A, was held up and
probably fatally stabbed by two thugs at
Denver.
Hilda, the 5-year-old daughter Of Charles
johnson, of Creston, Ia. tried to climb
into large box. She had her head over
the edge of the box when then lid came
down. catching her head, and slowly
strangled her to death.
William II. Adams (Oliver Optic) has
just returned TO Boston from a trip around
the world
A j. Blethen has retired from the man.
agement of the Minneapolis Penny Press
because the compositors refused to work
with him. The employees will form CO.
operative company and run the paper
themselves.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
Bishop was Not an Embezxier.

CLEVELAND. April 13.-Justice Hart has
decided that Bishop William b. Camp.
bell. of the African Evangelical Mission
church, is nos guilty of embezzlement.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
Gov. Jones. of Nevada. Dead.

SAN FRANCISCO, April ll-Governor
Jones, of Nevada, died at the Palace hutel
In this city last evening
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
HEAVY BLOW SWEEPS TEXAS.
Many Buildings Wrecked and Two Persons
Painfully Injured.


Painfully Injured.
DALLAS, April l3 All of that part of
the state west, southwes and northwest
was visited by severe wind storm Satur-
day night. At Fort Worth a sash, door
and blind factory and the grand stand of
the baseball park were wrecked. At
Cresson, a small town below Fort Worth,
the Fort Worth and Rio Grande Railway
station, the Methodist church and nine
business houses and residences were de-
molished. At Reagan, Falls county, sew
eral buildings were almost demolished.
AT Abilene Mrs. Mckinney and Mrs.
johnson were severely injured.
Four residences and half a dozen work.
shops were demolished, also. At Anneta,
Parker county, one store and all of It's
contents were blown away and number
of residences crushed. At Bates, Denton
county. the Methodist church was de-
stroyed and other buildings moved from
their foundations. Along the line of the
Texas Central from Cisco TO Dublin dam.
age TO farm houses and crops is reported
The wind was followed by a driving rain
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
Limited I'm Size but Destructive.

COLORADO CITY, Colo, April ia cy-
clone of limited dimension, but tremen-
dous force has struck a portion of Colo
RADIO, doing considerable damage to prop.
erty and resulting In the death of James,
the 12-year-old son old j. M. Solomon
The storm struck the four-room building
occupied by J. M. Solomon. The house
was literally splintered and scattered all
over the block. Solomon, his wife and
five children had retired, and it is remark.
able that any of them escaped alive.
The true northerner., 1896-04-15
HAVOC OUT WEST.
Worst Storm Ever Known Rages
at Cripple Creek.
REGULAR BLIZZARD SWEEPS DOWN.

Colorado aad New Mexico snowbound and
Many Prospectors and Hunting PARTIES
in Great PeriI-Inteose Cold Accompanies
the Tornsdo-One Person Killed I'm the
Ruins OF His Fathers Home-Psrtisl De-
tails OF the Damage Done.