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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-04-16
DOMESTIC.

John Smith, the ex-hired man CT the
Stone family, three members of which
were murdered at Tallmadge, O., con-
fessed that he committed the crime be-
cause he was discharged by Stone.
The village of Rockford, Mich, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire.
The Building Trades council, repre-
senting $4,000 men, in session at Pitts
burgh, Pa, adopted resolution favor
ing conference committee to settle
differences and doing away with strikes.
John Boyd and George Oiler were
killed and four other persons were seri-
ously injured by the explosion of saw
mill boiler at North Mountain, Pa.
James Knott, Of Hailock township, ILL.,,
one of the voters at the recent election,
celebrated his Tooth birthday anniver-
sary. NJ
Fire at Savannah, Ga, destroyed the
building occupied by the Savannah
Grocery company. the loss being
$4,000.
Maude and Mary Campbell were
Cumberland, w. Va, their clothes TAX.
ing fire from CRATE. -.
The heaviest April snow within the
memory of the earliest inhabitant fell
at Bloomington and other Illinois
towns.
The British ship Blairmore, while
riding at anchor in the bay at San Fran
cisco, was struck by a violent squall and
capsized and six seamen lost their lives.
b Fire destroyed the business center of
Lyons, O.
q At the depot in Millican, Tex, John
Brooks shot and killed his daughter,
,Mollie Brooks, and also shot her lover,
A. c.. Worrels, as they were about to
elope, and then sat down on a box OF
dynamite, which he exploded and blew
himself to atoms. # 8 n
The new st. Louis directory gives that
city an estimated population of Gil ,26s,
an increase of Las ,O59 since 1890.
The state Of Ohio on and after July I
next will inflict capital punishment3by
electricity.
in central and southern Kansas there
lis general movement of tramps toward
the mining districts Of Colorado.
Potatoes we're selling ut two cents a
'bushel in western New York, and in
some places farmers were giving them
away to get rid of them.
q y = 4 .
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-04-16
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Proceedings of the First sessie

The Proceedings of the First Session.
In the United States senate on the 7th
the post office appropriation bill was passed.
"A Joint resolution was introduced provid-
ing for an amendment to the constitution
to limit the veto power o: the president
so as to make it competent for the two
houses to pass bills over veto by ma
jority vote. In the house the time was
passed in discussing a bill to fix the stand
ard of weights and measures by the adop-
ton OF the metric system on and after
July !. 1885,
In the United States senate on the 9Th
Senator Turpie spoke In favor Of radical
action on Cuba, even to the extent of send
Ing fleet to Cuban waters. Most of the
day was given to the Indian appropria-
nous consent was secured for taking up,
next Tuesday. the resolution for senate
inquiry into recent bond issues. A bill
was passed granting pension of $50 month
~ to the widow of Maj. Gen. Charles s!
Hamilton. .. In the house the bill to adopt
Ires was sent back to the committee on
coinage, weights and measures for further
consideration. The conference report on
the agricultural appropriation bill was
adopted.
After being in retirement for several
weeks the tariff-silver bill was brought for
ward in the senate on the 9Th as text for a
speech by Senator Mantle MONTY, who
urged that unsectional protection shonld
be linked with bimetalism. The naval ap-
preparation bill (s31.27s.4S2) was report ed
and every pension bill on the calendar
rs in number) was passed. :. In the house
the District of Columbia appropriation bill
was passed and favorable report was
made on the bill for the admission of
New Mexico as a state. Mr.. Hopkins
Ql) introduced recip1 ocity bill and a ,cs-
olution was adopted calling on the state
department for informa ton regarding Mrs
Maybrick. imprisoned in England.
The main portion of the session Of tho
senate on the 10th was taken up by the In
dian appropriation bill, the house propost-
ton abolishing the system of contract
schools for children giving rise to a long de-
bate. A favorable report was made on the
bill providing for a delegate in congress
from Alaska. Adjourned to the 18th. The
house spent nearly the entire day in general
debate on the "fllled-cheese'' bill. The for
t1tications bill ($11. 49,, 00O) was reported, as
was also the bill to prohibit the sale of in
toxicating liquors to Indians holding land
by allotments.
The senate was not in session on the It'll.
LIN the house the flied cheese BILL re-
curing the manufact urers OF filled cheese
to pay a tax of $500 annually. the wholesale
dealers $3.50 and the retail dealers SIC, was
passed.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-04-16
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


Gen. Benjamin Harrison and his bride,
formerly Mrs. Dimmick, arrived at
their home in indianapolis from New
York. y...-...7 ~
In state convention at Salt Lake City
the Utah republicans elected delegates
to the St. Louis convention and adopted
platform confined almost entirely to
protection and bimetallism.
Rudolph Kleberg (dem.), of Cuero,
was elected to succeed the late w. II.
Crane as congressman from the Elev-
enth Texas district. ....-
Robert Littell. the publisher of Lit
tells Living Age. died at his home III
Brook)ine. Mass, aged 81 years.
The republicans of the Fifth Nebras-
ka district renominated E. j. Hainer
for congress.
The Oregon democrats in convention
at Portland adopted a platform favoring
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of sixteen to one and elected
delegates to the national convention in
structed to support q free silver candi-
date for president.
The Illinois prohibitionistsi in conven-
ton at Springfield nominated state
ticket with Hale johnson, of Newton,
for governor. The platform favors
woman suffrage, free silver, civil service
reform, and reaffirms the position Of the
party on the liquor question.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-04-16
Trase dy at Pentwater. Mich.

Pentwater, Mich. April lis. B..
Minshall, an attorney OF this town,
made successful attempt on Thurs
day night to ! assassinate William
B. O. Sands, president of the Sands &
Maxwell Lumber company. After leav-
ing Sands for dead, Minshall went to,
his home and shot his wife and three
children dead and then committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the
head.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-04-16
FOREIGN.

It was reported that Venezuela was in
favor Of recognizing the belligerency OF
the Cuban insurgents.
Advices from Cuba say that Spanish
soldiers, Infatuated by the resolutions
of the American senate, shot six sons of
an. American farmer at Casiguas.
Two regiments of Chinese soldiers
were blown to pieces by an explosion in
fort at Kiang Gin.
Col. John A. Cockerill, the well-known
American newspaper correspondent,
died of apoplexy in Cairo. Egypt. aged
81 years.
In the final contests in the Olympian
games at Athens, Greece, the Americans
were the winners.
Capt. Gen. Weyler asked Spain for the
immediate dispatch of 5000 cavalry to
Cuba, and the minister of war was ar
ranging to sendSthem.
1t was reported at St. Johns, N. F.,
that the sealing steamer Ranger was
lost with over 200 men.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-04-16

M Z (, 3Jsa
Thomas 3. Tongue was nominated
for congress by the republicans, Of the
First district. Of Oregon on the 34th
ballot.
At the First district republican con-
vention in Canto, Mo-, Maj. G. N. Clark
was nominated for congress by accla-
nation.
Gustavus Koerner. who was lienten-
ant-governor Of Illinois in 1852, died at
Belleville, aged 81 years.
Phillip G.. Killian, the union soldier
who cut down the confederate flag at
Fort Sumter, died at his home in Pitts.
ton. Pa. aged Sc years. 's .9 ,'. h
Ohio democrats will meet in Column
bus on June % to select delegates to the
national convention.
Miss Mile Owsley (colored), aged
103 years, died at Danville, Ky.
In session at Portland the Oregon re-
publicans selected delegates to the St.
Louis convention for Mckinley. The
platform declares for both gold and sill
yer and the maintenance of values of
the two metals.
The Rhode Island republicans in con-
vention ut Providence selected Reed
delegates to the national convention
and adopted platfrom in favor of gold
as monetary standard, in favor of a
national board of arbitration, and
against the free coinage of silver.
Gov. John E. Jones, of Nevada, who
had been i'll in San francisco for several
months from cancer of the stomach,
died in that city, aged Sc years.
In the Ninth Illinois district the re-
publicans renominated r. r. Hit for
congress by reclamation.
Republicans of the Fifth Tennessee
district nominated DR.. Houston for con-
gress.
William H. Everson, known us the
father of the sheet iron industry, died
in Pittsburgh, Pa, aged 80 years.
CA. Coombs (colored) aged 112 years,
died at his home in St. Paul. MINI. Rec
ords show he was born in 1884.
Thomas M. Holt. ex-governor and the
wealthiest and most prominent cotton
manufacturer in North Carolina, died ct
his home in Haw River.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
Origin of the Loving Cup.

There Is an inquiry as to the origin or
the loving cup. The best account of Its
creation comes from the late Lord Lyons,
British ambassador at Paris. According
to his narrative, King Henry Of Navarro,
who was also Henry ~ of France, while
hunting became separated from his COM
panions, and feeling thirsty called at a
wayside inn for a cup Of wine. The serv-
ing maid on handing 1t to him as he sat
on horseback neglected to present the han
die. Some wine was spilled over, and his
majesty's white gauntlets were soiled.
While riding home he betbought him that
two handled cup would prevent recur-
renee Of this, SO his majesty had two
handled cup made at the royal potteries
and sent it to the inn. On his next visit
he called again for wine, when, to his as
constituent, the maid having received in
structions from her mistress to be very
careful of the kings cup, presented IL to
him, holding 1t herself by each of its han
dies. AT once the happy idea struck the
king Of cup with three handles, which
was promptly acted upon, as his majesty
quantity remarked, "Surely out Of three
handles l shall be able to get one." Hence
the loving CUP. Philadelphia Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
Upholstery Department.

~ I'"i siSHs'
During last week we con-
cluded a deal for about 200
pairs Of handsome Lace Cur
tains, which will enable us to
give you a genuine price sur
Prise. Two-thirds Of the whole
are that most popular mesh
known as Fish Net, the balance
are the Brussels Lace styles.
$50 pairs handsome Fish Net
Curtains with splendid scroll
borders, bold and unique styles,
equal in appearance to the very
finest Renaissance and Marie
Antoinette laces.
We shall give the public the
full benefit Of greatly reduced
prices, at which we obtained
these goods, despite the fact
that they are the most de-
sirable styles at present extant,
and all new crisp goods, in
every way suitable to adorn the
best homes in the city and
suburbs. Call early and see
for yourself.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28

Bicycle Suitings! Special
line Of Grey Shades for lady
wheelers, all shades, soc up to
$I.25 a yard. Ironclad Cycle
Suiting, woven expressly for
this purpose: 5o-inch, Brown
or Grey, $1.25 a yard 56-inch,
Brown or Grey, $3.50 a yard.
The new Red Selvedge Serge
is another favorite, sponged and
shrunk-dark, navy or black ;
5o.inch, SOC, So inch, 75c.
Samples free by mail.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
THE
RICHARDSON

THE Largest and Hand
soonest Store in the State, and
we carry the LARGEST and
HANDSOMEST stock Of
goods. Only goods Of the
best quality find acceptance
here-from the rich Dress
Stufs to the most common
article sold.
To-day we show Corsets and
have complete lines in all the
leading makes. Among the
best none have a better rep
utation than the R. & c.,
made of the best materials and
perfect fitting. See our Dis
play Window. Ladies desir-
ing perfect forms should wear
the R. & G..
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
MISCELLANY.
A Fable.

HUIts
Away in forests deep there grew
tall and stately oak;
The shrubs, the the rms, the briers, all,
Assaing him, thus spoke;
Thou smotherest and vexest us,
What demon put thee there2
OF sunbeams thou deprivest us,
Thou robbest us of air.
Beneath thy carcass, vast and vile,
We waste, we perish thus;
Thou wilt not let us higher grow
IT'S plain thou enviest u.s."
"Tut-tut, keep still, unfortunates,"
Replied the noble oak,
Mere thorns you are, acknowledge It;
What use to fret and croak2
otis vain my dears, to fret and fuss,
Acknowledge this you must:
That you are doomed to grow and be
The neighbors of the dust.
ITO twitch and scratch on every path
The passing beast man,
To scratch and pluck, to prick and sting,
Is all you do, or
"Nor sun not shade you must upbraid;
For blamable is none;
My height and mein are reached by trees
OF my stout race alone.
"who never murmur n or find fault,
OF naught do they complain;
For winds and storms impart them strength,
They thrive In drought or rain.
For they called, like me, to grow
Thus sturdy, stout and high
Like giants rise from earth below,
And face both sun and sky.
The little shrubs we rule by right,
Nor mind their number great;
And when we fall, II fall at ALL
We fighting fall in state,
And fill the voids with fright, dismay;
Fall great-if fall we must
You dying-live and waste away
Unnoticed in the dust"
Slogan X. Vatrolsky, in Roston Transcript.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
CILLEY g. ABBOTT
100 Silk and Velvet Capes!
ABOUT SOC ON THE DOLLAR.

On a recent trip to New York we
closed out about 100 Silk and Velvet
Capes at big sacrifice from the orig
inal cost.
During the cold, backward weather
early in April the garment business
with the manufact had been very
unsatisfactory, and they were obliged
to close out the garments for ready
money. Their misfortune was our gain,
therefore gain to any of our customers
wanting Spring Cape.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
Willing to Sacrifice.

An advertisement reads as follows:
" A young man, sober and reliable, who
has q wooden leg and cork arm, is
willing for moderate salary to allow
his false limbs to be manned by wild
beasts in any reputable menagerie as
an advertisement. No objection to
traveling."-London Tit-Bits.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
BAR GAIN No. 3

Ten Silk Capes, made in a variety of
styles in silk, such as Gros Grains, Ben.
galines and Brocadee, lined with fancy
silk, lace, jet and ribbon trimmings,
worth $500 TO $500, at only $3.50.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
A Name No Woman objects To.

Lady engaging new housemaid):
Daphne! That is much too romantic
name with young men in the house.
/ suppose you would not object to be
called by your surname?" Applicant:
go, no, ma'am! in fact, I'm quite
used to it," Lady: "What is your
surname?" Applicant: "Darlingl" -
Sketch.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
BARGAIN No. 9

Three Separate Skirts, in a black
figured mohair; skirts are made very
full. and we'll finished; really worth
$3.50; at only $500.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
RarlmrA. Slullnrr 4 1]ntnam Gu
WoElCE.$TElTl. MASS.

The Value prices here
quoted are the true value of
these goods at esular sale.
The u" marked prices are, as
will readily be seer, about
thirty per cent below.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28

NATURE believes in the preservation
of the unities. When she endows a
man with an overplus of cheek, she
gives him plenty of cha to 60 with it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
BARGAIN No. 10

Two Six Skirts, made in a fine quality
Brocade Taffeta lined with Percaline;
skirt that is worth $500 at onlv
$1,000.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
BARGAIN No. z

Ten Silk apes, made in pretty
brocade silk, lined with fancy silk, Lace
and ribbon trimmings, worth $500, at
only $500.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28

THE Egyptians used pencils OF
colored chalk, and several of these an
cient crayons have been found in their
tombs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
BARGAIN No. I

Six Six Capes, made from Bengaline
Silk, trimmed with lace and ribbon,
lined with fancy silk, worth $500, at
only 1915.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
at only $3.50,
BARGAIN No. 8

Ten separate Skirts, in fine all wool
India twill, black and navy blue; a
skirt that is really worth $500 at only
$3.50.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
BAR GAIN No. 8

Six Velvet Capes, very nobby and
pretty, fancy silk lining, jet points and
ribbon trimmings, worth 80 100, at only
$3.50.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
BARGAIN No. 6

Ten Silk Capes, in Brocades, Fables,
and Gros Grains, very handsomely
trimmed, worth from $1,000 to $1,000,
at only $3.50.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
b RCAlN No. q

Ten Velvet Capes, lined with black
and fancy silk, trimmed with ribbon
and jet, worth $500 to 5000, at only
$3.50.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-28
BAR GAIN No. 7

Six long Cloth Capes, just the gar
ment for elderly ladies "a cape that
would be cheap at $500 to 5000
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-11-11
The Coming Gown.

If there's one thing more certain than
another about the coming gown. it Ia
that it will be trimmed. Not just skirt
alone, nor yet just bodice alone, but
both will be heavily, richly and elabo-
rately burdened with every sort Of trim
ming. Is it that fashion, deprived OF
her beloved big sleeves, must have some
other outlet and finds 1t in frilis and
frippery? From present indications 1t
seems likely that plain skirts-skirts,
that is to say, unembellished by ruffies
or bands or tucks or even slight drapery
will soon have disappeared from NOR
tai view. AS for bodices, we'll, sleeves
may be close reefed. But what Of the
multitudinous fiounces and shirrings
and gatherings and drapings? Surely
nothing short of ''in full SAIL describes
them.
Embroidery is the most imperative
detail of the coming gown. Have your
new fall frock embroidered in however
insignificant q way, and You will have
given it q stamp that may not, it is
true, by right belong to it, but which
will mean from Paris. And most
impressive of all, it will mean that your
new fall frock will cost "a sight" more
than it would unembroidered. The pres
emit tendency to trimming altogether.
indeed, means that. People may talk
about the costliness Of simplicity and
the price you have to pay for exquisite
plainness, but as matter of fact that
sort Of thing doesn't really come near
as high as the yelvets, silks, passe-
menterie, embroidery and other delect-
able devices for wheedling pence out OF
pockets that the present season is SO in
dustriously planning. Now York Sun.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-11-11
GETTING PATENTS.
The DISCOVERIES Are Not Usually the Ones
to Reap the Reward.

The DISCOVERIES Are Not Usually the Ones
to Reap the Reward.
II you look back ON tho history of hu-
man progress. you will find that none Of
the great epoch making inventions has
ever been patented. The man who lit
the first fire-whether Prometheus or
the party from whom lie stole the idea
did not get patent for it. Neither
did the man who made the first wheel,
In every sense one of the most revo-
lutionary inventions in the history Of
man. The same thing may be said Of
the invention Of soap, candles, gun pow
der, umbrellas and the mariners COM
pass, or, to come down to our own day,
of the steam engine and the electric tele-
graph.
Patents are mostly concerned with
small mechanical details and improve
ments--it may be in the application Of
steam and electrioity-and by means of
these patents enormous profits have been
secured to second rate inventors, but the
great ideas and discoveries which I'M
derlie these details have been given to
the world gratis.
There is general notion that if you
did not protect inventions by means Of
patents inventors would cease to invent
and material progress would come to a
standstill But history does not bear this
out in the least. Men with great me-
ohanioal gifts do not exercise them SOLE
ly with view to commercial profit any
more than astronomers search the heav-
ems for new worlds with an eye to regis
tering patents and floating companies
ON the results of their discoveries, LON
don Truth.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-11-11
A PECULIAR BUSINESS.
Breeding and Catching Leeches For the
New York Market.

New York Market.
James Partit and his children earn
all the money they make raising leech-
es, for the work of breeding the blood
suckers ON the Partit farm ON Toms
river. near Lacy, N. j., is nothing COM
pared with the labor of catching them.
The wary leech will take hold of nothing
but human flesh, SO the members of the
Partit family, big and little, plunge
their legs into the swamp and draw
them up presently with the prey at
taohed.
Farmer Partit doesn't seem to think
little blood letting hurts one.
"They are as good as a dose of spring
physic, +" says he "Why, me and the
boys get SO fat and healthy doing nothing
all winter that we need something like
this to keep us in order. If we fished
too long at time, they might do some
harm, but we know when to stop. Aft
or the season is over we feel fresher and
better than if we hadn't been leeching.
They are just like mosquitoes-they
suck out all the bad blood and leave
the good, and that's why. suppose, we
feel so good after month work in the
swamp. think we'd all have malaria
down in this wet place if it wasn't for
the leeches. No man could wade through
such mudhole without getting malaria
unless something helped him.
His farm yields 5000 leeches
year, and the price is 30 or 80 cents for
100, giving an annual income of 81. 900
to the family. The market is New York
or Philadelphia, where the leeches are
distributed to the trade.
Half century ago this would have
been great business, but the belief i'll
leeches has fallen off in this country.
Europe clings to the practice, and Paris
consumes 100000 leeohes yearly.
while London finds use for over Z, 000,-
900 year.
James Partit or his boys, when wad-
ing, discovered the presence of the leech-
es in his swamps. He looked up the sub
ject and decided that he would supply
the American market, which hitherto
had depended on Europe. He found that
buyers preferred the Hungarian fellow
Of olive green without spots, or else the
German leech, with dark green body
spotted below with black. He got few
specimens and put them in the pond.
They multiplied rapidly after their enc
mics. the water snakes, were extermi-
mated, and soon the first leech pond in
the country was established. The young
are ready for market in about u year,
but reproduction takes three years. The
average life of q leech is 8 or 90 years
Usually healthy man can fish in the
swamp four or five hours without losing
enough blood to exhaust him. The leeoh
has three jaws and from 20 to 90 teeth.
When these get going, in a short time
the leech will swallow five times his
weight in blood.
All this is more pleasant than the
practice elsewhere about New York Of
fattening leeches for the market ON de
crepit old horses which have been con-
demned to the boneyard. New York
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