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Arizona republican., 1896-01-21
A FOREIGN INDUSTRY.
We Use Millions of Split Steel Rings, But
 Don't Make Any.

We Use Millions of Split Steel Rings, But
 Don't Make Any.
 s'I've handled and sold forty thou sand gross of split key rings since 1s67," said the little man in an over- coat and a white sweater, land not one of them was of American make"
 "Why, how IS that?' asked New York Sun reporter.
 Because there are none made in this country" replied the little man, with smile that lifted one corner of his gray mustache. No, sir" he con- tinued, ''the making of split steel rings is an art that we haven't got hold of yet, somehow, and I must say I often wonder at it."
 ''Where are they made, then?"
 ''The best, sir, are made about fifty seven miles outside of Paris, at little manufacturing town whose name l can't just now recall. The next best rings are made in Sheffield, England, while rings of inferior quality, made in Alsace. I don't know that the steel in the French rings is any better than that used by the Sheffield manufac- turers, but the Frenchmen in this, as. in so many things, have got the hang of making their things look well. The Sheffield rings are polished with oil and emery, and that gives them dull steely look, while the French rings are polished by the dry process, with what they call 'crocus powder a sort of coarse rouge"
 ''What are the extremes in size of split rings?" the man was asked.
 1.-The smallest that ever handled" i" he replied, ''were three-sixteenths of an inch across. They are gilded when they reach this country and are used in cheap jewelry. The largest key rings ever sold were two and half inches in diameter, and those I sold to the wardens at Sing Sing. In fact, they are called prior rings. That key ring with the two little knobs or bosses through which you slip the key, is also a French manufacture, and indeed l have never seen an American key ring except that clumsy little thing where you have to move around a small round double plate with a notch in it, and then spring out the open end of the ring through this notch. I must say," con- cluded the little man, musingly, q often wonder why we don't make rings over here. Even now there's a forty-fve per cent. duty on them, and .11I 1. I. 4 price and still bring good profit. Why, just think, sell over one hun dred and fifty thousand rings year, and there must be millions of them handled every year in this country"
Arizona republican., 1896-01-21
relegraphing with a Steam Whistle.

While Edison, then boy, was living in Port Huron, he found one of those opportunities to distinguish himself that seem to be always falling in the way of some men. The anecdote is re- lated in 1.-The Life and Inventions of Edison" recently published. It was near the end of an exceptionally severe winter, and the ice had formed in such masses as to sever the cable between Port Huron and the Canadian city of Sarnia The river, mile and half wide, was impossible, and multitudes of people were greatly inconvenieneed.
 Edison, who had just learned to tel cgraph, saw way out of the difficulty.
 Jumping upon a railway engine, he be- gan to whistle in the rhythmic cadences of the Morse alphabet; "Hullo, Sarnla! Sarnia, do you get what l say?" No an- swer. Again and again the short and
 the long toots shaped themselves into the dots and dashes of telegraphy, and
Arizona republican., 1896-01-21
MACHINE-MADE SPEECHES.
Turned Out with Marvellous Rapidity by
 Recent English Invention.

Turned Out with Marvellous Rapidity by
 Recent English Invention.
 There is no doubt that both the type writing machine and the phonograph are very ingenious and useful inven- tions, but the chief difficulty with them, says the New York Times, is that they cannot be made to act auto matically. It is in order to fill this want that distinguished inventor, whose name is for the present with held, has invented an automatic writer, and, judging from the private exhibi- tion of the machine which was recently given in London to a committee of members of the Royal society; it bids fair to prove the greatest invention of this or any age.
 In appearance the machine is said to be not wholly unlike a typewritlng machine. It, however, is provided with sort of hopper, in which are placed blocks of type metal, each one of which is provided with complete word, in- stead of a single letter. When this hopper is filled and the small electric engine which furnishes the motive power of the machine is set in action it instantly begins to print. Of course, what is printed depends in a good de- gree upon the selection of words which are placed in the hopper, but it is un- derstood the machine can be used for almost uny sort of composition.
 At the exhibition already mentioned the hopper was filled with supply ot words relating to the English political situation, and in ten minutes after the engine had been started the machine had Eprinted two.full columns, each of about the length of an ordinary col umn of newspaper. When these were read they were instantly recognized to be speech on home rule in the general style of Mr. Gladstone. The hopper was next filled with q choice selection of the very finest words in the Ian guage, and the machine thereupon printed what was at once perceived tc be an essay after the manner of Mr Ruskin on political economy More words were added and three pages o1 what any critic would have unhesi tatingly accepted as a passage from a new novel by Mr. Meredith delighted the committee. The last experiment was made with the hopper filled with words taken from the Slang Diction
Arizona republican., 1896-01-21
PERSONAL MENTION.
Jottlngs About Individuals and Their
 Actions.

Abram S. Humphries is in Honolulu. No wonder the government is unstable.
 Weather Observer Burrows is again able to be on the street, though still a very sick man.
 Frank H. Hereford of Tucson is with his brother attorneys in attend ance on the supreme court.
 Fred Heinlein returned Sunday from San Diego, where he attended to the last sad duties in the burial of his wife.
 Fred w. Gatke was thrown from his buggy yesterday afternoon on the Tempe road and sustained painful in juries.
 William H. Burky and Emma Mar tin, both of Mesa, were married yester- day morning, Probate Judge Grouse officiating.
 c. E. Boyce, the pioneer merchant of Williams, Ariz. has returned home after very pleasant visit of a few days in this city.
 w. s. Adams, editor of the Jerome Mining News, spent yesterday in Phoe- nix and this morning goes ito Congress, there to look over some promising claims MT. Adams is not only an expert on mines, but an editor who tells the news in a most entertaining way and his paper should have the broadest circulation throughout the territory.
Arizona republican., 1896-01-21
Accentinr Defeat.

Doubtless defeated candidate for an office might be benefited by learning the lesson of this incident-but proba- bly, he would not heed it. It is said that Herr Steinitz, the veteran chess player, and for many years champion of the world, seeing defeat was inevit- able in the concluding game of his match with Emmanuel Lasker, rose abruptly and shouted aloud: "Long live the new champiOno
Arizona republican., 1896-01-21
ANTI-LYNCHING BILL.

COLUMBIA, S. e., Jan. 2O-An anti lynching bill was passed in the house of representatives today. It provides that lin all cases of lynching where death ensues the county wherein the lyrehing takes place shall be liable to exemplary damages in a sum not less than l$2,000 to be recovered in a competent court by a legal representa- tive of the person Iynched.
Arizona republican., 1896-01-21

Joseph H. Siein, the enterprising proprietor of the Pony saloon has decided not to be outclassed in any particular. He now handles exclusively Papst's Blue Ribbon beer, which is recognized the world over as the best on the market. You will also find at his place the celebrated XIX McBrayer whisky imported and domestic brandies and liquors of all kinds, and the finest cigars in the city.
Arizona republican., 1896-01-21

finally some one on the other side be- came alive to their meaning. The an- swer came back, clear and cheery, and communication between the two cities was resumed.
Arizona republican., 1896-01-21

At McKelligon's you can get the finest handmade sour mash, Bourbon and Pennsylvania rye whiskies. No. 21, East Washington street.
Arizona republican., 1896-01-21

ary and the result was story in dia- feet which was held to be superior to almost any dialect story hitherto pub lished.
Arizona republican., 1896-01-21

Ihe Worlds Fair Tests showed no baking powder so pure or so great ln Ieav- ening Pcw-er as Ehe Royal
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Sioux Clty-Cattle: Stockers and feed
ers, $500 to $3.50. Hogs: Prices ranging
from $685. TO $40. Grain: Wheat, 4Sc
to SOC; corn, l6c to l9c; oats, l4c to llc.
rye, zoe to 25c; hay, 4.O) to $500; but
ter, l4c to l5c; eggs, re.
ChlcagO-Cattle: Beef steers, 1926 70
100; stockers and feeders, $2.75 TO 50. So;
Hogs: Prices ranging from $3.50 to S4.l5.
Grain: Wheat, April, 62$lc; May, 90 &c;
corn, April, 2S55c; May, 29,5c: oats,
April, lo34c; May, 1870; rye, No. =, 35%c;
lax, NO. l, es1!c; timothy, 1925.
Kansas ~City-Cattle: Beef steers. 50. -
to $500; stockers and feeders, $40 to
S3.65. Hogs: Prices ranging from 3 $50
10 $3.50. Sheep, 500 to 500.
South Omaha-Cattle: Beef steers. 50. on
to $3.50; stockers and feeders, s.. 10 10
1873. Hogs: Prices ranging from $3.50
to $3.50.
81. Paul-Cattle: Beef steers, $500 10
$3.50; stockers and feeders, $2.s5 10 S3.2-Iz.
Hogs: Prices ranging from $500 10 s.. "A.
Minneapolis Grain Wheat: Anril
5'@sc; May, 59l,c; July. 60Izc; No. hard
Oh track, e)$8c; No l. Northern, 595Ic.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09
Increase in Circulation.

Inc monthly statement of the Comp
troller of Currency shows the total cir
culation of national bank notes to be
S22l, : 500. an increase for the year of
Sl3,lII.GGl and for the month of S4,134.-
$40. The circulation based on United
States bonds amoun 70 $3.50. 123,00j, an
increase since March 81, 1895, of Sl9,-
S'o.622 and since Feb. 20 last of Sl,Gi4,-
ool. The circulation secured by lawful
money amounts 10 $21. JO4. 800. q decrease
for TIE year of SG.O91. 9j1 and for the
month Of 1898. III. The amount of regis
tered bonds on deposit to secure c%irculat-
ing notes amount 10 S222.9J 500 and ID
secure public deposits ST. .GGS.OOO.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09
SPANISH BARBARITY.
WOMEN, CHILDREN, NOR AGE A
CHECK TO CRUELTY.
A Spanish Priest Advocates killing
on the Cubans and COiOniZing the
Island from Spain-Iankce Pro
grcss Foe Much for Spanish BigOtry.
Spanish Barbarity.

The New Orleans Picayune's special
Havana letter, dated March -, gives this
among the summary OF events personally
Investigated by the writer, which is de-
clared TO be accurate in every respect: In
Bainoa, DR.. Nodal Sotolongo made an
operation on a poor old man, and Whc"
he was convalascent he was II nlg!
arrested and taken to the armory of the
civil guard, where they dashed him all
over the body, and in spite OF his cries they
laughed and took him on the outside OF
the town, where they compelled him MAKE
a grave, in which they buried him after he
died from the i'll treatment he had received.
To further appreciate the condition OF tins
country, | Will relate what l heard
In the city of Trinidad while there a
few days ago. Rev. Father CanoniSo
said: 81 believe that all the CubanS
possible should be killed Off. and clear
the country, and in that manner make
room for families which would be brought
over from Spain. The negroes and mulat-
toes should all be killed Off silently and
without exciting any comment. and their
property contiscated. Therefore. when
we would bring families over from
Spain and c~olonize the island, we would
give them this conliscated property and
they could make a good start in life. The
Cubans who send their children to the
United States TO be educated should be
taken hold of by the police and quietly
placed where they would do the least
harm, because those Americans have re-
publican ideas, which are the real cause
of the present desire Of the CubanS to re-
volt. The Yankees are the only people
who sympathize with the Cubans, and
they are responsible for this var"
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09

formed the sleeves and on them the rich
design of the skirt was repeated. Abour
the netk was a costly medici collar. thict.
~ studded with jewels on both sides I'm.
til it formed a glittering mass of gems
From the shoulders, fastened by GEMS
hung the court train Of royal purple vel.
vet, deeply bordered with ermine. and
lined with heavy white satin. The train
three yards long, was richly embroidered
with tleur de lis. wrought in the same lew.
els as those used in embroidering the
gown. About her white throat she wore
a superb necklace of diamonds, a iewele1
girdlc spanned her waist. on her head she
wore Il crown and in her hand she bore A
SCcpter.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09
CECIL RHODES IN THE FIELD.
Takes Command in the Campaign
Against the Matabcles.

A dispatch to the London Times from
johannesburg says that the situation
there is more hopeful, and there is a be-
lief that negotiations between President
Kruger and Colonial Secretary Chamber
lain have taken a favorable turn.
A Cape Town dispatch to the London
Times says that Hon. Cecil Rhodes has
reached Salisbury, Mashonland, and has
asked for as many volunteers as can be
spared for the campaign against the
MatabeleS.
Assistant Commissioner Graham was
murdered by the Matabeles at Inyali on
March %. A general attack upon the
whites followed and they were entirely
outnum bered and almost overwhelmed.
They managed to get hold of a wagon
and retreated three miles. Some 800 Mata-
beles then surrounded the wagon and a
fierce hand to hand conflict ensued. Over
borne by superior numbers, six of the
whites were killed. Donovan, the only
survivor of the massacre, managed TO
escape by hiding in the long grass, creep
ing away unobServed.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09
CuriOsities About Coins

says that Croesus was no
hrst ruler to order gold coins made In
tie year 400 Il. c. round copper coins
were hrst made. Each weighed tweIvo
ouilces' Inc most valuable United
suites cents are those of 1893. l7oo
lSol, 1900, 1911, 1913. 1S23 and 1897
Inc rarcst and most valuable United
states oil of what is called the ..r.c.
hlar mint series is the silver dollar
Oh loo4. y silver half-dime of the
year lSo2 is worth $50. if in good con.
ultlon, ana from SO to 80 if IN only
lalr shape. The only valuable nickel
"-cent piece is that of the wear 1877
winch the collectors purchase at 81
["rh' Inc little silver 3-cent piece was
nrSt coined in 1851. II was discontin.
u"u IN lN13. one Of the first do,e Il
NoIth Il dllhe. II of the last 81. Tho
l"o' OF the silver dollar is that Of q
Young lady residing in P%hiladelnbio
ii'I halle Is Anna W. Williams and
sue IS Il teacher Of Kindergarten mil.
USopAy. The very Oldest coin in the
pEItSh museum is an AEGEAN nieca op
'le year 400 b. {. 1t is not da,nd 90
course dating being a modern limo.
Fauon' extending back only 900 vears
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09
MISSOURI TRAIN ROBBERY.
st. Louis and san Francisco Cannon
Ball Held Up.

The east bound cannon bail tram on Inc
St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad was
held up three miles east of Lebanon, MO-,
and the safe blown open and robbed.
The robbers boarded the train at Lee
banon at 1880 p. m, and, after reaching
the scene of the robbery, held up the en-
gineer aud fireman, stopped the tram,
and, with the engineer ahead OF them
marched to the express car. The messeh-
ger refused to open up and the door was
blown open with dynamite and the safes
contents removed.
Several packages Of valuable, papers
were found the next morning beside the
track, and some money, which had been
overlooked in the hurry of departure.
The passengers were not molested.
The brakeman hurried back to the city
and started Sheriff Jones and posse on
the track of the robbers.
While the amount of money secured by
the robbers is not known, it is thought to
be considerable. Wells-FargO offer 500
reward for the arrest of the robbers.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09
DIED WITH HER CHILDREN.
Jealous Woman AsphyXiates Herself
and hi

Mrs. Olga Deuss of San Francisco sus-
picious that her husbands frequent at
tendance at lodge meetings were simply
excuses to cover his attentions TO other
women, dressed herself in her wedding
gown, and, grouping her three young
children about her, turned on all the gas
jets in The house. When Deuss, who is a
jeweler, returned home about day break
he discovered the dead bodies of his wife
and babies, and found IA note written to
wrote: "As | loved you in life, so will
attend you, step by step, in death"
Deuss maintains that his wife had no
cause for jealousy. Lately his business
has not been good, and this worried Mrs.
DeuSS,
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09
BRITISH IN A TRAP.
Have No Arms OF Ammunition with
Which to Fight the MataDeles.

\ Cape Town dispatch says: The sit.
uation is becoming darker every day, and
IS made worse by the scarcity Of arms
omen secret that every good rifle procur-
able was Smuggled into the Transyaal
previous to Jameson's raid, and after
wards captured by the Beers.
The British are now in the position Of
hunters caught in their W trap, and uu-
til weapons OF defense arrive from Eng
land they will be almost helpless. The
Beers and natives are aware of this. and
should they combine in an uprising the
result could not be otherwise than dlSas,
irons.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09
News of Minor Note.

The progressive euchre party at Phila-
delphia for the benefit of the Cubans net
ted nearly $1,000.
Elizabeth Charles. author of many his
torlcal novels characterized by a deep re-
lgious feeling. is dead AT London.
Patrick McGuinness, 90 years of age,
was burned 10 death in a fire which de-
stroycd his home az Middletown, y. y.
James and Frank Tillman and Lucy
Law We're instantly killed by a rock
crashing through the house where they
were sleeping at Echo, w. Va.
Thomas Seay, who mas been i'll at his
home AT Greensboro. Ala, for two weeks
with the grip, is dead. He was proml-
nent III public life for over twenty-five
years.
Ihe 900 photographers in New York who
struck seven weeks ago are jubilant over
The Notification that they may return 10
work, pending the decision of the COM
mittee on arbitration.
Mrs. NJ. A. Stockton, who was one Of
uhe prominent figures in the recent scan
dal involving Rev. G.. q. Brown of the
flrst Congregational Church. San Fran
CISCO has been expelled from The church.
William Royce, the murderer of Nellie
lalten, was arraigned for trial at Sioux
oIty, Ia, and created q sensation by
changing his plea of not guilty to that OF
guilty. HIS crime was a cold blooded
one.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09
DIAZ ON MONROE DOCTRINE.
Approves the Policy in His Message
to MeXico's Congress.

to MeXico's Congress.
The President OF Mexico in his message
to Congress says: "Now that, happily,
the crisis has passed that seemed to
threaten wal between the two great ma
tons into which the Anglo-saXon race Is
divided, and now that our sister republic,
Venezuela, is carrying out at Washing
ton peaceful negotiations with her
powerful adversary, it may not be out
of place to acccde to the desires of those
persons who have requested the Mexican
Government to state her opinion with re-
gard TO the Monroe doctrine, without
descending into the particulars as to
its proper limit when marked out by its
author and so prudently recalled by Pres
ident Cleveland.
1.-The Mexican Government cannot but
declare its partiallty for a doctrine which
condemns as criminal any attacks upon
the part of the monarchieS of Europe
against the republics of America, against
the independent nations Of this continent,
now all subject to popular form of govern
ment. The whole o. our history, and es-
p~ecially the struggle of our people to
shake off the yoke of a foreign empire,
which is European both in its origin,
form and resources. and the torrents OF
blood shed in that struggle, are sufficient
testimony to the world OF our love of indie
pendence and our adherence Of all out
SIDE interference.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09
~SUFFOCATED BY SMOKE.
Ten People Perish in n Tenement
House Fire in Brooklyn.

Ten persons persisted by sutfocation in
a tenement house in Union Street, Brook
lyn. The fire started in the lower hall
way of the building, which was four-story,
and before the sleeping tenants could he
warned of the danger all escape was cut
off. The flames swept up the stairways
and halls and the rooms were quickly
filled with smoke. The unfortuuates were
suffocated in their beds. The iremen
succeeded in getting control of the fire
in a short time with only small damage 10
The building. This locality is the abode
OF the largest colony of Italians in Brook
Iyn. The bodies of some were badly
Turned. The origin of the fire Is unknown
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09
Broke Through the Ice,

\ special to the Minneapolis Journal
from Crookston states that letters received
the Rainy River, on the Canadian bound
airy, report the death on the Rainy River
OF Col. A. +. Nan, a United States deputy
marshall, and his entire party of eXplor-
ers, in all probability eight men. They
were on their way TO Investigate reports
of the timber stealing by Canadians along
the boundary and tributary waters and
were ascending the Rainy by sleighs.
They are reported to have broken through
the ice and to have been lost.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09
Dun & CO.'S REVIEW.
The Business World as Seen for the
Past Week.

r. c.. Dun COS Weekly Review of
Trade says:
The general demand for finished prod
ucts does not improve. The steel con-
Germs propose to restrict production by
allotment, those producing more than
their share paying paying 81 per ton
to those who produce less. Prices OF
wool have fallen ~ per cent, the average
of los quotations being 1852 cents. Sales
in March were smaller than in any other
month since 1894, and for the quarter were
only 81, III, $50 pounds. of which 30,3l6, 200
were foreign, against 69,0Sl ,315 last year.
against which q ,25S,S 50 was foreign.
Speculation in products has been tame.
Cotton continues to come forward so
largely thai former predictions of +, 500, 900
bales are remem bered with dcrision and
the outlook for the next crop continues
good. Wheat has slightly advanced, and
if late reports of inquiry from extensive
frostS and storm prove correct, will ad-
vance more, though western receipts con-
tinue large, and Tor five weeks past have
been Il, S35,4l0 bushels, against S,S31,37
last year, while Atlantic exports have
been only + 1888, 49, bushels, flour included
as wheat, against S,435 ,101 last wear,
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-04-09
DEATH AT THE STAKE.
Fate Which Awaits Three Outlaws If
They Are Taken Alive.

\ tragedy occurred at Concord, Ga, in
which two men were fatally shot. Sher-
iii Gym and a posse went to the house of
Taylor Delk, a notorious desperate, to
arrest him on a warrant for robbery and
attempted murder. As the sheriff arrived
at the door he was fired at through the
window with a rifle and was fatally
wounded. About fifty shots were fired.
Sheriff Gym was lying on the front porch
begging some one to come and get him,
when John +. Madden, a prominent mer-
chant, attempted TO drag him off. lie
was also fired on and a ball passed
through both thighs, breaking both legs.
If 1t is possible to take the trio of pris-
Oners alive their fate will be a horrible
one, death at the stake having been de-
termined upon by the frenzied people.