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The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
WHEAT IS GOING UP
ANOTHER BIG JUMP IN THE PRICE
OF THE GRAIN.
1t Is Declared That n Better Feeling
Water and That Sir Julnin Pauncc.
fote Has Definite Instructions and
VIII Reopen the Case When He
Reaches Washington.

Chicago, Oct. q. - Wheat made Il
| record-breaking jump. The December
option opened at IS 1-2a19 1-Sc steady
ing at the latter figure, an advance of
LAC. The widest excitement char
acterized the trading. There was talk
of possible failures as a result of the
unparalleled advance. After mo-
| mentary reaction to 7)c December
wheat soon went beyond the top figure
at the opening, touching as high as
20 1-4c several times within the first
fifteen minutes of business.
Just before 10 a. m. the market took
q sudden plunge downward and fell
to 7S 1-2c, reacting to 79 3-4c. Shortly
after 10 a. II. the price receded to
70 1-4c, but at that point, the market
whirled sharply upward again and
| within few minutes advanced to Toe.
During the frenzy at the opening some
few trades were made as high as
70 1-2c, while sales at the same mo-
ment in other parts of the pit were at
different figures ranging all the way
to 78 1-2c.
At 1920 q. m. the price was 7S 3-4c
for December. Al this point another
1-cent-a-5ushel advance was recorded,
with amazing rapidity. Almost be-
fore the tickers could place the figures
on the tape in the brokers' Office the
quotation had leaped to 70 3-4c. This
was within 1-8c of cents a bushel
added to the value of the cereal within
single hour.
Before II o'clock the pit witnessed
notable example of whipsaw. From
20 3-4c the market fell as rapidly as it
had risen, dropping cent almost In a
straight line to 7S S3-4c. Scattering
sales were made at 7S 5-Sc and then
the market once more rebounded to the
ruling price at II q. m., being 79c for
December.
The advance was due to the Liver
pool cables, which reported that mar
ket excited aud from 3 1-2 to Sd high
er, equivalent to an advance of to &c.
No such jnn.p has been experienced in
the market for years.
Between il and 1915 there was a
gradual relapse. From 79c December
slumped to q 3-4c. In the next half
hour it was again ascending the lad
der and reached IS 5-8c. but during the
succeeding fifteen minutes it returned
to the down-grade and at p. m., tif-
teen minutes before the close, was
quoted at "a 3-4c. The decline con-
tinued during the final quarter of an
hour. Just before the bell struck De-
cember was u 14c, and the last quo
tation for the day was u 3-8c bid.
Speculative Excitement.
New York, Oct 2O.-Wheat made a
perpendicular advance of 4 1-2c
bushel, following stupendous jump
Of &c at Liverpool, and general specu-
lative excitement throughout the whole
Of Europe. The bull movement was
accompanied by intense local excite
ment and heavy trading during the
first few minutes. Buyers orders, Of
course, predominated. Even the bulls
themselves were amazed at the
enormity of the advance, which has
not been equaled in years. The De-
cember option opened at IS 7-8c, and
before the demand could be appeased,
had jumped to sc 1-2c Following this
came cent reaction with let-up in
trading. The close was &c below the
opening.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
origin Of New Styles.

New styles are chosen in quite an
odd way. The fashionable dressmakr
ers bring over, twice n year a selection
of costumes, from which their custom
ers choose what suits their fancy.
They cannot buy the gown they see
that is not always, but from the mod
el shown there IAN be ordered gown
Sometimes Some the blending Of colors does
not suit the taste Of the purchaser.
who then chooses what she prefers,
guided, Of course, somewhat, by the
taste Of the dresslnnker, who is an acs
knowledged autocrat, and refuses to
allow too much latitude Ct choice.
When a costume has sufficient origin
ality of design to mark 1t as distinct
i've, it is certain to be copied, and in
this way all new fashions make their
debut.-Harper's Bazar.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
Bread. Butter and Health,

Many physicians, according to q. lee
turer ON dietetics, are ordering thin
bread and butter for delicate patients,
especially those suffering from dyspep-
sia, consumption and anaemia, or any
who need to take on flesh. This thin
bread and butter insensibly induces
persons to eat much more butter than
they have any idea of. It. is extraor-
binary, says the lecturer. how short a
way pat Of fresh butter will 60 il
spread on q number of thin slices of
bread. This is one advantage, and a
great one, in the feeding Of invalids,
excellent form Of the fat which is SO
essential for their nutrition in a way
that lures them to take it without re-
bellion. But the thin bread and butter
has another advantage equally as great
1T is very digestible and easily a.
simulated. Fresh butter made from
cream is very much moro digestible
when spread upon thin slices Of bread
than the same amount Of cream eaten
g cream, per se, would be.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
Accidental Happenings.

Fire burned the major part of the
business section of Great harrington,
Mass.
Mrs. Myers, aged seventy.two, of
Williamsburg, Iowa, fell into a cellar.
completely scalpiug herself and fract.
uring the base Of her brain. She died
twenty-four hours later.
The plant of the Gladstone (Mich.)
Electric Light company took fire, and
before the flames were checked the
building was total loss and the In
side wiring destroyed.
Miss Lizzie Herrold, who lived at
Hanfeld, Ind, was burned to death.
In lifting a vessel from the stove she
used her dress skirt to protect her
hands, and the goods touched the fire
and ignited.
Three men were instantly killed at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, by fall OF rock in
the Latin mine. They are: Thomas
Mitchell, Mill Creek, aged forty; John
Patruz, Mill Creek, aged twenty-five;
George Puchuski, Latin, aged twenty
four.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
Peanle i'm Print.

FeOp1e IN
Henry William Parnell third Baron
Congleton. is dead. He was born in
1909 and was formerly in the royal
navy.
John r. Williams, aged 60 years, bur
CESS of Norristown, Pa, dropped dead
recently. Mr.. Williams gained q ma
tional reputation as the funny man"
of the Norristown Herald.
John Philip Sousa, the distinguished
American composer and conductor,
who is now in Berlin, was invited to
conduct the great Philharmonic orches-
ira of Berlin at q special concert given
In the Exposition building.
William Rodman, for nearly twen-
ty years city editor Of the New Haven
(Conn.) Register, and one OF the pest
known newspaper men In the state, Is
dead. He was a years old ana un-
married.
President Jordan of Leland Stanford
university, California, Is NOSE pronl-
nently mentioned to succeed the late
Prof. Goode as assistant secretary OF
the Smithsonian institution and dlrec-
tor of the National museum.
The report cabled to the United
States that Bishop spalding Of Peoria
had been nominated to succeed Hlsnop
Keane of the Catholic university OF
America at Washington, Is pronounced
by the authorities at Rome to be pre-
mature.
Rev. Crosby H. Wheeler, D. d. the
well known missionary of the Amerl-
board, died at Auburndale, Mass. IN
early life DR.. Wheeler was pastor IN
Maine. He was founder and president
of Euphrates college and through TINS
institution and in other ways ne hao
wrought most successfully Tor tne
good Of the Armenians.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
RABIES KILLS RABBITS.
Proof That Annie Branch Died o1
HydrOphObia.

Proof That Annie Branch Died of
HydrOphObia.
st. Paul, Oct. pa speckled rabbit
ate heartily of sawdust this morning
and died. Some time before he ex-
pired his limbs stiffened. He lay
helpless, almost mGtionless. Even his
jaws were rigid, and he could only
lick the sawdust with his tongue. This
was board Of health rabbit and he
was dying Of hydrophobia, because,
within his little body was portion of
the spinal marrow Of the child Amelia
Branch. The fact that the speckled
rabbit ate sawdust and succumbed to
paralysis was proof, said DR.. Arthur
Sweeney, that Amelia Branch was
really bitten by a mad dog, and proof
that she had died at the city hospital
two weeks ago of actual rabies. The
proof was duplicated. For a second
rabbit, a. white one, inoculated day
before its speckled brother, had died
Sunday, also with symptoms of para
lysis. Each animal had perished on
the seventeenth day from the time Of
its incubation. The period Of incuba-
ton, in the case Of rabic rabbits is
from fourteen to twenty-one days.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
Otherwise.

The New York Recorder has ceased
publication.
Republicans of the Seventh Kentucky
district nominated w. 6. P. Breckin-
ridge for congress.
The National Educational associa-
tion will hold its next convention ID
Milwaukee.
The Democrats of the Tenth congress
sional district (Mo.) nominated DR.. LIE
Grande Atwood of Farguson, st. Lou
is, for congress, by reclamation.
The eleventh annual convention OF
the Brotherhood of st. Andrew, OF the
United States opened at Ptttsburg,
with a quiet service, led by Rev. ]. Q.
Roper of Toronto, Canada.
The Arkansas Populist State Central
committee has issued an address an
nouncing that the POpulists and Demo
Gratis had agreed upon a state fusion
electoral ticket, by which the Populists
were to have three /: nd the Democrats
five votes.
r. p. Schuman. g. German engineer,
has arrived in San Francisco from Qua
temala, where he has been employed
for several months in surveying pro
posed routes for several new railroads.
Mr.. Schuman reports that matters are
booming in railroads in that country.
Dougal D. Crawford, the big dry
goods merchant of st. Louis, who dis
charged bakers dozen Of his men be-
cause they announced their intention
to vote for Bryan and Sewall, has re-
pented his action, and recently, over
his own signature, in a public letter,
says he will take the men back.
After years anchorage on one side
of Mombeshe lake, in New York, q
floating island containing about two
acres became released, and is now
floating in Wind lake, situated eight
miles distant, near Monroe. Hunters
are having fine sport with the foxes
and raccoons thus imprisoned.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
Crimes and criminals.

The headquarters Of a directory
scheme" fraud have been found In In
dianapolis. Apparatus of all kinds for
erasing and changing contracts, print
ing bogus circulars, etc., were found.
George Appo, noted product Of
street life in New York, and one Of the
star witnesses at the Lexow investiga-
ton, was ordered to be removed from
the Tombs prison to the insane pavil-
ion at Bellevue hospital.
Mrs, John Meyers and her twelve
year-old son are in Jail at Atchison,
the latter charged with numbering Les
ter Dyke, the twelve-year-old son of a
neighbor, and the former with being
accessory to the crime.
After being out several hours the
Jury in the January murder case at
Mexico, Mo-, returned a verdict Of
guilty and assessed the boys punish
ment at ten years in the penitentiary.
The prisoner, Will January, killed his
father.
Judge Taft of the United States
court at Cincinnati sentenced William
M. Boynton of the Franklin, Ohio Ma
tional bank to five years in the peni-
tentiary for violations Of the United
States banking law, to which Boyn-
ton had pleaded guilty.
A dispatch from Montery, CAL, says
that Count Hallesten, an artist, was
shot and killed by q man named
Ahiger. who lived with him. Ahiger
has been arrested. The shooting was
accidental. It is said both men are
we'll known in Berlin.
Charles Pscherhofer, a real estate
agent and broker, arrested in San
Francisco a month ago charged with
swindling numberless victims, has dis
appeared. His case was continued sew
eral times in the police court and he
was admitted to bail in bonds of
81 900.
The wife Of g. d. Smith, farmer
living thirteen miles east Of Nevada,
Mo-, was found dead in the house with
her head crushed. Her husband was
digging potatoes in field some dis
lance away and had left his wife alone
in the house. 1t is supposed she was
murdered by tramp. 0
An unknown man jumped into the
water at Prospect Point, Niagara, N.
Y, and was Immediately swept over
the American falsl. The act was de-
liberate suicide, for before stepping
over the parapet he coolly took of his
hat and put into it his money amount
ing to 40 cents and laid 1t on the stone
wall. The only witnesses were two
hackmen.
Helen Forsland, member of the
Salvation army, committed suicide at
Boston by taking poison. A few years
ago she masqueradcd as a man and
was implicated in daring highway
robbery in Helena. She and male
accomplice were arrested and her sex
discovered. She vas acquitted, but
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
bike THIEF JUGGED.
Admits Stealing TWENTY-FIVE Wheels
Which HAZE Been RecoYered

Admits Stealing TWENTY-FIVE Wheels.
Which Have Been Recovered.
Minneapolis, Oct. 21. = The central
station and police headquarters have
the appearance of bicycle emporium
to-day. Last night Inspectors Morris
sey and Courtney arrested q man who
gave the name Of John Shelter, and so
far they have recovered twenty-five
wheels which the prisoner admits
taking. The inspectors say that there
are still more to follow. His first ad-
mission was the larceny of a wheel
from George K Belden at the Guar
anty Loan building Saturday, and
then others followed. The inspectors
visited every pawn shop in the city
this morning, and in almost every one
one or two wheels were recovered. A
line Of citizens besieged headquarters
this morning for the purpose of identi-
flying their property, and SO far about
fifteen have been made happy by get.
ting looks at wheels which they
thought had disappeared forever.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
her companion was sent up for four
rrom Foreisn shores.

Spain, it Is announced, will abandon
the struggle in Cuba If the revolution
is not suppressed by March /.
A high English authority, a former
cabinet minister, says that the Venezu-
elan boundary commission will decide
against England, and properly, too.
Ojumalc formerly grand vizier OF
Egypt, has been confined in prison for
two years past on the charge OF con-
spring in favor Of Muley Mohammed.
He was found dead In his cell with
his clothing stained win blood. 1t is
supposed that he was assassinated.
Emperor William received in audi
ence Grumbkow Pasha, German otti-
Ger in the service of the Turkish gov
ernment, who is the bearer of letter
of thanks from the sultan to his maj
esty for the latter's portrait, recently
presented to Abdul Hamed.
The dispatch Of British naval rein
forcements to Zanzibar has renewed
interest in the situation there, and is
universally interpreted in Europe as a
demonstration against Germany, as
the condition of affairs in Zanzibar
does not justify such measures.
1::c Office of minister of foreign re-
latlans las been abolished. and the for
eisn affairs Of Honduras will be con-
Quoted in the future through the diet
of the Greater Republic Of Central
America, forued by the alliance of
Honduras, Nicaragua and Salvador
A Brussels dispatch says that Maj.
LotLaire, who was recently acquitted
of the charge of Illegally executing the
English trader Stokes, on the Congo,
has quilted the service Of the Congo
State and has engaged in the French
service in Madagascar.
Baron Nicholas A. Grcbnitsky, gov
ernor Of the Russian fur seal islands,
is on his way to- Washington, d. c.,
where he intends to present to the Rus
sian ambassador the form of a new
treaty governing the seal trade be-
tween his country and the United
States.
German scientists throughout the
empire celebrated the seventy-ffth an
piversary of the birth Of Prof. Ru-
dolph Virchow, one Of the greatest
medical discoverers Of the age. A
quarter Of a century ago his flftieth
birthday was celebrated by an inter-
national gathering Of physicians.
George Smith Fraser, an American.
staying at No. "a Albemarle street,
Piccadilly, London, committed suicide
by jumping from q window. At the
inquest evidence was given that he
had been suffering from illness and
had threatened to commit suicide. A
verdict of temporary insanity was rem
dered.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

The 100000 mausoleum which John
w. Mackay, the California millionaire,
is to have built over the grave of his
son, may be beautiful and artistic
structure, but it will be far less
worthy tribute to the memory Of the
young man than such a memorial as
the Stanfords built when they dedi-
Gated the great Leland Stanford uni
versity to the memory Of their child.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
Three Murdered.

Centerville, Mo-, Oct. II. = A triple
tragedy occurred in this Reynolds)
county yesterday about D. m. on Lo-
gans Creek near Ellington. John I'M
boden, with an axe, Drained his sister,
his brother, wha was sick in bed, and
a very old man named Jacob Wilhelm.
Two months ago Imboden lost his wife
and two daughters suddenly, and it is
supposed that, together with spell of
sickness, this has deranged his mind.
He is a prominent citizen.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

Capt. Joshua Slocum, u Yankee skip
per, must be fond of his own company.
He has just reached Australia in his
fifteen-ton sloop Spray, after voyage
without a companion from Boston to
Gibraltar, and thence through the
Straits of Magellan to New Castle, N.
s. w,
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

The notion of using the peaceful car
rier dove for messages of grim war
strikes many people as incongruous.
If it were the hawk, now, or even the
crow, there would be some appropri-
ateness in it, looked at from the senti-
mental point of view.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
The successful use of new tetanus

8 The successful use of new tetanus
antitoxine in q New York hospital
seems to show that a remedy for lock-
Jaw has been discovered at last. Here
tofore that comparatively common at
Fiction has been considered necessarily
fatal, because the physicians had No
means pf relieving it. If an effectual
remedy MAS at last been found, the
science oh medicine had added another
to the many strides it has taken in re-
cent years.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
Dynamite for Alphonxo.

Madrid, Oct. 21. = The newspapers
report that the departure of the court
from San Sebastian, where the king
and queen regent have spent the sum-
mer, for this city, was delayed by the
discovery of dynamite cartridge at
Summaraga, on the line to be trav-
ersed by the relay train. As the cart
ridge did not have detonator and as
inquiry failed to reveal the slightest
additional suspicious circumstance, no
Importance was attached to the incl
dent.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
Displax the Flax.

Chicago, Oct. 21.-Chairman Jones',
of the National Democratic committee.
issued an appeal to-day to those who
"desire to preserve the country's honor
and independence" to display the
American nag Saturday, Oct. 81: This
for the display 6f the flag by those who
favor Republican principles.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

Probably the biggest hog in human
form just now is the man in New YORK
city, who ate sixty-six cooked eggs
last Wednesday in an hour and three
quarters. The next biggest is the man
who ate sixty-three eggs at the same
time and place.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

Rev. John Watson, "Ian Maclaren,"
who is now visiting this country on a
lecture tour, must be q remarkable
speaker One authority announces
that us soon as he begins to talk he
places an audience at perfect ease.
Some people would understand this to
mean that he puts everybody to sleep.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

A highway robber who will sneak
up behind a deaf and dumb man be-
fore he hears him and deliberately rob
him before he can yell, is too mean to
be shot. He ought to be run down by
q ScOrcher.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

When thieves take to chloroforming
a hotelful Of people, as was the case In
a Pennsylvania town the other day, 1t
is time that the whole community took
q hand in hunting down and corralling
such dangerous knowing" robbers.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

They have civil-service examinations
in Persia. Candidates for the position
Of executioner are allowed to show
their skill by cutting heads off con-
demned criminals, and the one with
the neatest stroke is awarded the job
by the shah.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

An Irishman has invented new BIZ
cycle in which the pneumatic principle
is applied to the saddle pillar and the
tire is of the cushion pattern, thus
avoiding danger of puncture. Freedom
from vibration and an increase in the
driving power are claimed for this
wheel.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

The startling discovery has been
made that Massachusetts has more
colonels to the square inch than any
other state in the Union. This is a
cruSher for Kentucky.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

The percentage Of successful invent
ors of automotors, or "horseless wag-
ons," is not high, even in France,
where the automotor is most in vogue.
Only eleven of thirty eight of the horse
less vehicles which recently raced
from Paris to Marseilles and back,
completed the trip.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

Connecticut, once known as the Land
Of Steady Habits, now forges to the
front with another scandalous divorce
suit. During the last few years she
has had enough of these to justify her
sister states in changing her title to
the Land Of Unsteady Habits.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

It would be hard to find place so
benighted or remote as to be quite be-
yond the pale of civilization. The
kingdom of Uganda, which a little
while ago was in the darkest region Of
darkest Africa, now rejoices in numer-
GUS bicycles, while its king sports an
elegant brougham and it's dusky off,
cials drive around in fashionable dog
tarts.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
Given Thirty Years.

Des M0ines, Oct. q. = W. A. .Cum.
mings, convicted of the rape of
Myrtle Rockwell and Bessie Stephens,
eight and ten years, was sentenced to-
day to fifteen, years imprisonment on
each charge. The second sentence ia
to be given after the first is served.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
PITH OF THE NEWS.
EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN A
CONDENSED FORM.

l General Resume of the Most Inn
all Parts Of the Globe, Boiled
Down and Arranged In Con-
venient Form for Rapid Fer
usal by Busy People.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

Reforms Need More Than q Day
To bring them about, and are always more
complete and lasting when they proceed
with steady regularity to consummation.
Few Of the observant among us can have
failed to notice that permanently healthful
changes in the human system are not
wrought by abrupt and violent means, and
that those are the most salutary medicines
which are progressive. Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters is the chief Of these. Dyspepsia,
disease Of obstinate character, is obliterated
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

1t is stated that the sultan is learn
ing to play the piano. The forbcar
ance of the European powers, under
the circumstances, seems almost mex
plicable.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

"Watch for Hoff's German Liniment
wagon, and get a sample bottle Of this
wonderful liniment free. Ask for it."
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

Flowers-Cut this out and keep it. Fresh
cut roses carnations, snilax, ferns, palms
and violets, flowers for funerals and we'd
dings sent on mail or telegraph orders to all
parts Of the country, summer or winter, by
Mendenhall, the florist, Minneapolis, MINI.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

The 1900 miners employed at the
twenty-five mines at Springfield, ILL.,,
came out on strike this morning for
an advance in wages.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

Within the last decade the population Of
Europe has increased by about 80, O0O, 900, Of
whom Russia contributed 12,51O.OOO and
France only $1,000.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

A New York man plowed up cent
of the date of 1904, which proves to be
worth $1,000. There is but one other
coin like it in existence.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup
For children teehing, softens reduces inha
nation aays PAIN cures wind colic Is cents bottle.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24
Warrington Talk.

The United States supreme court
formally opened the October term at
Washington, but Immediately adjourn
ed to call on the president In accord
ance with immemorial usage.
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAx.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
The Washburn leader., 1896-10-24

DR.. ]. H. RINDLAUB, Specialist,
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat,
Fargo, N. Oak.